{Time: August 8, 2004}

{Location: United States-California}

Although the United States is a modern industrial city, the population of Mountain View, California, which covers an area of ​​31.7 square kilometers, is less than 100,000. With such a population density distribution, the night sky of Mountain View City can still see dense stars. And a waning moon

It is being guarded by the stars and hanging high in the galaxy.

Leaning on the balcony on the second floor, Ning Zimo held a beer and stared at the incomplete moon motionless.

This action had lasted for more than a minute, so much so that Hoffman always thought that Ning Zimo could see some extraterrestrial visitor with his eyes.

Looking at the direction where Ning Zimo was staring again, Hoffman was sure that there was nothing in the direction he was looking at except the crescent moon. So, he quietly pushed Elon. Seeing him look at

Coming over, he glanced in Ning Zimo's direction.

Having been partners for many years, Elon can understand that he is being pushed out to be a gunman.

But without thinking, Elon raised his arm and bumped Ning Zimo's shoulder.

Seeing Ningzi looking over silently, Elon smiled at him and said, "Although everyone made a lot of money from the sale of Paypal back then, not many people except you had enough cash. So this time you recommend Li

Miss’s Spark Company is here to raise funds, and if everyone can contribute 30 million US dollars, it’s already a strong support, so don’t think we don’t support you.”

"Hey, I'm struggling with this matter. I'm thinking about how to go forward after these two investments." Ning Zimo shook his head and smiled, "Besides, everyone just lacks money to invest, it's not that they don't support it.

"

Ning Zimo knew what Elon meant.

Spark sells 20% of its equity in exchange for 100 million yuan. Considering that Spark is sending a 500 million invitation to noq, as well as 55 million U.S. dollars in acquisition funds from three map companies. This means that the 100 million U.S. dollars entering Spark will immediately be used at 15%

Capital investment accounts for 20% of the shares.

This is a 5% growth in an instant. If coupled with the personal endorsement of Ning Zimo, who has a vicious vision, everyone in Paypal will know that this is a pretty good investment project.

But Ning Zimo knew from the beginning that Spark would encounter some problems when seeking investment in Paypal.

After all, the capital requirement of 100 million is a huge share among the old PayPal partners.

As powerful as Elon Musk, the founder of Paypal, he only held about 120 million in capital after Paypal was sold to eBay, and behind him there has always been a bottomless project of SpaceX that is burning money.

Although Peter Thiel is the CEO of Paypal, he only made 56 million U.S. dollars in revenue from that acquisition. In his previous life, he only invested 500,000 U.S. dollars in Facebook, so Ning Zimo classified him as cautious early on.

among people.

Not to mention the other guys, although the realization of their PayPal shares made them millionaires, it has been two years since the acquisition, and everyone actually didn’t have much cash at the start-up stage.

However, Ning Zimo still didn't expect that the "stingy" Peter Thiel suddenly invested 10 million US dollars. With the support of Hoffman, Sachs, and Paypal who grew flowers in Europe, as well as the full support of other guys, a total of

Let Spark win 35 million US dollars in this paypal internal transaction.

This result has been much higher than Ning Zimo expected. It is probably because Li Ying's development positioning of Spark and her endorsement of claiming the remaining part of the investment in front of everyone gave everyone at Paypal considerable confidence.

Therefore, he was not struggling just to help Xinghuo get 35 million investment, but he was struggling with the things he was doing secretly and could not reveal it to the guys around him.

At this internal promotion meeting, he took out all the remaining 65 million, and he even gave up the corresponding shareholder rights in public.

From the perspective of others, this is a sign that he is optimistic about this project.

Only Ning Zimo knew that he took the money out of the left pocket and put it into the right pocket.

As for taking off his pants and farting, Ning Zimo must be willing to go through the motions in front of everyone.

This is done for no other reason than that those in power in the United States have determined that what can truly bring wealth and strength to the United States is the true "pragmatism" philosophy!

