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After another day and a half in Lanai, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey bid farewell to Wang Guanxi.

Then Wang Guanxi asked the Wangguan to send the three of them to the Hawaiian International Hotel in Zhaxiang Mountain.

After having dinner, the three flew to California overnight.

Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, said: Boss, will the three of them have a stalemate in the company in the future?

Wang Guanxi said lightly: As long as the company continues to operate in the current way, I don't care who is in charge of the company.

Luo Baowen also said: The three of them started their business because they wanted to make money. Now Twitter is in a period of rapid development. They will unite unprecedentedly to make Twitter bigger. Once Twitter matures, they will definitely conflict. In the end It's a mess.

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: The control of the company is in our hands. If it doesn't work, we can hire professional managers in the future. I believe that with our support, Twitter will soon enter a stage of rapid development. When the company goes public, the founders may not be suitable to be the CEO of the company anymore, it might be better to be replaced by a professional manager.”

In the future, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Jack Dorsey will indeed break up, and the CEO will also change, but it will not affect the operation of Twitter.

Luo Baowen nodded: That's true. If Twitter goes public, it might be better to switch to a professional manager.

Greg Becker: If Twitter goes public in the future, its market value will be at least US$5 billion, and the return rate of more than ten times is also very high.

Wang Guanxi said with a smile: After Twitter's listing, our rate of return is far more than 10 times, hundreds of times are possible.

After listing the company, the stock price went through several ups and downs, and the market value reached 60 billion US dollars. Wang Guanxi invested 330 million US dollars. In the future, he will control 50% of the shares, which is worth 30 billion US dollars. The return is nearly 100 times. This is also a very high investment. paid off.

The probability of losing money in venture capital is high, but the company is successfully listed, and the rate of return is frighteningly high.

Especially the rate of return of technology companies, once the initial investors make the right investment, such as Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Uber... After the listing of these technology companies, the future market value will be frighteningly high.

Investing a small amount of money up front can yield huge returns.

Just like Sequoia Capital invested 60 million U.S. dollars and got a return of 3 billion U.S. dollars, and the return rate was as high as 50 times.

But now it was only founded in February this year, and the product has not yet been released, and there was no response when the product was released for the first time. Now there is only one employee, the founder Jane Koum.

This Jane Koum used to be an engineer at Yahoo, went to Facebook for an interview, and was rejected.

Being rejected by Facebook also made him, and soon, he started his own company and started writing code.

But the first product released, no one cares about it.

Until June 2009, the Apple mobile phone launched the message push function, through which developers can send messages to users even if they do not open the app.

He just started to counterattack all the way.

On February 19, 2014, social networking giant Facebook will acquire the company for approximately $19 billion.

Now the company is his own,

Wang Guanxi plans to inject capital.

Thinking of this, Wang Guanxi said: On April 8th, let's go to California.

By the way, contact the founder of the company. I plan to buy his company at a high price and hire him as CEO with a high salary.

Greg Becker was stunned. This Jane Koum has worked in Yahoo for 9 years. It is nothing special. Then she went to Facebook for an interview and was ruthlessly rejected by Facebook. Now she runs out to start a company. Is this person really capable? ?

It's just a coder who has worked in Yahoo for 9 years and can't get along. The company he founded is currently only one person, and the company's address is in his rented house, which is dilapidated.

Then he asked: Boss, is this Jane Combe really okay?

Wang Guanxi said: Don't underestimate any innovative coder, what he created is the most potential in the future chat software, go to contact him.

Yes, BOSS! Greg Becker hurriedly called and asked his subordinates to get in touch.

Then he left Lanai, returned to Hawthorn Mountain, and then flew back to San Francisco from Hawthorn Mountain.

The boys were busy, while Wang Guanxi, Luo Baowen, Zhang Xiaolei, Jennifer Lawrence, and Ford Ingrid went to the beach together.

The mint-green clear water in front of you, the white and glistening white sand beach in the sun, the passionate hula dancers and the undulating volcanoes. . .

The dreamy beauty of Luopu Bay, there are often dolphins swirling in the sea...

