Rebirth of the internet boss

Chapter 166 Don't worry

Hearing Li Feng's answer, Zuckerberg's eyes lit up, which showed Li Feng's recognition of Facebook, so Li Feng won Zuckerberg's favor as soon as he came up.

And this is the second time that Zuckerberg heard from other people that the value of Facebook could be worth billions of dollars. The first one was his most trusted "entrepreneurial mentor" Sean Parker.

Sean Parker is a real super hacker genius. At the age of 16, he invaded and attacked the websites of many government and military bases. However, because his father unplugged the keyboard cable of the computer once, Parker failed to exit the website and was tracked by the FBI. Fortunately, he was only 16 years old at the time, and he was only doing voluntary labor in the community.

Sean Parker was only 5 years older than Zuckerberg. At this time, Li Feng also found that he was only three days younger than Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg was on May 1984, 5, and Li Feng was 14 July 5,
Back to Parker, although he has established two companies, it is a pity that Parker’s two start-ups ended up being kicked out.
He will join Facebook in the future and serve as the first president of Facebook. It is he who turned Facebook from a college student project into a real company, and Peter Thiel's $50 investment is also his help for Zuckerberg. Ge negotiated, but in the end he was also kicked out by Zuckerberg,

Although Parker was kicked out every time, he successively founded the music sharing website Napster as a co-founder (a free music piracy website, although the defendant went bankrupt, it also opened Pandora's box and sent the record industry to the grave. ), the online address book Plaxo (which can automatically read your mobile phone address book, and now almost every social app has this function) and the famous Facebook,

In this regard, Parker himself said helplessly, "I have helped humans change the world at least three times, but I will always be an outsider."

As a veteran of many years of entrepreneurship, Parker now values ​​Facebook at $100 million. When he also gave Zuckerberg financing advice on Facebook,
When the early financing does not affect the company's development, the later the financing, the better, and the first financing must not sell too many shares, even if the valuation is low.

So, when Zuckerberg said it, he doubled the valuation directly, and said to Li Feng: "Leo, I asked a Silicon Valley entrepreneurial veteran about the valuation of Facebook. What is his valuation of Facebook?" 200 million US dollars,
In terms of our common language, I can take your money first, but I can only sell 10% of the shares at most, that is, I hope to get an investment of 20 US dollars. "

Li Feng has no problem with Facebook's valuation, even if it doubles again, but if he can only get 10% of Facebook's shares in the end, then why does Li Feng travel all the way to the United States himself?

Li Feng glanced at Zuckerberg and asked, "Mark, did Lu Lu not tell you about my situation?"

Zuckerberg said: "Aren't you Lu Lu's boyfriend? If it weren't for this, I might not necessarily take your money."

So that's the case, no wonder the two of them can't talk about each other on the same channel.
At this time, Lu Lu explained to Li Feng that they only told Zuckerberg about the meeting to discuss Facebook’s financing, but did not specifically talk about Li Feng’s Renren.com situation. Afterwards, Lu Lu explained to Li Feng that, in fact, It was Lu Lu who forgot. At that time, she was only thinking about seeing Li Feng as soon as possible.

Of course, Li Feng didn't mean to blame Lu Lu, not to mention feelings, Guang Lulu made so much money for Li Feng, he did enough.

So, Li Feng said patiently: "Mark, it seems that I have to introduce some personal information, how should I tell you..."

Li Feng: "..." Li Feng just wanted to say it, but for a while, he didn't know how to start it.

At this time, Li Feng looked at Zuckerberg with his laptop, and said to Zuckerberg, "Mark, can I use your computer, I'll show you something, and you'll understand."

Zuckerberg hated others touching his laptop, but seeing that Li Feng might become his investor, Zuckerberg said reluctantly: "Okay, up to 5 minutes, and you can't touch anything in it." A thing."

Seeing Zuckerberg's reluctance, Li Feng hurriedly said, "Don't worry, it's just a website, you'll understand, at most 1 minute.

By the way, Mark, my name is Li Feng. If you think 'Li Feng' is difficult to pronounce, you can call me 'Li' or 'Feng'. I'm still not used to that 'Leo'. "

After Zuckerberg gave the laptop to Li Feng, he also said slyly, "Okay, Leo."

