Chapter 494: Big Black Fish

Hearing Shi Beiyang's words, Ma Chaoyang looked over and saw the most popular figure in Silicon Valley recently, Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang!

Yahoo is absolutely the most popular figure in the entire Silicon Valley since the second half of last year. There is no one else. The entire Yahoo is frantically promoting the title of Yahoo Chief. It is rumored that Yahoo will complete its listing this year, and Jerry Yang will also become another billionaire in Silicon Valley.

Ma Chaoyang saw Jerry Yang. He didn't expect that this popular figure in Silicon Valley would come so early, clearly to give his own big boss face.

However, Ma Chaoyang came to give his own big boss face tonight, and isn't Jerry Yang the same?

Li Dongling's Zhixing Foundation is also a shareholder of Yahoo, and it is the general agent of Yahoo's brands in various places in Asia. How high Yahoo's market value can be after going public and how much the stock price can rise is also closely related to the Zhixing Foundation. How could Jerry Yang not come today!

After Jerry Yang, Ma Chaoyang also saw many popular figures in the Silicon Valley Internet circle, including Excite founder Steve Kirsch, Excite CTO William Chang, and a Chinese face who arrived together.

Besides the most famous Yahoo and Excite, Ma Chaoyang also heard from other people about quite a few Silicon Valley Internet companies that he had never heard of before. He didn't know where these companies came from.

Including GeoCities website founder David Bohnett, ASK search founder Steve Kaufer, and other figures who are not very famous on the Internet now, all came to the banquet scene tonight.

Just when Ma Chaoyang was still guessing how many big figures in Silicon Valley would come tonight, there was a commotion in the banquet hall, and then Ma Chaoyang saw a group of people come into the field.

The two people at the head, one wearing a custom casual suit, some people need expensive clothing to set off their status, while others wear clothes with a sense of high-level. With Li Dongling's current status and status, he already belongs to the latter!

And the one holding Li Dongling's arm is Yao Luoying, who is wearing a red dress and only wearing simple jewelry, which completely sets off her figure and temperament.

"Let us welcome Dongling High-Tech President, Zhixing Foundation founder Li Dongling, and Feiyan Technology General Manager Yao Luoying!"

Zhou Hualiang walked to the stage set up in the banquet hall and introduced to everyone. Subsequently, a round of applause sounded in the meeting hall.

Ma Chaoyang, Shi Beiyang, and other Silicon Valley Himalaya Radio staff were stunned when they saw Li Dongling and Yao Luoying. If they hadn't heard Zhou Hualiang introduce the identities of the two, they would have suspected whether the two people in front of them were male and female stars from the country.

But then, after hearing the identities of Li Dongling and the two, Ma Chaoyang and the others clearly showed shocked expressions. They were not familiar with Yao Luoying, but they were not strangers to Li Dongling. In the circle of Chinese in America, Li Dongling's reputation was not small.

Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang looked at each other, and both of them showed shocked and excited expressions. Their big boss was Li Dongling. There was no need to worry about the problem of Himalaya Radio not being able to continue!

Jerry Yang, Steve Kirsch, David Bohnett, Steve Kaufer, and others at the banquet scene also looked at Li Dongling.

Just now Zhou Hualiang mentioned that Li Dongling was the founder of the Zhixing Foundation, because in this piece of land in Silicon Valley, the Zhixing Foundation, which invested in Yahoo and Excite and achieved great success, was more famous than Dongling High-Tech!

And why did David Bohnett, Steve Kaufer, and other Internet company founders run over immediately after hearing the news that the big financier of the Zhixing Foundation was holding a banquet tonight? It was to see if there was a chance to get venture capital from the Zhixing Foundation!

"Call you Jerry or..." Li Dongling and Yao Luoying first came to Jerry Yang and shook hands with Jerry Yang.

Looking at Li Dongling, who was the same age as him, to be honest, Jerry Yang couldn't help but be a bit surprised. Among the Chinese of the same age in America, or even counting other ethnic groups, he is now the leader among his peers. If Yahoo can go public smoothly, he will become an idol in the hearts of Chinese in America and the new generation of young people.

But looking at Li Dongling in front of him, he couldn't raise any pride. Li Dongling's Zhixing Foundation is Yahoo's investor, and it is the first investor. Even if Yahoo goes public, compared with the valuation of Dongling High-Tech at the beginning, I am afraid it is far inferior. As for the future market value exceeding 100 billion US dollars, even Jerry Yang doesn't dare to have such a dream now.

"Call me Jerry. The old folks naturally call it according to the old folks!"

There were too many people in the field. This kind of time is definitely not the time for detailed talk. After Li Dongling and Jerry Yang were familiar with each other, they walked toward Excite.

"President Steve!"

Li Dongling greeted Steve Kirsch and William Chang, and then looked at another man following the two. Li Dongling was too familiar with that face. After all, he was a figure of one of the three giants of BAT in the country.

