Microsoft agreed to invest $270 million at a market value of $18 billion to acquire 1.5 percent of the company's equity, and he was joined by Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, who invested $90 million to acquire 0.5 percent of the equity. Due to the pressure of the advertising cooperation agreement created by Xia Ruxuan, Microsoft has no room for concessions.

The agreement was then announced in mid-April, and the whole United States was in an uproar.

The Wall Street Journal called Fnienboob the new Internet baby, and said that the agreement was reminiscent of the dot-com bubble that ended in two thousand years; The Los Angeles Times called the $18 billion company's valuation ...... "appalling"; i, a completely ridiculous valuation has reversed the balance of strength. A well-known blogger wrote.

If the F8 platform put the company at the center of the high-tech industry a year ago, Microsoft's investment means the same thing for Wall Street, the highest valuation of a private high-tech company to date, and more importantly, a company that doesn't lose any money!

In the midst of the frantic uproar over valuations, the nation began to focus on the mysterious Asian man who had contributed to such an outcome as soon as he took office.

I have to say that Xia Ruxuan's abacus is very good, in this way, Microsoft is really tied to Ruan Fniendboob, and they must work the advertising agreement in order to prove that the latter is worth this price, otherwise it will be Microsoft that will lose money in the future. This is Xia Ruxuan's first battle since taking office, and it is also a battle that is famous in the United States, and he has advanced the company's market value to 18 billion yuan by at least a whole year. On the eve of the storm of the 324th Son of the Reborn Rank

In addition to the initial $360 million investment from Microsoft and Li Ka-shing, Li Ka-shing subsequently made an additional $60 million, and several venture capital firms raised about $30 million, pushing the total amount raised in this third round to a new level of $450 million. In this regard, Xia Ruxuan, the young executive officer at the press conference, shrugged his shoulders calmly, and his explanation was very simple...... "I just think it's time to raise funds." ”

Such a sentence made the whole United States go crazy all of a sudden. This is the birth of a legend, there is no doubt about it.

In the next month, Xia Ruxuan prepared to graduate from Stanford University and receive his master's degree in finance, and on the other hand, he began to prepare to find a suitable advertising format for fniendboob, which was the last step to make fniendboob go to glory. The answer to this question is how to turn what has been achieved into a sustainable and profitable business among the company's top management. Prior to that, Xia Ruxuan had also made a series of employee benefit decisions, such as building a beautiful cafeteria for employees in a building about a block from the main headquarters building, serving all the food for free, and moving employees from twelve main buildings that had been concentrated throughout Uptown Palo Alto to a new, larger office.

This made the public meeting, which has more than 600 employees, more cohesive, and after that, Xia Ruxuan began to set up some necessary meetings, which were not in the original loose system. The protagonist of the meeting was a small group of advertising-related executives in the company, but Xia Ruxuan also tried to feel it in his memory. He even had an in-depth discussion with Mougins, who was far away in the country...... Facts have proved that there is no shortage of geniuses in China, what is lacking is only a platform for geniuses to display. On the eve of the storm of the 324th Son of the Reborn Rank

Finally, it was Mougin's words that inspired Xia Ruxuan, and this is also a scheme that Mougins used on his friend's network many years ago, which is a new advertising concept of customized advertising.

The company's researchers now say that only 20 percent of the world's $600 billion advertising industry is directed to people who already know what they want, and the remaining 80 percent is to attract demand.

And Fniendboob has an advantage that all advertisers in the world don't have, and that is the information in each user's profile column, which in a sense they write is an advertisement...... Favorite music, movies, books, merchandise, etc.

This customized ad is based on this information to guide users to participate in certain activities that appear on their own pages, perhaps inviting users to comment on a video, or participating in a product trial, and placing appropriate ads according to the user's information, and placing different ads in different regions, which greatly increases the click-through rate of the advertisement.

According to the statistics for a period of time, the efficiency of advertising increased by at least 100% after changing the advertising model, and with the results of the whole of May, the final data came out that for the first time in the year, Fniendboob will officially turn a profit. The executives of the company who learned the news at the high-level meeting, at this time, the worship of the young executive has been superimposed to the point of no return, and Xia Ruxuan has officially become the public idol of the entire company. On the eve of the storm of the 324th Son of the Reborn Rank

In the remaining June, he began to focus on his 10th graduation thesis, and he gave himself a vacation during his free time in the company, and Bi Jing's busyness in the past few months has made him a little dizzy.

