Chapter 49 San Francisco
In the car, Milo opened a bottle of mineral water, took a few big gulps, and then screwed the cap back on.
He smiled at Wendy and asked, "How is Yahoo now?"
"I don't understand the Internet. But our consultants told me that Yahoo has huge potential."
Wendy smiled and said, "I don't understand its potential either. But I know that it is very valuable now! Dear boss, there was news from Wall Street this morning. An investment bank has already offered a valuation of $500 million for Yahoo!"
This is actually quite outrageous, as the company has only been in existence for less than two years.
In more than a year, it burned through nearly tens of millions of dollars.
Not a penny of profit.
This is the company whose stock is being snapped up right now.
Milo smiled and said, "It seems that Jerry Yang and David Ferro did a good job."
"These two young people are very talented, but they have a bit of impatient temper. Now they want to seize the initiative, but they would not be like this a few months ago." Wendy shook her head and laughed.
"Haha." Milo could only laugh.
Most of the founders of successful Internet giants have this kind of temperament.
When a startup is seeking investment, it has to be as humble as possible.
When first-class companies start to develop and achieve success, they can be as arrogant as they can be.
But in the end, most of these people were forced to kneel down by capital.
Those who don’t kneel will either be eliminated or become capital.
There is no other way out.
The car soon arrived at St. Clark in San Francisco.
Stop under a five or six-story building.
David got out of the car first, followed quickly by Kenny and others.
About ten seconds later, David came over and opened the car door for Milo.
Milo wore a slim-fitting black suit, a crisp white shirt and a dark blue striped tie.
Although he is tall, the high-tailored clothes make him look less stout.
As soon as Milo got out of the car, he saw four or five people surrounding two young men on the steps in front of the building.
Jerry Yang is dressed like a typical high-class intellectual, wearing glasses and looking very gentle.
As for David Filo, if his neck were to get a little redder from the sun, he would actually look very similar to the redneck class in the United States.
This is indeed true. David Filo graduated from Tulane University.
He is from Louisiana, a typical American Southerner.
Seeing the young, tall and handsome Milo get out of the car, David Filo and Jerry Yang were a little surprised at Milo's ostentation.
The last time Milo came, there weren't as many people as there are now.
Seeing Milo coming, the two of them also led their people down the stairs. Both groups had young people walking in front and they soon met each other.
"Dear Mr. Blackburn. Welcome back to Yahoo!"
Before the smiling Milo Blackburn could speak, David Ferro welcomed him first.
Milo couldn't say he was familiar with these two people in his past or present life.
Before his rebirth, the most he knew was that the founder of Yahoo was Jerry Young.
He didn't even know David Filo existed.
This is obviously because he was a Chinese before his rebirth.
Probably because Jerry Yang is Chinese.
So in China, when people talk about the founder of Yahoo, they usually mention Jerry Young.
But now, Milo felt that David Ferro was more proactive.
It was mostly David Filo doing the talking.
"Hello, David and Jerry. It's a nice day in St. Clark today." Milo stretched out his hand and shook hands with the two men.
After the greetings, the two took Milo into Yahoo.
Today, everyone in the company already knows that one of the company's big bosses has arrived.
But they still do what they have to do. Obviously, these IT guys are not interested in these things.
Jerry Young and David Ferro walked side by side with Milo, both with happy smiles on their faces.
The two of them obviously had a division of labor, at least when facing Milo.
Jerry Young occasionally provided supporting roles, but David Filo was the one who primarily spoke to Milo.
David Filo enthusiastically introduced all the office areas he passed by along the way. Milo also asked a few questions from time to time, and they had a pleasant conversation.
Compared to Milo's calmness and composure the last time he came, this time he obviously cared about a lot more.
The last time he came, he only stayed for half an hour.
After signing and getting the shares, they leave.
David Filo and Jerry Young naturally attributed this change to changes in Yahoo's valuation.
But in fact, it was because the last time he came, Milo just wanted to lie down.
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After being shot yesterday, his mentality has changed.
The group continued to move forward, and the staff passing by smiled when they saw that their boss and the investor were getting along well.
David Filo and Jerry Young originally thought that, as a young rich man, a new writer, and reportedly a new director.
This kind of person is rich and is also engaged in artistic creation.
Milo probably has no interest in the boring work and environment of an IT company and will soon become impatient.
But they all saw Milo Blackburn and listened to his introduction very carefully along the way.
He looked thoughtful from time to time, and it didn't seem like he was pretending to be interested. Instead, he was truly curious about everything about Yahoo.
He is completely different from last time.
David Filo, who was mainly responsible for the introduction, spoke and responded very quickly, and his logical thinking was a bit jumpy.
David Filo was obviously a bit perfunctory at the beginning.
David Filo would also agree with Milo's answers and suggestions, but a hint of disdain could still be heard in his tone.
It's nothing more than treating Milo as an outsider, even though Milo spoke about his experience from a user's perspective before he opened his mouth.
But when he opened his mouth, Milo deliberately mixed in some specious things about Internet-related ideas and functions that he had prepared to deal with the two founders of Yahoo.
Although in the eyes of the two founders, some of them can be repeated with the ideas that the company is preparing and has already started to apply.
However, there are indeed a few people who have never thought in that direction, neither they nor the people in the company.
As they chatted, even Jerry Yang, who was not a talkative person, joined the discussion.
"Milo, your ideas are really good. No wonder you have created such best-selling books. It's really amazing!" David Filo no longer called him Mr. Blackburn, but called him by Milo's name directly.
Milo wore a modest smile on the surface, but he couldn't help but pout in his heart.
What he just said are all some variations of foreign ideas that were copied in China in his previous life.
But now it seems like a pretty cool idea, well, now it’s Milo’s original creation.
For example, he casually mentioned the search function which has not yet appeared.
If Yahoo had developed this feature, I wonder if Google would have been born in two years.
"Haha, I have written down the complete ideas for these creative concepts. They are all ready and in the hands of the lawyers on my team. As long as David and Jerry are willing to pay a little favor, I think those documents will not disappoint you!" Milo teased with a little bit of joking.
Milo had no faith in the integrity of these people.
Those who play on the Internet have no moral integrity, and those who have moral integrity can't play at all.
This is true for both domestic and foreign Internet.
If I hadn't told them in advance about the ideas I'm talking about now, I would have protected them long ago.
Milo knew that as soon as he left, Yahoo would probably start studying the relevant code right away! If it was before, it wouldn't matter, but now Milo wanted to enter the game with the Internet.
He certainly wouldn't come up with ideas for no reason.
I just acted like this on purpose and said so many seemingly plausible but actually misleading creative ideas.
That was just him making a nest.
(End of this chapter)