Chapter 69 Phoenix Capital and ICQ

Angel capital invested in eBay, ASK and Alexa for only 2 or 3 million to get more than 50% of the shares, which is a very profitable thing from the perspective of Liu Si, a traverser. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's true that it's very profitable, but there really aren't many such opportunities. For example, Amazon, which was founded in July last year, Liu Si may not get 5% of the shares invested in Amazon with $50 million, let alone whether Jeff Bezos needs angel capital.

Jeff Bezos is not simple, he is very good, and in just three years after graduating from college, he became the vice president of a trust management company, with about $250 billion in funds under management. In 1990, he co-founded a hedging fund management company with the help of his connections as president of the trust company.

Liu Si has read Jeff Bezos's Baidu Encyclopedia, and there is a rough idea of his resume on Goldfinger, just from this skin, it can be seen that Jeff Bezos is not short of rich people who know him, and I think that in history, Amazon was able to adopt a large-scale expansion strategy in the early stage, and exchanged huge losses for business scale.

Seeing that the investment was hopeless, Liu Si was unwilling to give up the big cake of e-commerce, so he acquired Pyralabs and established his own e-commerce website.

Liu Sidong, who entered angel capital, looked west, and on the whole, most of the talents recruited by Jeff were the same age as him, the maximum was not more than 35 years old, and the overall feeling of the company was stable and vibrant, and Liu Si was very happy about this.

"Jeff, go and show me the company's employee information." He sat down in the boss's chair where Jeff was sitting just now, moved his spine comfortably, and commanded Jeff who was standing aside.

"Yes, boss."

After a while, Jeff took the information of all the employees of Angel Capital and hugged it, about half a foot thick, a stack of A4 paper printed and accompanied by photos.

After reading it, I took Daphne Taylor's information from it and read it seriously. Daphne Taylor is the most beautiful Western woman Liu Si has seen in Angel Capital and since Rebirth. Her skin is very smooth, very close to brown, she is dressed in work clothes, her long white legs under the miniskirt are very attractive, and her body curves are very good, Liu Si is very interested in it.

There's no one who doesn't like the good looks of the people around them, and if Daphne Taylor's abilities are good, Liu Dashao is ready to appoint her as the CEO of the newly formed Phoenix Investment Company.

Judging from the information, he once served as the vice president of a small fund management company on Wall Street, and only after the collapse of the fund management company did he apply for the marketing specialist of IDG Capital. After Jeff's introduction, I realized that perhaps because she was too beautiful to attract the attention of executives, Daphne Taylor, who was unwilling to sell her body, was not promoted, and received a message from Jeff when Angel Capital was recruiting employees, so she left IDG Capital and stepped into Angel Capital.

"Boss, Daphne Taylor is very capable and important to our angel capital!"

Looking at Jeff, who was staring at him very seriously, Liu Si was inexplicable, "Jeff, is Daphne Taylor important to Angel Capital?" ”

"Yes."

"Do you think Daphne Taylor is it okay to be the president of Angel Capital?" Liu Si looked at Jeff with interest, waiting for his answer.

"Uh..." Jeff was speechless for a while, his expression was very entangled, and it took about a minute before he seemed to have made up his mind and slowly spoke: "Boss... If you... Love it...... Daphne Taylor, please don't use force! ”

After listening to Ma Haiping's hesitant translation, Liu Si was stunned on the spot, "Damn, what are you thinking about you bastard, Jeff?" I looked at Daphne Taylor to see if she was qualified to be the CEO of my new venture capital firm. ”

As soon as Jeff heard the boss's words, he was immediately stunned, is this considered self-inflicted cleverness?

Regardless of what Jeff thinks, after Liu Si calmly explained why he paid attention to Daphne Taylor, he looked back and thought about Jeff's unspoken rule Daphne Taylor's proposal was good, very good.

"Boss, Daphne Taylor is very qualified to be the CEO of a venture capital firm, and she is much more capable than me." Jeff, who turned around, immediately praised Daphne Taylor in front of Liu Si, and even did not hesitate to belittle himself.

"Jeff, although I hate to say it, in fact, you are really not very capable." The office was quiet for a moment, and before everyone could wake up, Master Liu spoke again, "Jeff, you go and call Daphne Taylor in." ”

β€œok,boss。”

In the United States, Liu Sidu hired a Caucasian as president, and even before Li Haiping and Madrid, they were only responsible for the project development of e-commerce websites and the head of game development of game companies, and the newly established Shopping E-commerce Co., Ltd. and Hive Games will hire Yankees as CEOs after the establishment of the company.

To be honest, Liu Si himself also wants to use his own people, but the existence of racial discrimination in the United States makes him have to do so. Of course, no matter which Chinese or what kind of skin color the company hires, its essence still belongs to Liu Si, is this different from hiring Americans as CEOs and other company positions?

There is definitely a difference. For example, are some things really reported to the public as they are, and what has gone through the cause and effect? No, the company established by Liu Si in the United States cannot hide from powerful individuals, organizations and governments, but as long as it can hide from ordinary people.

After waiting for about half an hour, Jeff led Daphne Taylor into the president's office of Angel Capital. Although she had seen Daphne Taylor's photos, she still gave Liu Si a stunning feeling when she walked in.

"Boss, this is Daphne Taylor." Jeff introduced Daphne Taylor to Liu Si, turned his head and introduced Daphne Taylor: "Daphne, this is our boss, Liu Si. ”

"Hello boss." Daphne listened to Jeff's introduction, did not be cowardly, and greeted Liu Si generously.

