Chapter 444: If You Give, You Must Receive!

Monday, Nasdaq.

Early in the morning, the bell-ringing ceremony held by Yahoo attracted the attention of various financial media outlets.

After all, before going public, Yahoo had already made quite a name for itself, and Wang Zhiyuan and David had even put forward the definitions of open, shared, and inclusive, which made them both stand out.

That day, Yahoo's stock price soared directly from thirteen dollars to thirty-three dollars.

During this period, it hit the daily limit twice, causing the value of this company, which had a market capitalization of less than twenty million, to nearly double.

And this number was still growing continuously.

The reason was that many Wall Street financial institutions were optimistic about the prospects of the emerging internet industry and were buying stocks in large quantities.

Such explosive growth also caused the net worth of both Wang Zhiyuan and David to skyrocket.

They went from being two worthless students to millionaires.

It should be known that in the United States during this period, assets at the million-dollar level could indeed be considered the wealthy class.

Also because of Yahoo's listing, the shares held by Wang Zhiyuan, David, and Cao Weicai in the Yahoo company were all diluted to varying degrees.

For example, the 70% stake originally held by Cao Weicai was diluted to less than 50%.

The shares originally held by the two of them were not many, and they were both diluted to around 10%.

But overall, the company's potential was seen by the public, and the funds raised could also be invested in the next round of Yahoo's development.

Just when Wang Zhiyuan had been excited for a period of time, after throwing several parties, and returned to the company intending to flex his muscles, he discovered that there had been a change in positions within the company.

Originally, Wang Zhiyuan's position as CEO of the company had been changed to David, while he was placed in the position of executive director.

This made Wang Zhiyuan extremely angry, and he strode directly toward David's office, leaving the company's employees looking confused.

"David, what is going on?"

Wang Zhiyuan stormed into David's office and asked directly.

David just glanced at Wang Zhiyuan indifferently and said, "Is there a problem?"

"What problem?" Wang Zhiyuan said with an exaggerated expression, "Why was my position transferred, and when did you become the president of Yahoo?"

David sneered and said, "Back when you were partying with that Japanese person!"

"What?" Wang Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, and then he had a bad premonition.

David said coldly, "A shareholders' meeting has already been held, and the resolution has been passed! Several major shareholders unanimously believe that you are not suitable for the position of company CEO, so as a partner, I was naturally chosen by the shareholders for this position!"

"Fuck you! Fuck the shareholders' meeting!" Wang Zhiyuan said to David with a ferocious expression, "Did you collude with that Cao Weicai to kick me out?"

David said indifferently, "So what if I did, and so what if I didn't?"

"This is bullying!" Wang Zhiyuan was trembling with anger and roared loudly at David.

The sound was so loud that even the employees outside couldn't help but poke their heads to look into the office.

Although their view was blocked by the blinds, the employees could feel the intense emotions inside the office.

David sneered and said, "Bullying? You were the one who betrayed the company's interests first!"

"Nonsense, when did I betray the company's interests?" Wang Zhiyuan immediately denied it.

David had long been prepared, and then he said to Wang Zhiyuan, "How do you explain the matter with Japan's SoftBank?"

Hearing David's words, Wang Zhiyuan still wanted to deny it, but he was slapped in the face by the evidence David threw out directly.

David said coldly, "The company was founded by the two of us. Now you are keeping it from me, your partner, without even saying a word to me, and you are making unauthorized contact with people from Japan's SoftBank. What are you planning to do?"

"David, listen to my explanation, things are not what you imagine!" Wang Zhiyuan panicked immediately.

He was busy contacting Japan's SoftBank, feeling that this was a good opportunity, but he forgot that this was not his company alone. Although David did not usually show his face much, he was his partner after all.

David waved his hand and said, "No need to explain, and there is nothing to explain! The board of directors has already decided, so let it be!"

