Rebirth

For Seattle, Li Feng in his previous life heard this name for the first time because of the Seattle Supersonics, who competed with Jordan the Great’s Bulls for a championship in the late 1990s, and only then did he know that Seattle is a city.

Don't blame Li Feng for being ignorant. Li Feng, an orphan in his 10s, knows Seattle is pretty good.

Later, as Microsoft ruled the global operating system and the powerful Boeing Company, Li Feng had a better understanding of the city of Seattle. Although Microsoft is not in downtown Seattle, it is not far away.

As the commercial and cultural capital of the HSD state, Seattle has repeatedly been rated as the most beautiful and most livable city in the United States, not to mention it.

Seattle has a temperate marine climate. The lowest temperature throughout the year is above 0 degrees. Therefore, it is difficult to see snow, and the highest temperature is also below 30 degrees. It is very suitable for people to live and live. It is rainy and humid.

No, after more than 2 hours of flying, it was a drizzle when I walked out of the airport to greet Li Feng and the two of them. It was a welcome gift from the city of Seattle to Li Feng, who had arrived for the first time, and got used to the California sunshine. Li Feng felt uncomfortable for a while.

After leaving the airport, I boarded a taxi and headed towards the office space rented by Bezos, where the current RES... Internet book station is located on the outskirts of Seattle.

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After getting out of the taxi, I looked up at the logo of the Cadabra online book station (well, I haven't seen the Amazon logo yet). Looking at the spacious garage, Li Feng couldn't help but screamed, damn the so-called "garage culture".

Well, Amazon has also inherited many corporate traditions and was founded in a garage in the suburbs of Seattle.

Li Feng didn't have a contact, and he led Zac into the garage with the door open. After entering it, he saw the server buzzing, and there were only three workers in the entire garage.

When they saw the two of Li Feng walking into the garage, the three of them all turned to look at the two of Li Feng, and at the same time Li Feng recognized the young version of Jeff Bezos at a glance.

At this time, Bezos was only in his early 30s, and he still had hair. He was not the famous bald image of later generations.

"Hello, Mr. Jeff Bezos, I am St. John Lee, an angel investor, and this is my personal lawyer Zach John. We contacted yesterday and I am glad to meet you."

"Hi, hello, Mr. Li, Mr. John, this is Jeff Bezos, and I welcome both of you."

Sure enough, hearing Li Feng’s self-introduction, the three people in the garage were in a hurry. Then Bezos greeted them gracefully, and then introduced the remaining two people, one employee named Sher Capan, and another Its wife.

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What Bezos said was once a member of the Wall Street elite. Therefore, he quickly chatted with Li Feng and laughed. By the way, he introduced the situation of his online book station since its operation, and also took out the preparations that he had prepared. Business plan.

In general, in 1994, the Bezos and his wife used all their savings of 300,000 US dollars to establish their own company and officially started their entrepreneurial career.

The current online book station can barely maintain operation, but it is estimated that it will not last long without external support.

At this time, it is really not easy to get investment, and it is a small website like a book shopping website. The era of online shopping is really a barren period in the barbaric period.

In the business plan, Li Feng looked at it a little bit. In fact, he mainly talked about the convenience of online book purchase and the prospects of the book market of Meidi. As for the online shopping of later generations, there is no concept of B2BB2C.

However, in the plan, Bezos already has a basic business philosophy. In the plan, he emphasizes the importance of network distribution and logistics, saying that if the development goes smoothly, he hopes to build his own logistics distribution center and data in the future. center.

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Of course, Li Feng from later generations knows the dependence of online shopping on logistics distribution, the importance of logistics distribution centers and data centers.

I also know that Amazon will not be profitable in the next 10 years, and will use all the money to build its own logistics distribution center and data center.

Li Feng is very clear about the importance of cloud technology data centers in the so-called big data era in later generations. Therefore, he very much agrees with Bezos' ideas.

Hearing Li Feng's support for his proposed future distribution center and data center, Bezos was also very happy. After all, if investors can agree with his ideas, then there will be less unnecessary trouble in the future.

One thing that later generations of Amazon has been criticized by Wall Street is that Amazon almost didn't make much profit. Every time the financial report came out, it said how much it made but how much it spent. Many shareholders have never seen dividends.

When the two people's ideas were the same, Bezos was also excited, and then he was very excited to talk to Li Feng about what he thought of the online book station and so on.

According to the venture capital process, this preliminary exchange is actually a necessary stage of investment. Both parties need to understand in order to make the next work smoother.

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"Jeff, since I have come to Seattle from Los Angeles today, it means that I am very interested in what you said. However, in business, Jeff, you should be very clear about the current situation of the company, then you What do you think your current company is worth?"

"John, since you have come here, I think you should also know something about my company, don't you know what you think?" Hearing Li Feng’s question, Jeff Bezos resumed his role as a Wall Street The shrewdness of the elite asked immediately.

"Jeff, let's put it this way, I invested in Yahoo at the beginning of the year." Li Feng changed the subject at this time and turned to his own investment in Yahoo.

"Yahoo?"

"Yes, it's Yahoo."

"OhMyGod, John, that's really a beautiful investment." Jeff Bezos heard that Li Feng had invested in Yahoo, and said with envy.

As a former Wall Street elite, he has a strong desire to chase wealth. Hearing that Li Feng invested in Yahoo, Bezos, who is now an Internet practitioner, certainly understands what this means, and naturally he is a little envious.

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"Jeff, I told you that I am a Yahoo shareholder, not to show off, but to help you.

You should also know about Yahoo. It is an introduction to the Internet, and Yahoo’s search catalog contains more and more websites, but there seems to be no book-buying website.

I can help you to include your website in the Yahoo Directory. I think this way, your website will be able to be seen by a large number of Internet users. As for what it means, I think you should be very clear."

"What?" Bezos screamed when he heard that Li Feng could allow Yahoo.com to include his website directly.

"Of course, why not?"

"John, I don't think it will be long for Yahoo to include my website. After all, there are few book-buying websites on the Internet."

Bezos saw Li Feng looking at him with a smile, and suddenly worried that Li Feng wanted to lower the price or get more shares.

In fact, Li Feng really has this idea. In fact, Li Feng wants more shares. After all, he can get Amazon shares in advance. This is a big deal.

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"Jeff, you should be aware that you are not the only family buying books online. Although yours may be considered the best at the moment. It is the first one I have contacted, but it doesn't mean I have to invest in you, right?"

In fact, although later generations have always said that Amazon opened online shopping, in fact, there were really more than one book-buying websites on the Internet at this time, and there was competition everywhere, but the other few eventually disappeared.

It can be said that because he became a shareholder of Yahoo, Yahoo was able to become a tool used by Li Feng in the early days of the Internet.

After all, in the early days, the first choice for most people to go online was to go to the Yahoo website. This is also the reason why Yahoo was sought after by all parties before the bubble, which also led to the increase in Yahoo’s market value.

At this time, Li Feng looked at Bezos who was contemplative, but his heart was extremely high. Looking at Jeff Bezos now, he has the ability to crush him.

I thought to myself, even if you don't care about anything in future generations, you still have to come to my bowl obediently now.