Just like the restaurant street in our country, where there is a lot of buying and selling, there is a lot of activity, and then more and more restaurants come to us, even if the rent is expensive. When all the land in the Stanford Industrial Park was leased out, more and more technology companies began to move here, and it didn't matter if there was no place to rent in the park, it was not an island, there was land next to it. As a result, a cluster of high-tech companies around the Stanford Industrial Park was born, which became Silicon Valley.

The main reason why it attracts so many high-tech companies is that the Stanford Industrial Park has created a very suitable environment for them. There is no shortage of talents, nor is there a shortage of infrastructure, but more importantly, it is full of creative power. Behind the creation of zào are all kinds of investment companies and law firms. With people, projects, funds, legal services and guarantees, this is a high-tech enterprise in itself.

In the words of the founder of Tesla, starting a high-tech business in Silicon Valley is as convenient as renting a room in a motel! What better place for these creative people to survive than Silicon Valley, who are immersed in their fantasy and reality all day long?

Of course, Hong Tao doesn't want to become Bill Gates, Elon Musk, or Mark Anderson when he looks at these materials, he is at best a porter, responsible for transporting technology a few years later, more than ten years later, a little bit in advance, and he is a plagiarist if it is ugly. But it doesn't matter what it is called to Hong Tao, he just wants to achieve his ultimate goal, which is to keep his dream going on, and then provide as much dream capital as possible, his dream is a bit expensive.

If Hong Tao has an idol, then Elon Musk is the person he looks at the most. First of all, he is not a rule-conformist, even in Silicon Valley, where there are many geeks, he is also a geek among geeks; secondly, he is very good at playing, and opens a website, makes movies, and plays space rockets and environmentally friendly cars, it is said that he has also opened a nightclub, which is very similar to Hong Tao's habit of picking up eight;

But the problem is that Elon Musk doesn't have that brain, and he is destined to become a great inventor, at best, Hongtaostan and Aite Hong. So he had to think of another way to make up for his weaknesses, and this way Hong Tao found himself, that is, venture capital. Since he can't invent and create a zào, then why not cooperate with those who can invent and create a zào? Contribute their own money, they will contribute their brains, and everyone will make money together! This method is very much in line with Hong Tao's character, and he likes to do nothing by himself, and then lie on others and drink blood.

Venture capital, to put it bluntly, is a bit like a loan shark, in fact, it is a loan shark, but in a different way. It's just a matter of repackaging debt collection, which used to sound more cruel, to be more legal. In other words, usury is the use of illegal means to lend and collect debts, and venture capital companies use legal means to lend and collect debts.

Some people may say that Wind Direction Investment Company will not beat people, cut off fingers, break legs, or burn your family! Indeed, they will not, but they will attach a lot of terms to you when lending to you, the purpose of which is to reduce the risk of their investment. When they find out that you are not in their interests, they will not care how many employees you have in the company, how many kidneys and eyeballs you have sold for the project, and they will directly withdraw or sell their shares. Therefore, they are not angel investors at all, but devils, and every entrepreneur who accepts venture capital is dancing with the devil.

Hong Tao seems to be this devil now, but he seems to be a little late. According to the information, just outside the west wall of Stanford University, there is a road called SandHill Road. Speaking of this place, it can be very famous, especially in the field of high-tech industries, I don't know the founder of the website here, it is not worth playing the concept of online play at all.

If Wall Street is synonymous with traditional financial in the United States, then Dune Road is synonymous with venture capital. In the eyes of high-tech entrepreneurs in the United States and even around the world, it is like Wall Street in the eyes of a roll merchant, hence its name: Wall Street on the West Coast.

The road is dotted with hundreds of venture capital firms, the most famous of which is 3000 Dune Road, a building built on high ground that houses the world's largest venture capital firms. For example, Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, Mayfield, NEA, KPCB, Kleiner Perkins, etc. These companies control hundreds of billions of dollars, and compared to Hong Tao, they are all big guys, and a finger stretched out is thicker than his waist.