Wang Guanxi, together with Jennifer Lawrence, Ford Ingrid, Luo Baowen, and Zhang Xiaolei, enjoyed the beautiful sunset scene and indulged in the memories.

During this period of vacation in Hawaii, everyone's relationship has deepened a lot.

On April 8th, everyone boarded the Crown and prepared to fly to San Francisco, California.

Before taking off, Luo Baowen said: Boss, the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, Greg Becker, has already contacted the founder of the company, Jane Combe. Now Jane Combe has agreed to our acquisition of the company, and he has also contacted himself. Former good friend Brian Acton!

The company has two founders, one is Jane Combe and the other is Brian Acton.

Brian Acton, like Jane Coombe, went to Facebook and was rejected by Facebook.

Then Brian Acton joined his good friend's company in September 2009. In September 2009, he also asked Yahoo's colleagues to invest, raised a seed investment of 250,000 US dollars, and established his joint partner's career. Identity, holding 20% ​​of the shares.

After the latter company was acquired by a sky-high price of 100 million U.S. dollars, Brian Acton, like Jane Coombe, counterattacked from hanging silk and became a rich man.

But now Brian Acton and Jane Coombe are still poor.

Thinking of this, Wang Guanxi said, Very well, let's have dinner together in San Francisco tonight.

Okay, boss! Luo Baowen hurriedly called to make arrangements.

Then the plane took off and flew to San Francisco, California.

A few hours later, Silicon Valley, California.

Silicon Valley is located in the south of the San Francisco Bay Area in the metropolitan area. It is another name for the Santa Clara Valley where high-tech businesses gather.

Silicon Valley was the first place to research and produce silicon-based semiconductor chips, hence the name.

At present, Silicon Valley is the kingdom of electronics industry and computer industry. Although the United States and other high-tech areas in the world are constantly growing, Silicon Valley is still the pioneer and center of high-tech innovation and development in the world. One-third of the total, Silicon Valley computer companies have grown to about 1,500.

A century ago, it was still an orchard, but since the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Yahoo settled here, many prosperous towns have emerged.

In just a few decades, Silicon Valley has produced a large number of technology tycoons.

At this moment, three men stood in front of the Silicon Valley Bank building.

Greg Becker, the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, Jane Combe, the founder of the company, and Brian Acton.

Jane Combe and Brian Acton, who used to work at Yahoo and then became good friends, went to Facebook for interviews and were rejected.

Jane Combe is now creating the company and Brian Acton is looking for a job.

Suddenly, he was favored by Greg Becker, the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. He came to buy the company at a high price, and at the same time hired them with a high salary, which was higher than that of Yahoo. He took them to meet the big shots tonight, which is really unimaginable.

Life is really lucky.

Greg Becker, the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, doesn't like these two people in his heart, because the current performance of these two people is really not good, and the interview with Facebook was rejected.

But Greg Becker opened his mouth and said: Jane Coombe and Brian Acton, you change into formal clothes again, don't dress so casually.

OK

Okay, okay

Jane Combe and Brian Acton looked a little embarrassed, so they went nearby to buy a new suit, trimmed it up, and got into the car of Silicon Valley Bank.

Then off.

Soon came to San Francisco International Airport.

This time it was specially for pick-up.

Watching a huge private jet land, Greg Becker yelled: You are my boss's private jet, priced at $500 million.

Jane Combe and Brian Acton were shocked immediately, they took a few breaths, their chests heaving.

This is a rich man who can afford a private jet of 500 million US dollars, which is definitely worth tens of billions of dollars.

Thinking of having dinner with such a character tonight, the two were both nervous and excited.

Soon the two of them saw Wang Guanxi and were shocked again!

The super rich who are worth tens of billions of dollars are so young?

Simply incredible!

Mr. Wang, hello, my name is Jane Coombe

Hi, my name is Brian Acton

The two were extremely nervous.

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: You two don't need to be nervous, I am very interested in the products designed by the company, so I came here to talk to you.

The two adjusted some emotions, but they were still very nervous.

