Business matters had piled up lately.

Even the family office was swamped, requesting he hire a new batch of recruits.

Each person was handling a few projects for Su Yehao and they were already this busy. He couldn't imagine how difficult things would be if he had to oversee everything himself.

Indeed.

It was a wise decision to be a hands-off manager, especially during the research and preparation phase for new projects, where progress was made at the expense of brainpower.

Moreover, his business spanned numerous industries. Su Yehao didn't consider himself the omniscient and omnipotent type of super genius. Giving each project a few good "housekeepers" was the truly responsible thing to do, and much smarter than an amateur directing a professional.

For example, the anti-link company that was acquired just a few months ago, after changing its name to Google and investing heavily in upgrades, had rapidly accumulated over a million users in the past two months through traffic diverted from iCQ and tvt, with daily active users reaching around 500,000.

In terms of user experience, it was slightly more comfortable than Yahoo, which had cumbersome pages, with the advantage of being relatively simple. However, its accuracy wasn't high enough.

As a large number of users flooded in, adding ratings to webpages one by one, the search results were constantly being optimized, and the user experience was getting better and better. The main selling points were "accuracy," "efficiency," and "low latency," which retained many netizens.

Su Yehao provided some support, giving some funds and traffic assistance, and Google was developing quite well on its own.

There was no shortage of smart people out there.

Take Daniel Kenning, whom Su Yehao had arranged to transfer from KOKO Venture Capital. Without any prompting from him, this woman began urging the Google team to develop new products in advance, targeting the new opportunities that would arise with the popularization of broadband.

Currently, less than one-tenth of one percent of American netizens used broadband. It was estimated that by the end of this year, this figure would rise to one or two percent, mainly limited by the construction of infrastructure. The technology was already relatively mature.

The stock prices of companies such as Cisco and Qualcomm were rising as a result.

Su Yehao not only invested in them with leverage, but also enjoyed the dividends of the Internet industry, getting the best of both worlds.

The only thing that annoyed him was that as Yanywen Corporation was about to go public, projects like Google could no longer use iCQ and tvt resources for free, and would have to pay for advertising at market prices.

Although it was just moving money from his left hand to his right, Yanywen Corporation was preparing to go public, and its finances had begun to operate independently.

In addition, 3.5% of the shares were distributed to employees as a bonus, reaching the four hundred shareholders required for listing. After the listing, his shareholding ratio would be further diluted, and he would inevitably have to spend more money buying advertising from himself...

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He found two experts with experience in the film and entertainment industry to prepare a film company for the little girl.

Dou Jiafeng, a director he had met before, was also called over by Su Yehao to help.

Two days passed.

He told the little girl to stay in Hong Kong and set up the company first.

It was best to learn from tvB's model, finding a batch of promising actors in Hong Kong and the Mainland to sign long-term contracts with. In addition, she should look for scripts outside, or the copyrights to novels and comics suitable for adaptation, and he recommended the Hong Kong cartoonist's work *Fung Wan*.

He still remembered the peerless sword, and the Xuyin Saber, which he had coveted so much in his previous life that he bought small pendants of them at stationery stores.

Since he had decided to let the little girl try her hand in the film industry, how could he miss such a good copyright? In addition, Huang Yi's *Xun Qin Ji* and *Da Tang Shuang Long Zhuan* could also be tried for.

Before leaving for Silicon Valley, Su Yehao also suggested that the little girl ask Stephen Chow if he wanted to invest, thinking of building a good relationship in advance, so that when the time was right, he could film *Kung Fu* or something ahead of schedule.

Privately, he let Jiang Yu assist Nangong Tian, while he took Yin Liuli across the Pacific Ocean.

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It had been more than half a year since he last lived in Atherton.

Despite being cleaned regularly, the house still had an indescribable smell, and needed to be aired out.

This time, he flew to Silicon Valley in his own Gulfstream v, which was more than an hour faster than usual. Although the new aircraft's performance was indeed good, Su Yehao always felt that it was because the captains of the planes he had previously leased wanted to drag out the time to earn more money.

Crossing half the globe had once again exhausted him.

He was so sleepy during the day that he couldn't keep his eyes open. He hugged Yin Liuli and fell onto the bed, immediately falling into a deep sleep. When he woke up, it was already dark.

It was after eight o'clock in the evening local time. In addition to the two bodyguards who had followed him from Hong Kong, the six employees of the local security company had also arrived. They brought their own bulletproof Cadillac, and renting the car cost three thousand U.S. dollars per day.

They were quite familiar with the area around Atherton.

Su Yehao took Yin Liuli out to find some food, still a little listless. They went to a fast food restaurant and ordered some hamburgers, pizzas, and, of course, soda and fried chicken.

The customers here were mainly Stanford students. Some people recognized him and greeted him familiarly, saying that they were helping in a team that was cooperating with a Stanford University professor on tvt, responsible for optimizing the "People Nearby" function, using algorithms to provide more accurate matches, including age, personality, hobbies, and so on.

Regarding this project... Su Yehao had never heard of it.

Usually, tvt operated independently. As long as there were no major events, the chief executive officer Roger Kruiff and John Zhou would generally not disturb him.

This was not to say that there was no supervision. Meeting minutes and work logs were still supervised and compiled by someone, and sent to Su Yehao on a regular basis. He would occasionally glance through them to get a general idea of the situation.

At this moment.

Yin Liuli said to Su Yehao with a smile, "I didn't expect that so many people would recognize you even in America. It feels like you're very powerful."

Su Yehao told her:

"Because this is Silicon Valley. If it were any other place, I wouldn't have this kind of influence. Compared to those tech giants whose names truly resonate around the world, I'm still far behind. These Stanford students are running over to try to get close to me, probably hoping to get their faces known. I heard that almost all Stanford students want to start their own businesses now."

Yin Liuli didn't care about that, and continued, "That's still amazing, okay? I still remember when I first met you, although you were also from a wealthy family, you were far from what you are now."

"Of course, you've changed a lot too." Su Yehao touched on this topic lightly, because the process of their meeting wasn't too pleasant. Talking about it too much would inevitably be awkward.

Not long after, just as he finished a hamburger,

tvt's chief executive officer Roger, and chief operating officer John Zhou arrived together.

This company and iCQ had indeed been incorporated into Yanywen Corporation, but the parent company's influence on them wasn't that great. It was mainly responsible for overall coordination, and the actual management power was still in the hands of these executives.

Of course, their power all came from Su Yehao.

With the parent company Yanywen Corporation going public, Roger and John Zhou would receive a large number of bonus shares and subscription rights, so when they saw Su Yehao tonight, these two smiled so wide that they couldn't close their mouths, as if they had seen a living god of wealth...