Early June.

International Financial Analysis Section.

There is no difference from the first time I met the old professor Charles two years ago, he is still so funny, probably the only change is that his face is getting older...... The change for Xia Ruxuan is the obscurity two years ago, and the current fame, but fortunately, the pursuit of celebrities by Americans is not so strong.

And a year ago, Xia Ruxuan's appointment as the CEO of fniendboob has caused considerable fluctuations, this time it is just icing on the cake, for these finance master's students, they may be more willing to observe and analyze the situation of fniendboob, rather than to pay attention to Xia Ruxuan, so the school environment does not make Xia Ruxuan unable to study. ”

Xia, you wait for me. When the old professor Charles announced the end of class, he lowered his head to sort out his things and saw a material, but he suddenly raised his head and thought of something to Xia Ruxuan.

Xia Ruxuan, who was sitting in place, nodded and didn't say anything, and the surrounding classmates didn't care too much about this, and left the lecture hall one after another, and in the end, only Xia Ruxuan and the old professor were left.

i, meow. Charles walked to Xia Ruxuan's side with some staggering, and then reached out and handed him a copy of the material. Xia Ruxuan took it and looked at it, it turned out to be his own academic paper some time ago. On the eve of the storm of the 324th Son of the Reborn Rank

Charles stared at Xia Ruxuan with a burning gaze...... "I'm curious how you came up with this, it's amazing, you know." At this time I had this kind of consideration, but I always thought that I was too sensitive, and your Father argued my idea, and even more ...... If I hadn't really known that you were my student, I would have thought you were a financial guru on which side. How exactly did you think there might be a subprime mortgage crisis? ”

Xia Ruxuan pondered for a moment...... "Because I don't live in the United States, I have some thoughts about the current credit situation in the United States, what you taught me in class, under the lax signature tolerance standard, excessive borrowing and subprime mortgages are a very rampant situation. And these are the characteristics of the mortgage bubble. Since 19**, the average yield of the Bank of America has been more than 130 percentage points higher than that of the 10-year Treasury bond yield of the United States, attracting many people to invest......

Listening to Xia Ruxuan's slow words, Charles listened carefully, and then nodded seriously......, "I will analyze your thoughts, and then use our common name to publish in professional financial academic journals." Well, nothing more...... Oh yes, congratulations on your appointment as the company's executive officer, but the Internet economy is an inflated hype economy, and I think you can consider getting out of it when the time is right...... 18 billion, if you continue to push it up like this, it will be the birth of a bubble. "On the eve of the 324th storm of the reborn level childe

I, I see, I'll think about it. Xia Ruxuan nodded and left. Life is no longer the same for him as it was two years ago, when he would only do things according to his prescient vision, and now he has become a Master of Financial Engineering from Stanford in two years of hard work, but because of this, he thinks more and more. The idea of the subprime mortgage crisis is completely based on the existing information, but as for the old professor's fniendboob bubbles, he thinks that it is not so serious, not to mention that a company that is not listed will not be affected too much.

At night, Xia Ruxuan, who returned to the apartment, turned on the TV to watch the news, but was suddenly attracted by the headline of a terrorist attack on the bombing, and the announcer on the TV said expressionlessly...... "At 4:07 this afternoon, there was an explosion at New York's Kennedy International Airport, and the vehicle that exploded was the car of Mr. Alan Morello, the chairman of the Morello Group, and there were only Mr. Alan Morello and the driver in the car. At present, the New York police have been involved in this terrorist attack......"

At this moment, Xia Ruxuan's mind was blank, and he almost couldn't believe this fact...... Alan Moreja...... That somewhat cunning old guy is dead?!

That's ridiculous, isn't it? He's really at the airport like that...... Killed by a terrorist attack?!

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Xia Ruxuan was a little in a trance, I don't know how long it has been, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang, he took it out and looked at it to see that it was an unfamiliar number, Xia Ruxuan took it a little distracted, and heard the man over there ...... in a somewhat low and strange Chinese tone, "Xia?" ””

Are you ......" Xia Ruxuan was stunned, obviously not hearing who it was. ”

I am, Alan.

Alan Morello. The man's voice repeated in a low voice. (To be continued)

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