Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 345 Fly, Little Bird
The most indispensable thing in the United States is lawyers. As long as you have money, professionals can come to provide services at any time.

As the capital of Texas, how can Austin lack lawyers?

With Ma Liang's financial ability, he quickly found a lawyer and signed a temporary investment agreement with the Big Three of Twitter.

The agreement not only clarifies the investment details, but also constrains the follow-up obligations.

First of all, the first thing is that Twitter must be split from Odeo as soon as possible and operate independently.

The second thing is that once Twitter operates independently, what Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone enjoy is no longer options, but real shares.

Finally, a good time is agreed, and the two parties sign a formal investment agreement.

The two parties to the investment agreement are Twitter and [Gale Capital] New York Branch. At that time, [Galle Capital] will obtain 22.22% of the shares of Twitter.

After the formal agreement is signed, Ma Liang will ask [Gale Capital] to transfer the follow-up funds to Twitter.

But now he is calling Deng Jingwen and asking him to urgently pay 20 U.S. dollars to the bank account designated by the Twitter Big Three for the expenses during this period.

The 20 yuan includes the marketing expenses of this SXSW carnival, as well as the initial operating funds after the Twitter company became independent.

"Dear Marlon, we will be our own people from now on, haha" After signing the provisional agreement, Ivan Williams hugged Ma Liang very happily.

Now that the deal is done, he is also a person who can afford to let it go, and will not deliberately quarrel with this angel investor.

After all, there is a binding clause in the investment agreement. Ma Liang has the priority to invest in Twitter's next round of financing.

Jack Dorsey also echoed: "Yes, dear Marlon, thank you for your timely help."

Although he just shook hands with Ma Liang, the gratitude in his eyes was not fake.

Ivan and Biz certainly couldn't see it. There were two meanings in Jack's eyes. One was to sincerely thank Ma Liang for his angel investment, and the other was to look forward to Ma Liang's private promise.

Of course, the most important thing is that at the request of the angel investor, both his and Biz Stone's options were cashed out in advance.

Let alone Jack Dorsey at this moment, even Biz Stone looked at Ma Liang with a hint of intimacy.

People are like this, whoever treats themselves well will break through the barriers and immediately shorten the distance.

Now that the provisional investment agreement has been signed, everything is settled.

Although the follow-up development of Twitter in the previous life had various twists and turns, it was far from Facebook, one of the five giants in the US technology industry.

But Ma Liang is confident that under his guidance, Twitter will definitely avoid many detours.

If you really grasp the trend of the mobile Internet, maybe it is not impossible to replace Facebook.

That being the case, Ma Liang stopped talking, and immediately ordered: "I said three, since the money is already in place, should we split up and go to work.

Don’t worry about money, the marketing expenses of this SXSW carnival will be arranged according to the budget of 5-10 US dollars.

I don't care about anything else, I just want to see Twitter become the most eye-catching project of this carnival. "

"Hahaha, dear Marlon, just rest assured, I will spread Twitter advertisements all over the venues of the SXSW carnival." The boss, Ivan Williams, replied confidently.

It's easy to do things with money, but who wouldn't spend money on advertising? It couldn't be easier.

The three giants of Twitter are busy with their own work, and they are destined to not be able to sleep tonight.The volume of publicity has expanded several times, and their workload has also doubled several times.

But no one will feel tired, but full of energy.In their view, this time the SXSW carnival is destined to belong to Twitter.

Only Ma Liang knew that even without his investment, Twitter would still shine in the next few days.

But with more funds to promote, he can't predict what effect it will achieve.

Bringing the provisional investment agreement, Ma Liang and Jiang Yinqiu returned to the hotel, and he couldn't stop being excited all the way.

It's not as awesome as Facebook, but it's Twitter.

We must know that when Twitter's market value was the highest, it once reached 400 billion US dollars.Anyone who can eat this cake will be so happy that they will not be able to sleep.

"As for the success?

Look at you, this journey is almost from ear to ear," Jiang Yinqiu complained incomprehensibly when he saw his lover giggling.

