The CEO of Sequoia Capital is named Steve Johnson. He has worked with Eric Hanks for many years. It is rare to see him so reckless. Hearing him mention Makino Technology and give such high praise as soon as he opened his mouth, Steve frowned and subconsciously asked him: "Eric, what are you making all this fuss about? What amazing achievements can Chinese people make in the Internet field?"
In the past two days, Steve.Johnson has also read some reports about Li Mu, about YY, and about Makino Technology, but those are just reports. He has never seriously studied Li Mu, let alone YY and Makino Technology. .
Steve.Johnson is a typical racist. He believes in white supremacy. He also believes in American invincibility. He has extremely blind confidence in the United States, American culture and technology, especially the Internet!
Steve.Johnson's view of the Internet is almost the same as Chinese people watching Peking Opera. Chinese people regard Peking Opera as the quintessence of their country. That is because it is an art passed down by China for hundreds of years. Therefore, Chinese people also instinctively feel that only Chinese people themselves can do it. To grasp the essence of Peking Opera, no matter how much foreigners imitate it, they can only imitate it. The true temple of Chinese Peking Opera is naturally Yanjing. Only Peking Opera in Yanjing is the most authentic and authoritative.
The Internet is the same in the eyes of Steve. Johnson. He feels that only Americans truly understand the Internet, and any other country can only imitate the superficial imitation of the American Internet. And in the American Internet, the only one that is truly awesome is Silicon Valley. Although Seattle is a very powerful place, Steve Johnson never thought that rainy city could be compared with Silicon Valley in the Internet industry.
Under the guidance of this mode of thinking, he absolutely does not believe that any country other than the United States can make remarkable achievements on the Internet. Japan and Europe are beyond his eyes, not to mention that the Internet is several years behind the start. China
Eric.Hanks saw that he still had subjective prejudices against China's Internet industry, and couldn't help but said: "Steve, two hours ago, I had the same opinion as you, but now two hours later, I I guarantee you with my nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, if we don’t invest in this company as soon as possible, what we will lose in the future is likely to be one of the top ten Internet companies in the world!”
Steve.Johnson said with a smile: "Shit, Eric, I have heard about Li Mu's interview, and I know that he speaks arrogant words, but how can you believe so much in a Chinese brat's nonsense in front of the media?"
Eric.Hanks said hurriedly: "Hey, Steve, listen carefully. You should download YY now and study it carefully. In two hours, you will definitely have the same opinion as me. This is a game that will take MSN to the moon." It’s a super product! Now it’s just used as a ‘tool’ by American users. Once it finds a way to penetrate into the lives of American people, it will be absolutely invincible!”
Steve.Johnson curled his lips and remained unmoved: "Come-on-man! After so many years of our relationship, you still don't understand me? I never believe that any country or any foreign company can do this in terms of Internet products." Surpass the United States! Let me tell you, in my eyes, the gap between China’s Internet and the United States’ Internet is just like the gap between the two countries’ aviation industries! Look at the gap between the two countries’ fighter jets!”
After saying this, Steve.Johnson did not forget to add: "Eric, you are really shameful. You praise a Chinese boy and his little software that looks like a college student's homework so highly. Your vision has gone backwards!"
Eric.Hanks said with a somewhat annoyed expression: "Hey Steve, put away your bastard arrogance and study this Chinese software carefully! Do you know that it has already obtained millions of dollars in the United States in three days?" users, and more than half of them are from Silicon Valley! Did you know that in the past three days, hundreds of thousands of Americans have racked their brains to become VIPs of this Chinese software, and this Chinese software does not have access to Paypal or any American payment channel, so you can only spend 60% more on ebay and find Huaxia people to pay the VIP fee! Did you know that you can directly implement video conferencing on this Huaxia software, and the effect is better than on your desktop? That stupid thing designed for video conferencing is much better!”
Steve.Johnson didn't expect Eric.Hanks to be so excited, and his expression was particularly serious and angry. He looked like he wanted to rush up and beat him up, so he quickly put away his arrogance and comforted him: "Don't be excited, control it." Take control."
Eric.Hanks said word by word: "I hope you will learn about this software right now!"
Steve.Johnson nodded helplessly: "Okay, okay, give it a try. I'll download it now. Since you said it's good at 10,000, you might as well come over and show me how to use it!"
Eric.Hanks asked him: "If this software is really awesome, you must remember to apologize to me for your arrogance just now."
Steve.Johnson smiled contemptuously: "OK, as long as this software really shocks me, I will not only apologize to you, but I will buy you a drink tonight!"
Eric.Hanks sat in front of Steve.Johnson's computer, downloaded and installed YY on his computer, and then logged in with his own number. Steve.Johnson originally stood aside with a very disdainful attitude, but when he logged in to the software, He immediately put away his previous contempt, because the interface of this software was really damn perfect!
In the next half hour, while Steve Johnson's mouth was still closed, Eric Hanks gave him a demonstration of all the YY functions he knew little by little. In the process, he even discovered It has many small functions of YY, such as its pop-up reminder function. Registering a YY account actually registers a YY mailbox by default. The software itself also includes an email notification component. Suddenly, a prompt pops up in the lower right corner: " There is a new email in your YY mailbox - the YY team welcomes you to join YY and wishes you... "
Eric.Hanks clicked on the pop-up prompt, and then the computer automatically launched the default browser, skipping the login step, and directly entered the YY mailbox of the number Eric.Hanks!
"Oh my God!" they both exclaimed at the same time! This software is simply made for office work! If you use it as an online office solution, the efficiency of the entire team will be greatly improved.
