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   Chapter 478 Open the bow without turning back the arrow

Cutting leeks also needs to be skillful. You can't cut them hard, otherwise they will easily fail to grow. Therefore, before cutting each time, you have to change your posture and pour some water and fertilizer on the leeks, so that after cutting the leeks, you can Grow good leeks again!

   In the past few years, from the launch of Hotmai mailboxes, the use of viral marketing, the launch of ICQ, the use of the head-pulling model, and the two large-scale promotion models on the Internet, the leeks have also begun to see a lot.

  It's time to promote PayPal payment, that set of hard push will not work, it's time to use some of Ma's double eleven tricks, all kinds of coupons are available.

As long as you sign up for a PayPal account, you can sign in and get various coupons. For example, if you just started attracting leeks, no, it's the user who enters the pit. You can directly give out cash rewards of three dollars or five dollars, and then you can get a discount for every ten dollars. US knife coupons, 20 US dollars off 3 US dollars, etc…

Compared with giving money to those TV stations, newspapers, platforms, etc., sending money directly to users at the beginning is still much simpler and cruder. The wool comes out of the sheep, as long as you start using PayPal, even if you can’t cut leeks this year , there will definitely be opportunities in the future!

After    Irene, Xie Qing and others, companies in Song Yang’s hands, such as DoubleClick, America Telecom, Yeadex, and eBay, also began to express their support for PayPal.

   This model, ICQ, DoubleClick and other companies have become accustomed to it. As long as a new product appears in Song Yang's hands, or when a new product is released, major companies will support new projects under the coordination of the North American Global Investment Foundation.

Compared with the situation in which major departments of giant companies such as Motorola and Nippon Sony are constantly in conflict, ICQ, America Telecom, and Alcatel mobile phones in Song Yang's hands operate independently of each other and support each other at critical moments. Instead, it is better. After a few minutes, if they all get together, I don’t know how much skin I will have to pull. After all, who wants to be controlled by others!

   Now, even if the relationship between the major companies in Song Yang's hands is not good, they still have to deal with each other several times a year.

   A meeting ended after a while, not only about the launch of PayPal, but also Yeadex, Telecom America, etc. from Lao Maozi also made some reports to Song Yang.

The technology industry, telecommunications industry, etc., have developed too fast in recent years. Yeadex is in Lao Maozi, and the family is living a good life. The key is that Lao Maozi and Eastern European Internet users are not enough, and Yeadex stalls are too large. In this way, Song Yang still needs to continue feeding in order to survive!

  Song Yang was mentally prepared for this. Even in a few days, when Soros started to do things in Southeast Asia, Lao Maozi would have a harder time, and Yeadex's life would not be much better.

   But crises are often dangers with opportunities. When Lao Maozi falls into the quagmire again due to the influence of Southeast Asia, maybe Yeadex's opportunity will come, and he can expand his business and users again!

   On the contrary, it was Telecom America that made Song Yang feel a little troubled. It was not that there was a situation in the development of Telecom America, but on the contrary, Telecom America was in full swing under the leadership of Iger.

   Now no one will mention that Iger is the president of America Telecom because of his relationship or low annual salary. Instead, he starts to regard him as a real big man in the telecom industry!

  Since Iger took over as the president of America Telecom last year, this year, Iger handed over a dazzling answer sheet, the users and revenue of America Telecom have almost exploded.

Now America Telecom is the largest broadband operator in America, occupying the entire Wall Street broadband market. One-third of the telecom market in Silicon Valley belongs to America Telecom. The broadband market in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and other places, America Telecom almost All led by America Telecom.

In addition, the mobile Internet business developed by Telecom America through the Alcatel P1 mobile phone has made America Telecom infinite, and the mobile electronic retail stores developed by America Telecom have made the performance of America Telecom very bright. Eye.

Although carrying a lot of debt, America Telecom's revenue this year may reach an astonishing level. The revenue may exceed 30 billion US dollars. This revenue is not comparable to that of Verizon, Bell, WorldCom and other giants. , but as an emerging telecommunications company, America Telecom is already legendary in the eyes of the outside world.

   But in the crazy telecommunications industry, America Telecom appears to be a bit "conservative", even if America Telecom has expanded wildly, compared with those daring guys, America Telecom is somewhat unknown.

   In the conference room, everyone else had already left, and Song Yang was on the phone with Iger in New York.

