I’m in Hollywood

After Eric’s remarks, the conference room was silent. Hey, the prospects described by Eric are very encouraging. Ian Garnier still can't help but feel that this plan is a good success, but what if it fails?

After a while, Chris seemed to suddenly think of something, and said in a soft tone: "The Firefly Group was only a small production company six years ago."

Silence was broken, and Steve Mitnick, who had been paying attention to the laptop in front of him as if he was absent-minded from beginning to end, said: "I agree with Eric’s plan to catch up with Microsoft’s third in five years. There is no confidence in the market value. It is better for everyone to disperse now. I will return to Dallas tomorrow to continue to help my old man sell junk bonds."

The slightest laughter made a few people in the conference room sneer.

Later, Jeff Locke, who was the most restrained and stable character in the original trio, raised his hand and said, "I agree."

The remaining Ian Gurney and Tina Brown looked at each other and nodded.

"So, let's talk about the specific details. I originally hoped to launch the ies scripting language and ycr chat software as soon as possible, but the launch of these two projects will once again change the industry's assessment of Yahoo's value, and may also stimulate Microsoft's change. It’s even more urgent, so all the promotion plans for these two projects are put on hold until the negotiations with Microsoft are over. In addition, what ideas do you have, you can speak freely?”

Ian Gurney said: "Compared to the benefits of the Yahoo browser technology priority agreement on the Windows operating system, it is not enough to limit Microsoft's launch of browser software within five years. I think we should not Microsoft licenses browser patents."

"No authorization is given to Microsoft at all, and Microsoft will definitely not agree." Eric thought for a moment and said: "When you negotiate, try to make the terms related to patent licensing seem to be more difficult, so that Microsoft will be more It’s good to focus on this. However, as long as we consolidate the status of Yahoo’s website and online mailboxes on the Internet, the interface of the browser is no longer so important. So the browser software patent is not used. Microsoft is strictly guarded against it."

"Let's have a low-interest loan," Steve Mitnick said in his eyes, looking at Eric. "I know you don't need money, but the more we ask, the more Microsoft will The more you despise Yahoo and let the enemy look down on yourself, it should bring a lot of benefits."

Everyone said a word to me all the cooperation intentions that Eric and Bill Gates reached last night, and determined the bottom line of Yahoo's cooperation. It was near noon, and Eric set off to the airport to meet John Chambers and Steve Case, who had just arrived in Boston.

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Although the Internet industry in the United States has always been at the forefront of the world, because the Internet service providers such as At&t, Comcast, and Time Warner have pursued higher profits, they have never been motivated to increase the speed of the network, leading to the United States. The average speed of online users is basically outside the world's ten countries, so the speed of the United States has even become a hindrance to the development of the Internet industry. In the original time and space, Google, Facebook and other Internet giants were aware of this problem, so they launched high-speed broadband services, which triggered the squid effect. Forcing those industry monopoly giants to choose to speed up.

In 1994, the Internet industry was just emerging. The most critical issue that restricts the development of the Internet is still the speed of the Internet. At this time, the network service is charged on an hourly basis. Not only is the price expensive, but the user's network speed is generally below 256 kbps, because the fixed line does not pass. The modem's dial-up bandwidth is only 256kbps. In the case of a poor network state, it takes a few minutes to download a 1mb file. At this time, the slow speed of the network is still not a technical constraint, and adsl broadband technology has emerged. But network service providers that monopolize the market do not have any intention to upgrade. Because of the speed limit, Yahoo! Portal has to artificially reduce the content provided in order to ensure a good user experience.

Although the Clinton House strongly supports the development of the information industry, if you do not see the actual benefits. The giants who monopolized the market simply did not pay attention to any policy documents issued by the White House. The outbreak of the Internet industry at the end of the century is ultimately driven by profit. The main purpose of Eric's invitation to John Chambers and Steve Case to come to Boston is to join Cisco and AOL to push the Internet industry into the 'fast track' ahead of schedule. Eric’s current identity and wealth also ensure that he has enough strength to drive this.

Starting with John Pickers and Steve from the airport, I used a simple lunch together. Eric took the two to visit the Yahoo headquarters. In addition to some items and information that needed to be kept secret, Ian G. Neil personally showed John Chambers and Steve Case that Yahoo! Most of the technical achievements on browser software, online email services and other products.

When I walked out of Yahoo's headquarters, the time was already at a glance, and Steve Case looked back at the Yahoo headquarters office building, which was still brightly lit, with a mixture of hearts and hearts.

When Ie and Yahoo emerged, Steve Case also hoped that Eric could sell these companies to AOL. After being rejected, Steve Case was not only discouraged, but played a competitive game. My mind, last year, AOL has launched its own portal aol, but the number of users is far less than that of Yahoo. Steve. Originally, I still think that this is mainly because of the advantages of the browser here, but visit After Yahoo!’s series of technology that was far ahead of AOL’s technology, Steve Case realized that AOL’s desire to surpass Yahoo in the online business is no longer possible.

In comparison, John Chambers is a lot easier. When he first determined that he was Cisco ceo, Eric’s major shareholder had publicly expressed his support to him at the shareholders’ meeting, which was a stable position for him. And the successful implementation of their own development strategy played a big role, although the number of meetings is not much, John Chambers is still full of goodwill to Eric. Although Eric did not express the intention of the invitation on the phone, John Chambers was still busy from San Francisco during his busy schedule.

