"Boss, fortunately, Pierre Omidia agreed with angel capital to invest in eBay, and the investment of 7 million angel capital can account for 70% of the shares. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info "Jeff Adrian went downstairs and went straight to the car parked on the side of the road in the office building, and couldn't wait to ask Liu Si for credit.

"Well, that's pretty good. Later, set aside 100,000 yuan on the company's account as your own reward! "$7 million to get 70% of eBay shares, Jeff can be regarded as a very successful completion of the task, even if the reward is not much even if it is 1 million, but no one's money is hung by the wind.

Jeff didn't expect to get as much as $1 million, $100,000 was also very good, he was still on his first day on the job, "Boss, Pierre won't register the company until tomorrow, and we will have to wait at least until tomorrow to be able to go elsewhere." ”

"One day is still no problem, but at present, you Jeff Adrian, as the president of Angel Capital, hopes to improve the internal personnel and systems of Angel Capital as soon as possible, and think about whether the friends and talents you have known before can recruit Angel Capital, all in all, I hope you will improve the staffing and internal system of Angel Capital as soon as possible, so that Angel Capital can operate perfectly at the fastest speed." Liu thought about it and instructed Jeff.

"Yes, boss. In the past two days, I will call some of my former close colleagues and friends and ask them about their wishes. Jeff still has a certain understanding of his current boss's understanding, that is, generosity, at least in the past, he did not have an annual salary of $1 million. The high salary made him confident that he would start a company as soon as possible.

"It's not enough for you to just have friends and colleagues, you also have to recruit in some universities and talent markets, and you can even spend money to ask headhunters to help recruit talents." Liu Si asked Jeff to recruit his friends and colleagues just to make angel capital run as soon as possible, so that Jeff could play freely and unhindered as president. However, it will not let all the staff of Angel Capital be Jeff's people, which does not meet the criteria of restricting balance, so Angel Capital must recruit non-Jeff personnel.

"Yes, boss."

Liu Si glanced at Jeff, "As long as you work hard and work hard, the results will show me that as a boss, you will not be stingy with rewards." ”

"I will work hard and be worthy of my boss's $1 million annual salary." Jeff confidently declared it loudly.

"Jeff, now I want to explain three things to you, these three things are very important and I hope you should keep in mind." The eyes were shining, and the tone was very serious, "First of all, if Pierre signs a contract with him after registering the company tomorrow, you must pay attention to the content of the agreement, and the most important thing is that when you sign the contract tomorrow, you must ask Pierre to promise to hire Meg Whitman as the president of eBay, and only she can truly lead Ebay to glory." The second thing is that you have to find a way to put up the shelf of angel capital as soon as possible, and I will only give you 1 month. The third thing is that you have to go to Israel in a month, and within this month you have to set up the company shelf of angel capital, and the second is to prepare for going to Israel, such as the arrangements for angel investment after you leave, passports to Israel, family arrangements, etc. ”

The last two things Jeff can understand and understand, but the first thing is a little unintelligible, "Boss, who is this Meg Whitman?" Why does she have to be the president of eBay? ”

sighed, in fact, Liu Si really wanted to pull a woman like Meg Whitman down from his company, but it was a little impossible, "Meg Whitman is a very powerful woman. She has worked for Procter & Gamble, Bain & Company, Disney, and as president of Striderite, a shoe company, with remarkable results. She is now the President and CEO of FTD, the world's largest flower products company. ”

"Shhh Pierre is a character, and I think he will approve of our proposal. ”

"It's good to understand."

"By the way, boss, what are you asking me to do in Israel?" Jeff really can't think of anything worth paying attention to in that part of Israel, and the United States is ten thousand times better than that pimple.

"I let you go, and there is a reason to go. Although there are a lot of talents in the United States and a large number of companies worthy of investment, angel capital does not have so much money, so the projects that we will focus on in the future of angel investment are mainly network technology. There are many network technology companies in the United States, such as Yahoo, Amazon, HP, Microsoft, Dell and other network technology companies, but unfortunately these companies are not qualified for investment by our angel capital. There are a lot of talents in the United States, but it is also possible for one or two talents to appear in other countries. The company that asked you to invest in Israel this time is called Mirabilis, this company is amazing, but you want to know the details and I'll tell you in a month. At present, the mirabili company is still unknown, but it will be a blockbuster, and even as long as the company's main business is discussed, insiders can understand its value, in order to keep it secret, Liu Si had to not tell Jeff too much information about the mirabilis company.

There may not be many people who know about Mirabis, but when it comes to the ICQ launched by Mirabis, there are more than one in the previous life, and no one knows. ICQ is the world's first instant messaging software, which means "I'm looking for you" - "IiseYou", this software was launched, the immediate global response, with unprecedented creativity soon had a large number of users in the world, even in Asia, where the Internet was not very developed at that time, the number of market users accounted for 70%, and 80% in China.

For the importance of instant messaging software, Liu Si, a person from later generations, knows that the user stickiness of instant messaging software is very large, and the second is that instant messaging software that controls a huge number of users can control huge traffic resources. The three major elements of the Internet are users, traffic, and content, among which users are the most important, because with users, user value will be generated, that is, business value.

"Yes, boss." Jeff was naturally unhappy that his curiosity was not satisfied.

Liu Si saw it in his eyes, but the matter of Mirabili Company was very important, he ignored Jeff, and said to Madrid, who was driving seriously, "The phone number left for Robin Li yesterday is your mobile phone number, you should pay attention to it today and tomorrow, if Robin Li replies to me, it should be today and tomorrow." ”

"Don't worry! Boss. ”

"Let's find a hotel to stay in San Jose for one night today, and we'll talk about it tomorrow!" Liu thought about it and preached to Madrid.

