The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 360 Give it a try, in case it succeeds
"What about the storage server?" Huang He continued to ask.

Storage servers are the bulk of this tender, with a purchase volume of US$15 billion.

After all, for an Internet company, there will definitely be a lot of computing power requirements involved, but their biggest demand is actually the need to store data, which is to store user data.

For a huge Internet company like Yahoo, the stored user data is even more massive.

At this time, Yahoo is at its most beautiful time. Since its establishment in 1994, Yahoo has almost passed 10 years.

In the past 10 years, Yahoo has developed into the world's largest Internet company, and it is also the world's number one portal website.

At present, Yahoo's business covers 26 major countries around the world, and in 26 of these 25 major countries, Yahoo has won the title of the number one portal website in its own country.

The only country that has not won is probably China.

In fact, Yahoo China also won the first place in China, but it was later divided up by three students, Sina, Sohu, and Tencent. China's first failure.

So although many Chinese people don't know much about Yahoo, and think that Yahoo is just a company that has heard the name by accident, but in 2003, it was the overlord of the entire Internet age.

The future of Google is still trembling under Yahoo’s prestige, especially when Yahoo announced in 2004 that it would develop its own search engine and cancel the cooperation with Google. As a result, Google, which had just been listed, immediately lost nearly 80% of its stock price. More than half of the share was lost, and Google at that time almost went bankrupt because of this.

If it weren't for Yahoo's search engine, it is really doing too badly, maybe there would be no such company as Google in this world.

In addition to the main business of Yahoo's most beautiful portal website, Yahoo at this time also involved more than 10 different businesses such as online music, instant messaging, email, online news, website agency operations, and advertising alliances.

And these businesses all need to store a large amount of user data, so Yahoo's storage servers continue to increase.

In fact, in 2002, Yahoo had already spent 10 billion US dollars to purchase a batch of storage servers. As a result, after more than a year now, these servers are all full, and another 15 billion US dollars of servers need to be purchased.

But these are small money for Yahoo. At this time, Yahoo's market value is as high as 1 billion U.S. dollars, and a mere $250 billion is really not worth mentioning for him.

This shows how beautiful Yahoo is at this time.

Closer to home, when Huang He asked about the storage server, Ni Guangnan did not reject it straight away, but nodded and said, "There is no problem with the storage server, and we have fully met the technical specifications, and even surpassed their technical specifications by a lot! "

"Really!" When Huang He heard it, a smile appeared on his face. It seemed that the 15 billion US dollars could fall into his own pocket.

Don't forget that Huang He still owes the bank a loan of US$10 billion, and will repay the first loan of US$10 million in October this year.

Although Jiangnan Group still has more than 2.4 million U.S. dollars on its books at this time, it will be able to meet the first batch of [-] million U.S. dollars if it does not spend money randomly in the next few months and saves hard.

But in this way, many developments of the Jiangnan Group will be a few steps behind. If they can get Yahoo's list, then there is no need to worry about the 2.4 million US dollars, after all, according to the statement on the bidding document.

As long as the bidding is successful, Yahoo will immediately pay a deposit of 2 million US dollars, and then pay the final payment in batches according to the time and progress of batch delivery.

At this time, Yahoo was rich and powerful, and there had never been any reports of arrears of funds, so as long as the contract was successfully signed, there was absolutely no need to worry about the arrears this year.

"It's a pity, we can't do this bid!" Seeing Huang He happily dreaming there, Elder Ni shook his head and said.

"How can it not be done? Didn't you say that our technology can meet the requirements of the bidding document?" Huang He was stunned for a moment, then asked.

"There is a part of this reason. Although we can meet the technical indicators in the bidding documents, some of the requirements cannot be matched. This is mainly because our storage servers are made of graphene particles, which belongs to the material. In fact, there is no advantage in technology! We don’t have the new technologies required in the bidding documents, they are all old technologies, but we have achieved a lot of the indicators that should be there!” Ni Lao said.

"It doesn't matter, as long as the corresponding target can be achieved and the price is cheap enough, I think Yahoo will not refuse!" Huang He said.

"No, I think there will be problems here!" Ni Guangnan shook his head
"Old Ni, you must be afraid!" Huang He asked with a smile.

