Chapter 197: Dialogue
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The boiling "West-to-East Gas Transmission" project in China was officially put into commercial operation. The high-quality natural gas in the western region has ignited in Shanghai, and the Yangtze River Delta region has made great strides into a new era of clean energy. The Shanghai Baihe Distribution Point is the final station of the West-East Gas Transmission and the first station for Shanghai to receive natural gas, and will be responsible for supplying power to the entire city of Shanghai.
The second generation of ID cards for Chinese citizens has been issued and replaced nationwide, and major cities across the country are successively carrying out pilot issuance work. The first batch of pilots in Shanghai was launched in Jiading District and Chongming County, and in the second half of the year, other areas officially began to renew their hair. The new generation of i-card-like ID cards has made many people feel novel, and the first-generation ID cards like plastic cards in the past, like tapes of tape recorders and black sè wooden pencils with eraser heads, are fading out of people's sight after many years.
The 2010 Shanghai World Expo has been set to cover a redline area of about 5.53 square kilometers from Nanpu Bridge in the east, Pudong South Road in the south, and the Huangpu River in the northwest. In 2010, every inch of land exuded a bewilderment that made politicians and economists dreamily drunk.
The 60th annual session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was held in Shanghai, with the theme of "Strengthening Regional Development Cooperation to Meet the Challenges of the Globalization Era".
In May, when the new road safety regulations were implemented, most pedestrians and vehicles were "unaware" of the new regulations, and Shanghai dealt with a total of 2,500 violations of the law on the same day, according to incomplete statistics. Among them, nearly 600 were punished on the spot.
In the same month, Wu Chuanji, who was in charge of the Ministry of Information Industry, could no longer adhere to the promise made two years ago to overseas shareholders that the overseas capital market would not charge one-way fees, and Shanghai Lingtong officially began to release the number, thus completely breaking through the policy restrictions of the Ministry of Information Industry on "prohibiting the development of Xiǎo Lingtong business in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou", breaking the competition pattern of "duopoly" monopoly, and announcing the arrival of the historical period of "one-way charging". Six years later, Xiǎo Lingtong, which had completed its transitional task, was irresistibly delisted under the 3G big cháo, like a pager, and entered the history of the changing times.
"The world is changing rapidly and is bound to become more and more transparent. ”
Mark Zuckerberg said this at a time when the 7th Shanghai International Film Festival was slowly kicking off on the banks of the Huangpu River. Walking on the red carpet are Zhang Guoli who starred in "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" this year, Liang Jiahui in "Ambush on All Sides", and Zeng Zhiwei in "Infernal Affairs" and so on.
The fireworks flew into the sky, exploding pieces of sparks that were either dark blue or dark purple, reflecting in the mirrored river water outside the deck where everyone was, the fireworks in the sky and water features, and the gorgeous night scene of the Oriental Demon Capital on the shore, which were stirred by the ripples of the water waves, as if the real world was mirrored.
Mark Zuckerberg, who arrived in Shanghai, stayed at the Regal Universal East Asia Hotel near Xujiahui.
Originally, Su Can planned to bring dozens of high-level executives of Facebook China to the Lakeside Hotel in Huangcheng, Xichuan Province, or go to Hunan for a meeting, but it was the arrival of Mark Zuckerberg, the top president of the United States, so it was the right time to hold this year's Facebook annual meeting.
The annual meeting was held at the Regal Global East Asia Hotel, and a total of 150 people from within the company attended the meeting, most of whom were seeing Mark Zuckerberg for the first time, or so closely, and the day before his arrival, the entire Facebook company was in a state of nervous excitement.
He also delivered a speech at the annual meeting, telling the employees up and down Facebook Chinese about his and Su Can's impulse to start Facebook on a whim in high school, which always aroused bursts of amazement and envy.
When most people first saw Su Can when they joined Facebook, they thought that Facebook was young enough, but there were still such young employees? Later, I saw him walk into the e office, and Sister Xiǎo at the front desk didn't stop him, and thought it was Qiao Shuxin's nephew or a close relative. Seeing Qiao Shuxin, who is always a little dignified on weekdays, coming out of the E office and discussing with him, this is not like an acquaintance or relative who came to the family to make jokes.
Then, everyone will be so surprised by the fact that they can't close their mouths.
