Just when Li Wan took the initiative to intervene in her mother's bad affairs and Wang Xiaoxue was preparing to incorporate the talent system that BOE had been running for ten years, Song Chen began to pay attention to the implementation progress of each subsidiary of the Chenxing system in the United States, and continued to promote his strategic layout in an orderly manner.

After Google completed all the procedures for the acquisition of Doubleclick and absorbed the company's talent, it began to address the first number of centers in Europe and the second number of centers on the east coast of the United States. AT THE SAME TIME, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP ITS OWN GREEN ENERGY BUSINESS, GOOGLE HAS SET UP A CORRESPONDING SUBSIDIARY UNDER ITS UMBRELLA AS A TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT RESERVE.

AT THE MOMENT, SONG CHEN IS SITTING IN HIS OFFICE READING FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS, THREE OF WHICH ARE GOOGLE'S MERGER AND ACQUISITION APPROVALS, AND THE ATTACHMENT ALSO HAS THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT HEAD DAVID? Drummond's Legal Opinion.

The sponsor of the acquisition is Erik, who has just returned from a business trip to Europe? Schmidt, the three target companies he wants to buy are blogs, newsgroups, and search engine information retrieval.

THE FIRST TWO COMPANIES ARE THE FIRST TWO COMPANIES THAT GOOGLE BEGAN TO EXTEND ITS TENTACLES TO MORE AREAS AFTER IT FURTHER CONSOLIDATED AND DEVELOPED ITS POSITION IN SEARCH ENGINE SERVICES. As mentioned above, in countries with developed business laws such as Europe and the United States, every step of the company's expansion is a process of capital mergers and acquisitions, and relying on creative plagiarism to enrich product lines like Tencent can only be achieved in China or countries with underdeveloped intellectual property rights!

IN THE UNITED STATES, EVEN IF YOU JUST COPY A PRODUCT, AS LONG AS YOU ARE SUED IN COURT, IT IS LIGHT TO LOSE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON THE SCALE OF GOOGLE, AND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IS NOT UNIMAGINABLE, SO THE PRICE OF ACQUISITION IS FAR LOWER THAN THE ILLEGAL COST OF PLAGIARISM, AND CONVERSELY, PLAGIARISM IS ALSO ZERO ILLEGAL COST IN CHINA!

As for the search engine information retrieval business, it is a company of PARC (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center) that provides online information retrieval technology, and the purpose of acquiring this company is to facilitate the integration of search technology on this website. IT IS ALSO AN EXPANSION OF GOOGLE'S PATENT PORTFOLIO IN THE SEARCH SPACE, ENSURING AN UNDEFEATED POSITION IN THE CONFRONTATION WITH COMPETITORS SUCH AS YAHOO.

Song Chen was very happy when he reviewed the last financial document, and after seeing the purchase price of only a few million dollars, he signed his name on it without thinking; AFTER SIGNING, SONG CHEN TURNED BACK THE FIRST TWO DOCUMENTS, BUT HE COULDN'T HELP MUTTERING IN HIS HEART, BECAUSE HE SAW ALMOST THE SAME PRODUCT PATH AS CHENXING NETWORK BEHIND GOOGLE'S MERGER AND ACQUISITION!

This is also the business experience of Internet giants in the PC era, which rely on core products such as social networking and search to gather netizens, and then use other rich products to achieve the purpose of consolidating and developing new and old customers, Google, Tencent, Baidu, 360...... Even Jack Ma's version of Alibaba is not exempt.

But even so. Song Chen believes that it is also necessary to compete appropriately, although it is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of duplicate investment, but he can still achieve the exit mechanism of survival of the fittest through competition! However, the cross-licensing of the Guò patent should reduce the investment cost of the new product appropriately!

Thinking of this, Song Chen signed his name on the two M&A documents and wrote down his thoughts on this investment case!

