Chapter 029: San Francisco
Kishimoto got out of San Francisco International Airport and took a taxi straight to a hotel near Stanford University. Before he came, a reservation had been made by phone.
Masayoshi Kishimoto did a check at the front desk of the hotel, and then got a room card for the corresponding room. He took the elevator to the upper floor.
He passed through a corridor, looked left and right, and looked at the two rows of room numbers, and easily found his room. After opening the door, he walked in and closed the door with his backhand.
Masayoshi Kishimoto walked to the sofa in the small living room of the suite, first put down the backpack on his back, then turned around and sat down, leaning his back on the back of the couch.
The living environment here is average, but the price is not cheap. However, it is convenient to draw it yourself. He was in no hurry to talk to Larry Page and Sergey Brin about angel investing.
To be sure, Kishimoto is not 100% sure that he will be convinced. The reason is simple: they are elites, they have the ability to think independently, and they are not the kind of idiots who think they are smart.
On top of that, there's also a Silicon Valley near Stanford University. Silicon Valley is not only a gathering point for American high-tech companies, but also a gathering place for many angel investment firms.
Don't say anything about a good project, even if it's just a good idea, as long as you can convince the decision-makers of the angel investment company, you can also get angel investment from the angel investment company. Here, there is a complete system of operation.
This is not at all in vain, talking about building Zhongguancun in China's Silicon Valley. China's local angel investment companies are simply bizarre, either they only want to spend a small amount of money to have absolute control, or they invest in buying 10% of the company's shares of the other party, but they also need a veto.
Kishimoto is fully capable of understanding why Alibaba accepted SoftBank's venture capital in the first place, and why many well-known Chinese Internet companies would list on the NASDAQ.
Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Capital and other investment companies with foreign backgrounds, but have carried out localization of packaging, are popular in China, and they have made a lot of money.
The reason is that the terms they offer are more reasonable than those of local Chinese investment companies, so that both sides can accept them.
In addition, it will not intervene too much in the operation and operation of the investee company. This is also something that is difficult for local Chinese investment companies to do.
The problem with China's local investment companies is the cultural dregs of the Chinese, and if Lao Tzu pays for it, you have to listen to me. Even if it's wrong, you have to listen to Lao Tzu.
If he can't convince Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Masayoshi Kishimoto, who also has an alternative, will not easily give up this lucrative choice.
The reason why he was able to easily convince NCsoft's Jin Zechen in the first place was that the other party was in urgent need of funds, and he happened to be the one who could provide funds.
In addition, I understand what online games are all about. As a result, the two sides were able to hit it off. He realized the first successful investment with low investment and high return in the future.
Masayoshi Kishimoto knows very well that the situation in the United States is completely different, and the economy is doing well! 1998 was a very bad year for many Asian countries that were still mired in the whirlpool of financial turmoil and could not extricate themselves.
However, it is really a golden age for investors in Internet companies. The period from 1995 to 2001 was the era of the Internet bubble.
Naturally, there are many alternatives to Justice Kishimoto, such as Bezos's Amazon, Pierre Omidia's eBay, and Yang Zhiyuan's Yahoo, all of which are just starting out.
If you buy the shares of these companies at this time, you will definitely make huge profits in the future. In addition to this, investing in Intel is also a good option.
This year, Intel's founder, Andy Grove, made a wrong decision, which led to a huge loss for Intel and a sharp drop in its stock price, so he was forced to take a back seat.
Kishimoto knows that this doesn't mean Intel can't do it. In the future, the cup of the world's personal PC will still be its world. Intel is still the king.
AMD is no match for it either. Apple has its own relatively independent set of software and hardware, and it is not as extensive as the market it occupies.
Before Kishimoto crossed over, he also read Andy Grove's book "Only the Paranoid Can Survive". In the current year, he has too many good projects to invest in.
However, as soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but lower his head and hold it in both hands, with an extremely painful expression on his face.
I obviously knew in advance, but I didn't have enough money to make a related investment, and it was a painful ordeal to let the opportunity pass by in vain.
Masayoshi Kishimoto slowly raised his head and calmed down his current state of mind a little. I still have a chance in the future, after all, in 2000, the Internet bubble will burst.
At that time, these high-quality Internet companies selected by him will also be negatively affected and impacted, but for him, it is a good opportunity.
By the year 2000, I will no longer have the pain I have now, after all, I will have more money in my hands. The first high-yield return came from Kanazawa's NCsoft online game company, which gave him a dividend of the 40% stake he held.
In addition to the United States, China's Internet era is also beginning, and the seeds have also landed. It's just that there are too few investors with foresight.
In Kishimoto's view, Chinese people are quite talented in the Internet and computer-related industries. Due to some restrictions on China's national conditions and traditional thinking at that time, although we seized the opportunity, we also missed some priorities in some fields.
Lei Jue's "King of Kings" is China's first graphic online game, and its eponymous text MUD was opened at the end of December 1996, developed by a husband and wife doctoral students at the Institute of Materials Science of Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
Chen Guangming and Huang Yuzhen, they met and fell in love with each other because of the Internet, and they also embarked on the road of entrepreneurship together because of online games. This is also the first online game from China to enter the Korean game market.
Yang Zhiyuan, who founded Yahoo, was once a beautiful person and became the idol of many young people, especially Chinese young people. This also includes the self before it was born again.
In fact, before Yang Zhiyuan, there was an even more awesome Chinese, that is, Wang An. Wang An's computer, founded by Wang An, was once able to compete with IBM.
He is a world-renowned inventor and an entrepreneur who rivals the riches of his country. In the United States, a nation of immigrants, he is considered the first person to be an "outstanding immigrant." In 1986, his personal worth reached 2 billion US dollars, ranking fifth on the list of the richest people in the United States, and he was firmly the richest Chinese in the world.