Chapter 45: The Game!

(Apologize to everyone!Recently, I've been busy helping my aunt with her funeral every day, and I want to sleep when I close my eyes when I'm tired!I'm really sad and sad these days, and I can't continue to write well, so the number of updates is very small!I just took 10,000 yuan for my aunt today to get a cemetery, and I didn't get home until 4:00 p.m., so I updated it so late.) m. I'm sorry!)

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Jia Lei wanted to die after listening to Jim Clark's story, and the other party was hurt by the group of investors on Wall Street at first glance, and the two of them were like having a hatred for taking their children.

"You have to know that for entrepreneurs, the company you have built is as important as your own son, you capitalists on Wall Street have already snatched my company from me once, is it possible that you still want to grab it a second time?" Jim Clark looked at Jia Lei and asked with a sneer.

Jim Clark founded SGI with the support of venture capitalists, and eventually SGI expanded the company into a world-renowned company.

What Jim Clark never expected was that after the development of SGI, some investors tried their best to reduce Jim Clark's stake in SGI to about 5%, which made him completely lose control of the company and was finally kicked out.

While a 5 percent stake is a lot of money in an IPO, Jim Clark was worth only $16 million when he left SGI, which may be why he kept a guard against Mr. Jia's intention to invest in their company.

To some extent, Wall Street does have a hatred for Jim Clark!

"But there are so many bankers on Wall Street, and not everyone is so ruthless and unrighteous? At least I'm not the kind of person who crosses the river and demolishes bridges!" Jia Lei frowned and defended himself, although it had reached this point before, Jia Lei was still unwilling to give up Netscape.

"Huh...... , don't you want to tell me that you're the kind of person you have?" said Jim Clark to Jia Lei.

"That's what I mean, how can you see that such a simple and kind child as me can do something to kick people out of the door?" Jia Lei was particularly shameless and opened the mode of selling small to Jim Clark, his eyes widened and smiled and said, he tried in vain to gain Jim Clark's trust as a minor.

"Young Master Jia, do you really think I'm an IT man like Anderson who is stupid in reading?

How can you be a simple and kind child at such a young age to be in charge of such a large sum of money?

If you were really that simple, I'm afraid you would have been swallowed by the bunch of bankers on Wall Street who eat people and don't spit out bones, right?" said Jim Clark sneeringly.

He is a person who has dropped out of school since he was sixteen years old and works hard in society, how can Jim Clark easily rely on his appearance to ask for a person's character by looking at his appearance, no matter how sweet and kind Jia Lei smiles on the outside, he will not be easily moved.

"Since you've got it all to say, then I won't pretend with you!

I hope you put aside your prejudice against me and listen to me first, and then we will talk about the future from the perspective of investors, okay?" Jia Lei put away the smile on his face and said seriously, and then his face leaked a calm that did not match his age.

Since you have not hurt me before, then I will give you a chance to defend yourself. Jim Clark nodded.

"Squeak, justify, you seem to have used the wrong word, don't you? I don't need to justify anything, I'm just stating a few facts. Jia Lei casually pulled a chair from the empty desk nearby and sat down while talking, and he even leisurely crossed Erlang's legs.

"For a computer engineer, objective facts are far more pleasant than chicken soup for the soul, and I like your attitude now. After Jim Clark finished speaking, he also sat opposite Jia Lei.

"Even if you agree to let me visit Marx's company, then you know a little bit about me as a person, right? I want to know what your impression of me is?" Jia Lei asked.

"I love you, of course, I know a little bit, and the friend who helped you tell me that you are the youngest banker on Wall Street and the majority shareholder of Citibank. Jim Clark replied that he agreed to Jia Lei's visit for the sake of Citibank's face.

"What I want to tell you is that my identity is not as simple as you see, the identity of Citibank's shareholder is not really important in our negotiations, and I am not your identity as a Wall Street banker who came to your company to inspect this day. Jia Lei replied.

"Oh, even if you didn't come here as a shareholder of Citibank, then in what capacity did you come?" asked Jim Clark curiously, he always felt that there was something in Jia Lei's words.

"I'm here to inspect Mosaic as a shareholder of Microsoft and Cisco, as far as I know, a large part of your company's software and browsers are to be bundled with Microsoft systems to develop, right?" Jia Lei said with a smile, this is his most important identity in the Internet industry.

"What are you talking about? You are actually a shareholder of Microsoft and Cisco, how can I not know about this? Are you threatening me with Microsoft?" asked Jim Clark with a frown, these two Internet companies are the two largest Internet companies in Silicon Valley.

