You must know that Internet companies have developed to this era, in fact, there are not many founders who really have perseverance, confidence, and think that their companies will become miracles in the industry.

After all, these people who play Internet companies in these years are generally technical personnel, come to Silicon Valley, start from a garage, when the company reaches a certain scale, or is very hot to be hyped, there are often many giants in the Internet industry to come to the door to talk about acquisitions.

For example, Microsoft and Yahoo, the current industry hegemons, in order to avoid these new Internet companies will grow into their own competitors in the future, they are familiar with the use of this kind of soft knife acquisition, stifling.

Many of the once popular network software companies were just in their infancy, and they were eventually acquired and merged, and some of these network companies will become important branches of their companies, and some will simply be destroyed.

And the founders of most Internet companies generally can't resist the temptation of these industry giants with huge checks in their hands.

As far as Li Yifan knows, even the two founders of Google have wavered in this matter.

In fact, after they created this company, the rumors about their company have never disappeared.

At the beginning of the establishment of this company, when they were looking for financing, they ran into a wall everywhere and found many large venture capital companies, and as a result, people didn't dump them at all when they saw their ideas.

In the end, if it weren't for the 25 million without Sequoia Capital, they would have collapsed long ago.

Later, as their company improved, the competition from the outside has never weakened. In the field of web search. In fact, the original founder was Microsoft. And the original Yahoo.

The competition between the two companies in this area has always been fierce, and Google is a complete latecomer, but the biggest advantage he has over these two companies is that he specializes in this, and these two companies are not.

Microsoft mainly develops various software systems for running computers, while Yahoo does portal news, so it can be said that the main energy of these two companies is not on the Internet search engine.

And that's exactly what happened. Only then did this new company take advantage of the loopholes, quickly open the market, and gain a firm foothold in this field.

But when they began to take shape, the two giants quickly realized the danger of this company, so they began to increase their investment in their own search engines, and began to compete with Google.

The reason why Google was able to survive the competition between these two giants is not only that they specialize in this, but also because of their huge investment in attracting talent.

You know, giving employees a good salary and original shares, this is definitely a big deal, and that's exactly what it is. Only then did they poach all the search engine talents on the side of Microsoft and Yahoo to their own companies. While strengthening itself, it has also seriously weakened the research and development of Microsoft and Yahoo's search engines.

It is precisely because of this that at the end of this year, the number of shareholders of their company has reached 500, and it is estimated that even the aunt who sweeps the floor has become a shareholder who holds the company's shares.

On the one hand, it is a good thing to be able to retain talent, but on the other hand, it is also a bad thing.

You must know that in the IPO financing regulations of venture stocks in the electronic technology network sector in the United States, there is a stipulation, that is, the original shares of the company cannot be held by more than 500 people.

And this company obviously exceeded this standard, which is the main reason why since 2003, the successors of this company, except for some very capable or outstanding contributions to the company, no one has been able to obtain the original shares.

And now what Li Yifan asked Heidi to do is to buy their original shares from the hands of those who hold their original shares.

Even if there is a stipulation that these people cannot buy and sell these original shares now, but now they can sign a VAM agreement like futures, as long as you set the conditions high enough, I believe that many of these people will be tempted.

According to Google's current scale and development model, even if their company goes public, the estimated stock price is only less than $34.

Who would have thought that when their company went public, the original stock would be priced at $85, and then their share price would triple that year, and a few years later, it would triple and a few years later, it would increase tenfold?

It is estimated that even the founder of this company himself would not have thought of such an outcome, so at this time, as long as you sign a futures-like contract with them, if the price of the public stock reaches or does not reach a certain price after listing, then you will have to give me your stock according to the execution price we agreed, I believe that there will be many people in this company who are willing.

And even if the boss of this company knows the purity of such a contract, it is estimated that he will not have too many opinions, after all, this company has been listed in the past few years, and there is still no shadow.

And maybe this company, when it makes a mistake in management, it will go out of business, anyway, such things happen from time to time in the United States.

Today you are still a millionaire, but in the blink of an eye, maybe in just one day, you will become a penniless pauper, which is not a miracle, but a fact that happens all the time.

So as long as you set the execution price very attractively, I believe that many Google employees will be willing to sign such a transfer agreement with you.

And maybe if you get the attention of Google's founders in this way, maybe they will talk to you about co-financing, after all, you buy shares in their company like this, but it will make them nervous.

But everything is a matter of course.

After negotiating with Heidi about the acquisition of Google shares, Li Yifan remembered another company.

"Also, I once followed the speech of a person named Jack and Dorsey on an American Internet forum, and his idea was very interesting and gave me a lot of inspiration, I think after you go to the United States, help me contact this person to see if he has any ideas for starting a business, if he has, maybe we can invest some money in him, but this company, we will hold heavy shares."

Li Yifan said to Heidi with a smile.

If you are a person who has also experienced the history of the development of the Internet in the United States in the later generations, you have heard of this Jack. After Dorsey's name, he may scold Li Yifan for being shameless enough.

Because this is not an ordinary person, he is the founder of the famous Twitter in later generations.

Unlike Facebook, which was popular in later generations, Twitter's network model is also a kind of improvement of the social network system, and more importantly, it is an instant messaging system.

You can post some new things you follow or know on the Internet in a timely manner, and then attract the attention of your followers, this kind of thing, called Weibo in China, is the famous Twitter in the world.

More than a decade later, this kind of thing, like Facebook, has become the two cornerstones of the improvement of the social network system, and it is the two websites that are popular all over the world.

It's just that the company's development experience is more bumpy than Facebook's.

At that time, the founder of Facebook had a basic idea in 2004 and improved the basic network architecture in 2006, and in the process of his Facebook network, his ideas have always been concerned.

And just before his Facebook was listed, it was already hyped by people, and once it was listed, his Facebook was even more hyped by investors in the stock market, especially hot, and it was even rumored that the future development of this company will not be weaker than Google.

And the founder of the website, who followed this hype, became a billionaire.

The development of Twitter has not been so smooth, in fact, the concept of Twitter, as early as 2000-2001, has been his founder, Jack. Dorsey figured it out.

However, after that, he had enough financial support to refine his concept, and because wireless networks were not developed, and even fixed networks were just beginning to be popularized, so his concept was not recognized by many people.

Many investors are not interested in his ideas, which is very different from the popularity of Facebook when it was born.

Dorsey and his friends insisted on ideas that were spurned by many investors.

It wasn't until 2006 that he and a few of his partners began to gradually implement his ideas on the Internet, that is to say, from 2000 to the final implementation, a total of six years have passed, and in these six years, they beckoned countless blows and disappointments.

AND EVEN AFTER THEIR TWITTER LAUNCH IN 2006, IT WAS NOT RECOGNIZED BY MANY PEOPLE AT FIRST, AND WHAT REALLY MADE THEM GRADUALLY RISE TO GLORY WAS THEIR COOPERATION WITH APPLE IN 2007, BUT THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.

What really made Twitter famous was that in 2008, when Ao Xiaohei was campaigning, he interacted with his fans through Twitter from time to time, and also announced his election results through Twitter from time to time.

It is this kind of situation that can interact with fans in real time that makes many big stars discover the benefits of this kind of software, which is a powerful tool for them to maintain their image.

As a result, more and more celebrities from all walks of life began to register their own Twitter accounts and began to interact with their fans, and it was the addition of these people that began to make Twitter truly brilliant.

And when Twitter, which has more than 500 million users, went public in 2013, the company's capital immediately swelled to more than 40 billion...... (To be continued......)