Volume 13, Chapter 4, The Dispute of Ideas

In August 2007, South Africa's Jazz International Investment Bank, under the coordination of the Wien Council of Governors, a subsidiary of the Republican Party in the United States, defeated Microsoft in negotiations, injected a high-profile $500 million into the Facebook website, and instructed its subordinate evaluation agency to value the Facebook website, which was just showing a hot trend at that time, at a valuation of one billion dollars, and stepped into the emerging third-generation network instant messaging field. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info\\qВ5,\

The news caused a sensation in the industry, and practitioners speculated about the sacredness of the $500 million investment bank, an international investment bank incorporated in Johannesburg, South Africa. Everyone in the speculation understands that this South African investment bank is menacing, and the $500 million capital injection is just the beginning.

What's more, a series of open and covert battles for the Facebook website around the Jazz Investment Bank and Microsoft in the United States have led to a series of reveries. Many Wall Street commentators have also expressed their optimism about the future of Facebook and the third-generation online instant messaging industry, believing that this industry is no different from the IT concept industry that emerged a few years ago, and is a seriously overrated bubble industry.

There are also a few people who hold the opposite opinion, believing that human society will usher in another change, and will soon enter the Internet age. Of course, Zhao Daxi knew in the controversy, the Facebook website began in the second half of 07, and the value increased 15 times in just half a year, and the website was valued at one billion US dollars in August 07, and was valued as high as 15 billion US dollars by authoritative institutions after half a year, and the rise is jaw-dropping.

And all he has to do is to buy this promising American website before that, and keep it for himself.

To this end, he did not hesitate to use his connections in the board of directors and the Republican Party to go to the United States to persuade the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and even the general manager of the White House to come forward, coerce and lure Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the Facebook website, to force this young man with unique vision to reject the $200 million capital injection of Microsoft Group, and successfully kicked away Bill Gates, who had a tense relationship with the White House. successfully defeated a competitor like Microsoft, and Zhao Daxi also admired Bill Gates's vision.

He just took advantage of the innate advantages of the traverser and saw the infinitely bright prospects of this industry in advance, while Bill Gates also saw this completely out of his keen business sense, which made Zhao Daxi almost unable to deal with it. Fortunately, Microsoft's relationship with the Republican Party and the Bush administration has been very stiff, and Mark Zuckerberg is too young and old enough to finally give in under the persuasion of the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and the White House.

On August 30, 2007, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, announced that Facebook's website would be transferred to South Africa's Jazz Investment Bank for a sky-high price of $800 million. This made him a super-rich man with a lot of money, and it also cost him the opportunity to become the youngest richest person in the world, and at this time, the Facebook site had 30 million active users worldwide.

On this day, at the home of Mr. Henry, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, Zhao Daxi held the right hand of the young Mr. Mark in one hand, and said a few polite words without any shame in his heart, and did not feel that he single-handedly buried the young man's future, and this young man will be at the top of the list of the youngest richest people in the world with four billion US dollars in assets in two years, which is of course impossible now. Zhao Daxi felt at ease at this time, 800 million US dollars was not a lot, and he had already gotten his share of what he deserved.

Half a month later, South Africa's Jazz Investment Bank, which had just taken over Facebook, officially launched its advertising services, and then launched a series of efficient business operations. A week later, Mark Anderson, founder of Netscape and a Republican supporter, joined Facebook's board of directors as vice chairman. In October 2008, Jazz Investment Bank settled with the Wincles brothers for a whopping $65 million, settling a protracted plagiarism lawsuit between Facebook and the twin brothers.

So far, Zhao Daxi has cleared the last obstacle on the road to the development of Facebook and entered a period of rapid development. After being busy for a while, Zhao Daxi and Wang Chen's youngest daughter was also born smoothly, which added a little joy to the Zhao family. On this day, in a private hospital in New Jersey, Zhao Daxi hugged his little daughter, and his heart was moved to a mess, and Wang Damei, who gave birth to a daughter, was also treated as a hero by the daughters of the Zhao family.

In the next few days, guests came to congratulate one after another, and the Zhao family was inevitably lively for a while.

Lei Yongqiang, Li Zheng, Su Zhenyu and others are busy, and they have to put down everything and rush to New Jersey, all of them want to see what Boss Zhao's daughter looks like.

Lei Yongqiang looked at the sleeping baby in the cradle and couldn't help laughing: "You didn't know what kind of good luck you had in your last life...... Well, this girl is still like Chenchen, this little nose and face are very long, and this watery little skin will have to be a big beauty in the future. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a lot of admiration around him, and they all agreed with the laughter, and they were still in that annoying tone, glad that the youngest daughter of the Zhao family did not look like her father. Zhao Daxi couldn't cry and laugh and prayed silently in his heart, God forbid, this big stone in his heart has finally landed, if he really has a daughter who inherits his size and dark skin, he can only play basketball in the future.