"You..." Wang Zhiyuan pointed at David for a long time without being able to speak. He felt that his classmate of many years, the friend who was of one mind with him, seemed exceptionally like a stranger today.

But David was much more clear-headed than Wang Zhiyuan, and his role transition was much faster.

As Americans, they have always followed the principle that "business is business."

They would never let personal feelings affect the operation of the company.

Seeing that David ignored him, Wang Zhiyuan could only leave the office in a rage.

In the period that followed, Wang Zhiyuan's role was continuously marginalized, to the point where he was not even notified when the company made major decisions.

This caused Wang Zhiyuan to lose his temper on the spot at the board meeting.

Unfortunately, the 10% stake he originally held had also been bought by Sun Zhengyi of SoftBank by 5%. Now the shares in his hands were pitifully few, and his say naturally decreased significantly.

Even if he went crazy at the board meeting, he couldn't change anything. Because of this incident, he, as one of the founders of Yahoo, was even carried out by the company's security guards.

At this time, Sun Zhengyi of SoftBank also learned about this situation through the board of directors, and he felt terrible.

He did not expect the counterattack from United Aerospace Capital to be so rapid and so decisive.

Even if it meant driving one of the company's founders out of the company, they would not allow them to expand their influence on the board of directors.

It should be known that the shares held by Cao Weicai plus David accounted for more than half of the company.

There was even no room for them to speak on some votes.

And with Wang Zhiyuan out, it would be extremely difficult for their SoftBank to covet Yahoo again.

"Those damn bastards!" Sun Zhengyi cursed angrily after hearing Wang Zhiyuan's account.

At the same time, he also regretted provoking Cao Weicai to his face in the beginning.

Now it was too late; Cao Weicai was guarding strictly, leaving them with no possibility of intervening at all.

A fierce light appeared in Sun Zhengyi's eyes: "We must let them know a bit of our power!"

Wang Zhiyuan was already full of anger, and hearing Sun Zhengyi say this, he immediately asked, "What do you plan to do?"

"Wang-kun, how is your relationship with Yahoo's technical staff?" Sun Zhengyi thought for a moment and said to Wang Zhiyuan.

Wang Zhiyuan said quite confidently, "They were all promoted by me personally, and many of them are even my juniors!"

"Then can you get some people to resign?" Sun Zhengyi said again.

Wang Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said, "That should be possible! What are you trying to..."

Sun Zhengyi nodded and said, "Good, we must make the inside of Yahoo chaotic!"

Hearing Sun Zhengyi's words, Wang Zhiyuan became a bit hesitant: "But doing this will cause the company's stock price to fluctuate!"

Sun Zhengyi sneered and said, "Do you still think Yahoo is your company?"

Hearing this, Wang Zhiyuan gritted his teeth.

After a moment of silence, Wang Zhiyuan said, "But what is the use of creating chaos inside the company?"

Sun Zhengyi said coldly, "You don't need to know about other things. You just need to handle what I've entrusted to you well, and I will let you take back your original company, that's all!"

Wang Zhiyuan thought about it and still nodded in agreement.

That very day, he met with several technical personnel inside Yahoo, intending to incite them to resign.

Only, what Wang Zhiyuan and Sun Zhengyi did not know was that Chen Jiajun and Cao Weicai had long been guarding against them.

At this moment, inside the office of United Aerospace Capital.

The two took off their headsets, and Chen Jiajun said indifferently, "These two guys really won't give up! If this guy really poaches the technical staff, will any trouble arise?"

Cao Weicai laughed and said, "I already asked David about this question. The maintenance of the website doesn't actually require that many high-end technical talents, and he can also use his connections at Stanford to mobilize a group of students to come over for emergencies, so there is absolutely no fear of this tactic of theirs."

Chen Jiajun nodded and said, "Since this is not a problem, then Sun Zhengyi's side is the main target!"

