Chapter 209

Chapter 209 Killing chickens and monkeys

  Aaron Swartz understood that Song Yang was making an exchange with him. He developed and completed the PayPal payment project for Song Yang, and Song Yang supported him in building the Wikipedia website.

  Wikipedia is a conceptual project that Swartz has always wanted to do, and he never wants to give up. "If the development goes well, it is expected to be tested before the end of the year and officially launched next year!"

   "The most important thing about the PayPal platform is not payment, but the connection with banking institutions, as well as issues such as security and cross-border remittance."

Aaron Swartz pointedly said that after several years of hard work, Swartz is no longer the fearless newcomer he was back then. He knows how banks deal with competitors, and it can be said that he can do everything he can. .

Banks are unwilling to make changes easily. When Swartz was in the bank, he was responsible for maintaining the security system for Citibank. Even if Swartz suggested to Citigroup executives, he could build a more secure system for Citibank maintenance system, but Citi would rather spend money to maintain the old system that had frequent problems than develop a new security system.

  PayPal can be said to be aimed at the lifeline of the bank. Once it is developed, the bank will definitely pour dirty water on PayPal, such as insecurity, money laundering, and fraud.

   "PayPal's security issues are handled by Feita Security Company. After the development is completed, PayPal will have its own partners!" Song Yang said to Swartz.

   "I hope you can form a development team as soon as possible. The development office is located in the ICQ office building. Irene Doherty will provide all support for the PayPal development team!"

   When Swartz got up, Song Yang explained to him again, "Before the development is completed, I hope PayPal can keep it secret."

  This time it's no different than America Telecom. America Telecom forced the futures companies on Wall Street to cooperate with America Telecom. However, if the PayPal project leaks in advance, the banking institution will probably kill it!

"I see!"

Song Yang doesn't need to explain, Swartz also knows what he is doing. Once the banking institutions know about the project to dig their graves, Song Yang, they may not be able to clean up for a while, but to clean up Swartz For these developers, the bank has never been relentless.

As the saying goes, if you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who raised the problem. The bank will deal with Swartz and the others, such as stopping loans, canceling bank accounts, checking tax issues, and even directly sending them to the federal police station on trumped-up charges. These tricks are definitely used, and they will kill chickens and monkeys, so that people in Silicon Valley will never dare to touch the PayPal project again!

   Establishing the PayPal project, Song Yang's level of secrecy is far higher than before, and he has registered several vest projects to cover the projects of the online payment platform.

  As for the personnel who entered the project, Song Yang also paid a high salary several times higher than that of Silicon Valley, so that the personnel participating in the project signed a non-disclosure agreement.

   Even in the name of security, Gallo specially sent two teams from the Blackwater Company to guard the entrance of the PayPal project day and night.

  After dealing with the incident in San Jose, Song Yang, Marcus, and Feita took a chartered flight to New York.

  Song Yang hasn't bought a private jet yet, so it's not that he can't afford it. With Song Yang's worth, it's definitely no problem to keep a private jet.

But if you want to maintain a top-notch private jet that costs hundreds of millions of dollars, Song Yang's current body is still a bit too much. To spend so much cash to build a private jet for one price, for Song Yang now, it is not enough. Some are not worth it.

   After boarding the plane, Song Yang and Marcus sat in the back of the plane and whispered in whispers. Song Yang asked Marcus who was in charge of his money bag, "How are you getting ready?!"

  Song Yang went to participate in the listing ceremony of Yahoo this time, not only expressing his support verbally, but also asked Marcus to prepare a sum of funds from the American Global Investment Foundation, and planned to rush to raise Yahoo shares after Yahoo went public.

   If you don't spend real money and even become the largest individual investor in Yahoo, how can you live up to the slogan of supporting Yahoo!

Yahoo went public with a market value of US$500 million. Even if the stock price rose again that day, the market value could not exceed US$1 billion. Even if you invest in Yahoo with a market value of US$1 billion, you don't need to wait four or five years, even if you sell it next year. Yahoo stock can earn at least dozens of times.

   "Song, do you really want to invest so much money in Yahoo?!" Marcus asked Song Yang in a low voice, but he knew how much money Song Yang had transferred to Yahoo this time.

  Song Yang is so optimistic about Yahoo, Marcus did not think of it, double-click company and Yahoo swapped shares, and now Song Yang wants to push America Global Foundation to Yahoo's board of directors.

  The question is not how much money Song Yang will spend on Yahoo. What Marcus is worried about is what Yahoo thinks Song Yang will play like this.

After hearing what Marcus said, Song Yang shook his head, "The American Global Investment Foundation is an investment foundation, and I am me. Although I am the major shareholder of the American Global Investment Foundation, it is you, Ma Ku, who makes investment decisions. Si, it has nothing to do with me, even if the investors behind Yahoo have opinions, they can't blame me!"