"You must be Robin Li. I have heard Lu Wenhua mention that you are the best technical genius in the search industry!"

Li Dongling reached out to Robin Li. His attitude toward Robin Li was even better than toward the two executives of Excite.

Lu Wenhua is the general manager of the Zhixing Foundation. Before Lu Wenhua came to Silicon Valley and invested in Excite, the two were familiar with each other. Robin Li didn't expect that Li Dongling would remember him.

"Don't dare to be!"

Robin Li performed quite modestly and gently. If he only served as a technical person, not a company founder, then he was absolutely a popular technical person in the Internet industry.

Search technology is the most top-notch in the world, and his personality is gentle and modest, absolutely a model for technical personnel. But as a founder, his performance was hard to say, and it could even be said to be a bit indecisive.

The negative news of Baidu in the previous life, what attitude he had, no one knew. Just saying that for the sake of advertising fees, he wasted multiple transformation opportunities, missed multiple talents, was highly expected, could compete with Google, and finally became the one scolded the most in BAT, which had more or less to do with him.

"Have time to talk in detail!"

Li Dongling said to Robin Li. This sentence was said in Chinese. Although Steve Kirsch couldn't understand it, looking at the expression on Robin Li's face, he always had a feeling of being dug a wall.

After Jerry Yang, Steve Kirsch, and Robin Li, Li Dongling exchanged greetings with several people in the field, and his hand had a few more business cards. Seeing the business cards of David Bohnett and Steve Kaufer, Li Dongling couldn't help but look at the two of them a few more times.

He didn't expect that this banquet could actually have a few big black fish come in. GeoCities website is currently doing website hosting business, which is to store photos, videos, articles, etc. made by users on the GeoCities website.

What was derived later was something like QQ Space, but now the technology is not as convenient as later generations. And in the previous life, Yahoo acquired GeoCities website for 3.57 billion US dollars and renamed it Yahoo GeoCities.

But to be honest, Yahoo and a certain Ali have a fight, and both are companies that acquire one and collapse one. Anyway, the companies that entered its pocket could not live a peaceful life. After GeoCities website was acquired, it could not avoid the fate of being closed.

Li Dongling didn't care much about whether GeoCities website would be played to death by Yahoo, but Li Dongling cared very much about the 3 or 4 billion US dollars spent by Yahoo to acquire GeoCities website...

Besides GeoCities website, ASK is actually also a big fish, which was acquired by IAC company for nearly 2 billion US dollars.

But in fact, ASK sold itself too late. It was acquired a few years after the Internet avalanche in America. If it sold itself on the eve of the Internet avalanche, sold to giants like Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Cisco, Disney, Murdoch, etc., or merged with Google, the selling price or future revenue would far exceed 2 billion US dollars!

Li Dongling accepted the business cards of the founders of GeoCities and ASK, and gave his business card to the two, which made David Bohnett and Steve Kaufer feel excited.

After exchanging greetings with everyone in the banquet hall, Li Dongling prepared to go on stage to give a short speech. This banquet tonight is actually to take the opportunity to set up the banner of Himalaya Radio in Silicon Valley.

But just as Li Dongling was about to go on stage, two more groups of people arrived together, one of which was uninvited, which was a bit 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 is Mo Mo Lizi, a partner of Sequoia Capital!"

Ma Chaoyang, who was standing in the crowd, heard someone mention the identities of these people who came in, which made Ma Chaoyang widen his eyes. He didn't expect that Jim Clark, Andreessen, and Mo Mo Lizi, any of these figures in Silicon Valley who could make Silicon Valley tremble by stomping their feet, would also come to the scene today.

"We didn't invite those two from Netscape. What are they here for?!" Larson said to Li Dongling in a low voice.

Li Dongling shook his head gently. Regardless of why these two founders of Netscape came, if he wants to mix in Silicon Valley and the American technology circle, not to mention making friends with Jim Clark, at least he cannot offend the other party.

Jim Clark's identity is not just as simple as Netscape founder. He also has another identity, which is the representative figure of donations and supporters of the Donkey Party in the Silicon Valley Internet circle, and also one of the figures who has the closest relationship with Washington. Otherwise, why do you think Netscape could almost split Microsoft? If it weren't for Microsoft's fate, encountering the NASDAQ crash and the Internet avalanche, in order to save the Internet, the federal president and Capitol Hill had to stop the split of Microsoft to avoid the NASDAQ index from continuing to collapse. It is not impossible that Jim Clark could really split Microsoft into three! ===== CHAPTER 495 =====

Otherwise, tell me, on what grounds could Netscape have nearly split Microsoft apart? If not for Microsoft's good fortune in encountering the Nasdaq crash and the internet avalanche, the Federal President and Capitol Hill would have had to stop the breakup of Microsoft to prevent the Nasdaq index from continuing its collapse. If not for that, Jim Clark might have truly been able to split Microsoft into three!