California, USA.

The breeze blew open the corner of the curtain, and the harsh sunlight shone in. In a daze, Sean Parker yawned and opened his eyes, quickly closed them and raised his hand to block the light, and finally struggled to get out of bed after a long time.

The woman I had found last night was gone, and there were still some empty wine bottles on the floor, as well as some kind of chemical residue that could easily be reconciled.

As we all know, Sean Parker is an addict, and the addiction has been getting bigger and bigger in the past two years.

Of course, Sean Parker has other hobbies, such as his high school days, which he likes to go in and out of, and often breaks in uninvited. He never missed a hacker, and came and went without a trace, until one morning, his father saw his son surfing the Internet all night, so angry that he directly pulled out the keyboard, and was finally successfully located by the FBI.

A few days later, the father of his son Jackie Chan found that his home was surrounded by a large number of FBIs, and it turned out that his son was suspected of attacking multiple government and military base websites.

Sean Parker was actually a blessing in disguise, he was a minor, and he didn't cause any huge losses, just a few days of volunteering. But after his glorious deeds spread, he attracted many organizations, including the CIA, to invite him to develop various software, and he earned $80,000 in his junior year of high school alone.

It was at this time that Sean Parker met 15-year-old Sean Fanning, and the two hacker teenagers teamed up to create the first pirated music website in the United States. The site soon surpassed 10 million registered users, but the detrimental effect was the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars for American record companies and the end of the CD era in the American recording industry.

Because there was no legal basis, the lawsuit dragged on for a year, and their pirated music website was finally forced to shut down.

Sean Parker became penniless, and even the money he had saved by writing software was gone, and his girlfriend persuaded him to go to Starbucks to serve dishes for a living. This guy fooled around for a few months, then created an online address book and successfully obtained financing from Sequoia Capital. It's a pity that he is often late and absent, and he doesn't go to work in the company every once in a while, and he was finally kicked out of the management by Sequoia Capital.

Until now, Sean Parker is still fooling around, and he squandered the money he earned from his second venture.

Feeling a little hungry, Sean Parker turned on the computer before running to search for the refrigerator. Unfortunately, the refrigerator was already empty, only half a can of canned pork remained, but there was still an unopened bottle of red wine on the bedside table. So, he uncorked his bottle and drank to satisfy his hunger, half-lying in his chair to read his email.

One of the emails was from Eduardo Saverin, a rich second-generation thief who was a member of the Phoenix SK Club at Harvard University. The email read: "Dear Parker, I recently registered an Internet company in Florida with a friend, and the domain name of the website is The Now everything is simple, and I don't even have a permanent office address, so I decided to go to California and buy a house specifically for corporate office. At present, the company still lacks a manager, if you are interested, you can come and become the president of the company. ”

Sean Parker didn't bother to reply to the email, because he always thought that Saverin was a fool and that he should not discuss big things with him. But two days later, Saverin's email came back: "Dear Parker, we urgently need your help. Just yesterday, we received a $1 million investment from Altair, and now we don't lack money or technology, but a president who can put the company on the right track. Of course, if you're not interested in this position, then I'll have to consider hiring another high-minded person. ”

Altair?

Sean Parker hurriedly searched for information on the computer and found that Altair is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taurus Capital and the largest shareholder of Google.

During this time, the news of Google's listing was in an uproar, and Wall Street investment banks were already about to fight. Sean Parker finally became interested and immediately replied: "Give me the address of the company, and I'll fly over right away!"

……

Let's go back to two days ago.

Zuckerberg had just attended a Harvard student party and was on the toilet when he met a Chinese American female student from medical school, his future wife, Priscilla Chen. The two hit it off at first sight, chatted all the way back to the party from the toilet, and made an appointment to have dinner together tomorrow.

Shortly after returning to the dormitory, his roommate Moskovitz suddenly jumped up and shouted, "It's an email from Altair, and Altair has taken a fancy to our website!"

"Are you trying to buy us again?" Zuckerberg was still drinking.

At this time, it has been almost a month since Song Weiyang came to the United States, and Facebook has long since left the Harvard campus and become popular in more than 10 colleges and universities in the United States. There is an online company called Friendster, which is also an online community, and it quickly set its sights on Facebook and tried to buy it for less than $100,000.

Zuckerberg didn't say anything about it, and his partner Savirin almost pulled out a wad of bills and smashed the money directly in the other party's face.

Saverin's psychological activity is estimated to be like this: Lao Tzu is a rich second generation, and he casually invests 15,000 US dollars to play, and only needs 30% of the company's equity. Your little money is a fart, it's not as good as my annual pocket money, and you want to buy 100% of the shares?

