"How are you feeling, a little nervous?" A refined man sat in the guest seat in the Wanxian Pavilion office, looking at Soros, who was seated in the main position.
"After experiencing so much, why would I still be nervous about these things? I'm just sighing that this Liu Qiangdong and the Jiangnan Group behind him are indeed formidable. Amazon, which was on its way to death, has actually been revived and is making such a great impact!" Soros's words carried a hint of a wry smile and caution.
Clearly, he was not as unconcerned as his words suggested. After all, seeing someone he had already defeated stubbornly standing up again was not a good feeling.
"Mr. Soros, do you still have access to internal intelligence from Eastern Amazon?" the guest asked with a smile.
"I no longer do. Although I had deliberately kept a dozen people in the company before, Liu Qiangdong's actions were more decisive than I imagined. He fired all the remaining employees in one go, leaving no old employees behind. He only used personnel brought from Oriental Express. I have lost all my eyes in Amazon!" Soros lamented.
As he spoke, he regretted why he had taken so many people away for the sake of a "shocking effect," which had led the other party to simply "cut the excess and keep the essential," firing the remaining 10% as well.
This move had also cleared out many of Soros's backup plans in Amazon, as these backups would be difficult to activate without personnel.
"Hahaha, there's no need to worry about that. Although you've lost your eyes in Amazon, we have a pair of eyes in Eastern Amazon that can see everything clearly!" the guest said with a chuckle.
"Oh, if you can see everything clearly, then those eyes must hold no small position, right?" Soros asked curiously.
"Yes, that is inconvenient to say. Suffice it to say, we at Goldman Sachs must completely sever Jiangnan Group's tentacles in e-commerce!" the guest said with a smile and firm conviction.
Clearly, this guest was from Goldman Sachs and held a significant position.
"Mr. Tucker, you also mentioned that you came on behalf of Goldman Sachs. What exactly do you want to achieve?" Soros asked, frowning.
"It's very simple, to help you defeat Eastern Amazon!" Tucker said with a smile.
"I don't think that's necessary. Although Eastern Amazon appears to be aggressively advancing now, all of this is merely the result of advertising and promotion. Once actual operations begin, all the advertising and promotion will fade away. Only the platform itself can retain the users who are attracted.
And I firmly believe that there is no e-commerce platform in the world that is more excellent than Wanxian Pavilion. After firing all remaining employees, whether Eastern Amazon can continue to operate the Amazon website well and maintain its data is a huge problem!" Soros said with great confidence.
In Soros's opinion, it was impossible for Eastern Amazon to have a complete understanding of all of Amazon's code if it took only a month to restore operations after firing all employees. At best, it would only be a barely functional state.
And once officially open for business, with a large influx of traffic, the Eastern Amazon website would face a devastating blow, and a crash would only be a matter of time. He was very confident about this.
The more traffic there was, the faster it would crash. Therefore, in Soros's view, Eastern Amazon, which was desperately advertising and constantly attracting more traffic, was simply courting disaster.
From the outside, even if Eastern Amazon's new employees managed to hold on, Soros still had ways to make the website crash. When Soros left Amazon, he had actually left some small "bombs" in Amazon's database with his trusted confidants. As long as one or two signals entered Amazon's database through the network cable, these websites would immediately explode, wiping out all of Eastern Amazon's user data, and the entire website would likely have to wait another month to resume operations.
Don't think Soros is a good person. In fact, no entrepreneur is a good person. They will stop at nothing to defeat their opponents.
"I hope so!" Tucker didn't say much, just kept quiet. The two of them quietly waited for nine o'clock in the morning. On the wall of their office, there was a projection screen displaying a computer desktop.
Finally, at 9:00 AM, Eastern Amazon officially resumed operations.
"Let me see if Amazon still has the qualifications to be called Amazon!" Soros didn't deliberately hold back. He unhesitatingly entered the extremely familiar website address code and accessed the once-familiar website. Then, looking at the predominantly blue website page before him, Soros's brow instantly furrowed.
As everyone knows, Amazon is a website with a primarily green theme. The default background color of the official homepage is green, perfectly matching the theme of the name Amazon.
However, now, the entire Amazon website has become blue, and the overall design style has also undergone significant changes. The most noticeable change is the shift from the previous grid style to a horizontal list style.
In terms of website layout, traditional styles are divided into three types: grid style, horizontal list style, and vertical list style.
As the names suggest, the grid style is a style where blocks are neatly arranged on the page without regard for horizontal or vertical orientation.
The horizontal list and vertical list styles are the opposite. The products on the website are arranged in distinct horizontal and vertical lists, respectively.
Previously, Amazon had always used a grid style for product arrangement, but now Amazon had switched to a horizontal list. This change might seem minor, but it made Soros feel extremely uncomfortable, as if his son had been turned into a daughter.
In addition, the design and layout of various functions on the website were also completely different from the previous Amazon. The entire website had been thoroughly redone, with no resemblance to the previous Amazon.
"These bastards!" Soros couldn't help but curse. Then, without clicking to purchase any products, he continuously refreshed the homepage. The purpose of doing so was simple: by refreshing the homepage, he could directly feel the operating status of the entire website with his naked eye in real-time.
If the refresh speed of a website's homepage was very slow, with the progress bar moving pixel by pixel, and it took three to four minutes to load a few images, it would indicate that either their own network speed had crashed or the other party's website was down.
An office network with a dedicated fiber optic line would obviously not crash. Therefore, if the website refreshed slowly or couldn't be opened, it would mean Eastern Amazon's website had crashed, which was the situation Soros most wanted to see.
Unfortunately, Soros's internet speed was too good. No matter how many times he refreshed, the website would load within three seconds at most, displaying a dazzling array of products.
"How is this possible? The website hasn't crashed yet. Could it be that their previous promotional efforts didn't attract much traffic?" Soros muttered to himself in disbelief.
"No, their traffic generation was very successful. The website has only been open for less than three minutes, and the number of users visiting has already exceeded 4 million. It is estimated that exceeding 30 million visitors for the entire day will not be a problem!" Tucker said proactively from the side.
"The data is so accurate? Is it reliable?" Soros couldn't help but ask.
"You can rest assured about the accuracy of the data; it is absolutely reliable!" Tucker was not lying. After all, the data came directly from Hao Jianguo, so there couldn't be any problems.
"4 million traffic without a crash? This Jiangnan Group is indeed worthy of being a server manufacturer. They must have configured the servers to three times the normal standard! This is truly extravagant!" Soros snorted coldly, attributing the reason for the website's smooth operation to the large number of servers.
This point was not entirely wrong, as Boss Huang had configured not three times the servers for Eastern Amazon, but five times the servers at once. Anyway, since they produced it themselves, the cost was very cheap.
"In that case, don't blame me!" Soros looked at the still smoothly operating Eastern Amazon homepage, sighed, and then picked up the phone, saying to his secretary, "Unseal those few little guys."
After speaking, Soros regretfully put down the phone.
Once those little guys left in Amazon's code were unsealed, Amazon, the website he personally created, would also crash. It felt like personally killing his own child.
"At most ten seconds..." Soros calculated in his mind, then continued to refresh the webpage. As expected, there were no problems with Eastern Amazon's homepage; it continued to operate smoothly.
"How is this possible? Once those little guys are activated, the website should automatically crash immediately... Could it be that the technical staff there are so skilled that they managed to find the few little bugs I hid?" Soros muttered to himself in disbelief as he saw the homepage remain completely unchanged.
"Mr. Soros, there's something you might not know!" Hearing Soros's words, Tucker revealed a faint, imperceptible smile. "Mr. Liu Qiangdong actually deleted all of Amazon's previous code on the very first day he took over Amazon and replaced it with their own Jiangnan Mall website code."
"So this website in front of you is not your child at all, but Jiangnan Group's own flesh and blood. Your child was already made into meat paste and fed to dogs long ago. There is no trace of Amazon left in this world!" Tucker said with a smile.