For Seattle, the first time Li Feng heard this name in his previous life was because of the Seattle SuperSonics, who competed for a championship with Jordan the Bulls dynasty in the late 90s, and only then did he know that there was a city called Seattle.

Don't blame Li Feng for being lonely and unheard, Li Feng is an orphan in his 10s, and it's good to know Seattle.

Later, with Microsoft's domination of the global operating system and the powerful Boeing, Li Feng got to know the city of Seattle better, although Microsoft is not in downtown Seattle, but it is not far away.

Seattle, as the commercial and cultural capital of HSD State, has been rated as the most beautiful and livable city in the United States many times.

Seattle has a temperate maritime climate, with annual lows above 0 degrees, so it's hard to see snow, and the highs are below 30 degrees, making it rainy and humid.

No, after more than 2 hours of flight, it was a misty drizzle that greeted Li Feng and the two of them when they walked out of the airport, which was regarded as a welcome gift for Li Feng, a first-time arrival, in Seattle, which made Li Feng, who was accustomed to the California sunshine, feel uncomfortable for a while.

Out of the airport, I got on a taxi straight towards the current RES... The location of the Internet book station, the office space rented by Bezos.

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After getting out of the taxi, looking up at the sign of the Cadabra Internet bookstore (well, I haven't seen the Amazon logo yet), looking at the spacious garage, Li Feng couldn't help but curse secretly, damn the so-called "garage culture".

Well, Amazon has a legacy of being founded in a garage in the Seattle suburbs.

Li Feng didn't have a contact, so he took Zack and the two into the garage with the door open, and after entering, he saw that the server was buzzing, and there were only three staff members in the entire garage.

When they saw Li Feng and the two walking into the garage, all three of them turned to look at Li Feng and the two, and at the same time, Li Feng recognized the young version of Jeff Bezos at a glance.

At this time, Bezos was only in his early 30s, and he still had a head of hair, but he was not the famous bald image of later generations.

"Hello, Mr. Jeff Bezos, I'm angel investor St. John Lee, this is my personal attorney Zach John, we were in contact yesterday and it was a pleasure to meet you. ”

"Hi, Mr. Li, Mr. John, I'm Jeff Bezos, welcome both. ”

Sure enough, hearing Li Feng's self-introduction, the three people in the garage were suddenly busy, and then Bezos greeted him very graciously, and then introduced the remaining two, an employee named Sherkapan and his wife.

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Bezos was also a member of the Wall Street elite, so he quickly talked and laughed with Li Feng and the two, introduced the situation since the operation of his online bookstore by the way, and also took out a business plan that had been prepared long ago.

In general, in 94, Bezos and his wife took out all their savings of $300,000 to set up their own company and officially started their entrepreneurial career.

The current online bookstore is barely able to sustain operations, but it is estimated that it will not last long without external support.

At this time, it is really not easy to attract investment, and it is a small website like a book buying website, and the era of online shopping is really a wilderness in the wilderness period.

In the business plan, Li Feng took a look at it, mainly talking about the convenience of online book purchase and the prospects of the book market of American imperialism, etc., as for those online shopping in later generations, there is no concept of what B2B \ B2C is.

However, in the plan, Bezos already has a basic business philosophy, emphasizing the importance of network distribution and logistics in the plan, saying that if the development goes well, he hopes to build his own logistics distribution center and data center in the future.

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Li Feng, who came from later generations, certainly knows the dependence of online shopping on logistics and distribution, and the importance of logistics distribution centers and data centers.

I also know that Amazon will not make any profit in the next 10 years, and the money it will earn will be used to build its own logistics distribution center and data center.

Li Feng is very clear about the importance of the so-called big data era and cloud technology data centers in the future, so he agrees with Bezos's concept.

Hearing Li Feng's support for his future preparation for the construction of distribution centers and data centers, Bezos was also happy, after all, if investors can agree with his concept, then there will be a lot less unnecessary trouble in the future.

One of the things that Amazon has been criticized by Wall Street in later generations is that Amazon is almost not profitable, and every time the financial report comes out, it says how much it has earned but how much it has spent, and many shareholders have never seen dividends.

When the two had the same idea, Bezos was also excited, and then he was very excited to tell Li Feng about what he envisioned the Internet book station should be.

According to the venture capital process, this early communication is actually a necessary stage of investment, and both parties need to understand each other in order to make the next work smoother.

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"Jeff, since I've come to Seattle from Los Angeles today, it means that I'm very interested in what you're talking about, but in business, Jeff, you should be very clear about the current situation of the company, so how much do you think your current company can be worth?"

"John, now that you're here, I think you should know something about my company, so I don't know what you think?" Hearing Li Feng's question, Jeff Bezos regained his shrewdness as a Wall Street elite, and then asked rhetorically.

"Jeff, let's put it this way, I invested in Yahoo at the beginning of the year. At this time, Li Feng diverted the topic and turned to his own investment in Yahoo.

"Yahoo?"

"Yes, Yahoo. ”

"Oh MyGod, John, that's a beautiful investment. Jeff Bezos heard that Li Feng had invested in Yahoo, and immediately said with envy.

As a former Wall Street elite, he has a strong desire to chase wealth, and Bezos, who is now an Internet practitioner, understands what this means when he hears that Li Feng invested in Yahoo, and is now an Internet practitioner, so he is naturally a little envious.

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"Jeff, I'm telling you that I'm a Yahoo shareholder, not to show off, but to help you.

Yahoo you should also know that it is the introduction to the Internet at present, and there are more and more websites included in the Yahoo search directory, but there are no websites about book purchases.

I can help you get your website listed in the Yahoo directory, and I think that way, your website will be able to be seen by a large number of Internet users, and I think you should know exactly what that means. ”

"What?" Bezos exclaimed in surprise when he heard that Li Feng was able to make Yahoo directly include his website.

"Of course, why not?"

"John, I don't think it will be too long for Yahoo to include my website, after all, there are still very few such book-buying websites on the Internet. ”

Bezos saw Li Feng looking at him with a smile, and immediately worried that this was Li Feng's threat to lower the price or get more shares.

In fact, Li Feng really has such an idea, in fact, Li Feng wants more shares, after all, he can get Amazon shares in advance, which is a big business.

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"Jeff, you should know that you are not the only one who buys books online now, although you may be the best at the moment, and it is the first one I have come into contact with, but it doesn't mean that I have to invest in you, does it?"

In fact, although later generations have always said that Amazon has opened online shopping, in fact, there is really more than one book buying website on the Internet at this time, and there is competition everywhere, but several others eventually disappeared.

It can be said that because he became a shareholder of Yahoo, in the early days of the Internet, Yahoo was able to become a tool used by Li Feng.

After all, in the early days, the first choice for most people to go online was to go to the Yahoo website, which is why before the bubble, Yahoo was sought after by all parties, which also led to Yahoo's market value rising again and again.

Li Feng looked at the pensive Bezos at this time, but his heart was extremely high, looking at the current Jeff Bezos, he had the ability to crush him.

I thought, no matter how good you are in the future, you still have to come to my bowl obediently.