The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 439 A fire in summer
It is impossible for Yang Zhiyuan not to know what the netizens on Weibo know, and the board of directors even held an urgent meeting, asking Yang Zhiyuan to explain, asking him whether the report released by Google is true or not!
But the problem is that Jerry Yang doesn't know whether this report is true or not. At this time, Jerry Yang is completely confused, but facing the question from the board of directors, Jerry Yang can only say that according to the background data of his own report It shows that Yahoo's traffic has only dropped slightly, and it doesn't look like it has been greatly stretched.

It means that the data of Google's survey report is likely to be false.

In fact, Yang Zhiyuan's answer is very vague, all of them are possible, maybe, roughly such words, but this is enough for the board of directors.What the board needs is to preserve Yahoo's stock price and forget about the rest.

So the board of directors asked Jerry Yang to issue an announcement immediately, showing that Google's data was falsified and that its market share did not drop so exaggeratedly.

Naturally, Jerry Yang couldn't refuse, after all, he was still counting on getting away from Yahoo, so that night, Yahoo urgently released the report, and at the same time posted its own background data, showing that its background traffic was in a There was only a small decline during the month, which was far from the exaggerated level that Google said.

This report was still very effective, and it greatly eased the panic in the market. When the market opened the next morning, Yahoo's stock price even rebounded slightly.

However, this also increased the market's doubts about the two completely different statements. One of them must be false, so everyone began to debate who is true and who is false.

From the point of view of the overall public opinion, Yahoo's support rate is still relatively high. After all, everyone has Yahoo's stock in their hands, and Google has not yet been listed. A crusade by many people.

In a fit of rage, Google announced that it would apply to the regulator to investigate its own report, and at the same time, it also sent a message to Yahoo, asking Yahoo to disclose its background data and let the regulator conduct an investigation.

Of course, Yahoo does not want anyone to check this data, but the problem is that if it refuses the investigation of the relevant unit at this time, it will undoubtedly be a guilty conscience.

In addition, from the perspective of the top management, their own data are all real, and there is no case of fraud, so Yang Zhiyuan very straightforwardly invited the organization to investigate within Yahoo.

In Yahoo's view, this is a good opportunity to prove its innocence, but a few people are terrified. These people are the relevant person in charge of Yahoo's background operations and the person in charge of Yahoo search.

These two people are very good friends, so when Yahoo search was launched, the person in charge of the background did not report the relevant data to the above immediately, but told his friend, telling him that your Yahoo search has collapsed .

The person in charge of Yahoo Search was depressed on the spot. He is the head of research and development of Yahoo Search. If Yahoo Search blows up, and it blows up so badly, then he is also finished.

But he has no way to solve the problem of Yahoo search, but he has a way to solve the people who find the problem.

So he found his good friend and asked him to help cover up the data, so as not to let the higher-ups find out that Yahoo search failed like this.

Of course, this kind of thing will be discovered sooner or later, so he didn't ask to keep it covered up, but asked not to report the data of the cliff-like collapse, but to slowly cover the data within three months .

It seems that it has been slowly declining in three months, so the failure of Yahoo search and the quality of Yahoo search itself are not so big, it can only be said to be a problem in market operation.

This method of handling itself is not considered dangerous. After all, many large listed companies do this internally, and most of the time the highest level of the company also acquiesces.

After all, the company is not theirs, but the board of directors and shareholders.It doesn't really matter how the company's actual work performance is, as long as the data is good and the board of directors and shareholders can be fooled.

When my part-time job expires, I will leave with a salary of tens of millions of dollars, and the future of the company will have nothing to do with me.

In fact, even if Yang Zhiyuan found out that there was a problem with these data, at most he would deal with these two people internally, and he would not even punish them, and even help them cover it up, as long as the board of directors and shareholders It is enough to deceive the past, which is also beneficial to him.

But when the entire stock market began to pay attention to this matter, trouble came.Once it is discovered that their data is falsified, it is hard to say what will happen to Yahoo, they must be finished.

Because these false data are reported on paper, the real data is still stored in the server, and these data cannot be deleted unless the entire server group is directly destroyed!
The two crouching dragon and phoenix chicks looked at each other, then nodded, so the next night, when a sweeping lady was cleaning the machine room, she touched the power cord by mistake, causing a serious short circuit accident, and the whole machine room was directly damaged. on fire.

Because the accident occurred at night, there were insufficient manpower to deal with the problem, so the torches in the computer room engulfed most of the computer room and servers before being extinguished.

