Chapter 94: Fisherman's Wharf
"Hug, I'm sorry" Zhang Chen hurriedly got up from Su Zhuorui's body.
Su Zhuoyuan's face was also flushed, and she sat up and tidied up her clothes.
The two glanced at each other, and they both felt a little embarrassed, and suddenly Su Zhuorui laughed "poof", and Zhang Chen also laughed.
Su Zhuorui brushed her hair, "To celebrate CNN's interview with you, I invited you to Fisherman's Wharf at noon." ”
Zhang Chen said with a smile: "Okay, they all say that the seafood and scenery of Fisherman's Wharf are very good." Hey, as soon as you say it, I just found out that I haven't been to the beach for so many days. ”
Su Zhuorui: "Then let's set off now." ”
Fisherman's Wharf is located at the northernmost point of downtown California, a little east of the Golden Gate Bridge. Originally a port for Italian fishermen to unload their catches, it gradually lost its role as San Francisco grew. By the end of the 70's, the Fishermen's Wharf began to gradually transform into a purely leisure and sightseeing attraction, and led to the development of the surrounding economy.
Fortunately, today is Monday, and there are not many people, Su Zhuohui parked the car in the parking lot of Haibin Avenue, and the two walked to Pier 39.
This is the first time Zhang Chen has seen the sea since he was reborn.
There is no beach in the sea near Fisherman's Wharf, but in order to facilitate visitors to see the sea, behind the seaside buildings, a long, continuous wooden seaside plank road for tourists to walk has been specially built.
The signboard at Fisherman's Wharf is a circular sign with a large crab, and there are many Danjinnis crabs sold near Pier 39.
The two found a restaurant called Crab-house, which specializes in crabs.
Su Zhuohui ordered a bread bowl, which was a local sourdough bread emptied and served with a creamy clam bisque, and ordered a killer crab and shrimp, plus two complimentary glasses of lemonade.
Because there weren't too many people, the crabs were served in a while. What is more surprising is that the crab is big enough, at least bigger than the face. There are two main fly in the ointment, the first is that there is no ointment and no yellow, and Lao Mei doesn't know what to think, and the ointment will be removed. The second is that the crabs are fried, not steamed or stir-fried, as Chinese are used to.
"By the way, you said two days ago that you were going to Stanford for summer school, when are you going?" asked Su Zhuohui as she spit out a piece of crab shell.
Zhang Chen wiped the oil on his hands, "It should be just these two days, before the Independence Day holiday, I have to go and hand in the registration form first." ”
Su Zhuorui said thoughtfully: "Stanford has to drive close to an hour from the city, and you are not of legal age, how can you go back and forth." ”
Zhang Chenzheng was concentrating on dealing with a crab leg, and said casually: "I may live in a student dormitory over there, and it seems that Stanford's summer school is mainly to prevent the dormitory from being empty." It's understandable, open source and reduce expenditure. ”
Su Zhuorui was taken aback, "Huh, then you won't be living with me in two days?"
Zhang Chen said: "Maybe, you must live on campus when you go to study, but if you pass the application, you may have to come back and harass you." ”
Su Zhuorui was silent.
Zhang Chen raised his head and smiled: "What's the matter?"
Su Zhuorui blushed: "Phew, I'm afraid that you will ask me to check out the rent." “
While chatting, Zhang Chen's phone rang, and when he looked at the call, it was a foreign phone, and he didn't know it.
Zhang Chen's heart moved, and he picked up the phone: "I'm Zhang Chen, please speak." “
A stumbling voice came from the phone: "I'm Viggs, uh, Mr. Zhang, and we have decided to agree to your terms." “
Zhang Chen was ecstatic in his heart, yes!
In the previous life, ICQ was sold to AOL in 98 years, and the price was only 400 million US dollars. In this life, with Zhang Chen's intervention, AOL will have to come up with at least one billion dollars or more if he wants to eat this piece of meat!
But in any case, by the end of 99 at the latest, Zhang Chen must sell ICQ, because in 2000, with the bursting of the Internet bubble, the stock prices and valuations of a large number of companies will experience a diving decline, and the entire Internet industry will evaporate 5 trillion US dollars.
By that time, Zhang Chen's Internet industry layout in China has also been completed, whether it is poaching people or copying a few American companies, life is not too happy.
"Okay, okay, when you come to San Francisco, we'll sign the agreement. Oh, I have one more condition, your company had better move to Silicon Valley. Zhang Chen said calmly.
Viggs was stunned, "Why?"
Zhang Chen took a sip of water: "First, Silicon Valley has a strong entrepreneurial atmosphere, there are many talents, and it is easier to recruit people; second, Silicon Valley has tax incentives; third, Tel Aviv is too unsafe, and I don't want my investment to turn into dust because of a car bomb or an RPG." If you come to Silicon Valley, I'll provide $10,000 for each of the three of you. “
There is another reason why Zhang Chen did not say it, that is, if he is in San Francisco, at least he will be able to monitor it in the first two months. Two months later, Zhang Chen will find a qualified agent here to ensure the safety of his funds.
But now, he has not chosen this agent yet.
Su Zhuohui is still a little uneasy, although Zhang Chen has deliberately changed this woman subtly in the past few days, but he doesn't know the face of the person, but he doesn't know the heart, and he needs to investigate more.
Viggs smiled wryly, "Well, sir, you seem to be more of a Jew than we are. “
Zhang Chen laughed and said, "Chinese and Jews are born businessmen. “
Hanging up the phone, Zhang Chen was in a good mood, and Su Zhuorui said curiously: "What are you investing?"
Zhang Chen took a piece of crab meat privately with his hand, and said while eating: "Recently, I plan to invest in Internet communication software." “
Su Zhuorui didn't understand: "Communication software, similar to Eudora's?"
Zhang Chen shook his head and said, "No, Endora is an email client, and what we want to do is an instant messaging software." After installation, as long as both parties are online, a sentence will be displayed on the other party's window within a second. Able to improve communication efficiency. “
Su Zhuorui was quite interested: "It sounds very similar to the current mobile phone text messages, what do you think of the market prospects?"
Zhang Chen said: "There are no similar competitors at present, and it should be promoted quickly." “
Su Zhuorui asked, "How much money are you going to invest?"
Zhang Chen: "$400,000." “
Su Zhuohui was speechless: "Are you crazy? You only have a total of 800,000 US dollars, the risk is too great, right?"
Zhang Chen said with a smile: "It's not big, the most important thing is to make users, as long as there are enough users and the share is large enough, it will not be a problem." “
Su Zhuorui was puzzled: "But you just told the people at CNN in the morning that the most important thing for Internet investment is to have a profit model, and you can't see a profit model, why do you invest so much money." “
Zhang Chen laughed and said: "Sister Su, if everyone interviewed had to tell the truth to reporters, then Greenspan would have resigned a long time ago." “
Su Zhuorui suddenly said, "What you said in the morning is false?"