Chapter 40 Investment

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.

In February of this year, Mark Zuckerberg, with the help of his roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskowitz, founded an early Facebook, The Facebook.

By now, the site of one of the world's largest social networking services in the future has become quite large.

In June, Mark Zuckerberg moved his entire Facebook team to Palo Alto, where Stanford University is located, the birthplace of the future Silicon Valley.

At this time, because of the addition of Sean Parker, the whole Facebook is on the road of steady development.

But due to a shortage of funds, unable to upgrade a variety of operational equipment such as web servers, Mark Zuckerberg and his friends are worried about where to get an investment to develop Facebook.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who has been paying attention to the development of Facebook for a long time, immediately asked Sony for leave and got on a plane to the United States after knowing that this was the best investment opportunity.

This step in his plan to take a stake in Facebook is important.

And only by taking a stake in Facebook at an early stage can we have a sufficient amount of money to realize Kiyoshi Sakamoto's plan of "Sony Bubu" by 2011.

From RB Tokyo to HSD USA to Palo Alto.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto ran non-stop to his future golden thigh.

As early as a few months ago, at the behest of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Kagawa in the financial management group had already connected with Sean Parker, who is now the president of Facebook, and now Sean Parker has a great influence on Mark Zuckerberg.

When Kiyoshi Sakamoto revealed to Sean Parker through Kagawa that he wanted to invest in Facebook, Sean Parker also agreed that the arrival of foreign funds could make Facebook develop faster.

So Sean Parker also told Mark Zuckerberg that an investment company from RB wants to invest in Facebook.

And Mark Zuckerberg, although he doesn't want other companies to come in, is afraid that it will affect his dominance on Facebook. But because of Sean Parker's strong persuasion, he finally agreed to meet with Sakamoto Kiyoshi.

And this meeting is also the first time that Kiyoshi Sakamoto has come to the front desk and led the Facebook stake as the boss of a TOP investment company. Because Kiyoshi Sakamoto is confident that he can convince Mark Zuckerberg to invest in Facebook and become a shareholder of Facebook.

Speaking of forward-looking, who in this world can compare to Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who has been reborn from the future?

August 7, 2004, Palo Alto, California. In a small estate somewhere.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto finally meets the famous and indispensable founder, the youngest billionaire of the future, Mark Zuckerberg.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto also deliberately wore a black suit for today's meeting, just to be formal and look like a consortium from RB, so that Mark Zuckerberg knows how much he values the future development of this Facebook, so he will come all the way from RB and invest in them.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto really did everything he could to take a stake in Facebook.

When talking to the youngest billionaire of the future, Kiyoshi Sakamoto is completely stressed.

After all, as a genius, a monster who learns everything quickly, he has long taught himself several languages, used to close his body, the more common English, French, Spanish, Arabic, are OK, not to mention Chinese, it would have been, the first mother tongue.

And in terms of his current net worth, the current Sakamoto Kiyoshi has already thrown Mark Zuckerberg a few streets, after all, Facebook is still in its infancy.

During the conversation, Kiyoshi Sakamoto first chatted with Mark Zuckerberg about the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook now, and also praised Mark Zuckerberg's forward-thinking ideas. Mark Zuckerberg was very surprised, he didn't expect that this "consortium son" who was far away in RB would know about a small social networking site in the United States, which also made him feel very proud and identified with Kiyoshi Sakamoto.

After all, Facebook, as the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg, will definitely think that person is a person who knows the goods when he hears that others praise his hard work so much, and psychologically he will have a good impression of that person.

And Sean Parker, who was on the side, also agreed with Kiyoshi Sakamoto that it must be developed quickly in order for Facebook to dominate the United States. So, he also helped Sakamoto Kiyoshi say good things on the side, and coupled with Sakamoto Kiyoshi's important words, Mark Zuckerberg finally relented and agreed to let Sakamoto Kiyoshi invest in shares.

The decisive sentence is: give up all the right to operate and operate, and on the board of directors, you will always vote for Mark.

After negotiating the conditions, when Kiyoshi Sakamoto asked Mark Zuckerberg how much money he needed, Mark Zuckerberg just said that 500,000 US dollars was enough, but Kiyoshi Sakamoto invested 1 million US dollars.

And this million dollars in exchange for 15% of Facebook's shares that were not diluted in the early days!

You know, in 2007, before the listing, Facebook's stock price had reached a high price of 100 million yuan for one percent of the shares!

After going public in 2012, Facebook's share price rose again, reaching one percent of a share equal to one billion dollars!

