Short half year.

Google has grown from an insignificant small startup into a rising star in Silicon Valley.

It is now one of the most well-known startups in Silicon Valley, attracting countless dreamers... and speculators who hope to join before Google goes public.

The working stiffs of Silicon Valley know it well.

Compared to taking a fixed salary, the real shortcut to getting rich is looking forward to stock options and equity awards. Otherwise, even after ten years of hard work, don't expect to buy a nice house in the expensive Silicon Valley area, let alone dream of hosting yacht parties every day.

As for starting a business yourself, although the returns can be extremely high, directly achieving financial freedom, the risks cannot be ignored.

The opportunities in the booming market are gradually being taken by others.

With more and more successful companies, fewer and fewer opportunities remain.

The precedents of countless startups going bankrupt have already served as a reminder that unless you come up with a great idea that you believe is unparalleled, or discover that a friend has a good idea, the working stiffs of Silicon Valley will not easily quit their jobs and are not as daring as they were in earlier years.

Thus.

After weighing the pros and cons, they will find that directly betting on a startup team that shows signs of success is both a safe and promising approach.

Firstly, they don't have to pay out of their own pockets, and secondly, they have the hope of earning income in addition to their salary. Not only is it a guaranteed income regardless of drought or flood, but promotion and salary increases are also easier than in established internet companies.

It is precisely because there are too many people who think this way that high-quality startups like Google can easily attract talent to join, and everyone works together for the company, often showing extraordinary vitality.

With the example of Yanwenzi Group first.

Everyone believes that Google, which has already been valued at $800 million by institutions, will soon be listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Considering that Yanwenzi Group distributed equity awards worth tens of millions of dollars when it went public, and provided the opportunity to purchase additional shares at a low price, it was still relatively generous.

When conducting campus recruitment at prestigious universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and Yale in the first half of the year, Google's appeal even exceeded that of giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL, which is undoubtedly a good thing for Su Yehao.

By the way.

The group of Yanwenzi Group employees who chose to spend money to buy original shares at the beginning had an average purchase price of only six dollars per share, which rose to more than eleven dollars on the day of the IPO.

As long as you hold the stock until now, the return has reached 200% so far...

A little after eleven o'clock in the morning.

Su Yehao, sitting in his custom-made Rolls-Royce Phantom State Limousine armored car, appeared downstairs at Google's headquarters, and sighed deeply as he looked at the green signboard.

Yin Liuli was present earlier and heard the content of his conversation with Yang Zhiyuan. Because it involved a big business deal, she didn't dare to interrupt.

Just now on the road, seeing Su Yehao distracted and thinking about things, Yin Liuli also did not disturb him.

It wasn't until this time that she asked in a low voice, "Is it worth it to acquire it for twelve billion dollars? You seem reluctant to sell it, is something bothering you?"

After getting out of the car.

Su Yehao put his hands in his trouser pockets. Today, in order to meet with the people from Qualcomm, he dressed more formally, with black suit pants and a white shirt, but he didn't have the habit of wearing a tie.

This already counts as giving face.

Otherwise, shorts, slippers, and a short-sleeved shirt are his favorite way to dress in July.

Even six thousand dollar alligator leather shoes are not as comfortable as slippers, but as a boss, you always have to take care of your image.

When he saw Yang Zhiyuan earlier, the other party was only wearing jeans and a short-sleeved shirt.

As a well-known super-rich, he has long skipped the stage of needing to decorate himself with external things, and even if he walks around in flip-flops, he will be praised as "approachable."

Unlike those Wall Street elites, who always like to dress in suits and leather shoes, looking aggressive.

After hearing Yin Liuli's question, Su Yehao said decisively:

"The previous remarks were just polite words, just let them go in one ear and out the other, don't take them to heart. Google is in a period of rapid expansion. By the end of this year, the number of users is likely to exceed ten million. Knowing that it has great potential, why would I sell it so early? More importantly, Google doesn't need me to worry about it, and has already matured to the point of learning to make money for me. It would be difficult to get such a good company back after selling it."

Yin Liuli continued to ask:

"Then why did you look so tangled before? You sat in the car without saying a word, I thought you were threatened by him and were angry just now."

Su Yehao sneered:

"Threaten me? Yahoo can put a little pressure on me, but SoftBank Japan doesn't have the strength to deal with me yet. I was mainly considering whether I should accept a round of financing, after all, Google is burning money quite fiercely, and I seem to be a little tight on cash. Just like Yang Zhiyuan won't choose not to suppress Google because he has met me a few times and feels nostalgic, I won't obediently offer such a good company with both hands because of a few words from Yang Zhiyuan, especially since the other party is a Japanese company."

"Oh, as long as you're not angry, I seem to be too stupid to help you with big business deals."

After Yin Liuli finished speaking, Su Yehao joked, "Be confident, remove the word 'seem'."

"???"

Smiling, Yin Liuli snorted softly, and then told him, "The name of SoftBank Japan is a bit special, the full name is Software Bank, right? I seem to have seen news about it in the materials, it has launched fund-like products in cooperation with banks, and is raising funds from Hong Kong."

