Wind Rises 2005

Chapter 604: Arrogant

After finishing breakfast, Ma Liang and the others turned around and returned to the presidential suite.

It didn't take long for him to wait for the so-called unexpected visitor, the mysterious capital tycoon from the polar bear country, Yuri Milner and Grigory Finger, the two founders of DST.

The two were good friends who worked in banks many years ago, and they got together because of starting a business.

Although success cannot be replicated, as long as you grasp the essential laws, you can actually find shortcuts to a certain extent.

This is how Yuri Mir and his partner Grigory made their fortunes, which is exactly the same as the three Samwer brothers in Germany.

Their entrepreneurial models are not much different, they are all playing "geographic arbitrage".

Although they are not as successful as the three Thornwell brothers in entrepreneurship, they are much more powerful in the investment field.

The fundamental reason is that behind the two of them are the top bosses in the polar bear country.

There were rumors in the world that Yuri Milner could withdraw money from the bank of Lao Maozi at any time, but there was no limit.

This explains why he doesn't care about the price when investing in entrepreneurial projects.

Not long ago, DST Fund just invested US$2 million in Facebook, and it also purchased shares from many old shareholders.

It can be said that DST Fund is now the largest third-party shareholder of Facebook, and its shareholding ratio is second only to Xiaoza. It is really arrogant.

In Ma Liang's previous life, the DST Fund invested more than US$10 billion in Facebook alone, which was extremely arrogant.

Not to mention that in the next ten years, it will invest in the global Internet field.

A newly established investment institution has spent as much money on Facebook as the old financial oligarch Goldman Sachs Group. How could this be possible without the special background of Polar Bear?

You must know that investing in Facebook is the pioneering work of DST. Before this, Yuri Milner had no record at all in the venture capital circle.

Therefore, the investment philosophy of the DST Fund has continued the style of the fighting nation since the day it was established - simple and crude, with not much reason to say at all.

This is because Yuri and his partner Grigory are different from ordinary GPs, and their identities as LP fathers are so unusual.

The capital raised by DST funds does not have to worry about losses at all, and there is even no time limit.

Because the top bosses in Lao Maozi Country are never short of money, and money is just a series of numbers to those bosses.

The reason why the big guys throw money to Yuri Milner for investment is just to turn these numbers into higher-quality assets, preferably high-quality enough to be passed down openly.

This is why the investment style of DST funds is unique in the world, and there are almost no similar cases.

DST, which was just founded, can make more than one billion US dollars. Who can be so arrogant?

Without the foresight from his previous life, Ma Liang would definitely not know what the two bosses of DST Fund were looking for.

But based on the current situation, he understood without having to guess.

These two old fools must have come to him to discuss investment. After all, the DST Fund invested in Facebook and Twitter in their previous life.

However, the situation in this life is completely different from that in the previous life. Twitter successfully changed its destiny and firmly suppressed Facebook.

Yuri Milner, who just invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Facebook, must be anxious now.

"Dear Mr. Marlon, I have heard about your reputation for a long time. Today I met you and found out that the rumors are still false and did not fully describe your young and promising character!"

As soon as they met, Yuri Milner, the bald man, exchanged pleasantries.

Although he may look like an old guy, he has studied and worked in the United States for many years, and his English is even better than Ma Liang's.

And I must have made sufficient preparations before coming, and I have learned the Chinese politeness routine.

Ma Liang shook hands with the other party enthusiastically and responded enthusiastically: "Mr. Yuri, nice to meet you!"

"Mr. Marlon, we should be rivals now, but I have a reason to visit you today. I really hope you can forgive me!"

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the presidential suite, he just exchanged a few words and then got straight to the point.

Yuri Milner, a bald old man, doesn't look capable, and he even looks a little amiable.

It's just that he felt happy when he came up, but it caught Ma Liang off guard.

After all, although he had heard of the other person's name in his previous life, Ma Liang and his class were far apart, so it was impossible for him to get acquainted with this big shot.

So for a while I was not familiar with the other party's behavior and didn't know how to deal with it.

Ma Liang could only pretend to be ignorant and continue to ask: "Oh? I wonder what Mr. Yuri wants to ask me about?"

