Fight to the third generation

Most of the people I usually meet are talking about business, making money, success or failure, and the air is full of dollar bills.

Su Yehao found that he was also infected, and wanted to invest in projects he was interested in.

In all fairness.

The projects selected by venture capital companies are of relatively high quality. As long as they are well-run, they all have the possibility of success. The big cake is very attractive.

It's a pity that some successes in the eyes of others are just a waste of time in Su Yehao's eyes.

For example, someone just mentioned that they plan to develop a car exchange community program. There have been similar forums on the Internet for a long time. Not to mention the fierce competition, the entry threshold is still too low.

There's also an online map, which sounds a bit like Google Maps.

Rather than investing a lot of money in a map product that is likely to fail, Su Yehao thinks it's better to wait until the future when he has spare money and buy a ready-made product directly.

Of course, the premise is that there is a need for this.

Personal energy is limited, even if the management team is responsible, there are too many things to worry about.

now.

Su Yehao made up his mind decisively and stopped the spread of ambition.

In the short term, you can't chew too much.

In the future, there may be opportunities to get involved in other industries, but recently it is better to focus on games and news forums.

After considering this point clearly, Su Yehao suppressed his imminent ambition and made up his mind to focus on investment and despise entrepreneurship.

Stretching in the car, he suddenly asked Linda Yun, "I remember I bought a Gulfstream private business jet, and more than a year has passed, but what about the plane?"

"Huh? I'll contact you later, it should be in production."

"It's too slow. If I knew I shouldn't have customized it at the beginning, I bought someone else's plane at a premium, and now I can enjoy it."

Linda Yun didn't answer, took out her mobile phone and sent a text message to the assistant on duty.

I got a reply soon. The customized private jet is expected to be delivered in the second quarter of next year, and I have to wait patiently for a while...

Back home, Su Yehao was thinking about what to have for lunch.

The housekeeper came to him with a cardboard box in his arms and said, "I received another 32 letters today, and some people came this morning. I asked them to put down the documents and promised to hand them over to you."

"...you asked me to invest again?"

"Of course, if necessary, I will send an unfamiliar letter that looks like a request for investment to your venture capital firm."

The housekeeper also found it troublesome, and added:

"More people are looking for you to seek investment. Celebrities in other Silicon Valley areas should be in the same situation as us. I heard that some neighbors clean up once a week, and letters can fill up two large trash cans on the street."

"Don't guess, it must be the home of Oracle's CEO. He is the most famous, and of course there will be more people looking for him."

Su Yehao took out these letters and picked them casually.

There were invitations from charitable foundations to attend banquets, there were also advertisements for yachts, and there was even a shy service by phone. It was estimated that they were sent to every family in the Atherton area. After all, there were so many rich and big customers.

Entrepreneurs are everywhere here, and everyone wants to hug their thighs.

As Su Yehao became famous, no matter whether he went to the company, to eat, or to go for a walk recently, there would always be someone who accidentally "coincided" with him and recommended his own project by the way.

Facing these strange letters, Su Yehao didn't have any expectations at first, and didn't even bother to read them. Anyway, those who sent him the letters must have already adapted to nothing.

however.

An ordinary folder successfully caught Su Yehao's attention, and the title read "New Generation Search Engine".

Continue reading... Well, there are too many professional terms, and Su Yehao can't understand them. He just thinks they look very professional.

He beckoned to Linda Yun and asked her to help translate.

……

Chapter 402 Antilink Company

There was a lot written on the document, a total of eighteen pages.

Linda Yun chose key points to help translate, while Su Yehao lay on the sofa and listened carefully.

To sum up, it is nothing more than that this team has developed a patent that can enhance the accuracy of user search results and create a new algorithm for optimizing web page rankings.

Su Yehao also has a team working on search engines.

TOT portals and search engines have become popular in the mainland, with more than 30 monthly active users and a market share of more than [-]%.

A market share of more than [-]% at every turn sounds a bit like a fantasy.

However, the fact is that no one really competes with him, or even if there are colleagues from the mainland, they are not at the same level as him. Su Yehao's business is in Silicon Valley, and the scale can only be considered medium-sized, and he easily crushes them.

Interrupting Linda Yun at this time, Su Yehao said with interest:

"Although I sound confused, there seems to be something there. Which company does this technology belong to?"

After reading it, Linda Yun replied: "I don't know, it doesn't seem to be written on it. This prospectus is very carefully done. It's not like those small companies started in the garage. I saw Larry in the list of shareholders. Ellison's name, he owns 25% of the shares."

"Hey, did the founder of Oracle invest in it?"

Su Yehao sat up, reached out to take the folder, and there was indeed Larry Ellison's name on the seventh page.

As if afraid that others would not see it, the font was specially enlarged and bolded, two sizes larger than other texts. It was introduced that in June, Larry Ellison raised $20 in financing.

Calculating the time, only five months have passed.

This shows that even if the company develops fast, it is unlikely to be large in scale.

The information in English made Su Yehao's brain hurt. He looked left and right, but he didn't find any information related to the founding team or the company. It is probably not well-known, and the scale is very small, so I am embarrassed to write it in the promotional materials. .