Su Zhenyu laughed for a while, but he was still a little serious: "Have you chosen a name?" ”

Zhao Daxi nodded happily and replied with a smile: "It's called Shujie, I'll take it." ”

Everyone silently recited the name Zhao Shujie several times, and really praised a few words, this name is really good, and it really has such an elegant taste.

The Zhao family was lively for a while, and they set up wine on the lawn to celebrate at night, and it was inevitable that they would have to talk about business. The giants of the Beishan Group talked about the $800 million acquisition of Facebook, and it was inevitable that there would be a lot of discussion. Even these giants within the Beishan Group are very different when they discuss it in private. People with old ideas like Lei Yongqiang and Su Zhenyu are very unimpressed with the investment of 800 million US dollars.

Su Zhenyu, in particular, has a lot of opinions: "With such a large investment of 800 million US dollars, it will take many years to recover the cost just by selling advertising, at least so far I can't see any hope of recovering the investment." ”

Lei Yongqiang said politely: "Maybe Mr. Zhao has his considerations, hehe, Mr. Zhao's insight is much better than ours." ”

Zhao Daxi couldn't help but talk to his mouth, and these two old concept people really can't explain clearly, what is called the Internet value-added service profit model, this is also a very controversial topic, if you really talk about it, I'm afraid there will be no results for a few days and nights, and explaining the emerging Internet industry with these two is equivalent to talking about the cow. On the contrary, Li Zheng, who was born in Taiwan and grew up in South Korea, has an innate advantage in this kind of thing.

Li Zheng made another argument: "The old concept of the two has to be changed, let's use an analogy, there is a chicken or an egg first, and there is a user or a profit first...... At present, the number of active users of the Facebook website is growing exponentially, as long as you have a stable number of users, you are still worried about making no profit? ”

This is quite reasonable, but Su Lei and the others still don't think so, and they always have to refute him, which is a strong argument.

Seeing that these people were about to quarrel when they blushed and their necks were thick, Zhao Daxi couldn't help but laugh and laugh: "It's okay, several, my daughter is still sleeping." ”

Su Lei, who was so noisy that he blushed and had a thick neck, shut up in embarrassment, in short, no one could stop him in the industries that Mr. Zhao was interested in, and no one would be stupid enough to stop him. After living at home in New Jersey for a few days, although Zhao Daxi couldn't bear it, he still told Lei Yongqiang and Lei Yongqiang to get on the plane back to Johannesburg, accompanied by some website construction professionals from the United States.

When I returned to Yang's house, I just entered the living room, and when I looked up, I saw that the Duke was sitting in the living room, chatting with Yang Su without a word. Lei Yongqiang felt a little embarrassed and naturally found an excuse to dodge, Zhao Daxi took off his coat casually, but he didn't mind saying hello to the duke.

After chatting for a while, a suspicious expression appeared on the Duke's face: "Zhao, I heard that you have been working on a website recently?" ”

Zhao Daxi didn't have anything to hide, and grinned: "Yes, Facebook, uh...... It is an instant messaging online dating site. ”

Yang Su's expression still did not change, but Mr. Levante's face showed a faint mocking expression: "Zhao, you spent 800 million US dollars to buy such a website, what's the use?" ”

Zhao Daxi looked at the mockery on his face that couldn't be hidden, and grinned sincerely: "Fun, buying this website is purely my personal hobby." ”

The Duke probably felt that he had heard one of the funniest jokes in the world, and he couldn't hide his true thoughts and showed disdain, and his jaw was about to rise to the ceiling.

The duke, who is over eighty years old, of course, also has his own set of arguments: "800 million US dollars, it is better to hand it over to me to invest in the mine, Zhao, the money is not spent like this." ”

Zhao Daxi didn't bother to explain to him, vaguely fooled the past, and after a while, he sent the Duke to the car, looked at the back of this old gentleman and laughed in his heart, and couldn't help but scold the old immortal, you are over eighty years old, you know a fart of emerging industries, your set of concepts from the last century should have been brought into the coffin a long time ago. waved his hand towards the Duke's luxury car, and showed a sincere smile on his face, laughing in his heart that Lao Tzu was more clever than this Duke, or because Lao Tzu had a vision beyond the times.

It won't be long before this old-fashioned old fox knows what it means to push the back waves of the Yangtze River and lead the trend of the times. With a smile on his face, he turned his head and waved his hand, asking Xiao Feng to find a place to live and settle down with the network engineers who were transferred from the United States first. I still couldn't help but pull Yang Su, went into the study and turned on the computer, and met my good daughter who was far away.

Yang Su saw a red little face in the camera, and her expressionless face finally showed a little maternal taste, and she also cared about Wang Chen softly, and told her to be careful during confinement, not to go out messily, and not to catch a cold.

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