Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1575
Zhou Buqi felt very relaxed.

At some point it feels easier to do business in the US than at home.

In China, money alone is not enough. People also look at your social background, industry status, and whether the relationship behind it is strong or not, and whether you have many friends in the circle.

There is mysticism from top to bottom, and many things are dealt with by simplifying and simplifying.

In the United States, it is much easier. There is only one standard, and whoever has money is the best.

A capitalist society is based on the power of capital, which is very pure.

In many cases, even black money and dirty money are not rejected, and the business of bleaching unscrupulous cash is really undisguised everywhere.Many accounting firms and law firms engaged in fringe businesses advertise openly, blatantly providing criminals with reasonable legal protection.

This is almost impossible in the country.

People have to wonder whether the U.S. emperor did it on purpose, or whether he deliberately left a loophole so that the black money in the world can flow back and drive the U.S. economy.

But these have nothing to do with Zhou Buqi.

On the contrary, because of the capital standard here, he can do business with ease.

The standard is simple, whoever has money is popular.

This makes him a fish in water in Hollywood, and even more so in Silicon Valley.

Entering February, Zhou Buqi quickly promoted three investments.

On February 2, it acquired a 2% stake in LinkedIn for $1200 million.

This investment is a personal act, funded by a family foundation.

On February 2th, after five months of research and discussion for the B round of financing of the music streaming platform Spotify, the final plan was finally reached.

There are a total of three participants, with a valuation of 2 million US dollars, diluting 25% of the shares, and raising 5000 million US dollars.Among them, Ziweixing International invested 2000 million U.S. dollars, Zhou Buqi's Fangfei Fund contributed 2000 million U.S. dollars, and Founders, a well-known American venture capital fund, contributed 1000 million U.S. dollars.

In the previous round of financing, Ziweixing International invested 1000 million US dollars and held 20% of the shares. After the B round, in the equity composition of Spotify, Ziweixing International holds 26% of the shares, and Fangfei Fund also enters the market to hold 10% of the shares.

The investment case on February 2th was a network company called Cloudera, which was participated, researched, and led by sister Zhenyu. She invested 5 million US dollars and got 800% of the shares.

Zhou Buqi went to the scene to sign, but he really didn't understand the project very well.It's just because this is a strong recommendation from Senior Sister Zhenyu, and it's an expression of support for her.

On the way back, Zhou Buqi couldn't bear to be curious, "What does this company do? I saw their posters, why is there still Ziweiyun?"

Zhen Yu smirked and said, "That's right, there is Ziweiyun."

Zhou Buqi didn't know much about Ziweiyun's specific business, so he tentatively asked, "This Cloudera company is Ziweiyun's partner?"

Zhen Yu nodded lightly, "Yes, partners, they are big data service companies, and they mainly provide some big data processing services around the Hadoop ecosystem. This is a start-up company in 08. It has not been around for a long time, but its technology is very strong. , is one of the companies with the highest entry barriers in the entire Silicon Valley.”

Zhou Buqi smiled, "You are close to the water."

Zhen Yu admitted frankly, "Well, it's the internal relationship, and this kind of venture capital is the most reliable. Even the important partners that Ziweiyun relies on are enough to show that this company has great potential."

This is also the norm in the industry.

The women behind many big bosses, famous or not, certified or uncertified, they can often do well in the investment industry.

A very important reason is the internal information provided by such internal resources.

When investing, the most important thing is poor information.

Whoever can grasp more information can shine in the investment field.Zhen Yu wants to find some investment targets for the family fund, but she has no foresight, nor is she a professional venture capitalist. To ensure the success rate of the investment, the best way is of course to use Ziweixing International's relationship to find high-quality item up.

Zhou Buqi felt something different from it, "In the past few years, the research on the big data industry has always been the key layout of cloud computing. What's going on with Ziwei Cloud? Kurian is not satisfied with the existing technology. Looking for help from outside?"

Zhen Yu thought for a while, "It's possible."

Zhou Buqi frowned, a little worried, and called Lu Qi, "Cloudera, the external big data partner of cloud computing, you know?"

"know."

"Is everything okay here?"

"What's the matter?" Lu Qi reacted, thinking it was an internal news, "Oh, Zhen Yu consulted with me, and I recognize Cloudera's team capabilities, and there is no problem."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's not what I asked. Ziweiyun has been devoting himself to the research and development of big data in the past few years, and put a lot of effort into it. What's going on with Kurian?"

What worries him is power struggles in the workplace.

If Kurian dared to use the means of borrowing the hands of outsiders to attack his own people, then whether the manager is an executive hired with a lot of money, he should be ruthless and have to be ruthless.