I pressed the ringtone button on my landline, and not long after, a beautiful and delicate woman walked in and saw her. Song Chen handed over the three-point article and said, "Xiaoqing, forward this three-point article to Google's Eric?" Schmidt! Where's your Mr. Zhai? ”

"I'm in a meeting! But boss, Mr. Zhai is not my family! Jiang Xiaoqing hugged Wen Jiàn and smiled. Don't take advantage of me, otherwise I'll report to Mr. Zhai! ”

Song Chen pointed his fingers, and his expression was very exaggerated: "Women who like to make small reports have pointed chins!" When I was a child, I saw the gourd baby, right? You think the chin of the snake spirit girl looks good, right? ”

"Nasty! You're just pointing your chin, I'm leaving! Jiang Xiaoqing's eyes flickered. Glancing at Song Chen, he fled the office as if he was a man-eating monster and flew away from the office.

Song Chen smiled, picked up a copy of the text and was about to continue working. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the office, and then Zeng Qian pushed the door with a smile and walked in. Seeing her, Song Chen asked, "Our Zeng always is here!" ”

Zeng Qian chuckled and said angrily: "When did I become Zeng Zong, I don't know? If you don't say it, people won't follow it! ”

"On momentum!" Song Chen said with a smile.

"Nerves!" Knowing that the lover was joking, Zeng Qian didn't take it to heart, she pushed a copy of the text to Song Chen's desk, and said with a smile, "Huasong Fund received a very interesting financing application, and the eldest sister felt unreliable, but because it was Bag, the president of Sequoia Capital in the United States, who came?" Jones introduced it, so the eldest sister still asked me to hand over this article to you! ”

"Huh? Bagh? Jones introduced? Song Chen was stunned for a moment, and when he opened the text, he was stunned. This turned out to be a business plan based on the aerospace industry, but the reason why Song Chen was stunned was not because the aerospace industry has always been an industry that private capital is afraid of, but also because the applicant for this plan was really blind.

Elon? Elon Musk, the founder of SPaceX, the famous CEO of Tesla, and the prototype of "Iron Man" who was hyped in later generations...... A series of titles suddenly made Song Chen feel a moment of ecstasy, and he felt a feeling of emotion and happiness when he stepped on the iron shoes!

But after happiness, Song Chen still had a little confusion, the impression that SpaceX did not raise funds externally, and when it came to this cutting-edge technology startup, Song Chen did not plan to meet him as a Chinese, so that although he was very concerned about this person, he never officially contacted this person. Coincidentally, this man with a mixed reputation in later generations would take the initiative to send it to the door in this way!

The question is, Elon, who should not be short of money? How could Musk need the support of private equity funds? And also find yourself who is very sensitive? THINKING OF THE LAST TIME HE NOTICED FROM THE NEWSPAPER THAT HE HAD RESIGNED FROM EBAY, SONG CHEN HAD A VAGUE UNDERSTANDING, BUT IT WAS VAGUE AGAIN!

After all, is this still Song Chen vs. Elon? Musk's understanding is too thin, and the Elon he knows well? Musk comes a decade after a decade of great success in the space rocket and electric vehicle industry, and now, ten years ago, he knows nothing about this man's previous experience, let alone that this person is also a shareholder of PayPal, only that he recently left the head of payments at EBAY.

Song Chen didn't know that he created PayPal and not only single-handedly messed up Elon? Musk's fate also made the originally famous "PayPal gangster" members scattered.

Elon? Musk still created the company. But instead of following the historical trajectory of merging with Confinity and giving birth to the famous "PayPal gangster" in the American technology industry, the company was acquired by EBAY, which was made ill by its own online payment department two years ago, in a vain hope that it would compete with Song Chen's PayPal by acquiring talents.

But the truth is often unsatisfactory, the first-mover advantage and market barriers in the PC era are not strong capital can necessarily get their wishes, it is still possible to expect competitors to make mistakes if it is other companies, but it is Song Chen from later generations, he understands the rules and essence of the PC Internet era too well!

