Wen Xiaoguang remembers WhatsApp for a different reason than he remembers the other two companies, Uber is often featured in the media, and Airbnb is used when he goes abroad.

Only WhatsApp, simply because Facebook spent a huge $19 billion to acquire it, and the company had only 50 employees when it was acquired. At the time, it was the largest acquisition in the Internet sector.

People say that Wen Xiaoguang sold Youkeliang, made a lot of money, and his life came to an end.

However, there is another person, he sold the company for a sky-high price of 19 billion, and the most exaggerated thing is that Facebook's payment structure is 3 billion + 16 billion.

Note that the former is a stock and the latter is cash.

$16 billion is cash!

This money is given to a real estate developer like Chu Qiuchen, and she can eat a cow excitedly!

Jan Coombe himself received $6.8 billion.

This is called the real finale of life.

Of course, Wen Xiaoguang doesn't know about the more detailed things of WhatsApp, only the current materials......

This guy lost his father in 1997 and his mother in 2000.

has a car and a house, no father and no mother, he is talking about him.

The information also shows that the company is not too short of money at the moment.

Wen Xiaoguang couldn't figure out what the situation was.

"Where do their profits come from?"

Sarah replied, "They charge $0.99 per user for the service. ”

"I know," Wen Xiaoguang said, "it's written, but is it enough to cover their expenses?"

Internal information, which no one knows.

He's doing WeChat, so he understands that both apps are phone number-based.

This is an advantage over other IM software, everyone has a deep understanding, registering an account is very simple, it doesn't take long, but you can not do it, if you can directly use the phone number as an account, let the user click on it, this is very convenient.

But the problem is that using a phone number as an account requires a verification message - you need to receive money for sending a message.

Wen Xiaoguang can estimate: "At this rate of user registration, they need to pay between $500,000 and $800,000 per month for text messages, and you said that they only took a $250,000 seed investment." ”

The error is large because the proportion of international text messages cannot be grasped, which is expensive.

Regardless, the $0.99 fee charged was a lifesaver.

This certainly doesn't work in China, but the payment habits here are really better.

"The man who turned out to be an employee of Yahoo had saved some money, and Acton was also a millionaire. I can also sense that he wants to do the software well, but the problem is that he is stubborn and insists on not using any ads. ”

The corners of Wen Xiaoguang's mouth were curved, and he was also a person who was obsessed with products.

Song Yiqiu has always looked at strange things, and she asked, "Why are you optimistic about him?"

Wen Xiaoguang said: "Because, what I do in China is similar to him. ”

If there is no shortage of money in the account, the desire for financing is not strong enough.

Fortunately, I brought Chen Bei here.

"After a while, you will cut the technique with him, I will cut the future prospects of the application with him, he wants to be innocent, you go up and talk to him about the merry-go-round, he wants to be enthusiastic, I go up and talk to him about changing the world, do you understand the routine?" Wen Xiaoguang taught by hand.

After Chen Bei studied WhatsApp, he didn't doubt the future of this company, and to doubt it was to doubt himself.

"Understood. ”

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There's a café at the corner of California Street and Bryant Street in Mountain View, full of code-typing programmers with only two things on their desks, a cup of coffee and a computer.

“Red Rock Cafe。 This is the crooked font that Wen Xiaoguang saw, and then the four of them went in together.

Ukrainians have a very direct personality.

He shook hands with Wen Xiaoguang, and before he knew the two next to him, he asked, "Will you interfere with our operations, such as asking us to use advertising for profit?"

Wen Xiaoguang likes it.

It may be that there are too many bends with those old fritters in China.

He really liked it.

"No, it won't. Wen Xiaoguang replied.

Qom asked, "How can I trust you?"

"We can put it in the investment contract, and if I default, you can show it to the judge. ”

"Thank you, it's nice to meet you, my name is Jan Qom, then, please be seated." ”

"Wait a minute. Wen Xiaoguang also directed: "I'm also glad to meet you, I want to know how much money you need?"

"It depends on how much faith you have in us. Acton next to him said it for him.

Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, and Coom are often in the café to discuss ideas and type code together.

Six people sat down together, and the round table was a little cramped.

It's not like a place to talk about big business.

But believe me, that's the way it is in Silicon Valley, where there is some kind of financing that can be negotiated in those humble corners, on campuses, in cafes and even on the street.

Chu's mother said that the warehouse managers here have a company, and they have to brag when they meet people, trying to fool a sum of money over, anyway, the investment atmosphere here is very good.

It's not fake, the story of a poor boy creating a company and immediately soaring has been staged too much in the past 20 years in Silicon Valley, Google, Yahoo are just big ones, and many small companies have made millions, tens of millions.

Such a story is right in front of you, and who do you say doesn't want to get rich.

So neither Qom nor Acton felt out of harmony at all, and this place was good.

"Pardon my offense, sir," Qom asked, "I have never heard of a Mr. Wen in the investment world. ”

Wen Xiaoguang did not hide it, "Just three months ago, I was an entrepreneur like you, my company is an e-commerce website, you know that e-commerce is very popular in China, about three months ago, I sold that company, and then began to try to do angel investment. ”

Acton asked, "How big of a deal is that?"

"$1.2 billion. ”

The two foreigners glanced at each other.

"Oh, my God, so sitting across from me is a billionaire. Acton couldn't help but exclaim.

"WhatsApp was probably the first company I invested in, and no one wants to fail the first time. ”

"It is a great honor, sir. Qom tasted a hint of compliment, "But why did you choose us as the first one?"

"Because I also realized that instant messaging in the mobile Internet era needs more convenient, fast and even free communication methods in the second venture, Mr. Qom, my startup in China is also a mobile communication software, and I named it WeChat. ”

“chat？”

The earliest WhatsApp didn't have a chat function, just a status reminder on which you could set 'I'm in class', 'I'm exercising', or show the leader: I'll be there soon.

There are many international students in Silicon Valley, and it is very difficult for them to contact their families, because it is expensive, international distance is expensive, and time difference.

So if your family members are thousands of miles away and can't figure out what time it is, you can set it to: I'm free right now or I'm sleeping or something.

People think it's fun,

So there is also a setting to: I'm hey, hey, hey.

If you're a girl and don't think it's exciting enough, you can also set it as if I'm talking to me, hehehe, so that someone will contact you soon.

Later, there was continuous user feedback, hoping to have a chat function, and these guys slowly came out.

A little more affordable WeChat, after all, it is a national application, so many functions, just these few people came up with a pat on the head, how is it possible.

It was a little bit at the beginning.

So Qom caught the word 'chat', and whatsapp is working on it, but it's also been perfected, and it's not fully formed yet.

Acton obviously had something else in mind, "You're also making instant messaging software, so you want to have our technology?"

Lao Mei's first thought was whether the Chinese would engage in technology.

Technology, your sister, is not hardware, software stuff you are a cow.

Chen Bei took out his iPhone, "This is our beta version, and we have already made it." ”

Acton: ┌( ̄◇ ̄)┘

This, you don't play according to the routine.

But Wen Xiaoguang didn't let him play for too long, this thing has to be kept secret, as soon as Silicon Valley comes out, China will come out immediately, and a group of people who claim to be entrepreneurs are staring at Silicon Valley.

What the hell entrepreneurs are, they are speculators who want to take shortcuts, and when they see what is happening in the United States, they immediately imitate it at home.

Qom's eyes followed the phone, but unfortunately, Wen Xiaoguang made it black, he smiled and said, "Mr. Qom, your questions have been answered, now can we talk about our affairs?"