"..."

In this regard, Li Feng had no choice but to quickly open the notebook, and found that there were indeed a lot of things on it, and he also saw a lot of files related to "Facebook". However, Li Feng had no interest, and he didn't understand programming. Just open the "Renren" website, and then put the notebook in front of Zuckerberg, and motioned Zuckerberg to read it by himself.

Zuckerberg was also quite curious about what website Li Feng wanted to show him, but Zuckerberg was shocked when he saw Renren. Just by looking at it, I can tell that this is my "Facebook", but it is the Chinese version.

In this regard, Zuckerberg directly angrily said to Li Feng: "You plagiarized me! Why did you plagiarize! Why did you plagiarize my Facebook!"

Facing the angry Zuckerberg, Li Feng said lightly: "Mark, take a closer look to see who is plagiarizing."

At this time, Zuckerberg looked at it carefully again, and even clicked on it to take a closer look, and found that this website was much more complete than his own Facebook, and there seemed to be a lot of registered people, and the online time of this website should also be it's early

Zuckerberg operated for a full 10 minutes before raising his head. At this time, he had lost the proud look just now, and asked a lot of questions quickly in one breath, saying: "This website is yours, what is its name? When was it launched? How many registered users are there now?"

Li Feng changed his posture, smiled and said, "My English is not good, you asked so many questions all at once, but I didn't understand.

This website, called Renren.com, was conceived by me at this time last year. It was launched on New Year’s Day this year. I also promoted it from college students, and from elite schools like Harvard University.

Moreover, our Renren.com in China has now opened all registrations to the outside world. Not only college students can register, but even high school students and adults can register.
At present, the registered users of Renren.com have reached 8000 million, and this number is still increasing.
In the future, we will also add a 'picture system', so that each user can upload pictures at any time. In addition to uploading pictures normally, we also launch a 'photo album system', people can upload their classmates' photos, or parent-child photos, to record their children room to grow...

Also, Renren’s first financing was at the beginning of 2003. At that time, Softbank invested 1 million US dollars for 20% of the shares, and even now, it’s only after one financing. If you don’t believe it, you can check it online... ..."

Li Feng talked a lot about Renren, but Zuckerberg became more frightened the more he listened, "It was launched on New Year's Day in 2003", "All development and registration to the outside world", "8000 million people", "5 million US dollars"... …

Every time Li Feng said a piece of content on Renren, Zuckerberg had an extra horror. If he had Facebook, Renren had it; never thought

As a result, Zuckerberg asked directly tremblingly: "Then why are you looking for me? Are you still a shareholder?"

Seeing Zuckerberg, who was calm and eloquent in the U.S. congressional hearing, showed a perverted fear in front of him, like a panicked and frightened little daughter-in-law, Li Feng felt extremely satisfied, and Now there are very few things, no matter good or bad, that can shock Li Feng.

Li Feng said calmly: "I flew all the way here from far away China. Of course it's not just a simple investment. I want to be your partner, or even a co-founder.

And I told you just now that "I have experience in this field", I don't mean the help of funds, but I have founded Renren, and it is developing well now. I believe it will make you take a lot of detours.
Secondly, Facebook is of little value to me. I can use our current Renren.com to directly develop an English-language Renren.com, and Facebook has just started from Harvard University, and I have occupied it for a month. other U.S. colleges and universities,
And what really makes me optimistic is you, Mark Zuckerberg, you are a genius, I believe you have the potential, you just said that Facebook is worth 200 million dollars, I completely agree, because you alone are worth that much money . "

Zuckerberg was still a little sensible, and asked, "How many shares do you plan to take?"

Li Feng also straightforwardly gave his answer, saying: "Based on the 200 million US dollars you just said, I can invest 80 US dollars, but I want 40% of the shares."

"40%!" Zuckerberg said with a pale face: "40%, there are too many shares. Now Facebook shares are 70% for me, and another old friend of mine, Eduardo Savarin, holds 30%. Moreover, this is the first financing, and we will definitely need to introduce other investors in the future.”

Li Feng said lightly about this: "As I said just now, I am not an investor, I am your partner. I can not only provide financial support, but also save Facebook from many detours.