Although after accepting major venture capital, this 15% stake will definitely be diluted, but the successful stake in Facebook means that in the future, Kiyoshi Sakamoto will at least become an RB person with a net worth of more than one billion, and this billion is US dollars, not yen.

After writing all the promises he said into the contract, Kiyoshi Sakamoto and Mark Zuckerberg both signed their names on the equity contract.

This also confirms that Kiyoshi Sakamoto is now the second largest shareholder of Facebook. (Mark Zuckerberg owns more than fifty percent of the shares.) )

That night, in order to celebrate the joining of Kiyoshi Sakamoto, Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker and others held a party for Facebook insiders in the manor.

And Kiyoshi Sakamoto was also at this party, having a good time, and drinking some wine.

Fortunately, when he was in RB, he was secretly drinking, otherwise if he drank it for the first time, he would definitely make a fool of himself in front of everyone.

The next day, because it was rare to come to the birthplace of the future Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, Sakamoto Kiyoshi thought about walking around here by the way, seeing if he could see a future Silicon Valley giant or something, and also bring some gifts to friends and family by the way.

Well, it's been a long time since I've seen Xiaoqiao, so bring her something.

Because he knew that Nanami Hashimoto's family was more difficult, Kiyoshi Sakamoto didn't want to make the strong and hard-working Nanami Hashimoto in the future become another person because of his financial help.

So when Kiyoshi Sakamoto was helping Xiaoqiao, in many cases, he was just helping Hashimoto's family in some small places, such as bringing them some useful gifts, and giving them small furniture, household appliances or something every holiday.

As for Sakamoto's family, Sakamoto's father and Sakamoto's mother are the kind who don't go abroad to play, so just bring them some foreign specialties, and his younger brother Sakamoto Feng, as long as he brings him a lot of food, he will be happy.

There's also Mr. Fukuyama who hasn't seen him for a long time.,The recent Masaharu Fukuyama.,It's too idle.,The whole year of 2004.,Just released a single.,There's a radio program on it.,Sometimes it's a walk-away announcement.,Life is very free.。 This can't be done, you have to bother this lazy person a little more, go to his office?

Well, that's a good idea.

Well, there are also two other goddesses of the "acting club", Gakki and Sesame-chan, who are also to be brought.

Ahhh

I don't know what to bring to them!

On the streets of Palo Alto, Kiyoshi Sakamoto was shouting silently. A lewd man who is heavy on color and light on friends, has long forgotten that there are also Shin Ogawa and Masaki Chiba in the band.

There's no way, who called Sakamoto Kiyoshi is the first straight man in the universe, he loves women, he doesn't engage in base, and he has a positive outlook.

In the end, Sakamoto was introduced by the locals, bought some souvenirs and food, and took the return flight. After all, Sony is urging tightly, and Kiyoshi Sakamoto is embarrassed to let his teammates be on the show all day long and promote singles, while he is eating, drinking and having fun in the United States.

After taking three days off, Kiyoshi Sakamoto returned to the various activities of THE SUN.

In the past few days when Kiyoshi Sakamoto has been away, there is an interesting thing about Ogawa Shin.

When Xiao Chuan really was on a variety show, he used his unique calmness to complain and shine on the show, and several variety shows sent invitations at once.

Because Yoshihiroyuki's poisonous tongue attribute has not yet been developed, Ogawa is really a straightforward and a bit venomous guy, so he has become the pioneer of the reaction of calmly complaining.

Awesome, my teammates!

And another teammate, Masaki Chiba, is still not very open when he is on the show, but he just behaves decently. However, according to him, he doesn't like to be funny in front of many people, so Sony also wants to get him into variety shows, and the idea of being a young artist has been dispelled.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, his teammates had their own encounters, and Sakamoto Kiyoshi felt a little confused.

Kiyoshi Sakamoto, who came back to the promotion period of the single, met another group under the Genesys Agency, Arashi, during the last music program.

Nothing happened during this brief meeting, which only deepened Sakamoto's previous conjecture.

Sakamoto Kiyoshi is in the SUN band, when they went to greet Arashi, the other five still replied coldly.

Normally, when juniors come to visit and say hello, as seniors, they will politely say something good, but when I met Janis's group twice, THE SUN or directly Sakamoto Kiyoshi didn't get any good looks and good words, which is a bit strange.

After returning to Sony, Kiyoshi Sakamoto received a call from his teacher, Masaharu Fukuyama.

"Moximothy, teacher, what's the matter?"

"KIYO, YOU MIGHT BE TARGETED BY DEENIS. ”