In early March 2003, it was the cold spring season.
Yanjing City
Keyuan
"Oh my god! When this sandstorm came, it was so overwhelming that I couldn't see anything. After a while, my mouth was filled with sand. The climate and environment were too harsh."
Just two days after Wang Yaocheng returned to Yanjing City, he encountered a severe and large-scale sandstorm.
Look up
The boundless yellow-black sandstorm was raging crazily, enveloping the entire Yanjing city with a terrifying and strange howling sound, and dense and continuous tapping sounds of "sand" were heard on the glass window lattice.
This was fine sand carrying gravel, and soon it was covered with a thick layer in the corridor.
As the strong wind continued to hit, it was rotated and thrown into the sky again and again.
It's past three in the afternoon, the sky is as dark as evening, and the lights have to be turned on in the room.
Originally, he was going to work at the Royal Fund Headquarters on Chang'an Street, but he couldn't go anywhere in this disastrous weather. Wang Yaocheng could only stay in his room, unable to do anything.
under the light
You can clearly see fine dust floating in the air. These dust particles are even smaller than flour particles. It is not clear how they penetrated through the gaps in the well-sealed doors and windows.
It will enter the mouth and nose when breathing, and it will feel very uncomfortable.
Think back.
Since last October, Wang Yaocheng received a clear hint from George, and has launched merger and acquisition activities vigorously and vigorously, working at full speed.
Through Hong Kong PCTC, it successively acquired some of the core assets of the American Global Communications Company and World Communications Company, and formed a new Hong Kong Global Communications Company to operate cross-Pacific business.
This is the core of the current work, and more than four months of busy work have finally come to an end.
Then
It was a nearly month-long trip to Europe and the United States, a New York fashion show sponsored by Polaroid, a movie conference, an upper-class charity gala, a jewelry exhibition sponsored by Polaroid, a royal polo match in London, a fashion show in Paris, etc.
Through a series of intensive itineraries, the long-dormant Polaroid brand was thoroughly heated up and warmed up for the next high-end Polaroid brand mobile phone launch.
In various fashion magazines and newspapers, there is a lot of news about Polaroid brand mobile phones, which is part of the high-end brand building plan.
Nicole Kidman, the newly released Oscar-winning actress in 2002, has made a high-profile announcement to become the spokesperson of Polaroid brand, which has further heightened people's expectations.
The overwhelming bombardment of public opinion caused confusion for a while.
Even before the Polaroid mobile phone appeared, it aroused great expectations among people and evoked brilliant memories in their hearts.
During this period, Wang Yaocheng's exposure was quite high and he became the focus of the world's financial circles.
Yahoo was sold on February 8, 2003. There were many rumors from the outside world, and most of them did not approve of the boss's self-destruction of the Great Wall.
Wang Yaocheng just smiled and never responded.
In the consortium's 2003 plan, Google will land on the Nasdaq market in September, showing amazing potential.
2003
Several companies will be listed one after another. Green Group, Carrefour Supermarket, Pacific Appliances and Panda Electronics are all ripe for listing and financing.
By the beginning of 2004, Alibaba will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the New York Nasdaq Market at the same time, becoming the flagship of China Internet Corporation.
As a large enterprise group, every action of Royal Fund has rigorous plans and is in line with the company's long-term development strategy.
Take the sale of Yahoo as an example:
The purpose is to make room for these heavyweight Internet giants in the future, so as not to be too popular and attacked by others, to obtain maximum benefits during the peak period of market value, and to nip problems in the bud.
Imagine this:
What is the concept of Netscape, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and YouTube websites all integrated into one?
Then he is not the godfather of Silicon Valley, but the king of the world's Internet. Is it strange that Americans can tolerate this?
It is very scary to think about monopolizing the right to speak in the online world.
I am afraid that not only Americans, but also Europeans and Japanese will not allow so many extremely important network companies to be integrated into one. Today, when we attach great importance to network security, it is completely unimaginable.
now
The meaning of network security has been infinitely elevated, almost equal to national security.
The business rules of the free world also have a bottom line. If you catch all the king bombs, you may eventually blow yourself up.
Google's take-off will inevitably step on the corpse of Yahoo, absorb the nutrients of the former, grow rapidly, and slowly evolve into an unshakable behemoth.
It is determined by the market positioning of the two, there is no warmth or luck.
Taking advantage of Yahoo's rising market value is a shrewd business decision to maximize profits.
After more than ten years of experience in Silicon Valley, Wang Yaocheng's vision is different from his previous life, and far surpasses that of most current network technology practitioners. He has already seen the inevitable opportunity for Google to take off.
The inertia of history is so great.
