In fact, including poaching, as long as there are no problems in the contract and law, there is no need to consider the former employer. The main reason why Daniel wants to discuss with Page, in addition to keeping Mark's stock, is that he hopes that Google can continue to cooperate with F2F, instead of grudging with a search giant, which is a nightmare for any website. Although it is impossible for Google not to display F2F results based on the principle of fairness, as long as it does some tricks, the impact on F2F during the promotion period is still huge.

But even so, this issue should not be used as a bargaining chip on the surface, but at best an add-on - after all, this is not a slave gift, but a job flow.

In this way, Google's two requirements will have to cost quite a bit.

The information given by Page was vague, and Daniel was curious about what Google was planning to pay.

"If you think so, Google can fund your new project and share some of the resources with your new website as a minority shareholder."

Daniel couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

"Page, there's no need for us to say such nonsense, I don't know if you want to know about this new project or if you want to know about my available cash flow, both of which are obviously classified. I'm sorry I can't disclose it to you, but one thing I can tell you is that the funding for the new project is in place, and I have no plans to bring in new investors for the time being. And, conceitedly, I've never failed in projects I've invested in, including some that you know of, except for MB, like DD Pictures and Weta Digital, and their value is rising. So, if Google is thinking about investing in this new idea, it should be your third requirement.

You should understand that I am not a recent graduate entrepreneur, I am not short of capital, and I am not short of resources. It doesn't make sense that I'm going to sell a promising project at the beginning. ”

Page looked at Daniel intently for a moment, then smiled as well.

"Your self-confidence is hateful, but it's as charismatic as your personality and your gifts."

"Okay. If the previous plan is met, in our first request, we will make a very generous offer. ”

Page paused, giving Daniel room to think.

This is, of course, one of the real quid pro quo, how much Daniel's 16% stake in Blogger will eventually be exchanged for Google's outstanding shares. It's about Daniel's direct net worth.

"If that's all there is to it, I think my offer might surprise you."

"We will provide you with an internal original share of less than 10 million shares that are a percentage below the actual issue price."

Larry. Page was quick to name Google's killer feature.

10 million shares of the 270 million total share capital, which is equivalent to 3.7% of the shares, plus the Blogger swap, means that Daniel will become a member of Google's board of directors, and his stake in Google may be capped at more than 5%.

Daniel knows that Google is a company with a market value of more than 200 billion, and 5% is 10 billion.

"The money is still too little." Daniel sighed inwardly.

This is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for external investors, although Google's internal equity incentives are very broad once it goes public. There are many rich people who have created a small number of people, but this is for middle and senior managers. The only way for external investors is to subscribe through an IPO. However, in addition, some people with social energy can of course obtain part of the subscription rights to contribute to the success of the IPO.

Now that the two sides have reached an agreement in principle.

Then the next step is the protracted negotiations - which will certainly be less and less cost-effective for Google in the future, as both blogger and MB valuations are rapidly increasing. The Nasdaq tech sector is recovering, and this is important for internet start-ups. It's definitely a big plus.

Immediately after the secret conversation, the teams began to negotiate the framework and schedule.

This continued when Daniel left Clara, but there wasn't much to demand them on the rest of the trip.

Go to your old job. It's painful to pretend you don't know anything, which both parties find quite interesting when Daniel enters MBCEO Javier's office.

It's hard to believe that MB has grown from penniless to the size it is today, and Daniel has never been to MB's headquarters.

So give him a good introduction to this floor of the building that belongs to him. It is necessary that MB does not have too many employees, with no more than 200 employees in the headquarters so far, and the average age is very low, which is highly praised by the social security organization, because MB provides many well-paid positions for young engineering talents who have just graduated.

This is also because MB has a very clear technical plan, so it can be reduced by one level in terms of cost and manpower.

That's the power of strategy.

"When I visited Google, we talked about some issues with MB." After chatting with Javier for a while, Daniel began to get to the point, "You may have vaguely expressed similar opinions to me before. ”

Javier looked at him quizzically.

"Haha, don't be nervous, I mean some views on the direction of the company, you said that the balance between the number of users and profitability is something that needs to be considered."

