Chapter 148: The First Investment, Instagram

Humphries saw that there was nothing exciting happening here for Yuan Shu, so he left after chatting a few words. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Yuan Shu has time to find something to eat at the table.

This kind of large-scale party generally appears in the form of a buffet, because most of the people who come to the party are to expand their social network, almost all of them are chatting, if they feel hungry in the process, they will find something to fill their stomachs, and when they get acquainted with strangers with a glass of wine, they can first shorten the distance between each other by having a drink, which is the same way as picking up or making friends in a bar.

However, Yuan Shu is different, after a lazy sleep in the hotel, he got up to take a shower and comb himself, and he still has not finished his rice.

Just when Yuan Shu was filling the plate with all kinds of delicacies and preparing for a gluttonous meal, he suddenly saw an Australian lobster on the opposite plate.

After Yuan Shu just said sorry to the male guest, he immediately said, "I'll go!" ”

What can make Yuan Shu blurt out so surprised is definitely not an ordinary thing.

Really! The food on the plate of the guest in front of him was more than twice that on Yuan Shu's plate!

"I thought I was already very shameless, but I didn't expect that there were guys with thicker skin than me, even if I hadn't eaten for two days, the plate would be more than enough!" Yuan Shu thought to himself.

Just when Yuan Shu looked at the other party's plate and thought, the guest stretched out his hand again, took the whole plate of the lobster that Yuan Shu had taken a fancy to, and then ignored Yuan Shu's surprised eyes, and came to a corner table to eat a large piece of flowers, and the appearance of eating looked like he hadn't eaten for a long time.

The man with slightly curly black hair, thick eyebrows, and a beard kept stuffing food into his mouth while constantly scanning the guests with a pair of attentive eyes. This guest who looked a bit like a blended in aroused Yuan Shu's interest.

Yuan Shu came to the man with his plate and sat opposite the man. The man continued to eat the contents of his plate while looking at Yuan Shu with inquiring eyes.

"Dude, slow down!" Yuan Shu couldn't help but feel a little distressed about these delicacies when he saw the way the other party was swallowing dates, it was really a waste.

As soon as Yuan Shu's words fell, the man opposite seemed to choke, constantly patting his chest and looking at the cup in Yuan Shu's hand.

Yuan Shu immediately handed the drink in his hand to the other party, and after the man took a few sips, he finally swallowed this mouthful.

At this time, the man seemed to be a little satisfied, wiped his hand on his body, stretched out his hand to Yuan Shu, and said, "Hello, thank you just now." ”

"You're welcome." After Yuan Shu shook hands with the other party, he then asked, "Man, it's not me who said, what's wrong with you, it seems like you haven't eaten for several days." ”

The man showed a shy smile at Yuan Shu and said, "I'm sorry, I was a little out of shape just now, I really haven't had such a good meal for a long time." ”

"Hey, man, you look pretty good, suits, shoes, how can you be as poor as you say." The other party's words made Yuan Shu curious, and he couldn't help but want to get to the bottom of it.

Seeing that Yuan Shu's attitude was very sincere and not like a bad person, and he could enter this top sailing private club party, his identity should be quite unusual, so he picked up a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, and said to Yuan Shu: "Please allow me to introduce myself first, my name is Kevin, my full name is Kevin Strom, graduated from Stanford University, I just resigned from Google two months ago and started a startup, but before 2 months, we lost all our start-up capital because we were cheated, seriously, I can't find even a steel hammer in my poor pocket. ”

"Wait, you mean, your name is Kevin Strom?" A surprised expression appeared on Yuan Shu's face.

Kevin Strom, the founder of Instagram! In October 2010, he founded Instagram Inc., led a team of 13 people to make the Instagram app a market value of $1 billion, and sold it to the social giant Facebook as a whole, and all this, Strom only took less than 2 years!

"Hey, man, how are your products doing?" With the experience of the past, Yuan Shu raised his own questions to the other party very reservedly, instead of directly asking Strom how your Instagram is doing as before, which will scare the other party away.

Ström shook his head and said with some frustration: "Because there is no start-up capital, the team is already facing the dilemma of disbanding, so in fact, I sneaked in here this time to see if any rich people are interested in my project and want to get an angel investment." ”

This is an opportunity to fall from the sky! Yuan Shu suddenly felt that the person sitting in front of him was not a person, but a cornucopia!

"Hey, man, I happen to have some spare money, would you like to tell me about your project?"

Ström glanced at Yuan Shu suspiciously, and then dispelled the suspicion, because no matter the person in front of him, the identity of the party here, or the confidence in his eyes, Strom had reason to believe that the other party was a successful person with spare money in his hands.

"Okay, allow me to introduce you to my project." Ström respectfully took out his mobile phone, opened a prototype of an APP, and then introduced his product to Yuan Shu: "Our project is mainly to make a picture sharing tool, I will temporarily name it Instagram, and we plan to ......"

Yuan Shu felt very amazing to hear an IT giant who would create a miracle of mobile Internet in the future explain the origin and ideas of Instagram to himself, thinking that he was a loyal fan of Instagram when Instagram was not banned in China!

This feeling is like a woman who particularly likes Taobao, coming to Ma Yun, who has just started a business, with a huge amount of money, and then listening to Ma Yun tell herself about her future development plan.

"Okay, I'm going to vote!" After Strom's introduction, Yuan Shu said very neatly that he would invest in Strom's Instagram project.

Just when the startled Strom felt incredible, Yuan Shu took out the checkbook he was carrying, wrote $500,000 on it, and said to Strom: "If it's not enough, feel free to tell me." With that, he handed the check for $500,000 to Strom.

"......" Strom took the check with a trembling hand, looking at Yuan Shu's eyes with a look of gratitude.

"What's your name, please?" Until the check arrived, Starrom didn't know the other party's name.

"My name is Yuan Shu, a player for the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers."