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The entrepreneurial path he thought of was richer than Gu Cheng's hasty prediction.

It's not that Gu Cheng's foresight is not as good as Zuckerberg's.

After all, one is to exert subjective initiative and be whimsical; The other is reverse thinking, trying to review. Gu Cheng can think of Zuckerberg's focus of seven or eight points, which can already be regarded as a god.

It took about half a month for Zuckerberg to complete the handover between him and YY.com, and finally succeeded in flashing.

Because the contract was terminated in advance, the share options of 1% per year and 5% for five years were not obtained, which can be regarded as a net exit. (The five-year 10% stake condition was an additional preferential condition proposed by Li Ying when she tried to retain Zuckerberg, and it was not so high at first)

However, after a year and a half as the CTO of YY.com, Zuckerberg still has two or three million dollars of private money from salary to the private interests of various technology outsourcing providers.

With this money, he can save the most ruthless angel round or even Series A financing by investors, and use his own money to carry the original stage with the most risk and the highest return on valuation - provided that he does not fail to start a business.

In fact, as early as April, after thoroughly studying the social war case between YY and QQ in Huaxia, Zuckerberg had already privately set up a newly registered software research and development institution held by his family and girlfriend with white gloves. Then he used his own money to seek technical outsourcing outside, and wrote a rough mold of the new product he wanted.

After the formal establishment of the company, the product will be put on the market immediately after the formal and fair introduction of outsourcing resources and running-in testing for two or three months.

If you don't do this, according to the industry management, wait until the angel round money is in place before you start writing code, and it will take at least half a year to produce results. And Zuckerberg can save a precious three-month time difference by sneaking away against the wind in private.

The name of the new product, tentatively named FaceChat by Zuckerberg, translates roughly to "Face Chat".

There is no doubt that this is originally an online dating tool for looking at faces, and with the function of burning after reading, people can have no scruples after a large-scale car, and the explosion of photos will only become more commonplace.

That's why it's a fitting name called "FaceChat".

In fact, Chat is not very suitable to be translated as "chat", it should be translated as "Kan" or "pick-up".

Chat, more or less still have to talk to a specific counterpart, every time you change people casually, you can't talk at all.

Kan, on the other hand, is to talk to whoever is caught, and to brag and pretend to be whoever meets is who - this is also very consistent with the context of the root word Chat in English.

Therefore, it is "face kan".

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On this day, it is about less than a week after Zuckerberg officially left the company.

The technical outsourcing code of all his parties was finally in place three days ago, and it ran through the function.

Finally, he personally combed through the prototype of the beta version of the semi-finished software at hand, and said to himself with confidence:

"FaceChat, it looks good, the chat function is completely fine, the mosaic time-limited reading permission, chat history destruction and package grabbing permission functions have also been tested, as long as the payment tools and other external resources are integrated, you can spend money on advertising and brutal promotion - Peter Thiel will definitely be interested."

He got a few computers and a few accounts to try out, and after confirming that there was no problem, he packed his things and prepared to go out to visit Peter Til again in San Jose.

He had already been in contact with the other party before, but only on the phone.

Today, Peter Thiel has not yet gained the prestige of the "godfather of Silicon Valley venture capital", but his influence should not be underestimated. He just set up a venture capital fund called Founders-Fund this year, which mainly manages the funds of the major co-founder shareholders of the former PayPal system, and absorbs some external funds, with a cumulative usable capital of billions of dollars. Specifically looking for a lot of projects in Silicon Valley that are out of the way but have complex and coordinated innovation potential to invest, the vision is vicious.

AFTER ALL, IN ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE, PETER THIEL RELIED ON THE AURA OF "FACEBOOK'S FIRST EXTERNAL INVESTOR, ANGEL ROUND FINALLY BENEFITED 20,000 TIMES" TO REAP THE FAME OF "THE GODFATHER OF SILICON VALLEY VENTURE CAPITAL".

At the moment, he has not invested money in Zuckerberg, so he is naturally not qualified to be called the "godfather of Silicon Valley venture capital".

But whether Peter Thiel is currently a godfather or not, he is much higher than Zuckerberg.

If Zuckerberg hadn't informed the secretary on the phone of the identity of "former CTO of YY Network", he wouldn't even be able to call for the first time.

Make an appointment to make sure Peter Til is available, and Zach drives himself from Palo Alto to San Jose.

San Jose is also one of the major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, or Silicon Valley, and PayPal-MAFIA people are particularly fond of that city.

Perhaps it was because PayPal started its business there in the first place, so that these people later engaged in Founders-Fund, SPACE-X, LinkedIn, and set up companies there.

Zuckerberg drove to Founders-Fund, stopped, made an appointment at the front desk, and went upstairs to Peter Thiel's office.

"Mr. Tiel, it's a pleasure to meet you in person. Just call me Mark - I gave you an overview of my project on the phone last time, and I think you'll be interested today. ”

Zuckerberg got straight to the point and threw out his intentions directly.

