On Saturday, 12/12/91, the normally clean Stanford Cyber Center was bustling with activity, with countless vehicles lining up on the road in front of the building, as if pulling a cordon, and many more cars could not find a parking space, so they had to drive over and over again on the nearby highway in the hope of finding a place to park.

At the main entrance of the building, a red carpet stretched from the main entrance to the side of the road, hundreds of security personnel in black uniforms maintained the order of the cordon, countless reporters with cameras, and a large number of onlookers waited outside the cordon on both sides of the red carpet.

This spectacular sight like the Oscar red carpet undoubtedly made many Stanford faculty members who did not care about the world curious.

"My God, what is going on here? Is this battle coming from Mr. President?"

"I don't think even Mr. President would have had this battle, right? I heard that it seems to be the founding ceremony of a company, what is it called, and it is said to be a newly developed search site. ”

"I think it must be a very big company, after all, I've been at Stanford for more than twenty years, and I've seen so many things, from the governor's office to the donation of a wealthy man and the start-up of a certain aristocrat, but I've never seen anything like it today. ”

"I don't know what kind of mega company it is, but what I do know is that there will be a lot of rich people today that we can't imagine, so today's security must be the tightest since the founding of Stanford University. ”

The two ordinary faculty members were talking in the crowd, and as if they wanted to prove their words, when they said this, there was a sudden commotion not far away.

It turned out that it was an elongated Lincoln sedan parked at the door, and then a young Chinese man and a middle-aged white man stepped out of the car. As they got out of the car, reporters and onlookers on both sides of the red carpet stretched their necks, picked up the cameras in their hands and filmed wildly. Fortunately, there are no smartphones in this era, otherwise I don't know how many people will pick up their mobile phones to post on Moments today.

"Oh my God! Look at the chairman of the board of directors of the Peida Investment Company, Mr. Thomas, the chief executive officer, Mr. Thomas, the Peida Investment Company is an investment company that came out of nowhere after the stock market crash on Black Monday, and in the bankruptcy case of the Olaire Real Estate Company, no one knows how much money they have earned, it may be more than a billion or tens of billions! In short, the young Chairman Tang Lin is a super-rich man who cannot estimate his assets, and it is rumored that he is an important figure in a certain consortium, and he also invests in several media companies. ”

"But do you know what the most important thing is? He's only twenty-six years old, you know what that concept is? It's that we spend all our savings to buy lottery tickets, buy the same number, and even if we win the first prize, we still don't have as much money as him! And he can buy any company we work for with the flick of a finger. ”

Tang Lin and Thomas walked on the red carpet, they smiled and waved to the people on both sides, listening to the talk of you and me around them, which made Tang Lin even more proud, and he had the courage to ask a few heroes in the world.

It's just that this heroic Mr. Tang Lin, his smile then stiffened, because he saw the person standing at the end of the red carpet, he walked over quickly and shook hands and said, "Hello General Manager Cheng, I'm tired of you coming here to greet me." ”

Cheng Qian smiled and said, "Mr. Tang Lin is polite, President Tang and Vice President Zhou Ming are waiting for you inside." ”

Hearing that nightmarish name, Tang Lin suddenly felt a little wilted, after all, no matter how he counted the romantic characters now, he still looked at the present dynasty, but it was still not worth mentioning in front of that person.

Therefore, Tang Lin finally dropped the sentence "I know", and then walked into the Stanford Network Center building, and even owed to greet the reporters behind him.

As agreed, when Tang Lin walked into the Stanford Network Center building, several guests also arrived as scheduled.

Tang Wan'er and Tang Yi and the CEOs who do things for them, as the heirs of the Tang family, naturally treat them the same as Tang Lin, which also caused an exclamation.

"I'm not dreaming, am I? These companies are going to buy the whole of Stanford University right away, and now they're just attending the inauguration of a new company? It's incredible, and I'm curious which company is so lucky!"

This exclamation represented the thoughts of almost everyone outside at this time, and finally after confirming that everyone was present and the security personnel had lifted the cordon at the door, everyone walked into the building together.

The Stanford Network Center Building is a new type of network building established in accordance with the Internet era, and its original design is to take care of Stanford University and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and at the same time provide Stanford University with the best quality network services, as well as to conduct Internet academic research, etc., so it is an academic and commercial building, there is a large conference hall on the third floor, and today's company inauguration ceremony will be held here.

Driven by curiosity, in just a quarter of an hour, the place was already full.

Then Tang Lin, Tang Yi and Tang Wan'er walked on the stage and sat down, and when they all sat down, four more people walked on the stage respectively, and with their on-the-stage appearance, there was an exclamation from the audience.

"Oh my God! Is that the guy from this new company? That's Mr. Jobs, I know him, he created the company!"

"And that Cheng Qian I also know, maybe he is not famous compared to Jobs, but he is a master in marketing, and now he is the general manager, and he is the company that has created miracles!"