Moskowitz said excitedly: "That's Altair, the morning glory that invested in Google! Song, Song, have you forgotten? The leader of the Internet industry! He happened to come to the United States to participate in Google's listing, and if we accept this financing, Song will come to Harvard to meet us in person, and he is very interested in our website!"

"Will Song really come over in person?" Zuckerberg finally came to his senses.

Moskowitz nodded and said, "Yes, he will come over in person." Altair's people also said in the email that Sohu, in which Song invested, has a similar website in China, which is more comprehensive than Facebook. I have broken through the Great Firewall of China's network and am landing on Sohu's Renren network, maybe we can refer to the special functions of Renren. ”

"Do you know kanji?" Zuckerberg asked.

Moskowitz shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Zuckerberg was quite speechless, and silently took out his mobile phone to call: "Chen, hello, I'm Zuckerberg...... yes, the long-faced man you met in front of the party toilet today, and I have something I'd like you to help with...... Okay, okay, we'll see you tomorrow!"

The next day, Priscilla Chen, who is of mixed Chinese and Vietnamese descent, was browsed by a Starbucks on Renren.

Priscilla Chen has only learned traditional Chinese, but that doesn't stop her from visiting mainland websites: "This is the Drifting Bottle feature, and it will be sent to friends or strangers at random." Users who find a drifting bottle can choose to 'stuff a note' in the drifting bottle and let the drifting bottle continue to drift. You can also use website credits or website currency to trace any picker of the drifting bottle, thus establishing a 'bottle friend' relationship. ”

"Drifting bottles? That's an interesting feature. Zuckerberg laughed.

Priscilla Chan pointed to the laptop and said, "This function is called 'poke', so you can 'poke' someone else." ”

Moskowitz asked: "What's the use of that?"

"I don't know," said Priscilla Chen, "maybe it's a hello, or maybe something else." ”

Zuckerberg asked, "What does Renren rely on to make money?"

"There is an ad bar on the right side of the page, and users can click on the ads to earn points, which can be used to buy certain goods," said Priscilla Chen, who repeatedly studied the website for a long time. For example, the background of your homepage, or some ordinary gifts that you can give to your friends. ”

"Gifts?" Zuckerberg leaned over.

Priscilla Chan clicked on the gift mall interface: "Look, these are gifts. Some gifts can be exchanged for points, but most gifts need to be topped up to purchase. There are e-cards, there are postcards, there are flowers, cakes, cartoon characters...... It's all pretty and beautiful. ”

Zuckerberg and Moskowitz looked at each other, and the latter lamented: "I can't imagine that China's online community has a more mature business operation model than the United States." ”

Priscilla Chen searched for encyclopedia entries and said: "This is China's Sogou Encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia in the United States, but earlier than Wikipedia." The encyclopedia entry for "Renren" is: the world's largest online community, with 30 million registered users, and one out of every three Chinese netizens is a member of Renren. ”

"Even buy Ka!" Moscowitz was shocked, "I think Sohu's stock price is seriously undervalued, and with this social network called Renren, Sohu's stock price should double its current price!"

It's a pity that Renren is not profitable now, and it only got rid of the loss at the end of last year.

Zuckerberg had a lot of confidence in Facebook, and although there are many similar American websites now, he firmly believes that he is the best. Now that he met China's Renren, he instantly lost his arrogance and pride, because he did a better job.

"I think we should accept Song's financing and ask someone from Renren to come and help," Moskowitz said. ”

"That's what I thought, too. Zuckerberg said.

Moskowitz asked: "Do you need to inform Saverin?"

Zuckerberg said: "Tell him after the talk, he doesn't care much about the company anyway." ”

Later, some people said that Zuckerberg had too bad a bad character and turned his face and kicked Saverin out of the game. But if you really have a partner like Saverin, it will be quite depressing, at least in the early days of entrepreneurship.

The rich second-generation Saverin treats Facebook like this:

Well, I'll just invest $15,000 and give me 30% of the shares.

What, the company doesn't have enough money? Okay, I'll invest another $10,000, and you can help me calculate the shares.

Sorry, I don't have time, I still have to study, and I have a promising job in a big company.

Do you want me to help with things? No problem, this is easy to solve...... Sorry, I forgot.

Saverin's indifferent attitude not only provoked Zuckerberg and Moskowitz, but even Sean Parker, who was personally invited by Saverin to be the president, was very dissatisfied with this guy. As a result, the three simply re-registered the company and kept Saverin's shares, but did not recognize Saverin as the founder, and did not bother to inform Saverin when they accepted the financing.

Zuckerberg said: "Back to Altair, we accept financing negotiations. ”

"OK!" Moskowitz was so excited that he had a hunch that he would become a billionaire because he had a 5% stake in Facebook at this time.

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