In this world, joys and sorrows are staged every day.

If we zoom in our field of vision from a street, to an entire city, to an entire country, or even to float in low-earth orbit, overlooking the horizon of the arc below, those icon-like continental sections, we may be able to imagine that at this moment, those living on hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or even billions of creatures, every second passes, there are people crying, grieving, joying, laughing.

The macroscopic vision cannot distinguish every detail, but in any case, time is advancing, many, many things will not stop, and for the long river of time, joy, anger and sorrow cannot make it stop, it compresses the lives of millions of people on the huge sphere of the earth, rushing from west to east.

The only opportunity to observe time, probably like in a landscape trailer or movie, is to shoot the night scene of the city with a camera, and then play it at 5 times speed, 10 times the speed, the streamer light of the vehicles on the winding road connecting the lines, probably the traces of its passing, some light coming, some light flowing.

In short, life goes on.

Ahn Junhyuk has walked through many people in his life, some have gone in unreachable directions, some have followed his pace, and some have been left behind by him. He is like time, rarely stopping to wait for anyone, not selfishly, but because he respects their choice.

He believed that everyone is responsible for their own choices, and similarly, he also believed that everyone has the freedom to choose.

It is your own decision to decide what path to take, and others will not always point you in the right direction, both in career and in relationship.

He called her home. But he couldn't find her, once, twice, Ahn Junhyuk was not an idiot, he naturally understood her attitude and knew her choice, so he respected her choice.

We are consistent in terms of timing, but everyone has differences when it comes to the details. Lin Yuna left this direction. Go to another place, and he's still going in that direction.

The resolution to convene the shareholders' meeting was after a meeting with Zuckerberg, Parker, and Moskowitz. Just notify the out. In accordance with relevant regulations. The specific time was set for the 15th, and the reason why the board of directors was not taken was to avoid a six-person meeting. Graylock, Axel, and Merritech have joined forces to reject Zuckerberg's resignation and oppose Ahn Jun-hyuk as the new CEO, although the situation can upset the balance of the six-member meeting by bringing in new directors, but it will take too long, and it is not easy to find new, suitable investors.

But taking the path of the shareholders' meeting, in fact, it is not all smooth sailing, because it is not a public company (listed company), and the CEO re-election is also a major decision of the company, and if you want to pass it at the shareholders' meeting, you must obtain more than 2/3 of the votes, but Zuckerberg, Ahn Junhyuk, Parker, and Moskovitz do not add up to 2/3 of the votes, so if you want to pass this resolution, for the four people, you need to win the support of the free shareholders - those veteran employees in the company.

During this period of preparation under the regulations, Zuckerberg was actually exerting his influence to lobby employees who held shares.

Although the two sides are privately unhappy because of the sale of Facebook, idealists do not allow betrayal of their beliefs, and for Zuckerberg, those who are inclined to sell Facebook are all betrayers.

In the end, it was Ahn Joon-hyuk and Sean Parker who persuaded him.

Similarly, Sean Parker, Dustin Moskowitz and Ahn Jun-hyuk are not idle, the former two are paving the way with Zuckerberg's better-connected shareholders, and Ahn Jun-hyuk frequently appears on Facebook to try to get acquainted first.

It's just that this matter is a little difficult, he doesn't know how to do it, and he doesn't have a common language with many engineer-turned-shareholders, so he can only rely on his personal charm, but he has no resume in Silicon Valley, and his status as a yellow race, even if he has a fluent English with a California accent, it will not be effective in a short time.

The night before the shareholders' meeting, the four met again at Zuckerberg's rental house, and the situation was a little less optimistic.

"I reached out to all the people I was sure I could convince, but few actually gave me a reply. Casually opened a few bottles of beer and handed them to Ahn Junhyuk and the others, Zuckerberg said helplessly: "Originally, some people had been shaken, but two days ago, Yahoo raised the offer again, raising the original purchase price of $1 billion to $1.3 billion, and now it ......."

"The Wall Street guys still allowed it to be acquired?" Moskowitz was surprised.

When the takeover failed in early July, Wall Street investors expressed disappointment with Yahoo's performance and objected to its reckless spending to cancel it.

Parker, who took a sip of beer, smiled when he heard this: "Yahoo's stock price has risen back, its board of directors doesn't know what promises it has made, most investors have been appeased and are willing to follow the board's decision, and Dustin, you are not ignorant of the way, now many people in Silicon Valley and Wall Street say that if Yahoo does not want to sink, the next step is to make a breakthrough in a new field, and Facebook is their best choice." ”

"I don't want to be their choice, even if it's the best. Moskowitz cursed in annoyance, "These damn bastards!"

