wild 1995

Chapter 115 News
The highway from Frankfurt to Paris is about 570 kilometers. Di Ye saved the route information in Xiaohonghua in advance. He ran all the way without looking at the map. He arrived at the destination nearly an hour earlier than Lu Chi Anderson. The Marriott Hotel on Sher Avenue.

But the train is faster than the car. When Di Ye arrived, Huang Ya and Xia Fangfei had packed up and were ready to go shopping. After all, Paris is famous for fashion and romance, and its attraction to women is far more than Frankfurt.

"Di Ye, are you going?"

"I'm waiting for Anderson here, and I'll check my emails by the way, you guys go first, come back at 12 o'clock for lunch, and play together in the afternoon."

"Ok."

According to the information Di Ye obtained from this W3C conference, as of March 1995, there were about 3 million Internet users in the world—the definition of Internet users refers to people who have been exposed to the Internet, not those who surf the Internet every day. people.

About 2600 million of these netizens are in North America, 400 million in Western Europe, 200 million in Japan, and the remaining 300 million are distributed all over the world.

Most of the netizens in Western Europe are concentrated in colleges and universities and scientific research institutions, and there are relatively few ordinary people. Therefore, most hotels do not provide Internet services, which makes Di Ye very unhappy. For example, the hotel I stayed in Frankfurt last night, the environment and There is no need to pick the service, but because he can't access the Internet, he still gave a bad review before leaving.

There is no way, Internet addiction patients are so willful.

When he came to Paris this time, Di Ye ruled out all the hotels that pay attention to cultural atmosphere and historical feelings, and chose the Marriott with Internet access. Chang and Liu Shaosong both sent emails, saying that Microsoft sent someone to Yunda to investigate him.

"It's no wonder why Microsoft has been silent. It turned out to be copying my hometown."

Both Dean Fei and Liu Shaosong mentioned one thing in their emails, that is, people from Microsoft wanted to visit the R&D team in Pengcheng, but their attitudes were obviously different. Dean Fei was very proud and thought it was an honor for the School of Computer Science of Yunda University. Di Ye agreed, and Liu Shaosong reminded him to be careful about technology leaks, because Microsoft might poach team members.

Technical Di Ye is not worried, because the R&D team members are far inferior to Thomas Reardon in terms of programming ability and understanding of CSS. There is nothing to disclose, but poaching is indeed a big trouble.

Microsoft entered China as early as the 80s. Due to its insistence on sole proprietorship, it did not meet the requirements of national policies. Until April 1995, there was still only one office in Beijing, and no formal branch was established.

But this situation will happen very soon. Microsoft hired professional manager Du Jiabin in 1994. Under his lobbying, it obtained the license in November 1995 and established Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd., and established in 11 Together with the IBM China Research Institute, it has snatched away many high-end talents in China.

Microsoft's golden brand and generous salary system are fatally attractive to members of the R&D team. Even if Di Ye is willing to spend money to make up for the salary gap, he cannot compete with social resources, talent training, management systems, and opportunities to go abroad. and other non-material advantages.

In order to solve this problem, Di Ye thought of investing in Netscape, using its brand effect, borrowing chicken to lay eggs, and setting up a nominal branch in China, retaining some talents for his own use.

After Netscape went public in August, it created a wealth myth unprecedented in financial history. The world's major mainstream media scrambled to report on it, making its brand value soar, similar to Google around 8 or Apple around 2005. Very attractive, enough to compete with Microsoft.

Of course, the more important thing is that Di Ye earned more than one billion dollars by operating yen and foreign exchange. It is impossible to store it in the bank to earn interest. There must be a way to realize it. Netscape is a very suitable target. It can realize value-added, It also provides tools for remote control of Silicon Valley.

In 1995, the Internet industry in the United States was basically mature, and application scenarios such as e-commerce, news information, game entertainment, etc. could be realized. In China, at least after 1998, it is impossible for Di Ye to waste the three years in between. He is also not interested in just staying in the domestic nest. If he can control Netscape, he can make arrangements in advance and make a lot of things happen.

However, if you want to control Netscape, it is far from enough to buy 1% of the shares for $20 million. It is best to use Microsoft to create panic, then sit on the ground and raise the price, use Athlon's technical advantages to get more voting rights, and become Google. Or the structure of the same share with different rights like Facebook.

After meditating on the computer for a while, Di Ye replied an email to Dean Fei, agreeing that people from Microsoft should visit the R&D team. He also sent emails to Zhu Zichun and Cheng Zhongwei to get them ready for the reception.

In addition to domestic emails, Di Ye also received a reply from IMDB founder Cole Needham, agreeing to meet with him in London to discuss the feasibility of acquiring and becoming a project under the Little Red Flower Knowledge Sharing Foundation.

IMDB was founded in 1990, initially based on newsgroups and e-mail, and began to build a web site in 1993. As of October 1994, there were 10 million visitors and up to 350 million visits per month, which is the traffic in the Internet world Star, but because it is not registered as a company, it is just a non-profit project that uses love to generate electricity, and its commercial value has been ignored by many people.

Anderson didn't arrive at the Marriott until about 11 o'clock. He simply threw the keys of his convertible sports car to Di Ye as soon as they met. This was a bet between the two of them racing. car to him.

"Ha! I finally earned back the cost of this trip to Europe."

"I just think it's troublesome and I don't want to ship it back to the United States."

"Is there anything else you bother about? We can have another gamble."

Anderson returned Di Ye with an internationally accepted gesture, took out his mobile phone and said, "Emily Baker from the Financial Times contacted me just now and said she would like to have an interview with you. This is her number. You can contact me when you arrive in London." Bar."

"Thank you, I owe you a favor."

Since founding Netscape, Anderson has been dealing with mainstream media in Europe and the United States, and has made friends with a large number of reporters. Emily Baker is one of them. She specializes in reporting high-tech news in the "Financial Times". On April 4, he contacted Diana on the plane to create momentum.

Since the information that Microsoft sent people to Yuncheng to investigate was not enough as a bargaining chip, Di Ye simply didn't mention it. He spent two days in Paris and enjoyed a short romantic vacation. On the morning of April 4, after sending Huang Ya to the flight back home , and Xia Fangfei took the Eurostar to London, ready to implement the next plan.

(End of this chapter)