Chapter 180: Sensational
On March 6th, it happened to be a sting in China's 24th solar term.
On this day, Google held a brief press conference to officially announce its acceptance of Feng Yiping's personal investment and the appointment of him as its strategy director.
To the displeasure of the media, Google's two founders and today's other protagonist were not present, and Schmidt was the only one who appeared at the press conference.
The reporters' questions were very focused and unkind, "As a 22-year-old college student with little experience in the industry, can Feng Yiping be qualified for the position of strategy director?"
"Page has a sentence that I agree with, ideas are more important than age, whether it is Page, Brin, or I, after contact with Feng, they all agree that he is not only a young scholar, a successful entrepreneur, but also a person with outstanding vision, he is fully qualified for the position of Google's strategic director, and his joining is a very beneficial thing for Google!"
"Mr. Schmidt, not long after you took up the role of CEO, Google hired a new director of strategy, can we think that this is a distrust or a hindrance to you in some way?"
This is a more direct and unceremonious question.
Although Schmidt said in his heart, "There must be," but his face was still smiling, "Hiring Feng as the strategic director is a joint decision between me, Page and Brin, and the premise of this decision is for the better development of the company, and there is no other reason involved."
Also, if that's what you care about, I'd say that I had a great time working with the two genius founders of Google.
Although it is impossible to agree on everything, in the end, based on the long-term interests of the company, there is always a perfect consensus.
After I joined Google. Page and Brin were able to get out of some administrative matters and put their excellent talents into product development.
I am also very pleased that the perfect company structure has finally allowed these two hard-working young people. Finally have some time to yourself. ”
"As far as I know, Google's revenue last year was only $80 million, but from the data you just released, Google's current valuation is $1 billion, how did this data come about?"
This question is the easiest to answer, "We are a company that tells the development, combined with the results of the first two months of the year. As well as the data fed back by the sales department, this year's revenue can be three times that of last year,"
"Feng proposed the concept of cloud computing, and at the same time, he also has his own software company in Silicon Valley, will there be a conflict of interest in this?"
"Feng Yiping is the director of strategy. It's a shareholder again, and that's what he is responsible to you. Or are you accountable to him?"
"What will this investment be used for?"
Some people with heads full of granite asked, "Will hiring a Chinese as an executive affect the security of users' network data?"
At this press conference, Schmidt showed a high level, regardless of whether the question was polite or rude. He was comfortable with a smile on his face throughout the whole process, and his closing remarks contained a lot of information, "I'm sorry, I also have to participate in the preparation of the company's medium and long-term development strategy." Thank you!"
In fact, he still has a piece of news that has not been announced, Feng Yiping invested not only 150 million, but 200 million, but the other 50 million is in the name of Jiasheng Investment, and this 5% gave up the right to vote.
The agreement stipulates that the 5% will be sold after the listing or repurchased by the major shareholder.
At this time, the atmosphere in Paige's office was warm, and the three of them were discussing the document he had tinkered with in the past few days, and such a scene should last for a few days.
Even Paige, who is in a hurry, knows that such an important programmatic document, similar to the benchmark for action, is as complete as possible.
Seeing Schmidt come in, Page only glanced at it, and didn't even nod his head, Schmidt didn't care, and actively participated in the discussion, "I think, the browser should be a priority project, and it is also a very good opportunity, there are many users, are very dissatisfied with Microsoft's forced bundling,"
"But how do you promote it?"
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As it turns out, as long as there is pressure to sell, and there are good newspapers with integrity, they are very good headlines, and the next day's newspapers are full of articles like "Google hires 22-year-old Chinese college student as strategy director".
This is not without benefit, and many people went to the bookstore to ask Feng Yiping about the Blue Ocean Strategy.
There are still a few brainless people, and a promising company like Google must have a good reason to make such a choice, that is, Feng Yiping can indeed take on the corresponding responsibility, that is, Feng Yiping does have extraordinary ability, and that is, his once popular book must have merit .......
In China, not many people pay attention to this news, after all, Google has not grown to the extent of world attention at this time, and it has not entered China.
The first to pay attention to this news was naturally Google's Chinese counterpart, Baidu.
Baidu, which saw this news, was also mixed.
Happily, foreign counterparts have proved that this industry has great prospects, and Google, which was founded two years earlier than Baidu, is already worth a billion dollars at this time.
The worry is that at this time, Baidu, compared with Google, has a virtual difference in strength, in case Google enters China in the future - no, that should be certain, it will be a strong competitor.