And because of that, Elon? MUSK JOINED EBAY WITH HIS TEAM AND NOT ONLY DIDN'T GIVE EBAY'S ONLINE PAYMENTS DEPARTMENT A NEW LEASE OF LIFE, BUT HE WAS ALSO VERY TIRED OF EBAY'S BUREAUCRATIC CULTURE THAT DIDN'T FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY.

Taobao opened a site in the United States. AND AFTER PROVOKING EBAY AT A LOWER COST, ELON? Musk chose to resign voluntarily. At this time, although he had a small success, he was far from being as successful as later generations!

At that time, he could not hesitate to spend $100 million to recruit cutting-edge talents in major US aerospace companies, and in the following years, he continued to invest and even almost went bankrupt, and now he can only take out $50 million in capital to start a business, which is almost a drop in the bucket for the aerospace industry, which is known for burning money.

As a last resort, Elon? Musk can only work while seeking investment opportunities!

Many great companies are often obscure and questioned in their startup stages. Just like Zhang Ruoxi's reaction, a lot of venture capital is interested in Elon? Musk's whimsical surprise and incredible!

Song Chen's "old friend" American Sequoia co-founder Bager? Jones also can't imagine how much money this company's low-cost space transportation program will need to meet this company's funding needs! Moreover, the field favored by venture capital has never included the high-risk and high-cost space industry!

So Bag? Jones rightfully rejected Elon as well? Musk's business plan, but his words made Elon? Musk set his sights on a Chinese: "Perhaps only a CEO who pays attention to the long-term value of the company and does not care about short-term gains and losses can approve your plan." Just like Song Chen, or Son Masayoshi! But it's better to be Song Chen, whose words can even make you the darling of Silicon Valley investors! God, this is the Western world that has been so unanimously promoting a Chinese for hundreds of years! ”

And because of Bagh? Jones's unintentional words made Elon, who was gradually a little desperate? Musk sees the light of day. Although he felt that Song Chen's Chinese status might cost him the business of NASA, his biggest potential customer, Elon? Musk can only choose to bow to reality first - he can't even start a company. And how to think about what happens after success?

So, Elon? Musk begged Bag? Jones took the lead, and there was a scene where Song Chen was stunned.

The lover's reaction was very interesting, Zeng Qianjiao smiled and said: "The eldest sister was already stunned when she saw the plan of the aerospace industry, if it wasn't for Bage?" Jones's face, she won't give you this article at all! ”

If such a thing really happened, then Song Chen was really going to vomit blood!

While his interest in SpaceX may not be as good as Tesla's, Song Chen's interest in being a foundational project of the space program that later proved successful couldn't have been much lower — how could he possibly have an investment opportunity if he was in China? [Note: The protagonist has always thought that Tesla Motors is Elon?] Musk founded it, but in fact it is not, and it will be explained in detail later! 】

Song Chen held the cover of Wen Jiàn in one hand, and tapped the table with his fingers, looking hesitant. Zeng Qian saw that her lover seemed to have the opposite attitude to Zhang Ruoxi, and she was stunned: "You won't be really interested, right?" How can such a thing succeed? ”

Song Chen shook his head and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that only a prophet can know whether a company can succeed, and we can't make up our minds so early!" As the general manager of Huasong Fund, Ruoxi's attitude cannot be regarded as a mistake, and normal people will reject this project! But my focus is on this person, this person has foresight and courage, and the market he has entered may have been thought of but no one has ever done it! So you're right. I'm really interested! ”

"You're crazy! That's not a multimillion-dollar investment, it's nearly a billion dollars in seed investment! Zeng Qian shook her head incomprehensibly, and then said, "But you are the head of the family, of course we have to listen to you, he is now waiting for our reply in Mountain View, do you go talk to him or will we come forward?" ”

Song Chen knocked on the table and said, "Let Ruoxi prepare, I'm going to take her to meet this person at night!" ”

"Good!"