Then everyone came to a nearby big hotel and had dinner together.

At dinner, Wang Guanxi did not turn a corner and said: Jane Combe, Mr. Brian Acton, I plan to start a social software company and build a social giant, and I happen to like your company. I think your The products designed by the company are very innovative, I plan to buy them, inject hundreds of millions of dollars, and hire you as senior engineers and concurrently serve as the CEO of the company.”

Brian Acton said: Mr. Wang, I have no problem. I am looking for a company now. If you hire me with a high salary, I will definitely not let you down.

The company was founded by his good friend Jane Combe. After he was rejected by Facebook in the interview, he has been working early, and Jane Combe asked him to work together. He is still thinking about it. Now he doesn’t have to think about it. Regal took a fancy to the company's creativity and planned to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to create a new type of social giant. He was very excited and of course hoped to join.

Jane Combe said, Mr. Wang, I'm still in the development stage of the company's products, and I don't know if anyone will pay attention to them after they are released.

Wang Guanxi smiled and said: What I admire is your creative concept. You can continue to develop according to the existing ideas. I will invest a lot of money to build a team of engineers for you. Let them all follow your instructions and develop real ideas. I hope to reposition it as a full-featured cross-platform chat application, which can not only directly use the mobile phone address book as a pre-built social network, but also log in directly with the mobile phone number

Jane Combe thought for a while and said, Mr. Wang, I want to sell for $1.5 million. I want to buy a house in California.

Wang Guanxi said lightly: I will buy you a villa worth 3 million US dollars, and at the same time give you both an annual salary of 1 million US dollars. You can follow my requirements and lead a team of engineers to design the product within 6 months. After 6 months, if it succeeds, your salary will double, and you can rest assured that I will invest a lot of money to promote the product·”

You are the founders, so just be the CEO. I will appoint directors, financial officers, and marketing and business experts to help you

The more users and the bigger the scale, the higher your salary will be.

Jane Combe was excited. He was just a down-and-out dick. He was interviewed by an engineer at Facebook with an annual salary of 200,000, and he was rejected.

Now the annual salary is 1.5 million US dollars, and it will be doubled in the future, which is simply incredible.

Jane Coombe was born in a small village outside Kyiv, Ukraine, as the only child in her family.

My father, who was a construction manager, did not improve his life much. When he was a child, there was no water or electricity. It was a luxury to make a phone call.

When I immigrated to the United States with my mother at the age of 16, the two were penniless, and my mother's suitcase was full of pens and notebooks rationed by the former Soviet Union—because I was worried that I could not afford American stationery. To feed herself, she took a job as a babysitter while Koum mopped the floors of a grocery store.

After the mother was diagnosed with cancer, the family lived off her disability benefits.

Really poor.

Now the annual salary is 1.5 million US dollars, and it will continue to double in the future.

Go Mark Zach, go fuck the Yahoo!

Brian Acton was also unbelievably excited. He didn't expect that he could get such a high annual salary. Yahoo and Facebook are companies with superficial eyes. His gold is about to shine.

The two had no reason not to agree to Wang Guanxi's generous terms.

But Jane Combe gritted her teeth and asked, Mr. Wang, can we ask for some equity?

Wang Guanxi thought for a while and said: Then I'll finish the acquisition and then inject capital. The company is designed as AB equity, and the equity structure is kept secret. I will inject 100 million US dollars and give you 10% equity dividends. If you leave the company, these 10% equity dividends Will be taken back, how?

The two were overjoyed and quickly agreed.

The next day, April 9, Wang Guanxi's Wang Venture Capital Foundation acquired the company for US$1.5 million and injected US$168.5 million in capital.

Purchased two more cars with US$500,000 and allocated them to the two co-founders.

Wang Guanxi is now eager to develop new products. In the future, there will be a price war between Google and Facebook. At the end of 2012, the initial bid was only 250 million U.S. dollars, and by July 2013, a sky-high price of 19 billion U.S. dollars was offered.

Wang Guanxi immediately recruited a team of engineers frantically.