Chapter 44: Xu Rulin
Watching the TV news and seeing several lawyers behind Jaden who were confusing right and wrong, Greg smelled a familiar smell.
The Vulture Lawyers are a special existence in America. It is no exaggeration to call them vampires. Wherever there is focus, you can see them.
Whether it is a case involving celebrities, a wealthy person's divorce, or a bloody equity dispute in a big family, you can see the appearance of these vulture lawyers. This group of people is extremely difficult to deal with. For the sake of a lawsuit, they can drag it on for three to five years or even longer, just to get a huge amount of compensation!
These vulture lawyers often take nearly half of the compensation from their employers, or even more.
Jaden didn't know how he got involved with this group of vulture lawyers, but it was obviously not a good thing.
Watching Jaden "crying" about himself in the news, Song Yang felt really sick. This guy still refused to give up. He was just like a dung beetle, which didn't bite people but would jump out from time to time to make people feel sick!
"Song, don't do anything. DoubleClick Company will never lose the lawsuit. We will resolve this matter!" Greg saw that Song Yang's face was not looking good, and was afraid that Song Yang would use other under-the-table means again, so he hurriedly said.
Song Yang glanced at Greg and just untied his tie and threw it aside. Jaden had already run to New York. Would Song Yang go find the Sons of Chaos and send a few gunmen to New York to find him?
Song Yang would not take such a big risk for Jaden. Now Jaden is obviously swindling and knows he can't stay in Houston anymore, so he took advantage of the popularity of the lawsuit with Double and went to Silicon Valley to swindle. Now he makes these news just to annoy Song Yang and let Song Yang go to him to reconcile!
"Go to the TV station and ask them to stop broadcasting the news that Jaden slandered Double Click!" Song Yang knew that this was useless. With the current influence of Double Click Company, those TV stations would not pay any attention to Song Yang and might even wish to add fuel to the fire.
After Greg and others left, Song Yang turned his chair and looked at the Houston Harbor behind him, and couldn't help but sighed slightly.
Now that he thought about it, what Greg said to him was not wrong. If he knew powerful figures in the federation, or if Song Yang himself had a strong media industry, then perhaps he only needed one word, or used his media, to "ban" Jaden and make the entire American media start to "ignore" this person!
In the final analysis, Song Yang is not yet at the point where he can influence the chess game in America, so much so that people like Jaden dare to jump out again and again to annoy Song Yang.
Song Yang, who was resting with his eyes closed, suddenly felt a pair of hands pressing on his temples gently. Song Yang smelled the faint scent of white rose perfume and knew that the person behind him was Irene.
Irene looked at Song Yang with a frown on his face, thinking that Song Yang was still worried about Jaden. After all, he was jumping around there, which was very unfavorable to the public opinion of Song Yang and Double Click Company.
“My father once said that if you come across a bad tooth, you may not be able to pull it out right away, but if you give it the right timing and a gentle tap, it will fall out!”
"Your father?!" Song Yang opened his eyes and looked at Irene with a little curiosity.
Erin said, "He is a doctor and has his own private practice in Houston."
Song Yang understood at once. No wonder Irene was able to complete an MBA at a business school. In America, being a doctor is a profession as famous as being a lawyer and a teacher. A famous doctor has amazing influence and can have his own private clinic. Of course, his income will not be low.
"I'm fine!"
Song Yang seemed to have completely gotten rid of Jaden's influence. Jaden's appearance made Song Yang want to give it a try and see what kind of waves this guy could make. But Song Yang must have enough capital to do so!
Originally, Song Yang wanted to develop more steadily, but the appearance of Jaden made Song Yang change his mindset a little.
This is the era of the Internet bubble. A person may go from having nothing to becoming a billionaire overnight, and his net worth may increase tenfold just by taking his company public!
"Go call Greg and Wesley in!" Song Yang said to Irene .
A moment later, Greg and Wesley entered the office. Only Song Yang, Irene and Greg were in the office.
After the office door was closed, Song Yang looked at the people in front of him. These were basically his main team now. The people who could be used were still a little "thin", but compared to the time in the garage, they were already "strong and powerful".
"Double-click Company shouldn't have too many changes in the short term. I'm going to allocate part of the funds to enter new industries!" Song Yang said straight to the point.
