Brin and Page glanced at each other, and the two were very acquiescent, this seemed like an opportunity?

Whether it's angel investment or venture capital, one important difference between this type of investment and most investments is that even if they lose money, they don't have to bear any financial or legal responsibility.

In other words, as long as you want me, you can just spend it.

There is a saying in later generations that Ma Yun rejected the capital injection of 37 venture capital companies at the end of 99, and later Ma Yun, including his co-founder, came out and told the truth: that is completely fake, it was Ma Yun who ran around in Silicon Valley and met 37 venture capital companies, all of which were rejected.

Dad Ma is still awesome, at that juncture, the company may die at any time, in order not to make employees despair, so he changed the reason for not getting the investment to another word: I rejected them.

But in fact, those who have the capital to reject venture capital are good companies that are not short of money, have bright prospects, and have already made some achievements.

Why do you refuse to invest if you don't have anything at the beginning? You spend this money, and everyone gets rich together; if you fail, you don't have to repay your debts, and at this time, you yourself are obviously short of money, and your brain is broken, and you refuse?

And what does Google have at this time?

They don't even have a company yet, they just have this domain name.

They have two employees: Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The third employee is still on his way.

They also have an office space: Page's dormitory, and it's almost full.

They have good results, Google has included nearly 30 million EB pages, and the reputation is not bad.

But they also have a number of competitors, such as Excite, which believes that pagerank's patents are not worth $1 million at all, Yahoo, which is so powerful that it is suffocating, and Inktomi, Yahoo's royal search service butler, and, of course, Altavista, a giant with a 54% share of the search market.

What else?

There's a bunch of bills waiting for them to pay!

There is also a completely uncertain future!

There is also the confusion and worry of not knowing whether the doctor can graduate smoothly due to this!

So will Brin and Page have thoughts about the money resources that Chen Zier has at his disposal?

Could it be that the conscience found that he couldn't cheat this international friend's money?

Or is it out of the shallow friendship that has just been brought about by getting along, so he feels that it is immoral to spend his money to win a future that I don't know if I can succeed?

It's all.

Page and Brin's first thought was: Can you give us money?

$100,000 is good, $300,000 is good, $500,000, dude you make a lot of money, Google will make you rich.

$1,000,000? Only in a dream did he think so!

As for what to do if you lose this money? Hehe, you are willing to invest it.

Chen Zier deliberately observed the expressions of the two of them, and his heart was a little bigger: they had ideas.

Qin Yunhan is in Stanford, and what she sees in her eyes is the entire Silicon Valley, she has naturally heard of venture capital, but this kind of company is generally done by companies with strong financial strength or rich people.

This young man named Chen Zier is also a venture capitalist, so what about his strength?

She calculated in her heart, trying to paint the whole picture of Chen Zier.

Chen Zier's goal at this time was not this high-quality beauty, he remembered the purpose of his visit, so he continued to 'seduce' the two big babies, "I have already made a successful angel investment, and now that company is already the largest portal in my country, and I also received news before coming here that venture capital is willing to do Series A financing for them." ”

Brin asked, "Can you know what Mr. Chen's company is called?"

"Shengshi Investment. ”

Naturally neither Brin nor Page had heard of it, and it was not surprising that a well-known investment company would have such a young owner?

The new company also has the advantage of a new company, that is, there is not such a cumbersome procedure when investing money, and of course, there is also the possibility of hasty investment because of 'unprofessionalism'.

Chen Zier was thinking about how to get the two founders to accept his investment, and the two founders had already begun to calculate his money, as long as they had money at this stage, it didn't matter if it was from relatives, friends or classmates and alumni, as long as they had it.

For them, if Chen Zier can invest, this is a sum of money that does not need to be repaid, and they can spend it if they take it.

Page asked Chen Zier directly: "Mr. Chen just admired Google very much, did he think about investing in us?"

Brin frowned, feeling that this was not good, the two sides did not understand each other, it was too quick to talk about this, and it was too eager to get a good price.

Chen Zier also tried his best to avoid his 'frivolity', but he would not completely refuse, so he said: "I do investment, in addition to investing in technology, I pay more attention to people who master technology, Silicon Valley has never lacked patents, let alone high-quality small companies, and what is lacking is people who can bring small companies to greatness." ”

"The patent office doesn't know how many patents will be granted every day, but there are not many that really have commercial value. This is the difference between business and academics. ”

What he meant was: I'm optimistic about you, but I haven't seen the business value of Google, let alone the two of you.