This sentence is too profound, with Ning Zimo's correct understanding after personally experiencing the "freedom" advocated by the United States in his previous life.

Unfortunately, he couldn't explain the ins and outs of such a cunning operation to his partners around him.

But no matter what, because of the internal promotion meeting of Spark Company, the identities of Li Ying and Jennifer, the American founders, will become legitimate.

in addition,

"This time, I also invested in the Yelp project, which also means that I got an unexpected gain after organizing this internal retreat. So, no matter what, this party was quite successful." Ning Zimo smiled at a few people.

Laughed.

Yelp, co-founded by former Paypal engineers Jeremy Stoppelman and Russell Simmons, is Ning Zimo’s harvest from this internal promotion. Ning Zimo invested 5 million in funds

, in exchange for 15% of Yelp's shares. But because the others all invested in Spark, there was no extra money to invest in Yelp.

However, for them, after listening to Li Ying talk about the development direction of Spark, they may feel that investing in Spark is the most important thing for them to do.

Thinking of this, Ning Zimo shrugged and said, "Although I have not invested much money in Yelp, Yelp, which has found its development direction, will feed back to Spark through its final development results. This means that the funds we invested in Spark,

will pay off faster."

"We have always believed in your vision, and now we also believe in your optimistic view of Spark." Sachs said, "In fact, before Ms. Li analyzed [Traffic Earth] in detail with everyone, Jeremy and Russell had already recommended it to many of us.

yelp.

However, because the development direction of Yelp is not clear, and Yelp has not found a reasonable profit idea, for everyone, it is at most a friendly sponsorship. It was not until Ms. Li explained the practical applications and profit methods of [Traffic Earth] and Yelp that everyone felt that Yelp had found a way to make money.

corresponding development direction.”

As soon as Sachs finished speaking, Hoffman raised his chin and said to the two girls chatting inside the glass door, "When Ms. Li used to do management consulting for our Paypal, no one saw that she had such strong abilities in the Internet industry.

.

Even when Jennifer was working at Paypal, Sachs thought that she could only be regarded as a good HR supervisor prospect. So we didn't expect that these two beauties could show such strong work ability and ability after working with you for a period of time.

Vision.

So, until now, we still have to admit that you, the youngest coo in the history of Paypal, are really a genius!"

"Well, he is a genius in the business field, and he even looks at people with such vicious eyes!" Sachs followed.

Ning Zimo laughed, but saw Elon wink at him.

His teasing look immediately gave Ning Zimo an ominous sign!

Elon raised his eyebrows and said towards the direction of the room, "I don't know how you are willing to let these two beauties out from your side?"

Without Ning Zimo to mention it, everyone in Paypal unanimously believed that the founding of Spark was the result of Li Ying and Jennifer's team breaking away from Ning Zimo's original team to start a business together. Ning Zimo was also happy that everyone understood it this way.

But now the people standing on the balcony of Hoffman's house were all adults. Elon's obvious pun naturally made a few people laugh. But only Ning Zimo, the center of the vortex, could only shrug helplessly.

"I'm so young, why should I give up a forest for a tree?" Ning Zimo struggled.

"But isn't the forest made of trees?" Hoffman smiled silently at Ning Zimo, "Even if there are vast forests in the outside world, you should climb a tree first and take a look."

"Do you think that if I were you, I would taste the taste of any tree?"

"Ha, you are a giant in career and a dwarf in love! You don't understand how wonderful it is to have love between a man and a woman." When Hoffman spoke, his face was filled with a "sex-happy" smile, "Big

Long legs, big breasts, and big waves are also a major pursuit of men, you noob!"

Rookie?

Long legs?

Big breasts?

Big waves?

_

Ning Zimo suddenly felt helpless.

This group of Silicon Valley elites suddenly became promiscuous,

God knows how they can still be so bored.

The building is crooked,
Chapter completed!