Song Ya didn't know if the other party was alluding to taking advantage of her own good fortune, or because all the white people present wanted to make the photos look more diverse, "I'm honored."
As a minority shareholder, he naturally doesn't mind standing for his own business. He used to put his arms around his shoulders with Jim Clark and Mark Anderson and took pictures together.
"Aplus, chat?"
After the photo was taken, the cocktail party began. The most common species in Silicon Valley is programmers who are not good at interpersonal. Many people gather in front of the buffet and chat about code while eating.
The people at Morgan Stanley took the new president of Netscape to come to know him, "Quatson, this is Bucksted."
"Hello, Mr. Quatterson."
Song Ya knows that this is the Wall Street tycoon who underwrites Netscape's ipo (initial public offering)...I don’t know if it is a tycoon. He doesn’t know much about Wall Street and Morgan Stanley for the time being. Mr. De." He paid attention to the president quietly, "I have heard your speech the other day, it was very wonderful."
"Really? Do you agree with my point of view?" Bucksted looked at Song Ya with interest.
"Uh, I don't quite understand, but you attacked Bill Gates' Windows Futurism theory, thinking that the Internet represents the future? I want to listen to it in detail." Song Ya laughed: "Mr. Gates is my idol. I also made some money. Ballmer seems to be very upset with your statement."
"Haha, is there anything Microsoft made by itself? Nothing. Even msdos bought from others. They all relied on ibm to start their business. If it wasn't for Gates's mother who was an ibm executive..."
Bucksted is a madman. Of course, how many of his remarks are true, and how many of his statements are based on the deliberate suspicion of the giants of the porcelain industry, but he is really crazy, "I don’t even bother to refute Ballmer’s crappy third-rate salesman. ."
Song Ya laughed. Ballmer was a top Harvard student with a full score of sat. "This is the first time I have heard this kind of evaluation."
"He is an idiot."
Backsted scolded Microsoft for eloquence, and his words were pungent and funny, he should be a good marketing hand.
Song Ya and Quatson smiled and waited for him to finish, "The official version of Netscape is priced at $45. What do you expect the sales will do? After all, it is not much different from the free public version..."
Quatterson is mainly concerned about software sales. At present, Wall Street still values corporate profitability. "If the market responds well, this will be a boost before we go public. On the contrary..."
"It will be very good. Don't worry, the market share of our browser is there. As long as a certain percentage of users are willing to spend money on the official version, the sales volume can reach millions..."
Backsd boasted, "45 dollars, just...aplus your two albums."
"Uh, three. My album currently sells for less than $20, or later collections will sell for $19.99." Song Ya answered honestly.
"Haha, yes, yes."
Bacchus complimented.
Song Ya felt that the high-tech industry executives who were present kept looking at him, and then whispered to the people around him, "What happened to them?" he asked.
"Nothing, maybe you are not used to having hip-hop stars appearing as shareholders of software companies."
Quatterson explained casually, "Where is your dts going? Ipo is led by Goldman Sachs, right?"
"Uh, I don't know if Fang is inconvenient to say."
I don’t know Wall Street and I know that Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are in a competitive relationship. “Personally, I feel a little bit slower than here. Mr. Jim Clark always tells me that it’s as slow as a snail.”
"Haha, indeed, the audio industry is relatively niche."
Quatterson laughed: "And there is a time bomb on dts, right?"
"Yes, ibm, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Apple formed a special team to evaluate the SD camp and the rival DVD camp where dts is located. Although I don't know what it is about them, it combines the recent auto trade with the notebook. In the battle, maybe the winner will be next month. I heard that they will come to an official conclusion next month."
Song Ya truthfully replied that the auto trade war between the U.S. and the book is now very fierce, and no matter whether the sd or dvd camp dominates there are book companies, it is strange that the U.S. companies do not take the opportunity to make a profit.
"What if it's bad for dts?" Quatterson asked: "dvd standard odds of winning, right?"
"I don't know about this. UU reading www.ukahnshu.com"
Song Ya drank a sip. He actually knew that if SD fails, DTS and Goldman Sachs are going to put the main focus of Ipo on the acquisition, explaining to investors that the money raised will be used to acquire patents within the DVD standard. For some companies, it's a last resort strategy.
"Dila, we have a new neighbor? Which company does the office building next door belong to?"
After leaving the reception, Song Ya rushed to Sunnyvale’s Amerika Music website. Di Lai was looking after the installation of expensive hardware equipment, which was prepared for the upcoming pop music section and related discussion board functions.
"Yahoo, an online yellow page and search site."
Dile replied: "There seems to be a Chinese in the boss."
"Really? Yahoo? What kind of strange name..."
Song Ya asked him to help him open the yahoo page. It was indeed full of traditional yellow page information such as corporate website entrances. However, a long search box that was different from other search websites such as infoseek and occupies the visual center of the page triggered his discovery and discovery The same familiarity as the mosaic browser.
"Does this company welcome angel investors?" Song Ya asked while typing words in the search box.
"Angel round? They have all voted for round A. They are all big companies." Dilai smiled, "They are very promising."
"Really? When?" Song Ya felt a little regretful.
"A's turn is like last month. You are busy with the wedding. I don't bother to bother you with these things." Dile replied.
Song Ya slowly closed her eyes and sighed up to the sky, "Hey, how many opportunities did I miss to get married..."
"Ok?"
"Uh, nothing."
Chicago 1990 Chapter 676: Looking for help to spend money
In recent months, a lot of technology and network startups such as yahoo have sprung up in Silicon Valley. Many random two rounds of financing have gone up and down. The valuation has blown into eight figures like a bubble. Song Ya is occasionally busy. It is inevitable to feel wrong to see relevant news.
"You can ask, round b... I'm willing to vote even if it is round b." He played yahoo's search service for a while, and finally made up his mind to say to Dile.
"In round b, ordinary pure investors can't get in."
Dile is very familiar with this business now, "unless we can provide yahoo with some key resources."
"For example?" Song Ya asked.
Dile shook his head, "I can't imagine. In round A, Sequoia Capital entered. You know, Sequoia Capital also invested in dts. I often exchange views with their people. Do you think we can provide even Sequoia Capital. What can't be provided to Yahoo?"
"Let the people from Greenwood come to me. There are always opportunities. Just tonight, I will only stay in Sunnyvale for one night. Next time you will help me meet the Chinese founder of Yahoo for a meal or something."
After leaving the American music website, he became firmer in his idea of forming a venture capital company. It was too inefficient to find investment by relying on his occasional familiarity with a mosaic browser or yahoo search engine, even if he made up a round of HP stocks. In addition to the tax payment in April, he still has hundreds of millions of dollars in cash that he has not invested, and the interest of six points is almost out of reach. Now it is rumored that the Federal Reserve will switch to the interest rate cut cycle.