It was the end of the year, and there were many trivial matters in business.

The Silicon Valley side had already begun calculating bonuses, and after considering it, Su Yehao decided to bleed a little, still issuing bonuses to ordinary employees according to last year's standards.

This was mainly because, despite the global Internet market being in a slump, it was essentially just killing valuations and squeezing out bubbles. The pattern of striding forward into the information age had not changed. The growth momentum was still rapid, and the total number of global netizens was approaching the 300 million mark.

The revenue and active user numbers of Yanwenzi Group and Google, the two trump cards, have achieved considerable growth this year, including the game business, the international version of Weibo news...

Looking at the number of netizens in the United States, which exceeded 160 million, one million people online at the same time is nothing.

The number of simultaneous online users of the two instant messaging software, iCQ and tvt, had already exceeded 20 million and 13 million respectively. If the time difference is taken into account, adding all the netizens from Japan, Europe and other places would result in a considerable increase.

There are too many families in the United States with computers, and they only cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Personal computers are hardly considered a "big item" in the United States. They can be bought by washing dishes in a restaurant for half a month. On average, there is one computer for every two people. People are used to leaving their chat accounts online whenever they are online, so the number of simultaneous online users is naturally very high.

As for daily active accounts, iCQ set a new record of 39 million on Thanksgiving this year.

The reason why Yanwenzi Group can still maintain a total market value of 10 billion U.S. dollars until now is because it has more than 80 million monthly active users worldwide.

On the other hand, in the mainland.

Even the affordable products of Huangzuan computers cost about 6,000 yuan.

However, the per capita disposable income in this era is only more than 3,700 yuan, making it difficult for many families to afford the expense of buying a computer.

There are many families and even enterprises that do not use their computers to go online, but instead choose to play stand-alone games, or use them for office work, which cannot play a role in expanding the group of netizens.

Su Yehao couldn't do anything about this. He couldn't possibly give people a computer for free. He couldn't rush it for a while, and he had to be patient and continue to persevere...

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed since he was promoted to be a father.

A newborn baby changes every day. Looking at the little baby, he is indeed getting better-looking, which finally puts Su Yehao at ease.

Nong Qingying was still staying in the hospital, with a large group of people taking care of her. It wasn't his turn to worry about it.

Su Yehao finally had time to spend time dealing with the official business that had been piled up in the past few days, until Jack Ma called again, and he remembered that he had directly stood the other party up in order to accompany the childbirth. He didn't expect that he was still in Hong Kong.

So he temporarily made an appointment with Ma, and met at the KOKO venture capital office.

The high-spirited Ma was wearing a straight black suit with a white shirt inside, and his leather shoes were shiny.

Back in 1997, it was still popular to wear loose-fitting suits in the mainland. In recent years, the fashion trend has changed. With economic development, the changes in clothing, food, housing and transportation are very intuitive.

Since working under Su Yehao and receiving a high salary, Ma's life has been very good. At this time, he smiled and clasped his fists and said:

"Congratulations to President Su on having a big son! The confidentiality work is done too well. In a hurry, I didn't prepare anything, so I picked this golden dragon. Please don't take offense."

The child born this year is a dragon, and Ma's secretary put the gift on the table, a golden dragon about thirty centimeters long, with a lifelike appearance, covered with a glass cover, and it sounded a bit heavy.

Su Yehao was not polite with him, and only said with a smile: "You're very kind. I've been busy recently, and I'm sorry to have delayed you for so long."

"Hey? What are you talking about? It's too cold in Lin'an this season, and the weather in Hong Kong is so comfortable. I can't wait to stay a few more days. Unfortunately, the company has things to do. This year, we have expanded many partners, and sales have been rising steadily, so I'm bothering President Su. After meeting and reporting on the work, I have to rush back to preside over the work."

Ma's eloquence was already strong, and he boasted about himself in a few words, and by the way, he highlighted his importance.

The number of netizens is increasing, and the e-commerce business between enterprises is also growing.

In addition, Su Yehao reached cooperation with several banks through his own relationship, and temporarily built a relatively reliable fund remittance custody platform, which greatly increased the performance of Taobao.com and gained a little popularity.

The so-called fund remittance custody platform is similar to Alipay.

However, Su Yehao doesn't want to attract the attention of others for the time being, so he only treats it as a tool. There is not much difficulty in the technology. The key is to get the bank to agree to cooperate.

Speaking of the relationship between Su Yehao and the bank, it can be described as brothers.

With him personally greeting, even UnionPay has come forward to help, cooperating to create this online transaction service platform temporarily named "Credit Treasure"...