The entrepreneurial history that Mark Zuckerberg heard, the somewhat unrealistic and even fanciful ideas under the foreign sky, have now gone out of that American high school and into China, and have become a reality. They became the kings of the Shejiāo Empire, which was at the forefront of the world. As they declared in a room with American big boy sneakers and high school pine cones and chessboards, they were going to change the world.
That year, Mark Zuckerberg was still a son who aspired to enter a Harvard dentist family, and Su Can was still a high school student with no future in sight. Those vicissitudes of life that appear repeatedly in the movies are really happening in reality.
Finally, Zach concluded the annual meeting with a sentence, "If you miss a country of 1.2 billion people, how can you talk about conquering the world?"
Many people were emotionally moved by his recount, perhaps because they heard his remarks today, not only to have a new view of the president who always appeared in the company, but also to get some kind of enlightenment and change in outlook on life. It has also been commented that the American president has a very imperial inclination, conquering Yu and attacking Xing very strongly. There are also people who objectively think that Zach is idealistic, but it is idealism that can often succeed in this world.
After the annual meeting, people were directly pulled to the Huangpu River, and Facebook chartered the luxury cruise ship Shanghai Style, which had received state guests, and carried all employees on the Huangpu River at night for a self-service cocktail party.
After the annual meeting, Liu Changhui also specially told Su Can that Shanghai Mayor Wang Quan wanted to meet with Zack, and I am afraid that he will talk to relevant parties in the next few days.
And throughout Zach's entire trip, he was highly secretive to the outside world. Because of the social problems faced by Facebook in the United States, many countries in the world are discussing how to target the situation of Facebook, whether to restrict access or completely ban it in China. Now Facebook Chinese in the domestic high-level discussion situation is not very optimistic, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Press and Publication and other relevant ministries and commissions have issued relevant appeals, Facebook Chinese at present the most important thing to do is to keep a low profile, if this time and the United States side of frequent contact, undoubtedly more fuel.
Su Can didn't dare to guarantee that the information about Zack's arrival in China would not be detected by those sensitive media, but at least the itinerary was low-key and precautionary, even if there was a report on the scope of Xiǎo, it would not cause any trouble, so he moved the last drinking party to the Huangpu River.
The night was dark and the wind was high, and the light of the city seemed to penetrate the clouds.
On the bottom deck, Su Can, Tang Fei, Zack, Facebook's financial director Kate, Qiao Shuxin, Mu Guotao and other Facebook's Chinese carriages are sitting leaning on the railing,
"We needed money so much that it was a mistake to reject a lower valuation in the first place. That way, more investors will be willing to buy our shares, and Facebook will be able to raise a lot of money. Zach took a sip of his wine, and the liquor in his glass glittered under the city's night view and fireworks.
Many of the top executives of Facebook Chinese present looked at each other, and they knew what Zach was talking about rejecting lower valuations, which was this year's shocking news, which made them all a little frightened for a while.
At the beginning of 2004, the Yahoo executive team in Sunnyvale watched the boom of the social Jiāo network, and they didn't even have a place, in the past year, they approached Mark Zuckerberg more than once, and finally Yahoo's executive team agreed that they should buy Facebook, Yahoo's e Semel set out to contact Zack, and soon expressed his intention to buy Facebook for two billion dollars. The proposed acquisition from Yahoo immediately led to a heated controversy on Facebook's board of directors in the United States.
Jim, a member of the board of directors representing Axel, said it could be a big opportunity to make a fortune and, in venture capital parlance, a great opportunity for them to "get out." They invested $63 million last year, and in less than 10 months, they could have more than fivefold return on investment.
At the board meetings held during that time, the long-standing dispute formed two camps, with most of the older employees and the younger employees at odds. At that time, Van Tana and Kohler, two of Facebook's six troikas, wanted to sell the company. And Dustin is on Zach's side. The different camps of shareholders and employees are loud and have a taste of confrontation.
However, on the five-member board of directors, because Su Can's co-president exercise is in the hands of Zack, plus Dustin, he actually controls the position of three seats on the board. However, two of the votes were cast for himself, which somewhat smacked of an iron fist and lost his prestige.
Jim and Donald each have a seat, Jim's position on selling the company is very firm, Zach wants to reconcile this contradiction, the final key is still in Donald, he is old, he is also inclined to sell the company, but he is biased to respect the position of the founder, so in the final vote expressed support for Mark Zuckerberg, so in the end the Yahoo acquisition ended in complete failure.
