Rebirth

Chapter 886 Long-term Silicon Valley Layout Considerations

"First of all, I don't mind financing. After all, Silicon Valley does not have the habit of eating alone. I will naturally adapt to the entrepreneurial environment in Silicon Valley.

As for the issue of repurchasing part of the shares of the two of you, you can talk about it, but you two should pay attention to it. I never do business at a loss."Seeing both Larry and Sergey staring at him nervously, Li Feng secretly smiled in his heart, and finally said in a deep voice.

Sure enough, hearing Li Feng's final words, the two sighed lightly. Obviously, the two were nervous before. Now Google, especially the search support for Yahoo from the beginning, has won the support of Internet users. The prospects are bright. If you can get more shares, it will naturally be psychologically happy for Larry and Sergey.

However, there is no way for the two of them now. At this time, the two of them could not help but feel depressed. They deeply hate why the car couldn't keep their breath, why they sold Google completely for 1 million US dollars, and now it’s too late to regret, the entire Google company Everything belongs to Skynet Technology, a subsidiary of Li Feng.

Similarly, for Li Feng, this was what he thought in his heart, but when he agreed, he would naturally beat the two of them for a while, otherwise, who knows what the two uneasy bosses will make in the future.

"However, Larry and Sergey, I don’t think I’m a stingy boss. No matter the original one-million-dollar acquisition or the free gift of 10% of each of you, I should be generous. I agree with you this time. Request, I think it's the last time." Thinking of this, he said again.

"John, thank you. We know that both of us will devote ourselves to the future development of Google. By the way, John, how many shares are you willing to give us to buy back?" Larry happily did at this time. Responded, and asked a little nervously.

"Haha... don't worry, I can promise at least 5%. As for how much, I will discuss it later."

"OK, John, thank you!"

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"Eric, what do you think of Google?" On the way back to Feixun, Li Feng suddenly asked Eric Schmidt with a smile.

"BOSS, although Google now relies on helping websites like Yahoo do search support to get a certain fee, but with the current increase in the number of Internet users, the cost of technical support alone is obviously far from enough.

Early Internet search companies may rely on this profit model to support enough, but with the continuous increase in traffic, the operating costs of search engine companies will continue to increase. There is no doubt that it is urgent to find new profit models for search engines. Problem."

"Yes, I heard that with the launch of Google, the technology has become more advanced, and now the two early search companies, Inktomi and Infoseek, are getting more and more difficult." Li Feng replied with a smile.

"Yes, Inktomi has always been Yahoo's search technology supplier before. Facing direct competition from Google, it is obvious that Google is obviously stronger technically, which naturally makes Inktomi uncomfortable.

As for Infoseek, since the Netscape browser failed the browser competition, its decline has become inevitable. It is reported that Microsoft also plans to launch its own search engine. If it relies on Microsoft's operating system and browser, perhaps Microsoft will launch it. The search engine of is our biggest opponent."

"Microsoft, don't worry. Although Netscape failed this time, Microsoft is facing an antitrust investigation. This is enough for him to drink a pot. If Microsoft wants to monopolize the Internet market alone, no one will agree." Li Feng replied with a smile.

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Li Feng naturally knows Microsoft. Seriously speaking, by virtue of its operating system monopoly, Microsoft really has unique conditions. It really wants to launch its own search engine, and relying on the operating system's monopoly and cooperation, it can definitely kill Google.

But when facing a powerful opponent, Microsoft also needs to compromise. No one wants to see a single Microsoft monopolize the PC side.

This time Netscape sued Microsoft for monopolistic competition and antitrust investigations, but it was supported by the entire Silicon Valley. Not only Silicon Valley but also Wall Street bigwigs also supported it. It is true that Microsoft is so popular today. The introduction of the 95 operating system, looking at the worth of the two classmates Gates and Allen, one step a year, it is too conspicuous.

With the beginning of the antitrust investigation, many people are eyeing Microsoft, thinking about taking a bite from Microsoft.

Of course, from the perspective of Li Feng's future generations, when Microsoft used the monopoly of the operating system to launch IE to win the browser battle, it was a victory at the time, but from the perspective of later generations, it was obviously disadvantageous.

After all, since this time, as long as Microsoft uses the operating system to launch anything, it will always face antitrust investigations, and later generations of Microsoft will be caught in antitrust investigations that do not know how many times.

In particular, when faced with an antitrust investigation, we can see that Gates’s Microsoft shares are declining. Last year, Gates’s shares had more than four levels of Microsoft shares.Otherwise, why was it worth more than 30 billion last year? At that time, the market value of Microsoft was only tens of billions, mainly because Gates had too many shares.

However, everyone in later generations knows that Gates was worth less than 100 billion at the peak of the bubble. You must know that at the peak of the bubble, Microsoft's market value was over 500 billion, if it was more than 4 floors before 97 In terms of shares, it is worth more than 200 billion.

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It can be said that an anti-monopoly investigation has caused much loss to Gates.In order to prevent Microsoft from being split, I don’t know how many private transactions there are. Anyway, after the antitrust investigation, Gates’ shares have dropped sharply, and some investment institutions that have never heard of have become shareholders of Microsoft.Where did these shares come from? To put it bluntly, Gates had to transfer all the shares in his hands in order to deal with the fate of Microsoft's spin-off.

Similarly, it also opened the curtain for Gates's continued shareholding reduction in the future.

As a posterity, Li Feng naturally knows that the future Google will continue to face EU antitrust investigations. It seems that the EU has conducted several antitrust investigations and has been fined several billion dollars.

At this point, Google in the previous life has never conducted antitrust investigations in the U.S. Empire, although news broke from time to time that it was antitrust investigations, but after Google’s public relations, the U.S. Empire could never do anything about it. ,sit back and relax.

In fact, in Li Feng’s opinion, Google is a Silicon Valley company, and its traditional tradition is to share wealth. The two founders of Google, even at the peak of Google’s market value, were worth only 450 billion. 7. With a market value of 800 billion yuan, less than 10% of the shares.

The shareholders behind Google are too complicated. From the capital of Silicon Valley to the capital of Wall Street to the investment institutions of Washington, it is no wonder that Google can sit back and relax in the US.

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Compared to today’s Microsoft, think of Google in the future. In a word, Gates’s personal shares are too much, and too many people are jealous. When Netscape took off, many forces swarmed. .

When Li Feng thought about it, Gates must be very depressed at this time. He knew that the result of competing with Netscape was like this. He would never use the operating system monopoly advantage in his head. It is really not worth the gain.

It is precisely because of these truths that Li Feng never thought of keeping Google, including Feixun, firmly in control of the shares, and always sharing part of it. Similarly, this is also for his own Silicon Valley Technology Group. Long-term considerations and future layout.

There is also the dispersal of the shares from the beginning. Individual holdings are very small. Although outsiders know that Li Feng's personal shares are not only these, no one knows the specifics.

For these stocks that are destined to be hot, Li Feng has made great efforts. For example, at first, Google had 80% of the shares, and then added a fund or institution every once in a while, and these companies were all acquired through acquisitions. By now, Li Feng’s personal shares are about to be less than 30%.

"Eric, you said Google or Fetion, which is more promising?" Li Feng suddenly asked Eric.

"Hmm... BOSS, do you have any new ideas for the development of Google?"

"Wow... why do you think so?"

"Haha..., I don't know you yet, you are the famous St. John Lee, the son of wealth of America!"

"Eric, you are almost becoming a roundworm in my stomach, or else, you go to Google as CEO, how about?"

"what…???"

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