Chapter 152
Chapter 152 Pandora's Box
Listening to the request made by Song Yang, Greg and Marcus looked at each other, and they both looked at each other, wondering why Song Yang would make such a request.
It is not uncommon to find some powerful figures from some administrative departments of America to act as consultants, which is not uncommon in major companies in America.
For example, Wall Street is staring at America's financial and financial sector to poach the wall, the military industry is only poaching big figures from the American defense agency as consultants, and the medical association is colluding with the American Department of Health. Even the bosses of these departments are Wall Street, military industry, etc. People from consortiums and medical consortium companies, as long as the cost of the dollar is high, it is not impossible for retired leaders to be recruited as consultants.
Now that Song Yang wants to play this trick, and it is for a new project, Greg and Marcus are a little surprised.
"Song, do you know what it means to do this?!"
Greg still remembers that last year, after the double-click company got the venture capital from WPP Group, and the day after the celebration banquet, when he took Song Yang to see Adrian, he also told Song Yang the real rules of the game in America .
Now Song Yang has started to put this set of game rules into operation. Greg doesn't know if this is good or bad.
"When you choose an ally, it also means that you choose an opponent!"
Greg doesn't know what Song Yang is going to do, but the banking industry is also the traditional territory of the Donkey Party, and the American Bankers Association is also the most powerful association in America. No one wants to provoke these guys who control the money printing machine in America. To put it bluntly, these bankers can really beat people to death with a dollar knife...
But listening to what Song Yang said, it seems that he wants to poach a corner from the banking industry in America, and maybe even compete, which makes Greg a little worried.
Marcus also had a solemn expression on his face at this time. It is true that he supported Song Yang's investment in other industries, but he was not so mad when he opposed the banking industry in America.
Song Yang also had a look of helplessness, and he just mentioned the beginning, which shocked Greck and Marcus, which shows how influential the banking industry is in America.
"The new project needs to develop an online payment software PayPal, which needs to deal with Bank of America. I need people from banking, finance and other industries to serve as a public relations consultant for PayPal!" Song Yang said.
To launch PayPal, the most difficult thing is not to develop software, but how to implement it. In areas where credit cards are developed such as America and Japan, online payment software such as PayPal is not very popular, let alone mobile phone QR code payment. .
In addition, the most important point of promoting PayPal is to deal with the relationship with the American banking industry. The launch of PayPal must be resolved quickly. Before the American banking industry has reacted, PayPal will be promoted to the entire market.
It is necessary to have a certain number of users and merchants as PayPal's bargaining chip. Otherwise, when those banking giants react, some of them will target PayPal.
If it really compares strength and influence, Song Yang's side can't compare with the rich and powerful banking industry. At that time, PayPal was probably facing pressure from all aspects of the entire America.
"In the future, not only will there be a large number of businesses such as Double-Click and ICQ, but the support of online payment software will be needed. The Internet industry will also need PayPal. If PayPal can be launched, it will also be able to enter more Internet and even other industries!"
Song Yang didn't say anything. What he needs to do now is to develop PayPal and survive the siege of many American banks. As long as he survives, he may not have a chance to fight back. Even anti-acquisition of banks is not impossible.
Gleek and Marcus felt dizzy when they heard about the PayPal project. They could feel that once this thing came out, it might become the target of Bank of America.
"We will find people from the Bank of America, Finance, Savings Supervision and Administration and other industries to serve as PayPal consultants, but Song, this matter cannot be rushed, and it will not be resolved immediately!" Greck and Marcus said.
Song Yang looked at the two and nodded. After PayPal was launched, it would definitely have to argue with the bank, or even fight a protracted battle. Only by procrastinating so that the banking giants in America know that they can't kill PayPal will they Slowly accepting PayPal into the real playing field in America!
When Greg and Marcus left, they both had complicated expressions on their faces. They could all feel that Song Yang's net worth was increasing visible to the naked eye, and the people around Song Yang were also powerful. Increasing.
Now Song Yang has started to invest in the industry, which means that Song Yang's net worth and status in America will reach a new level, but for the industries such as mobile phones and online payment that Song Yang wants to invest in, Greg, However, Marcus was a little worried. There were many giants in these two industries, but none of them was easy to provoke!
As the most prosperous company on the Internet since the beginning of the new year, of course it is ICQ, and any sign of trouble will be rumored.