But Facebook took advantage of the acquisition, raising Facebook's valuation to about $4 billion.
If the problems that affect the world do not happen, those new revolutions do not take place around the world under the emergence and promotion of Facebook, the tragedy of the father killing his son, and the public opinion that advocates the ugliness of people does not appear, this valuation of Facebook will only further increase the attractiveness and influence of Facebook, and it will gain greater popularity in Silicon Valley. But those things happened.
It is reported that some members of the US Congress proposed this year to close down the US Facebook page and not allow it to reopen until they have eliminated public issues and those that may cause harm.
In the face of such public opinion, the previous excessively high valuation of Facebook has caused considerable trouble, Facebook needs money, but investors who can provide this money will weigh the current situation and consider whether it is worth investing money in Facebook. The capitalists of Silicon Valley and Wall Street are snobbish and can compete to be sought after when they are popular, but once faced with a crisis, the bloody and indifferent nature of the capital circle will be vividly revealed.
Su Can shook his glass and asked, "How does it feel to reject the acquisition from Yahoo?"
Zach admitted, "It's contradictory. I'm not a saint, as long as I nod my head and say yes, two billion dollars may be in my account, you know, if we hadn't started Facebook, I might not have earned such real money in my life. That's two billion dollars. ”
He paused, as if recalling the thrilling scene, "It's a lot of money, and it's going to really change the lives of the people around me and for me." I can see their eagerness, the college students from Stanford, the Harvard students, the engineers who work for Facebook in Silicon Valley, they may have been waiting for this moment all their lives. They can live with their wives and children for the rest of their lives, go on vacation to Hawaii, and go skiing in Switzerland. And all this happy life was in my thoughts, and frankly, I was so stressed that I couldn't sleep all night. Then I thought that we have so many opportunities to change the world compared to money. I don't think it's fair for everyone to accept the money. ”
"You're starting to become the manager who can really dominate the behemoth of Facebook. Su Can nodded, feeling a lot of emotion, the technical otaku type boy with freckles finally grew up and began to walk towards his path to the king.
"But we always need money. "Facebook has to pay 500 employees and maintain servers in the new data center, and Facebook in the United States only has two data centers in the United States, and the information that users all over the world see from Facebook has to go from there, and it takes a long time to load Facebook pages in distant places, so in order to adapt to global growth, several expensive additional server farms need to be built outside the United States." We also have an international headquarters in Dublin, sales offices in London, Paris, Stockholm and Sydney, with more to come. I still don't know how to solve the problem of money. ”
When you really get to that position, you will understand the huge difficulty. Su Can's Facebook Chinese currently cannot help American Facebook, the American Facebook consumption swallowed up the funds is too huge, relatively speaking, the profit of Facebook Chinese is only in China's current thin Internet soil is amazing, but if you don't measure yourself to send financial internal power to the American Facebook, you will chou yourself, just like absorbing stars.
So in the face of Zack's predicament, Su Can can't give advice to the distant American Facebook, after all, he grew up in China, he studied at Nanda University, developed in Shanghai, not Stanford, not Palo Alto, has too much internal operations of American Facebook and is not familiar with it, Su Can can operate Facebook Chinese in China may be able to work with the support of Qiao Shuxin and other teams, but if you talk about American Facebook, it is similar to a blind man pointing the way.
I had to pat him on the shoulder, facing the sea breeze blowing in the Huangpu River, and said, "There will always be a way"
Zach nodded, "Yes, I understand, when I came to China, I just wanted to relax."
Zach just came to China to solve the problem, and the resignation of the four troikas of Facebook, and the current public opinion and political dilemma have made him feel bored in that land.
"Did I tell you that this year, there are a number of lawmakers and military officials in the U.S. Congress who are campaigning for a clean up and holding a hearing on Facebook, and even calling for Facebook to shut down? "Standing side by side with Su Can, Zack said. His curly hair was blown by the wind, and the two of them stood on the most luxurious cruise ship on the Huangpu River, riding the wind to break the làng.
Su Can nodded, "I know about this." ”
"Then do you know," Zach took a sip of Sprite in his hand, turned his head, and looked at Su Can with deep blue eyes, "The most powerful basis for these congressmen's proposals is that in our Facebook equity structure, which constitutes the core strategic talent resources of college students and even many officials and scholars in the United States, you who are not Chinese and have no connection with the United States occupy too large a huge equity." ”
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