"I'm not threatening you, I'm just showing you what I'm really capable of.

As for you, it's normal that you haven't heard of me as an antique in these two companies, because when I invested in these two companies, they were just starting out, just like yours.

At that time, I was younger, so I could only invest in the stocks of these two companies in the name of an offshore company, because I was always responsible for investing and earning income and did not like to participate in the development and management of the company.

So most people don't know that I am the boss behind the major shareholders of these two companies!" Jia Lei said with a slight smile, and in an instant, Jia Lei's body erupted with a powerful Wang Ba aura.

Jim Clark was stunned by Jia Lei's confident smile and momentum, and almost bowed his head and became Jia Lei's little brother, this is Jia Lei's brain supplement!

In fact, although Jim Clark was entered by Jia Lei's unexpected identity, he still relied on half a century of life experience to stabilize his spirit and continue to negotiate with Jia Lei.

"I don't understand what you mean, even if you're a shareholder in Microsoft and Cisco, what does that have to do with our company?" asked Jim Clark.

Unless Jia Lei really wants to use Microsoft to threaten his own indiscriminate methods, Jim Clark doesn't have to care too much about those two companies.

"Of course there is? I want to tell you that I have always liked to invest in Internet companies, and I am the most popular investor in any company. Because I never put people on the board of a startup or say anything!" said Jia Lei, which is why Jim Clark has always refused to allow investors to enter.

"Can you really promise that you will never put people in the company or express any opinions?" asked Jim Clark thoughtfully, if this is the case, Jia Lei is indeed the most popular investor in startups.

"Of course, I have an angel investment fund under my name, if you are afraid that I will interfere in the company's affairs, I can sign an investment contract with you in advance and transfer my voting rights in the board of directors to you?" Jia Lei leaned forward slightly, approaching Jim Clark and asked.

"This ......" Jim Clark was stunned when he heard this condition, it was too tempting.

"Why are the conditions of my opening so rich, do you still have to hesitate?" Jia Lei asked with a frown, and then he subconsciously glanced at the clock hanging in the room.

It was 11:30 p.m. on October 13, 1994, and it would have been too late if Jia Lei couldn't figure out Jim Clark's words in a few hours.

"Your terms are indeed tempting, but I'm not short of money right now...... So I don't want to add new shareholders to the company just yet. Jim Clark hesitated for a moment, but this sentence sounded a little insincere.

"Speaking of which, you still don't want others to interfere with your company and buy your company's shares, if you keep managing the company in this mood, Mosaic is destined to not go far.

Do you see which Internet company listed on Nakdas has gone through rounds of ABC rounds and other rounds of financing to meet the listing standards?

Unless you really want your company to never go public, sooner or later you're going to have to go out and raise money. In that case, why don't you accept me, an investor with a lot of money and little to do?" asked Jia Lei.

"It's not that I don't want to accept you, I just can't convince myself to accept you for a while!

After the last incident, I found out that the people on Wall Street came to invest in me because they found out about the good prospects of our company, and I was too young to sign a bully clause with them and eventually lost the controlling stake in the company.

Relying on people to fund entrepreneurship may be wrong from the beginning, and the so-called funders are all approaching us in the name of angel fund investors like you.

But because I gave them a 20 to 30 percent stake in my last company, they kicked me out.

The lesson from last time was just too bad for me, and I really don't want to repeat it. Jim Clark regretfully said that he would remember this kind of thing for the rest of his life.

"But haven't you ever thought that with the money you have now, you can't support such a large company to operate and list on the NASDAQ.

If you really don't want to be squeezed out of the company by others when the capital is invested in financing in the future, then you should accept me as a shareholder of your company!

Because only then can the two of us join forces and have a high enough stake to compete with the investors behind and the public investors after the listing.

I have enough funds to ensure that I can maintain my stake in the company after multiple rounds of financing!

If you accept my investment now, then I can delegate my voting rights to you in the company, and then the two of us together will be enough to make you the dictator of this company. Jia Lei tempted Jim Clark and said, Jim Clark was a little moved when he heard this.

"If you are willing to fill in all the above conditions on the investment form, especially the one about voting rights. Then I will agree to your stake in our company, and I can sell you up to 15% of the company's shares.

But you have to promise me that if you want to sell these shares, I will have the right of first refusal!" Jim Clark said to Jay.

"Deal!" Jia Lei nodded and said.

"Ding Ding Ding!" At this time, the bell in the house rang to tell the time, and Jia Lei looked up and saw that the time was exactly 12:00 noon.