From a technical and ecological perspective, Google search engine technology completely overpowers Yahoo search and the rigid IE browser, and has a crushing advantage.
today's world
Yahoo and IE, both controlled by Microsoft, account for approximately 76% of the search market share. They appear to have monopolized the search market and firmly dominate the top companies.
However, from October last year to March this year, the market share of the first two retreated from 81% to 76%, showing a significant shrinkage.
Most of the lost market belongs to Google.
Google is now the third largest player in the search market, accounting for approximately 17% of the search market, and its development momentum is quite strong.
Does Microsoft see this?
The answer is yes.
But today, under the control of CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's organization is bloated and its R&D efficiency and administrative efficiency have dropped sharply.
Its reflex arc is too long, and it is completely unable to cope with the ever-changing world of network technology.
From 2000 to 2013
Microsoft has almost become invisible in the turbulent wave of Internet development. This is not without reason. The culprit is Steve Ballmer, a high-ranking and incompetent person.
This top student at Harvard University has an extremely brilliant resume along the way, which masks his poor ability.
There is a saying that goes very well:
Standing on the wind outlet, even a pig can fly.
It's a pity that Stephen Ballmer, this pig, is too heavy, and he destroyed everyone with this giant ship of Microsoft.
if history has not changed
Two thousand years later, Microsoft's market value has been lackluster. For more than ten years, it has basically fluctuated around more than 200 billion U.S. dollars, with little improvement.
After 2014
CEO Steve Ballmer was fired and returned to his job, and Nadella took over as CEO. Microsoft's market value has been constantly refreshed.
Looking in further detail, Microsoft's stock price increased by 21% overall from 2014 to 2015, and Microsoft's stock price increased by 24% in 2015.
By October 2017, Microsoft's market value exceeded the $600 billion mark.
By June 2018, Microsoft's stock price climbed to a new historical high of $90.79, which pushed its market value to $700.41 billion.
In early 2018, the American investment bank Auity Group published a research report on Microsoft saying:
Microsoft, the IT giant, will reach a market value of US$1 trillion as early as 2019, and Wall Street is strongly optimistic about this.
Microsoft missed the Internet, and the mobile Internet has been developing for more than ten years. What legendary event caused the former king to return.
all this
All thanks to Microsoft's coaching change.
After replacing the mediocre Steve Ballmer, Nadella took over as Microsoft's third CEO, and Microsoft has enjoyed a second spring.
Whether the train runs fast or not depends entirely on the headband.
Nadella is a very capable manager who is familiar with the strategic development direction of high-tech network companies and has good control over the pace of development.
Since he took office, Microsoft's business has become stronger.
Thanks to Nadella's adjustments to the entire company's business structure, it began to develop towards the cloud, while the traditional Windows business was weakened, and even separate departments were abolished.
Within a few years of Nadella's tenure, Microsoft's market value increased by US$500 billion, and together with Apple CEO Cook and Google Schmidt, they were known as the "three major managers in Silicon Valley."
Wang Yaocheng knew that Steve Ballmer of Microsoft was super bad, but he didn't mean to give any hint. Instead, he watched with interest.
I'm not Bill Gates' father, so who cares whether Microsoft lives or dies.
As for Mr. Nadella, he is now the executive vice president of Google and is in charge of the overall work of Google.
He may not have the chance to work at Microsoft, because Wang Yaocheng has plans to kick out the two co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Brown, and hold Google tightly in his hands.
These two guys should do whatever they have to do, but they can't stay at Google anyway.
Don’t blame me for being cruel!
The existence of these two people has affected Wang Yaocheng's control of the entire Google company, which is absolutely intolerable.
If they hadn't left, Wang Yaocheng would always feel that he was out of his depth and unable to command Google as his reflex arc was too long.
The position of CEO of Google belongs to none other than Nadella. The chairman of Google is naturally Mr. Shun Xiangyang, who once controlled Yahoo. They are both talented people.
Mr. Shun Xiangyang is an upright and rigorous person with an orderly plan. As the chairman of Google, he can control the direction very well. He also has sufficient qualifications to control Yahoo. This is very reassuring.
Nadella's business capabilities and management level are among the best in the world, and he is ten times better than Sergey Brin, a layabout with a technical background. There is no doubt about this.
With these two generals in charge, Google will have no worries about its development and will be firmly in Wang Yaocheng's hands.
Wang Yaocheng had already planned the follow-up arrangements for all this.
So-called:
Mountain people have their own clever strategies.
Even if it seems unkind, Wang Yaocheng doesn't care if he kicks Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Brown.
Still the same sentence:
I'm not his father, so I don't care whether he lives or lives.