"Mr. Zuckerberg, or may I call you Mark?" Peter Thiel, who is already 40 years old, has a much calmer demeanor, and he controls the pace of the conversation with a light lift, pouring a little cold water on Zuckerberg,

"I think there may be some misunderstanding between us about each other's intentions. The project you mentioned last time was really interesting, but it didn't get me to the point where I wanted to invest, and I think there was a big problem with the operability here. ”

Zuckerberg came with confidence, and the other party's statement really caught him off guard.

HE HURRIEDLY EXPLAINED THE ENTRY POINT OF HIS ENTREPRENEURIAL PROJECT, THE INNOVATION OF ANOTHER WAY, AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE HIDDEN PAIN OF USERS OF SOCIAL PRODUCTS.

"Peter, you have to understand that if it was two years ago, this project would have absolutely no future, because the people who posted on the Internet at that time were far away from the audience - no one would be frustrated because a blogger on a product like MySpace was more knowledgeable and higher than himself, and netizens would at most be unwilling and irresponsible to spray two sentences, and then the spray would be counted, and they would not go to their hearts.

But after the appearance of YY.com, the situation is completely different, and everyone who pretends to be forced on it is a person around him, a person in the circle of friends, or at least an alumnus of the same school. The oversharing of the strong has forced the weak and those who are unwilling to reveal their true strength to find a new outlet to vent. And my project is definitely the product you can find in the next two years that best fits this pain point! ”

After saying this, it still didn't impress Peter Thiel, and Zuckerberg could only grit his teeth and say the showdown about the last killer move he had originally prepared to use the broom.

He wasn't afraid that Peter Till would go to the cottage as soon as he learned him, after all, it was too late. However, if Peter Thiel still doesn't give him money after listening to it, he will have to find a spare tire as quickly as possible to solve the problem of funds and payment tools. If the time difference is delayed for a few more months, maybe his idea may be copied.

"Not only did I make a time-limited and anti-screenshot viewing function for large-scale pictures, but I will also use your resources to find an online payment tool in the future and use red envelopes to pay for JIAO. I even designed a derivative function that evolved from YY's 'grab group red envelopes' function, so that group users can set the threshold for grabbing packets before sending red packets.

Anyone who distributes more than a certain number of red envelopes in the group, or whose memory amount is significantly lower than the average amount of red envelopes in the group, will not be eligible to grab high-privileged red envelopes. In addition, the amount distribution of group red envelopes will also change from the YY mode's 'the faster you click, the more money you get' mode, to absolutely random.

Think about it, what does this mean - this is actually a kind of network blocking, which will make people want to stop, even if the people of the United States do not have the habit of grabbing red envelopes, but as long as there is a 'people who don't send it anyway, they are not qualified to grab, as long as I send more and grab more, it is possible to earn it if I am lucky' mentality there, how many users will it attract to the pit?

From SE love, to the gambler's mentality, all the tricks that drive human libido, dopamine, and adrenaline, you can find them in my FaceChat, where else can you find a second ...... for such a good project"

However, no matter what Zuckerberg says, Peter Thiel is unmoved. After he hit a wall, he could only go to find another spare tire to find a spare tire at home.

Online payment is Zuckerberg's shortcoming, he is not short of money, he just lacks resources in the subdivision of Internet finance.

And in the United States, there is obviously no one who can have more resources in this area than Peter Thiel, the father of PayPal.

Until Zuckerberg left the Founders-Fund Foundation, he didn't know why Peter Thiel's attitude had changed so much before and after, and it was so much worse than the previous state of good communication on the phone.

There is no way, who let Gu Cheng and Li Ying keep a low profile.

obviously made Zuckerberg stand up, but he didn't want to jump out and pretend to be slapped in the face.

So much so that after about half a year, at the end of 2005, Zuckerberg, who was looking for other resources to go on the road, came back to his senses and knew where he was planted in the first place.

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"Happy cooperation, I will immediately get you a new, credible online payment tool, and as a plug-in for YY international version to bind it. As for the equity share and valuation, I will finalize it with Miss Li. ”

After sending Zuckerberg away, Peter Till called Gu Cheng that night.

As early as half a month ago, Zuckerberg had not left the company. Li Ying had already been ordered by Gu Cheng to take the initiative to come to the door and deceive Peter Tiel.

Li Ying's combination of soft and hard, and her courtesan skills were fully displayed, which easily made Peter Thiel think that "the internal investigation of YY has found out the truth about Zuckerberg's contact with him", so the truth was revealed.

Don't doubt the difficulty of this kind of thing, play ordinary intrigue and trickery, the people of Mi are not the opponents of the Chinese people in the first place. In addition, Li Ying used the bait of allowing Peter Thiel to invest in YY Net, in exchange for Peter Til's refusal to invest in FaceChat, the other party half pushed and half got on Li Ying's thief ship.

"Happy cooperation, I promise that your investment share will not be less." Gu Cheng gave the other party a letter of approval, and then hung up the phone.

He turned to Li Ying, who had been a little nervous and was sitting opposite him waiting for news, and gave the president of the beautiful royal sister a warm smile: "It's done, I've worked hard for you recently, please celebrate tonight." ”