California, USA.

The breeze blew open a corner of the curtain, and the dazzling sunlight shone in. In a daze, Sean Parker yawned and opened his eyes, closed it quickly and raised his hand to block the light. After a long time of procrastination, he finally struggled to get up.

The woman I found last night was gone, there were some empty wine bottles on the floor and some chemical residue that was easily harmonious.

As we all know, Sean Parker is an addict, and his addiction has become increasingly serious in the past two years.

Of course, Sean Parker has other hobbies, such as when he was in high school, he liked to go to various websites, and often broke in uninvited. He never failed as a hacker, and went without a trace. Until one morning, his father saw his son surfing the Internet all night, he was so angry that he pulled out his keyboard and was finally successfully positioned by FBI.

A few days later, the father, who wanted his son to become a success, found that his family was surrounded by a large number of FBIs. It turned out that his son was suspected of attacking multiple government and military base websites.

Sean Parker was a blessing in disguise. He was a minor and did not cause any huge losses. He only needed to be a volunteer for a few days. However, after his glorious deeds spread, he attracted many institutions, including CIA, to ask him to develop various software. He made 80,000 US dollars in his third year of high school alone.

At this moment, Sean Parker met 15-year-old Sean Fanning. Two hacker boys joined forces to establish the first pirated music website in the United States. The website quickly broke the 10 million registered users, but the bad impact it brought was that American record companies lost hundreds of millions of dollars and announced the end of the CD era of the American record industry.

Because there was no legal basis and the lawsuit was delayed for a year, their pirated music website was finally forced to close.

Sean Parker became penniless, and even lost the money he saved from writing software. His girlfriend advised him to go to Starbucks to make a living by making a living. This guy spent several months wandering around, and then created an online address book and successfully obtained financing from Sequoia Capital. Unfortunately, he was often late and absent, and he did not go to work in the company every few days, and was finally kicked out of management by Sequoia Capital.

Until now, Sean Parker is still fooling around, and he has squandered all the money he earned from his second business.

Feeling a little hungry, Sean Parker first turned on the computer and then ran to search for the refrigerator. Unfortunately, the refrigerator was already empty, with only half a can of pork left, and there was a bottle of unopened red wine on the bedside table. So he got up to open the bottle and drank to satisfy his hunger, and half lying on the chair to browse the email.

One of the emails was sent by Eduardo Savilin. The guy is a rich second generation, and he is a member of the Phoenix SK Club at Harvard University. The email content is probably: "Dear Parker, I recently registered an online company with my friend in Florida. The website domain name is the "Now everything is simple and there is no fixed office address, so I decided to buy a house in California, which is specifically used for company office work. At present, the company still lacks a manager. If you are interested, you can be the president of the company."

Sean Parker was too lazy to reply to emails because he always thought that Savilin was a fool and that he could not discuss major issues with him. But two days later, Savilin's email came again: "Dear Parker, we need your help in urgent need. Just yesterday, we got $1 million in Altitus investment. Now we have no shortage of funds and technology, only one president who can lead the company on track. Of course, if you are not interested in this position, I can only consider asking for a clever one."

Altair?

Sean Parker quickly searched for information on his computer and found that Altitus is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taurus Capital and is Google's largest shareholder.

During this period, the news of Google's listing has been buzzing, and Wall Street investment banks are almost fighting. Sean Parker finally became interested and immediately replied: "Give me the company address and I will fly over immediately!"

...

Let's take the time back two days ago.

Zuckerberg had just attended a Harvard student party. While using the toilet, he met a Chinese female student from the medical school, his later wife Priscilla Chen. The two hit it off at first sight, chatted all the way from the toilet and went back to the party, and made an appointment to have dinner together tomorrow.

Shortly after returning to the dormitory, roommate Moscowwitz suddenly jumped up and shouted: "It was an email from Altius. Altius fell in love with our website!"

"Do you want to buy us again?" Zuckerberg's wine was not yet awake.

At this time, it was almost a month since Song Weiyang came to the United States. Facebook had already left the Harvard campus and became popular in more than 10 universities in the United States. There was an online company called Friendster, who also works in the online community. He quickly set his sights on Facebook and tried to acquire it with less than 100,000 US dollars.

Zuckerberg didn't say anything about this yet, partner Savilin almost took out a stack of banknotes and threw the money directly into the other party's face.

Savilin's psychological activities are probably like this: I am a rich second generation, and I invested 15,000 US dollars to play, and I only had 30% of the company's equity. What little money is nothing, it's not as good as my pocket money every year, so I actually want to acquire 100% of the shares?

Moscowwitz said excitedly: "That's Altius, the Altius who invests in Google! Song, Song, have you forgotten? The guide of the Internet industry! He happened to come to the United States to participate in Google's listing. If we accept this financing, Song will come to Harvard to meet us in person. He is very interested in our website!"

