Back To 1995

   Chapter 116

   America's year-end bonus, basically a "Christmas bonus", is paid out every year before Christmas.

However, this thing is not as good as I thought. Only less than 40% of the companies in America give out year-end bonuses. These year-end bonuses are basically scraped by the management. An executive's year-end bonus can get the whole More than 50% of the annual salary.

As for ordinary employees, it is basically equivalent to 3% of the entire annual salary. There are even companies that directly use clothes, fruit baskets, and supermarket shopping coupons as rewards. As for executives, of course, they are all genuine US knives or stocks that can be directly realized. .

   And the wave of year-end bonuses is still driven by emerging electronic technology and the Internet industry. Although many companies in the technology industry are not making money, the losses are a complete mess. Equity awards, year-end bonuses, etc. can be issued without mercy.

  Because the money came so fast, think about Yahoo, now there are less than 100 employees, the valuation is already hundreds of millions of dollars, and the venture capital has also taken hundreds of millions of dollars.

Even if the founders and management of Yahoo are all dedicated to the public, most of the money from venture capital such as SoftBank is used to buy servers, advertise, acquire technology, and recruit technology giants. Hundreds of people, raise some salary and pay tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get bonuses, subsidies, etc., is it not too much? !

  Why are all the geniuses in America now crowding into the Internet industry, because it is too profitable, and if you develop a website, as long as you have a little fame, you can sell it for millions of dollars.

   Even if the internet company doesn’t make any money, the money the founder gets from venture capital is enough to buy a villa, a sports car, etc.

This year is no exception. Although the Internet in America, except for a few companies, is still losing money, each Internet company has a higher year-end bonus than the other, especially those founders and executives. , the year-end bonus basically fell into their pockets.

On Song Yang's side, there will definitely not be such a set of gameplay, and there is no need for it. At present, Song Yang's industries are basically the major shareholders of Song Yang. Even if a high year-end bonus is offered, for Song Yang, it will be difficult for him. It’s just left-handed and right-handed. Unless you don’t want to play, you can learn the way of the Wall Street gang, give yourself huge bonuses, and then sell all the businesses that can be sold, and then transfer the mess to others.

Looking at Marcus, Song Yang said, "This year's year-end bonuses are mainly for management and technical staff. The Christmas bonus is given at 15% of their annual salary, while the ordinary staff is given at 8%, and there is less than one bonus. For those with monthly salary, an extra month’s average salary will be paid!”

   We all know that technology companies should focus on technology and should give technical personnel higher treatment, but with the current "professional manager" system in America, no matter what you do, it is impossible to bypass this group of people.

What Song Yang can do is to try his best to bring the treatment of the technicians in his hands to the same level as the management, and to give special rewards to the technical giants, but it is basically impossible to completely ignore those executives. These professional managers People may not do much, but bad things are much easier.

Just look at the Wang An Company and the Disney family. You can see how they were spoiled by those professional managers. Within a year or two, a giant with billions of dollars in revenue would be heavily in debt. It's weird if there's no ghost.

   Now, the management and executives of Double-click and Hotmail, of course, have not yet reached the level of giants such as Disney, IBM, Apple, and Cisco. They can fight against the founders, or even drive them away.

Song Yang needs to guard against one or two, but it is impossible to guard against everywhere, and it is impossible to be too harsh on those executives. Bonuses, equity awards and the like are essential. Double-click and other companies, after all, need those sub-professional managers to manage them. Song Yang couldn't hold on to everything.

After talking to Marcus, Song Yang said to Irene again, "You and Daana should get in touch. Before Christmas, prepare gifts and donations, and let Double Click Company and Bruno Foundation jointly distribute those gifts. , charitable funds donated to "need"

   people! "

  Like the rest of the world, America's face project, it's also quite slippery.

  Every festival, especially Christmas, not to mention the giant companies and the like, as long as some well-known companies start to do charity, donate various items to various charitable departments, slums, adoption agencies, nursing homes, etc.

Of course, there are also those parliamentarians, which are also indispensable for this kind of occasion. Many parliamentarians will hold dinners, charity evenings, etc. on such occasions. Philanthropy, as for where the money goes, it's not for those who need to pay for it.

Song Yang's side is no exception. In addition to paying for the school in Houston, Adrian and others, in San Jose, Song Yang wants to make this place a home for local schools, parliamentarians, prosecutors, etc. Song Yang also needs support from the president, TV media people, etc. Christmas is a large-scale opportunity to make contacts, and of course it must be a bloodbath.

