Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County, Palo Alto. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In an ordinary-looking villa, computers are everywhere in the living room and room, and a few scruffy-looking, unkempt young programmers are lying in front of the computer and quickly typing on the keyboard, immersed in coding. This is the office of a newly created social networking site "The Facebook".

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, a 20-year-old young man, is the founder of the social networking site that is now taking colleges and universities by storm. Because TheFacebook is growing so fast, he just dropped out of Harvard, moved to Silicon Valley, rented a villa, and was ready to start running the site.

But at the moment, Zuckerberg is sitting on the sofa in the living room in frustration, he has no intention of programming, but is thinking about what to do next for Facebook.

Just a week ago, his good friend and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin had an argument with him, after which an angry Eduardo froze his accounts and credit cards — which had been the source of funding for Facebook's operations.

Zuckerberg had no choice but to turn to his parents for help, and now Facebook's operating funds are almost entirely from Zuckerberg's parents' home mortgages. But with Facebook's rapid spread to West Coast universities like Stanford, more servers had to be added, and loans alone wouldn't last long.

He had to find new investors for Facebook as soon as possible.

Luckily, he met Sean Parker, a great tech genius and mentor in Zuckerberg's eyes, who not only founded Napster, the world's largest music-sharing site, but also Plaxo, a social software that synchronizes contacts.

Although Sean was more unlucky, first because Napster was sued by the record company for suspected piracy, and then was swept away by Plaxo's investors, it is undeniable that Sean is a genius, he has a unique understanding of social networks, and he is very famous and knows many venture capitalists.

Perhaps Sean is Facebook's last hope now.

Sean told him that he would go to find new investors for Facebook, and hoped that Sean would bring good news later......

While thinking about it, the doorbell of the villa rang.

Zuckerberg glanced back and saw that the guys were all engrossed in coding, and no one bothered to open the door.

He had no choice but to get up and mutter, "We didn't have a party, who could it be?" Two days ago, they had just been complained by the neighbors because they were too noisy and noisy when they were partying in the house.

Opening the door, there were four unknown people standing outside the door, three young Orientals, and one middle-aged white man.

The two people standing in front were a man and a woman, and they were holding hands.

Zuckerberg spotted the man's extraordinaryness at a glance, not because of his casual but absolutely expensive suit, nor because of his handsome appearance, but because of his hidden and unobtrusive temperament - Zuckerberg has seen many successful people in Silicon Valley.

The person who came was Lin Feng and his party.

Lin Feng couldn't help but smile when he saw the familiar face of the person who opened the door: "Hi, you're Mark, right? I'm Richard, a Chinese businessman." This is my girlfriend Vivian. He laughs.

He then introduced his bodyguard, Li Zhao, and his personal counsel, Steven Olson, a partner at O'MelvenyMyers LLP, one of the largest law firms in Los Angeles.

Zuckerberg looked dazed: "Hi,...... What's the matter?"

Lin Feng smiled: "Mark, I stumbled across The Facebook website you founded, it's so cool, I'm very optimistic about it, if I can, I hope to be able to invest in it...... SO, Mark, can we talk?"

Zuckerberg was overjoyed and nodded hurriedly: "Of course, please come in!"

took Lin Feng and the others into the villa.

Seeing that there were a few people sitting in the room, and they still didn't look up after they came in, Lin Feng nodded secretly. It was in this humble environment that Facebook began to take off and eventually grew into a social empire with a market value of $400 billion!

Zuckerberg explained, "Facebook is growing very fast, and we have to work hard to make sure it doesn't crash with a massive increase in users...... We can go to the courtyard and sit down and talk. ”

He took Lin Feng and the others to the outdoor pool, and sat down on a chair under the parasol.

Although it is a rented villa, the facilities are still very good, with an outdoor swimming pool and leisure areas.

Lin Feng looked at Zuckerberg, who was 5 years younger than him and still immature at this time, recalling that in his previous life, ten years later, when he was among the top five richest people in the world, worth more than 58 billion US dollars, his every move could affect the majesty of the world, and he couldn't help but feel a little trance.

The young man in front of him is the real pride of the sky in this era!

Zuckerberg is not very good at communicating with people, especially investors, he prefers to indulge in the world of networking and programming, but Lin Feng's visit is the time when he needs it most urgently, and he also wants to try it to see if he can really get investment.

"Uh...... Richard, you just said you're a Chinese businessman? Coincidentally, my girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, is also Chinese, and I love China!"

Lin Feng smiled and took out a business card and handed it to him: "Yes, I am from China, but my company is listed on NASDAQ, and the company's US branch and research institute are in Silicon Valley. ”

This is a personal business card of his family, on which in addition to Menglong and Fengxing Company, also printed his private company in the British Virgin Islands, which is also the main body of the company in which Menglong held his personal shares when it was listed. This time he invested in Facebook, and he was ready to invest in this company.

Zuckerberg took the business card and glanced at it, and the stack of board chairman titles put him at ease, at least not a liar. As for the LONG company, he usually doesn't pay attention to the NASDAQ, so naturally he hasn't heard of it. But it doesn't matter, after these people leave, he will find out what their strength is when he looks it up on the Internet.