   "Song, now there is news in the telecommunications industry that WorldCom may have a big move. It is reported that WorldCom President Bernard Ebbs announced in public that he has met with the board of directors of MFS Telecom Group!"

Across the phone, Song Yang could hear Iger's anxiety. America Telecom and WorldCom are deadly enemies. Now WorldCom is eyeing MFS Group. Last year, MFS Group was fighting against WorldCom. Now WorldCom has plans to swallow MFS Telecom, a giant with a market value of tens of billions of dollars!

Not only WorldCom, but the telecommunications bill passed last year has intensified this year. Disney has confirmed the acquisition of ABC Group. AOL has reported that Case is in contact with people from Time Warner Group. The telecom and media industries are starting to make big moves one by one. Appear.

At present, America Telecom and the media industry are in a state of big fish eating small fish. Whoever swallows the opponent first will win. Iger and America Telecom are also worried, for fear that they will be swallowed by giants such as WorldCom that day. !

Even America Telecom's head iron has been fighting against WorldCom, but WorldCom, Verizon, Bell Group and other telecom giants are constantly annexing each other, and their strength continues to soar. the place.

  Song Yang rubbed his brows and said to Iger on the other end of the phone, "This is not the time for America Telecom to start, the most important thing now is PayPal, and... other things!"

   "But Iger, I can assure you that when these things are done now, America Telecom can start. America Telecom will never lose to that guy from WorldCom and Bernard!"

  America Telecom and WorldCom's Liangzi have forged, not to mention they are mortal enemies, but American Telecom must not be sold to the guy who grows potatoes.

   After hanging up the phone, Song Yang couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache. The telecommunications industry is the real Shura field, with big mergers and acquisitions of tens of billions of dollars at every turn. In this industry, it is really not easy to survive!

America Telecom is related to Song Yang's right to speak in America and the channel of public opinion. No matter what, he can't give up. Whether ICQ or ICNC TV station, in fact, the root is still America Telecom. Without America Telecom, these are all rootless. The wood, when the wind blows, it dissipates.

   As long as America Telecom is there, even if ICQ is weak and ICNC TV is in recession, it will be able to launch a new TV station with its huge user base.

Now America's telecommunications industry is constantly undergoing major mergers and acquisitions, and America Telecom cannot be exempted from the custom. When Song Yang is freed, it is time to send ICQ and America Telecom to go public. At that time, a big merger will be launched, and it will depend on the return of America Telecom and WorldCom. There are other telecom groups, who is more fierce!

  Located in the PayPal office in the ICQ office building, PayPal, which has been secretly developed, is finally outside the office today, with the PayPal brand on it, and the official website was launched yesterday.

Aaron Swartz, who just officially became the first president of PayPal, glanced at the people in the office. Now PayPal is mainly based on the technology department, and the personnel, finance, legal affairs, logistics, etc. are all borrowed from ICQ. .

But even so, the scale of PayPal's personnel has exceeded 300 people. Aaron Swartz still remembers that when he was recruited by Song Yang to form a team to develop PayPal, there were only about ten people at that time. , and now the staff size has increased by as much as 30 times!

Taking a look at the time, it was almost eight in the morning. Aaron Swartz knew that all major companies were waiting for PayPal to go online. ICQ, eBay, Amazon, Yeadex and other companies also went online last night. The new version is to cooperate with PayPal.

   Taking a deep breath, Aaron Swartz knew that Song Yang is now in the ICQ office building, waiting for PayPal's launch and performance. It is now a close call, and there is no turning back.

"Everyone, there are still some people who don't care about PayPal now, but I believe that in a month's time, on Wall Street and in major banks in America, PayPal will be the most discussed, you are witnessing history, you are creating A miracle, you will change the payment habits of countless people around the world!"

  Aaron Swartz said to a group of PayPal employees in the office, saying that he deliberately thought about it for a long time yesterday before giving him the chicken soup that he came up with.

   When the hour hand reached eight o'clock, Aaron Swartz finally shouted, "PayPal is online!"

Without its brothers, Hotmail, ICQ, Alcatel mobile phones, etc. are holding press conferences when they go online, and they are lively due to large-scale promotion. PayPal seems to be a bit "quiet", and it is not even seen in mainstream media. Ads to PayPal.

   But if there is a third-party data agency that finds PayPal, you will find that the installation of the entire PayPal has grown exponentially from the moment it was launched!

   (end of this chapter)