Rebirth of the Wild Age

United States, California.

The breeze opened a corner of the curtains, and the dazzling sunlight came in. In a daze, Sean Parker yawned and opened his eyes, then quickly closed and raised his hand to block the light. After a long time, he finally struggled to get up.

The woman I found last night is gone, and there are still some empty wine bottles on the floor, as well as certain chemical residues that are easily harmonized.

As we all know, Sean Parker is an addict, and his addiction has grown in the past two years.

Of course, Sean Parker also has other hobbies, such as when he was in high school, he liked to go to various websites, and he often broke in uninvited. He never missed his hands as a hacker, coming and going without a trace until one morning when his father saw his son surfing the Internet all night, he was so angry that he unplugged the keyboard, and was finally successfully located by the FBI.

A few days later, this hopeful father discovered that his home was surrounded by a large number of FBIs. It turned out that his son was suspected of attacking multiple government and military base websites.

Sean Parker was a blessing in disguise. He was a minor and didn't cause any huge losses. It only takes a few days to be a volunteer. But after his glorious deeds spread, it attracted many organizations, including the CIA, and invited him to develop various software. In his senior year alone, he made 80,000 US dollars.

At this time, Sean Parker met 15-year-old Sean Fanning, and two hacker teenagers joined forces to create the first pirated music website in the United States. This website quickly broke the tens of millions of registered users, and the bad impact it brought was that the US record company lost hundreds of millions of dollars and announced the end of the CD era of the US recording industry.

Because there was no legal basis, the lawsuit dragged on for a year, and their pirated music website was finally forced to shut down.

Sean Parker became penniless, and even the money he saved for writing software was gone, so his girlfriend persuaded him to go to Starbucks to carry a plate to make a living. After a few months of messing around, this guy created an Internet address book and successfully obtained financing from Sequoia Capital. It's a pity that he was often late and absent, and did not go to work at the company every other day, and was finally kicked out of the management by Sequoia Capital.

Until now, Sean Parker is still fooling around, and he squandered the money he earned from the second venture.

Feeling a little hungry, Sean Parker turned on the computer first, and then ran to search the refrigerator. It's a pity that the refrigerator was already empty, only half a can of canned pork left, but there was an unopened bottle of red wine on the bedside table. So, he opened the cork and drank to satisfy his hunger, and half-lied in a chair to browse e-mails.

One of the emails was sent by Eduardo Saverin, who was a rich second-generation thief and a member of the Phoenix SK club at Harvard University. The content of the email is probably: "Dear Parker, I recently registered an Internet company in Florida with my friend. The domain name of the website is The. Now everything is simple and there is no fixed office address. So I decided to buy a house in California, dedicated to Office of the company. At present, the company still lacks a manager. If you are interested, you can come to be the president of the company."

Sean Parker didn't bother to reply to the email, because he always thought Saverin was a stupid, and he should not discuss major issues with him. But two days later, Saverin’s email came again: "Dear Parker, we urgently need your help. Just yesterday, we got a $1 million investment from Altair, and now there is no shortage of funds and technology. , There is only a lack of a president who can lead the company on track. Of course, if you are not interested in this position, then I can only consider asking you to be smart."

Altair?

Sean Parker quickly searched for information on his computer and found that Altair is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taurus Capital and the largest shareholder of Google.

During this period of time, the news of Google's listing has been raging, and Wall Street investment banks have been fighting for it. Sean Parker finally got interested and immediately replied: "Give me the company address and I will fly over!"

...

Let's bring the time back to two days ago.

Zuckerberg had just attended a Harvard student party, and when he was in the bathroom, he met a Chinese-American female student of the medical school, which was his later wife Priscilla Chen. The two hit it off, chatting from the toilet all the way back to the party, and agreed to have dinner together tomorrow.

Soon after returning to the dormitory, his roommate Moskowitz suddenly jumped up and shouted: "It's an email from Altair, Altair has seen our website!"

"Do you want to buy us again?" Zuckerberg hadn't woken up with his wine.

At this time, it has been almost a month since Song Weiyang came to the United States. Facebook has long since left the Harvard campus and has become popular in more than 10 universities in the United States. There is an online company called Friendster, which is also an online community. It quickly caught up with Facebook and tried to acquire it with less than $100,000.

Zuckerberg didn't say anything about it, and the partner Saverin almost took out a wad of banknotes and smashed the money directly into the other's face.

The mental activity of Saverin is estimated to be like this: Lao Tzu is a rich second-generation, he just throws 15,000 US dollars to play, and only needs 30% of the company's equity. That bit of money you **** is a shit, and it's not as good as my pocket money every year, so you want to buy 100% of the shares?