"Will Song really come here in person?" Zuckerberg finally woke up.

Moscowwitz nodded and said, "Yes, he will come here in person. The Altius people also said in the email that Sohu, which Song invested in, has similar websites in China, which are more comprehensive than Facebook's functions. I have broken through China's network firewall and are logging in Sohu's Renren. Maybe we can refer to the special functions of Renren."

"Do you know Chinese characters?" Zuckerberg asked.

Moscowwitz shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Zuckerberg was speechless and silently took out his cell phone and called: "Hello, Chen, I am Zuckerberg... Yes, it's the man you met in front of the party toilet today. I have something to ask you for help... OK, OK, see you tomorrow!"

The next day, Priscilla Chen, a mixed-race Chinese and Vietnamese, was browsed by a Starbucks player Renren.

Priscilla Chen has only learned traditional Chinese characters, but this does not prevent her from visiting the mainland website: "This is the drifting bottle function, which will be randomly sent to friends or strangers. Users who pick up the drifting bottle can choose to 'soft paper' in the drifting bottle to allow the drifting bottle to continue drifting. They can also use website points or website currency to trace any picker of the drifting bottle to establish a 'bottle friend' relationship."

"Is the drift bottle? This is an interesting feature." Zuckerberg smiled.

Priscilla Chen pointed to the laptop again and said, "This function is called 'poke', so that you can 'poke' others."

Moscowwitz asked: "What's the use of this?"

"I don't know much," said Priscilla Chen, "maybe it's just saying hello, or maybe it's something else."

Zuckerberg asked: "What does Renren rely on to make a profit?"

Priscilla Chen repeatedly studied the website for a long time and said: "There is an advertisement bar on the right side of the page. Users can earn points by clicking on advertisements. These points can buy some specific products. For example, their homepage background, and some ordinary gifts, which can be given to friends."

"Gift?" Zuckerberg leaned over.

Priscilla Chen opened the gift mall interface: "Look, these are gifts. Some gifts can be exchanged for points, but most gifts need to be recharged. There are e-greeting cards, postcards, flowers, cakes, cartoon images... they are all pretty."

Zuckerberg and Moscowitz looked at each other, and the latter sighed: "I didn't expect that China's online community has a more mature business operation model than the United States."

Priscilla Chen searched for encyclopedia entry and said: "This is China's Sogou Encyclopedia, similar to the United States' Wikipedia, but it went online earlier than Wikipedia. The encyclopedia entry of 'Renren.com' is: the world's largest network community, currently has 30 million registered users, and one of every three Chinese netizens is a member of Renren."

"I bought it!" Moscowwitz was so shocked that he was extremely shocked. "I think Sohu's stock price has been seriously underestimated. Just based on this social network called Renren.com, Sohu's stock price should double its current price!"

Unfortunately, Renren is not profitable now and only got rid of the loss at the end of last year.

Zuckerberg was originally very confident in Facebook. Although there are many similar American websites now, he firmly believes that he is the best one. Now that he meets Renren in China, he instantly loses the confidence of arrogance and pride, because he has indeed done more perfectly.

Moscowwitz said: "I think we should accept Song's financing and ask a Renren employee to come and help, they have more practical experience in this kind of website."

"I think so too," Zuckerberg said.

Moscowwitz asked: "Do you need to notify Saverin?"

Zuckerberg said: "Let me tell him after the talks, he doesn't care much about the company anyway."

Later, some people said that Zuckerberg had a bad character and turned against him and kicked Savilin out. But if he really got involved with a partner like Savilin, he would be quite depressed, at least he would be particularly depressed in the early stages of his business.

The rich second-generation Savelin treats Facebook like this:

No start-up capital? In that case, I invest 15,000 US dollars and give me 30% of the shares.

What, the company's money is not enough? Okay, I'll invest another 10,000 US dollars and you can help me calculate the shares.

Need me to manage the company? Sorry, I don’t have time, I still have to study, and I have also found a promising job in a large company.

Do you want me to help with things? No problem, this is easy to solve... Sorry, I forgot.

Savrin's indifferent attitude not only annoyed Zuckerberg and Moscowwitz, but even Savrin personally invited Sean Parker to be the president, was very dissatisfied with this guy. So the three of them simply re-registered the company and retained Savrin's shares, but did not admit that Savrin was the founder and was too lazy to notify Savrin when they accepted the financing.

"Reply to Altitus, we accept financing negotiations," Zuckerberg said.

"Ok!" Moscowwitz was very excited. He had a premonition that he would become a billionaire because he held 5% of Facebook's equity at this time.
Chapter completed!