"It's just that this guy refuses to tell Wang Zhiyuan!" Cao Weicai shook his head. Chen Jiajun glanced at Cao Weicai and said, "If I were Sun Zhengyi, I would make a move on you!"

"Ah?" Cao Weicai was instantly dumbfounded: "No way, right?"

Chen Jiajun smiled and said, "You are also a person from Wall Street; you should know that people on Wall Street will stop at nothing to achieve their goals!"

Cao Weicai became a bit panicked: "This... what should I do!"

The scenes of being dragged into the Jinkaide affair before still left Cao Weicai with lingering fear. If that scumbag Sun Zhengyi really came up with some despicable tricks, he would have no way to deal with them.

Chen Jiajun looked at Cao Weicai's panicked appearance and said with a laugh, "Don't be so worried. If this guy Sun Zhengyi wants to play, he will do it within the rules. I estimate that at most he will just find some gangsters to scare you! He wouldn't dare to actually lay a hand on you; it's just that when you are driven to distraction, he will come to negotiate with you again."

"It's a good thing you aren't married yet and don't have a wife or children, otherwise they would probably make a big deal out of that."

Hearing Chen Jiajun's analysis, Cao Weicai gritted his teeth and said, "Those damn Japan devils, why didn't the damn United States Gweilo just nuke them into oblivion back then!"

"I will hire people to protect your safety, but the premise is that you must withstand this pressure!" Chen Jiajun said to Cao Weicai.

Cao Weicai thought for a moment and said angrily, "To hell with fear! I've already walked through a battlefield of gunfire and rain! Don't think the Japan devils' little tricks can scare me!"

"But Boss, we can't just take a beating without fighting back, right?"

Chen Jiajun smiled slightly: "Of course, it is impolite not to reciprocate!"

Chen Jiajun picked two elite succubus slaves to be bodyguards for Cao Weicai.

Sure enough, just as Chen Jiajun had expected, some strangers soon appeared near his luxury mansion, staring at Cao Weicai with ill intent to put pressure on him.

Cao Weicai called the Police, but it didn't have much of an effect.

After watching for two days and seeing that Cao Weicai had no intention of being afraid at all, the other side escalated the matter.

That day, Cao Weicai's luxury mansion was shot at, and two panes of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows were knocked out.

The Police soon found two suspects, and through the San Francisco Police, Cao Weicai learned that these guys were all members of the Yamaguchi-gumi gang.

Thinking of Sun Zhengyi's identity, it was almost needless to say that this bastard was the one behind the mischief.

Although the shooting incident scared Cao Weicai quite a bit, he still acted very tough.

Facing Wang Zhiyuan's poaching and coercion, Cao Weicai immediately had David activate the backup plan.

Those who had been making a scene about resigning with Wang Zhiyuan received resignation letters from the Yahoo HR department that very day.

This instantly left the group of technical personnel dumbfounded.

They didn't actually want to resign, but were following Wang Zhiyuan's instigation, intending to make a scene to fight for some legitimate benefits for themselves.

But none of them expected that David's counterattack would be so resolute.

He fired all of these dozen or so technical personnel directly, and then that same day invited a group of juniors from Stanford University into the company for internships.

In any case, the work that the Yahoo technical team had to do was not that much, and having a group of juniors from the School of Computer Science come to do it was completely fine.

Being able to intern at such a company, those juniors were even begging for it.

Now Wang Zhiyuan and the others were in a difficult position.

Those technical personnel had all resigned after naively believing Wang Zhiyuan's promises, and now one by one they started looking for Wang Zhiyuan to fulfill his promises.

This scared Wang Zhiyuan so much that he could only go to Sun Zhengyi.

"Reacted so quickly?" After listening to Wang Zhiyuan's words, Sun Zhengyi frowned and said.

Wang Zhiyuan said with a miserable look: "Now those guys I incited to jump ship are looking for trouble with me, what should I do!"

Sun Zhengyi said indifferently: "Just verbal promises, can't you just refuse to acknowledge them?"

