In California, there is a city in southeastern San Mateo County called Menlo Park.

The city is small, with a population of just over 20,000 people.

The city's streets are wide, densely wooded, and the fresh air gives Menlo Park the nickname of a park.

The Menlo Center is at the King's Avenue intersection, where the City Convention Center, police station, and library are located, and on the south side of the driveway, there is a large garage.

This morning, two young people came out of the library, laughing and chatting all the way back to work in the "company".

"Page, we got $100,000 from Mr. Andy, but it's still not enough to start a company."

"Brin, there's no rush to register a company, let's make Google search more perfect."

"PageRank, page ranking hyperlink technology, needs further optimization, I recently read Silicon Valley newspapers, search seems to be strengthening the improvement of technology, if they also research the same technology, whether our company can succeed, is really unpredictable."

"Oh, yes, but William, the CTO of Soxin. Zhang left the search for letters, and now a Chinese named Li Yanhong is doing the search for letters. ”

"That Li is also a search engine expert, and I heard that he has also obtained a patent invention for hyperlink technology."

"Yahoo seems to have started to make portals, and her search service hasn't been updated for a long time."

"Even so, Yahoo is also an object that we admire and are difficult to surpass, Brin, we must concentrate on being a search platform and not add too many commercials to it."

"Yes, stick to that style of page. We will succeed. ”

The two young men chatted and walked to the garage door. Suddenly, I found an Audi sedan parked in the door. There was a young foreigner standing next to the car who was smoking normally, and when he saw them, he immediately walked up with a smile.

"Sir, may I ask you what is the matter?"

"Both, are you the founders of Google? I found this contact address on the Google platform, but unfortunately I came here and waited for half an hour, and I didn't wait for anyone. Li Feiteng said with a smile. He had already recognized these two guys as Page and Brin.

Paige wears a pair of glasses, a beard, and her hair is tightly attached to her head, and she looks old, in fact, she is two or three years older than Fei Teng, while Brin, who has no beard, wears a gray shirt, has fluffy hair, and has small eyes. A gentle smile on his face.

"Sir, the two of us are inventors of Google. Don't know what you're looking for us? Is it an investment, or an acquisition? Page stroked his glasses, he smiled very bluntly, from the Audi car driven by this young man, as well as the suit and watch he was wearing, it could be seen that he was a very rich young man.

Li Feiteng was stunned for a moment, and he smiled: "I'm sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, this is my business card." ”

As he spoke, he quickly took out two business cards from his pocket and handed them to Page and Brin.

The business card is a delicate black plastic zuò, which is printed with the position of chairman of ITQ Ventures in Silicon Valley, and the English name of Li Feiteng, king. Li

This domineering English name is the meaning of King Li and Emperor Li.

Page opened his mouth, he quickly reached over and shook hands warmly and said, "Hello King Lee, my name is Larry. Paige, you just call me Paige, I'm one of the two inventors of Google, and this is my partner, called Sergi. Brin, who invented Google with me. ”

"Mr. Page, where is your company, is it in this garage?"

"Oh yes, no, we haven't set up Google yet, we're just working here." Paige explained a little shyly, and he quickly took out a garage remote control from his pocket and opened the large gate.

After the door slowly rose, Li Feiteng stood outside and saw the scene inside, the place was not small, but there were a lot of miscellaneous items, a large number of computers, and second-hand servers were thrown there, all of which were working with blue light.

I have to say that this pair of servers looks quite spectacular.

Li Feiteng took a closer look, he was a little shocked, all kinds of servers, different models, different brands, in tatters, even if he himself, he may not be able to build these things, he said with admiration: "Mr. Page, you guys are really amazing, are these servers built by you?" ”

"Yes, we don't have the funds to buy new servers, we can only buy some in the second-hand market, don't underestimate them, they add up to a total of $100,000, which is more powerful than a million-dollar server, and now we can deal with tens of thousands of searches per day, without any pressure at all, and we are ready to develop a better search technology for Google." Page smiled proudly.

The $100,000 thing, Li Feiteng is very clear, these two guys, the first funding, is from Stanford alumnus, who is also one of the founders of Yahoo. Philo's hand.

Later, in order to establish Google, the two scraped together more than a million dollars from relatives and friends, and finally established Google.

