The most beautiful thing about being young is that you still have the passion to fight and dedicate yourself to your ideals and beliefs.

Even the reincarnation of people, when they were young, had some great ideals, even if they did not take action again.

If Google hadn't succeeded, perhaps Sergei Brin, like most Stanford-educated coders, would have found a quiet, high-paying job at a big Silicon Valley company, such as Cisco or Oracle, with enough money to buy a nice house in the Bay Area, and the rest of the money could be used to travel around the world.

In fact, he had intended to do so before.

But as the saying goes, the ass decides the head, and when Google gradually showed the potential to beat Yahoo and AltaVista (also early search engines), Sergei, as one of the founders of Google, was given access to a higher level of world. In this case, his focus on things naturally changed, and he began to pay more attention to ideology and three views.

In the final analysis, Sergei is just an ordinary second-year young man.

There are certain ideals and visions, and these things will sprout when they have the ability, but more often than not, they will be at ease with what happens.

is also Secondary 2, and there are always some unusual Secondary 2 young people, even if they are in adversity, even if they do not see the hope of success, they still hold the ideal of changing the world.

In a small and inconspicuous building in Los Alto, there is such a young man.

"Our business model is outdated! Richie! Do you understand? Although we will lose some of our immediate income, we can expand our business to every ordinary person! This market is much bigger than the commercial market!" a burly young man kept in front of a middle-aged man who had gained a little fat, and gave his tirade in high spirits.

"Have you followed the recent PayPal sites? Don't you really want to pay attention to new things。。。。。。 I thought about it, as long as we launch a function similar to PayPal, target the customer base to ordinary consumers, combined with our current merchant channel of ZIP2, we can compete with PayPal!"

"Richie,"

The middle-aged man frowned, and quietly dodged the saliva that kept squirting from the young man's mouth, "Elon, it seems that you should be more concerned about the feasibility report of our database integration with CitySearch that you are responsible for, tell me, how is it done?"

The young man waved his arm excitedly: "Richie! Did you hear what I said? We're talking about big business that can disrupt Yahoo and Google, and you're concerned about the merger of CitySearch? Moreover, that website is called PayPal, not Paper. I'm asking for an online payment function right away!

The middle-aged man had obviously lost his patience, turned around sharply, and stared at the young man fiercely: "Hey! Listen, Mr. Musk, although you are one of the founders of this company, now, I am the CEO of this company! I am in charge of the strategic planning of ZIP2, not you! I will not accept your bullshit free advice, let alone believe your 'dream plan' to subvert Yahoo and subvert Google!"

Young Mr. Musk's face flushed, and his forehead was bruised, "Richy Solkin! You're the biggest piece of garbage in ZIP2! I can't accept working with someone like you! Why did Bill Davido choose you to be the CEO of ZIP2?"

The slightly chubby Richsolkin calmly pushed his gold-rimmed glasses and pointed out the door: "Just because I brought $25 million in financing for ZIP2, just because we now have an operating income of $7.5 million, just because I made your brothers millionaires! The door is there, please! Mr. Musk, as an elder, to give you a little advice, you better ask the employees in your department, who else wants to work with you?" If you choose to leave, I'm sure they'll have a farewell party for you today, and of course, I'm skeptical that this party will invite you. ”

Elon Musk's face changed a few times, and of course he knew that his popularity in the department was not good.

ZIP2's investor, Moldavido Venture Capital Fund, also saw this, although Elon Musk was eager to try it out as a founder, and the capital side did not let Elon Musk be the CEO, but poached Richsolkin, the vice president of innovation (Creative, the company of sound cards and speakers, once very famous), to lead ZIP2, Elon Musk can only serve as the company's CTO, and his brother, another founder of ZIP2, Kim Bar Musk, is in charge of sales in the company。

From the perspective of the capital side, Richsolkin increased the turnover of innovation from less than $100 million to $800 million during his tenure as vice president of innovation, which is a very suitable candidate for the CEO of a startup like ZIP2.

Moreover, compared with the personable and experienced Richy Solkin, the young Musk brothers are like two quails that have just come out of the cage, and it is clear who can gain the trust of the capital side at a glance.

"Do you think I'm going to fall for you?!" Elon Musk clenched his fist, Richsolkin was really a little worried that this big fist would really greet him in the face, "This is my company! Let's see!" Elon Musk put down a cruel word and walked out of the CEO's office angrily.

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"I don't think there's anything wrong with Richsolkin's decision, as our merger with CitySearch will more than triple our customer base, our valuations will go up more, and our 15% stake will be worth more. And the things you said about launching a function similar to PayPal, you can't see the benefits in the short term, and the investment will increase, which is not a good choice for ZIP2. On a hillside in Los Alto, Kimbar Musk calmly persuaded Elon Musk, who was crouching on the ground and fiddling with a model of the Challenger space shuttle.

"Valuation doesn't tell the whole story. Elon Musk is still assembling this model with a very high degree of restoration, "It should be 0.32Ω... To be precise, valuation does not represent anything, valuation should be the result, not the goal, if we are tied hand by the valuation, we can only achieve nothing in the end... Kimbal, help me find a seal, the 38mm one, yes, bring three. ”

Kimbar Musk found three sealing rings from the toolbox next to him and handed them to Elon Musk, "Anyway, now the capital represented by MDV (Modavido Venture Capital) is the majority shareholder, and we can only listen to them." If you want to start anew, I don't have a problem, but I still want to hold my half of the shares for a while, and now that the Internet concept is gaining momentum, maybe there will be a big deal in a year or two. ”

Elon Musk grinned and looked at his brother, "Don't worry, Kimbal, I won't be that stupid." And MDV is just a venture capitalist, and if we bring in more investment, it's not certain who will die. ”

Kimbalmusk perked up: "What do you mean?

Elon Musk was about to answer when his mobile phone shook twice.

Elon Musk picked up the phone, and as soon as he opened the text message, he jumped up with excitement.

"Fxck!Fxck!Fxck!Kimbar, our turnaround is coming!"

Elon Musk's face was full of excitement.

(End of chapter)