"With a market share of 28% and 85 million search requests per day, that's a beautiful statistic. John Doerr took off his glasses, "When did you start paying attention to this company?"

"About a month ago. Michael Bradley, the investment manager of KPCB, said excitedly, "I was writing a report on 21KL that day, and I had a professional question that I wanted to ask Zekalaya of MIT, so I wrote an email to him, but I didn't expect the other party to reply to me with only one sentence: Don't you know google?"

Melvin Bradley's eyebrows fluttered: "I didn't know what Google was at the time, and I sent him another email saying I didn't know, and Zekaria replied to me with a URL,. ”

"At this time, I found out that it was a search engine, I tried to search for the question I wanted to know, but I didn't expect to find the answer I wanted on the first page. God, I searched on Yahoo for three days and didn't find the results that met the requirements, and this Google did it all in just three seconds. ”

"Great story. "There are only two problems, the first is that search technology is no longer popular in the market, Yahoo and Infoseek are enough to meet everyone's needs, and Dune Road hasn't invested a penny in search in recent months." ”

"Second, I don't see their monetization model, and there is not a single major website using their search technology, and their revenue should be miserable. ”

Melvin Bradley smiled strangely and pointed to an inconspicuous column in the dense form, "John, take a look at this. ”

John Doerr took a closer look and looked horrified: "78 percent of the new market share? Are you sure that 78 percent of new Internet users will choose Google as their search engine?"

Melvin nodded firmly: "I have been working on this investigation report for two weeks, and every data is true, and the sample size of each data is at least 2,000 or more. ”

John Doerr's face turned red: "Damn! Where did this website come from? At this rate, in another six months, they will be able to gather no less than Yahoo's traffic, and when the time comes, they will be able to make advertising profits by turning into a web portal!"

Melvin suppressed his excitement, this was the first time that his chosen project had been approved by John Doerr, "Yes, John, will I be able to reach out to them?"

John Doerr yelled, "Of course, you idiot! You shouldn't show me any proposal right now! You should have the founder of this site come to Dune Road to meet me with the agreement that has been signed! Where do they work? Contact them now! Take me there!"

Marvin was taken aback and snorted, "John, at the moment I have only analyzed their technical indicators, and I have not done a background check. ”

John Doerr's eyes widened: "Are you saying you don't know who the founders of Google are right now, and you don't know if they've received angel funding?"

Melvin complained in his heart, the project analysis report handed over to you last time was scolded by you as a waste of time, and it is a waste of budget to find a third-party company to do a background check, let me pay attention to the technical indicators first. Now they are scolding me again for why I didn't do a background check, and I'm really being scolded.

But where did Melvin dare to talk back to John Doerr, his boss is a famous tyrant in Silicon Valley, the kind who throws things if he disagrees, Melvin had to whisper: "I haven't been paying attention to this company for too long, and I haven't had time to do background research, but I know their address, it's on Oak Street." ”

John Doerr's face stiffened, "Let's go! ”

Melvin was dumbfounded, "But, it's six o'clock in the afternoon. ”

John Doerr looked at Melvin puzzled: "Do you think a startup will leave work on time at six o'clock?"

Marvin didn't dare to argue, and wailed in his heart, paralyzed that I had to leave work.

It is only a five-minute drive from the KPCB to the single-family house rented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

At this time, Google, counting the two founders, already had fifteen employees, and John Doerr could see the crowded and messy office from the window.

There are eight people, including Larry and Sergey, who live in this villa, and these eight people are all male single dogs, and the indoor environment can be imagined.

John Doerr calculated in his heart that this Google seems to have a certain scale, and being able to rent such a villa and hire so many people shows that at least the first investment has been obtained, but I don't know who has such a good vision and eats the fattest piece of cake when there is nothing.

However, it is good that KPCB itself is not a venture capital institution focusing on angel rounds, they are good at the operation of B-PreIPO rounds. It turns out that the search engine company called Google has the potential for an IPO, and nothing can be left untouched.

John Doll tidied up his coat and rang the doorbell, and after the sun went down and there was a little wind, it was still a little cold in the Bay Area.

"Who are you looking for?" a young man who didn't know if he was of Pakistani or Indian descent opened the door and looked warily at John Doerr and Melvin, "we didn't smoke marijuana." And I have a legal refugee visa. ”

It seems to be Pakistan's.

John Doerr was speechless, isn't this TM not admitting himself.

"I'm not a police officer, it doesn't matter if you smoke marijuana or not, whether you have illegal immigrants or not, who is the founder of this company? Oh, Google is based here?" John Doerr struggled to control the expression on his face, and put on a classic investor look.

"Yes, our website is called Google, what do you want to do?" said the Pakistani brown guy was still wary.

John Doerr held his head up and said, "I'm John Doerr, and I want to talk to the founder of this company." ”

"John Doerr, what for?" the brown guy looked confused.

John Doerr almost grabbed the ground with his head, and now there are still high-tech practitioners in Silicon Valley who don't know their names?

"I'm sorry, but we have important things to talk to about the founders of Google. John Doerr pushed aside the brown guy and walked into the room, "Who is the founder of google? I'm John Doer from KPCB... Zack: Why are you here?"

John Doerr walked through the entrance and saw five or six young people sitting on the floor by the fireplace, a large whiteboard was spread on the ground, several young people were sitting around the whiteboard and discussing something fiercely, only Zhang Chen looked tired and dozed off on the edge of the fireplace.

Not to mention John Doerr's astonishment, could it be that he also discovered this company at the same time? It's so unfortunate that it won't let him take the lead again, right?

"John, you came to me, how did you know I was here?" Zhang Chen rubbed his eyes, in order to reverse the jet lag, he had not slept for more than twenty hours, and his brain was wooden.

As soon as he finished the meeting at Tinder, he was dragged by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Oak Street to play some brainstorming, which made Zhang Chen so dizzy that he almost said ideas such as bidding ranking.

Seeing John Doerr, Zhang Chen didn't react at all.

John Doerr grinned and showed a helpless smile: "I really don't want to know that you are here, let's put it this way, KPCB wants to invest in google, who is the founder?"

(End of chapter)