Chapter 401

First-class seats are limited, and it is not easy to treat them differently, so I simply bought business class, which costs 14,000 yuan per ticket.

Sister Bao sat on the left side of Zhou Buqi, near the window.

On Zhou Buqi's right, at the other end of the aisle is Tang Binchen.

We went this time, mainly to connect with those investors and Zuckerberg, determine the specific financing plan, and sign the contract. What needs to be discussed is basically discussed in the email.

"It's better to talk face-to-face."

"This thinking is wrong."

"Um?"

Tang Binchen said: "This is a different business culture. In China, they may be more accustomed to discussing business face to face, and they pay special attention to the cultivation of personal relationships. The United States is different. Their habit is to negotiate business through emails and text messages. .Especially in the high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, the founders are all technology savvy, and they all hate contact with Wall Street. They don’t talk about personal relationships, but only talk about cooperation and interests.”

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Only talking about benefits, not other things, this business will be easy to do. If the same can be done in China, the development of private enterprises will only be better."

Tang Binchen nodded, and added: "Not only that, there is another advantage of communicating through emails, that is, it will form a kind of written evidence that constrains each other's behavior. Once the agreement is written down, they will generally do it according to the agreement. If If there is a violation, the other party may resort to legal means.”

Zhou Buqi said approvingly: "It seems that when you do business with Americans, you really have to pay attention to methods and methods. If you follow our way, there may be misunderstandings. How are you talking? Facebook? what's going on?"

Tang Binchen said: "A relevant evaluation agency has given a valuation, which is between US$500 million and US$600 million. However, Facebook is now well-known, and many technology companies have made inquiries, including AOL, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, etc.”

"I heard that it has been fired to more than 2 billion US dollars?"

"That should be a rumor."

"The specific situation, have you communicated?"

It's ridiculous to say that such an important investment project is actually in charge of a part-time student in the game project team of Youyou.com.

It can be seen that Ziweixing is seriously short of people now.

The growth rate of talents has been unable to keep up with the development of the company.

Tang Binchen said: "Zuckerberg mentioned that the outside world is all rumors, which is not credible. However, there are indeed many technology companies making inquiries, and only one actually made an offer."

"who?"

"Yahoo."

"Official offer?"

"Yes, Yahoo offered US$1 billion, and several early investors and directors of Facebook expressed their support for this acquisition plan. But Zuckerberg disagreed, and he insisted on developing on his own. That's why he contacted many parties. Open discussion B financing and dilute 5% of the shares."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "The market valuation is 500 million U.S. dollars, but he rejected the offer of 1 billion U.S. dollars. This person is amazing."

Tang Binchen gave a "hmm" and said, "Yes, I checked the relevant reports. In the past few years, Yahoo has acquired too many companies, hundreds of them. But there are only two companies that can really reject the offer of 1 billion US dollars. One is eBay, one is Google. Facebook is the third."

That's great.

eBay, e-commerce giant!

Even if it is defeated by Taobao in China, it is still an e-commerce platform alongside Amazon in the world.

Not to mention Google, it can be called the most technological Internet company in the contemporary era.

Zhou Buqi clenched his fist, "This investment project must be completed!"

Tang Binchen is more concerned about another point, "If the social games we develop in the future can be released in English, and they will be launched on Facebook while logging on to Friends.com, that will be a huge success. Hmm...but the cultural differences between the two countries are a bit Great, do your research.”

Zhou Buqi has already felt it, and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, buying and selling friends is not suitable for the United States. But it doesn't matter, as long as the financing is completed and a strategic cooperation with Facebook is reached, this kind of social game can be negotiated."

Speaking of which, he was also quite emotional.

For various reasons, he failed to become the original shareholder of BAT. Finally, through a wave of show operations, I got a wave of Baidu's free ride, and paid a price of 260 million for this.

Unexpectedly, the flowers inside the wall faded and the flowers bloomed outside the wall.

First YouTube, then Facebook, this is to borrow the spring breeze of the American Internet wave.

From Yanjing to Los Angeles, the flight takes 12 hours.

Sister Bao put down her chair, lay down and fell asleep.

Zhou Buqi asked the stewardess for a blanket and covered her up. But I couldn't sleep by myself.

...

Arrived in Los Angeles, it was 5:00 p.m. local time in Los Angeles.

Because it is a foreign country, you have to go through customs first.

Zhou Buqi had never been to the United States in his previous life. Fortunately, someone had taught him before. He followed the immigration officials to the checkpoint, and then waited for the interrogation by the customs officials.

There are 5 people ahead.

There are police officers with live ammunition standing guard next to it, which looks particularly terrifying.

What the hell!

No guns allowed here!

Zhou Buqi's two bodyguards were both from military backgrounds and could not be taken abroad. He suddenly felt a little worried about safety issues. After you leave the customs, you have to contact the local security company as soon as possible.

He took the shortest route and queued for 15 minutes.

The customs officer is a black uncle, chubby, and his tone of voice is very gentle.

"Wow oil?"

"Waste, three grams of oil, my oil?"

