Amazon, Bezos was called Caabra when it was founded in 1994. It's just that it didn't do well at the beginning, and in a year, I basically lost all the early investment.

By June 1995, Bezos decided to start all over again, and then found his own family trust and invested hundreds of thousands of dollars.

And with the help of his father, he recruited 60 potential investors and raised a million dollars, thus changing the name to Amazon.

However, less than half a year later, this time the more than one million funds were once again exhausted. Fortunately, at this time, Amazon has made great progress compared to the last time.

Although the money was used up, it was exchanged for two large book warehouses, more than 50 employees, and thousands of stable customers.

Bezos has proven that his model works. So, in November, Bezos began his first funding round.

And the reason why he found deep-sea investment is, firstly, because deep-sea is also in Seattle. The second is Shen Lanpeng's words when Yahoo went public.

The success of Yahoo has made many people know Shenhai, a company that specializes in investing in the technology industry. In front of Yahoo's success, there are not many entrepreneurs who come to Shenhai for investment in the past half month.

It's just Amazon, as a company that Chu Qing personally named and paid attention to, Shen Lanpeng called Chu Qing the moment he received the investment plan.

"It's just that their financing needs are a little high." Shen Lanpeng, who was far away in Seattle, looked at the information he had just received last night in his hand, and said to Chu Qing with some frowns.

"How much?"

"Ten million?"

"They're just in the first round. Need so much? Chu Qing was also surprised by this amount, he didn't expect Bezos to ask for so much as soon as he came up.

At this amount, how high is Amazon valued at the moment?

"Yes, according to the corporate valuation from Bezos, it is now as high as 50 million."

"Where did the 50 million come from? Are there any other investment institutions in this round of financing? Chu Qing didn't think that it was a lot of 10 million, but he was very curious about how Bezos blew the valuation so high.

Although the investment of Internet companies is very hot now, Amazon is an Internet e-commerce, and there is no other precedent before it.

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"It's said to be the valuation given by Transatlantic, because just last month, Amazon's turnover has reached 1.34 million, an increase of 40 percent over the same period, and this figure is still rising. According to their estimates, the book market in the United States is a large market worth tens of billions. Compared with Yahoo, which has just been listed, so a valuation of 50 million is given. ”

"And who else is involved in the investment this time?"

"And Thomas Perkins' KPCB." After hearing this, Chu Qing had to sigh, Bezos deserved to be from an investment bank, and his starting point was far from being comparable to Yang Zhiyuan.

At the beginning of the business, you can get more than one million start-up funds. After making a little scale, the entry of venture capital was accepted, and the overall valuation had increased dozens of times at this time.

Bezos was able to pay less and get more money than expected. It's no wonder that Amazon will grow into a 100 billion big enterprise in the future.

In terms of his vision and ability, it is not comparable to Yang Zhiyuan. Chu Qing thought of the rumors before Amazon's listing in the previous life, and Sonoshi of SoftBank was very optimistic about Amazon, and the reason why he did not negotiate in the end was that there was a huge disagreement between the two sides on the final amount of financing.

Bezos took out 20 percent of the shares to raise $130 million. And Son is only willing to give this 20% of the shares, valuing it at $100 million.

It was these 30 million US dollars that made Son miss Amazon, and later he would fully support Alibaba.

You know, it was the end of 1996 at that time, and Amazon was not yet listed. Bezos would be able to raise Amazon's valuation to $650 million.

On the contrary, after the listing, Amazon's stock price has been hovering at a low level, and it was only when he opened up everything that Amazon's stock price began to soar.

"Cast it, let's try to eat as much as we can." If you want to eat it all, it's impossible for the time being, and it's not that the deep sea can't get the money now.

As long as the current Yahoo stock is mortgaged in the bank, 10 million is still no problem. The main problem is that with Bezos's shrewdness, he will never accept only one investment at this time.

Compared with Yahoo's earning and leaving, this time Amazon, Chu Qing wants to hold it for a long time. After all, e-commerce is the pillar industry of the Internet.

"Depending on what you mean, this fish called Amazon is really a bit big." Xiao Yang raised the fish in his hand and shook it in front of Chu Qing and asked.

I looked at the phone in my hand, and there was a number in it that was still lying quietly without ringing. He looked up at the fish in Xiao Yang's hand again.

"It's big or not, you'll know if you eat it." …… Magic City, Tesla. The clock had passed ten o'clock in the evening.

Wei Zheng had just finished the last document in his hand. He and Chu Qing like to delegate power differently. From the beginning of Tesla's preparations, he will personally inquire about almost everything.

At first, it was out of caution, because I didn't know how to be afraid of being tricked. Now it's out of habit, and he can clearly grasp the progress by watching any link in person.

However, before he could finish cleaning up and get ready to leave work, the door of the office was pushed open.

"Oh no! Something went wrong. It was Huang Zhang who came in, and the moment he opened the door, his face was full of panic.

He is now a vice president at Tesla. Mainly responsible for market operation and management.

"What's the matter?"

"A fire broke out in the warehouse of a sales point in Tai'an, causing three deaths and five injuries, caused by the natural battery when charging!" Hearing this news, Wei Zheng's face sank instantly.

It is not the first time that the natural problem of charging lead-acid batteries has occurred. In recent years, they have been continuously improving the battery process and improving the safety factor.

However, because some people use it non-standardly, spontaneous combustion occasionally occurs.

"When?"

"Just now."

"It's fine! Take advantage of the fact that the incident is not too big, you quickly arrange someone to deal with it, and for the dead and injured, the compensation must be used as soon as possible to minimize the impact. Two other engineers were sent over to check the condition of the battery. What exactly caused it. "As Tesla's battery process continues to improve, and production standards are raised.

Under normal circumstances, the battery will not spontaneously combust, and at most it will be bulging and other phenomena. Unless there is an overcharge during the charging process, there is a small chance of bursting, and the burst location is located at the hot air junction of the tank cover or the corner of the stress concentration.

And more often than not, the battery connection wire, heat adhesion causes a short circuit naturally. No matter which one it is, it is generally dealt with in a timely manner and will not cause too many accidents.

And none of this has much to do with the battery itself. It is caused by non-standard operation in daily use. However, no matter which one it is, it is a special event that needs to be dealt with urgently for Tesla at this moment.