Xia Yu had already prepared a reason for coming to the door this time.

Listening to Chen's mother's statement on the phone, Chen Shijun was on his way home, which made him a little excited.

So while continuing to wait worryingly, he chatted with Chen Shiming, who was fifteen years old and had just entered his first year of high school.

This kid was also not restless, seeing that his mother went back to the room to tidy up his things, and Xia Yu didn't look much older than him, he began to talk about the girl he was chasing at school in a few words.

"She's so beautiful, I'm sure half of the boys like her!"

Well, that's what he calls a white girl, a violinist's daughter.

This kid is also quite bold, and has written dozens of love letters in a row, which is said to be the most one, so he also got a chance to have a candlelight dinner.

Xia Yu smiled bitterly and listened to him, while "teaching experience" at his request, Khan, this kid is obviously much more powerful than himself!

It was easy to fool around for a few words, and suddenly the doorbell rang.

"Ding Dong!"

The living room was not far from the door, and the kid jumped up, "Brother is back!"

Chen Shijun is a typical Taiwanese appearance, not tall, a little chubby, with a big mouth that can show half of his teeth when he smiles, but he is very kind and talkative.

Xia Yu actually met Chen Shijun in later generations, when he had already started to make investments and Chen Shijun left Google to start another entrepreneurial journey.

By the way, this tech upstart, who became a billionaire at the age of 28 and also worked part-time as an investor, Huaguo's later entrepreneurial mentor Li Kaifu founded the venture capital incubator "Innovation Factory" after leaving Google, and received his investment. It was an incubator similar to YC, which was in Zhongguancun, Yanjing, and it was quite hot in later generations.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Xia Yu and said with a smile, "Hello, is it Mr. Xia Yu?"

Xia Yu also stood up early, stretched out his hand and said, "Hello Steve, I'm Xia Yu." I'm sorry to bother you!"

Chinese people working in the United States rarely use their real names in formal occasions. In fact, Li Yanhong and Ma Huateng in China are not all Robin and Pony who are called by others? Brother Ma has never been abroad, this is a kind of convention.

Of course, Xia Yu also has an English name, called Leo, which he took when he came to Stanford, and everyone called him that way on many occasions, so he is not in a hurry to use it in this life.

Chen Shijun's Chinese is not very good, after all, Wan Dao came to the United States when he was eight years old, but the communication is still no problem: he asked his brother to go to hot tea again. After sitting down, he exchanged business cards with Xia Yu, and when he saw the title of the investment manager, he felt relieved, and then said, "Mr. Xia Yu, I don't know what to do with me?"

Invest in your yet-to-be-started video community, of course!

It's just that Chen Shijun is probably frightened by saying this, he had already thought of a set of rhetoric before coming to the door, and immediately said with a smile in English: "Actually, I have something I want to ask Steve for help." Well, one of my classmates, who is about to graduate from Stanford, is very interested in Facebook. We hope you can help with the introduction. ”

In Silicon Valley, it is very common and welcomed by management to have internal employees recommend talents to join, and the referrer can even be rewarded.

This point was later learned by Huaguo Technology Company, and it has become very popular since then.

Xia Yu didn't wait for Chen Shijun to speak. Then he immediately said, "Don't be surprised, I found out from a friend in Shanghai that you have left PayPal company......

"That's right!"

Chen Shijun was a little helpless, too, even his family didn't know about his resignation and entrepreneurship. I didn't say anything at all, how could there be investors coming to the door.

Moreover, this favor may not be able to help me now. Mainly after only a few days at Facebook, people are not familiar with it.

Still, he asked, "What did that classmate of yours study?"

"Programming, with a bias towards embedded. Xia Yu continued to make it up without blinking.

"In this way, Facebook doesn't involve this aspect, and there is a shortage of algorithm and data library engineers...... Chen Shijun saw that his younger brother hadn't come back yet, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Xia Yu, in fact, I have already left Facebook, well, I am planning to start a business with my friends." ”

Considering that the young man in front of him was an investor, he couldn't help but say it.

"Huh?" Xia Yu pretended to be surprised, and immediately lowered his voice and asked as an investor: "Why? But Steve, your technology is so strong, and there is a chance to start a business." Do you have a definite idea?"

"Already, there is!"

Chen Shijun was also hesitating in his heart, which project to tell him.

On the way home, he actually began to think about this problem, and called two friends again, but the opinions were still not unanimous.

The three of them are now poor, or do they have to rely on Web 2.0 projects to get money first?

However, if Chen Shijun really makes this decision, it is estimated that he will not be the 28-year-old who became a 28-year-old with assets of more than 300 million US dollars.

The road of entrepreneurship is definitely a cliff that will succeed in ten thousand bones, not to mention the ability and willingness to persevere, the most important thing is to have a firm belief and ideal.

