Vol 5 Chapter 817: Cooperate

After the listing of Google, the changes are quite big. This year's Christmas Eve party is no longer limited to the company, but changed to the Hilton Hotel in Mountain View.

In fact, it is not only Google that has changed, but also Mountain View, where the company is located, has undergone a very big change. This way, Feng Yiping clearly felt that the construction site under construction was a few more than before he returned to China.

In the country, this is not a big deal, but this is the United States. In a month, there will be a batch of new construction projects, which is comparable to the speed of two days in Shenzhen.

The street has also changed a lot. Although Google previously ordered employees not to buy a good car, the number of luxury cars on the street has obviously increased, and there are even more car sales companies.

Tonight is Christmas Eve, and now it is almost 8 o'clock in the evening, but the small Mountain View is still crowded, restaurants are brightly lit, and business is still booming.

Looking at such a scene, Feng Yiping is a little dazed. Is this still a small town in the United States? Why is it so like those economically strong towns in China?

The Hilton Garden Inn Mountain View Hotel here is a four-storey building complex with brown and yellow exteriors. At this time, the two sides of the courtyard in front of the hotel's main entrance are crowded with media professionals holding cameras and video cameras.

When the costumed Google employees pass by, the dense flashing lights on both sides will give them a feeling similar to walking on the red carpet.

Before it went public in August, although Google was as well-known in the industry, it was obviously difficult to be like it is now, but it was just a party that attracted so much multimedia attention.

This is also a very realistic place in the United States. Unless you can be like the famous Koch Industries, not only has a long history, a wide range of influence, a high reputation, and a well-known rich and powerful, then your family will perform well. It is also difficult for non-listed companies to get high attention from the media.

Now Google has not only successfully gone public, but its market value has surpassed Yahoo, becoming one of the largest companies in the industry. Not to mention, the stock price that has been rising since its listing has quickly created a large number of millions and multimillionaires on Google.

Of course they are eligible for the attention of these media.

These young people with different skin tones are all worth a lot now. The Indian who smirked at the camera might be worth ten million. Isn't this an official embodiment of the American dream?

The reporters didn't take it seriously when they saw an ordinary Ford Explorer driving over. Even before Google, such a car was really quite ordinary.

But who is that? Seeing the person who got off the car, some reporters couldn't help but rub their eyes. He came too?

With a sound of "wow", Feng Yiping, who had just got off the car, was immediately surrounded by the inner and outer three floors, and one question after another came up, "Mr. Feng, will your own company go public?" "Mr. Feng , How is your Tesla project to overturn the traditional auto industry?" "Mr. Feng, will your company compete with Google?" "Mr. Feng......,"

Feng Yiping wouldn't be in the mood to answer the question now. He smiled and waved around, and walked in slowly under Owen's escort.

The employees over there who originally planned to sculpt their poses were really helpless at this time. It just happened to be good for us. Why did you come out to grab the limelight at this time?

Is it easy for us? Being a code farmer for a whole year, it is so easy to have a chance to shine at the end of the year. As a result, you robbed you of all your attention...

However, when Feng Yiping passed by them, they did not show any dissatisfaction. Whether Feng Yiping heard it or not, they rushed to say hello to him.

Who can offend them?

Silicon Valley has made a judgment and does not rule out that Feng Yiping’s projects will have at least one in the future, which will have the same prospects as Google.

Furthermore, Feng Yiping's current net worth is higher than that of Page and Brin.

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"Feng," Feng Yiping just greeted a few colleagues, and just took a glass of wine from the waiter, and hadn't drunk it yet, someone over there was yelling, "Here,"

Feng Yiping took a look. There was a circle of people standing around the fireplace. Peppa and Brin were there.

"Hi," Feng Yiping felt a little better when he saw them. Although he always talked about work whenever he was with them, talking about work can also make him temporarily forget his immediate worries.

"The most popular actor tonight is here," Page said while hugging him.

"Don't stand under the Christmas tree over there," Brin said.

Feng Yiping looked at the tall Christmas tree over there, and looked at the parasites used to decorate the leaves. "No wonder Lucy and Annie are not here tonight."

The parasite, which is often used to decorate Christmas trees, is somewhat sacred in the eyes of many Westerners.

There are many legends about it. Up to now, it is a very important element in an important Christmas custom.

During Christmas, if a lady is standing under a scorpion, it means that anyone can kiss her and it is not easy to refuse.

Later this evolved further, and so did the men under the parasite.

Of course, customs are just customs and do not have much binding force, and few people will take advantage of such opportunities.

But they still believe that when the Christmas bell rings, hug and kiss each other under the Christmas tree, the mutual affection can be maintained, whether it is love or friendship.

"Congratulations," Sure enough, after only a few laughs, they turned the topic to work, "Congratulations on the success of your e-commerce project,"

"Did you know, we heard people say that because of your excellent e-commerce project, eBay's Whitman has drastically reduced the year-end bonuses of several executives," Brin said.

They naturally also know the NEXTDOOR dispute between eBay and Feng Yiping.

"I see, Bezos is not in a good mood these days," Page said, "Feng, how did you do it? How did you get such good results as soon as it was launched?"