After dinner, Chris, John Chambers, Steve Case and Ian Gurney gathered again in Eric's suite at the Cambridge Hotel.

"You can look at the information first, let's talk about it later," Eric distributed several pieces of information to several people, although Chris had seen it in advance. At this point, it looks again.

Eric walked to the small bar in the room and gave a few people a coffee. The tone said very casually: "In the 1980s, Microsoft's alliance with IBM and Intel could be said to be a golden triangle. Microsoft is responsible for the operating system software platform. R&D.ibm provides the best pc devices, Intel is dedicated to processor chip technology. It can be said that the rapid popularization of pc is closely related to the close cooperation between the three companies. Now they have also gained a leading position in other related fields. I think the next few years will be an important opportunity for the development of a new Internet industry, so why don't we set up a similar alliance with Microsoft, IBM and Intel?"

After years of development, Cisco has established itself as a leader in network solutions, devices and related software. As the helm of Cisco, John Chambers also felt the burgeoning and rapid development of the Internet industry in recent years. He also occasionally considers how to take the opportunity to let Cisco go further. At this point, the information industry alliance plan in his hand made his recent thoughts suddenly open.

Cisco, AOL, and Yahoo represent network equipment providers, network service providers, and network content providers, respectively. The three companies' business areas cover the entire network hardware and software industry. It is conceivable that if you can work closely together, the alliance formed by the three companies will definitely become an unrivalled behemoth in this new high-tech industry.

Carefully read only seven or eight pages of the Information Industry Alliance plan twice, John Chambers opened another document, this one is about the application prospects of adsl broadband technology, John Chambers Of course, the adsl technology is no stranger to it. However, there are still differences within Cisco about whether to focus on this technology and develop the corresponding products. At the same time, John Chambers is also very confused. How can Eric pay attention to such a highly specialized technology that is not widely used. Curiously looked up, Eric was personally sending a cup of coffee to him, thank you, John Chambers did not rush to ask his doubts. Open the file in your hand and continue reading.

Of course, Eric can also feel the doubts of John Chambers. He has no explanation. Anyway, there are enough different people to show up in his body. It doesn't matter.

After more than ten minutes of quiet in the living room, several people in John Chambers closed the documents in their hands, except Steve Case. Other people have a little excitement in their expressions.

Eric also first looked at Steve Case, saying: "Steve, what do you think of this alliance plan?"

Steve Case has a slight smile. At this time, AOL has millions of fixed users. Although it is not comparable to traditional Internet service providers like AT&T, it is already the best in the emerging peer companies. One. Before seeing the plan of the Information Industry Alliance in his hand, Steve Case was still aware of something, but he was still unwilling to be deep inside, but at this time, he found that if AOL does not join the alliance. Plan, Eric will definitely choose another collaborator. At that time, although Eric holds 30% of AOL's shares, compared to Eric's complete industrial layout plan, hundreds of millions of shares are fundamentally Not worth mentioning, Eric will certainly not hesitate to choose to suppress AOL.

After hesitating for a moment, Steve Case asked: "Eric, in addition to AOL, have you considered other collaborators?"

Eric doesn't mind the other meanings of Steve Case's question. He smiles and says: "The traditional network service providers like At&t and Comcast have monopolized the market and have not had much initiative. It is almost impossible for them to take the initiative to carry out a wide range of technology upgrades, so it is not considered by Yahoo's partners. Among the second echelon network service provider companies, only AOL currently meets Yahoo's requirements."

Steve Kass looked a little relaxed, but when he saw Eric more relaxed and relaxed, he suddenly thought that AOL was able to develop rapidly in the past two years, relying on the 6000 provided by the fireflies two years ago. For a million dollar investment, look at the opportunities behind Cisco ceo John Chambers and Yahoo! Although Steve Case is not willing to admit it, he still realizes that Eric is likely to have been planning for today's plan since two years ago.

Since this legendary young man has been planning for today two years ago, he can't think about the situation today.

The main differences between Eric and Steve Case are on the online business of AOL's portal, and the alliance plan clearly states that once I join Erik's proposed information industry alliance program, AOL It is necessary to quit the online business such as the portal, focusing on the role of the network service provider, but seeing the development prospects of the Yahoo portal, Steve Case is somewhat difficult for the online business.

Eric certainly considered this situation today. However, AOL has only about 20% of the Internet users in the US at this time. Compared with Yahoo's extensive promotion of IE browsers, the number of users that can be affected by its own client software promotion is only over 300. Tens, but Yahoo’s total number of users worldwide has exceeded 20 million. Therefore, Eric believes that the possibility of Steve Case's rejection is very low.

However, even if Steve Case chose to refuse, Eric did not have an alternative.

Ycr instant messaging software will be launched in the near future. Eric can completely imitate the strategy of Microsoft MSn in the original time and space, let Yahoo personally get involved in the field of network service providers, like msn, integrate dial-up network module into ycr chat tool, use In the future, ycr's market advantage will quickly promote Yahoo's network access business.

However, as a result, the scope of Yahoo’s business will be expanded again. Ian Gnell and others will not be able to concentrate on the implementation of the 'Yahoo Technology Alliance' and 'Yahoo Advertising Alliance' programs. This is not Eric. I hope to see the results. (To be continued.)