Chapter 009: Take Down Another Giant
Does the current Sheikh have the strength of a large company? No! But he has money, in addition to the funds given by his tycoon father, the Maktoum family in Dubai also holds hundreds of billions of assets, as long as he is willing to share, the backing is strong enough. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In addition, unlike historical development, he became the majority shareholder of Facebook, and because of his advanced vision and insight, the team respected and agreed with his opinions very much, and Facebook will definitely be a big data user in the future.
With these guarantees, Sheikh is more than willing to play big.
Take 10,000 steps back, even if you can't hold on to it for more than ten years, it will be a lot of income if you sell it halfway, and he won't sell it at a price like Steve Chen, at least four or five billion times before considering it.
But now he can only secretly say sorry to Steve, man! The price of YouTube cabbage must also be sold, and it will be lower than what he sold in his previous life.
For a fledgling video site, Sheikh's offer was $2 million to acquire 90%.
is different from the social field that already has a scale and is not familiar with himself, he is sure to do a good job on the video website, so he took advantage of the fact that the other party was just starting out and bought it in one go.
The remaining 10% is reserved for the founding team, and in order to prevent them from taking the money to disperse, after the two million acquisition, Sheikh also emphasized that he will invest an additional $50 million.
These conditions add up to a 90% combination of 2 million acquisitions.
Like those young people, Steve's pursuit of ideals is still in the first place, and he is thrilled to think that he can only get 2 million in one go, not to mention that he has no worries about food and clothing, and he can still get 50 million investment through his hard work.
The most important thing is that he still controls its destiny, after investing 50 million yuan, he believes that it is easy to rely on his own ability to double its value, and finally belong to a small number of shares of his own, which is a kind of value-added guarantee.
Xie He looked at the thinking other party and warmly invited: "What are my conditions?" I think you're a better fit for YouTube than if you work at Facebook. ”
This sentence made the Facebook team unhappy: "Hey! We're still listening! ”
Of course, they were joking, and Steve had only spent a short time at Facebook in history, and he knew this himself, and after a little thought, he decided to jump into the field of video sharing, which he loved more.
"I'll go back and talk to my partner." "It's a great opportunity, and with the help of the money, I have the guts to do it." ”
"Then I wish us a happy cooperation!"
Sheikh smiled and shook hands with him, the smile was of course full of sincerity, not to mention that the cabbage price was bought on YouTube, and the founding team was retained, which will ensure that the website starts faster.
Even if he doesn't care about anything now and lets the founding team play freely, after more than a year, it will definitely sell for a higher price than Google's original 1.65 billion.
If it is left to operate for a few more years, it will be easy to be worth tens of billions, this is the windfall profit of the prophet, and the pleasure of being a reborn person has been perfectly interpreted at this moment.
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This trip to the United States Sheikh felt completely worth the fare.
Not to mention becoming the largest shareholder of the social giant, it also swallowed the future video giant in one bite, and the most optimistic estimation is that these two companies have already mastered $200 billion in assets in their hands.
After ten years of stable development, the Sheikh can proudly claim that the assets of the world's richest man are nothing more than this in front of him, and the sum of the top three is barely enough for himself to see, and his brother is the real trench.
"We're here, Your Highness?" Amir's voice interrupted the Sheikh's fantasies.
"Notification to prepare for a meeting."
Sheikh didn't show smugness on his face, he had always been cautious in this regard, and he didn't like to talk about it and blow it out until things were out of his mind.
What's more, it's just getting started, and ten years is too long, because of the butterfly effect caused by itself, what will the future become? No one can predict.
He can only rely on his memory of the future to ensure the normal development of the industry. Now he's on his way to YouTube's office with a whole upgrade in mind.
As an online video website, the user experience must come first, and you must not freeze when watching videos, and you must spend money on servers and bandwidth to invest in the smoothest experience.
The second is that the interface can not be too simple, the company is now rich, immediately to hire a professional artist, designed into the future more than ten years after the simple style, he believes that the exquisite interface will definitely kill the current website.
"I think the website needs to set up a category of videos, such as daily, funny, music, film and television, etc., and then the staff will screen out the popular videos and push them to the main page."
Content classification has always been a place for Sheikh to criticize YouTube, until the previous life, it was mainly based on users subscribing to themselves, even if there is a classification of columns, its recommendation is not a video, but a video broadcaster.
On the contrary, he likes the experience of the domestic video station more, for example, click into the "funny" column, what wonderful videos there are today, they will be recommended, and users can choose to watch them clearly and clearly.
YouTube is basically as follows: Columns-Streamers-Search-Videos.
The domestic one is: column-video.
As a lazy person, he prefers to operate without brains, and he can see the video he wants with a few clicks, and if he thinks the quality is good, he will subscribe to the broadcaster.
Sheikh was talking, and Steve and his team were recording next to him, thinking that the boss had come over to take a formality, but he didn't expect to bring a lot of new concepts.
Just like the Facebook team marveled, this guy is a genius! The advantages that a person can have, being rich, handsome, status, and brains...... It's all for him!
It wasn't until the Sheikh stopped to drink water that Steve had time to interject: "I have to admit, sir, the concept you brought is too surprising, it's just that it's too difficult for us to do it all at the moment. ”
Sheikh smiled and said: "It is unrealistic to realize everything, I just tell you what I think, and how to implement it is up to you to grasp it." ”
"However, I suggest that the user experience must be in the first place, ensuring smooth viewing and ensuring the beauty of the interface as the company's first priority, no problem, right?"
Steve agreed: "We also plan to do the same, the interface sketch you drew is also a very distinctive design, and we will ask someone to restore it." ”
"It's an improvisation, I hope everyone enjoys it." Sheikh smiled cheekily, his sketches were classics from his previous life, and of course they were brought by this team.
"You're really impressive." Steve had to admit.
"You're welcome." Sheikh also said a word in Chinese, which surprised Steve, who is of Chinese descent, and this Arab prince is always unexpected, and the admiration in his heart is also stronger.
In this way, Sheikh went from a discerning boss at the beginning, still a layman, to a far-sighted and visionary genius, and became the idol of these later celebrities.
It doesn't feel too cool!