Chapter 4: Stairs
The current technology craze has not yet begun to appear, and the Internet's myth of making people rich is still unknown. Even Microsoft and Cisco have spent several years to reach this point today, and it is still a bit too early to become true giants.
As for Song Yang, it goes without saying. Now Song Yang is just an ordinary student at Devers. What lies before him is how to enter a university in half a year. Otherwise, after half a year, Song Yang might end up working in a fast food restaurant like McDonald's or KFC, wasting several years.
A good cook cannot cook without rice, and a penny makes a hero fail. Even if he knew about Yahoo, he would have no chance to curry favor with them. As for investment, it was even more ridiculous. Even if he sold Greg, he probably wouldn't be able to get much money, let alone let Greg willingly give the money to Song Yang for investment.
Knowing his situation, Song Yang felt even more helpless. Now he understood why so many people took risks just to make their first pot of gold.
The first pot of gold is more like a key. Without this key, you cannot move to the next step and will be trapped where you are.
Walking on the streets of Houston, Song Yang would unconsciously take a few more glances when passing by the Bank of Bilbao Vizcaya, the largest bank in the Houston area.
If he could get some money now and invest in those well-known technology giants, maybe in a few years Song Yang would be able to get the title of "Stock God".
But it is simply impossible now. No one will give money to an unknown person, especially a young man who doesn't even have a professional economic license, to invest in the so-called Internet concept industry. He will basically be regarded as a lunatic.
Now, let alone other places, even in America, the concept of the Internet is still a new thing, and many people still regard this industry as a scam.
After all, there are less than six million Internet users in the entire America. This is already the region with the largest number of Internet users in the world. You can imagine the situation in other regions.
After coming out of Devers School, Song Yang, feeling a little depressed, came to an apartment.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a woman in a bathrobe coming out of the bathroom. When she saw Song Yang, Haley, who was wrapped in a bathrobe, greeted Song Yang, "Song, I heard from Gallo that you were injured. I hope your face is not injured!"
At first glance, this woman didn't look like a good person. Seeing Song Yang's depressed expression, Haley giggled and returned to Gallo's bedroom.
This apartment is Gallo's hideout, and it is also the place where the original body Song Yang and others often gather for parties. Haley is Gallo's girlfriend, and now she is a small model, shooting advertisements and magazines to make a living. There are many girls who want to enter the film and television industry, but not many can really gain a foothold. Most of them are like Haley, who slowly wait for an opportunity that may never come in their lifetime.
Song Yang turned on a TV familiarly. Gallo's place is not big, but it has everything, including TV, speakers, VCR, Sony game console, etc. There are always parties here on weekdays.
After a while, Gallo and Haley came out of the bedroom together, took out a few bottles of wine from a shabby refrigerator, and handed one to Song Yang. The reason why this place attracts many men and women is that there is a supply of wine. After all, other places cannot sell wine to people of Song Yang's current physical age, but here he can drink wine.
Hailey lit up a lady's cigarette. After entering this line of work, Hailey had picked up some bad habits. She leaned on Gallo and teased Song Yang, "Song, do you want me to introduce you to a girl? She's definitely not worse than that I...Bella!"
After thinking for a long time, Haley finally remembered Ibella's name. She remembered that Song Yang brought that skinny guy to the apartment party. As a model, she naturally knew quite a few girls in this field. With Song Yang's looks, Haley felt that it would not be a problem at all. Compared with the male models she knew, his looks were even a level higher, which was enough to attract those sluts to fall for him.
Moreover, by introducing Song Yang to those little bitches, Haley might be able to obtain some resources, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
Being stared at by Haley, Song Yang felt like he was being stared at by a wolf. He felt that Haley was not a good person, and he didn't know what would happen to the woman introduced to him.
He quickly waved his hand to refuse, "This matter was instigated by that idiot Stanton. I'm not in the mood right now. I was transferred to the bench on the baseball team. I'm afraid it will be difficult to get a college recruitment!"
Hearing Song Yang's words, Gallo raised his head. He naturally knew that Song Yang's original academic level was awful. To be frank, Gallo's grades were better than Song Yang's original grades after fooling around for a few years. If he couldn't get recruited by a university in baseball, Song Yang's college career would most likely be interrupted.
"Are your motor nerves injured?" Gallo looked Song Yang up and down. It is not uncommon for athletes to suffer a serious decline in performance during competition after being injured, but Gallo always felt that Song Yang seemed to have changed these days, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Song Yang took a sip of wine and said, "I don't know, but I can't get into the game state, so I may need to slowly find the state!"