And this is already a huge improvement for Brin and Page, because before that, no one else was interested in his technology, otherwise no one would have asked for 1 million.

Page asked, "What kind of person does Mr. Chen think can bring a small company to greatness?"

Chen Zier looked at the two of them and felt that he was a little too conservative, after all, the current Brin and Page are just two poor people looking for money everywhere, what dreams and prospects are really important to them?

Maybe it's more important to get the first money to survive, right?

He thought so in his heart, but he still pretended to be forced, so he said: "I used to be strongly curious about what led the United States to become strong, and I took this question to look at the history of the United States. ”

Brin and Page have a growing affection for Chen, a businessman who appreciates and identifies with American culture.

"You have a lot of great ancestors who brought 'puritanism' to this country, and this ism has a lot of good characteristics, such as optimism, such as striving to make this world a better place. Benjamin Franklin once said: There was never any doubt that the United States would always be the rising sun. It's because of the genes that make the world a better place that Microsoft was born here, not in Europe. ”

"Another example is the hands-on technician spirit. When Winthrop's steamship docked in 1630, the advance party of immigrants had long since lost their morale, and Mr. Winthrop rolled up his sleeves and went to work as soon as he arrived, encouraging the people in this way until there was not a single idler in the whole plantation. At the time of his death, a carpenter's toolbox was also found among his belongings. ”

Brin and Page were already starting to wonder how well this young man knew about America? Honestly, who was Winthrop they might have to ask the professor of history!

Chen Zier smiled and continued: "People know that Thomas Jefferson is the third president of the United States, but few people should know that this old man is dedicated to doing farm work and making nails. ”

"People know that Tom Paine is the author of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, but few people know that Tom has been a corsetist for many years, and his craft has never been wasted. ”

"Franklin, whom I mentioned earlier, was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence on behalf of Pennsylvania, and he himself invented lightning rods, iron furnaces, bifocal mirrors, and other things that benefited the world, and he was proud of his original profession as a printer until his death......"

"Even today, houses in the United States are generally made of wood, unlike stone in Europe, which is also a reflection of the American hands-on effort: when a house is damaged, most of the repairs are made by the owner himself. ”

"So if you ask me what kind of person I think can lead a small company to greatness, my answer is: a leader who has an optimistic spirit and works for a better vision of the world, and has a strong technical spirit, and if there is such a person, I will invest in him with all my might." ”

Qin Yunhan was also deeply shocked, this paragraph, without a certain degree of understanding of American history, it is absolutely impossible to say, there are many historical blinds who do not know the similarities and differences between the "Declaration of Human Rights" and the "Declaration of Independence".

But he can talk eloquently, and he is confident and aura in his speech.

She tried to think in her head, which family in China produced such an excellent young man and she didn't know?

To be an investment company, the capital must be sufficient, no matter how good he is at such a young age, it is too exaggerated to accumulate capital that can be invested from scratch.

But everyone surnamed Chen has never heard of such a person.

Larry Page on the other side secretly began to get excited, because what Chen Zier said coincided with his thoughts.

A vision to make the world a better place?

Google has it. If a company has achieved a market capitalization of 600 billion yuan but has no vision, it is not convincing to say it.

In fact, both Page and Brin were inspired by the Puritan idealism that wanted to change the world for the better, and some even said that Google was a religion in the guise of a company!

Hands-on technician mentality? In the world of the Internet, it can almost be understood as a focus on technology.

Not every company values technology, and Yahoo is the best example of this.

And Google's engineer status may be the highest among all IT companies, this is a company that carves technology into its bones, Brin and Page themselves are also engaged in technology, and their pursuit of technology is endless!

Page was a little nervous, and he said to Chen: "Maybe you should try to understand Google, it will not let you down." ”

Although Brin also agreed with Chen's words, he still felt that such a big decision needed a little time to think, and he couldn't make some amazing moves like Page did.

Can you imagine? Page tried to fire all the project managers at Google!

Because he feels that these non-technical management managers give orders and task deadlines to engineers, which limits their performance!

The atmosphere on both sides reached a critical point at this time!