Chen Shijun dared to go into Silicon Valley alone with $200 and even slept on a park bench, and he was able to max out his credit card when YouTube was unprofitable for a long time and had no financing, so as to support and invest in the company's operation, and there is absolutely no shortage of faith and determination.

If that's not enough, there's one more thing that's more revealing.

After YouTube was sold to Google, it grew rapidly, and even politicians such as Barack Obama campaigned on the most popular video site.

But at this time, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, but he took the risk of having it removed, and only rested for a while, and devoted himself to his career, in fact, he was worth nearly $400 million at that time......

With this kind of career ambition and fighting spirit, it is probably destined to succeed.

So in front of Xia Yu, Chen Shijun only Chen was silent for a few seconds, and then suddenly raised his head and said firmly: "I have an idea, to make a website for people to freely upload and share the videos and video programs they shoot......

Chen Shijun, who is worthy of being the new idol of Silicon Valley!

Xia Yu finally smiled heartily.

……

The investment in YouTube is different from other companies such as Android and Workman.

Because this website is still only in the idea, and even the domain name and specific operation and management model are not available. I haven't thought much about the follow-up channel settings, content cooperation plans, advertising strategies, etc.

Therefore, Xia Yu's investment should be angel investment in the traditional sense, a form of investment that is earlier and riskier than venture capital.

Of course, the amount of angel investment is generally not large, mainly to help the founding team to obtain initial capital to complete the project, and later seek A round of venture capital depending on the operation situation.

After successfully luring Chen Shijun into the bait, Xia Yu immediately followed him to meet the other two people, Hurley and Karim.

I didn't pick a location, it was right in the garage of Hurley's house, where the three of them often exchanged ideas and drank beers together.

Garage entrepreneurship is also a tradition of many famous companies in the United States. Apple, Google, Amazon, HP, Disney, ...... Too many dazzling names are born from humble garages.

It is believed that they will soon be followed by a new YouTube.

Hurley is the quintessential American in the United States, overdressed and outgoing, but he does have a great flair for expression and management, and in fact he was the CEO of YouTube from its inception until 2010.

As for Karim, he is also typical, a playboy who can make money and spend money.

In fact, among the three founders of YouTube, Hurley is also dedicated to entrepreneurship. In the end, he got more money than Chen Shijun, and Judd Karim, who was the least determined and left the company before it was funded, only had $66 million.

This is still the relationship between the two old friends, who kept the shares for him when he withdrew.

Well, there's a magic spell about the Silicon Valley founding team. Saying that "three-person startups won't last long", YouTube didn't break the spell either.

After meeting Xia Yu, they were also very curious.

Their entrepreneurial project has not yet been settled, how could this amazingly young investor suddenly come to the door?

Maybe Steve found it?

Not like that.

And now Hurley has determined. The one who asked for Steve's phone call from him was this Chinese investor.

He doesn't care about this, and now he has resigned, and he is preparing to do a big job. Let's just take over and start talking more about YouTube.

"Mr. Xia, I'm Chad Hurley, and we've been on the phone before! I thought Steve should mention to you that we're planning to start a video-sharing community, and we've actually had a lot of ideas about it......"

Hurley was eloquent and methodically explained the origin of this entrepreneurial idea, the main operating model and the future development prospects. Then go on and on about the domain name they've already applied for, the name of their website, how they can save money with distributed servers, how they got users to share videos in the early days, and what lessons they can learn from their PayPal......

Although it is not perfect, it is much more systematic than what Chen Shijun introduced before.

But throughout the narration, Xia Yu never spoke much, and occasionally when Chen Shijun added, he would respond to two voices.

He knows very well that YouTube was able to grow so quickly in his previous life, and Hurley, who is in charge of the company's overall operation, has a little more credit than Chen Shijun, who specializes in technology and uses credit cards to support the website for more than half a year.

He didn't want to undermine the structure of a company that was destined to succeed, but he could appropriately elevate Chen's status.

After all, if YouTube has received angel investment from the beginning, of course, there is no need for Chen Shijun to have tens of thousands of dollars a month to overdraft his credit card, I don't know if his shares will be reduced.

Seeing that Xia Yu had not said anything, Hurley finally couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Xia, what do you think of our YouTube website idea?"

"Very interesting", Xia Yu nodded, and finally spoke: "Actually, I'm interested, but you don't seem to have an operational plan that is enough to support its development. ”

Karim doesn't like to hear this sentence, they have been discussing it a lot recently, and a lot of ideas have been summed up, and Hurley is also very good, how can this excessively young Chinese be so ashamed?

He couldn't help but shout: "Why do you say that?"

Hurley's face was also a little ugly, and Chen Shijun was about to speak but he was stopped by him, let alone dissuading Karim.

He also wants to see what this excessively young Chinese investor can point out about! (To be continued......

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