When ICQ announced to the outside world that it would form a "big three" model to manage ICQ, what surprised the outside world was that another female CEO was in a high position!
This is another female president in Silicon Valley after Whitman became the president of Double-click, and she is also the president of a popular company like ICQ, which is even more eye-catching.
However, the change of ICQ's management did not affect ICQ's rapid growth in the Internet industry. One week after its launch, ICQ's user growth rate gradually stabilized, but the daily user growth rate is still jaw-dropping.
According to the current growth rate of ICQ, it is estimated that there will be no need for the end of the month. In the middle of this month, the local users in America alone will exceed the five million mark!
In overseas markets, ICQ is also showing an unstoppable trend. In many areas that are regarded as Internet deserts, ICQ's share is quite amazing. The world's first instant messaging is much more popular than imagined.
ICQ also announced that it will launch several language versions of ICQ in Chinese, Russian, Japanese, and German in the near future, and provide customized ICQ for enterprise versions for cooperative companies. It seems that ICQ is very popular.
Not only is the number of ICQ users soaring, but the ICQ space community is also setting off a wave of waves among young users. Users who use ICQ have begun to use the ICQ space community as a platform to show themselves and publish their own logs in the ICQ space community. Photos, etc., coupled with the continuous admission of celebrities, make the ICQ space community more likely to become a gathering place for young Internet users.
Facing the popularity of ICQ and instant messaging, other major Internet companies are naturally going to test the waters. Although they haven't officially announced it yet, various news have already spread.
The first news came out was AOL. As the most active Internet company in the past two years, AOL was almost a hot spot. Of course, the result was that AOL's stock price soared all the way.
This time, AOL "inadvertently" leaked news that the head of AOL, Keith, has formulated an instant messaging software plan for AOL "AIM Instant Messenger", which will become the second instant messaging company in the Internet industry. The emergence of AOL's stock price soared a lot again.
Following AOL, Yahoo, which will go public in a few months, also announced its own instant messaging program "Yahoo Messenger".
On the contrary, Netscape and Microsoft, which are currently in full swing, are rarely silent. Netscape simply cannot spare the time and energy to open up a new battlefield.
Microsoft seems to be a little hesitant. It seems that it does not want to confront its allies on the Internet, but it has not given up on the instant messaging project. It is rumored that at the Microsoft headquarters in Seattle, Microsoft has convened a group of engineers and is secretly developing its own instant messaging. Software MSNMessenger software.
Microsoft seems to be very conservative when it comes to launching MSN communication software. They don't want to give up this industry, and they are worried that they will compete with ICQ after the launch, and turn against Song Yang. Now Hotmail is diverting ICQ. If MSN launches, then Hotmail Who is the mailbox for? !
Not only several major Internet giants, but also other companies have entered this market one after another and started to grab the attention.
Mark Goldstein, the founder of a small Internet company called United Online, announced the establishment of an online alumni recording social networking site ClassMates, which is almost similar to the concept of Facebook.
In addition to ClassMates, there are also ICQ space communities. A small forum, OpenDiary, was launched and began to be revised according to the ICQ space community, allowing users to post public or private diaries on the forum.
The entire American Internet industry and Silicon Valley, after the new year, the first thing they did was to imitate ICQ. In just a few days, a large number of instant messaging companies emerged, regardless of whether they can make money or survive, anyway. They all started to grab the wind.
But the most fun ones are NFT companies. The NFT avatar launched by ICQ has opened the door to a new world for these companies.
Although ICQ has repeatedly announced that it does not recognize NFT products produced by other companies, there are still a large number of companies that have begun to hype the concept of NFT. Publish NFT pictures.
Many down-and-out artists also seem to have found a new paradise, mingled with NFT companies to develop NFT products, and then more companies, celebrities, brands, and personal collectors poured in, and NFT pictures continued to sell The sky-high price seems to have become a hot new concept.
When the hype started, a piece of broken stone could be sold at a sky-high price, not to mention the NFT with the most popular Internet concept today. Once the hype started, the more expensive it was, the more people would buy it. They all only buy the most expensive and not the best. The more expensive the NFT product is, the more attractive it is to enter the market.
The storm caused by ICQ on the Internet is still going on, but the war between Netscape and Microsoft has entered a new stage. After the beginning of the year, Microsoft quietly began to bundle the IE browser with the Microsoft system!
(end of this chapter)