In the 06 and 07 years of the later generations, when Zhou Hongyi had just made the 360 security guard and the supporting anti-virus software, the security guard was just a gadget that could scan the local rogue software, far from reaching the height of "cloud security" a few years later.

The concept of "cloud security" may sound lofty, but it only takes a simple example to make the layman understand the difference between it and traditional cybersecurity tools.

For example, when people use mobile phones in later generations, they often receive calls from unfamiliar numbers, if they have installed a mobile phone assistant or mobile phone security guard locally, then when they encounter harassing calls, a warning message will be displayed: the caller number is marked as a harassing call by XXX people, and is marked as a scam call by XXX people......

Similarly, when you receive an email from an unfamiliar address in your mailbox, some emails from a specific source will be thrown directly into the spam area by default. Or when users use a secure browser to surf the Internet, they will directly see that some search results pages are marked as "dangerous websites".

Which numbers are scams, which email addresses are spammers, and which websites search results are dangerous websites. This kind of data cannot be collected by relying on the passive defense of traditional security, and it is necessary to rely on the initiative of cloud security to restore Skynet.

Although the technical prospect of this qiē was not clear at this point in time in August 2004, since Gu Mojie was interested in doing this in the future, he naturally thought about it repeatedly.

At this moment, hearing that Lali Page proposed that he had to join forces with himself in order to get the "credit rating number behind cloud security", Gu Mojie thought about it for a long time, and his heart suddenly became clear, knowing why Page was so urgent.

If Google's ADSENSE wants to optimize its own algorithm and establish its own credibility, it is not enough to rely on a third-party cloud security agency to help Google eliminate some gray pigeon sources and botnets.

Google would like to know for itself which ADSENSE partner websites often like to cheat, and often like to collude with hackers to "kill the good and risk the merit" to cheat advertising fees.

To put it in layman's terms, if Google does not participate in this matter, then the final effect can only be: one of Google's cooperative websites has made a "good and meritorious" deal. Come to Google in exchange for pay. Then Gu Mojie helped Google expose the impostor, and deducted the number of the heads of the good people, so that the other party worked in vain.

But if Google takes a stake, it has a direct grasp of the credit rating behind cloud security. This simplifies the matter: Google can know who regularly engages in this kind of collusion with hackers on all websites in the world, and who does not. And the guy who does it often will be blacklisted by Google because of this, and Google will take the initiative to lower the credit rating. Google can also develop new policies in the future. Directly reduce the proportion of advertising fees charged by the entire website on the blacklist.

THE CREDIBILITY OF ADSENSE IS GOOGLE'S CORE COMPETITIVENESS IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, AND ANY MEANS THAT CAN IMPROVE THIS CREDIBILITY, LALI PAGE WILL SPEND A LOT OF MONEY AND TAKE IT INTO HIS OWN HANDS.

That's why Gu Mojie dared to directly open his mouth and let Lali Page make an offer.

It's hard to open at this price. What's more, today is only a preliminary negotiation of intentions, and Lalipage's staff team has not yet calculated.

Therefore, after considering it, Page only gave a general statement:

"We at Google are very sincere. If you don't accept our stake and share, we'll have to throw money at it again and start a new piece of software with the same functionality as yours -- so. Hopefully, your psychological price point won't be more than twice as high as we started from scratch. In that case, it can all be discussed. ”

Gu Mojie understood the psychological price of Page at a glance. He calculated a little and sighed:

"In that case, I don't think we have much money. I will not accept your direct capital injection into my company. Who made me confident in the future? The security business will only be a small part of my business in the future. I don't want to dilute my stake in the main business because of this cooperation in this corner area - Mr. Page, do you understand? ”

Page said, "Of course I do. It seems that you are ready to accept the second option: set up a new company, in which you and I will each take shares, and each of them will share the management of the new company? ”

"Agreed in principle. I'd like to go back and think about the details, okay? ”

"Of course, how can this kind of negotiation be done overnight."

Page picked up the wine glass and touched it with Gu Mojie. Brin and Feliro also came up. The atmosphere is harmonious.

Gu Mojie touched the bottom slightly again, probing Page's tone, Page was also quite refreshing, and hinted at an approximate price for Gu Mojie:

In order to do cloud security, Google is willing to invest an additional $20 million over two years. As for the proportion of this investment in the future joint venture

……

Return to the hotel overnight. Gu Mojie, who had drunk a little too much, fell asleep. The next day, they gathered their team of lawyers to start accounting.

I have to say that Page's words gave Gu Mojie a lot of inspiration.

Originally, he was indiscriminately and absolutely excluded from equity financing. Because he is a reborn, he knows that his company will grow a hundredfold and a thousand times in the future, and anyone who comes to take a ride on his own will take advantage of himself.