In her view, Ma Liang just invested in a start-up company.

I don't know what the future will hold, and there is a high probability that I won't be able to do it.After all, start-up companies are close to death, so it’s too early to be happy now.

Ma Liang didn't take it seriously, hugged University Sister Jiang and kissed her, grinning and said: "As for, very as for.

Believe me, social networking is king in the era of mobile Internet.

This investment will be the most correct choice I have made in my life, and it may also be the one with the greatest return on investment. Do you think I can be unhappy. "

"Look at you, I don't know, I thought you were voted for Google or Facebook!" Jiang Yinqiu gave him a helpless look.

Although she didn't know where her lover's confidence came from, she was also inexplicably happy.

With the beauty in his arms, Ma Liang's hands were dishonest again.He was in a good mood at the moment, and immediately became interested. Naturally, he wanted to celebrate with Sister Jiang University.

He smiled wryly and said: "It's beautiful, it's so beautiful.

But the most beautiful thing in my life is meeting you, senior sister, nothing else can compare to it. "

"I just know what to say." Jiang Yinqiu was teased by his blatant love words, and her little face blushed involuntarily.

Ma Liang leaned over to her shoulder and kissed her fleshy earlobe again, cheekily asked softly: "Senior sister, don't you think so?"

"No, I have something more beautiful." Jiang Yinqiu turned her head away in shame, not daring to admit it arrogantly.

Ma Liang forcibly straightened Sister Jiang's body, looked at her affectionately, pretended to be sad and asked, "Really?"

"It's fake, you're satisfied!" Jiang Yinqiu couldn't resist his burning eyes, and finally surrendered.

Immediately, Ma Liang was overjoyed, put his face close to her, and pressed close to her ear and shouted:

"Sister!"

"Ok?"

"Yin Qiu!"

"Ok?"

"Is your aunt gone?"

"Um"

This is the end of the shameless conversation, everything is silent!
……

The next morning, after breakfast, Ma Liang and Jiang Yinqiu rushed directly to the venue of the SXSW carnival.

All kinds of tourists can be seen along the way, and the closer to the venue, the denser the crowd.

After arriving at the main venue, it was even more crowded, because the performance was about to start in half an hour.

"Hey, what's that, it looks like fun."

"Looks like a website, a one-sentence blog? You can register with a mobile phone and interact with the entire carnival audience?"

"Is it just like what was shown on those two TVs? How do you play it, SMS registration?"

"Yeah, it's very interesting. I just posted a tweet, and someone liked it very quickly. Just try that URL, too."

The U.S. dollar opened the way, and the busy work of the Big Three on Twitter finally paid off.

Not only has the poster in the main venue been changed to a larger version, but the large TV used to simultaneously display Twitter updates has also been replaced with a super-large LED display.

The same huge posters and display screens were arranged in several sub-venues.

The two TVs were thrown into the lobby of the VIP guest rest area by Jack Dorsey and the others, and slowly displayed.

Just renting these concert-level LED displays cost more than 2 US dollars.

Marketing is burning money, which is the same no matter where you go.

With his financial support, Twitter's marketing efforts are several times greater than in previous lives.

On the way to Laide, you can see Twitter’s print advertisements on the wall beside the road, which is almost an eye-catching carpet bombing.

Fortunately, the main city of Austin is not too big, and the advertising fee is still acceptable.

However, the effect of the advertisement was surprisingly good. More and more people in each branch venue noticed the interesting new thing of Twitter.

As long as the mobile phone can access the Internet, they have started to try it out.

Listening to the comments of the tourists around him, Ma Liang felt that the expenses were all worth it.

At the moment, the giant display screen is showing the tweets posted by the users in rotation, and the massive tweets are constantly being refreshed.

Jiang Yinqiu couldn't help but glanced at him, the joy in his eyes was indescribable, because the reaction of the tourists has fully proved that the marketing has begun to work.

Looking at the data refreshed on the screen, Ma Liang couldn't help cheering for Twitter: "Fly, little bird!"

(End of this chapter)