Reborn since 1993

Chapter 486 Big Black Fish

After hearing Shi Beiyang's words, Ma Chaoyang looked over and saw the latest Silicon Valley celebrity, Yahoo chief Yang Zhiyuan!

Yahoo is definitely the most popular figure in the entire Silicon Valley since the second half of last year. Without a doubt, the entire Yahoo is frantically promoting the title of Yahoo Chief. It is rumored that Yahoo will complete its IPO this year, and Yang Zhiyuan will become another billionaire in Silicon Valley.

When Ma Chaoyang saw Yang Zhiyuan, he didn't expect that this Silicon Valley celebrity would come so early. It was obvious that he was here to show support for his boss.

However, Ma Chaoyang came tonight to support his boss, and so did Yang Zhiyuan.

Li Dongling's Zhixing Foundation is also one of Yahoo's shareholders, and is the general brand agent of Yahoo in Asia. Yahoo's market value after its listing and how much its stock price will rise are also closely related to the Zhixing Foundation. How could Yang Zhiyuan not come today!
After Yang Zhiyuan, Ma Chaoyang met several other prominent figures in the Silicon Valley Internet circle, including Sohu founder Steve Kissier, Sohu chief technology officer William Zhang, and a Chinese-looking man who came together.

In addition to the most famous Yahoo and Sohu, Ma Chaoyang also heard from other people about the arrival of many Silicon Valley Internet companies that he had never heard of before. He didn't know where these companies came from.

Some not-so-famous figures on the Internet today, including David Burnett, founder of GeoCities website, and Gruner, founder of ASK search, also came to the banquet today.

Just as Ma Chaoyang was still wondering how many big shots from Silicon Valley would arrive today, there was a commotion in the banquet hall, and then Ma Chaoyang saw a group of people coming in.

The two leading men, one of them was wearing a custom-made casual suit. Some people need expensive clothes to show their worth, while others wear clothes to give off a sense of luxury. With Li Dongling's current identity and status, he already belongs to the latter!
The person holding Li Dongling's arm was Yao Luoying, who was wearing a red dress and only simple jewelry, which perfectly brought out her figure and temperament.

“Let us welcome Mr. Li Dongling, President of Dongling Hi-Tech and founder of Zhixing Foundation, and Ms. Yao Luoying, General Manager of Feiyan Technology!”

Zhou Hualiang walked to the banquet hall, stood on the stage, and said nothing to everyone present. Then applause broke out in the venue.

Ma Chaoyang, Shi Beiyang and other staff members of Silicon Valley Himalaya Radio were stunned when they saw Li Dongling and Yao Luoying. If they had not heard Zhou Hualiang introduce their identities, they would have doubted whether the two people in front of them were male and female stars from China.

But then, after hearing the identities of Li Dongling and the other person, Ma Chaoyang and the others showed obvious shock on their faces. They were not familiar with Yao Luoying, but they were not unfamiliar with Li Dongling. In the Chinese circle in America, Li Dongling had a great reputation.

Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang looked at each other, both of them showed surprise and excitement on their faces. Their boss turned out to be Li Dongling. There was no need to worry about the problem of Himalaya Radio not being able to continue operating!

Yang Zhiyuan, Steve Kissier, David Burnett, Gruner and others present also looked towards Li Dongling.

Just now, Zhou Hualiang mentioned Li Dongling as the founder of Zhixing Foundation, because in Silicon Valley, the Zhixing Foundation, which has invested in Yahoo and Sohu and achieved great success, is more famous than Dongling Hi-Tech!
And why did David Burnett, Gruner and other founders of Internet companies come here immediately after hearing the news that the big sponsor of the Zhixing Foundation was holding a banquet tonight? It was to see if there was any chance to get venture capital from the Zhixing Foundation!
"Should I call you Jerry or..." Li Dongling and Yao Luoying came to Yang Zhiyuan first and shook hands with him.

Looking at Li Dongling, who is the same age as him, to be honest, Yang Zhiyuan couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He is now the leader among Chinese Americans of the same age, even if you include people of other ethnic groups. If Yahoo can go public smoothly, he will become an idol in the hearts of Chinese Americans and the new generation of young people.

But looking at Li Dongling in front of him, he couldn't feel proud. Li Dongling's Zhixing Foundation was an investor of Yahoo, and the first investor. Even if Yahoo went public, its initial valuation would probably be far inferior to that of Dongling Hi-Tech. As for the future market value exceeding 100 billion, even Yang Zhiyuan didn't dare to dream of such a dream now.

"Call me Zhiyuan, as we are from the old hometown, we should call me by my given name!"

There were too many people present, and this was definitely not the time to have a detailed discussion. After Li Dongling and Yang Zhiyuan exchanged a few words, they walked towards the letter search area.

