The Science Fiction World of Xueba - Chapter 466

The following time, Pang Xuelin, led by Mogridge and Chambers, visited the Cisco headquarters and Cisco laboratory.

In the laboratory, Pang Xuelin also met the three top engineers Mario, Prem and Luca, who later became known as Cisco’s heart, soul and brain.

However, Pang Xuelin just greeted them and did not have too many exchanges. Although these three technical darlings have a high level, their main achievements are still in the field of network switches, and three of them are Russian and one Indian. A standard white American is basically unlikely to be fooled into China by him.

It is naturally impossible for him to exchange related technologies with each other.

After all, Cisco’s stock will be sold sooner or later, let Cisco develop normally as in history.

At the end of his visit to Cisco, Benson Raphael, who has always accompanied him, said with a smile: “Mr. Pang, how do you feel about Cisco?”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: “It’s a great company, because the commercial atmosphere is too strong. Even the technical department is all about how to realize the operation. I prefer the company that studies the technology in a down-to-earth manner.”

Benson Raphael laughed: “Isn’t the company used to make money? In the United States, all new technologies should be for profit! If there is a company that really thinks about developing technology, I am afraid Long gone bankrupt. “

Pang Xuelin shook his head with a smile, did not speak.

In his view, the biggest role of the market is to allocate resources, but to really achieve progress, you need the kind of company that can do technology with peace of mind.

At this time, Benson Raphael said: “Mr. Pang, if there is nothing wrong, then I will send you back to the hotel first. If you have any needs, you can call me anytime. By the way, how long are you going to stay in the United States what?”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: “It’s not certain yet. The embassy has given me a business visa for half a year. I may stay until the World Cup ends in July.”

“Oh, do you need tickets for the World Cup? I might get a few for you.”

Benson Raphael smiled.

He now knows Pang Xuelin’s worth. Although he himself works for Don Valentine, Benson Raphael is also very close to the face of such a young billionaire.

Pang Xuelin smiled for a moment, smiled, and said: “If you can help me get it, it would be better.”

Although Pang Xuelin is not a fan, in order to prepare to enter various worlds for adventure, Pang Xuelin has roughly checked the materials of each era in history.

Natural events like the World Cup will not be missed.

Therefore, he is well aware of the influence and legend of the 1994 US World Cup.

This World Cup tournament was held in the United States from June 17 to July 17, 1994, with a total of 24 teams participating.

The Brazilian national team finally won the championship and the Golden Globe was won by Romario.

However, this year’s World Cup, the champion Brazil did not see much, but it was the tragic Italy and the melancholic prince Baggio, which became the focus of fans.

From the group stage to the finals, Robert Baggio with ponytails saved the fate of Blue Italy again and again and won the obsession of countless fans.

However, in the cruel penalty shootout in the final, the last Baggio played kicked the penalty kick away, and also lost the blue Italian championship dream.

Since then, Baggio’s ending view has become an eternal classic on the green field.

However, Pang Xuelin was not interested in the fate of Italy and Baggio. He was more interested in the performance of those dark horses.

The biggest dark horse is Bulgaria from Eastern Europe. At the beginning of the qualifiers, Bulgaria thrilled through, relying on Kostadinov’s last minute break to directly eliminate France and make France miss the World Cup final. In the finals, Bulgaria was beaten 3-0 by Nigeria in the beginning. But then there was a dramatic change. With the excellent performance of Stoichkov and Barakoff, they defeated Greece and Argentina with 4: 0 and 2: 0 respectively.

Especially in the quarter-finals, against the defending champion Germany, relying on Stoichkov’s free kick and Lechekov’s header, the defending champion Germany was reversed 2-1. In the end, they won historically The fourth best historical record.

Saudi Arabia from Asia is equally beautiful.

In the group stage, Saudi Arabia defeated Belgium and Morocco, Xiao Lan, and finally advanced to the top 16 in the group.

It’s a pity that in the quarter-finals, they faced Sweden’s third place and lost 1: 2.

