After confirming that Liang Baoguang is indeed a Ph.D. student at Harvard Business School, and that he really has a mother who is the CFO of NEE New Energy Group, Evan Williams completely dispelled his doubts, at least the young guy in front of him is not a fraudster. www.biquge.info Although almost all of the people who come out of Harvard Business School are masters of cheating, there is still a big difference between shopping malls and fraud, "Mr. Liang, are you really willing to pay me to make Twitter bigger?"

"Of course, what else am I looking for you?" Liang Baoguang had not yet made up his mind, but a night of investigation led him to find some clues, and Evan Williams and his former close friend Noah Glass (Noah Glass) seemed to fall out. Evan Williams will accept the lower price in order to get enough financial support as soon as possible, and this is his chance to make money.

Odeo's successive years of losses have long caused a rift between the two founders, and Noah Glass's behavior of talking to SonicMountain alone about the transfer without Evan Williams has made this contradiction irreconcilable. This time, Evan Williams went to SXSW to promote the Twitter project he created, and there was no element of contention, and the most important thing in doing this business is to prove that he is better than everyone else and more capable of leading his brothers to success.

After New Year's Day, Evan Williams had a well-thought-out plan to showcase their new social app on the SXSW Creative Unit, capture the first loyal user base, and if he could find strong external support, he would take the opportunity to set up his own business with a few henchmen. In the past few days, the publicity work has been very smooth, and people at the conference are talking about his software, but there is no news about the investment that has been waiting for a long time, and Liang Baoguang is the first to come to the door with sincerity.

Investors came to the door, and Evan Williams's plan was already more than half successful, "I did this vote, as long as I have the funds, I will leave Odeo and stand on my own, 10 million dollars in exchange for 20% ownership of the company." ”

"What kind of international jokes, I'm an angel investor, not a real angel!" If Liang Baoguang could agree to such an unreasonable request, the tuition fees he had paid to Harvard University in the past few years would have been paid in vain, and before he came here, there was not even a person who was willing to invest millions of dollars, "I want to take the lion's share of the investment in the form of a partner!"

Evan Williams never thought that he could really exchange 20% ownership of the Twitter project for 10 million dollars, he just wanted to see if Liang Baoguang was the stupid son of the landlord's family, that's all. Facts have proved that Harvard University, the world's number one institution of higher learning, is not in vain, and even the son of a landlord is not stupid to go in and study for a few years.

At this time, the Twitter project has not been spun off from the Odeo company, and Evan William Moss has to take the money out to restructure the company if he wants to go it alone, because the previous debts have not been paid off and the general environment is in a recession, the bank loan is not to think about it, Liang Baoguang seems to be his only choice, "We accept the investment in the form of partners, but we can't let you take the lion's shares, I want to have absolute control after the new company is built, and you don't have to bear unlimited joint and several liability." ”

Evan Williams has been through so much since leaving Google that he would like to take the company into his own hands instead of being controlled if he could. There are generally three forms of angel investment, among which partner investment is the most tiring for entrepreneurs, but at the moment he is still burdened with high debts, whether he has met a shark-type angel is no longer a question that he is in the mood to think about.

Liang Baoguang shook his head, he really wanted to buy the blue bird, but he didn't have to buy it, "In good conscience, do you think the Twitter project can be worth 20 million US dollars?"

This software is just a game by Evan Williams, a project made out of pure hobby, and the so-called "140-word idea" is just a casual blowout. To say that Evan Williams really has great expectations for the new project, it is not true, he has to break away from the original company is not interested in the prospect of Twitter in his hands, but he fell out with his original good partner and does not want to work together anymore, and he can't even find a refutation for a while in the face of the problem of angel investors, he can only express his personal subjective thoughts, "It has great potential." ”

"Half and half, I'll contribute 10 million funds, and you will provide projects and technical support. "This is the final offer.

"Well, we'll be partners from today, Paul. Evan Williams thought about it and finally agreed, the investment of 10 million US dollars was really not something he could refuse at this stage, and he stepped forward and shook hands with Liang Baoguang, which was considered an agreement.