What makes Baidu people envious and jealous is that the young chairman of Jiasheng actually threw $150 million or $150 million at Google at one time, while Baidu's last round of financing was only $10 million.
If you can get this 150 million, how much can the company do?
Speaking of which, Jiasheng should be one of the earliest companies to cooperate with Baidu, and it was once its largest customer, promoting Jiasheng Automobile Network, which was just established by Baidu, charged a lot of advertising fees, why didn't you think about further cooperation with them at that time?
In fact, this is only an afterthought, if Jiasheng proposed to invest in Baidu at that time, it would definitely be ignored.
Again, startups need money, and they don't just need money.
They prefer to work with well-known VCs. In addition to capital, well-known venture capital firms can also bring other resources to them.
Of course, the second person who knows the news is the employee of Jiasheng Group, on the official website of Jiasheng Group. Timely mention of the boss's movement.
Tsinghua University, Lu Wenqing, who finished the night shift, trotted all the way back to the dormitory in the morning light, "Get up, Lao Han, you have played all night again? There was a flat message on it,"
Han Guiliang's eyes were like pandas, and he stopped Lu Wenqing's hand, "You wait, this Soul Dao Temple, there should be a mysterious person,"
"What's the fun with this? Hurry up,"
Han Guiliang rubbed his eyes. "What's so exciting, is Yiping a female star in California?"
Wait until he closes the legend. After opening the official website of Jiasheng, there was a strange cry immediately, "I'll go!"
"What's wrong?" the others were finally willing to stick their heads out of the bed.
"Look, a flat person, and a company in Silicon Valley. $150 million was invested,"
"What are you talking about?150 million US dollars?" Yan Zhida ran over in big pants.
Zhou Yonggao and Jinbao didn't even wear a single piece of clothing, and ran over with their bare arms in their hands, "Where is it?
"Tsk. 150 million US dollars, more than 1000 million yuan, a flat this guy,"
"It's true!
Yan Zhida had already fallen into the quilt again at this time, but he was no longer sleepy, his head rested on his hands, and he suddenly scolded fiercely, "What kind of bullshit is that Chinese rich list in Hurun? It's not accurate at all, not even a person like Yiping is on the list,"
If Feng Yiping was present, he would definitely think that this guy had ulterior motives, Hurun's list has always had mixed reputations, and in the community, it is also known as the "pig killing list", although this is biased, but it is undeniable that it does have a certain representativeness.
For example, Yang Bin, the second place on the rich list last year, and Yang Rong, the third place, did have a problem soon after they were on the list, one was imprisoned, and the other went overseas.
Therefore, for such a list, Feng Yiping thinks that it is better to stay as far away as possible.
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Zheng Jiayi also quickly saw the news.
At this time, she is already a senior in college, and her family has arranged for her to work in the provincial campus network construction leading group, not surprisingly, this will also be her work unit after graduation.
Because of the work relationship and some reasons, she is very concerned about Jiasheng and Stanford, as soon as she goes to work, she sees the news, and she also feels a lot, and the female boss called a few times before she reacted, "Leader, what's the matter?"
"What do you think, so engrossed?"
"Oh, nothing,"
The female leader's eyes were sharp, and she had already seen the webpage she opened, "Yo, Chinese college student, personal investment of 150 million dollars?
"Yes, I know, when I was a freshman in high school, he sat in front of me,"
"There is such a classmate, be proud, hey, when he returns to China, why don't you make an appointment to let us meet too, at least a billion-level rich man!"
"Yes, proud of him,"
A male colleague interjected, "Jiayi, he wasn't your suitor in the first place!"
"Where?" Zheng Jiayi replied indiscriminately and stood up, "I'll go fetch water,"
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Washington, in the middle of the night, Ma Ling walked around the house with little Vincent in his arms, and became ruthless as he walked around, "You little villain, Mom has to stare at the big dark circles tomorrow to go to school, tell you, this is the last time, if you cry again at night, I will throw you on the sofa in the living room,"
The little one's eyes were shining, and he didn't let go of one of his mother's fingers that he had sucked so much that he was sucking on, "Babble," he said in a milky voice some syllables of unknown meaning, and laughed heartily.
The anger on Ma Ling's face immediately dissipated, and he kissed his son's fleshy little face firmly, "Such a cute and handsome baby, how can my mother be willing to throw you on the sofa and ignore it, isn't it?"
Come and mom read you the newspaper, Google has taken the biggest personal investment, and hired that investor as a strategy director, do you know who this person is?" )