But one-third of Yahoo's server group was destroyed, especially the server group responsible for storing data, which was directly burned to slag.

When Yang Zhiyuan, who was still sleeping in his bed at 3 o'clock in the morning, was awakened by the news, he was completely stupid.

The next morning, when users discovered that Yahoo had lost its service for 7 hours, Yahoo announced that a large number of servers were damaged due to the fire in the computer room, and Yahoo was in the process of rescue recovery.

So this time Yahoo expects to take more than three days to restore the connection, and there will be a large amount of user data loss, please forgive me.

"I'm afraid Yahoo is not a fool! Just when he was about to check his data, his computer room burned down, and all the data was gone. Do you really think that no one can see through their trick?"

Netizens who heard the news all rolled their eyes on the Internet, feeling that their IQ was insulted and that Yahoo was really stupid.

Of course, Jerry Yang himself is not stupid, and Yahoo is not stupid either. When he heard the news, he immediately realized that his own data might have been faked, otherwise why the fire just happened at this time, and the manpower It burned when it was weakest.

At this moment, Yang Zhiyuan wished to crush those two guys to ashes to relieve the hatred in his heart.

But Yang Zhiyuan didn't dare, he didn't even have the courage to punish these two guys.Because once punished, it means that there is a problem with these two people, there is a problem with these data, isn't this self-inflicted?

So Yang Zhiyuan could only be filled with anger, and at the same time appease the two responsible persons who desperately rescued the company's data, causing severe burns, sent them to the hospital for treatment, and ordered his subordinates to quickly check the remaining servers.

Once you find out which storage servers are still working, put them into the fire and burn them again until they are completely destroyed.

It is wise for Yang Zhiyuan to do this, because in this way, the investigation team of the relevant agency will be directly disbanded.

But the market is also wise.

Institutions and stockholders have no interest in whether the truth of the matter will be discovered. They only know that Yahoo is acting guilty. They only know that Yahoo’s market is really being embezzled, and Yahoo may not be able to make much money in the future. Their stock is going to die.

Ever since, on the third day, Yahoo’s stock price ushered in an even more unprecedented plunge. It opened at $12.6 in the morning, and only $8.7 was left an hour later.

In another hour, only $6.1 is left.

By the end of the day, Yahoo's stock price was only $4.3, and only 1/3 of the stock price had fallen, and the total market value had shrunk to $430 billion in an instant. It was a long time before Yahoo celebrated that its market value exceeded $1 billion. , just less than 500 days have passed.

As the saying goes, some people are happy and some are worried. If Yahoo has plummeted so much, then some people must be making money.

This person is not Google, because Google has not yet gone public, it is only in the stage of IPO, and the plunge of competitors will not do him any good.

The one who really got the big benefit is Little Swift. As Yahoo's stock rose, as many people scolded Little Swift, now there are as many people who praise Little Swift.

The peerless genius, the god of finance, the eye of God, and the praise of omniscience are all placed in the head of little Swift.

There is no way, this time little Swift made a lot of money again. Western Broncos started to enter the market when the total market value was 1500 US dollars. Now the total market value has dropped to 430 billion US dollars. Little Swift shorted Yahoo and made a profit in two days At least $100 billion profit, this is not the god of finance, not what the eye of God is.

And this time is different from betting on apples before.

Little Swift made a bet on Apple before, and in the eyes of outsiders, it could be regarded as luck. He happened to meet the iop3, a god-level product, which made little Swift a lot of money.

After all, when Swift made his bet on Apple, the iPOd3 hadn’t been officially released yet, and it was still in the research and development stage. It was impossible to predict that the ipod3 would be a big hit through the product itself, which would drive Apple’s stock price soaring, so this could only be a bet. luck.

But shorting Yahoo this time is different. Little Swift is obviously the first to notice Yahoo’s weakness, the importance of Google to Yahoo, and the fact that Google is the real traffic password.

That's why Swift Jr. announced that he would short Yahoo when Google announced its separation from Yahoo, because Swift Jr. already understood at that time that Yahoo was bound to lose.

Moreover, little Swift was not confused by Yahoo’s false rising prosperity before, firmly insisted on the truth he knew, and then started at the high point of 1500 billion, which is perfect for timing. Yes, and it is completely technical work, there is no problem of luck.

All in all, one word, strong, two words, awesome!
After such a battle, many people who thought that Swift was a gambler changed their views one after another, thinking that the other party is really a genius. Maybe the next era of Soros and Buffett has already been born!
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