Liang Baoguang doesn't have 10 million at all, but this kind of partnership investment will not require him to do it in one step, from now on he is a partner of Twitter, and he is one of the original founders, "To be honest, don't you wonder why I want to invest in your Twitter?"

"Isn't it because you're stupid and have a lot of money?" asked Evan Williams, tilting his head.

Two contracts were signed in two days, the new movie has not yet started shooting, and the budget of 8 million US dollars has been spent on 5 million yuan to prepare for the new network company, but Liang Baoguang is in a happy mood, and inexplicably gives birth to an illusion that he has already achieved a successful career. The cruel reality is that he has to find money from other places to make movies, but fortunately, when he first filmed "Miryang", all the expenses went to the account of the new life group, and the money in his card was not touched, otherwise his current situation may be more embarrassing than imagined.

"Is this your director's work, it's so cool!" Liang Baoguang's "This Man is from Earth" is undoubtedly extremely dull in terms of form, but the feeling it conveys is worthy of a "cool" word, Evan Williams and others couldn't help but extend two thumbs up after being invited to watch the first screening of the film, "That's why you invested in our project?"

"Yes, as an ambitious person, the sense of accomplishment of building a castle with my own hands is definitely an irresistible temptation for me. The concept of viral marketing has long been used in shopping malls, and Hollywood movie giants also use this trick in the promotion of commercial films, especially Warner and Fox, Liang Baoguang does not have the huge energy of Warner and Fox, so he can only "do it himself and have enough food and clothing".

The response to "This Man from Earth" was even better than Liang Baoguang had expected, and he had previously thought that in a country like the United States, where the church is very terrifying, the film would definitely be strongly boycotted once it was screened, but the results of the survey showed that Americans were much more tolerant than South Koreans. At the South by Southwest Music Festival's film conference, the vast majority of the audience gave positive reviews, and in their eyes, Liang Baoguang's films were cool, but far less crazy than the works of the previous two years.

"I'm Amantha Gary from The New York Times, what do you think of this 'This Man Is From Earth'?" Amantha Gary had been paying attention to Liang Baoguang a few days ago, and she knew this handsome guy from the New York Times, a super-large entertainment newspaper.

Because of the appearance of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson during the filming of "New York, I Love You", Liang Baoguang once became a small hit, and was on the entertainment news in the New York area during the filming, although the paparazzi failed to get strong evidence, many people still firmly believe that he has a lot of legs with Scarlett Johansson, and even maintains that relationship with Natalie Portman.

Amantha Gary preconceived that Liang Baoguang was a handsome rich boy, and that there were too many playboys in Hollywood when an actor made a movie with Natalie Portman just to bubble up her best friend Scarlett Johansson. After coming to Austin, Amantha Jiajia learned that Liang Baoguang was still a director, because she had to wait until the final selection results came out, she stayed in Austin, and waited for several days with the intention of watching jokes, but she finally failed to see the picture of this person making a fool of himself, "This Man is from Earth" is an undoubted masterpiece.

This man is not only handsome, but also very talented.

"Very good movie, very ...... Unique. The girl who was interviewed looked around excitedly, trying to see if there were any cameras, but she was doomed to be disappointed, this was a reporter from the newspaper, not a reporter from the TV station.

"Not only is it unique, but what really appealed to me was the rigor of the film, where every dialogue in it snapped together like cogs, and as long as the core was acknowledged, the whole system was impeccable. "It was the girl's boyfriend who spoke, and he originally wanted to stand up in advance when he felt bored at the beginning, but his girlfriend pulled him to stay and watch it, and he almost missed a masterpiece," I heard that the actors are all Harvard, Yale and MIT professors in addition to the director himself, which is really cool. ”

"If there's a flaw in this movie, what do you think it is?" Amantha Gary doesn't want to write all the good things that don't fit her vision of the playboy, so she deliberately leads the interviewees to criticize the film, a small tactic that their journalists are used to.

"Of course, there are shortcomings, and the biggest problem with this movie is that it didn't find an eye-catching beauty to play the heroine. How so...... That female professor is too female professor, and her love story with the male protagonist makes me not want to care at all, isn't there a beautiful professor at Harvard?"

"Okay. Seeing this guy talking serious nonsense, Amantha Gary didn't know how to continue the interview.