It's like a hungry predator hunting, and the predator will do whatever it takes to get a full meal, and Facebook is the prey it targets.

It's a bad feeling to be a prey!

"Okay Dustin, no amount of scolding will solve anything. After appeasing Moskowitz, Zuckerberg looked at Ahn Junhyuk, who was silent, and said with some concern: "Ann, tomorrow's meeting will be up to you." ”

As early as the day of the meeting, when the relevant plans for the transfer of power through the shareholders' meeting and the persuasion of the free shareholders were determined, the four of them analyzed the psychology of those free shareholders together.

First of all, they are not speculators, since 04, they have followed Zuckerberg on this entrepreneurial road, most of those people are Zuckerberg and Moskowitz and McCollan personally recruited, they have accompanied Facebook from obscurity, to the point where they are today, they have a strong sense of identity with Facebook.

In addition to Yahoo's huge offer, another important reason why they agreed to the acquisition this time was the power of time.

In the past 2 years, once young people have begun to mature, and the pressure on all aspects has been surging with age, family, society, marriage, raising children, the economic burden is getting heavier and heavier, they are just ordinary people, there is no fanatical belief, only hope that they can earn more money and enjoy a better life, which is understandable.

And Yahoo's acquisition can satisfy their small hope and relieve their pressure.

The most important problem, of course, is that they were disappointed with Facebook in the first place, or rather, Facebook didn't show the potential to keep them waiting, and Zuckerberg's ambitious workplace network destroyed their spirit with failed results.

In the face of such a situation, if you want to win back their sense of identity with Facebook, it is simple to let them regain their confidence in Facebook.

But the simplest problem is also the most difficult, Ahn Jun-hyuk is not familiar with the technique, although these days, he has read a lot of information, trying to identify the nouns he doesn't know, but with the current accumulation, he can't express his future plan for Facebook to those engineers from the perspective of technology, and even more can tell these people who are active in the code world, how to tap Facebook's potential from the code, and then create revenue for them.

This makes it even more difficult.

Originally, the four-person plan was to try their best to convince some shareholders, even if they only barely managed to get 2/3 of the votes, as long as they could pass the resolution, everything would be easy to say.

But now Zuckerberg and others are not lobbing well, but they have to put their last hope on this.

In the face of Zuckerberg's entrustment, Ahn Jun-hyuk nodded: "I will do my best." ”

"Well, I'm going to give you a speech, about 15 minutes, and you'll need to get at least 15 percent of the votes in those 15 minutes to get our resolution passed...... By the way, are you ready for your speech?"

"It's ready, but ...... Mark, you know, I don't know much about technique, a lot of things are not very convincing, I'm afraid it's hard to achieve the 15% goal. ”

Parker and Moskowitz looked at Ahn Junhyuk's serious expression, sighed secretly, quieted down, Zuckerberg stopped talking, and in the small living room, the four men drank beer in silence, only the sound of Priscilla frying steak on the other side of the kitchen was faintly heard.

After a while, Zuckerberg sat down next to Ahn Jun-hyuk and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay man, let's take it as a gamble!" Anyway, I've been gambling, in '04 I bet that I could succeed, so I left Harvard, and now I'm betting that you can impress those damn betrayers, even if you lose, it's nothing." ”

He shrugged, "If they don't approve of you being the CEO, I'll appoint you COO, and I'll see how long they can object." ”

The mentality is very open-minded.

In contrast, Ahn Jun-hyuk seems to be a little petty-minded, but in fact, he knows that Zuckerberg is not as calm as he appears, and he can't fail this time.

From Facebook's standpoint, if the re-election planned by him and Zuckerberg cannot be passed at the shareholders' meeting, then Zuckerberg's prestige and influence will be further reduced, which also means that Yahoo's acquisition obstacles have weakened, and perhaps the acquisition can really succeed.

He would not allow Facebook to be ruled by large groups, which would mean that he would receive only a small return on his investment — compared to what he planned — and although in the dream, Facebook survived the crisis unscathed, but this is the reality, and he never leaves the future to the uncertain "possibilities".

This time, we can't afford to fail!

Tomorrow, Facebook's first extraordinary shareholder meeting of 2006 will be held in the conference hall of the Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto......, and this is the decisive moment!