Steve.Johnson held his chin on the side and said: "It would be great if this email notification function could collect emails from other mailboxes."
As soon as he finished speaking, Eric.Hanks clicked on the settings on the page, and sure enough he found the "Other Email Collection" service here. He subconsciously went in and filled in his corporate email account and password, and set up the SMTP and POP protocols. After the mailbox test passed, the prompt "Synchronize Inbox" immediately began. In a moment, the latest 50 emails in Eric.Hanks' corporate mailbox were synchronized, and a prompt also popped up: "Do you want to synchronize more emails?"
Eric.Hanks clicked yes, and then, several prompts popped up in YY mailbox: continue to synchronize 50 emails, 100 emails, 200 emails, and synchronize all emails.
Steve.Johnson was stunned and blurted out: "Oh God! This Chinese software is really amazing! It's amazing! You can get whatever you want! There are so many mysteries in just the email notification component that comes with YY , God, isn’t this equivalent to fusing a Foxmail?”
Foxmail is China's first application that truly goes out into the world. However, its functions are too single, and its name is extremely British. Therefore, many people in overseas markets are using Foxmail, but they have no idea that it is an application developed by Chinese people. software.
Eric. Hanks nodded repeatedly on the side: "It seems that using YY, you can uninstall Foxmail in the future."
After watching Eric.Hanks demonstrate group video chat, Steve.Johnson had long been disgusted with expensive and clumsy video conferencing terminals. Now he was staring at the terminal equipment that he had always thought was very professional and said with disdain: "This piece of shit can be thrown away!"
Eric.Hanks looked at him and asked deliberately provocatively: "Are you going to treat me to a drink tonight?"
Steve.Johnson's face turned red: "You have to drink, but let's get ready and hold a video conference with the person in charge from China. I want them to win this company for me!"
Eric. Hanks looked at the time and said, "It's five o'clock in the afternoon now, and Yanjing time should be nine o'clock tomorrow morning. They should go to work."
There is a sixteen-hour time difference between San Francisco and Yanjing, and now Yanjing has entered "tomorrow" in San Francisco time in advance.
Steve.Johnson hurriedly said: "Okay, let's have a meeting first, and I'll treat you to a drink after the meeting!"
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Just when the headquarters of Sequoia Capital realized the awesomeness of YY and the development potential of Makino Technology, YY was already half popular among the elites in the United States!
The magical software from China began to spread by word of mouth among the elite. Almost instantly, orders from many video conferencing terminal equipment and service providers in the United States dropped sharply to the point of almost bankruptcy.
Fortunately, there are already a large number of Chinese and Chinese Americans in the United States, so YY's server installation in the United States was designed with a certain degree of redundancy, otherwise it would have been paralyzed by such an impact.
Even so, the existing servers could not keep up with the demand. We could only quickly cooperate with a number of server leasing companies in the United States to directly remotely manage the newly rented servers and quickly expand the number of servers and bandwidth. immediate needs.
Li Mu is very worried about the server's ability to withstand pressure and feels very insecure about renting a server.
Li Mu arrived at Makino Technology at 8:30 in the morning. To his surprise, almost everyone from the YY operation and maintenance team was present.
YY's unexpected success in the North American market has made the entire Makino Technology team extremely excited. Since North America is far across the ocean and far away, everyone is somewhat nervous about the server support in the United States. Fortunately, the currently urgently rented Servers are gradually being deployed remotely and put into use. In order to avoid traffic peaks, Makino Technology is still looking for ways to rent more local servers across the United States.
Kong Lingyu came over early in the morning to convene a meeting with the server support team. According to Li Mu's previous request, this time he decided to send a team of ten people to quickly apply for business visas and go to the United States as employees of the American branch. Plan to build your own North American data center directly in the United States.
According to Kong Lingyu’s plan, the first-time dispatched members will have to work in the United States for at least six months. During these six months, the company will provide comprehensive transportation, catering, accommodation and other guarantees, and at the same time, additional monthly allowance will be given to those who go to the United States. Employees are given double their monthly salary as business trip subsidies, and are prepared to give out million-dollar project bonuses. As long as everyone is willing to go to the United States and help the company build its first overseas data center in the United States, the company will definitely provide them with unimaginable rewards. Or unimaginably generous treatment.
Regarding the company's requirement to stay in the United States for at least half a year, everyone's feedback was very positive. Except for one employee who had just become a father and was a little hesitant, almost everyone else signed up enthusiastically without hesitation and wished they could represent him immediately. The company flew to the United States to sow the seeds of the Chinese Internet in the land where the Internet was born!
Kong Lingyu knew that everyone had such a positive attitude not only because of the many incentive and subsidy policies, but also to some extent because of their love for the company. However, he had learned from Li Mu's teachings on this point and would not be sentimental. believes that how deep the feelings of employees towards the company are, therefore, the more determining factor lies in the treatment the company gives to employees.
Li Mu has always believed that when it comes to employees, things that can be solved with money should be less concerned with feelings. It is not impossible to talk about feelings with employees if you really want to, but you must do so on the premise of ensuring that employees are given sufficient financial remuneration. , otherwise, all bosses who don’t care about money but only care about feelings are fucking hooligans!
Thank you to the new alliance leader [甍明ING]! 34 alliance leaders! This amount is really something I never dared to imagine before... In addition, please continue to ask for monthly tickets! Brothers and sisters, please work harder, we are in tenth place! ! !
(End of chapter)