No surprises.

After Su Yehao finished arguing with those people, the post quickly went viral again and was reposted on various forums.

Considering that Silver Sea Weibo only has tens of thousands of active users in total, and not all of them are online every day, a message with two or three thousand views will definitely make it to the hot search list.

Su Yehao acted upright and wasn't afraid of being seen as impetuous. Besides, he didn't use any foul language when scolding people, and it didn't involve any major issues.

Such a small conflict couldn't cause much trouble.

He immediately put the matter behind him and began to consider copying the Silver Sea Weibo model to the international version, starting with an attempt to open up a new market in the United States.

The idea for Weibo was provided by Su Yehao himself.

However, if he wanted to copy it from Silver Sea, he still needed to give the other shareholders some benefits according to the rules. Therefore, he proposed to personally invest 10 million RMB to buy out the technology patent license and leave the money in Silver Sea Network as development funds.

The major shareholder of Silver Sea Network Group is Su Yehao. Chu Jun, Lei Busi, and several other senior executives also hold shares.

This meant that it didn't actually cost 10 million, and the other shareholders could also get some benefits.

After receiving the call.

Lei Busi and others at Silver Sea Network Group were quite happy. They were originally worried that the company was burning money too quickly. With this 10 million RMB, they could last for a few more months, and the key was that they didn't need to dilute their shares.

The low-interest loan the company borrowed from Su Yehao was already large enough, and the day to repay it was far away, as they were in a long-term loss situation.

Moreover, they were originally troubled by how to discuss with tAt and tot about continuing to divert traffic to expand the user base. They didn't expect Su Yehao's actions to add tens of thousands of registered users to Silver Sea Weibo, further enhancing its reputation.

Their cooperation had always been very pleasant, and the idea for Weibo belonged to Su Yehao.

Although they coveted the huge international market, Lei Busi and others knew that even if they reached out, without Su Yehao's resources, it would be difficult to capture the European and American market share, and it would only quickly deplete the company's funds.

Therefore, the negotiation was exceptionally smooth.

Just over ten minutes after the phone call, they held a show of hands within Silver Sea Network Group and unanimously approved the proposal to buy out the technology patent license.

Everyone actually knew that Su Yehao was already being considerate and valuing relationships by informing Lei Busi and Chu Jun.

In fact, if Su Yehao insisted on his own way, he wouldn't need to notify them at all, as the company's decision-making power had always been in his hands.

But in that case, the partners would inevitably feel resentful. Giving this 10 million RMB was definitely not a small amount at the moment. The technical content of Silver Sea Weibo wasn't high, and Su Yehao had also received some help from Silicon Valley during the development stage.

If they wanted to start from scratch, it would only delay them for at most ten or fifteen days. Since they couldn't stop him from beginning to end, Chu Jun and others were naturally happy to do Su Yehao a favor.

After the matter was settled.

Immediately afterward, Su Yehao contacted Lin Youfeng, the vice president of KOKO Ventures in Silicon Valley, and asked him to form a team to study and observe Silver Sea Weibo for a few days, and launch a similar product in the United States as soon as possible, tentatively named "microBlog," meaning a micro-blog, abbreviated as "mB"...

The mainland Chinese internet has been surrounded by the Great Firewall since 1996. It's relatively easy to log into mainland websites from Hong Kong, but it's difficult to bypass the firewall from the north.

This decision was obviously made out of security considerations.

Su Yehao, who had seen many ingrates online recently, also thought it was necessary. However, twenty years later, it's hard to say who this wall is actually protecting.

Combining it with the huge number of online users, once the protection of the Great Firewall is gone, coupled with convenient and fast translation software, the so-called YouTube Five Kings may be fragmented and eventually become a situation of one superpower and many strong players.

The reason for mentioning this wall is that Su Yehao hopes to promote the mainland server in Hong Kong, so as to prevent them from using the microBlog that is being prepared.

The deeper reason can only be said that a person who has no long-term vision must have near-term worries. On the one hand, it is to release this market and compensate the other shareholders of Silver Sea. On the other hand, it is to deepen exchanges and avoid any more unexpected problems...

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"So... Yahoo has started to tear faces with us and steal a lot of Yanwenzi Group's customers, right? They've actually started playing the low-price competition game?"

On the evening of August 17th.

Su Yehao was on a yacht, taking a boat ride along Victoria Harbour. He was too close to the shore, so he could contact John Zhou in the United States without using a satellite phone.

There was also a group of strangers with him, including the four handsome young men who played f4, plus the director and writers of the *Meteor Garden* drama crew.

He had previously promised Jiang Yu to let them follow him for two days to learn.

Now that these drama crew members have really come, Su Yehao has felt uncomfortable from morning to now, mainly because he has been stared at, and the female attendants on the yacht have obviously transferred their affection and are particularly enthusiastic about the handsome guys signed by Tianyu Entertainment.

Although Su Yehao had never thought about poaching from his own company, he had encountered a formidable opponent in terms of appearance, and there were four of them at once, so it was a bit strange.

At this moment.

Su Yehao continued to ask through the unsellable pdQ mobile phone, "We sell advertising, and Yahoo sells advertising. The two have always been in a competitive relationship. In addition, I invested in Google, so it's normal to be suppressed. Is the impact on us big?"

On the other end of the phone, John Zhou, who had just been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Yanwenzi Group the month before last, replied:

"There is some impact. The main reason is that Yahoo has more product users than us, and it also provides advertising through search results, which is more accurate. Fortunately, the market is relatively large, and customers will not put all their chips on Yahoo. I think their price reduction and promotion practices are difficult to maintain in the long run. After all, once the profits are reduced, the shareholders will definitely not buy it, which may lead to a shift from profit to loss in the third quarter."

The global annual advertising market is as high as hundreds of billions of dollars. What they are talking about at the moment is mainly the part that serves third-party Internet companies.

Yanwenzi Group is concentrating on building a third-party service platform, and Yahoo is also working hard in this direction. Both sides are in the same industry, and conflicts are inevitable.

After Su Yehao finished listening.

Thinking that the Internet bubble is probably not far away, he didn't pay too much attention to it.

Yanwenzi Group's total market value has exceeded 9.5 billion US dollars, only a step away from the 10 billion US dollar mark. He thinks it's good to have some negative news, so as not to fall to the point where stockholders cry and shout. So he only said to John Zhou:

"I am relatively pessimistic about the future prospects, and it is not worth investing too much money to compete with Yahoo for the time being. How about this, I am preparing to set up a new project, and then use Yanwenzi Group to promote it, and do my best to make it a popular product and promote it to the outside world."

"Young Master, do you mean to use it as a case to increase customers' confidence in our Yanwenzi Group? Wonderful, I think it's a good idea, killing two birds with one stone!"

John Zhou has been in Silicon Valley for a long time, and his flattery skills are still there.

As the Chief Operating Officer of Yanwenzi Group, even if he receives remuneration from this listed company, he has never dared to forget who the real boss is.

Ultimately.

What the board of directors thinks and how Yanwenzi Group performs can be completely unimportant.

What is really important is to make Su Yehao feel that he has the ability and value. Otherwise, according to Yanwenzi Group's bizarre equity structure that can be privatized and delisted at any time, even if the other directors join forces to vote together, Su Yehao can still make anyone pack their bags and leave.

Su Yehao smiled and said, "Well, if the market can't be opened, then work harder. You can have a meeting to study it later. My new project is relatively promising, so remember to take care of me."

John Zhou immediately said, "Is there any need to say that? It's a must! I will definitely have people seriously study how to help you do a good job in promotion."

"No, I mean study how to help Yanwenzi Group, take the market back from Yahoo."

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