200. Jerry Yang
About a month has passed, and spring has arrived, when all things bloom.
Hoyoung was talking to a foreigner in Hermes Telecom, his chairman’s office.
“Mr. Yoon. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to meet.”
“no. I’m sorry for making you come all the way to Korea because I have a lot of work to do.”
“What. I should have come.”
The foreigner sitting in front of Hoyeong had an Asian face.
However, as if he had lived in the United States since he was very young, he was speaking the English of a native speaker.
“haha. is that so? So, what did you come for? Miss Jerry?”
Miss Jerry.
The person sitting in front of Hoyoung was Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo!
He was born in Taiwan, but immigrated to the United States with his parents at the age of 10 and was a bright student attending Stanford Graduate School of Electrical Engineering.
‘Come to think of it, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, and Jerry Yang are all from Taiwan. Are Taiwanese talented in IT?’
Jerry-yang, who hadn’t even thought about whether Ho-yeong was thinking such a stupid thing, opened her mouth with a determined expression.
“I want to make a really important proposal.”
“An important suggestion?”
“yes. I don’t know if you’ve seen the email I sent you before, but…”
Jerry hesitated for a moment while talking to Hoyeong.
He seemed to be contemplating whether he should or should not say what he was saying.
But that’s for a while.
He finally opened his mouth with a determined expression, as if he had decided to speak.
“There are a lot of problems with Gate’s search engine right now.”
Miss Jerry finally uttered the words and took a breather.
Hoyeong laughed at the current situation without realizing it.
Jerry now told Ho-young in front of him, and in his office, that there was a problem with the search engine of the portal site Ho-young was servicing.
Ho-yeong seemed confident and didn’t even think that he would hear someone say this, so he just laughed it off.
However, from Miss Jerry’s point of view, it was completely unacceptable.
It was something he talked about with great enthusiasm.
That’s why I was thinking that I had to endure it even if I got angry or showed a bad mood.
But when he saw Hoyoung laughing, he didn’t know how to react.
“What’s wrong?”
However, when Hoyoung asked with a serious expression, Jerry Yang could also realize that Hoyoung smiled in a positive way.
So he answered seriously.
“First of all, it seems that the crawlers are not tightly knit.”
“You mean our crawler?”
Crawlers are programs that navigate the Internet, or the World Wide Web.
It is a program that searches for information matching or similar to the search value on multiple sites, and at Gate, the portal operation team was using a search engine using a self-developed crawler.
“yes. I can’t say for sure what the algorithm is like because I haven’t looked at it properly, but there must have been a mistake.”
“okay? That’s interesting. Then how do you think you would have created the algorithm?”
“If it were me, when writing the algorithm…”
Jerry Yang explained to Ho-Young the algorithm she thought of and what to do for the search engine to work properly.
Hoyeong listened to his story with pleasure and said.
“okay. That’s a great idea.”
“yes?”
“I mean, that’s a really good idea. Then, shall we hear what you said about the important proposal?”
Jerry-yang didn’t know if Ho-yeong would react like this, so she put on a blank expression for a while, but soon came to her senses.
“There is a search engine developed by me and my partner David Philo.”
“You mean the search engine?”
“yes. Furthermore, we also had plans to create a portal site. It’s Yahoo…”
Ho-young asked in response, trying to hide the smile that rose to him involuntarily.
“Yahoo? What a strange name.”
“haha. Yes. It is the name of a tribe that appears in Gulliver’s Travels. Anyway, the name is not important, would you like to invest in me, our Yahoo?”
Miss Jerry’s expression was desperate.
Ho-Young was ready to explain more about his search engine skills if Ho-Young rejected his offer.
Hoyoung said with a firm expression.
“I refuse.”
“okay. Would you like to hear a little bit more of my story? So···.”
“no. I don’t think I need to hear more.”
Despair crept across Miss Jerry’s face.
He came all the way to Korea, believing in Ho-yeong’s reputation, but he never thought that Ho-yeong would not listen to more explanations.
“I don’t want to make general investments. Miss Jerry. I want to scout you.”
“yes? what is that…”
“It is as you have heard. Would you like to start Yahoo and do all the things you wanted to do under the Hermes name instead of under the Yahoo name?”
Miss Jerry was dumbfounded by the unexpected suggestion.
Seeing him not saying anything, Hoyeong smiled and said.
“In fact, I was planning to separate the portal site division sooner or later and make it independent as an affiliate. Could you please serve as the representative of that affiliate? I will give you 5% of the stake in the affiliate.”
Miss Jerry did not understand what Hoyeong was saying for a moment, then suddenly came to her senses and jumped up from her seat without realizing it.
“Jin, are you serious?”
“sure. I’m not good at talking nonsense.”
“Then my partner…”
“Did you say David Pylo? He too will be scouted under the same conditions.”
Miss Jerry was so panicked that she didn’t know how to react.
To come all the way to Korea simply to receive investment and then be scouted by the world’s best IT company.
As a representative too!
“ah···!”
However, he suddenly remembered one thing.