I think 40% is quite a lot, but if we fail to reach an agreement, I will ask Lu Lu to promote a Facebook-like website in other schools in the United States, maybe you will get nothing by then. "

Li Feng's negotiation rules are always "carrots and sticks", which are simple, effective and very practical, but it seems that all negotiations are like this, first put the advantages first, and then the disadvantages.

Then, Li Feng said: "Before I came here, someone investigated Facebook, of course it was not Lu Lu. I also heard that your Facebook has many ideas of the Winklevoss Brothers, and they are still planning to file a lawsuit in the Federal Court. Sue you, with me joining, all this is not a problem, because my Renren project was established as early as 2002."

In fact, Facebook was founded by Zuckerberg based on his own "course matching" and "Facemash", and borrowed a lot of ideas from the Winklevoss brothers.

The two Winklevoss brothers originally asked Zuckerberg to design the website. As a result, Zuckerberg directly plagiarized their ideas and did it alone. Therefore, after Facebook went online, the kayaking brothers were very angry Not only did he find the dean of Harvard University, but he also threatened to sue Zuckerberg.

Speaking of which, the kayaking brothers Winklevoss are really "high-powered twins". The two Harvard University economics students are at the business kayaking level. They even entered the finals of the 08 Yanjing Olympic Games and won the No.6,
Moreover, the two also bought Bitcoin with the money they got from Zuckerberg. It is said that the brothers once owned 1% of the Bitcoin in the market. Later, the two also established a Bitcoin exchange and set up a Bitcoin exchange. The aptly named "Gemini" (Gemini), and after that, the price of Bitcoin rocketed up like a rocket, 100 times higher than when they bought it!
But now the Winklevoss brothers are just a bargaining chip for Li Feng to "blackmail" Zuckerberg, and seeing Zuckerberg's expression, Li Feng decided to give Zuckerberg another step, and said to Zuckerberg : "You just said that now Facebook shares are 70% for you, and another old friend of yours Savarin holds 30%. Have you signed a formal agreement?"

Zuckerberg asked wonderingly: "No, what's wrong?"

Li Feng said with a smile: "Then drive this Savarin out, you six and I four, and I guarantee that all the voting rights will belong to you, I just need to ask for a seat on the board of directors, Facebook is still up to you Forget it, and I also promise to reduce my shares in Facebook to at least 30% after Facebook goes public, and of course the voting rights are still yours."

Although Li Feng had a smile on his face, Zuckerberg still felt a wave of terror and tremblingly said, "Is this so difficult?"

Li Feng said: "It's not easy for you to always say, 'How much you work hard for the company, the company can give you back, and you can't make other employees feel unfair'. Since this Savarin has nothing to contribute except a little money, let him out Well, and I will also provide an additional 20 US dollars in interest-free loans, and you can repay it when you want."

After finishing speaking, Li Feng stood up, patted Zuckerberg on the shoulder and said, "I believe you know what to do. I'll still be here waiting for you at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. That's all for today. You can go back." Consider it."

Originally, Zuckerberg came here with confidence, but he was a little embarrassed when he left.

Looking at Zuckerberg going away, even Lu Lu felt a little sympathetic to him, who told him to meet such a freak as Li Feng.

Regarding this, Lu Lu asked Li Feng curiously, "Do you think he would do this?"

Li Feng said affirmatively: "Don't worry, he will definitely do this. Let's come again tomorrow. If I don't leave, I will get drunk and I won't be able to walk."

In the movie "Social Network", Zuckerberg first designed in the contract to drive away his co-founder Savarin; then, he framed his "entrepreneurial mentor" Parker for hiding drugs and drove Parker out of the company.
Although many of the founding process of Facebook in the movie are fabricated and exaggerated, it is undeniable that Zuckerberg not only drove his co-founder Savarin, but also drove his "entrepreneurship mentor" Parker out of Facebook. real.

　The emotional drama was indeed not well written, and I also admit that the longing for the wife in the previous life has become a disgusting thing. In the future, I will reduce the emotional drama and push it directly.Finally, I would like to thank Dad Bao Gu for the reward, and an old friend who often votes, thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)