……

Elon, who was born on June 28, 1971? Musk was born and raised in South Africa to a South African engineer. Her mother is Canadian, a nutritionist and part-time model.

As a child, Musk showed extraordinary ability, at the age of 10 Musk bought his first computer and taught himself to program, and at the age of 12 he sold his first commercial software: a space game called Blaster.

As a teenager, Musk was not only interested in electronics, but also had business acumen that ordinary people don't have, and when he was 16 years old, he and his brother opened a video game hall because he thought games would bring him huge returns in the future.

He paid the rent and the supplier by himself, and in just one month, this game hall earned him the tuition for college. However, the good times did not last long, and they were stopped because they did not have business qualifications.

At the age of 17, Musk moved from South Africa to Ontario, Canada, and attended Queen's University, where he worked on a temporary job of less than $1 a day and summer jobs before receiving a scholarship to attend the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Musk graduated with two degrees in economics and physics, and his job dream is to enter three fields with "important problems", one is the Internet and the other is renewable energy. One is space exploration.

The experience since then has proved that none of the three areas he longed for has been left behind!

Musk originally planned to continue his education at Stanford University, but after only two days of classes, he was impatient to plunge into the world of the Internet. He first co-founded a software company called Zip2 with his brother, and the company's online content recommendation software attracted the attention of many large companies, and was eventually acquired by Compaq for $305 million, and Musk made a profit of 21 million.

In 1999, using the first pot of gold from the sale of the company, Musk established an online financial payment company, this venture was not a success, because like other third-party online payments, always lived in the shadow of PayPal, but Musk's luck was that Whitman at that time thought Elon? Musk is a capable executive, so the acquisition.

The result, as mentioned above, was not satisfactory!

Just in Elon? When Musk looked for financing everywhere but was rejected, and felt that the whole world had abandoned him, he didn't expect that Song Chen would be willing to meet him, how could he not be excited?

……

That night, Elon, who was dressed in a straight suit? Musk met Song Chen and his fiancée at a fancy restaurant in Woodside.

Song Chen was dressed casually, wearing a white T-shirt with a pair of light blue jeans, looking delicate and gentle, and his expression was as kind and gentle as the reporters praised; Compared with Song Chen, who is dressed casually, Zhang Ruoxi, the head of Huasong Fund, wears a burgundy dress, two delicate and luxurious sapphire earrings shine in the light, and the well-cut clothes line her dignified and beautiful temperament, just like a famous lady as elegant and charming.

In this restaurant frequented by the upper class, there is almost no need for Elon? Musk took the initiative to stand up, and Song Chen could recognize him directly.

"Elon? Good evening, Mr. Musk! ”

"Mr. Song, Mrs. Song, good evening!"

I have to say, Elon? Musk is a very talkative man, and he almost only used the word "Mrs. Song" to make Zhang Ruoxi's impression of him greatly changed, rather than the "madman" identified only by the project book.

Song Chen gentlemanly caressed the chair and let Zhang Ruoxi sit down, and then he and Elon? Musk sat down together. Song Chen is not a man who likes to play tricks in circles while talking, he has always been a businessman with a clear purpose.

So as soon as he sat down, he muttered: "Mr. Elon, I have to say that your plan is refreshing, the aerospace industry is a state-level strategic technology, and I have never heard of an individual participating in commercial services that only the country has the ability and resources to provide!"

Elon? Musk said without hesitation: "I think there is no shortage of imaginative geniuses in this world, but there is a lack of elites with practical actions, if you continue to study at a third-rate university in China and work after graduation, I am afraid that the world will have one less great company, and China will also have one less richest Chinese man who can raise his eyebrows!" ”

Zhang Ruoxi smiled slightly, and said with a little meaning: "You are really good at talking, Mr. Elon!" (To be continued......)