Chapter 151 Completely Carried Away

Having lived with Su Yehao for so long, Jiang Yu's impression of him was that he was lazy.

Therefore, after hearing Linda Yun's words, Jiang Yu clicked her tongue and looked at Su Yehao with a novel gaze, saying, "Rare, so you really know how to be a boss."

"Or what?"

Su Yehao knew what she was thinking and explained with a smile, "The set of things you usually learn in class may train you to be a good employee, but my situation is different. As a boss, how can I do everything myself? I believe my employees can help me get things done."

After listening, Linda Yun couldn't help but say, "Yes, those who can't get things done have been fired. In just over a month, I've become friends with the head of human resources, and I've been there more than ten times."

Hearing this, Su Yehao shrugged indifferently and said, "It's a critical moment. The mediocre go down, and the capable go up. The big ship is sailing towards a new channel, and I, the captain, can only be a little harsh. The competition in the internet industry is very cruel. Usually, the winner takes all. Since I want to eat meat, then the second and third place can only drink soup, and other latecomers... better go drink the northwest wind."

In the first half of the year, he only focused on development.

Now, with the number of users growing to a certain stage and the places to spend money constantly increasing, the average annual income in Silicon Valley is as high as $96,000. Keep in mind, this is only 1998. Su Yehao has more than 500 people under his command, and he has to continue to recruit more talents.

How to make money has become a new problem.

After more than a month of exploration, Su Yehao has determined a new direction of "games + advertising," coupled with venture capital and private equity investment business. He doesn't seek to earn much money, but only seeks to reduce expenses as much as possible in the short term and strive to achieve a balance between income and expenditure.

While continuing to expand market share, he will work hard to achieve a virtuous cycle.

Over the past month, the truly important thing is not seeing the return of money, but the addition of several new departments in the organizational structure of tvt and iCQ, which have begun to pay attention to revenue performance. The executives often discuss in private that they feel that the future will not be too easy.

This time in Silicon Valley, Su Yehao also asked John Zhou to contact tAt to move small games such as Farm and Lianliankan (a tile-matching game) to tvt, and acquired several card game companies such as Texas Hold'em and Stud.

As for video, online payment, and the like, he hasn't found suitable targets yet. There are music websites, but they involve complicated copyright disputes, which is too troublesome.

With the titles of shareholders of Yahoo, iCQ, and tvt, entrepreneurs have been flocking to Su Yehao seeking cooperation recently.

Opening up new businesses is not troublesome.

The trouble is how to pick out the real gold from a pile of lists.

As a guest, Jiang Yu didn't care so much about Su Yehao's business. She pulled Linda Yun and asked about interesting attractions nearby.

Su Yehao took the time to read the information at hand. The company executives knew that his English was average, so they thoughtfully hired someone to help translate it into Traditional Chinese, making it clear at a glance.

Among the information at hand, a report on Amazon from Koko Venture Capital successfully attracted Su Yehao's attention.

This heavily loss-making online e-commerce company had a revenue of more than $470 million in the first three quarters of this year. It already has 11 million customers in more than 100 countries. Its database contains 3 million kinds of books, surpassing any bookstore in the world.

He remembered that when he first invested last year, Amazon's market value was only more than $500 million, but now it has increased more than tenfold, exceeding Yahoo. According to Amazon's CEO, they plan to start selling electrical appliances online next year.

Speculating on concepts in a bull market, it's hard not to get rich.

Su Yehao thought that the user base was comparable, so why was there such a big difference in market value? He was a little envious of Amazon's performance.

He really shouldn't have given up on going public, missing the opportunity to raise money.

He casually made a call to the brokerage firm and learned that his Amazon shares accounted for 0.8% of its total share capital. Su Yehao felt a little more comfortable and then ordered them to go long on Amazon's options for the long term...

The market is crazy, and so are people.

They set off in the afternoon, taking Jiang Yu to Los Angeles for vacation, staying at the Four Seasons Hotel. Su Yehao specially booked a large suite with two rooms.

After going upstairs and looking around, Jiang Yu's expression was strange. Before she could express her objection, she was cornered by Su Yehao.

A series of nose-to-nose touches almost made Jiang Yu forget herself.

Since the last move, the two of them had been almost like online lovers, chatting intermittently, both of them deliberately suppressing their feelings.

When they came to this foreign land, Su Yehao was so proactive, instantly striking a spark.

Jiang Yu wanted to refuse, but how could she be Su Yehao's opponent? With a little teasing, she couldn't even stand still, and her mind went blank.

It was hard to catch a breath.

Jiang Yu lay on the sofa, hurriedly pushing Su Yehao away, breathing rapidly, and said with a red face, "Here we go again! Let's calm down and think clearly about the consequences."

"Hmm? You think slowly, I can't calm down."

Just as Jiang Yu was about to continue speaking, several buttons on her shirt popped off, her head was covered by her own clothes, and she closed her eyes and pretended to be dead...

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"I couldn't control myself; the atmosphere was just too right."

"Don't panic too much. If she finds out, I will definitely support you. Just blame it all on me."

"Speaking of which, this burger tastes great..."

Hotel room service.

It was after 4:00 PM when they first checked in, and now it was already after 7:00 PM.

Su Yehao was eating fries and a burger, while Jiang Yu was sitting cross-legged on the sofa in a bathrobe, as if her soul had left her body, mumbling to herself.

After a while, her guilt was still there. After hearing these words, she glared at Su Yehao and said, "Who's as heartless as you! Nangong is my good friend, and you can still eat dinner, I'm really impressed by you."

Su Yehao let Jiang Yu say whatever she wanted; anyway, he was in a particularly good mood. He replied, "Don't worry yet, eat first and then worry slowly. The lettuce is about to turn into cooked vegetables."

"Hmph, you big radish!"

Jiang Yu was also hungry. When she reached out to take the burger, her brows furrowed slightly. She felt weak and just wanted to lie down and rest.

She continued to mumble, saying, "I shouldn't have come to you. I knew you had ulterior motives, and I guarded against it, but I still fell into the trap. I came here to have fun, but now I can only recover from my injuries. It hurts so much to walk."

"...There aren't many attractions that require walking. You can sit in the car and rest. If it doesn't work, I'll carry you, or find a wheelchair?" Su Yehao said with a smile.

Seeing him smile, Jiang Yu got angry and continued, "Order me a few cocktails later, otherwise I probably won't be able to sleep tonight. Why are you so heartless, and only I'm flustered?"

"Maybe... you're a good person?"

Jiang Yu rolled her eyes and said with a bitter face, "Good your big head, don't come near me for the next few days. By the way, could there be a baby..."