"To be honest, I came here for Twitter's Series B financing." Yuri Milner is still so direct, he doesn't make any twists and turns, and he doesn't know where he got the news.

But think about it, after all, the other party has many connections in the United States, and although Twitter’s Series B financing has not announced the details to the public, some rumors will always leak out.

As a capital tycoon, it is not incomprehensible to hear the news that Twitter has started financing.

Hearing that the other party was prepared, Ma Liang could only continue to act stupid: "Then Mr. Yuri should go directly to talk to the CEO of Twitter!

If you come here to talk to me, I'm afraid you're looking for the wrong person..."

"Mr. Marlon is joking. Among the well-informed people in the global venture capital circle, who doesn't know that you are the one who can really decide the fate of Twitter?"

Seeing Ma Liang doing Tai Chi, Yuri Milner was not angry at all, but directly pointed out the truth again.

His straightforward temperament is really in line with Lao Maozi's style.

Ma Liang then gave up playing him and had to politely refuse: "Mr. Yuri, you may be disappointed.

At present, Twitter's Series B financing is still in the follow-up investment stage of the previous round of investors, and the investment window has not been opened to the outside world.

Besides, you are an investor in Facebook, so it wouldn’t be good to invest in Twitter, right? "

"No, no, no, Mr. Marlon, I think you may have misunderstood. The philosophy of our DST Fund has always been not to get involved in the specific operations and management of the companies we invest in, but only to focus on financial investment.

So investing in Facebook and investing in Twitter do not conflict. On the contrary, in my opinion, it is an excellent thing.

After all, there is a famous saying in China: Cooperation will benefit both sides, and confrontation will hurt both.

There is no need for a life-and-death fight between Facebook and Twitter, as that would be bad for everyone.

Under the right circumstances, it would be best to merge the two companies.

And our DST Fund is willing and capable to act as this peacemaker, and we will definitely play an important role when the critical moment comes. "

Yuri Milner was very confident and did not flinch at all because of Ma Liang's rejection.

Ma Liang was puzzled when he heard this: "Mr. Yuri, do you think too highly of Facebook?

You must know that Facebook has no ability to resist in front of Twitter at this time. "

The meaning of his words is also very obvious. Facebook still wants to challenge Twitter, which is not the case at all.

The saying "Both will benefit from cooperation, and both will suffer from confrontation" only holds true if we have a certain level of strength.

According to the current development of Twitter, it won't be long before Facebook is far behind. Xiaoza wants to cause trouble for Twitter, but he probably doesn't have the ability.

"Dear Mr. Marlon, it seems that you still don't know enough about our DST Fund.

Under normal circumstances, the logic you mentioned is valid, but with our intervention, the result is not certain.

Because Facebook is the first benchmark project invested by DST Fund, we will never allow it to have any possibility of failure.

As long as Facebook does not declare bankruptcy for a day, we will support it unconditionally.

Even if we continue to invest 500 million US dollars in Facebook, or even 1 billion US dollars, it will not be a big problem.

As long as Facebook has the money to continue operating, even if it can't surpass Twitter, it can still cause you a lot of trouble.

And as far as I know, Zuckerberg is already studying how to copy Twitter’s flagship product, and plans to create some similar services on Facebook.

I think as long as you spend enough money, it's not impossible.

If this continues, do you still think Facebook is so vulnerable? "

Yuri Milner still analyzed it unhurriedly. Although his tone was calm, it did not prevent him from smelling a hint of threat.

If other people had heard this, they might have scoffed on the spot, thinking that the other party was talking nonsense.

Talking about five hundred million US dollars or one billion US dollars, you really think the money is blown by the strong wind.

But Ma Liang is different. He is a reborn boss. With the memory of his past life, he knows very well how arrogant the guy in front of him is.

If you go by what the other party said, Facebook might actually be able to do something.

This made him lose his temper. Players who play cards out of common sense like this are the most disrespectful players.

How can you play when you can't help but lift the table?

The most important thing is that he still has the ability to overturn the table. Where can you go to reason with him? ——

PS: I stayed up late and wrote another chapter. Brothers, please support me!

(End of this chapter)