There is no shortage of hotels in San Jose, after all, as the third largest city in California. It took less than ten minutes for everyone to check into a good hotel, and after putting down their luggage, Li Haiping and Madrid pulled Jeff and his party out of the hotel before returning in the early morning.

The West is different from China, there is no industrial and commercial bureau to register a company, and the company registration does not need any cumbersome steps such as the place of registration, but only needs to take the identity certificate to the government for the record, and then to the court to handle the company seal and other steps, then it is basically on the line.

It's very simple to say, but it's different for ebay, Pierre finally gave a reply that it took two days to register the company, but fortunately, the agreement was signed in advance, and angel investment was already included in the ranks of shareholders at the time of registration, and the nature of ebay company also became wholly foreign-owned because angel investment accounted for 70% of the shares.

After two days of consideration, Robin Li finally called to confirm that he had joined Liu Si's company, but since the patent of the hyperchain analysis technology had not yet been completed, he naturally completed the experimental data collection and registered the hyperchain analysis technology as the most important purpose at the moment. The task assigned to Robin Li by Liu Si was to find a location and people in New York to conduct experiments and collect data.

Because of Robin Li's joining, the news that eBay has not gone well in the past two days also made him extremely happy. At present, the most important elements of the Internet are traffic, users, and content, but in the future, it is users, content, and entrances. The search engine is that important entrance, and hyperlink analysis technology and Robin Li are crucial to Baidu.

In this era of internet pioneering, content is king. The fact that Internet companies such as Yahoo and Amazon have been able to gain users and success is the best proof that content is king, just like in later generations, content is king has become a thing of the past.

After 3 days in San Jose, the eBay affair has finally come to an end. As for Meg Whitman, after Pierre learned her information, he also strongly agreed with Jeff's proposal, and the talent recommended to him by Angel Capital also made him misunderstand the power of Angel Capital and the role of Angel Capital on eBay.

Historically, Meg Whitman rejected Pierre's invitation because of eBay's fame, and it was Benier, a professional headhunter, who agreed and brought eBay to its current glory. But I don't know how Pierre got Meg Whitman to agree to join eBay?

Askjeeves was founded in June 1996. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale is also located in the Silicon Valley area, and Liu Siren drove directly to San Jose as soon as he left San Jose.

The company was founded in June, and Jeff is very confident that he will win it, and of course Liu Si is also confident. The Internet boom in the world has not yet erupted, and the Internet boom broke out after the successful listing of Yahoo and the Asian financial crisis, and at that time, Western capital, which had made huge profits in the Asian storm and the Russian financial crisis, began to start the Internet boom. In Liu Si's view, the reason for the Internet boom is that Western capital has too much money to use at this time (the financial crisis of '94 made the US economy still not improve in the late 90s), of course, the prospect of network technology companies is indeed worth investing in.

Askjeeves honestly doesn't have a good reputation, especially for the country. After all, under the bright moon of Google, Bing, Baidu and other big search engine companies, the star of askjeeves is naturally not noticeable.

But according to Goldfinger, Askjeeves was a glorious time in the 90s, with only $10 million in sales and $80 million in debt, and in December 1999, its stock market price was $5 billion.

When Jeff approached Askjeeves to explain his intentions, the whole company was stupid, knowing that the company has only been created for more than a month, flagship? Site. ask。 Corn has just been launched, and there are only nearly 1,000 users, and nearly 100 of the nearly 1,000 users are relatives and friends of the company's internal staff.

Angel Capital invested $3 million and got 63% of the shares of Askjeeves, and the input-output ratio of eBay, angel capital's investment in Askjeeves is undoubtedly a loss, after all, the future value of eBay is at least 30 billion, and the future value of Askjeeves is only 3 billion at most.

Askjeeves has already registered the company, and the natural investment contract is much faster than eBay, and it only took 2 hours for the $3 million investment to be negotiated.

Regarding the different input-output ratios of angel capital in Askjeeves and eBay, Liu Si naturally does not think that every time it can achieve a high return on investment as investing in eBay.

Liu Si, who has a very positive mentality, is currently focusing on the next two companies, Craigslist and Pyralabs, both of which are not easy even in the future, and both companies are located in San Francisco.

Craigslist is a large free classified ads website on the web. There are no pictures on the site, only dense text, marked with all kinds of life information, which is a huge combination of online classified ads and BBS. Craigslist may seem boring, but it's one of Americans' favorite websites. According to data released by M:Metrics, a U.S. market research company in the 10s of the 21st century, Craigslist, a classified information website, is the longest-time website for mobile phone users in the United States.

The most important thing is that according to Alexa, which has the eighth highest traffic in the United States and 51st in the world, the website has an annual revenue of about $300 million, or about $5 billion if it is valued.

For investing in Craigslist, Liu Si is both sure and very apprehensive. The future success of the site is unsurprisingly confirmed, and the company has been slow to promote due to lack of investment and funds, and it has taken nearly 4 years to promote the site in 9 cities in its history. From this point of view, it is possible for angel capital to invest in Craigslist, but Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has a strong personality and is likely to reject Angel Capital's investment.

Liu thought, who rubbed his head, went to pyralabs, and his mood naturally improved. Most people may have never heard of Pyralabs, but many people will be familiar with the blogger it launched, and although the blog has a short lifespan, being eliminated by Twitter in only 6 or 7 years, it is undeniable that it was booming before 06.

While Liu's thoughts were wandering, the car also drove at high speed towards San Francisco.