The other side of the ocean.

Yang Runling was very, very happy with Han Qian's arrival, she had been here for more than half a year, dealing with Lao Mei all day long, and almost no Chinese friends, Han Qian's arrival was a surprise for her.

E-song's engineers have grown to more than 100, and she knows more about electronic music players after a long illness, and she knows about Faddell's recent research on procedures.

Han Qian's mood is a lot better, a new place makes her feel that life has more colors, and she lives with Yang Runling. But what's more boring is that Yang Runling is very busy, she often watches her work late every day, reading all kinds of documents, and all in English, which makes her want to help and don't know where to start.

There was a guest in the apartment rented today, a very ordinary white man, he came to the door to make an appointment with Yang Runling, and then took her away, Han Qian was wondering if Lawyer Yang was in love, this was a date, but I didn't expect her to come back after less than an hour.

When she got home, Han Qian asked her with a smile, "Runling, are you looking for a boyfriend?"

Yang Runling looked surprised, "Ah, where did I find it?"

She immediately understood, "Oh, you mean the one who came here to find me in the evening, right?"

Han Qian asked, "Isn't that person?"

Yang Runling said: "Of course not, it was the founder of a company invested by the company, named Larry Page, who came to find Chen Zier." ”

"Isn't his company just E-song?"

Yang Runling said: "The search engine you usually use on the computer, google is made by that person, Chen Zier invested in them, and recently they encountered some problems in Series A financing." ”

Han Qian was bored all day long, and asked inappropriately, "What's the problem?"

Yang Runling frowned, "I'll tell Chen Zier later, when they signed a clause, Chen Zier accounted for 10% of the shares, and refused to dilute it, which affected Google's A round of financing later, and new investors were more concerned about that clause." ”

Han Qian said nervously: "What's wrong?"

Yang Runling smiled lightly, "It's troublesome, he quietly invested $500,000 at the beginning, which scared me, and now there are new investors, which means that the company actually still has potential, so in my opinion, it's not a bad thing, it's more of a good thing, and Google's new investor is Sequoia Capital, which is one of the top investors in the venture capital industry, and it is very powerful." ”

Han Qian was stunned and said, "Hello Runling, I have read a lot of books, and I understand all of these." ”

"I graduated from law, where do I know so much, it's not forced, there is no way, people are forced out. ”

Yang Runling went to the house again to get some materials, "Look at these, this is what I have to learn every day when E-song Company was looking for investment before. This piece of information, this person, Michael Moretz, a particularly famous investor in Sequoia Capital, invested in Yahoo was his decision, $1 million, 25% of the shares, the day Yahoo went public, he helped Sequoia Capital turn this investment into $140 million. ”

Han Qian listened unconsciously, but Yang Runling was very happy, "Qianqian, guess who voted for Google this time?"

Is this still a guess?

Yang Runling said: "Michael Moretz is in contact with the two founders, I really didn't expect that even such a good professional investor would take a fancy to Google. ”

Han Qian asked, "But didn't you just say that you were in trouble?"

Yang Runling said: "It's a bit troublesome, Sequoia Capital represented by Moretz can't quite accept that clause, and Page can't get the money to come to Chen Zier, but now I slowly understand that this is actually a process of mutual compromise, as long as there is money to be made, everyone will always compromise to come out with a result." ”

"In '99, Google became more and more popular, especially Stanford, which became more and more famous, and I see many people giving up other search engines in favor of Google. ”

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After that day, Ning Ya waited for two days, and on the third day, Chen Zier had not contacted her, which made her patience gradually reach the limit, she began to be a little anxious, took the initiative to make a phone call, no one answered, and after a long time, no one answered, she simply went to the parking lot of Dijing Blue Bay and waited for Chen Zier in person.

She remembered the model, color, and license plate of the BMW very clearly, and even the parking space, so at night, she waited there.

Chen Zier saw her when she was still in the car.

When she got out of the car, Ning Ya came up and spoke, "Mr. Chen." ”

It's warm in the car, it's cold outside the car, Chen Zier is not ready to talk to her, how can there be kung fu to grind and chirp on a cold day, while wearing his coat, he said directly: "It's fake, right?"

Ning Ya glanced up at him, confirmed his mood, and then nodded and said, "I'm sorry, I have a reason." ”

The style of painting doesn't look like a very vicious conspiracy, Chen Zier looks at her and feels a little strange, as well-behaved as a kitten, or is she here to pretend to be pitiful?

He lifted his leg and took two steps, then said, "It's cold here, go up and talk." ”

On the way, he received a transatlantic call from Yang Runling, reporting that Page had come to her.

Yang Runling said: "Page was very polite to express his appreciation for you and his helplessness about the matter, according to him, when they approached Sequoia Capital, the financing process was affected by that clause. ”

After returning from the United States, Chen Zier's mentality has changed, he is now a lot more aggressive, lying down and waiting to get rich is Chen Zier, who has just been reborn, Google's shares are worth more than 2004, not to mention that there are still 5 years to go, but at that time he still can't sell, and it's stupid to sell.

So when he saw Master Ma, more of his feelings were actually fun and participating in historical events, if you want to say that Alibaba will make money for him? How many years will it be?

He can get 100 million US dollars in one year, and he can get 1 billion US dollars in 10 years, Chen Zier chose the second one in the past, and now he must choose the first one, which is a kind of self-confidence, confident that with 100 million US dollars and the extra nine years, he can create more than a billion US dollars of wealth.

Time is also an asset.

Chen Zier has known such a person all his life, a very powerful person, engaged in finance, insisting on not buying a house, not because he has no money to buy it, but because he is confident that the wealth appreciation rate brought by his investment vision can be faster than the growth rate of housing prices.

So he invested his money and went to rent a house, and the result was, of course...... Losing a lot of money, embarrassed, this stupid pretentious elite turned out to be a negative teaching material.

It's a bit of a poisonous chicken soup, but Chen Zier is different, he has the advantage of being reborn, and he is now more hungry for cash than a check that can only be cashed in many years.

In addition, if that clause hinders the development of Google, it is also what he does not want to see, angel investment and venture capital to put it bluntly is to buy a ticket on the ship, where the ship goes still to listen to the captain, of course he also hopes that the ship can be smooth sailing.

But that clause was bought by him with money, if it weren't for this clause, why did he only take a small stake for so much money?

Chen Zier said into the phone: "You can say to Page that we can agree to change that clause, and the hard rule will be changed to a soft clause, but I need to compensate." ”

This is Yang Runling's favorite answer, she was worried that Chen Zier would be iron-headed, so she would not back down, so that if there was a problem with Google's A round, then Shengshi Investment would also suffer, and now she can ask for a little compensation to reduce the risk in advance.

"Okay, I'll go ask him out right away. ”

On this side, Chen Zier took Ning Ya into his home.

After sitting down, he asked, "What made you lie to me like this?"

Ning Ya secretly cheered herself up in her heart, this may be the most critical time in her life.

"If there are 120,000 shares of China.com, will Mr. Chen forgive me for telling this lie?"

Chen Zier's first reaction was disbelief, he said: "Then you have to really be able to get it." ”