  Song Yang threw out a set of theories without even blinking an eye, arresting Lu Xun, what does he have to do with Zhou?

Hearing this set of theories, Marcus was speechless, and felt that it made sense. Even if Yahoo had objections to the American Global Investment Fund's savage-style, placard-style investment, that was his decision, Marcus. Song Yang didn't know about it, no matter whether other people believed it or not, anyway, Song Yang believed it.

  After talking with Marcus for a few words, Song Yang sat down towards the seat of the Feita trio. Now Feita Company is mainly managed by Xie Qing, Deng Feng, and Keyan.

  Participating in the listing ceremony for the first time, Xie Qing and the three of them were obviously excited and cautious, and the three of them deliberately changed into formal attire in suits and leather shoes.

  Looking at Xie Qing and the others, Song Yang smiled and said, "When the Feita is on the market, it's not too late for you to wear this suit!"

Hearing Song Yang mentioned that Feita was going public, Xie Qing and the others were obviously taken aback. Obviously they hadn't thought about going public, Xie Qing pulled down his tie a little, shook his head and said, "I don't know when Feita will be able to go public." listed."

  America has Norton, Symantec and other giant companies in the field of anti-virus security. Fortinet is just a latecomer. If you want to overthrow these giants, Xie Qing can only think about it on his own, but he dare not say it.

Song Yang didn't think so, looked at Xie Qing, Deng Feng and the others and said, "Now Feita is already the largest Internet online anti-virus software in America, and when it enters the foreign market next year, Feita will be able to occupy overseas if it goes overseas smoothly. The antivirus software market is the world's "largest" antivirus software company!"

   This made Xie Qing and the others laugh, not talking about anything else, just judging from the number of users, Free Tower online anti-virus software under the banner of free, among the Internet users in America, the number of downloads is frighteningly high.

The Fortinet client has only been launched for more than half a year. Due to the drainage of Hotmail mailboxes and ICQ, Fortinet has swept tens of millions of users in America. It may not be useful to install Fortinet, but if there is no Fortinet on the computer desktop, it seems that I always feel uneasy. .

  Fortinet is also one of the Internet software with the fastest user growth in the Internet industry in the past six months. Although it does not have the explosive user growth of ICQ, it has far exceeded other Internet companies.

   "But Fortinet, compared with Norton and Symantec, the revenue is really far behind!"

Ke Yan sighed and said that the most profitable anti-virus software must be enterprise users, but in this regard, Fortinet is far from qualified. Except for Double-click, ICQ and several Internet companies in Silicon Valley, those big companies, There are still some doubts about the technology of Feita. Before Feita proves itself, those big companies, banks and other institutions will not hand over the safety gate to Feita.

   "In the Internet industry, the most important thing is not necessarily revenue. If Fortinet wants to go public, it may be able to go public in a year or two!"

Song Yang chuckled and shook his head, as long as Feita has enough users and traffic is big enough, even if it is a mess, he can still log in to NASDAQ. Crazy hype.

   After hearing Song Yang's words, Xie Qing couldn't help but feel a little moved. He ran out of Stanford halfway and built a flying tower, not just to catch up with the trend of the Internet.

   But after thinking for a while, Xie Qing still said, "I want to wait for Fortinet to launch the first generation of UTM security equipment before discussing Fortinet's listing!"

Of course, there is no problem in relying on hype to go public, but if you want a hype to continue, you have to produce something. Xie Qing doesn't want to rely on just a gimmick. For Xie Qing, online anti-virus software can only be regarded as a icing on the cake. The most important thing is UTM's chip firewall equipment, which is the foundation of Fortinet, and he doesn't want to lose everything.

  Song Yang nodded. He didn't overstep his authority to interfere in the Flying Tower. Originally investing in the Flying Tower, Song Yang just didn't want to hold the safety valve in the hands of others, and didn't expect to make much money by relying on the Flying Tower.

Feita is willing to work **** technology, and Song Yang is naturally happy to see the results. If it is really to surpass Norton and Symantec in terms of security technology, then Feita does not make money, and Song Yang can spend money go down.

  After the plane landed at New York Airport, Song Yang, Marcus, Xie Qing and a group of people left the airport and rushed towards Song Yang's manor on the North Shore of Long Island.

The listing of Yahoo this time is different from the last Netscape, which had a big momentum last time. In order to build momentum, it has brought all the Internet companies over to create its own role as the leader of the Internet, so for those present, there are media Interviews add heat to Netscape.

Although Yahoo also invited a lot of guests, the focus of the publicity was completely on the "Yahoo chief", so when Song Yang and the others arrived in New York, only a few media reported on it, and all the attention was on it. For Yang Zhiyuan, Yahoo's "God-making" campaign can be described as quite successful.

  (end of this chapter)