But Hong Tao is not afraid, what is the most important thing in playing venture capital? You have to know which project can be developed, what kind of process it can develop, and whether it can achieve the expected goals of the investment. Does Hong Tao have this technology? He himself can say to the world very responsibly: There is not a single thing!

But it doesn't matter, he happens to know the names of a large number of companies that have been in the limelight for more than ten years or decades. I also know some of the legendary stories of their founders, if these things are not used in the future, no one wants to listen to them when they drink and brag, but if they are placed now, it is real money.

Hong Tao also dared to announce to the world responsibly at this time that as long as he invests in a company, then this company must be a soaring fire, and half of the one who flies does not count, because he himself doesn't know who it is, but only knows which ones make the whole world look at it. can make the investment success rate of a venture capital company reach 100 percent, and the investment objects are still the kind of large companies that can quickly grow into tens of billions of dollars in market value, even if Hong Tao is now elected president of the United States, no one will believe him when he says this.

"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway!" After staying up for most of the night, Hong Tao looked at the paper full of company names and names in front of him, and slammed his fist on it!

If you can't do it, it's not really a big fool. If you want to do it, you have to look like a worker, a venture capital company, not a leather bag company, you have to invest real money in it! Besides, you have to play venture capital, you can't even have an office, right? The necessary pomp and circumstance still have to be put on display, people all over the world are the same, and many times they are also snobbish, and if your company is too shabby, they will lose confidence in you.

This office location is easier to run, doesn't it mean that Dune Road is the Wall Street of the West Coast? Okay, let's go to Wall Street to have an egg, we can't get into the Niu X building at No. 3000, let's rent a house nearby. What? There's no suitable vacant house nearby! It doesn't matter, it's too difficult to rebuild, so let's play a high-end one, let's buy it! Find a venture capital company that is not doing well, is on the verge of bankruptcy, and is about to go bankrupt, buy it, and then re-register it, and change the name. Hong Tao doesn't believe that the hundreds of venture capital companies on the Dune Road are all profitable, and some have enough to eat, and some have to starve to death, this is the truth!

"What is venture capital? Yanzi is very good, don't worry about her, I will tell you by the way, she smashed your office, even the computer. But I put away all your valuable stuff in advance, and that computer is also broken, just to make her angry...... In addition, she occupied your office and used it as her office, anyway, you won't need it for a while, right, let's use it for her first. Don't ask me about venture capital, I'm asking Yanzi to make up for me, I guess I'll be able to figure out what venture capital is next year, I guess I won't be in a hurry......" After Hong Tao made a decision, he called Han Xue with a phone call according to his habit, although he rarely listened to other people's opinions, but he liked to tell others, let them know what they were doing, and then wait to see their success, which is also a kind of showmanship.

"Venture capital! you...... Are you going to do venture capital? Wait, Yulia, Nina, stop for a moment, come and listen to what Hong Tao is saying, he ...... He wants to be a VC, I don't know much about this thing yet, you can tell him, is he crazy!" The second person to receive a call from Hong Tao was Tan Jing, but she only heard Hong Tao say a beginning, and began to call for reinforcements.

"Dear boss, I don't care if you want to be an investment bank or a venture capital company, let me ask you a question first, who are you going to ask to do it? Or who are you going to ask to do it? Now the three of us are already busy, the secretaries even run to the bathroom, and I am unfortunate to tell you that none of the three of us can help you with this task, compared to the work of a venture capital company, I am like a primary school student!" Tan Jing is Yulia, she listened to Hong Tao's words for more than half of it, and then she couldn't help but start protesting, not only protesting, but also complaining and ridiculing.

"Oh, Yulia, I don't see that you're still a very modest comrade, but you don't have to call me an ignorant kindergartner in a way that belittles me. Venture capital, the focus is on risk, if I have a way to avoid this risk, the rest of the things will not be difficult, just find some employees who have worked experience. Hong Tao still appreciates Yulia's straightforward quality, and it doesn't hurt to listen to the truth from time to time. Of course, this truth must be told from the mouth of the woman you like, and others say that it is provocative and insulting. R1152