Chapter 877 Going to the United States for Negotiations
July 5th.
All college students are on vacation and have had their pleasant vacations.
Yu Wenfei is certainly not an ordinary college student, he is leading a group of people to prepare to fly to Facebook North America in California, USA.
There, he will talk to the two giants, Microsoft and Google, about the international version of Facebook's share expansion financing.
Perhaps, there will be a third strategic partner joining, but it is uncertain.
Yu Wenfei, Hu Jingjing, Pei'er, Cai Congxin, Fang Zhiyan, and Shen Nanpeng naturally all want to go.
In addition, Xue Chunlai also represented SoftBank Capital and followed.
The two shareholders of Modu International Investment Company and Jiaotong University Venture Capital are entrusted to Yuwenfei to deal with it with full authority, and there is no past.
As for the other shareholder, Citibank, it has been waiting for the United States for a long time.
Facebook's major shareholders can be said to be pouring out.
Everyone understands that this matter must be treated with caution.
The future of Facebook is too tempting, and the market value of Facebook mainland companies alone will be as high as tens of billions of dollars after listing.
So, Facebook North America, that's a vast market for the world!
After development, North American companies can go public separately.
That market capitalization, you can imagine!
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This time, there is naturally no need to take a civil airline.
The group plus several assistant secretaries of the CEO, as well as the legal team, etc., there are more than 20 people.
For private jets alone, you need three!
This can be regarded as the first business of Pearl Company, and it is off to a good start.
Yu Wenfei and several CEOs, as well as Hu Jingjing and Pei'er, took one plane, and the rest took two other planes.
Although the plane they were flying on was just a Bombardier jet private jet, it wasn't too big.
There are only eight seats, not even a bedroom, but it has opened everyone's eyes.
In 2004, there were really few people in China who had ever flown on a private jet.
Not to mention a little girl like Hu Jingjing.
"Pelle, come and take some pictures for me, I'm going to put them on my Facebook. ”
As soon as she entered the plane, Hu Jingjing took out a digital camera and handed it to Pei'er.
Pell stole a glance at the CEOs and found that they were sitting around and talking, ignoring the two of them.
At this time, the plane had not yet taken off, and it was estimated that it would take a while before it started.
She took a few photos for Hu Jingjing with confidence, and after taking them, she whispered: "Take a few photos for me too!"
Girls, they all love vanity.
Even a usually calm and rational workplace beauty like Peier is no exception.
She also wants to post the photo on her Facebook account in North America, where many of her college classmates follow her.
She is a graduate of a prestigious school, and her classmates are now quite good, and many of them have entered well-known law firms.
Drive a luxury car and get a high salary.
Everyone usually likes to inadvertently post some photos of themselves on vacation or office on the Internet to tell everyone that they are doing well.
Pell is naturally the best of the bunch!
Although she no longer works as a lawyer, she is just a secretary.
But if her classmates knew something, no one dared to despise her.
Because her boss is a super-rich man with a net worth of tens of billions of dollars!
Don't think that foreigners don't compare, maybe among ordinary people, everyone is about the same, and there is nothing to compare.
But at a certain level, it will be compared.
Whoever has a good job, who has a high income, and who goes on vacation to a high-end place......
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After a long air journey, the plane arrived directly at the San Francisco airport.
Fortunately, the space inside a private jet is relatively large, and the seats are more comfortable than the first-class seats on passenger jets.
During the flight, everyone also slept and did not feel too tired.
After getting off the plane, a luxury bus was already waiting outside the airport, which was sent by Facebook North America to pick up Yu Wenfei and his party.
There are a lot of people, and it is really convenient to take the bus, and all the cars are pulled away.
But if it is a domestic company that receives the CEOs from the headquarters, it must be a fleet of luxury cars.
That's the difference in mindsets......
Yu Wenfei naturally didn't care about this, as soon as he got on the bus, he asked Lu Qi who came to pick him up.
"Have representatives from Google and Microsoft arrived?"
Lu Qi is the president of Facebook North America, and he was also appointed by the board of directors to make preliminary contacts with Google and Microsoft.
When he heard Yu Wenfei's question, he immediately replied: "It's all here, and it's all led by the company's president, and the two founders of Google have come together." On Microsoft's side, Mr. Ballmer came over in person. ”
Yu Wenfei nodded slightly.
From the level of the other party, it can be seen how much Microsoft Google attaches importance to this matter.
Not to mention the two founders of Google, they are definitely the soul of the company, and they can make decisions on the spot.
Microsoft's Ballmer is also not small, he is the one who has been in charge of the Microsoft empire for more than ten years since he became CEO in 2000!
Even a few years longer than Bill Gates has been at the helm of Microsoft.
He's also a great genius.
In high school, Ballmer participated in math competitions and won the top 10 grades in the United States and won a scholarship to the Harvard Department of Mathematics.
At the age of 17, he scored a perfect score of 1600 on the SAT test of the National College Entrance Examination in the United States!
In other words, he is also a national college entrance examination champion, and Yu Wenfei is at the same level.
At the age of 18, when he was a sophomore at Harvard, Ballmer met Bill Gates, who had not yet dropped out of Harvard.
A few years later, when Ballmer was about to graduate with a Ph.D., Bill Gates approached him at the school and invited him to join Microsoft, which was just getting a little better.
From this point of view, he can be regarded as one of the co-founders of Microsoft.
In fact, Ballmer did get a lot of Microsoft shares, and his net worth was as high as nearly $50 billion at its peak!
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The bus pulled everyone directly to the pre-arranged hotel, it was not early today, plus the long journey, everyone needed to have a good night's rest, and then start the real negotiations tomorrow.
After a night of silence, the next morning, after everyone washed up and had breakfast, they gathered in good spirits and took the bus again to Facebook North America.
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On the other hand, representatives of Microsoft and Google live in the same hotel.
Ballmer, along with Larry Page and Sergey, had already met last night to talk.
They all want to take a stake in Facebook North America, so naturally they have a lot of common language.
However, both are collaborators and competitors at the same time.
Because Facebook North America did not say that it must introduce two strategic partners.
Maybe it's two, maybe it's one, who knows.
In any case, the initiative is still in the hands of Facebook shareholders, no matter what choice is made, it is normal.