Moskowitz excitedly said: "That's Altair, the Altair who invested in Google! Song, Song, have you forgotten? A guide in the Internet industry! He happened to come to the United States to participate in Google's listing. If we accept this financing, Song will come to Harvard to meet us in person. He is very interested in our website!"

"Will Song Zhen come here in person?" Zuckerberg was finally sober.

Moskowitz nodded and said: "Yes, he will come in person. The Altair person still said in the email that Sohu, which Song invested in, has a similar website in China that has more comprehensive functions than Facebook. I have already broken through. China’s network firewall is now, and we are now logging into Sohu’s Renren. Perhaps we can refer to the special features of Renren.”

"Do you know Chinese characters?" Zuckerberg asked.

Moskowitz shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Zuckerberg was quite speechless, and silently took out his cell phone to make a call: "Chen, hello, this is Zuckerberg... Yes, that's the long-faced man you met in front of the party toilet today. I have something to think about. Please help... OK, OK, see you tomorrow!"

The next day, Priscilla Chen, a Chinese-Vietnamese hybrid, was visited by a Starbucks on Renren.com.

Priscilla Chen has only learned traditional characters, but this does not prevent her from visiting the mainland website: "This is the drift bottle function, and it will be randomly distributed to friends or strangers. Users who have found the drift bottle can choose to use the drift bottle. "Stuff a piece of paper" inside to let the drifting bottle continue to drift. You can also use website points or website currency to trace any picker of the drifting bottle, thereby establishing a "bottle friend" relationship."

"Drift bottle? This is an interesting feature." Zuckerberg laughed.

Priscilla Chen pointed to the laptop again and said: "This feature is called ‘poke’, so you can ‘poke’ others.”

Moskowitz asked: "What's the use?"

"I don't know," Priscilla Chen said, "maybe it's a greeting, or maybe it's something else."

Zuckerberg asked: "What does Renren rely on to make money?"

Priscilla Chen repeatedly studied the website for a long time and said: "There is an advertisement column on the right side of the page. Users can click on the advertisement to earn points, and these points can buy some specific products. For example, the background of their homepage, or some common Gifts, these gifts can be given to friends."

"Gift?" Zuckerberg leaned over.

Priscilla Chen opened the gift shop interface: "Look, these are gifts. Some gifts can be exchanged for points, but most gifts need to be recharged. There are e-cards, postcards, flowers, cakes, and cartoons. ...All are pretty."

Zuckerberg and Moskowitz looked at each other, and the latter said with emotion: "I can't think of China's online community, and the business operation model is more mature than that of the United States."

Priscilla Chen searched the Wikipedia entry again and said: "This is China’s Sogoupedia, similar to Wikipedia in the United States, but it is online earlier than Wikipedia. The Wikipedia entry of'Renren.com' is: the world’s largest network The community currently has 30 million registered users, and one out of every three Chinese Internet users is a member of Renren.com."

"I buy it!" Moskowitz was shocked. "I think Sohu's stock price is seriously underestimated. With this social network called Renren, Sohu's stock price should double its current price!"

It's a pity that Renren is currently not profitable, and only got out of a loss at the end of last year.

Zuckerberg originally had great confidence in Facebook. Although there are many similar American websites, he firmly believes that he is the best one. Now that he met the Chinese Renren website ~www.readwn.com~, he instantly lost his arrogance and pride, because they really did better.

Moskowitz said: "I think we should accept Song's financing, and then ask an employee from Renren.com to help. They have more practical experience with this kind of website."

"I think so too." Zuckerberg said.

Moskowitz asked: "Do you need to notify Saverin?"

Zuckerberg said: "Tell him after the talk, he doesn't care much about the company anyway."

Later, someone said that Zuckerberg had too bad character and turned his face to disagree and kicked Savelin out of the game. But if you really share a partner like Saverin, it would be quite depressing, at least in the early stage of the business.

The rich second-generation Savelin treated Facebook like this:

No start-up capital? In that way, I would invest $15,000 and give me 30% of the shares.

What, the company doesn’t have enough money? In that way, I will invest another 10,000 U.S. dollars, and you can help me calculate the shares.

Need me to manage the company? I'm sorry, I don't have time, I still have to study, and I'm still looking for a promising job in a big company.

Do you want me to help? No problem, this matter is easy to solve... Sorry, I forgot.

Savelin's indifferent attitude not only made Zuckerberg and Moskowitz annoyed, but Savelin personally invited Sean Parker to be the president, and he was very dissatisfied with this guy. As a result, the trio simply re-registered the company and retained Savelin's shares, but did not recognize Savelin as the founder, and did not bother to notify Savelin when they accepted the financing.

Zuckerberg said: "In response to Altair, we accept financing negotiations."

"OK!" Moskowitz was very excited. He had a hunch that he would become a billionaire because he held 5% of Facebook shares at this time.

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