Chapter 2 The Next Day

The next day.

After successfully signing the formal contract.

Su Yehao paid the full amount to the backlinks company—that is, the still unnamed Google—from the company account in one go.

And that wasn't all.

He also hired someone to rent office space, planned to customize a database and data management system from Oracle, and immediately began recruiting personnel, with an initial investment of about six million U.S. dollars planned.

With this investment, it was enough for Google's soft and hard power to climb several steps collectively, trading in their shotguns for cannons.

The two founders felt more and more that it was right to ask for equity. The 5% option reward each, converted into investment, was equivalent to three hundred thousand.

As long as they could attract one million users, these shares would be particularly valuable.

Larry Page was complacent about this.

The truth was, even if they had asked to retain 10% or even 15% of the shares each, Su Yehao would still have agreed. After all, he had never thought of doing it himself, spending his time and energy on the development of search engines. At the same time, it could also have the effect of spending a fortune to attract talent.

If Google could develop again, and Larry and Sergey could successfully make money, the two sides would have a pleasant cooperation.

Then, for KOKO Ventures and Su Yehao, future venture capital and private equity investment projects would definitely be much smoother. They could use Google as a success story and publicize it when investing.

The 5% option reward was already saving Su Yehao money.

In order to support the two of them, in addition to letting them cooperate with TOT to learn from each other's strengths and make up for their weaknesses, Su Yehao also specially transferred a talent from KOKO Ventures to help them deal with some trivial matters unrelated to research and development.

Ms. Danielle Kenning was chosen in this way…

Just after lunch.

Danielle Kenning heard the bad news from the HR director of KOKO Ventures that she was about to be transferred to serve as interim chief operating officer. Her first thought was whether she had offended someone, otherwise why would she be demoted?

She had just been to the backlinks company last night, so of course she knew how small the company was.

After hearing this arrangement, which seemed quite unreasonable to her, she slammed the table with the HR director on the spot. The other party could only helplessly tell her that this was Su Yehao's decision and he couldn't help at all.

And so.

Danielle Kenning found out Su Yehao's whereabouts, and rushed to the gate of his mansion, ringing the doorbell to ask for a meeting.

Su Yehao had met her several times, and immediately chose to let her in.

When Danielle Kenning came to the spacious living room, she found the servants packing their luggage, and there were also some luxury packaging boxes from Hermes, Cartier, Bulgari, and the like.

At this time, Su Yehao walked down the stairs with a smile on his face, and said, "It just so happens that I was planning to take the time to see you. I'm taking a plane to Tokyo this afternoon, so I'll have to entrust the backlinks company to you in the future."

"...But I don't want to be a nanny at all, especially for such a small company. When the headhunter found me, they didn't say that they would easily change my position. I think I'm doing a good job at KOKO Ventures, why transfer me away?"

Although Danielle Kenning's personality was strong, she still forcibly suppressed her resentment in front of Su Yehao, trying to remain calm.

She had worked on Wall Street for many years and had long been accustomed to the atmosphere of money first and the strong being respected.

Although she was a bit snobbish, she was also very efficient.

Despite being more than ten years older than Su Yehao, Danielle Kenning still admired him quite a bit.

Heavy investment in Yahoo, acquisition of iCQ, creation of TVT, etc., had all achieved amazing returns, earning at least one billion U.S. dollars in a year. This achievement was enough to be "deified" even on Wall Street.

Working at KOKO Ventures, she was of course very clear about which projects Su Yehao had invested in.

The recent start of acquiring third-party companies, in Danielle Kenning's view, was simply a stroke of genius, with the opportunity to revitalize iCQ and TVT's revenue data in one fell swoop.

Take the Steel Kong Company she was in charge of, for example. After acquiring it, she set up several advertising spaces on iCQ and TVT, attracting more than 700,000 players in a week. Even with prior preparations, the server had crashed several times.

From this point of view, it was time to continue to make a big splash around iCQ and TVT, and it was easy to achieve results. Danielle Kenning certainly did not want to be transferred outside to be a "nanny".

Su Yehao flipped through the pile of gifts prepared for the girls, casually picked out a Hermes crocodile skin bag, and smiled as he handed it to her:

"It's because I think you're doing a great job that I introduced you to the backlinks company. Oh, by the way, it will be renamed Google. Someone told me that its algorithm is more advanced. As long as the user data is large enough, the search results provided will be more accurate. I plan to cultivate it as another TVT, referring to the scale of funds. If you do a good job, I will let you try to be its chief operating officer. In the future, option rewards and bonuses should be more than now."

Taking the handbag, Danielle Kenning was dumbfounded.

At first, she thought it might be some kind of "hint," but then she thought it was unlikely, because with Su Yehao's strength, a casual wave of his hand would attract even Hollywood actresses and top supermodels to flock to his side.

Although she was quite confident in herself, she had to admit that the gap between her and them was too great, and there was also a difference of more than ten years in age.

Danielle Kenning's attention was mainly focused on the phrase "cultivated as another TVT". She asked casually, "This bag?"

"A gift for you. As a boss, I should be nice to excellent employees."

Su Yehao then told her, "If you are willing to take over this job, I hope you just assist them and don't put too much pressure on the employees. Create a relaxed and comfortable office atmosphere. Just focus on operations, research market and customer needs, etc., and leave the professional things to professional talents."

After listening to him carefully, Danielle Kenning nodded.

She asked curiously, "Why did you choose me?"

"...There are not enough talents under my command. Your supervisor recommended you. I have seen your resume and feel that it is also very suitable. Those who are engaged in technology lack in some aspects and need someone who knows how to manage to help."

Danielle Kenning then asked him, "So, if I am willing to go, will I get a raise? My bonuses are very high for the projects I negotiate now."

"Just getting bonuses, no matter how much, is not as good as equity rewards, right? With other companies responsible for traffic, as long as you do a good job with the product first, the growth rate should be very rapid."

After Su Yehao finished speaking, he continued to tell her, "As for income, how about a 20% raise on the current salary?"

…

Danielle Kenning immediately agreed to take on this new job.

With someone to help share the work, Su Yehao could happily slack off again.

He hurried to pack up.

At more than three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Yehao rushed to the airport, planning to meet Nong Qingying in Tokyo first, and then return to Hong Kong to find Xiao Nizi and Jiang Yu...