It wasn't until the second half of next year that Google finally received more than $20 million in venture capital from Sequoia, and finally at the insistence of these two technology nerds, Google became the world's No. 1 search platform, surpassing Yahoo and Soxin.

Li Feiteng admired these two guys the most in his previous life, because he belonged to the same kind of person as Page and Brin in his previous life, both had very powerful technology, and they both had doctorates in computers, he did not start a business, and his business failed.

And the two people in front of them, although they have succeeded in starting a business, have never cared about personal wealth, even after Google went public, both of them are still just renting apartments, not even a car.

There is no doubt that this is the real tech talent who doesn't care about money and business interests, just wants to be a platform for the benefit of people.

"King Lee, I don't know what you think of us Google, you have come all the way, you must be very optimistic about us, right?" Brin smiled confidently.

Li Feiteng smiled and nodded, he didn't need to play a businessman at all in the face of these two technical nerds, he just needed to impress them in the most sincere way and let them work for him.

"Both, I'm very optimistic about your Google, ITQ Ventures, is an Internet venture capital company that has just been established for a short time, but, you may not know, my company has controlled a very large company in Silicon Valley this year, and its name is Soxin."

"Oh my God, this thing is actually true, I didn't expect it to be acquired by your company, it shocked me so much, King Lee, are you a billionaire?"

"Yes, I'm a billionaire and I want to invite you to work for me, is that okay?"

Paige and Brin looked at each other, and they smiled.

"King Lee, if we are to continue to be Google, according to our own wishes, or let us always be its technical lead, then there is no doubt that we are definitely willing." Page said fluently.

Li Feiteng was very happy, he said with certainty: "Of course, I took a fancy to the fact that Google has a lot of users, and I think it has great potential, so I came to the door in person." ”

"Rich King Lee, how are you going to invest in Google, or how much money are you willing to give us to help." Brin said sincerely.

"That's right, I asked my subordinates to apply for the registration of Google in Silicon Valley last month, with a registered capital of 10 million US dollars, and if you want, you can go directly to work." Li Feiteng said with a smile.

Both Page and Brin were taken aback, and their eyes were full of disbelief when they looked at Philip Lee.

The company had already been registered for them a month ago, and it was still ten million dollars, and oh my God, this young man was too determined, more confident than they were in Google.

Li Feiteng hurriedly said: "Both, you guys take Google to join in, I am willing to give each of you 2.5% of the shares, which is worth $250,000, as for the annual salary, how about both of you are $40,000?" ”

Both Page and Brin took a deep breath, they looked at each other, and both nodded to themselves.

"Oh, King Lee, you are such a generous rich man, I don't think we have any reason to refuse." Page laughed.

"King Li, I don't have a problem, the annual salary is very high, but can you help us, we want to take the server away, this is also very valuable, it's a pity to lose it." Brin said, gesturing at the servers.

"Of course, this is for sure, I want to explain that in the future, Google's servers will be purchased and matched by you as you like, as long as there is no problem with the platform, you can get it as you want!" Li Feiteng was very happy, he knew very well that these two guys had a hobby of technology nerds, and if they bought a good server for them, it would really make them uncomfortable and dissatisfied.

In the eyes of the masters, they would rather bother DIY by themselves, and definitely do not buy finished servers, not to mention that they are not cost-effective, and it is difficult to adapt to their own product applications.

In this regard, Li Feiteng's company is the same, the assembled server sent by IBM will eventually be disassembled and studied by a group of technical nerds, and then find a reasonable way to build and reassemble.

The reason is that Li Feiteng often sends emails to IBM, asking manufacturers to mail some hardware for them to use.

"Great, King Lee, you know us too well."

"yes, we like to DIY."

Li Feiteng smiled and patted the shoulders of the two people, and he said: "Actually, I forgot to tell you, I am a computer student at Qingmu University, the best university in China, so to speak, we are the same people, you have suspended your studies, and I have suspended your studies." ”

"Oh, King Lee, I suddenly feel like you're familiar, you seem to be a celebrity?" Page patted his head, he seemed to have seen pictures and news of the rich man in front of him on Yahoo's website, but he couldn't remember it for a while. (To be continued......)

PS: Thanks to a friend for a commuter pass