"A lady sent this just now."

Mark, who had already gotten up, lifted his chin and pointed to the box of various colored macarons on the table.

Ressa, who heard the movement in the kitchen, hurriedly walked out, "It was Mrs. Giffel who sent it, and I gave her some almond cakes, and she said that she had just met you at the door, so she sent a snack to Mr. Mark and you to taste." ”

Daniel nodded, "We'll go out for lunch and you'll come back in the evening." ”

Ressa doesn't live here, Carly. Simon, the American singer who introduced her to Daniel, was her previous employer, but Daniel was closer to their home, so she introduced Daniel. He and Carly didn't know each other originally, but when Sally was helping him buy a house, she happened to meet the original owner who entrusted the villa to Carly, and the two of them connected, both in the United States, although the circle is not the same, it is always easy to negotiate the business.

Because it is the off-season and the original homeowner is in a hurry, the discount is still good.

Speaking of which, on Martha's Vineyard, housing transactions are very active, housing prices here are twice as high as other places, and it is a place to spend the summer.

Speaking of which, Daniel also falls into this category.

It is normal to suddenly make a fortune in two or three years, and it is normal to want to buy a villa in a summer resort to show off, but unlike others, he did all this quietly without sound, and the time to move over was actually when he suspended work.

Ressa answered, brought breakfast to the table, and when they had finished eating, the kitchen was cleaned up, and then left.

"At noon, we went to the Black Dog Restaurant to eat seafood."

Black Dog Restaurant is one of the most famous restaurants on the island, listen to him. Mark was a little surprised.

Daniel should be avoiding appearing in densely populated situations now, and once recognized, it will definitely be in the news.

"You can't be sneaky, you will be recognized if you are recognized. I don't know how many well-known people and billionaires on the island have, and the paparazzi also have eyes. ”

Nodding, Mark didn't care.

"The website will be launched at the end of this month, and the test shows that the effect is very good."

F2F was originally available at the end of last year. But then there was a technical bug and had to be postponed until the end of January.

Mark came over this time, mainly because there was a problem with the original promotion plan.

The senior management of Google and MB have different opinions about going all out to promote F2F.

Seriously, this is completely Daniel didn't take into account, Mark was preoccupied with technology and website development, and he didn't take into account the big problem of promotion.

Javier single-handedly developed MB into what it is today, and it can be said that it has the number one voice in the world for social media, after participating in the F2F test. Javier made it clear and direct that he wanted F2F to be a subsidiary of MB, and that he and MB's management could be completely uninvolved in the operation, but that the two sides had to coordinate their actions.

As for Google, more than half of F2F's R&D team is Google's technical engineer. Page and Daniel's negotiations have lasted so long, and they know F2F very well, of course, it has nothing to do with technical and commercial secrets, just about this model. Google is very well aware, after all, in a series of cooperation terms between the two sides, there is also a cooperation method between F2F and Google Search, but this time he also clearly opposed MB's promotion of F2F.

What Daniel didn't expect was. F2F and MB are mutually exclusive.

Although the two sides have different priorities, for the user, there is only MB, whether he is inclined to the F2F model or the MB model, he will be an active user of MB. It can be once F2F exists. Users are bound to be further segmented, and it is clear that the three-dimensional structure of F2F is far more attractive than the flat structure of MB.

Javier had to develop a sense of crisis.

Of course, even if Mark and Sandberg don't make this website, someone else will, and MB's huge success has attracted countless capitals prematurely, like hungry wolves waiting for suitable projects and websites. If F2F is handed over to someone else to do, there is no need to worry about the problem of money, as long as you take this mature plan and shout, the investment fund can basically look at it.

Therefore, he did not try to prevent the birth of F2F, but wanted to bring F2F under MB, so that he could adjust the direction of F2F's operation and try to avoid the impact on MB.

Mark, of course, would not agree.

A large part of the reason why he and those technicians were attracted by this idea was that they would leave high-growth companies like Google and Apple and choose to be a veteran of F2F.

Daniel couldn't accept it either.

He is not short of funds now, and the restrictions in the era of Internet wealth creation are relatively small, relatively speaking, his current conditions do not have to rely on the transfer of interests to make F2F develop smoothly.

In this way, the promotion of F2F is more problematic.