"Miss Taylor, please be seated." After Daphne sat down, he said, "Miss Taylor, President Jeff has very solemnly recommended you to me, thinking that your abilities are above him, so I think you are qualified for the position of President of Angel Capital. I wonder what Miss Taylor thinks about the role of President of Angel Capital? ”

"Boss, President Jeff is very happy to recommend me in front of the boss, but President Jeff is fully capable of the position of President of Angel Capital, and I will not be as good as President Jeff." Daphne was startled at first, and after a while adjusted her mentality and refused.

"Just kidding, Jeff is a veteran, how could I, as the boss, do that kind of ungrateful thing." Liu Si tapped his finger on the table, "I'm going to set up a new venture capital company and want to hire a president, and Jeff recommended Miss Taylor to me." ”

"Really? If that's the case, I'm willing to agree to your boss with your offer. Daphne happily agreed without waiting for Liu Si to finish speaking.

"Hey...... Miss Taylor isn't afraid I'll cheat you? ”

"I believe Jeff."

"Alright! Miss Taylor, you are now the President of Phoenix Capital. He stood up and went to Xu Gang's side and took a leather bag, took out a stack of Phoenix Capital Company's offshore company registration materials and certificates and handed it to Daphne, and said, "These are the information of Phoenix Capital Company, take a look." ”

There wasn't much information about Phoenix Capital, so Daphne had read it in a quarter of an hour, "Boss, what am I going to do?" ”

"I hope that the registration of Phoenix Capital in the United States and other matters will be completed as soon as possible, and at the same time, after the completion of the registration, you will immediately invest in the shopping project and the hive project, and accordingly register a wholly foreign-owned joint-stock company in the United States. Like Angel Capital, Phoenix Capital focuses primarily on online technology companies. ”

"Okay, boss."

Daphne came out of the office and looked at Jeff, Liu Si asked, "It's okay to let you go to Israel now, right?" ”

"No problem, the angel capital of personnel, internal systems, law firms, and accounting firms has been improved!"

As soon as he heard Jeff's answer be crisp, he was relieved, "Okay." I'm going to talk about Mirabiis now, and you should explain the matter of Angel Capital as soon as possible and go to Israel to take Mirabilis. Of course, I don't necessarily want you to buy Mirabiis as a wholly owned company, I just need you to do your best to acquire as many shares as possible in Mirabilis. By the way, there is only $10 million to invest in Mirabiis in Israel this time, and if there is anything that can't be done, you can call Li Haiping or Madrid. ”

β€œyes,sir。”

Mirabiis is an Internet company founded in July, founded by three Israelis, Wisger, Wadi and Goldfinger. Although the company was only established this year, its future prospects are very bright. Mirabiis has developed a software that enables people to communicate quickly and directly on the Internet, called instant messaging software. They named the new software ICQ, which means "iseekyou". ICQ supports functions such as chatting, sending messages, and delivering files on the Inter. Jeff, do you understand the significance of this software? Once this software is launched, it is believed that it will soon be able to have a large number of users around the world with unprecedented creativity, and can occupy more than 80% of the global market share. This time I want you to take down Mirabilis, ICQ is still only in development, so this is an advantage that we should grasp! Jeff, are you confident that you will take down the Mirabili Company? Liu Si talked about the important points and suddenly asked.

"Boss, I'm confident."

"I hope you don't disappoint me. If you exceed your mission, I'll reward you; If you buy Mirabiis for less than $10 million, I'll give you $1 million. "The way of the royal majesty cannot lack rewards, he knows this way.

"I'm going to try to buy Mirabilis."

"You can't force it, if you can't buy Mirabilis, you have to get as many shares as possible." Because he didn't know the real family background of Weisge, Wadi and Goldfinger, Liu Si did not force a wholly-owned acquisition, "The main task of going to Israel this time is to invest in Mirabilis, and in addition to that, you have another task, that is, to acquire Vocaltec." ”

"Boss, what is there to buy from vocaltec?" Jeff knew that the boss bought Mirabiis because the company wanted to develop ICQ, so what was the reason for the acquisition of Vocaltec? He was very curious.

"vocaltec is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer based in Israel. The company was founded in 1989 by Aloncohen and Liorharamaty, who developed and held patents related to the first VoIP and voice transmitters. The company negotiates and determines the purchase price, and then you call me to let me know. When it comes to vocaltec, Liu Si is not sure, so he didn't elaborate, giving Jeff enough freedom.

VOCALTEC Liu Si attaches great importance to three points, one is that the company is a telecommunications company has a certain authority in VoIP and voice transmitters, think about the later generations of Skype, it is not surprising that VOCALTEC is so enthusiastic; The second is that in February last year, vocaltec launched the "iphone1. 0", the world's first Inter voice transmission software was born, and the importance of the "iPhone" brand is self-evident.

Half of the time for the U.S. visa to be free for one month has passed, and it is very demanding to return to China.

It took Liu Si a week to write down or draw the relevant information about blogger and e-commerce.

Of course, the relevant web drawings and functional applications of the blogger and shopping projects were written down by Liu Sheng, and Li Haiping and Madrid were responsible for translating them into English.

As for the game project, Liu Si attaches great importance to e-sports games, such as CS, League of Legends, and Crossfire, and the first task of the game studio is to develop CS, as for other projects, Liu Si thought about it, Red Alert, StarCraft, Warcraft, Resident Evil and other games have been released or are in development.

After almost doing all this, I spent a day checking out the PalmFun OS and Microsoft stores to check their sales and reviews. Microsoft has not launched any new products, and the palm fun operating system is naturally a sales explosion of Microsoft, and a little inquired about the current market value of Microsoft, which seems to have shrunk by 1/4, only more than 30 billion US dollars, you must know that in history, in July 96, Microsoft's market value was close to 80 billion.

I was very happy to leave the Microsoft Store and take Liu's father and Xu Gangdao Chinatown to buy some local specialties, because he was going to fly back to Los Angeles tomorrow.