Lu Qi understood immediately, and said easily, "It's okay, don't worry."

Zhou Buqi was very unconvinced, "Ziweiyun's big data technology is so poor? Do you have to find a third-party service?"

"This..." Lu Qi hesitated and explained carefully, "Cloudera is indeed a company that has been in business for less than two years, but their team is very strong, and the core members are all big data scientists from Sun and Yahoo. Life with Yahoo has not been good in the past few years, and a lot of talents have been lost. The company Cloudera was founded by Sun and Yahoo’s big data scientists.”

Zhou Buqi was a little speechless, "That is to say, their technology is better than ours?"

Lu Qi could only bite the bullet and tell the truth, "It's stronger. You can check it from LinkedIn. The entry threshold for Cloudera's big data engineer is S-level, and Ziweiyun's related positions are only A-level."

Zhou Buqi's mood is very complicated.

Damn it!

Using his foresight, he raised strategic requirements for Ziwei Star as early as 04-05, to move closer to the field of big data analysis, and organized a data processing and data analysis team early , no less money.

As a result, after working for several years, Kurian didn't like it at all. Instead, he went to buy technical services from a start-up company that was established less than two years ago.

This gap really cannot be made up by foresight.

Fortunately, Luqi has good news again, saying: "Ziweiyun is a very large project, we only took out a small part of it and handed it over to Cloudera for processing. Try it first. If the effect is good, all aspects will be improved. Quite satisfied, what Kurian means is to buy it directly and reorganize Ziweiyun's big data research team."

Kurian is an expert in mergers and acquisitions. His favorite thing to do is to acquire small companies and start-up companies, in this way to make up for the lack of innovation under the organizational structure of large companies.

After the call was over, Zhou Buqi felt relieved, turned to Senior Sister Zhenyu and said, "Try not to do this in the future, the food is not very good-looking, if investors and executives see it, there will definitely be criticism."

She participated in Cloudera's A round of financing, which is an early start.When Ziweixing International acquires Cloudera, it will definitely pay a premium several times.At that time, she will be able to make a lot of money.

It is not difficult to invest 800 million US dollars and return 3000 million US dollars.

It's too easy to make money.

Other big bosses may indulge their women to play like this, but Zhou Buqi thinks it is unnecessary and the loss outweighs the gain.

The operation of Senior Sister Zhenyu did not harm the interests of Ziweixing International.Even if she doesn't invest in Cloudera, other venture capital firms will come in.

But this will affect people's hearts and morale.

Make investors and informed executives some uncomfortable emotions, and they cannot be treated as tools.

Zhou Buqi said: "Try not to engage in internal transactions, and we are not short of money. When investing... try not to be associated with your own company. Even if you don't embezzle the company's interests, you will inevitably teach others."

Zhen Yu nodded slightly, "I know, it won't happen in the future."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "The family fund is the pocket money of our whole family. If you want me to say, it's better not to engage in venture capital investment? Not to mention the high risk of this thing, it's all dead money, just invest in some living money." If you need money for emergency, you can cash it out very conveniently.”

"Stop being a venture capitalist?"

"Don't do it."

"But I still have several projects in my hand. Recently, there has been a wave of new trends in Silicon Valley, and the sharing economy has become popular. Shared cars, shared restaurants, shared bedrooms, etc., I think many of the ideas you put forward back then are similar the same."

"Uh……"

When Zhou Buqi first started his business, because of his lack of experience, he also made a few projects that were not too successful.

The "bike-sharing" plan is better. Without going out of the campus and giving up the idea of ​​expansion, it can basically maintain a balance of income and expenditure.

The biggest failure is the "shared restaurant", that is, Xiaonei will come forward to cooperate with some restaurants to launch "group purchase coupons". It allows college students to enjoy delicious food while saving money.But this is not only difficult to operate, but also subject to policy restrictions, and it was stopped not long after.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, the vigorous sharing economy era finally ushered in a real boom with the explosion of the mobile Internet.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, not thinking it was a good idea, "Don't participate, this kind of big wind is full of blood and rain, and it is almost impossible to succeed in investing. If you want me to say, it's better to buy some stocks and do something simple. The investment is enough."

"What to buy?"

"Microsoft, there is no way to go down, now you can buy it, and you can earn ten times in ten years, so it's not a big problem!" Zhou Buqi thought of something, "By the way, Pluto Capital is also planning to follow up!"

Zhen Yu was puzzled, "About what?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Someone came to give us money again, and we can't accept it. If they don't accept it, they won't sell Lucasfilm."

(End of this chapter)