“Thanks for the great suggestion. But if I accept the offer, will I have to work in Korea?”
Hoyoung said with a natural face.
“sure.”
“ah···. okay.”
Miss Jerry unknowingly bit her lower lip.
It was because he had no intention of working in a foreign country, far away from his family.
“For now, you have to stay in Korea until we develop a new portal and search engine and launch the service.”
“Until we start the service?”
“yes. just 2 years. In two years, the Internet will be opened throughout the United States, and the development of the American version of our new portal site will also be completed. From then on, I think it will be okay to move the headquarters of the portal site to the United States.”
“ah···!”
Miss Jerry gave a big nod.
Hoyoung’s words made sense.
‘It’s only been two years. Even my parents will understand for about two years.’
Jerry Yang thought that this opportunity could not be missed.
If I refused this opportunity, weighing various conditions, it would probably appear in my dreams for the rest of my life.
‘Anyway, the US portal market is dominated by Gates. Yahoo! It would be wiser to be on the same side than to make .
After thinking about it, Jerry grabbed Hoyeong’s hand and said.
“I wish you well in the future. boss!”
“haha. Up to the boss…”
“no. Let’s make it hard. boss!”
Hoyoung thought Jerry was more tired than he thought.
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Jerry promised to come back with Ho-young and went back to America right away.
With a promise to persuade his partner, David Dailo, in the United States.
Hoyoung decided to wait for him leisurely.
It would take a lot of preparation to organize your life in the US and come to Korea right away.
About a week later, Miru visited Hoyeong’s room.
It was hard to see Miru’s face for a while because she was taking care of the Sampoong Department Store case that Hoyeong had entrusted to her.
In the meantime, Assistant Manager Kim Jeong-gi took care of Ho-yeong’s commute.
“Chief. long time no see. Seeing that you came today, you must have made some progress.”
“yes. That’s right. The chairman of the Sampoong Group, Kim Hwan-yi, wants to meet you.”
“okay? It’s a lot faster than I thought.”
“At first, I refused to negotiate, so I secretly sent the materials the president gave to Chairman Kim Hwan. Then I got a call right away.”
Hoyoung giggled.
“As someone with a bad back, you must have wondered how I knew the data.”
Kim Hwan was a man who rose to his current position through all sorts of corruption and bribery during the military regime.
He is arrested right after the collapse of Sampoong Department Store, and all the corruption and wrongdoings he has done so far are exposed to the world, and the Sampoong Group is disbanded.
At that time, Kim Hwan’s corruption was featured in newspapers and broadcasts for a while, so the information Ho-young could collect through Gaia was infinite, and Ho-young made only a small part of it into documents and handed it to Kim Hwan.
“Anyway, when did you say to come?”
“I just made one phone call whenever I wanted and asked me to come.”
“Where?”
“I think you can go to the department store.”
“A department store? Hmm…”
Hoyeong stroked his chin for a moment and fell into trouble.
“Are you having any problems?”
“no. We just leave now.”
“You mean now?”
Hoyoung nodded.
“yes. If possible, I want to get it done as quickly as possible.”
“All right. I will contact Chairman Kim Hwan and have the car stand by right away. Would you like to come down the front door in five minutes?”
Miru nodded without asking any questions.
“good.”
Miru bowed her head and left the president’s office, while Hoyeong muttered as she put on her jacket.
“You’re not going to have an accident if you go now, right?”
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Gangnam, where Hoyeong’s office is located, and Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, where Sampoong Department Store is located, are not too far away.
He was in front of the main entrance of Sampoong Department Store, looking up at the building.
“This is right…”
Compared to the department stores of the future that Ho-yeong had experienced, it is not that huge.
A department store with only five floors.
However, by today’s standards, it was the second largest of all department stores in Korea.
Looking up at the department store, Hoyoung felt a chill.
He couldn’t believe that this huge building would collapse in just two months and cause more than 500 casualties, even though he had experienced it firsthand.
‘Well, I can’t believe it, but no one would have thought that the building would collapse.’
Hoyoung opened the door on the first floor of the department store and entered.
Currently, Sampoong Department Store has a reputation as a luxury department store.
True to its reputation, it is full of various luxury brands that are hard to find in Korea.
“President. The meeting place is the meeting room on the 5th floor of Building B.”
“thanks.”
Hoyoung followed Miru to the department store.
Eventually, when I arrived at the 5th floor of Building B, a meeting was in full swing in the conference room.
“So, we’re going to have to stop accepting customers for at least a week from now and start repairing right away!”
“No, this person. Do you know how much a week’s sales are?!”
“Even if you give up a week’s sales, something really big could happen if you don’t!”
“Big deal? what a big deal Are you saying that this department store is about to collapse? ha ha ha.”
A young-looking man wearing glasses was arguing that the department store should be properly repaired even if it was closed, while the older man was laughing at him.
Hoyoung intuitively grasped the identity of the older person.
‘The author is Kim Hwan.’
smart-
Hoyoung knocked on the door of the conference room where the meeting was in full swing.