And Sweden, in this World Cup, is also second only to the existence of these two dark horses.

Although he didn’t encounter too many strong enemies along the way, he stumbled and finally won the third place.

For Pang Xuelin, these three teams will be a good opportunity for him to harvest his wealth in this World Cup.

At least Pang Xuelin is sure to pass US $ 50 million, and after the World Cup, the principal will be doubled ten times.

As for a little more investment, it may attract the dealer’s attention. If the match result has a butterfly effect, it is not fun.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin was prepared to stay in San Francisco during this time.

San Francisco is one of the nine host cities of the World Cup. In addition to the four group matches of Group A and Group B, Stanford Stadium also hosted the eighth final Brazil vs. the United States and the quarter final Romania against. Swedish game.

You can experience the atmosphere of the World Cup on the spot.

Talking to Rafael about the World Cup tickets, Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, “Raphael, can you give me a car? I’m going to Stanford.”

“Go to Stanford?”

Benson Raphael couldn’t help but be surprised.

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, “I’m going to go to Stanford for a turn, so I come to San Francisco anyway. I can’t ignore the highest school in the city!”

Benson Raphael laughed and handed his car key to Pang Xuelin: “Mr. Pang, you need to use this Lincoln city first. If you have any need to call me at any time.”

Pang Xuelin nodded and said, “Raphael, then trouble you.”

Farewell to Rafael, Pang Xuelin drove directly to Stanford.

When he went to Stanford, of course, he did not go to this top American college to hang out. He was looking for someone in the past.

In 1994, regardless of whether China’s Internet has just taken root, the US Internet has officially entered the growth stage.

Several Internet companies that later became famous were all established this year, including Yahoo, which was co-founded by Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro.

And the time when Yahoo was founded should be one day this month.

In April 1994, Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro, still studying at Stanford University, became obsessed with the Internet in order to complete their thesis and spent all day searching for information on the Internet. In the process, they collected many sites of interest and bookmarked them, such as scientific research projects, tennis matches, etc., for easy search.

However, as more and more sites were collected, they found it very inconvenient to find.

So, they organized these bookmarks into categories, and when each directory could not fit, they were subdivided into sub-directories. This core method is still a Yahoo tradition even in later generations.

It was compiled into software and put on the Internet for other surfers to enjoy. Soon, their website attracted many users and received great attention and wide welcome.

People have fed back information and attached constructive comments to make the content more complete.

In the winter of 1994, the two were so busy that even eating and sleeping became a luxury, and their studies were thrown aside. The name of the software at the time was: “Jerrys Guide to the World Wide Web” (Jerry Global Information Network Guide).

As the “Guide” became more and more popular and concerned, many netizens entered the workstations of Stanford University’s electrical department to use this software, which made the school feel very troubled, complaining that this invention affected the normal operation of school computers.

However, Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro are still actively working on this, and launched special columns: “CoolLinks” and “HardtoBelieve”, and renamed the website: “JerryandDavid’s GuidetotheWorldWideWeb”.

Restricted by the conditions at that time, the website ’s data was stored on Yang Zhiyuan ’s computer, nicknamed “akebono”; the search engine was stored on Filo ’s computer, nicknamed “konishiki”, which are two of their favorite wrestling The name of the athlete.

At that time, there were many competitors on the Internet, such as WebCrawler, Worm, Infoseek, etc. These websites all started with software automatic search. Although they were extensive in scope, they were not accurate.

And Yahoo is purely handmade products, the search is accurate and more practical.

In fact, by the end of 1994, Yahoo had become a leader in search engines.

With the rapid increase in traffic, Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro keenly discovered the huge business opportunities in them, so they officially renamed the site as Yahoo, while actively looking for potential investors to further develop Yahoo.

In the end, the companies of Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro were recognized by Sequoia Capital, and after the second round of financing, they received investment from Softbank.