Others need to accept venture capital, and that's because their business is really risky, and they need to share the risk.

Gu Mojie is sure to win, there is no risk of a dime, why accept venture capital?

After a drink with Lali Page, Gu Mojie came up with a new idea: he could set up at least two companies, or even multiple companies, package some of these not the best quality businesses together, and accept other people's investment and shares separately in exchange for cash flow. As for how to use the cash flow after it arrives, whether it should be fed back to your core business, that is another matter.

And this matter is very much in the interests of Gu Mojie, and it is also easy to be accepted by collaborators.

Because, Gu Mojie will have a lot of software in the future, which can be completed by relying on the plug-in of "Hatsune Niang", such as the "Audio Master", "Graphics Master" and even the voice simultaneous translation of Hatsune Niang's own input method.

If Gu Mojie has more than two companies, he will be able to get these "no-capital transactions" that rely on external plug-ins to get out of his own 100% wholly-owned company, and then discount them to the joint venture company, and others will naturally not be able to hitch a ride on these software.

As for why it is easier for collaborators to accept this model, it is because collaborators don't know that Gu Mojie has a plug-in in his hands - if one day, Gu Mojie uses the name of another wholly-owned company to make an "audio master", and then sells it to "Hatsune Network Technology" at a discount in the form of technology shares. The shareholders and employees of Hatsune Network Technology will only think that "this is the boss who spent a lot of money to develop it in other companies", and will never suspect that "the boss made a new software out of thin air".

At that time, assuming that the market value of "Hatsune Network Technology" is 500 million, Gu Mojie has 96% on hand, his cousin and cousin each have 1%, and Zou Sheng and his team have a total of 2%. And if another company wholly owned by Gu Mojie sells the "audio master" worth 500 million yuan to "Hatsune Network Technology" in the form of technology shares, Gu Mojie's actual stake in "Hatsune Network Technology" will not rise from 96% to 98%.

……

After figuring it out, Gu Mojie found an opportunity to tell Fei Liluo about this idea, and Fei Liluo also highly agreed.

"You've figured it out, it's long overdue."

"Should this have been done a long time ago? Why? ”

Hearing Fei Liluo's approval, Gu Mojie was stunned for a moment, and he was a little weak. The heart said that he was too close to her recently, and the secrecy was not thorough enough, so that the other party knew that he had the plug-in of "Hatsune Niang"?

Feliro's tone didn't hear the slightest abnormality, and she just elaborated on herself:

"I also came to the United States for more than 20 days, and I thought about it with my ears and eyes. It's normal for an Internet person to open a few companies. Especially in the field where you need to burn money and spend money on advertising, many Silicon Valley companies are burning money for companies that have received venture capital to burn, and the benefits and traffic earned after burning money are shared by a small founder-owned company that is in the shadows. As for the means, it is nothing more than some internal related party transaction arbitrage or something. I was afraid that you were too upright to stand this kind of deception. If you're willing to do that, that's for the best. ”

After listening to Fei Liluo's explanation, Gu Mojie relieved himself: it turned out that the other party did not know his plug-in secret, but misunderstood that he wanted to do related party transactions, so he opened multiple companies. However, it's not bad to be misunderstood.

Subsequently, Gu Mojie suddenly discovered: It turned out that Feliro had grown up so fast, and she had learned this trick after coming to the United States for more than 20 days. This kind of learning ability is really not simple.

"Sister, you're so powerful! This plan is exactly what I want! Tomorrow we will go and register a company in California, which I am 100% owned by myself. Then use the shell of this company as a shareholder to negotiate a joint venture with Google for a security company! ”

Fei Liluo followed her brain and helped Gu Mojie check and fill in the gaps:

"You can't be in such a hurry, can you? You'll also need an American to help you act as a legal representative. Moreover, if you want to do a related party transaction, you cannot personally hold shares in the future, otherwise if someone finds out, as long as there is a zài transaction between the sole proprietorship company and the joint venture company in which you hold shares, even if it is not a related party transaction, it will be compulsorily judged as a related party transaction by the securities regulatory authority. ”

Gu Mojie didn't think about it in detail, but when Fei Liluo told him, he realized that this matter was not so simple.

"So strict? Is it okay for me to let my family own the shares? ”

"What do you think? Shares held by close relatives are not allowed. ”

Gu Mojie scratched his head: "Then what if I ask you to help me hold shares?" ”

Feliro's pupils dilated violently: "Me? ”

"First, I'm sure you won't hack me. Second, you're not my close relative, no matter how much you check the law, you can't tell the problem, right? ”

"Legally, there is no problem."

Feliro sighed and felt a huge shock in her heart. An echo echoed in her mind: I won't be Applejack's close relative for the rest of my life...... Close relatives...... Finish...... (To be continued.) )