"Have you really decided?" asked Wadi sadly, looking at Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were sitting in front of him.

Larry and Sergei nodded silently.

Wadi's face changed, and he finally opened his mouth and said, "I can give you a share of my own shares." ”

Sergei grinned, "Wadi, we don't really care about ICQ options, we just do what we want to do, and Viggs's thing is just a fuse." ”

Wadi was not good at words, and was silent for a while, "Viggs is my friend. ”

Sergei glanced at Larry Page and shrugged, "Yes, we know, so we don't want to embarrass you." ”

Wadi added, "You are also my friends. ”

Sergei and Larry Page were stunned, they had never expected such words to come out of the wooden mouth of Vadi, and they were both a little moved.

Larry Page doesn't like to talk either, but he's more of a normal person than Wady. "Wady, I'm sorry. We can't stand him. ”

Sergei also showed an apologetic expression, "We have been in ICQ for two whole months, and this time, you know, it was Viggs who violated the agreement first. ”

Larry Page and Sergey Brin immediately showed unparalleled talent when they joined ICQ, and the technical department in charge of Wadi was able to grow in engineering development with the addition of two men.

ICQ has been updated to V2.2.1 in two months. In particular, the V2.0 version, which was developed based on the architecture rewritten by the duo for ICQ, was widely praised and triggered a new ICQ boom in the European and American Internet world.

The new version is not bloated compared to version 1.0, but is smaller and, most incredibly, extremely scalable. In other words, as long as the daily update of ICQ is under this architecture, it is good to continuously enrich the functions, and the underlying logical architecture does not need to make major changes at all.

Also, the server support for the new version is much better than the old version, so Wadi applied for options for Larry Page and Sergey Brin with a special contribution.

Initially, Viggs agreed, after all, retaining good engineers is the lifeblood of IT companies. But after an argument between Larry Page and Viggs at a product development conference, that all changed.

Viggs's skill level is more than one Bill Gates worse than Larry Page。。。。。。

And Larry Page is an absolute technologist, and at the end of the discussion, Larry Page irrepressibly expressed his contempt for Viggs's technical level.

This made the self-respecting Viggs angry, and if it weren't for the other two who stopped him, he would have fired the two men who despised him on the spot.

And Sergei Brin, because of pranks.

Ever since Larry Page offended Viggs, Viggs has been wearing small shoes for Larry Page. And Sergei, who is a good friend of Larry, put a layer of lube on the door of Viggs's office in order to vent his friend's anger。。。。。。

As a result, Viggs naturally took two days off and didn't go to work, half of it was a fall, half of it was angry.

Eventually, Viggs used his veto and disagreed to give the two options.

Wadi argued with Viggs many times about this, and finally had a big fight and broke up.

Wadi lamented the loss of two extremely strong technical backbones, and was saddened by the loss of two like-minded friends.

Sergei Brin comforted: "It's not a big deal, in fact, we left because we wanted to start a business. Even without Viggs, we would have left ICQ by the end of the year to do it ourselves. ”

Larry Page said: "Yes, we're going to do algorithms, search algorithms. Instant messaging software is too low-tech. ”

Wadi suddenly said: "If you lack start-up capital, I will lend it to you without interest." ”

Larry Page and Sergei Brin looked at each other, both touched by the affection Wadi showed to the two, but still said, "No, we found an investment." That's right, it's to invest in your company, Tinder. $300,000. ”

Wadi was not surprised, he knew that Tinder had given two presentations at Stanford in the past month, plus Zack's speech at Stanford at the beginning, many students at Stanford knew that there was such a small investment company in Silicon Valley now, and they were very willing to invest in Stanford-born students, in addition to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, there were also several small startups that received part of the investment from Tinder.

One of the small companies called Ebay actually received a $13 million investment led by Tinder, IDG, Sequoia, and Goldman Sachs. It is said that out of 13 million, 9 million were taken out, and the remaining three companies invested a total of 4 million.

Wadi stood up and held out his hand to the two of them, "Good luck to you. ”

Larry Page didn't shake Wady's hand, opened his arms and hugged him, and whispered in his ear, "Come with us, let's do something big." ”

Wadi stiffened and patted Larry Page, "Goodbye, bro." ”

Ebay is really not led by Zhang Chen, but a project found by Bellankefen himself. It's just that Blanciffen initially only wanted to invest about $3 million, and it would be good to get about 10% of the equity, and if he couldn't get it, the bottom line of 5% would be acceptable.

When Frank Kefen reported to Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen remembered this company, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, in later generations, Taobao was used too much, and he was fooled by Ma's father too much, and he forgot that he made a fortune by copying this ebay.

Zhang Chen immediately agreed to Belankefen's application, and asked Belankefen to increase investment, at least 10 million US dollars, and get about 25% of the equity.

But eBay's founder, Pierre Omidia, comes from a large company and is a small millionaire, and hesitant to accept Tinder's investment.

He has always wanted to find a large company to invest in him, so that he can get more support in other aspects, such as personnel recruitment, management, follow-up financing, listing, etc.

When Zhang Chen learned this, he contacted McGovern and Moretz and persuaded them to invest a token of $1 million each, promising to give the two companies a first refusal, and if he wanted to sell eBay shares, he would have to sell them to both companies under the same conditions, and not to anyone else.

Goldman Sachs, on the other hand, is Blankefen's old employer, leaking $2 million out of his fingers.

With the participation of IDG, Sequoia, and Goldman Sachs, Pierre Omidia finally agreed to Belankefen's investment plan, $13 million, 25% of the shares. The investment team led by Tinder provided management support to eBay.

Back and forth, Zhang Chen spent almost 10,000 yuan in a few days just for the transoceanic phone bill, but being able to remotely command the investment of eBay in less than a week still made Zhang Chen excited!

(End of chapter)