Rich to the third generation

Google is in a period of expansion. As long as you do your job well, it is easy to get promoted and raise your salary, and it is easier to do business.

From the perspective of the overall environment of Silicon Valley, there has always been a talent gap, and the market size continues to expand with the addition of new netizens. Coupled with the hot money from all over the world, there is a steady stream of money coming in. There is neither internal nor external trouble.

For a Silicon Valley super rookie like Google.

Even if there are problems, they will be overshadowed by prosperity and turned into trivial troubles.

Sitting in the meeting room with a group of senior executives, the atmosphere is harmonious and relaxed. They are mainly talking about the follow-up development plan. There are not many problems that need to be solved, and basically they can be solved by spending money.

Su Yehao does not plan to release too many shares prematurely for the time being, so he would rather give more bonuses to Google employees than follow the wishes of most people and bring Google to NASDAQ listing as soon as possible.

Yanwen Group is more valuable, and has the opportunity to raise more than one billion US dollars in funds, waiting to be used in the cold winter after the Internet bubble burst.

The development time of Google is too short, and it has not been half a year since he acquired it.

If Google were to go public now, the total market capitalization would not exceed [-] million U.S. dollars, and the funds that could be raised during the IPO would be tens of millions of dollars at most. Su Yehao could easily take out this money and sell it at a low price Shares are clearly not in his interest.

As for option rewards, the big deal is to give more now and less when it goes public, Su Yehao won't feel bad...

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After the meeting.

Declining Danielle Kenning's proposal to have dinner together, Su Yehao went home to pick up Yin Liuli, and drove straight to San Francisco by car.

The venue for the Christie's auction is set at the St. Francis Hotel. This historic hotel is located next to Union Square. It is already considered one of the landmark buildings in San Francisco and has hosted many famous people.

After getting off the car on the side of the road, Su Yehao said to Yin Liuli:

"When I take pictures of what I want, I can leave early and go shopping nearby with you at night? Or I can just rest in this hotel tonight and return to Silicon Valley after shopping tomorrow morning. There is a lot of business this time. If you want to talk, if you miss it, you may not be free to take you to play again."

Yin Liuli's personality has always been Buddhist, she smiled and told: "I can do it, you can arrange it as you like, the temperature here is colder than I imagined, it is best to buy some thicker clothes."

"Okay, let Linda Yun introduce you. She is a local and is much more familiar than me."

Su Yehao entered the hotel, and as soon as he came to the auction site with the invitation letter, he saw many familiar Silicon Valley tycoons.

Yang Zhiyuan, the founder of Yahoo, was standing there alone looking through the album. When he saw Su Yehao, he smiled and raised his hand to signal, and said hello, "Mr. Su is here too, and he brought such a beautiful female companion. I know your vision." Well, when will you arrange it for me?"

"Okay, as long as your wife has no objection, I will arrange it for you."

Su Yehao walked up to him and introduced each other: "Yin Liuli, my girlfriend, her hometown is in Hualien. This Mr. Yang Zhiyuan, one of the richest super-rich in Silicon Valley, a large part of my net worth comes from him." Only earned."

Yin Liuli smiled and reached out to shake hands with Yang Zhiyuan.

Yang Zhiyuan is married. His wife is a Costa Rican woman of Japanese descent. Su Yehao once met her in Silicon Valley.

Say hello.

Yang Zhiyuan said to Yin Liuli: "Hualien is a good place, with beautiful scenery and special support for people. No wonder Miss Yin is so beautiful. Mr. Su is young and promising, you have to pay close attention to it."

Yin Liuli continued to smile, took Su Yehao's arm, and replied, "I will."

Su Yehao changed the topic at this moment, and asked, "Mr. Yang, what treasure is he looking at today? We should communicate well in advance, so that we will not compete when the time comes, and the seller who sent the auction will be cheaper for nothing."

