Although Bezos is just in his early thirties, his hairline has receded to the top of his head.

In the garage-turned-office, Bezos stared at the three financing proposals in front of him and rubbed his face excitedly.

As an elite Wall Street executive, Bezos is not short of money like most first-time entrepreneurs. But since starting Amazon a year ago, Bezos has not only invested his savings over the years, but his adoptive father has also invested his family fortune to fund his business.

It seems that he will be able to go home for a Thanksgiving dinner this year, Bezos smiled with relief.

When he first started Amazon last year, he asked his adoptive father nervously, "If I lose all your money, can I still go home for Thanksgiving dinner?"

The adoptive father laughed and hugged Bezos, who was in his thirties, "Child, don't think so much, if you lose, we still have your grandfather's farm, Texas is a good place, the horses you fed when you were a child already have great-grandchildren, we will go to see it together when the time comes." ”

Bezos's wife, Mackenzer, made her husband a cup of instant coffee, "Have you figured out which one to accept?"

Bezos smiled and nodded, "Jill's offer of four million dollars, I think it is sincere, and it is an old friend, I decided to accept their proposal." Maggie, what do you think?"

Maggie was Bezos' nickname for his wife, and McKenzer stirred the coffee in his hand, "KPCB's $3 million and AllSpark's $2.5 million plan does look a lot worse than Jill's, and you're making the right decision." ”

Bezos took his wife, "My most correct decision is to propose to you in the summer three years ago." ”

The lips grew closer, and Mackenzer's arms wrapped around her husband's neck.

Although the two have been married for three years, they have never lost their attraction to each other, Bezos pressed his wife on the desk roughly, McKenzie crooked the coffee cup in his hand, and a cup of coffee was spilled on Bezos's pants.

"Ah~" Bezos screamed in pain, although the temperature of the coffee is not high, only less than seventy degrees, but it is still quite painful to be scalded suddenly.

McKenzer covered his mouth and laughed twice, afraid that her husband would be burned, so she hurriedly helped to check it.

Bezos pulled his wife up, "Leave this alone, let's move on." ”

McKenzer dodged her husband's face, "Jeff, since you're going to promise Jill, shouldn't you let him know." ”

Bezos smiled slyly: "I told him to go to Seattle tomorrow for an interview, business is business, if he can give a better plan, I will not object." ”

Mackenzer kissed her husband: "Then I'll book you a ticket." ”

McKenzer was about to pick up the phone and call the airline when the landline phone on Bezos' desk rang.

McKenzer stretched out his hands to her husband and lifted the phone, "This is Amazon, do you need help?"

Bezos took off his coffee-soaked pants, took out a pair of shorts from the box under the table, and was about to change when he saw his wife holding the microphone and motioning for him to pass.

Bezos had no choice but to walk up to his wife with his shorts, and Mackenzie whispered, "It's AllSpark's guy, who said he wanted to interview you and asked if you had time." ”

Bezos shook his head: "There's no need, we've already decided." ”

McKenzer handed him the microphone: "Jeff, you can answer the phone." ”

Bezos took the phone and handed the shorts in his hand to his wife: "Hey, hello, I'm sorry, we've decided to accept investment from a Seattle venture capital firm, and you're late." ”

From the phone, Bezos felt that the other party was not very old, and it was estimated that he was a staff member of this venture capital institution, so he did not pay attention to it. Hearing that the other party insisted on coming to see him, and claimed that there was a plan that he couldn't refuse, Bezos shrugged: "Okay, call your decision-making people to come, I don't want to waste any more time, in fact, tomorrow I will go to Seattle to negotiate the details of the agreement with the other party." ”

Bezos hung up the phone, and Mackenzer handed the shorts to Bezos, "Jeff, what did they say?"

Bezos said while wearing shorts: "They said they want to re-quote, and they will come and interview me in a moment." ”

Mackenzer frowned: "Then do you change your clothes, this is a little too unseemly." ”

Bezos said disapprerovingly: "It's okay, it's a small company, it doesn't have any strength, I'm just curious about what plan they can come up with before agreeing to meet." ”

McKenzer said helplessly: "Okay, but Jeff, since you have promised Jill, you should not go back." ”

Bezos put his arm around his wife's waist: "Hey, Maggie, I didn't promise Jill, I just made my own decision." Let's continue~"

The garage was soon filled with the smell of hormones.

Of course, there is a reason why Zhang Chen is anxious to meet Bezos, he invested in ICQ, Ebay, and Starcom, but these projects together are not as big as Amazon's benefits in later generations.

Zhang Chen did consider Amazon before, but because the financial problem could not be solved for a while, Zhang Chen did not have too strong interest in Amazon in line with the idea that a flock of birds is better than a bird in hand.

After all, Amazon didn't make a profit until Zhang Chen's rebirth, and suffered heavy losses during the 2000 Internet bubble crisis.

Over time, Zhang Chen also kept Amazon in the back of his mind. But after Tang Miaomiao mentioned Amazon yesterday, Zhang Chen's mind became active again.

Unlike a few months ago, after Zhang Chen became a director of Salomon Brothers, his ability to raise funds has been greatly enhanced. Tinder issued $50 million in medium-term corporate bonds through Salomon Brothers, with interest rates maintained at a relatively reasonable level of 7% due to collateral.

Tang Miaomiao was a little puzzled, why Zhang Chen was in such a hurry, the three of them checked out of the hotel early in the morning, drove for nearly five hours, and returned to San Francisco in the afternoon, but they were about to meet this Bezos.

As an investor, shouldn't we be more reserved? Isn't it too passive to send it to the door like this?

Zhang Chen smiled bitterly: "Current affairs are different, I can be strong when I vote for ICQ and Starcom, because they are short of money, and I have no competitors." In this case, it is the other party who begs us to vote, and we can naturally take the initiative. But Amazon is different, firstly, the competition is very strong, in addition to KPCB, there is also a VC in Seattle is also eyeing it. Listen to Bezos, he has reached a preliminary agreement with this company, and if we don't hurry up, this business will be gone. ”

"Be a grandfather when you should be a grandfather, but you have to pretend to be a grandson when you should pretend to be a grandson. Zhang Chen looked up to the sky and sighed.

In fact, it is not so exaggerated as pretending to be a grandson, after all, no entrepreneur is willing to offend investors, and Bezos still changed into a pair of dress pants. Of course, the meeting place was still his and Mackenzer's gun room, no, the treasury.

(End of chapter)