The Unique Opportunity
Build a large, global branded network business
Comprehensive, integrated set of content, communication & merchant services
Single largest audience on a global basis
Services become increasingly essential
Results in a large business appealing to advertisers, content suppliers, and merchants worldwide
Drives a big business with truly great financial results
Notes:
- If you start without baggage and without preconceptions, you can build a global network to take advantage of this geographic and time boundaryless aspect of the Internet. And that is what we've been doing.
- And so we have set about from the very beginning to build a global branded network business, and in addition to that, one that is comprehensive and one that's open.
- Do that by serving the largest audience on the Web -- that's always been our full intention, to get and retain the largest single audience that you can find on the Web -- and serve their needs by the real magic. Integrating content, merchant services and
- What happens if you do that is you can build a very large business with great financials, and more importantly, it's viewed increasingly as a very valuable distribution platform for merchants and content partners worldwide. It is the place where you can
- And if you do that, and you execute well and manage carefully and all that sort of stuff, you can drive a big business with really good financial results. As all of you know -- you have seen the model we have been executing against, and it's a pretty goo