"President Steve!"

Li Dongling greeted Steve Kissier and William Zhang, then looked at the other man following behind them. Li Dongling was very familiar with that face, after all, the other party was one of the three giants of BAT in China.

"You must be Li Yanhong. I've heard from Lv Wenhua that you are the best technical genius in the search industry!"

Li Dongling extended his hand towards Li Yanhong. His attitude towards Li Yanhong was much better than that towards the two senior executives of Souxin.

Lv Wenhua is the general manager of Zhixing Foundation. The two were familiar with each other when Lv Wenhua came to Silicon Valley and invested in Sooxin. Li Yanhong did not expect that Li Dongling would actually remember him.

"I don't deserve it!" Li Yanhong behaved quite modestly and gently. If he were just a technician and not a company founder, he would definitely be a popular technician in the Internet industry.

His search technology is top-notch in the world. He has a gentle personality, is modest and gentle. He is definitely a model of a technician. But as a founder, his performance is hard to describe, and he can even be considered a bit indecisive.

No one knows what his attitude is towards the negative news about Baidu in its past life. But the fact that it wasted many transformation opportunities for advertising fees and missed many talents, and was expected to be able to compete with Google, but ended up becoming the most criticized among BAT, is more or less related to him.

"We'll talk about it some time!"

Li Dongling said something to Li Yanhong in Chinese. Although Steve Kissir didn't understand, the look on Li Yanhong's face made him feel like he was being poached.

After Yang Zhiyuan, Steve Kissier and Li Yanhong, Li Dongling exchanged a few words with the others present and had a few more business cards in his hand. When he saw the business cards of David Burnett and Gruner, Li Dongling couldn't help but look at them a few more times.

He didn't expect that there would be a few big black fish coming to this banquet. The GeoCities website is now engaged in website hosting business, which is to store photos, videos, articles, etc. created by users on the GeoCities website.

Later, something similar to QQ Space was derived, but the technology today is not as convenient as it is later. In the past, Yahoo acquired the GeoCities website for US$35.7 billion and renamed it Yahoo Global Village.

But to be honest, Yahoo is similar to some other companies. They acquire a company and then bankrupt it. Anyway, the companies in their pockets cannot survive in peace. After the GeoCities website was acquired, it could not avoid the fate of being shut down.

Li Dongling didn’t care too much about whether GeoCities would be destroyed by Yahoo, but he was very concerned about the $3 to $4 billion that Yahoo spent on acquiring GeoCities…

In addition to the big black fish GeoCities website, ASK is actually also a big fish, which was acquired by IAC for nearly 2 billion US dollars.

But in fact, ASK was sold too late. It was acquired a few years after the American Internet avalanche. If it had been sold on the eve of the Internet avalanche to giants such as Yahoo, Microsoft, America Online, Cisco, Disney, Murdoch, or merged with Google, the selling price or future earnings would have been far more than US$2 billion!

Li Dongling accepted the business cards of the founders of GeoCities and ASK, and gave his own business card to the two of them, which made David Burnett and Gruner feel excited.

After greeting everyone in the banquet hall, Li Dongling prepared to go on stage to give a short speech. In fact, today's banquet was an opportunity to raise the flag of Himalaya Radio in Silicon Valley.

But just when Li Dongling came to power, two more groups of people arrived. One of them came uninvited, which was beyond the expectations of Li Dongling, Zhou Hualiang and Larson.

"It's Jim!"

“And Marc Andreessen, the digital hero on the cover of Time magazine!”

"That's Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital!"

Ma Chaoyang, who was standing in the crowd, widened his eyes when he heard someone mention the identities of the people who came in. He didn't expect that Jim Clark, Anderson, Moritz, these Silicon Valley figures, any one of whom could make Silicon Valley tremble with the stomping of their feet, would be here today.

"We didn't invite those two people from Netscape, so what are they doing here?!" Larson whispered to Li Dongling.

Li Dongling shook his head slightly. No matter why the two founders of Netscape came here, if they wanted to stay in Silicon Valley and the American technology circle, they had to at least not offend Jim Clark, let alone make friends with him.

Jim Clark's identity is not just that of the founder of Netscape. He is also a representative figure in the Silicon Valley Internet circle regarding donations and supporters of the Donkey Party, and one of the people with the closest ties to Washington.

Otherwise, how could Netscape almost split up Microsoft? If Microsoft hadn't been lucky enough to encounter the collapse of Nasdaq and the avalanche of the Internet, in order to save the Internet, the federal president and Capitol Hill had to stop the splitting of Microsoft to avoid the further collapse of the Nasdaq index. Who knows, Jim Clark might have really split Microsoft into three!

(End of this chapter)