"Afraid? I want to be afraid, but they don't give us a chance to be afraid!" Mr. Ni snorted coldly, and at the same time said very helplessly, "You know? Qualified to bid!"

"Eh..." Huang He was stunned for a moment.

Indeed, according to the bidding rules, your company should first get the bidding document, and then bid according to the requirements of the bidding document. This is like if you want to go to the college entrance examination, you need to get an admission ticket first.

"Teacher, this is a matter of course. The majestic Yaohu wants to buy servers. There are a lot of top server manufacturers in the United States and Europe. How can they send out tenders to our unknown company?" Huang He He grinned wryly.

Huang He is still very self-aware. The current Jiangnan server is actually at an intermediate level in terms of technology. The only technology that can be called advanced is the technology of storage servers, and this is achieved by the new materials developed by Tong He. of.

In terms of pure technology, compared with the world's major server manufacturers, Jiangnan server is at most a child who can speak. It is absolutely impossible for Yahoo to actively issue bids to Jiangnan server.

"Otherwise, I will find some American friends to help me fight for it and get a bid!" Huang He muttered.

"Hey, Xiao Huang, do you really want to bid?" Seeing Huang He like this, Ni Guangnan asked in shock.

"Yes, is there any problem?" Huang He said naturally.

"It's not a problem, but I think you're wasting your time and energy!" Ni Guangnan sighed and said, "You don't know much about the server industry, so you don't know how high the prejudice in this industry is."

"An American company like Yahoo will never give our Jiangnan server a second look, even if your product does meet their data requirements, but we really don't have any reputation at all, and it is impossible for others to purchase our server .”

"This is no longer a technical problem, but a perception of brand and strength!"

"Right now, we should focus on developing the domestic market. Recently, we have reached sales agreements with several domestic Internet companies, and have sold more than 100 servers. This is a good start. Next, we should continue to Specialize in the domestic market, so according to my estimation, our annual sales volume should exceed 3000 servers in three years, and we can also become the top 3 server manufacturers in China. This is the development path that suits us.”

"Of course, I'm not saying that we have to give up foreign markets. On the contrary, I also think that going out of the country and going global is the path that Jiangnan Server must take."

"But not now, now we are too unknown, and we can't produce any decent results. It is absolutely impossible for Yahoo to choose us."

"Only after three years, we have gained a reputation at home and abroad, and at the same time, the technology of our products has gradually improved, so that we have the capital to attract people's attention."

"If you go to the United States now, you won't gain anything other than wasting money and energy!" Ni Guangnan said very simply, which is quite thorough.

Although Ni Guangnan's words sounded a bit like boosting the enemy's ambition and destroying his prestige, what the old man said was indeed the truth, and it was also the truth that hurt him quite a bit.

But the truth is the truth, Ni Guangnan thinks that Huang He must accept the truth, otherwise he will only suffer more injuries.

Hearing Ni Guangnan's dissuasion, Huang He also fell into hesitation, and did not speak for more than ten minutes, obviously a considerable entanglement was going on in his heart.

In the end, Huang He said, "Teacher, I admit that what you said is right, and what you said is the truth. I really should let go of this bidding."

Huang He said that he paused for a while, and then continued, "But this time, I felt that I was not strong enough and gave up. Do I have to repeat this cycle next time?"

"If this is the case, then when will we be able to prove to the world that our Jiangnan server is indeed capable and come up with a network server that meets the needs of the world's top enterprises?"

"Also, why do we have to give up? Why can't we give it a try?"

"Yes, if I try it, I may fail, and it will cost me a lot of money and energy, but so what, at most it will make my yellow crane lose a few hairs, but if it succeeds, then we can advance In three years, I have established my reputation and brand in the server industry all over the world." Huang He said excitedly.

"The chances are too small..." Ni Guangnan hesitated for a moment, then said.

"No matter how small the chance is, there is still a chance of success. Just like our blind box, the chance of getting the deluxe version is less than 3‰, but there will be lucky ones who will get the deluxe version inside the blind box."

"And according to our statistics, 50% of them have opened the luxury version of the lucky one, and their one-time purchase of blind boxes is less than 5 boxes."

"What if we succeed?"

(End of this chapter)