The atmosphere in the small apartment was a little depressing for a moment. Gallo and Haley had already entered society and had been beaten by it. They had long realized how ridiculous the idea of not going to college was a few years ago. It was simply nonsense to say that they had no regrets at all.
Gallo thought that if he had followed Greg's arrangement and entered university to study law or finance, he should be interning in a law firm or Wall Street now, instead of being busy all day in a car repair shop under the name of a racing company.
Haley also thought that if she had the experience of art college, then whether she entered Hollywood or worked as a reporter for a TV station, her opportunities would be much greater than being a wild model now!
Now hearing that Song Yang might not be able to enter university, Gallo and Haley were both a little depressed for a moment. Gallo patted Song Yang on the shoulder and clinked glasses with him.
At this time, someone else came into the apartment, a tall and thin man who also sat on the sofa in a familiar manner. Song Yang remembered that his name was Ryan, and he worked in the same racing company as Gallo.
After sitting down, Ryan said to Gallo, "We have a big job. Cole sent three Toyotas and we need to 'repair' them!"
Cole is the leader of a small gang in Houston. The gang likes to tattoo a red viper on their arms, so they are called the Red Snake Gang. Such small gangs are almost as numerous as the hairs on cattle in America.
The Red Snake Gang may sound high-ranking, but they actually do sneaky work, stealing cars and reassembling them for a living.
This was obviously a "private job", but Gallo was no longer surprised by it. The racing company he had now seemed to focus on designing high-performance racing cars, but this would cost a lot of money. Without any big dog owners to support their research and development, they could only find ways to raise funds on their own.
That car repair shop is now the main business of the racing company, but sometimes they also take on some high-profit "private jobs". They are almost starving to death, so how can they care about anything else?
It would be fine if that racing company fails to make a name for itself in the future, but if it does become successful, all the stains of today can be washed away, and this is basically the first pot of gold!
Gallo was talking to Haley and Ryan, preparing to hold a party in the evening. Well, the name of the party was to celebrate Song Yang's return from injury. How could this be related to Song Yang?
Song Yang didn't pay attention to those things. At this moment, his attention was all on NBC on TV. This was an economic talk show on NBC. The host was talking to two people in the same director's room.
One of them is a well-known investor on Wall Street who mainly invests in traditional industries. At this moment, he is engaged in a heated argument with another person in the live studio.
"The Internet is a scam. Just like Netscape, which is being touted by the Silicon Valley gang, it doesn't even have a profit model. It can't prove that it can survive!"
This investor mainly invests in traditional industries such as banking and aviation. He has no idea when the Internet will make money and thinks it is a scam.
The person being criticized was a professor at a network laboratory at a university in New York. He avoided the topic of profit and said, "The American Joint Network Commission has defined the Internet as a global information system. In the future, the number of Internet users in America will grow at a rate of 23% per year. As long as there are enough users, this market will definitely exist. The future will definitely belong to the world of the Internet!"
The professor's vision was naturally excellent, but the investor on the other side kept asking, "How can we make a profit? Investors have invested money in Netscape and other companies, how can we get it back in the future?"
The university professor in the NBC director's studio was embarrassed by the criticism. This is indeed a very realistic problem. The cake is indeed drawn, but it may not be edible.
Then the host called the analyst from Wall Street and asked him his opinion. He was basically biased. He was optimistic about the potential of the Internet, but he couldn't say how to make a profit and return to investors. He couldn't just say that after the listing in the future, those venture capital companies would just cash out and run away, right? !
Now the profits of the Internet software industry basically come from selling software, just like Microsoft and Oracle. But in the entire Internet industry, how many companies are as irreplaceable as Microsoft and Oracle?
Song Yang stared at the TV with his eyes fixed, watching the investor named Christian Barnard on the TV station, who was chattering non-stop. His mind was shaken, and a vague idea appeared in his mind, making Song Yang hesitant and excited.
For the Internet to develop into the future, something that is hated by countless Internet users but supports the existence of Internet companies is indispensable, and that is Internet advertising!
Just as advertising is important to television stations, without advertising, the television media industry would not have developed to where it is today. Television advertising has changed the media industry.
The same is true for Internet advertising. Almost half of the revenue of major Internet giants in later generations comes from this.
Song Yang was watching TV and seemed not to hear even Gallo's cries beside him. This was an opportunity, a great opportunity for Song Yang. A key was right in front of him, but it was not so easy to get it.
