Back to 80: My literary life.

Chapter 714 Amazon

"Why are you going to Seattle?" Li Li looked at him in surprise: "Are there any friends of yours there?"

"No." Fang Minghua shook his head: "Have you heard of the website Amazon?"

"I didn't notice. What is it for?"

"Now it is a website dedicated to selling books, an online bookstore, and the website address is in Seattle." Fang Minghua answered truthfully.

"Online bookstore? Do you mean that Ashley Press will also open an online bookstore in the future?" Li Li immediately understood.

"That's what I mean." Fang Minghua said with a smile: "I want to talk to the owner of the website."

"Oh, okay, but I have classes recently and can't go with you."

"It's okay. I can do it alone."

"Okay, I'll pack your luggage after dinner. Be careful on the road."

The next morning, Li Li went to class, and Fang Minghua went out with her suitcase, took a taxi to San Francisco International Airport, and boarded a flight to Seattle.

Seattle is located on the Pacific coast in the northwest of Washington State, between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. It is about 1300 kilometers away from San Francisco and only takes more than two hours by plane.

After getting off the plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Fang Minghua took the airport bus to his destination.

Fang Minghua went not to Seattle, but to Bellevue, the fifth largest city in Washington State and the third largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, across Lake Washington from Seattle.

On the website, Amazon's registered address is here.

After arriving in the city, Fang Minghua entered a telephone booth on the street, took out a coin and put it into the coin slot, then dialed the number left on the website.

There was a response from the other end soon, but it was a woman's voice.

"Hello, my name is Fang Minghua, I'm from China, and I want to see Mr. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon." Fang Minghua stated her purpose straight away.

The person who answered the phone was Jeff Bezos' wife, MacKenzie Bezos. She was very surprised to hear a Chinese person looking for her husband, but she still politely told Fang Minghua: "I'm sorry, Mr. Fang, my husband has gone to New York and will not be back until the day after tomorrow."

"Oh, okay then. Mrs. Bezos, I'll come the day after tomorrow," said Fang Minghua.

He wasn't in a hurry anyway.

After asking for the specific address of Bezos' home, Fang Minghua hung up the phone.

Then spend two days in Seattle.

It is said that there is a very good Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, which houses a large number of precious cultural relics and artworks related to pop music, movies, television, etc., which is worth a visit.

Here, Fang Minghua was alone, carrying a travel bag, enthusiastically visiting Seattle's attractions, including the Museum of Pop Culture, the Gum Wall, and the Chihuly Garden and Glass.

On the other side, Bezos finished his business in New York and rushed back to his home in Bellevue.

Bezos lives in a bungalow in the suburbs of Bellevue. Locals call this type of house a rambler house. He rents it and the monthly rent is not expensive, $890.

"Honey." His wife Mackenzie saw her husband coming in with a suitcase, hugged and kissed him, and then asked, "Did you see Mr. Nick Hannoll?"

Nick Hanauer is not an ordinary person, he is a famous investor, and Bezos is going there to solicit investment!
Hearing his wife's question, Bezos replied: "Yes, Nick was very interested in our website and my business plan. He agreed to invest $100,000."

"Oh my God, only 100,000 US dollars!" Mackenzie was immediately disappointed: "As far as I know, the assets of the investment company under Nick's name have reached hundreds of millions, but he only invested 100,000 yuan!"

Bezos was not upset at all. Instead, he comforted his wife: "It's good to be able to invest $100,000. Look, other investors only invest $10,000 or $20,000."

Bezos was right. Over the past six months, Bezos has visited nearly thirty investors, only 12 of whom were interested in his website, and the average investment was only $!

"But when will we reach our goal: $100 million?" MacKenzie was worried again. "Don't worry, I remember there is an old Chinese saying that goes, 'When you reach the mountain, there will always be a way out.'" Bezos consoled her.

When the ancient Chinese saying was mentioned, McCann suddenly thought of the Chinese man who called him the day before yesterday, and quickly said, "Bezos, a Chinese man called you the day before yesterday and said he wanted to talk to you."

"Chinese? What are you talking about?"

“About the website.”

"Oh, let's talk about it." Bezos said casually, and then asked: "How is the website running? Are there any problems?"

"There is a BUG, ​​there is a small problem with the link."

"I gonna go see."

Bezos said and walked into the garage.

His website was built in the garage. He was not only a technician and promoter, but also a driver. If someone placed an order for a book online, he would drive to a nearby book market to purchase it and then be responsible for sending it to the other party.

While Bezos was busy, Fang Minghua also took a taxi over.

The weather in Bellevue is very bad today, with a howling north wind. It is obviously much colder than San Francisco.

The driver followed the address he gave and quickly found where Bezos lived.

It is a bungalow, but it looks different from the bungalow where Li Li lives, and it seems bigger.

Fang Minghao knocked on the door politely with his travel bag on his back. A blonde young woman, Mackenzie, opened the door.

After Fang Minghua introduced himself, MacKenzie let him in and told him that Bezos was working in the garage and she would go and call him now.

Fang Minghua looked around casually and found that the furnishings in the house were rather simple.

Yes, how good can the conditions be when just starting a business?

A few minutes later, Bezos came out with a cup of coffee, and his bald head was particularly eye-catching.

The two sat down, Mackenzie made another cup of coffee for Fang Minghua, and the three of them started chatting.

"Mr. Fang, do you have something to talk to me about?"

"Oh, yes, I'm a Chinese writer." Fang Minghua had just said half of the sentence when Mackenzie next to him suddenly exclaimed, "Oh my God, you're a writer! Is that Minghua?"

"Yes."

"Oh, I love reading your novels!" Mackenzie said excitedly.

Ah?
Your own fans?
However, according to MacKenzie's resume on the Internet, she was a novelist and later wrote two novels.

At this time, MacKenzie actually started chatting about literature with Fang Minghua. Bezos next to her looked a little depressed but he didn't say anything.

He knew that his wife loved literature, although now was the most difficult time for starting a business. Not only did his wife have to handle the company's finances, but she also had to take care of the children at home, and the house was not big enough.

She would use the time late at night when everyone in her family was asleep to work on her literary creation in the bathroom.

After a while, Mackenzie suddenly thought of something and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, you were originally talking to my husband about something, but I ended up talking to you about literature."

"Nothing." Fang Minghua looked at Bezos again: "Mr. Bezos, I have seen your Amazon website online. I am very interested. Do you need investment?"

(End of this chapter)