The roar of the plane fell straight down in San Francisco, Lin Fan looked up at the sky, he went abroad for the first time in his previous life and this life, and it seemed that the sky in a foreign country was no different from that of China, well, there were suns and clouds.

After taking a taxi and finding a hotel to stay, Lin Fan will rush to Silicon Valley tomorrow to send the investment report to Accel Partners, which is led by Facebook, as well as Peter Thiel, Facebook's chief financial officer, as early as February.

Fortunately, Lin Fan's financial statements made these two very satisfied, so Lin Fan entered the first round of list, and after nearly half a month of selection, the next round of list for financing will be produced in tomorrow's interview.

Red Dot Capital, one of the world's top five investment banks. This name alone is enough to make St. Clary sit proudly in front of Lin Fan, Silicon Valley is not far from San Francisco, Lin Fan got up early in the morning, enjoyed the scenery along the San Francisco Bay, sat here and drank American coffee, the taste is not good, maybe it would be better with some ice.

But Lin Fan is obviously not so calm, he clearly knows the market value of Facebook, so he can't stay calm, just like the coffee in his hand, the sugar and milk added have seriously affected the original taste of the coffee.

"I'm curious, Lin, as far as I know, many Huaxia companies are still eager for American capital to intervene and invest, how would you choose to invest in an American company. ”

St. is a typical American elite, a Caucasian living in western California, graduated from Harvard Business School, an Ivy League alliance, with excellent grades in school, and after graduation, he worked at Goldman Sachs with Harvard ancestry, and then entered Red Dot Capital, and now at the age of 30, he is a well-known investment manager.

"If Huaxia enterprises want to develop, they must look forward and go out to see the world, which is the best means for a company to develop and grow. ”

"You're very bold. St smiled politely, then looked down at the file bag in his hand, "According to the above, you are the owner of one of the largest anti-virus companies in Huaxia, and you have a platform with more than 35 million users?"

Lin Fan also said with a straight face when he heard this, "That's true, my mortal security company has the world's first free antivirus software, and it has become the company with the largest number of users in China in less than a year, our platform can help Facebook better develop the Chinese market, we can help Facebook promote, I believe I can provide not only funds, but also an opportunity to help Facebook develop......"

"Well, Lin, I'll admit that your argument is tempting, and the China market is a new American continent for many investment banks, and likewise, its market potential is amazing. I'll give you an honest feedback on your thoughts, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg. ”

"Thank you very much. ”

"Actually, I'm also very interested in your company, can we talk about your global free antivirus software?"

Lin Fan was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "I'm happy." ”

"As far as I know, a lot of antivirus software is on a paid basis, but I look at your company's introduction, it seems that you prefer to define it as a platform?"

.......

The sun shone through the glass on the coffee cup, and a rather sophisticated card glittered, with a line in large letters from St. Clairy's Red Dot Senior Investment Manager. Lin Fan was a little funny, he came to invest, but he didn't expect to be favored by the investment bank again......

The West Coast is a stunning sight that leads to Mexico from Highway 1 to the Pacific Ocean, to the steep and towering cliff mountains, or the occasional expanse of meadows. However, Lin Fan did not come to enjoy the beautiful scenery, perhaps wealth was more charming than the scenery.

In the hotel, Lin Fan was still looking at the information of Peter Thiel, the person in charge of the financing, and the chief financial officer of Facebook was actually Eduardo Saverin, a college classmate of Zuckerberg, a Brazilian who studied at Harvard in the United States. But because of some dirty things, Eduardo was gradually evicted, only retaining shares, and the financial work was transferred to PayPal founder Peter Thiel, who was also an investor in Facebook.

It has to be said that PayPal is a legendary company, this third-party payment platform is the originator of domestic Alipay, this company was founded in 1998, in 2002 by eBay 1.5 billion dollars wholly acquired, one of its founders Elon Musk later founded Spacex space exploration technology company, environmental sports car company Tesla and SolarCity three companies. And the YouTube that Lin Fan wants to invest in is also developed by a former employee of PayPal.

Lin Fan is actually no stranger to this big guy, the Internet circle says big and small, but what he has the clearest impression is his later investment philosophy, it seems that every successful entrepreneur will choose to do something meaningful to the society after success, or his childhood dream.

Jack Ma's Alxa project, Elon Musk building rockets to fulfill his dream of going to space, and Peter Thiel, who likes to fund "ideas that can save the world" and, in his words, at least "take our civilization to the next level".

Maybe this is a key point, and this is an opportunity to win Lin Fan's favor. The reason why Lin Fan spared no effort was because of his lack of self-confidence, his advantages were too few, and it was just a good platform. As for funding, other investment banks can easily come up with far more money than Lin Fan, but the problem is that Zuckerberg is only willing to give out five percent of the shares.

The negotiation venue was changed to Facebook's conference room, which was very simple and industrial-style decoration, which made Lin Fan very satisfied, and he was thinking about whether to go back and make a fool of mortals, not as large as the scale of large companies, but it could still be raised.

"Welcome, Lin, Huaxia has always been a mysterious country, and I like it very much. ”

Lin Fan shrugged, "Maybe Mark prefers Huaxia." ”

Tyre's eyes widened, and then he smiled, "It seems that you are a prepared person. ”

Lin Fan naturally understands why Thiel said this, Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend is Chinese, maybe it's not a secret after Facebook goes public, but obviously someone must be interested in it now.

"God never blesses the unprepared. ”

"I like your attitude. "I talked to Stal about this investor, and he said you're a very interesting person. I think he's right. ”

"Can I consider this a wonderful beginning?"

"Now, of course, we're going to talk about what you understand about Facebook as a company. Thiel listened, "I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer." ”

Lin Fan smiled slightly, "As you wish.......

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