When young people make mistakes, God forgives.

After several explanations by Zhang Zhaoyang, the master of a generation Nicholas Negroponte and his old friend Edward Robert finally forgave the helplessness of the student Charles, and began to help himself, a student from a distant country, to do some publicity for the small company that had been established.

"Charles, in the second half of the year, I will be invited to give a speech in China, and you will help me as a translator. ”

“think\/you”

The master has the demeanor of a master and promised to introduce those wealthy people who have investment intentions for him, but the next financing journey is still a lucky disaster for the enthusiastic Zhang Zhaoyang, although it is not as embarrassing as he was last year.

Although he no longer has to queue up at a public phone booth on the street in the United States to call the investment manager, he does not have to sit outside the investment manager's office for hours at a time, and he has to trot to connect to the bathroom in order to wait for someone to meet him, because he is afraid that he will not be there when he is summoned. But after two days of phone calls, identifying a few people who could change the fate of his company and agreeing to meet at a time, the scrappy Zhang Zhaoyang was stunned - he had to meet four investors in one day, the first three in Silicon Valley and the last in San Francisco.

Zhang Zhaoyang first stayed in a small hotel in California, rented a car with a green card, prepared water and food in the car, and went non-stop to meet with four venture capitalists. According to the pre-arranged time, he went to meet with the people of Intel Investment Company at 9 a.m., then met with the head of Century Investment at 12 p.m., Dell at 3 p.m., and billionaire Robinson Steven at 5 p.m.

Who knows that the first meeting with Intel, it was postponed by half an hour, and although it was a very successful meeting, when the meeting was over, it was already twelve o'clock. Zhang Zhaoyang, who was extremely tired, was eating a hamburger in the car while driving to Century Investment.

By the time he had met with the first three investors, it was already late, and with the San Francisco subway strike that day, all the cars were crawling on the ground, and the severe traffic jam forced him to reluctantly get off the highway. When Robinson Steven was still seven blocks away, he abandoned his car in a parking lot and ran to the meeting place with his laptop, and when he arrived, Robinson Steven had been waiting for him for nearly an hour and a half. The result of the meeting was very lucky, two important professors introduced, Robinson Steven said on the spot that he would invest $500,000 in Zhang Zhaoyang, which made him feel like a chicken blood when he was already unstable.

It worked!

I went back to the hotel and fell asleep, and after waking up, I returned to the car, and my eyes were still bloodshot and immediately got on the plane to return home. After more than ten hours on the plane, Zhang Zhaoyang, who was still excited, returned to the company and saw the empty office, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"Seiko, what about people?"

"Oh, they went for coffee, Jiaming's girlfriend lost the bet, and he had a treat. Is it done?"

"Oh, it's done, 2.6 million!"

Zhong Chaocheng, who was worried about Zhong Zhong, almost threw Zhang Zhaoyang to the ground, and said ecstatically: "We succeeded!"

"Hahaha, it worked!"

After screaming for a while, Zhong Chaocheng, who was waiting for the rice to be cooked, stretched out his hand and said, "Where's the check? ”

"It's not that fast, Intel, Dell have to review, and Mr. Robinson's side will have to take some time. Didn't Jiaming raise more than 9 million, if you are short of money, let's move it first. ”

As soon as Li Jiaming was mentioned, Zhong Chaocheng, who was already accustomed to being a peacemaker, hurriedly reminded: "Zhaoyang, now that the company has raised 2.6 million US dollars, there are some things that should be considered." ”

"What's the matter?"

"Zhao Shiqing, they all threw away an annual salary of 20,000 US dollars and came to our company to struggle. The future of the company is uncertain, everyone has nothing to say, and now that there is hope for success, then we have to give them hope, otherwise the hearts of the people will be scattered. ”

Zhang Zhaoyang, who was excited about the success of the financing, quickly calmed down and asked rhetorically: "Who told you that their annual salary is tens of thousands of US dollars? Even Shiqing is only four thousand and one in Dell, and the rest are less than three thousand." Besides, now the company only relies on helping people make web pages to keep running, so let's talk about these things?"

"What about Shiqing? He took care of the venue and formalities, only 500 yuan a month, and didn't give him a hope, no matter how good the relationship was, there would be problems. ”

This matter is a bit troublesome, Zhang Zhaoyang rubbed his blue chin, and hesitated: "Or, let's verbally agree first? Before it succeeds, who is sure that it will be listed?"

Doing things together is afraid of infighting, especially the two main characters have strong personalities, Zhong Chaocheng also hesitated: "Zhaoyang, I think we have little experience in these things, Jiaming's company is currently one of the largest edible fungus companies in China, and it must be more experienced than us in this regard." ”

The stones of other mountains can attack jade, Zhang Zhaoyang said happily: "Okay, I'll go to him to get some scriptures." It's a pity that kid, if he was born in the United States, maybe he would be a Silicon Valley hero again. ”

There was no need to look for it, and within half an hour, Li Jiaming and his gang rushed into the company excitedly, and pounced on the dozen or so Lenovo computers in the cubicle, but they didn't see Zhang Zhaoyang's office door open at all.

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

Zhang Zhaoyang, who heard the noise, came out to see that more than a dozen people were crackling on the keyboard, as if it was a competition. Standing in the last cubicle and looking at it a few times, Zhang Zhaoyang realized what these boys were doing - hyperlinks. These kids are linking the service introductions of some small websites and BBS such as Lifang Online, Oriental Netscape, Ruide Online, etc., to various columns of their own websites.

Is that okay?

I don't know, anyway, a group of people are busy for two or three hours, and they don't even know that the boss is standing behind and watching the excitement. He was busy until he linked the content from the last small website to his own website, and Sun Weigang excitedly slapped the table and shouted: "Two grandsons, no matter which of you wins, you have to go to the Peking Hotel!"

"Gangzi, what's wrong?"

"Zhaoyang, is it back?"

"What are you doing here?"

"Jiaming made a bet with the sperm that for a month, if the traffic on our website increases fivefold, the sperm will invite us to go to the Beiping Hotel to rub hard!

Oh, this thing, this thing is good! If it is done, the company will increase the traffic, and if it doesn't, it can also be eaten hard.

"It's done, 2.6 million!"

"Huh?"

"Yay!"

Success came so quickly? When everyone was stunned, they immediately broke out screaming, and by the way, Zhang Zhaoyang, who was in a straight suit, was lifted up and thrown.

Li Jiaming was no exception, let go of his girlfriend's hand, and followed everyone to throw the big guy with a fox face as a doll bear, and he threw it happily. The company's success is in the best interest, and the rest can be set aside. It's nothing more than a little fame and fortune that can be obtained, a little bit smaller, and one of the founders of a successful website is enough to impress the big-name professors of those famous schools.

Zhang Zhaoyang, who was thrown around by everyone, was also very excited, one person enjoys success alone, although his heart is surging, how can he be worshiped and intoxicated? 2.6 million US dollars, that is, the hope of the company's success is in front, this money is enough for the company to turn a small website into a big website, enough for the company to survive to the next round of financing!