Hearing Song Yang's words, Greg and Irene were stunned. They didn't expect that Song Yang would enter the new industry so quickly. This was a little beyond their expectations. After all, Double Click Company had a great chance of going public. If it were other people, they would definitely regard Double Click Company as their lifeblood and would not focus on other things.
Wesley, the head of the technical department, did not have so many thoughts on this, but was instead more expectant. He had been doing system maintenance and upgrades during this period, which was actually tinkering with the DART advertising system. Now that new projects were to be developed, Wesley finally had a place to use his skills.
"Are we being too hasty? DoubleClick Company just..." Greg looked at Song Yang with a complicated look. He was worried that Song Yang would hang out with Gallo and slack off after getting the tens of millions of dollars. Now he realized that he was overthinking.
"We have to enter the market now!" Song Yang said directly, "Netscape is about to go public, and Yahoo is also preparing. Once they go public, they will use the cash in their hands to enter one market after another. It will be impossible for us to survive by following them and picking up bargains!"
The Internet is just like other industries, where the winner takes all. Once they go public and have money in their hands, they will surely expand wildly into other Internet industries.
Seeing that Netscape and Yahoo were about to become big players in the industry, Song Yang didn't want the things he had worked so hard to create to be swallowed up by these two companies in the future.
"I'm planning to enter the instant messaging and email industry!" Song Yang said to the people in front of him.
Greg looked confused. He had used email before, and to be honest, the experience was not very good. But what instant messaging software was made Greg feel a little confused.
"Nowadays, we can browse the web, read the news, and even do electronic shopping on computers, but we cannot communicate with each other online. We want to develop a software that can enable people to communicate quickly on the Internet. It may be possible for two people thousands of miles away to communicate in real time through this software."
"Instant messaging?!" Wesley said this with shining eyes. This was a new term he had never heard of before. He had a feeling that what he was talking about might change the entire Internet industry!
Irene looked at Wesley with shining eyes. Even if she was not sensitive to the Internet industry, looking at Wesley's expression, she knew that the concept of "instant messaging" proposed by Song Yang was probably something no worse than digital advertising.
Looking at Song Yang who was talking to Wesley, Irene was about to say that it should be Wesley who was asking, and Song Yang answered him. Compared to Wesley, the genius of Rice University, Irene felt at this moment that Song Yang was the genius!
"This instant messaging system must have two main functions. The first is the communication function, and the second is the accompanying community space!" Song Yang told Wesley the design requirements for instant messaging. Compared to Wesley's slow exploration, Song Yang has a mature system here.
When Wesley listened to Song Yang's words, he felt that a new door had been completely opened. What Song Yang said were things he had never thought of before . Now Wesley completely believed the rumor that Double Click Company was established by Song Yang. If Jaden really had such a brilliant idea, he would have become famous in America long ago. Why would he be cursing everywhere now?
"What is the name of this instant messaging software project?" Wesley asked Song Yang.
Song Yang thought for a moment and said, "ICQ, and the other mailbox project is Hotmail free email. These two projects are independent of DoubleClick Company!"
Song Yang doesn't want to help WPP Group for nothing, so he will put the instant messaging and email business in a newly established company.
As for choosing to set up ICQ instead of Facebook or something like that, you have to know that the Internet is still in the dial-up stage, with a maximum speed of 10KB. With such a speed, it is a bit difficult to read emails or chat, let alone view pictures and videos. Uploading them would probably be difficult!
When Wesley heard that Song Yang wanted to set up a free email account, he immediately asked in surprise, "Free email account?"
Email services appeared decades ago, and they are still mainly charged. After all, email companies also need to make a living.
Launching a free email account is almost heretical. Could it be that they are trying to lose money to gain publicity? No wonder Wesley was so surprised.
"Don't forget what DoubleClick does. You don't need to worry about the profitability of Hotmail. What you need to do is to develop the world's first webmail as soon as possible!"
Song Yang told Wesley that he didn't care whether Hotmail was profitable or not. The most important thing was to build up the business and attract big investors to take over. Song Yang wanted to use the email business to develop instant messaging.
Email seems to be a hot commodity now, but in the future, anyone can come up with a brainwave about this industry. Now Song Yang is about to open the Pandora's box of free email.
Wesley was now both excited and troubled. He felt like Bledsoe Jaden, a slave and a tool-man without any emotions. "But Boss, we don't have enough manpower right now. We have to maintain DoubleClick's advertising system and develop ICQ and Hotmail mailboxes. We simply don't have that many people!"