Yang Zhiyuan smiled and said:

"I dare not argue with you. ICQ is about to go on the market, with billions of dollars in the pocket. I can't afford it. Tonight, you came here for that Van Gogh oil painting, right? Van Gogh's works are not rare. , but most of them are kept in museums, and there may not be a piece of work released every year. The last time "Sunflower" appeared was more than ten years ago, and it could not be bought with money."

""Under the Stormy Sky", this Van Gogh painting looks more comfortable, but it is not my goal. The Qianlong Doucai bottle is it. I plan to give it to my grandfather. The old man at home should like it very much. "

After listening to Su Yehao, Yang Zhiyuan nodded and told:

"That's great. My goal is neither Van Gogh nor the bottle you fancy. My wife likes Jeff Koons' giant artwork "Balloon Dog". Give it to her someday."

"Is this the romance of a married man?"

Su Yehao joked, and then added:

"What kind of balloon dog? I seem to have a little impression of it. It's a big and very valuable stainless steel sculpture, right? It comes in several colors? If there are others, I'd like to buy one and keep it at home. It's very interesting."

I don't care if it's interesting or not, but Su Yehao remembers seeing this thing from the news and selling it for a sky-high price.

At that time, he still thought that the money of the rich is really easy to make, and stainless steel can be sold so expensive, so he was a little impressed.

Yang Zhiyuan said with a smile:

"What is romantic or not, two people live together, how can your life be nourished. My wife likes rose red, if you really want to buy it, you can ask Jeff Koons, he told me orange and blue The big dog is in his hands, and today the rose red one was bought by the gallery, so I had no choice but to hold my nose and spend more money to come to the auction and ask my assistant to push Jeff's number to you later."

"Then you really have to push it to me quickly, otherwise if you buy it at a high price later, wouldn't it be a waste of money for me?"

"Mr. Su likes to joke. Things worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, in your Hong Kong dialect, are small things like sprinkling water. It feels like someone is hyping this sculptor. The value of the work is likely to increase. Buy it back and take a gamble. It's also quite interesting."

Yang Zhiyuan obviously knew about Jeff Koons, but Su Yehao knew nothing about him.

However, judging from the sky-high selling prices of works in the future, it is indeed very possible that they will be hyped. According to the conventional operation, it is generally to buy a large number of works of a certain artist, and then promote them wildly. value.

For example, if you spend 100 yuan to buy ten paintings, you will spend a total of 100 million yuan. If you sell one of them for [-] million yuan, the value of the remaining nine paintings will also increase accordingly.

Of course, if you want to hype, you have to have a basis for hype.

Jeff Koons's stainless steel oversized balloon dog sculpture undoubtedly has an eye-catching effect, and there is indeed a basis for hype...

Before the auction started, other acquaintances from Silicon Valley came to say hello to Yang Zhiyuan and Su Yehao.

Su Yehao didn't know many strangers, but most of the people in Silicon Valley knew him, including a senior vice president of Black Rock Group, and a director of the Silicon Valley investment department of Softbank Japan.

As if thinking of something, Yang Zhiyuan suddenly asked him, "Your Google is developing rapidly. What are your plans for the future?"

As early as when he met Yang Zhiyuan, Su Yehao guessed that he would talk about this aspect, and replied calmly:

"The small company I invested in is actually being noticed by you. Doesn't it mean that it is going to be popular? The market is so big, and it will become even bigger in the future. Even if I don't invest, someone else will enter the search engine field. It's just a normal business investment."

Yang Zhiyuan didn't care too much, and sighed with a smile, "Yes, Yahoo's rate of return is no longer as good as those of small start-up companies. It can be hundreds or even thousands of times, which is too scary."

heard.

Su Yehao couldn't laugh or cry, and said to him: "Yahoo's rate of return is also thousands of times? When you started your business, you didn't have much start-up capital, right?"

"Well, but it's definitely not as good as you. If I want to develop, I have to find funds from the outside, and release a large part of the shares cheaply, which makes me a little uncomfortable on the board of directors now." Yang Zhiyuan said.

Su Yehao looked around.

He lowered his voice and said with a smile: "You can't talk nonsense, if someone hears it, the stock price will probably fall..."

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