Compared with Jobs and Cheng Qian, Tang Ran and Zhou Ming, who were at the forefront, were basically unknown, and people tried very hard to search for their names from their barren memory, but in the end they were all in vain.

They walked to the middle of the stage and sat down, Tang Ran picked up the microphone and said: "Thank you very much for coming, today is the establishment ceremony of the search company, the search company was reorganized by the company, the company will be committed to the research of Internet technology in the future, invent and promote all the new Internet technology, our company's goal is to use our innovation, lead a new Internet technology!"

Tang Ran's words resounded sparsely from the audience, after all, what she said just now sounded too official to them, so this applause was also based on the little girl's beautiful voice.

After the applause, the performance of the Tang family began, Tang Yi, as always, stood up very proudly, patted his chest and said: "I can feel that this will be an epoch-making performance, and the Internet is also the center of future development that I have always believed, so I decided to invest $200 million in Sosou and their projects." ”

As Tang Yi's words came out, the scene was in an uproar, everyone was very surprised, you must know that although everyone thinks that Internet technology will be the driving force for future development in these years, most of the investment is also in 100,000 or hundreds of thousands, at most it is a few million, and now Tang Yi directly invests 1 billion, what is this concept? That is, the first day of the establishment of this search company is equivalent to the listing of Aipai company.

I can't help but say that the investment of local tyrants is really unreasonable.

However, these people's surprised mouths didn't have time to close, and Tang Wan'er continued: "The main project of Sosou Company in the future is an information search service, and I am personally very optimistic about the prospects of this project, so I decided to invest 500 million US dollars." ”

If Tang Yi's words were just surprising everyone before, then at this moment, Tang Wan'er's words caused an incredible whirlwind at the scene.

"What's the situation? Tang Yi's investment is already very incomprehensible, but at least Tang Yi is a guy who has not played according to the routine for a long time and only does things according to his own preferences, so he can understand that he paid 200 million, but Tang Wan'er is not! She has always been very cautious in investing, how can she directly invest 500 million now? This is clearly angry with Tang Yi, or is this project really worth so much money?"

Everyone exclaimed, but before everyone could come to their senses, Tang Lin finally said: "Since you are all so generous, then I naturally can't lag behind, for the search company and the project of his information search, my Peida investment company is ready to invest one billion US dollars." ”

Rumble!

When Tang Lin's investment figure was announced, the scene suddenly exploded, and everyone exclaimed in disbelief, almost tearing down the ceiling of the conference hall.

"Oh my God, a billion dollars, is this Tang Lin crazy? This money is enough for him to buy this entire building and build another search company! Could it be that the search company is not just a simple Internet company, but that he has found King Solomon's treasure?"

"If you want me to see that this is just Tang Lin's deliberate words, can't you see that they were making a higher offer than the other just now, and they were basically angry with each other? So if you want me to say, Tang Lin's words are just showing off his wealth to everyone in a special way, letting us know that his Peida Investment Company is very rich, rich enough to invest a billion dollars in any project he likes. ”

"Please let me slow down, a long time ago someone said that I was not suitable for business because I couldn't keep up with their pace, and now it seems that it is true, I can't figure out why he invested this billion!"

Facing the surprise one after another under the stage, Zhou Ming picked up the microphone and said slowly: "I am very grateful to the three gentlemen for their trust in Sosou and me, and on behalf of all the staff of Sosou Company, I also thank you very much for your generous investment, but I want to say that according to the amount of your investment, I can give you 20%, 10% and 4% of the shares without voting rights respectively." ”

Zhou Ming's words made the audience explode again, for them, if the previous speeches of Tang Lin, Tang Wan'er and Tang Yi could be explained by the willful answers of the local tyrants, then Zhou Ming's words at this moment were only unimaginably crazy.

What are you kidding? Their investment is 1 billion, 500 million, and 200 million, not 1520,000, how can they only account for 20 percent of the shares at most? Moreover, they have invested so much money, but they have no way to influence the company's development plan, and they cannot dictate any affairs of the company, so they can only receive investment dividends.

This is too exaggerated, can it be said that your project that doesn't sound outstanding can be worth tens of billions?

You must know that all investors, the projects they invest in are hoping to firmly control the project in their own hands, maybe they will not interfere at the beginning, but in the end they must control the board of directors, but now Zhou Ming directly does not allow them to interfere, don't you drive the investment out? Who will invest in you, you really think you are a treasure!

But in the end, what made everyone messy and dumbfounded to the point of collapse was that Tang Lin, Tang Yi and Tang Wan'er, they all nodded in agreement in the face of Zhou Ming's conditions: "No problem." ”

Oh my God, I must be dreaming, or that Zhou Ming is the God who controls everything, otherwise either I'm crazy or they're crazy, or simply the whole world is crazy!

This is the last thought in everyone's head.