Chapter 191: Early Renewal?
When they returned to the apartment, their uncle's family was already waiting for Ye Feng.
Uncle Ye Chengfang and Aunt Chrissy cleaned up the room, and then asked Ye Ni and Ye Feng to go out to buy things for the holiday.
Uncle and Ye Feng don't care about Christmas, but Chrissy and Ye Ni both grew up in the United States, and they feel like they are celebrating Christmas in the Spring Festival in China, how can they not pay attention to it?
As the two drove to the supermarket, Ye Ni said an interesting thing.
At the end of the year, two Harvard students created a website called TheFacebook.
The two idolized Bill Gates and wanted to achieve the same level as him.
But in the follow-up stage, the two had a conflict, one of them left directly, and the other did not give up.
He wanted to continue to start related online companies, but lacked funds, so he wrote emails to various venture capital firms.
And the boss of Ye Ni's brokerage company also happened to have a venture capital (venture capital) company and received the email.
As soon as the boss saw his thoughts, he laughed directly.
There are many people in this world who want to be Bill Gates, but there will always be only one Bill Gates.
The boss told the employee about it as a joke, and Ye Ni told it to Ye Feng as a joke.
Ye Feng was shocked.
"What's that Harvard student's name?"
Ip Man asked.
"Mark Za......"
Ye Ni remembered it as a joke, how could she remember it clearly.
"Mark Zuckerberg."
Ye Feng cried out excitedly.
"That's right! That's the name. Alas, strange, how did you know the name? ”
The clever Ye Ni immediately noticed the problem.
Ye Feng smiled bitterly, and accidentally showed his feet.
However, Ye Ni was very sensible, and saw that Ye Feng didn't seem to want to answer, so she didn't dig deeper, and automatically bypassed the topic.
A smart woman will make a man feel bad, but a smart and sensible woman will make a man very comfortable, probably the one that Ye Ni is talking about.
Ye Feng breathed a sigh of relief, but his mind was full of things about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
(Facebook, a social networking site, you think of it as Huaxia's QQ and WeChat, and you know how powerful its future is.) )
If memory serves, Zuckerberg officially founded Facebook in February 2004.
He had a conflict with another founder, Eduardo Savirin, which led to funding problems, so he looked around for funding.
When the company was founded, it invested only $500,000. But 13 years later, it's worth tens of billions, with more than 2 billion users, accounting for more than a third of the world's population.
With such a big potential, how could Ye Feng not be impressed.
"Yenny, help me contact Mark Zuckerberg."
Ye Feng said suddenly.
"Huh? You're crazy, it's December 24th, and tomorrow is Christmas. Even if it's not Christmas, people have to spend it! ”
Ye Ni said she couldn't understand.
But when she saw Ye Feng's serious expression, she finally nodded and agreed.
"Contact me to help you get in touch, but I can't be the master if he doesn't come."
Ye Ni said.
"Don't worry, he'll come!"
Ye Feng said affirmatively.
Ye Ni shook her head and said she didn't believe it, you don't know anyone at all, why do you say that people must come, it's Christmas.
Ye Feng smiled and didn't explain.
After making the call, Ye Ni came back and said, "That guy said that he lives at home in New York and will fly over immediately." My God, he's really coming. You're crazy, he's even crazier than you. ”
Ye Feng smiled, he knew the result.
As a successful person, perseverance and grasping opportunities are important traits, how could Mark Zuckerberg pass up such an opportunity, even if it is Christmas?
Cleveland and New York are both located in the northeast of the United States, not far from each other.
So it didn't take long for Mark Zuckerberg to appear in front of Ye Feng.
This is a white guy with curly hair, who looks a little cheerful, but his face is full of seriousness.
As soon as the two sat down, Zuckerberg took out his laptop, opened it, and chatted with Ye Feng while watching.
"Mr. Ye, I checked your information on the way here. You're an NBA player, and your annual salary is a $330,000 partially guaranteed contract just signed this year plus two endorsement incomes. ”
"It's impossible to calculate how many assets you have, but are you really willing to invest $500,000 in my dot-com company?"
Zuckerberg was still a little skeptical.
What he said was already very nice.
In his opinion, NBA players are nouveau riche who have not read books seriously, do not understand the value of the Internet at all, and no one is willing to spend $500,000 to invest in Internet companies.
After all, at this time, $500,000 is not a small amount of money. The Internet is not as ubiquitous as it was in later generations, and many people are still skeptical of the Internet.
"I'd rather spend my time practicing my shooting than wasting time sitting with you if I didn't."
Ye Feng replied.
Zuckerberg was stunned for a moment, and then laughed with Ye Feng.
"I believe that the Internet will be the key to life in the future...... And social networking sites are crucial......"
Although Ye Feng didn't learn the Internet, with the things he knew about the future, it was enough for Zuckerberg to drink a hundred pots.
Slightly revealing the use of the future network, Zuckerberg was shocked and incomprehensible.
But after thinking about it carefully, this guy can figure out the theory in it, and even roughly simulate the program structure in it, which makes Ye Feng even more shocked, and he is worthy of being a genius in the programming world.
And Ye Ni stood aside, looking at Ye Feng, who was rarely talking, and she was also confused.
In her life, she had never seen Ye Feng say so many words. Even he, a guy with a sports background, is using Internet knowledge to educate a Harvard top student, which is simply unimaginable!
The more Ye Feng and Zuckerberg chatted, the more excited they became, after all, the things Ye Feng knew were very advanced, and many of them were not in contact with Zuckerberg. And Zuckerberg is smart and quick to understand.
In addition, the two are of similar age, Ye Feng is 21 years old, Zuckerberg is 19 years old, they are both young people, and they can also talk.
Before you know it, it's dinner time.
Uncle and aunt pulled the two directly to the dining table and chatted while eating.
Zuckerberg tasted the dishes cooked by his uncle Ye Chengfang, and he was full of praise, which also made his uncle very happy.
When it came to the end, Ye Feng confirmed the investment.
"Yeni, how much money do I have?"
Ye Feng's financial management has always been Ye Ni's agent, but Ye Feng himself is not clear.
"$670,000!"
Ye Ni blurted out.
Ye Feng owns Under Armour's shares, and his net worth is already tens of millions, but there is only so much money on hand.
This is still saved by Ye Feng who doesn't spend much money.
"Give it all to Mark [Zuckerberg]."
Ye Feng said.
"No, I only need $500,000."
Mark Zuckerberg said with a wave of his hand.
"Take it all, apply for patents, hire professionals, it costs money. Also, you have to make a clear distinction with Eduardo Saverin, and don't let him hold an unexplained stake anymore. I'll let Zhang Mofu help you solve these problems. ”
Ye Feng said.
It's because Zuckerberg had a lot of loopholes in the early days of his business and suffered a lot of big losses. For example, the patent issue, the issue of Eduardo's shares......
Zhang Mofu is a professional, so he is much more reliable in dealing with these problems.
In the end, the two agreed on a contract.
Ye Feng invested 670,000 US dollars, occupying 60% of the company's shares.
As for other future financings, all are counted separately.
Leaving Zuckerberg to sleep in the apartment overnight, he woke up the next day and left.
And Ye Feng also drove to the stadium to prepare for the Christmas war.
(End of chapter)