"In fact, in the previous years, I have been doing related preparations."

Originally, he should be very happy to be praised so much by these two guys, but today, he is really not happy.

"Find a place to sit?" Feng Yiping took another glass of wine from the waiter's tray.

"Okay," the two didn't ask why, they could see that Feng Yiping was at heart today.

"Hey," Feng Yiping and the three of them had just left. Meyer, who heard the news, rushed over from other places. Seeing that Feng Yiping hadn't heard her greeting, she had planned to shout again.

She happened to see Feng Yiping pouring half a glass of wine into her mouth. Didn't he dislike drinking before?

Although he is smiling, his face doesn't seem very good. What's wrong with him?

Meyer thinks about the phone call in the evening again, as if he was not too cheerful at the time. Is there something wrong with him?

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This is a small hall on the second floor. It also has a fireplace. The high-back sofa in front of the fireplace is very comfortable.

"Congratulations, your new park will be put into use soon," Page said. "Lucy will go the day after tomorrow."

"Anne will go too," Brin said.

"Thank you. Speaking of the park, how did you talk about purchasing the park we are currently renting?" Feng Yiping asked.

Up to now, Google is still renting office space in Mountain View.

The surrounding environment of this area is already very good. The original garbage dump has become a scenic park.

However, it is quite troublesome to buy this place.

The original owner of this park was once the former giant SGI (Silicon Valley Graphics Company) in the US IT industry. Later, the SGI company, which was struggling to make ends meet, moved out of the park in order to save money, and then Google rented it.

At present, SGI has entered a bankruptcy and reorganization stage. According to US law, if Google wants to purchase this real estate, it needs to obtain the permission of the US bankruptcy court.

At the same time, the Mountain View City Government has the right to rent the park. To buy this place, Google will also need to pay monthly land rent to Mountain View, and the Mountain View City Government’s land rent will be in 2050 and 2051. Just expired.

For such a long period of time, how much should be paid each month, naturally, I have to talk about it....

"We are confident to take it down, but it will take time to complete these procedures," Page said.

Under the influence of Feng Yiping, they can see that the land price in Silicon Valley has been rising steadily in recent years. Anyway, if the company wants to use it, it is more cost-effective to buy it earlier than to buy it later.

Because of the large area, the difference between buying now and buying later will not be a small amount.

"Since we are so confident, I think, can we buy some plots of land around the current park?" Feng Yiping said.

He is also a major shareholder of Google and is closely related to Google's interests.

He also just remembered that the LinkedIn he saw on the road was not LinkedIn? This company developed well later, and was later acquired by Microsoft at a high price.

It is conceivable that the two companies are so close and Mountain View is so small. In the future, especially after LinkedIn is acquired by Microsoft, it will definitely compete with Google in the development of Mountain View.

It is conceivable that the most direct consequence of competition must be higher and higher development costs, so why not stock up some land now? After going public anyway, Google has a lot of money in its pockets.

"It's really an idea," Brin said. "Iping your idea is always one step ahead, such as your social networking site and your video site. Now we feel that these two directions, especially the video direction, are also It should be the direction we want to develop,"

Feng Yiping was stunned. He didn't expect Page to bring the topic to this matter.

Do they still want to buy YouTube as before?

However, even if Google is now offering $1.6 billion, he will not sell it.

Because YouTube is now a very important part of his plan, the cornerstone of his content, and an important project for Netflix's development. It is already an inseparable whole.

However, Brin took the initiative to put forward this idea. To be honest, Feng Yiping was very happy. This is good, this is a real cooperation. You'd better think about these aspects in the future.

"In fact, what you said is mainly the content industry, right," Feng Yiping said, "I also suggest that we can work hard in this area."

"We both really think ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ this is really a good development direction. Do you remember what you said at the beginning? Search is everything, everything is search. I hope that in the future, we can follow Pictures, or directly search based on videos,"

It seems that Feng Yiping's grand theory left a very deep impression on Page.

Page's imagination is the main reason why Feng Yiping had not discussed YouTube's entry into the country when he discussed the issue of Facebook with relevant departments in China.

Judging from the current technical means, it is better to supervise text-based things, but it is really harder to supervise the content of videos. Similarly, photos are the same.

If YouTube wants to enter the country, it will be more difficult to regulate.

"We also want to set up our own video business department. We believe that although there will definitely be a gap with YouTube, the results should not be good because we followed the trend early."

"It's just that we don't want to imitate your creativity in such a field to compete with you. If we can cooperate with YouTube, it will be the best."

Their statement, their behavior, indeed made Feng Yiping gratified and moved.

"This company, I did prepare for a long time before. To be precise, before deciding to acquire Coin Star, I was already thinking about such a project. It should be obvious now that YouTube and several other projects of mine have already As a whole, it’s really not easy to list them separately,"

"I think about it first, okay?"

How to solve this problem in the end, he actually had an idea for a long time, but there are some things that can't be rushed, and he has to continue working hard or find a more suitable time.

Brin glanced at Page, "Okay, so can you tell us now, why are you so depressed at night?"