Chapter 323 Appointed as CEO
Zuckerberg had a few flattered greetings, and then left the venue with Xia Ruxuan. 【】
In fact, Zuckerberg's next trip was just to pick up his girlfriend to watch a movie.
Two days later, when the media reported on the summit, it was mentioned that after Xia Ruxuan and Zuckerberg left, the guys from MySpace rushed to Rupert Murdoch's side, which is somewhat intriguing. A new chapter in social networking has been opened by FriendBook.
Xia Ruxuan sat in the company's headquarters building, looking out the window a little tiredly. The building has now become a focal point in Silicon Valley, and in the past year, it has been throwing out countless blockbuster news that has attracted the attention of every investor.
But the growth in the number of users also brought another serious business problem to Xia Ruxuan, because all the company's advertisements were aimed at Americans, which meant that more than half of the users on the website could not generate any benefit for the company.
He took a document he had at hand, which was an advertising agreement with Microsoft a year ago in the United States, which indicated that all of the company's advertising in the United States was handled by Microsoft. Now that Xia needs a partner to help the site sell online ads to the world, Microsoft has made it clear that it is willing to be a partner and expand the domestic agreement to the world.
But the problem now is that Xia Ruxuan hopes that these agreements must be adjusted, and the company at this time is no longer the insignificant existence it was a year ago, and the company's advertising revenue in 2006 was as high as 70 million US dollars, but even so, in the case of continuous infrastructure expansion, spending tens of millions of dollars to buy new servers, the 50 million US dollars received from the Morello family last year are still burning as if they are burning. Therefore, it is more important to establish an independent revenue channel, after all, it is unreliable to rely entirely on Microsoft to share prey with lions. Reborn Rank Son 323 Chapter 323 served as an executive officer
Zuckerberg's board of directors suggested that it was time to raise more money at a time when the stock market was at an unprecedented high since the dot-com bubble burst, investor confidence was high, and the convening of the conference and the launch of the platform also gave the site an unprecedented opportunity to capitalize on investor enthusiasm.
After thinking for a long time, Xia Ruxuan asked his assistant to call the company's financial officer Gideong's Yu. This was not long ago, Xia Ruxuan personally came forward from YouTube and asked him to come over to help. Google wanted to buy YouTube at a price of $1.6 billion in the middle of last year, but Xia Ruxuan did not sell the question at this time YouTube is in a good state of development, and it is already self-sufficient, after all, the marketing methods of video websites are much more convenient, and last year it has provided tens of millions of dollars of profits for Xia Ruxuan, and this number will increase geometrically in the next few years.
And this Gideon showed his strong side in the negotiations with Google, and was coincidentally poached by Xia Ruxuan for friendbook. After a little conversation, Qiao Xia Ruxuan has a macro understanding of the whole situation, Yu believes that the market value of Friendbook is about $8 billion today, you must know that this is a huge leap, sixteen months ago, the company's second round of financing raised 50 million US dollars, at that time the valuation was one billion US dollars. Reborn Rank Son 323 Chapter 323 served as an executive officer
Less is just friendbook that cannot be judged by common sense. "Yu opened calmly." That was what I expected a while ago, but recently I got the news that several venture capital and private equity companies are willing to bid $12 billion to buy a large portion of the company, and to be honest, I was dumbfounded when I got the news, but it's just a guideline, and I think the company is worth 80 billion or so much, but I might as well try to make a deal on a valuation of $15 billion to $8 billion. ”
So what are some of the companies that are interested in our international advertising agreements right now? ”
Google and Microsoft are the two biggest ones, and I don't think the rest of the companies can be considered. ”
Contact Microsoft less. After thinking for a long time, Xia Ruxuan spoke, and suddenly said, "Where's Mark?" ”
Little Zuckerberg has been trying to debug a design service called Lighthouse these days. ”
I know less. Xia Ruxuan nodded and signaled that Yu could go out to work.
Faced with the 22-year-old CEO, Gideon's Yu showed enough admiration.
Because he is doing a lot of things that an executive officer should do more often, Zuckerberg, who is busy with technology all day, has a really easy job as an executive officer.
Soon, Steve's Ballmer, the executive officer of Microsoft, also came to San Francisco to attend a meeting, and arranged a meeting with Xia Ruxuan by the way. Reborn Rank Son 323 Chapter 323 served as an executive officer
Ballmer brought with him a vast team of personal bodyguards who were always with him, each wearing a crisp black suit, sunglasses, headsets and microphones pinned to their ears, and their appearance at the company's headquarters as if they were inspecting his own back garden made Xia Ruxuan a little disgusted.
Mr. Ballmer Jr. In the conference room, everyone was silent, and Xia Ruxuan opened sharply. I'm sorry I have bad news for you" Zuckerberg and Gideon were listening quietly, while Microsoft's software architect was answering the meeting on a hands-free phone.
Ballmer raised his eyebrows slightly, as the executive officer of Microsoft, he was unusually arrogant, "Don't talk about it, let me hear what bad news you can bring us." ”
Friendbook wants to change our agreement in the U.S., and in fact, we'll start promoting our ads whether you agree to it or not. If you really want this global advertising deal...... I think you should consider my suggestion, shouldn't you? When he said these words, Xia Ruxuan had a bright smile on his face.
Everyone in the room was silent as if under a curse, after all, Ballmer's large body and booming voice made him a symbol of strength in the eyes of countless people, and he was also the executive of the world's most powerful high-tech company to date. Xia Ruxuan's strength made Zuckerberg feel a little arrogant, and secretly extended a thumbs up to Xia Ruxuan. Reborn Rank Son 323 Chapter 323 served as an executive officer
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