Subsequently, Yahoo gradually expanded and established an ecosystem that integrates search engines, e-mail, instant messaging, web advertising, and website building platforms, covering all aspects of people’s lives and becoming the world’s largest Internet portal.

In 1999, when the Internet was just in its infancy, Yahoo had 120 million independent users, of which 100 million users had at least registered on one of Yahoo’s channels or featured services.

Taking e-mail as an example, Yahoo Mail used to have 243 million users worldwide. The first mailbox of many Chinese netizens was Yahoo Mail with the suffix @.

Just over a year after its founding, Yahoo landed on NASDAQ in 1996. The stock price rose 154% on the day of listing, and the market value reached 800 million US dollars.

On January 3, 2000, Yahoo’s market value once reached $ 128 billion.

At that time, how big was Yahoo?

It is the first website in the world to provide Internet navigation services.

It created a free Internet model, that is, free content and advertising fees.

From 2000 to 2006, it has dominated the number one ranking on the global Internet.

Among the top 20 global Internet companies in 2006, it dominated 3 seats, with Yahoo, Yahoo Japan, and Yahoo China ranking No. 1, No. 7, and No. 14, respectively.

Google, Facebook in the US, Sina, Sohu, and NetEase in China are all three followers and imitators.

At that time, Yahoo’s “empire” was almost invincible, and it could even be said to be equivalent to the entire Internet.

It is a pity that with the increasing scale, Yahoo’s bureaucratic style is flourishing, resulting in a lot of waste of organizational resources.

In later generations, the most successful companies in the Internet field are basically founder-led, but Yahoo is dominated by professional managers.

Even more bizarre is that Yahoo changed seven CEOs in 22 years, the longest term of office is 6 years, and was ousted by the board of directors in just 4 months.

With the rapid development of the Internet, Yahoo has frictions in internal friction and sway from side to side due to frequent management changes and changes. The gap between it and other Internet giants is increasing, and it is finally declining.

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In the real world, when Pang Xuelin was studying at ULCA, he once came to Stanford with Tao Zhexuan several times. He is no stranger to this university.

Stanford in 1993, and 2018 have little change.

Lincoln City went round and round along the asphalt road in the school, and finally the Stanford Student Affairs Office building stopped.

Pang Xuelin got out of the car, went straight into the office building, found the secretary’s office, and knocked on the door.

“Please come in!”

Pang Xuelin pushed in.

There was a female secretary in charge of student affairs in her twenties, and when Pang Xuelin came in, the other party couldn’t help but wonder a little: “This classmate, what’s the matter?”

“Ms. Rosa, Professor Frederick Toman called me over. Yang Zhiyuan and Fellow created a website on the school ’s computer two days ago, and has not come to class for several days. Professor Toman Let me ask what’s going on, but I don’t have a phone in their dormitory, should you have one here? “

Rosa had no doubt about him, and said with a smile: “Why do your students in the electrical department always do this kind of meddlery, wait a moment, I will check the phone for you.”

Soon, Pang Xuelin, who got the phone of Yang Zhiyuan’s dormitory from Rosa, left the office building and returned to his car.

Subsequently, Pang Xuelin took out his elder brother and dialed the telephone of Yang Zhiyuan’s dormitory.

The phone beeped a few times and was quickly picked up.

“Which one?”

The other party spoke in English. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

The accent is not particularly pure.

Pang Xuelin couldn’t help laughing, and said in straight-spoken Mandarin: “Are you classmate Yang Zhiyuan?”

“I am, who are you?”

“It doesn’t matter who I am. I am more interested in the Jerry Global Information Network guide that you and Ferro founded. I don’t know if you are interested in coming out. I am waiting for you at the library door.”

The voice over the phone froze slightly, wondering: “How do you know this website was created by us?”

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, “I naturally have my way. I hope to meet you and talk about my thoughts on this site …”

Yang Zhiyuan pondered for a moment and said, “Okay, I am in the dormitory now, but Ferro is still in class. It is estimated that it will take half an hour to pass.”

“OK, then we will meet at the gate of the library half an hour later.”

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