Ellison took a fancy to Twitter, what a joke, he had never heard of him investing in the Internet. Zhou Shi still knows about investing in Tesla, and the three of them and Musk can be regarded as showing off in Iron Man 2 and playing a soy sauce. At the beginning, Tesla was short of money, and a stick of analysts collectively looked down, and Ellison insisted: "Do you guys know what greatness is? He has built a rocket, and he can take it back on the ocean, what is it to build a car!" and then there was a cooperation between the two sides, but Twitter, I really can't understand it.

"Are you serious? Although we are friends, I really don't want to sell Twitter shares because I lack money!" Zhou Shi thought he was trying to help himself

"You think too much, I won't help you if you lack money, Twitter is an excellent company, and I am optimistic about its future development. "Ellison

"According to the development trend of Twitter, it is at worst a 10-billion-level company, and if it weren't for the duplication of friends.com and his functions, I wouldn't want to sell it. "Zhou Shi, Friends, Facebook and Twitter have too many similarities, and there is a lot of overlap in functionality. This can be seen from the fact that the development speed of social networks far exceeds that of Twitter, in the previous life, there was no social network in China, so Weibo was very popular, and now with the friend network, Weibo may not have great development.

"In that case, you're still selling?" Ellison

"Because I want Friends.com to become a 100-billion-level company, and at worst, a 50-billion-level company. Zhou Shi, Oracle's current market value is close to the scale of 100 billion US dollars, and he is ashamed to say that Friends wants to become a 100 billion dollar company, which makes Ellison convinced.

"You really have the look of my youth, especially the shameless arrogance!" Ellison

"If you don't believe it, forget it, social networks have a lot of potential for development than your broken company. Zhou Shi remembered that Oracle's market value was more than 200 billion when it was at its highest, but Facebook could reach a market value of 500 billion US dollars, and the gap between Internet companies and software companies was the gap. While Oracle's software may be more valuable, social networks are more lucrative.

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, just say Twitter do you sell it or not?" Ellison asked impatiently

"Sell, how much do you want?" Zhou Shi

"All for me?" Ellison

"Then you give me ten billion dollars!" Zhou Shi

"MD, can you speak humanly!" Ellison said angrily

"You know, be realistic. "Zhou Shiyun is light-hearted, a company that is not listed, how much can Ellison give in his personal bid, and this will not be an acquisition by Oracle.

There hasn't been much progress in the two of you going back and forth for a few times, but after the most critical things are negotiated, everything else is easy to say.

"So be it, after the successful financing of Twitter, we will calculate the financing price. "Zhou Shi

"That's it!" Ellison didn't think long before agreeing to Zhou Shi's suggestion

In the next few days, people kept asking about friends, Twitter, and Guoke, and tens of billions of dollars in corporate financing, which is not something that ordinary small venture capitalists can participate in, and most of them are strong companies. Not only that, Zhou Shi also took out Zynga Games to raise funds.

By integrating multiple games into Zynga, it generated $280 million in revenue in 2009, and since the social network has two giants, it doesn't have to be completely dependent on Facebook, so the market prospects are naturally much better. Even if it's just a small financing, it's indispensable to think about valuation.

Zhou Shi came to Twitter again to talk to Jack Dorsey about the financing and discuss his thoughts on Larry Ellison joining the company.

"Larry is a veteran rich man, and his relationships are much stronger than ours, and this time it's just the right time to expand the audience of the wealthy class, and it can also increase the discussion of entertainment topics. "Zhou Shi

"I don't have a problem with Mr. Ellison......," Jack Dorsey, "but I'm still not sure about the company's profitability, and we can't find much of a way to make a profit." ”

"That's a big question, what kind of company do you think Twitter is?"

"What company, Internet company, social news platform, media company?" said Jack Dorsey

"If it's a platform, we can't interfere, if it's a media, we can filter certain information. "Zhou Shi

"Information screening, this method is difficult to achieve, and the United States is very strict about information protection and personal privacy protection......" Jack Dorsey

"Tight!" Zhou Shi thought hatefully, thinking that he didn't know about Snowden. Well, but Zhou Shi really doesn't know about Snowden, the idealist who provoked great changes in the world. Of course, he didn't really vent his frustration and talk nonsense.

"A platform can only create topics and attract merchants to conduct topic marketing, and we have established a trading platform to manage the transactions between marketing accounts and merchants. Zhou Shi's brain was wide open, and he said irresponsibly, anyway, his basic market is there, and no matter how bad the profit is, he can't find out, so it's better to try more.

"Marketing number, what's that?" Jack Dorsey

"We can set up a list of hot topics according to the number of participants, so that those who need it can be on the list through certain channels, and the marketing account is to help these people, and I can't say the specifics, after all, I just had this idea. "Zhou Shi

"Let's talk about it then!" Jack Dorsey knew that sometimes people came with inspiration, but those ideas were not necessarily useful, and they were not very detailed and specific.

"Take advantage of this financing to kick out Dai Furui completely," Zhou Shi said for no reason

"Don't worry, I'm more concerned about this than you do. "Jack Dorsey

Zhou Shi thought about it, Dai Furui wanted to get Zhou Shi out of Twitter, Jack Dorsey was his key target, and the contradictions between the two sides were very deep and difficult to resolve.

Although Zhuang Chengchao and Dai Furui still have these Twitter shares, they actually don't have much influence, but Zhou Shi will definitely not be happy to see them make money on their own ride. There is also a Qunar network in China, which is also his goal, and the plan is almost complete, and when the financing here is completed, he can let the country clean up Dai Furui by the way. The key to this is the relationship between Zhuang and Dai, but for the development of the company, it will not be so irrational to think about Zhuang. Zhou Shi has the courage to burn jade, but others may not have it.

After several rounds of financing, Zhuang Chengchao, who originally did not have many shares, had less than 20% of the shares in Qunar, and Dai Furui was similar, because of decision-making mistakes, Dai's shares were actually less than Zhuang's. Galaxy Capital, Blue Dragon Fund and other institutions have more than 35% of the shares. With the cooperation of other venture capital companies, there is also a way to drive them out, but if the cost is too great, it will be a little unworthy, so the matter has been delayed until now. Justice may be late, but it will never be absent!

(End of chapter)