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   Chapter 642 Fanning the flames

   On fanning the flames, these media and reporters are good players and can answer people around the corner.

Song Yang had just finished saying he was optimistic about Amazon, and immediately there were reporters who moved out of eBay. As Song Yang's second investment in the e-commerce industry, eBay's reputation is not weaker than Amazon's. In addition, eBay is controlled by Song Yang. The management is from Song Yang from top to bottom, and is almost regarded by the outside world as his own son...

   Now the media asks Song Yang to compare Amazon and eBay, which is obviously to add to Song Yang.

Glancing at the reporter who asked the question, Song Yang glanced at it, turned around and walked towards the trading floor under the **** of Ulf and other security personnel. He came here today to cheer for Amazon. You need to block yourself again.

   The reporters and the media who were present swarmed after Song Yang when they saw that Song Yang was about to go in. Some reporters glared fiercely at the reporters who couldn't open the pot.

  Compared to Amazon and Bezos, Song Yang is now a big figure in the Internet industry. In recent years, Song Yang has less and less opportunities to be interviewed by the media. After finally getting a chance, he was even confused.

How much is Amazon’s market value now, how high is Bezos’ worth, what big moves can he make, but Song Yang is different, just in the luxury industry, he fought a battle with LVMH group across the line, the highest in the history of the Internet The valuation of ICQ is about to go public, Song Yang's worth will soar a lot, which of these are not topical, interviewing Song Yang can be compared to interviewing Amazon, the ratings are much higher!

   "Song, what do you think the market value of ICQ can reach?"

   "Some media think that ICQ's bubble is too high, what do you think?"

   "Bloomberg Businessweek predicts that Bruno Song will become the second richest man in America this year. Does Song think you can surpass Bill Gates?"

   "Will RICK continue to acquire other luxury brands?"

The reporters at the back pressed Song Yang with various questions, but Song Yang did not answer them. These questions really need to be answered one by one. I am afraid that they will not be able to enter the gate today. It is enough to create some gimmicks for Amazon. Intend to dominate.

   "Clap!"

  When Song Yang entered the Nasdaq trading floor, Yahoo Headquarters in Silicon Valley, Yahoo President Kuger, turned off the TV station in dissatisfaction.

   "You see, Jerry, Bruno Song never really regarded Yahoo as an ally!"

  Coog shook his head and said to a group of executives in the conference room, "He believes that one day Yahoo will be surpassed by a website that sells books, and he also predicts that Amazon's market value will exceed $100 billion..."

   A group of Wall Street managers sitting in the Yahoo conference room couldn't help but burst into laughter. What they saw just now was the news coverage of Amazon's listing by the front-line media.

As a "small" Internet company listed, Yahoo naturally has no interest in taking care of it, not to mention that the two sides are not the same people. Yahoo is a representative of the Silicon Valley faction, and Amazon is from Seattle. No matter what it is, Yang Zhiyuan, the Yahoo chief, is even less likely to go.

   Even, if it weren’t for Yahoo, it was preparing for an e-commerce business, and it might fight with Amazon in the future. Another point is that if Amazon is a company invested by someone, Yahoo doesn’t expect to pay attention to an “unknown person” at all.

   But the footage from the news interview on the TV just now made Coog and many Yahoo executives suffocated.

Yahoo's market value has exceeded 50 billion US dollars, so how much is Amazon's market value? In other words, Yahoo has already been so successful. Song Yang is not optimistic about Yahoo, but is betting on Amazon. Even if it is just a joke, it is still true. Makes Cooger unhappy.

   "Maybe, Yahoo needs to issue another equity reward. Some people cannot be allowed to scold Yahoo with the constantly appreciating Yahoo stock..."

   A director sent by a Wall Street institution to Yahoo suddenly said, and when he said this, the eyes of all Yahoo directors and executives shone brightly.

Seeing the expressions of the people in the conference room, Yang Zhiyuan couldn't help sighing. He didn't want to have a conflict with Song Yang. In Silicon Valley, there are not many Chinese people, so Yang Zhiyuan didn't want to meet Song Yang. , fight to the death or to the death.

   But obviously, Yahoo's directors and executives don't see it that way. They don't know how Yahoo was fooled by Song Yang in the first place, and they even exchanged Yahoo's equity with Double-click, resulting in a cross-shareholding.

As a result, Song Yang is now Yahoo's largest individual shareholder, holding 9% of Yahoo's equity, which was diluted when Yahoo was listed, otherwise he would take more, which is compared to the Yahoo equity held by many institutions. more.

  According to the current market value of Yahoo, the 9% of Yahoo's equity in Song Yang's hands has exceeded 4.5 billion US dollars.

   Looking at the meeting room, a group of organizations were happily discussing how to scrape the Yahoo shares held by Song Yang, and Yang Zhiyuan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Yahoo's current market value is getting higher and higher, and the name of Yahoo's chief is getting louder and louder, but Yang Zhiyuan's control over Yahoo is getting weaker and weaker, and the Yahoo equity he currently holds has also been diluted. Song Yang had nowhere to go.

Looking around, the people who squeezed the floor with him to eat McDonald's and made great contributions to Yahoo have now faded out of the ranks of Yahoo executives. Yahoo's No. 1 employee, Brady, has long since left Yahoo. , basically all Wall Street executives.

   "Now is not the time to compete with Bruno Song, our opponents are MSN, AOL, Lycos, Excite, Snap, Disney's infoseek, etc., not against Song, which is of no use to Yahoo!"

Yang Zhiyuan suddenly spoke, which surprised everyone in the conference room, and the representative of the Wall Street institution wanted to speak, and Kuger coughed, "This is the end of today's meeting, Jerry is right, Yahoo's most important opponent now, and Not Song."

Cooger is familiar with Yang Zhiyuan's character and knows that he doesn't want to fight with Song Yang, even if Cooger thinks that Song Yang may be Yahoo's most important opponent in the future, but because of Song Yang, the trouble between Yahoo management and Yang Zhiyuan falls apart. , he feels that it is not worth it, there will be opportunities in the future!

   When Song Yang entered the Nasdaq lobby, it attracted the attention of many people. Amazon founder Bezos, board member John Dole and others all turned their attention to Song Yang.

"Congratulations, Bezos, Amazon will be the world's first listed e-commerce company. I have already assured the media that Amazon's market value is less than one trillion dollars. Don't sell Amazon's stock, don't you? it disappointed me."

When Song Yang shook hands with Bezos, he said to him with a smile, making everyone at the scene smile. The photographer in charge of filming the Amazon listing documentary firmly aimed the lens at Song Yang and Bezos. Song Yang It is the most important Internet big man who is here today, cheering for Amazon's listing!

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