"Yes, it's a venture capital company, similar to my KOKO Ventures. The difference is that I mainly use my own funds for external investment, while it not only does private equity, but also raises funds through IPOs. The market is good now, and it's easy to make money from investments. When the market turns cold and its financial products suffer losses, problems will arise. In the future, I might be able to find some money from outside to expand the scale of investment, increase my influence, and earn some pocket money..."

Su Yehao walked into the Google company as he spoke, and many employees nodded and smiled at him as they saw him.

The outside world praises the SoftBank boss for being very smart.

However, when it comes to the vision of finding investment targets, Su Yehao has never been afraid of anyone.

SoftBank in this era is far less large than the SoftBank in Su Yehao's memory, with a total market value of just over 10 billion US dollars.

When it first went public in Tokyo last year, there were also brokerage firms that recommended SoftBank stocks to him, but you would have to be crazy to buy them. Rather than trusting Masayoshi Son, Su Yehao obviously trusts himself more.

On the way to Silicon Valley, he had just made a simple calculation. Although there have been a lot of big projects invested recently, the cash flow is still relatively healthy.

The Cyberport project mainly uses land to exchange for loans, which is equivalent to borrowing money from the bank to buy land. The entire development cycle is expected to last for ten years, and there is no need to spend too much money in the short term.

The Qianxin City project can also obtain land and build factories with loans from banks.

As for the major parts of the wafer foundry and lithography machine R&D plan, the preparation stage will take a long time. By then, it is estimated that the stocks invested in Yahoo, Amazon and other companies have already been cashed out.

As NASDAQ continues to rise, the funds in the wealth management account have soared from about 3 billion US dollars some time ago to nearly 4 billion US dollars. If it continues to rise, there is still room to bear Google's expenses.

The fundamental reason for starting to consider external financing is that Su Yehao suddenly realized that his long-term exclusive control has led to the fact that if Google really encounters Yahoo's suppression, he doesn't even have an ally who can help.

The so-called suppression may not only be limited to the scope of business.

If they use the media to spread news about user data leakage, or fabricate scandals about executives, it will definitely not be good for Google's growth momentum. These practices are old traditions among American companies, and can be used internally and externally.

This is related to the atmosphere of money supremacy in the United States. In order to win, they can be said to stop at nothing.

Therefore, it is mostly correct to think more about the bad side of everything.

As long as Google's development is curbed, Yahoo's market value may increase by tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, and the situation of one company dominating the market will give investors more confidence in it.

Faced with such considerable benefits.

Even if Su Yehao trusts Yang Zhiyuan's character, he cannot guarantee that other Yahoo shareholders will not use some tricks.

According to Yang Zhiyuan's previous statement, other Yahoo shareholders have obviously set their sights on Google, and have excluded him from the Yahoo shareholders and formed a new small circle.

If you think deeper, Su Yehao believes that he is an outsider, and apart from some ethereal reputation, his foundation is seriously insufficient.

With the arrogance and xenophobia of Americans, as the interests involved increase, it is hard to guarantee that when Yahoo takes action, other venture capital firms, funds, and other institutions will not seize the opportunity to take action together, and may even implicate other layouts.

After considering all these factors, Su Yehao came up with the idea of advancing Google's financing plan.

If he can hold on for a while longer and have the opportunity to get more money back, and by the way solve Google's development funds for the next two or three years, anyway, when the investors lose money, he can blame the poor market environment, and what does it have to do with him, Su Yehao?

When the industry enters a cold winter period, and Yahoo has no time to deal with Google, it may be possible to win a few more years of golden development.

Other companies care about market value and revenue, while Su Yehao has been eyeing traffic from the beginning.

Therefore, what is a disaster in the eyes of others is an opportunity in his eyes. Yanwenzi Group's winter plan was prepared last year, but Google's side has not yet been settled, and it seems that it can just take advantage of being targeted by Yahoo to reasonably announce the Series A financing plan to the public.

If you think about it from another perspective, after competing publicly with Yahoo, he can also reasonably dump his Yahoo shares, cash out the money and put it in his pocket, which can be said to kill several birds with one stone.

Before meeting with the people from Google, Su Yehao first considered these things, and suddenly felt relieved.

When he came to the top floor of the company, he called the CEO Larry Page, CTO Sergey Brin, COO Danielle Kenner, and CFO, CMO and other executives to the conference room.

After showing up, he pretended to be worried and said:

"Everyone, our difficulties are coming."

"Yahoo's Yang Zhiyuan wants me to sell Google to him, and the offer is only 1.2 billion US dollars. This is undoubtedly a sign that he is worried about our outstanding performance and is trying to stop us."

"Although the company is not worth that much now, in my eyes, the Google you have created together is worth at least 10 billion US dollars, and even has the hope of surpassing Yahoo's achievements."

"First of all, congratulations to everyone, this proves that the value we have created has made Yahoo panic, but the key is, what do you think we should do next..."