"Go away!"

After saying a few greetings in junior high school, the black uncle spoke more slowly, and then asked a few more questions, such as his purpose of coming to the United States, the duration of his stay, and so on.

Zhou Buqi is also an excellent student at any rate, and he can answer questions fluently.

It was already 40 minutes after everyone successfully passed the customs and received the salute.

In the hall, from a distance, I saw someone holding a big sign with Chinese characters written on it: "Ziwei".

It was two girls who picked up the plane.

A black-haired, yellow-skinned, slender figure, wearing a beige windbreaker; a yellow-haired, white-skinned, sexy, hot, white waist-length jacket, wearing a low-cut woolen sweater, the groove is very Deep, seemingly bottomless.

"Senior Sister Zhen."

Xue Baoshan has a big suitcase, but Zhou Buqi takes care of it. She walked over pretty and charmingly, smiling sweetly.

Zhen Yu was very enthusiastic and called out happily: "Baoshan!"

Then, he opened his arms and gave her a big hug.

I have been in the United States for more than half a year, and I have become more enthusiastic.

Next, he hugged Zhou Buqi again.

However, the other people in the same group were not familiar with each other, so they just nodded with a smile, as if they knew each other.

"Let me introduce to you, this is Emily, my roommate, who is also studying at Wharton School of Business, and she and Zuckerberg are alumni."

This blond-haired, blue-eyed girl, with her low-cut and rippling shocking aura, immediately made the fatigue of this group disappear a lot, and hormones and dopamine burst out.

"Okay, don't even look at it. If you don't know, you think they all came from the grassland, like hungry wolves." Zhou Buqi took a hard look at them, then turned around and sternly spoke to these guys. admonition.

snort!

Don't lose your national image!

Xue Baoshan's face was flushed, and Zhen Yu couldn't help laughing. Fortunately, Emily couldn't understand, she kept laughing silly, with a bright smile and white teeth.

The sky has turned dark, everyone went to eat and then returned to the hotel.

Tomorrow I will officially set off to meet Xiao Zha.

It is the first time for everyone to come to the United States, but they are all high-achieving students. The English accent may not be accurate, but simple daily communication can be handled calmly.

Emily seemed to have fallen in love with Li Ke. During the meal, she kept actively chatting with him, her emerald green eyes sparkling from time to time.

Zhou Buqi lowered his voice, "Is your sister reliable? I remember you told me that she has a boyfriend, right?"

Zhen Yu shrugged, "You don't care."

"I don't obey women's morals!"

"boring."

"That's pretty good. I'll give Li a task in a while, so that he must take down this big foreign girl tonight. After it's done, go to Facebook tomorrow, and she can do more."

Zhen Yu couldn't laugh or cry, "Why are you doing this? Don't talk nonsense. Emily is a wonderful person. She has been helping me for the past six months since I came to the United States. She also proposed this time. She and Zuckerberg are alumni , but I don’t know each other, at most it’s just a thread.”

Zhou Buqi asked: "By the way, have you found the legal officer?"

"It's still the same team that invested in YouTube last time... By the way, there is a company that wants to acquire YouTube!"

"Google?"

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up.

He has been looking forward to it for a long time!

Ziweixing is now in a hurry to spend money everywhere, so it relies on Google's acquisition of YouTube to withdraw funds.

Zhen Yu shook her head, "It's not Google, it's AOL."

"Um?"

"It's America Online."

"It's that technology company that started out with indecent videos again?" Zhou Buqi looked down on him, "Back then, it merged with Time Warner and became the biggest bully of the century. After a few years, it started to be embarrassing again? It's going to buy Facebook, it's going to buy YouTube, and I think AOL is going to die."

Zhen Yu looked at him very strangely, "Don't you like it?"

Zhou Buqi snorted, "AOL doesn't have the strength to take down YouTube."

Last year, with the help of classmates from the business school, Zhen Yu successfully invested in YouTube by adding cash and a domain name, and was quite pleasantly surprised to get 20% of the shares.

This is the big killer in Zhou Buqi's hands!

Also this year, Google competed with Microsoft, and then acquired YouTube at a sky-high price of 1.65 billion US dollars, which shocked Microsoft and the whole world.

A 20% stake... is $330 million!

Of the 20% of the shares, 10% is under Ziweixing's name and 10% is under Zhou Buqi's personal name. At that time, just cashing out some of the stocks will be enough to solve Ziweixing's financial crisis.

"Also, when things are over here, I'll take Sister Bao to Hollywood Boulevard, and I have to contact the security company."

"Have ulterior motives?"

"Don't make trouble."

Zhou Buqi coughed lightly, glanced at Xue Baoshan who had a slightly red face beside him, and said solemnly: "We are a pure brother and sister."

Zhen Yu smiled, "Is it appropriate to use the word "innocent" to describe the relationship between brother and sister? There are also brothers and sisters who are not innocent?"

"How fresh! What a fuss!"

Zhou Buqi snorted.

Xue Baoshan glanced at him, slightly annoyed.