"Ah?" Wang Zhiyuan was dumbfounded on the spot; he didn't expect Sun Zhengyi to say such a thing.

Sun Zhengyi said impatiently: "Just a few ordinary employees, you don't need me to teach you how to handle this kind of thing, right?"

"But..."

Wang Zhiyuan still wanted to say something, but was directly interrupted by Sun Zhengyi: "Alright, that's it for today!"

After speaking, he ignored Wang Zhiyuan and stood up to leave.

Wang Zhiyuan sighed helplessly, still intending to harden his heart to deal with those former classmates and colleagues.

In a coffee shop, Wang Zhiyuan was negotiating with those employees who had come out of Yahoo.

Unfortunately, the result of the negotiation was very unsatisfactory.

These employees who had jumped ship from Yahoo were all aiming for the high compensation and new jobs that Wang Zhiyuan had promised.

Unexpectedly, Wang Zhiyuan very straightforwardly started feeding them empty promises.

They were not fools; they could hear the perfunctoriness in Wang Zhiyuan's words.

"Wang, you can't do this!" Gavin, the lead employee, said with an angry face: "It was your promise that made us follow you out of Yahoo! Now that we've lost our jobs, you say we'll talk about it later?"

Wang Zhiyuan bit the bullet and said: "It was just a verbal promise, there was no contract signed!"

Hearing Wang Zhiyuan's shameless words, Gavin was so angry he nearly took action on the spot.

If it weren't for a few companions holding him back, he would have beaten Wang Zhiyuan until his face was a blooming mess today.

"Gavin, don't be impulsive! Hitting someone will land you in jail!" several subordinates from the department immediately held Gavin back and advised him.

Seeing that the other party was about to take action, Wang Zhiyuan could only hurriedly drop a sentence: "Don't you guys mess around, I didn't want this to happen either."

Afterwards, amidst the hostile gazes of the crowd, he left the coffee shop.

After Wang Zhiyuan left, all the strength seemed to have been drained from Gavin.

He said to his old subordinates in a low voice: "Sorry, I've implicated you all this time."

Gavin had good interpersonal relationships, so even with such a situation, the employees did not blame him too much.

They even comforted Gavin for a while.

This made Gavin feel even worse, so he took out all his savings and distributed them to his subordinates to help them find new jobs and get through the difficult times.

After giving away all the money in his hands, Gavin smashed the things in his hands fiercely to the side.

Not only did he not get the benefits Wang Zhiyuan promised, but he also lost his high-paying job.

This was a total loss; he had to find that bastard Wang Zhiyuan to get it back.

But Gavin only thought about it in his heart; after all, Wang Zhiyuan still held more than 5% of Yahoo's equity.

He also had several million in cash and could be considered a millionaire; what way could he have to mess with such a person? Just as he was pondering, a person suddenly walked to his side.

Gavin immediately said alertly: "Who are you, what are you doing?"

Public security in the United States is not very good, so Gavin's voice involuntarily grew louder.

The man was wearing a black trench coat and a wide-brimmed hat, making it impossible for anyone to see his face clearly.

He said to Gavin in a low voice: "Buddy, do you want to make a fortune?"

Gavin had just used his savings to help his former subordinates, and now there was only a few months' worth of living expenses left in his card; he was exactly in need of money.

However, he was a top student from Stanford after all, so he said vigilantly: "I won't do anything illegal!"

"Heh, buddy! You don't have to show your face yourself, and you can even take revenge on your enemy; such a good thing is rare!" the mysterious man chuckled.

Gavin was stunned for a moment and then said: "Who exactly are you? How do you know about the grudge between me and Wang Zhiyuan?"

"Don't ask so much, just tell me if you'll do it or not; if not, I'll go find someone else!" the mysterious person said firmly.

Gavin took a deep breath and said: "Fine, what do you want me to do?" (End of this chapter)