In fact, the reason why Daniel is blind to this rather obvious problem is not only that he wants to maximize the benefits and keep more equity until the valuation is high enough, but that the content has fallen into a misunderstanding. At the time of his arrival, whether it was QQ, WeChat, Weibo in the East, or Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatsAPP, etc. in the West, the users were hundreds of millions, and the biggest problem they faced was how to make a profit without excessively hurting the user experience. This is a particularly big problem, and it is even more difficult to achieve this in countries where intellectual property rights are lacking, because original content is easily misappropriated, content creators are not paid, and platforms do not receive a share, which is very different from the West.

Therefore, in Daniel's subconscious, he always feels that this kind of social media monetization method is the most important.

He completely ignores the normal development of MB, which is that it has not accumulated enough users, and many people are deterred by this highly mature business model.

They'll feel like it's not joining a social media platform. Rather, an ebay account was registered, and importantly, there was nothing worth buying on MB yet, in their opinion.

This time with Larry. Paige's talk. It gave him a wake-up call.

There are advantages and disadvantages to standing in the future, some things need to be based on the present, and the solution is undoubtedly to refer to the CEO's opinion.

Javier was surprised to hear Daniel take the initiative to talk about it. Also very excited.

As a pioneer in the industry, he is very sensitive to the development of other financial forces.

Although MB is currently limited by MB's complex patent portfolio and has not yet had a significant competitor to stand up, the technology is evolving very rapidly, and Xavier can guarantee that if MB does not establish a desperate advantage after 2005, the advantage it occupies in the competition of this model will be quickly lost, because it is clear that after many years of operation, a company will definitely create a bad perception among users. If there are good enough options at this time, there will be a large loss of active users.

At present, the pace of MB's development is still satisfactory, because the introduction of stimulating propaganda tactics has led to a sharp increase in the number of users, but this is certainly limited. Without reinforcing its core features of messaging and flat communication, it can be very difficult to add users quickly.

So, he was very excited to hear that Daniel was starting to think about it.

"But, Javier. That's one aspect, but I think just as movie marketing can stimulate user count, some proper business practices can also help build user count. For example, shopping discounts for women, health information sharing for the elderly, and so on. How to reconcile the increase in the number of users with the advancement of the business model should be an advanced issue for MB. I think MB should do more research on this topic internally, especially in the planning and creative departments, and of course for now, in order to accumulate users. It is necessary to give up part of the profit point. ”

After thinking about it, Daniel still intends to reveal his expectations, "I think Raymond will invest more than 300 million yuan in development funds together with Google for MB's overseas expansion and user absorption plan." ”

This figure clearly exceeded Javier's expectations.

"Are you going to invest another 200 million or so? If you have no plans to give up your existing shareholding. ”

Daniel hesitated, this was their top-secret negotiations with Google, and revealing it to Xavier might not be a good option.

"Raymond will talk to Google about the investment ratio, after all, the funds are limited, and the shares are not impossible to compromise at all, which is not realistic."

Javier didn't know that Daniel had rolled up a sum of money from the crude oil market.

"Greek Wedding" and "Hotel Rwanda" made a lot of money for DD Pictures, and Raymond's investment has been quite efficient - this is judging by the speed at which Daniel's wealth has accumulated, so it is not surprising that Daniel has money on hand, but it would surprise him if the money was enough to pull out 200 million and still keep DD Pictures running.

In the end, Daniel still didn't get to the bottom of Javier, and any information leak could make Daniel lose points and lose a lot of money in the intensive negotiations with Google.

He had to tread carefully.

MB is located in Sunnyvale, close to Cupertino, where Apple is located, and in fact, Silicon Valley is not big in the first place.

Apple is the penultimate stop on his trip, and after a one-day stay at Apple, he will visit PayPal, a subsidiary of Yibei, and return to Los Angeles half a day later to end the visit.

In addition to the negotiation with Page, the second purpose of this trip, of course, is to meet the legendary Steve Jobs, if you can find out a little bit about the secret of iPone, it would be the best, if I remember correctly, the secret development of the iPhone should have started in 2003 or 2004, no matter which year, now Jobs must have a complete idea in his heart. (To be continued.) )

PS: The third update, more than 10,000 words, thank my third deacon for the eternal fall