Although he is the controlling shareholder of MB, but this involves damage to the interests of MB, Google will definitely not agree, if the major shareholder can so blatantly damage the public and private, the law is just a decoration.

"What Shirley means is that we can do our own promotion, and we can do it."

Glancing at Daniel, Mark was a little worried, Daniel has absolute control over F2F, and he has 10% equity dividends and voting rights in F2F - but the equity itself belongs to Daniel, when he first did this, Daniel also made it clear to him that the employment contract also has clear terms, dividends have always belonged to him, and if he wants to transfer this part of the interest at any time, he can resell it to Daniel as 10% actual shares. However, the voting rights must be in the F2F for them to be valid.

This is Daniel's way of controlling the company, because if everything goes well, F2F will develop into a 200 billion level company, and any negligence will lead to unpredictable results.

Again, such a model also allows F2F to develop exactly according to Daniel's will.

If it weren't for the map, even Daniel himself would be hardly sure that it would be appropriate to do so - any individual can have blind spots, and once blind spots become a decision-making consideration, the impact on the company is terrible.

Therefore, Mark is worried that Daniel will be concerned about Javier and MB, as well as the relationship with Google, so that at some cost, F2F will be placed under MB, which is why he rushed to Massa Island.

He knew that Javier and Larry. Page will soon come to the rescue and try to convince Daniel.

However, Mark has little confidence, on the one hand, there is a multi-billion dollar company and Internet giants like Google, and on the other side is a new website with an "uncertain future", if it were not for the F2F model, Daniel himself came up with it, he may not be able to afford to fight.

Last night, Daniel had a brief chat with him, and he was a little comforted.

But what Mark didn't know was that Daniel was also a little anxious. Zuckerberg's the-Facebook was born earlier this year, and in order to avoid problems, the promotion of the website had to start quickly.

He simply didn't have time to grind around with Google and MB.

"Does Shirley have a specific promotion plan?"

"No, some of the original plan can still be used, but it will become fragmented without MB." Mark quickly answered, and Daniel asked the question, which meant that he had already made a decision.

"We're going back today, and we have to go live before the end of the month."

Daniel began to recall the development process of Facebook, in fact, Facebook's operation for a period of time was very piecemeal, Zuckerberg with the help of teachers and roommates, to get the website online, facing only Harvard students, but in just 10 months, there were millions of users, less than two years, the valuation exceeded 2 billion US dollars, which is almost the most reliable evidence of the strong charm of the social age.

So, to generalize, in fact, Daniel is not under much pressure.

This is one of the reasons why he still looks relatively relaxed.

……

Towards lunch, Daniel drove Mark to the Black Dog Restaurant, his sleek Porsche was left in Los Angeles, and Mercedes was handed over to Kusa, who had announced that he would return to Hollywood to shoot "The Immortal Gardener" in at least June 2005, so it was only natural that Kusa would continue to work, and his contacts with Fox and others continued to attract attention, and the agent, who is now almost half a star.

Looking at him, you can understand Daniel's arrangement, after all, many people are not sure whether "The Immortal Gardener" is Daniel's first film after his return.

At the Black Dog Restaurant, Daniel unexpectedly bumps into Eliza.

Asked Mark to order first, he went over to talk to Mr. Rosenwalton, and learned that Eliza would be back in Chicago in two days, so he took her to try the tuna.

Mark looked over, and the two looked at each other and nodded.

"Mr. Rosenwalton, the little girl is his granddaughter, and their villa is a little next to my house, the one with the juniper at the door."

Mark nodded, and suddenly laughed, "When you went to see me at Stanford, Jessica's cousin was Catherine, right?" seems to be about the same age as this little girl, but unfortunately, this one is not a fan anymore. ”

Raised an eyebrow.

"She says she's a fan of mine, but you don't know which of my favorite movies she likes best, The Pianist! "The Lord of the Rings" or "Pirates of the Caribbean", even "Spy" and "Greek Wedding", I wouldn't be so surprised. ”

The hobbies of the rich may not be the same as those of the common people.

The two didn't continue to talk about this, after eating, they went back to the room to clean up, and Daniel returned to California with Mark, Massa Island has its own airport, although there are few off-season flights, and even need to transfer, but they can leave on the same day. (To be continued.) )

PS: The second update, Xie anno, love to eat rabbit reward