Lin Feng also knew that Zuckerberg was not good at communicating, so he decided to get straight to the point and get straight to the point: "Mark, Facebook is the coolest social networking site I've ever seen, I mean it's cooler than Myspace, which is the hottest now, I noticed that it's real-name authentication, and users like to communicate on it very much, and post their own information and status, which is a very open and friendly way to socialize." I think it's going to change the world!"

“I like it！”

Zuckerberg was a little nervous, but Lin Feng's words made him relax a lot, and he smiled: "Thank you!"

Lin Feng: "Mark, do you have an estimate of Facebook's value?" he remembers that it was in September 2004 that Facebook received its first $500,000 angel investment, invested by Peter Thiel, one of PayPal's co-founders. Peter was moved by Sean's words.

Zuckerberg asked rhetorically, "Richard, how much do you think Facebook is worth?"

Lin Feng laughed: "Man, I think it's worth at least a billion dollars, or even more...... But that's the future, not the present. That's why I'm willing to invest in it now. As I said, I'm a businessman. ”

Zuckerberg's eyes lit up, and this was the second time he had heard from other people that Facebook was worth a billion dollars, the first being his now most trusted partner, Sean. It was Sean's words that made him make the decision to make Facebook bigger and move to Silicon Valley.

Zuckerberg said, "Richard, you share the same opinion as my friend Sean! Maybe you should meet him, he's my partner now, and he's helping me find investment." ”

Lin Feng spread his hands: "Of course, I am happy to meet him, I know him, Sean Parker, he is also a genius!"

Zuckerberg excitedly stepped aside and called Sean, who was out looking for investment.

"OMG, I know him, Richard Lin, China's youngest billionaire, his net worth is said to be over a billion dollars! God, how did you know him?" Sean's excited voice came over the phone.

Zuckerberg also smiled excitedly: "He came to the door by himself, Sean, our Facebook attracted him, his appearance, I can't wait to sign the check immediately! ”

"Okay, I'll be back soon, don't talk to him about the details of the investment yet, I'll talk about it, I've suffered a lot of losses in this regard, and no one can fool me!" Sean admonished.

"Of course, you're the one in charge of investing and arranging meetings!" Zuckerberg laughs.

…………

Lin Feng and Zuckerberg talked a lot, his life at Harvard, the story of the founding of Facebook...... Wait a minute.

In his previous life, Lin Feng once watched a movie "Social Network", which was based on the story of Zuckerberg's founding of Facebook. He found that what Zuckerberg said was really similar to what he said in the movie, and it seems that Hollywood doesn't write scripts all nonsense......

More than half an hour later, Sean hurriedly ran into the villa.

He is 25 years old this year, the same age as Lin Feng, of course, if it is about rich experience, the two are similar.

Sean is a hacker genius who started his business at the age of 19 and built two companies.

Lin Feng is an ordinary person (the outside world also thinks he is a business genius), who started his own business at the age of 21 and established two companies.

The difference is that Sean was swept away from the end of his business, and now he is in debt. Lin Feng, on the other hand, went public and firmly controlled two companies, worth more than $1 billion.

Looking at Lin Feng, Sean secretly made up his mind, this time he must rely on Facebook to make a comeback!

In the next negotiations, Sean was the main negotiator, and Zuckerberg was just listening and didn't talk much.

But Lin Feng would never ignore him.

Anyone who has watched "The Social Network" knows that Xiao Zha looks like a tech nerd on the surface, but in fact, he has an extremely strong desire to control everything in the company, and he does not allow anything that is not outside his control to happen.

Beneath his gentle surface, there is an incomparably strong and black-bellied heart!

So when his best friend stopped the company's account because of a moment of anger, he mercilessly set a contract trap and swept away Eduardo, the co-founder who originally held 30% of the shares.

When Sean, as the president of the company, always spends all his time drinking and having fun, he is suddenly caught by the police for drug possession - no one knows who called the police...... In the end, Sean stepped down as president and was replaced by Zuckerberg.

Xiaozha is one, as long as you don't affect the development of Facebook, everything is fine.

Otherwise, he will do whatever it takes to defend Facebook, or rather, the person who maintains his complete control over Facebook.

So, when Sean proposed that they themselves value the company at $5 million and hope to get a $500,000 investment and sell 10% of the shares.

Lin Feng looked at Xiao Zha and said, "Mark, Sean." I've done a lot of research on Facebook before, and I agree with your estimates...... However, I would like to invest $1 million to get a 20% stake. ”

Seeing that the two seemed to want to say something, he raised his hand to stop: "After listening to me, I have great trust in Mark's genius idea, and respect Mark's absolute leadership of Facebook as the founder." After I invested, I would delegate all of my voting rights to Mark! and promised not to seek more shares in Facebook. In other words, I only give money, and the handling and opinion of other company matters are all handed over to Mark."

Lin Feng raised his finger: "However, I have two conditions, first, in the terms of the investment agreement, there must be a pro-rata (co-investment) clause to ensure that I have the right to co-invest in the next round." Second, I always have a seat on the board. ”

Xiao Za and Sean glanced at each other, each thoughtful.