  Irene took Song Yang's words to heart, "I'll make arrangements and contact a few members of Congress from San Jose to meet together at that time!"

Now that Irene is dealing with these things, she has become more and more proficient. Greg, who was sitting on the side, looked at Irene, who was being used more and more by Song Yang, with a worried look on her face. I've always been worried about Erin...

   Everyone else was busy. In Song Yang's office, only Marcus and Gallo were left.

   "Marcus, in a few days, you will go with me to the project site of America Telecom!" Song Yang explained to Marcus.

  Marcus, who was packing his things, was stunned when he heard this, then nodded and replied, "I understand!"

Taking Marcus to America Telecom's side is nothing more than checking accounts. Song Yang does not trust Eric and others who manage the America Telecom project, but it involves three projects of more than 100 million US dollars. Song Yang can't be too careful no matter what. .

   "Song, Daana mentioned you yesterday, are you going back to Houston this Christmas?"

Seeing that everyone else had left, Gallo yawned and asked Song Yang, the meeting just now had no chance for Gallo, who had the title of Logistics Manager, to speak, and he was dazed. Sleeping, Gallo felt that it was the Blackwater Company that kept him more refreshed.

  Prince has begun to recruit a group of mercenaries, and through the family channel, they just pulled a few M109 self-propelled howitzers from General Dynamics as training equipment. Gallo has always wanted to try it out.

"I'll try my best. I'll go back to Houston when I'm done working here!" Song Yang said uncertainly. Whether he can return to Houston depends on whether he can live peacefully before this Christmas, and whether Microsoft and Netscape will make a fool of themselves. come out.

  Song Yang, Gallo, Marcus and his party quietly left San Jose, and then rushed to the current construction site of America Telecom. The America Telecom project is now about to pass through Indiana and go to the next construction site.

  America has a lot of media. Naturally, at the end of the year, various annual summaries and rankings start to be released one after another. After all, there is no comparison. !

  When Song Yang was still on the move, the Oakland Tribune, one of the four major newspapers in Silicon Valley, took the lead and joined other newspapers to rank the "Top Ten Internet Events in America in 1995".

   The number one ranking is of course the undisputed listing of Netscape, which kicked off the frenzy of Internet companies going public and brought the Internet into a new era. No one doubts this.

   However, in the other top ten events, Song Yang's name appeared twice, which is comparable to the frequency of Mark Anderson's appearance, far surpassing the two chiefs of Yahoo, AOL President Keith and so on.

  Anderson got his name. In this top ten event ranking, he appeared first and second respectively. In addition to the listing, it was the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft.

The third place is Song Yang's "Internet advertising". The Oakland Tribune and other media believe that the first web page advertisement on the Internet launched by the Double-click company established by Song Yang will completely affect the global Internet in the future. Get up" to make money!

Song Yang's name also appeared in the eighth place in the top ten events. The emergence of Hotmail made America enter the era of e-mail office ahead of schedule. The impact seems to be small, but in fact it has completely affected tens of millions of people around the world. People's office habits, Internet office began to really appear.

   There is a lot of controversy about Song Yang's inclusion in the list. After all, whether it is "Internet advertising" or "e-mail", it does not seem as shocking as Netscape. As for the impact, that thing can't be seen immediately.

The reason why    is controversial is because this ranking is related to the characters on the list, the influence of the American Internet, and it can also be said to be the power list of the American Internet.

  Mark Anderson was ranked number one on the Internet, and no one had any objection. Netscape ordered the Internet to follow suit, but Song Yang was ranked second, even surpassing AOL President Case, which made many people have opinions.

Many people think that Song Yang is not worthy of the name. No matter how you look at it, compared to the double-click, the market value of Hotmail, and the price, Song Yang can't rank second. Song Yang, who just debuted this year, suddenly surpassed all the seniors , ranked second in America's Internet power list, naturally many people have opinions.

   At this moment, a piece of news that had nothing to do with the Internet but was now related to the Internet came from the other side of the ocean, appeared in America, and quickly went viral.

  In the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of England, the entry SPAM, which represents spam email, has been added to the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary!

   This is the Internet industry. For the first time, it has been included in the Oxford Dictionary because of the related words created by the Internet. Whether the word is good or derogatory, it represents the influence of the Internet at the moment, which has broken through the traditional industry.

   And just after the news reached America, the title of "The King of Internet Advertising" was put on Song Yang's head!

   (end of this chapter)