In the fierce sunlight, an eight-story building stood on the side of the street, unremarkable. The only attraction may be that in addition to the Star-Spangled Banner and the company flag, there is also a red Chinese flag on the flagpole on the lawn.

'Squeak', a sixty-percent new Toyota van stopped steadily in front of the company, and the water boy who was driving turned his head and confessed in a deep voice: "Guangzai, Ah Yong, you pay attention, my boss looks down on cowardice, and he doesn't like others to talk about it." When you have ideas, you must be bold to say it, and don't embarrass Lao Tzu if you don't have ideas! ”

"Big guy, don't worry."

"Chen Dong, what is Dong Li looking for us?"

As soon as you hear the two tones, you know that the two have different self-positioning, but Shui Zai doesn't care about this. If you think you are a big man, you are a brother, and if you don't recognize it, you are a partner. If you want to do big things, you have to have a mind, and you can't use this talent because people don't want to recognize yourself as a big man!

"How do I know? It is estimated that it is inconvenient to say something on the phone, cheer up Lao Tzu, my big guy is a god! ”

The water boy in the cab parked the car and led his right-hand man to Li Jiaming's office.

Near Zhu Zhechi, Shui Tsai has followed Li Jiaming for five years, and has already learned how to control his subordinates, and he is no longer the cunning little man at the beginning. After infiltrating the University of San Francisco, he focused on studying for three points and thinking about business for seven points, and found that no one made an education website yet, so he pulled an investment of $10 million from Li Jiaming to start a business.

It is said that the early bird has worms, but if there are no worms at all, the early bird will starve to death. Shui Tsai grabbed the education website before everyone, but it took him half a year to wake up, and in the United States, which is extremely rich in educational resources, this industry has no future at all. In China, parents beg teachers, and in the United States, teachers beg students to learn, how can education websites have a future? Fortunately, Shui Tsai has a flexible brain, and the United States has no future, so he returned to China to do it, but he didn't expect that the east was not bright and the west was bright.

How much do parents in China pay attention to education? Especially those parents who became rich first, they don't worry about money at all for their children's education. With the current technical conditions, it is not possible to do image transmission, but just the review materials of those super middle schools and the answers of famous teachers can make parents flock to them, and more than one million VIP members have been developed in just one year.

To say that Shui Tsai is also a member of the station, they are all people who got rich first, and he took advantage of the trend to launch study abroad and immigration agency services. How difficult are domestic universities, and how easy are American universities? Let those VIP parents who are not bad at money pay 500,000 Canadian dollars to immigrate their children to Canada first, attend a language school for a year, and then take the SAT test in the United States. Those children who do not have good grades in China, even if they have excellent grades abroad, plus the tutoring of those white ghost employees, it may be difficult to apply to top universities, but general universities are not easy to catch?

The moon in foreign countries is rounder, and those parents who have become rich early are not distressed when they take out their money, and they are not soft when they earn money. In this way, the early bird was half starved to death in the United States, and when he returned home, he saw the prospect of being strangled to death. That is, the current market is not good, if it is changed in previous years, it is not difficult to go to the NASDAQ scenery.

Shui Tsai, who studied economics, is a smart person who knows the importance of teamwork, and has established a futures stock incentive system since the establishment of the company to unite his company closely. However, he is also a small man, and the important positions in the company are competed on the basis of ability, and when the conditions are similar, he is slightly biased towards whites to show his fairness.

Far away, the three of them took the visitor card at the front desk and hung it around their necks, walked quickly to Li Jiaming's office, and did not knock on the door directly as usual, because Li Jiaming's assistant stopped them and led them to the conference room.

"The boss is in a meeting, and he told you to wait for him in the reception room."

Shui Zai, who usually enters Li Jiaming's office to follow up on the vegetable garden, can't help but guess that today's incident may be very important, and the boss has begun to talk to him.

"Mar, do you know what's going on?"

Under normal circumstances, the assistant will not reveal the boss's thoughts, but the person who came has a close relationship with Li Jiaming and has confessed, so the fat assistant whispered: "I have an investment plan that I want you to execute." The boss is currently in a meeting with Kle, so it's inconvenient for you to get in. ”

That's good, if it's not necessary, Shui Tsai really doesn't want to deal with Li Jiaming's father-in-law, when he didn't graduate, he learned the boss's clear distinction between public and private. Even now, the e-commerce company that Mingzi and Xiaosi are tinkering with has a financial problem, and the boss can take a hand, that is, ignore it, and give the shares of the Internet café to his ex-girlfriend as a dowry, so that they don't even have room to move.

The three of them followed the white fat girl into the reception room, drinking coffee and waiting for Li Jiaming.

Not long after, the hurried Kle came, but Li Jiaming didn't show up, which couldn't help but make Shui Zai sigh secretly, the boss finally had a father-to-man relationship with him.

In fact, it is said that it is not public-to-public, but the conditions are relatively domineering, and there is no room for negotiation at all. The new company invested a total of US$20 million and gave the team a 51% stake, but he had to guarantee 40% of the shares to his team members. As for what the project, Kle does not hide it and explains the social network clearly.

"John, I would like to remind you that once we sign the agreement, you will be merging your team into the new company and your own website will have to be managed by someone you trust."

This is troublesome, the prospect of the online education website engaged in by Shui Tsai is promising, even if it cannot create a wealth myth, it will not be a problem to go public in the future, and the birth of a group of millionaires can also be expected. Just because of the other party's $20 million investment and an idea with an uncertain future, you give up a website that can be expected to be successful?

"No, I mean leaving the ATION website to your partner to manage, not to ask you to give up."

Isn't it the same thing? If you hand it over to others for management, you must give a large number of futures stocks, and hand over control and maximum interests to others?

Kle shrugged his shoulders, and it was not wrong to understand that the most valuable thing on the other side was not the website that had not yet broken even, but their team. If the new company can't bring the team over, why bother with them?

To be honest, although he and Yang Zhiyuan both admired Li Jiaming's business vision, and also thought that the paper was beautiful, there was always a gap between theory and practice. Based on an idea whose prospects cannot be judged, they don't want to invest too much, let alone go through the trouble of starting a new company. The success rate of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley is so low that how many brilliant ideas fail to achieve the expected business prospects?

"John, think about it, we've valued your team at $20 million. If it weren't for Ming's insistence, we would have formed a separate team, and perhaps the cost would have been much less. ”

"What are the chances of success?"

Kle, who was drinking coffee, shrugged his shoulders and said lightly: "I don't know, the reason why Ming asked me to come to talk to you is to tell you, and he is not sure." John, this is just a business partnership, and we don't want to take friendship into account. ”

Shui Tsai hesitated, he did regard Li Jiaming as his eldest brother, and believed that Li Jiaming would not treat him badly. But this matter has to be said twice, the development prospects of the education website are very good, and there are no competitors in China, and it is not difficult to expect success when the technical conditions are mature to launch online education.

Is it worth giving up a career that is sure to succeed and working on a project that has a low probability of success?

I don't know, even the initiator Li Jiaming doesn't know, but he knows one thing: 'three points are destined, and seven points depend on hard work'. If Shui Tsai doesn't dare to give it a go, he'd rather find someone else.