And a post by this young man named Zhou seemed to open the door to a new world.

Although Internet companies are no longer so easily favored by investors in the United States, this concept, such as the concept of free security software, makes many people feel very troublesome.

Why are there any trouble? Because the popularity of free software is the highest.

In order to achieve popularity, some paid software will deliberately indulge pirated copies without spending money.

As for...how to make money with free software? There are many examples to learn from.

Whether it is Yahoo, the number one search engine, or Google, the rising star, the search business of both companies does not charge users.

So, how do they maintain operations and make profits?

It's very simple, it's just two words - advertising.

The word advertising is a popular advertisement when separated, so all platforms with huge users are good places for advertising to work.

Compared with similar paid software, as long as the availability is not inferior to more than three levels, the number of users of free software must be higher.

Therefore, free software is a very good advertising carrier. The two are very similar.

Of course, there is also a difficulty in doing this kind of advertising business, which is that it requires scale. When the company was first established, what was lacking was scale and money. Therefore, small companies like this began to look for investments frantically.

Tom, wearing a gray-blue dress, walked on the streets of Silicon Valley. He had nothing to do with Tom in "Cat and Mouse". What he was looking for today was the legendary investor of Silicon Valley, Pete Tyre.

This opportunity was hard-won. He got this opportunity after two weeks of roadshowing on the street.

Therefore, he not only started rushing towards Pitt Tyre's office two hours early, but along the way he kept thinking about what kind of questions Pitt Tyre would ask and how he should answer them.

This is a complicated game process, and Tom devotes almost all his energy to it, so he accidentally bumped into a telephone pole.

"Ah!" Tom cried.

With a star-eyed look, he barely squatted down, touched his forehead and bumped into the street lamp and rubbed it gently, hoping not to lose his face that he dressed up with all his heart.

After a little relief, Tom finally felt that he had recovered, so he stood up and began to continue his journey towards Pete Thiel's office.

"Hello, I'm No. 37." Tom said to the young front desk lady.

Although it is called "sister", it refers only to age rather than other places. This lady is very big in other places, even bigger than many older sisters.

"Hello, Mr. Tom? I've found your appointment record. Please wait a moment." Although the young lady was very polite, she didn't have too many expressions on her face. Anyone who said such a set of words hundreds of times a day, 365 days a year, wouldn't he be tired of saying this almost every day?

Anyway, the young lady is not such a fairy figure. She is just an ordinary young man who insists on exercising every day.

However, this also shows Pitt Thiel's busyness from the side.

Mr. Thiel's daily work is very simple, just sitting in his office and listening to speeches from entrepreneurs.

If he thinks the project is suitable and the person is able to start a company, he will invest.

Of course, this is an angel investment, and if it fails, the investors will not have to bear anything.

However, compared to other angel investor Mr. Tyre, he was able to become a legendary investor in Silicon Valley because his investment success rate is too high, so high that it is unbelievable.

Two more hours later, the young lady finally came over and said, "Mr. Thirty-seven, it's your arrival."

"Ah?" Tom, immersed in his own world, felt a little unresponsive.

"Ah!" Tom quickly remembered, and couldn't help but feel ashamed on his face. He wanted to apologize to the customer service lady, but the customer service lady ignored him at all.

"Dong, dun." He knocked on the door with the knuckles of his index finger.

"Please come in." A voice came from the room.

Tom walked in cautiously, and the person behind the frosted glass was the Silicon Valley investment celebrities who often appeared in newspapers and TV.

In the past, even if Tom had the honor of seeing this Silicon Valley legend, he would only take a look at him from a distance. Now he can see him close and have to talk to him later. His sense of happiness is almost suffocating him.

"Hello...I'm...Tom Clacy, today I'm here to give you the idea of ​​free security software..."

"Wait." Before Tom finished speaking, Tyer waved his hand and told him not to speak. Tyer's divine little eyes stared at Tom's eyes with embarrassment, and he said, "Do you know that 18 of the thirty-six people before you today talk about free security software?"

"No, I don't know..." Tom was stopped by Tyre, disrupting all plans. He stammered, "I...I..."

"Tell me what's wrong with your head? Do you want to grow horns?" Tyer asked bluntly.

"I..." Tom Clacy said, "No, it was on my way here, I was thinking about how to answer the questions you might ask, but it ended up hitting the telephone pole."

"That's right! OK, I'll be an investor." Thiel said.

"Ah?" Tom Clacy didn't react.

"I said, I'll invest in you, and you will build a company that operates free security software. I'll give you the initial investment, well... ten million US dollars." Tyre said indifferently.

"Ah?" Tom seemed to be a fool who was ruined by Jerry. He never thought that he had actually obtained investment. Happiness came too suddenly. You must know that he had been on the roadshow for two weeks before, but there was not even anyone willing to pay attention to him.

Or many years later, he can also hire a full-time writer to write his memoirs. He will lie on a rattan chair, shake gently, and say this in the warm afternoon sun, "Of course, I stood out from the eighteen competitors because of hitting a telephone pole and gained the investment of Mr. Pitt Thiel. I am very grateful to Mr. Pitt for his appreciation..."

When he was so boasting and using the method of emphasizing others to show that he was better, he might not know that his unpretentious parents were once Tyer's college classmates. Moreover, Tyer's investment company had Zhongyao shares.

Yes, fairy tales are always lie.
Chapter completed!