eBay and Askjeeves Angel Capital have invested in it, and Jeff, the president, should have gathered with the founding teams of the two companies to celebrate, but due to time constraints, Pierre and Askjeeves invited Jeff to the company's celebration banquet, but they both politely declined. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThis time, Liu Si decided to use the Silicon Valley area as the headquarters of angel capital, so Jeff has confirmed that he will stay in San Francisco for a long time, and Craig Newmark and Pyralabs invited Jeff to participate in the celebration banquet Jeff, the representative of angel capital, is still not absent.

Angel Capital is an offshore company, and it is relatively simple to register a company in the United States, and Jeff took the $20 million asset verification form to the government and easily obtained the registration conditions for opening a branch in the United States.

Liu Si is not familiar with the facts of the company's internal operation and management, because in his previous life, he was engaged in finance, working as a trader for customers in a securities company. If you don't understand, you don't meddle, so he has always been a hands-off shopkeeper, opportunistic according to his advanced consciousness.

However, the time is finally about to enter 1997, this year Liu Si has been preparing for it for a long time, and he is finally able to show his skills in the financial field that he is good at.

Regardless of Master Liu's fantasies, under his orders, Pyralabs has become one of the hottest companies in Silicon Valley at the moment.

Evan Williams was appointed as the president of Pyralabs after it was acquired by Angel Capital, and Angel Capital received an injection of $15 million from Angel Capital after the acquisition of Pyralabs, and he instantly felt like the president of a large company or a large group.

Evan Williams feels great, not just because of the extra $15 million in corporate accounts, but also because of the overwhelming coverage in Silicon Valley.

Evan Williams and Pyralabs occupy half of the second page of the San Francisco Chronicle: "This is a lucky boy who spent less than $200,000 on a company less than a year ago that was bought by a mystery buyer for $100 a few days ago, and now Silicon Valley is full of job advertisements for Pyralabs." It is reported that Pyralabs has received a capital injection of 15 million US dollars, and is currently recruiting nearly 100 elite talents in the IT industry, and its treatment is close to that of senior executives of large companies......"

In order to attract attention, the "Oakland Forum" used the title of "$1,500 for one year".

Mercury News and Contracosta Times, the four major newspapers in Silicon Valley, also reported on Evan Williams and Pyralabs, but with a different focus.

The reason for this was Liu Si's decision to use advertising to build momentum for the Phralabs recruitment, and even San Francisco TV stations broadcast Phralabs job ads.

What Liu Si needs at present is a real IT industry talent, no need for fresh graduates, e-commerce needs computer technology, network technology, remote communication technology is not simple, especially Liu Si is very ambitious to do a comprehensive e-commerce website at the beginning, rather than starting from the book industry like Amazon.

The name of the e-commerce website has been decided, it is called shopping, and the shopping domain name was also registered by Li Haiping and Madrid last year, and now everything is ready.

The game company is named Hive Game Production and Publishing Company, Chinese is Hive Game Production and Publishing Company, think about the popularity and profitability of game companies such as Blizzard and Xuele Mountain in the future, and Young Master Liu is not moved.

Compared with Hive Game Publishing Company and Shopping E-commerce Company, Blogger, i.e. blog, is much simpler to develop and operate, and requires much less developers. Blogger is directly under the name of Pyralabs, and Hive Game Production and Publishing Company and Shopping E-commerce Company will be set up separately, and in order to minimize attention, the new game company and e-commerce website company will not be led by Angel Capital.

When Liu Si registered an offshore company last year, he expected that his existence would make its venture capital extremely eye-catching, so there were nearly 10 registered venture capital companies.

Preliminary work such as game development and e-commerce website development is not simple, and it is normal for a year or two to develop a game in the future, or even longer. Even if the e-commerce website does not take more than one year, it will take a few months, and naturally when the president of another venture capital company is far away, game companies and e-commerce companies do not need to register too early.

At present, among the three newly formed web companies, the one with the greatest expectations is the blogger blog site company. Historically, blogs have been eliminated by Weibo in the end, but Weibo is now at an inopportune time.

Weibo is a broadcast-style social networking platform that shares short, real-time information through the following mechanism, and compared with blogs, in addition to being relatively short, it can publish pictures and short videos, which is also the reason why blogs can be eliminated.

The ability to publish pictures and short videos also makes it very demanding for hardware facilities, especially camera pixels, memory, and the most important USB data connection technology. Unfortunately, USB technology was only used on a smaller scale in 1999.

Another point, Liu Si hopes to use the blog first to build it and then sell it to Amazon or Yahoo at a high price to pit them.

A week later, the recruitment campaign in the name of Pyralabs came to an end, and only more than 40 satisfactory elite talents were recruited, but more than 40 were recruited by Li Haiping and Madrid, who used to be executives of Internet companies, and according to Evan Williams, he was extremely satisfied with this group of employees.

There are too many companies in the high-tech IT industry in Silicon Valley, and it would be nice to be able to recruit more than 40 employees in the emerging company of Pyralabs.

40 employees are not much, and in the end, the blogger project was divided into 20 people, plus the company's original talents, a total of 32 people officially started to develop bloggers after signing a non-disclosure agreement.

Shopping e-commerce project plus the newly appointed president Li Haiping, a total of more than 20 people began to develop vigorously, the later development and operation of the e-commerce website is naturally not enough, but the early development of the core code of the website more than 20 people is enough.

Hive Games didn't have an IT talent assigned to it, and Madrid, who was newly appointed as CEO, was very depressed, but Liu Si happily traveled around Silicon Valley to check out game studios large and small after agreeing to spend money to buy a game studio.

Jeff's angel capital has also made long-term progress, in a week, angel capital's accounting firm, law firm partners have been completed, and through the phone to find 7 former colleagues and classmates, angel capital's company shelf is basically built.

Unconsciously accompanied Liu's father to eat, drink and have fun in San Francisco, a week passed, Liu Si, who went to Angel Capital to inspect it, was very surprised by Jeff, "Boss, the day before yesterday I took a fancy to a network company, after some internal discussions and investigations within the company, it was agreed that the company has investment needs, so yesterday I made the decision to invest in this company." ”

There are many mobile phone brands abroad, these are not big brothers, Jeff, Li Haiping, Madrid and others have a mobile phone, only Liu Si did not buy it, the visa is valid for 1 month, that is to say, 1 month back to China, it is equivalent to buying a small brick, worth hundreds of dollars. Without a mobile phone, Jeff naturally couldn't contact Liu Si and Liu's father Xu Gang, who had gone crazy and didn't return to the hotel, so Jeff made the investment himself.

"Oh, tell me about it." When Liu Si heard that Jeff had invested in a company during his absence, he was genuinely interested. Of course, there is also a side to Jeff.

"It's called Alexainter, and it's a search engine company." Jeff was a little excited, Alexa was the first investment he had made.

Liu Si was not impressed by the Alexa search engine, but the Alexa Toolbar (Alexa toolbar) was like thunder. Alexa, the Internet's leading provider of free website traffic information, has been developing tools for web scraping and website traffic calculation.

"Have a good eye, talk about the results." Liu Si is also very interested in Alexa, which is an Internet company that he is all about.

"$1.8 million, 68% of the shares."

"Although this deal is not as cost-effective as eBay and ASK, it is not a loss overall." Liu Si gave an evaluation of investing in Alexa, and then stepped into the door of angel capital.