Linda Yun looked at the authentic British old housekeeper and asked, "This document doesn't have a packaging bag, so it wasn't sent by the post office, right? Did the other party leave a business card?"

"... I still have the impression that two young men came, said to be students from Stanford University, driving a very old white Dodge car, and the security guards didn't let them in."

After the old butler finished speaking, he immediately blamed himself: "I'm sorry, I should let them register and leave a message. I was busy arranging for people to clean the swimming pool."

Su Yehao waved his hand indifferently, and said to the butler, "It's okay, you can still find it if you want, there is surveillance at the door, you should have taken a picture of the license plate, or go to Stanford University to ask someone else, it's a very simple matter..."

Take a few more glances.

He inexplicably felt that this patent looked familiar.

Algorithms, rankings, and search engines, and also originated from Stanford University, look more and more like a famous future giant-Google.

Like Yahoo, Google was born on the Stanford campus in the previous life.

Su Yehao also posted news such as "Yang Zhiyuan missed Google! I regretted it, and cried bitterly!", "Shocked! Missed hundreds of billions of dollars, the worst man in the world..." and other news, so even though he didn't use Google, he was very concerned about this I have a vague impression of this company.

Logically.

Due to the butterfly effect caused by Su Yehao, some subtle changes have already occurred in the world.

His products have tens of millions of users, and everyone changes a little bit, adding up to push the future into an unknown direction.

In the previous life, a person who should have lived healthy until the 21s might have been in a car accident when he went out a little later because of chatting.

It is also possible that you should have been married to someone else, but because you fell into an online relationship, you married or married another person.

A lot of small things have changed, but the general direction has not changed much.

It is still possible for talents with ability and brains to develop similar products. After all, the demand is there, so Yehao Su still dares to invest in companies such as Apple and Amazon, because the general direction of technological development has not changed, and some products themselves meet the requirements. Market demand, have the opportunity to go very far.

Thinking that it was indeed possible to meet Google again, Su Yehao became more energetic.

If it is really Google, it does not matter whether it can replicate its success. Anyway, this patented algorithm technology looks a bit interesting.

Yahoo's search engine Su Yehao is also using it, which is not accurate enough. Recently, the performance pressure is high, and there are many more advertisements. The increase in profits has indeed stimulated the stock price, but the user experience is not very good.

With the attitude of giving it a try, he asked someone to contact the security company to adjust the surveillance to find the white Dodge car mentioned by the housekeeper.

Quickly find the license plate and the rest is easy...

……

that evening.

A briefing appeared in Su Yehao's hand.

As an ordinary person in his previous life, Su Yehao had little impression of the founder of Google.

At this moment, when I saw the names "Larry Page" and "Sergey Brin" in the document, I felt very strange.

If it were Jobs, Gates, or Facebook founder Zuckerberg, Su Yehao would definitely be able to recognize them at a glance. Logically speaking, they are all super rich, but he really doesn't know enough about these two.

The money was well spent and the investigation was extremely fast.

According to the data, in 1996, Page and Brin, two roommates at Stanford University, began to cooperate in the research of a search engine called "BackRub", and developed a web page ranking patent after improvement.

In June of this year, they received a sum of money from the founder of Oracle, and registered a search engine company called "Backline (anti-link)" in September. Reviews from university students.

And its users are mostly students.

The document said that they were seeking investment recently, which explained why they found Su Yehao here.

It's just... As for whether it is Google, Su Yehao still doesn't have an accurate answer, who called it "anti-link".

"Fucking self-media, why don't you push some Google news more accurately?"

After complaining, I searched for the keywords of "reverse link search engine" on the computer, and tried to use it on a simple page first, and I felt that it was not as easy to use as Yahoo.

There was an example of TOT first, Su Yehao knew that search engines needed user data optimization, so he didn’t rush to make a conclusion for the time being, so he made a phone call and asked John Zhou to find some programmers who understand search engines to study this anti-link.

Different names don't matter.

Maybe when thinking about the name of the company, there was no idea, and then another layer of skin was put on.

To evaluate a project, the key point is to see whether the technology and talent team are reliable.

If it is really easier to use than Yahoo and develops smoothly, Su Yehao doesn't want the self-media to ridicule how miserable he is, and pass by a good company after ten or twenty years.

Rejecting so many entrepreneurial teams recently, it is inevitable that there will be a few fish that slip through the net.

After coming to Silicon Valley to experience it himself, Su Yehao realized that Yang Zhiyuan, who is not Yahoo, has no vision. He can only say that he is unlucky and not enough fate...

Chapter 403

The sigh of envy is completely gone.

So what if it's really the Google of the previous life, Su Yehao's net worth is as high as more than one billion US dollars, and those two are just poor students in Stanford University.

It's purely just the possibility of finding a good seedling, and I'm a little excited.

The venture capital institutions in Silicon Valley are too cruel, and the really good projects will be divided up in a blink of an eye.

Some well-known teams throw out an idea, and angel investors are immediately moved by the news. When they become a little famous, they may not only have A round of financing, but also B and C rounds. The equity has been divided up long ago. He went to NASDAQ to go public, and didn't give Su Yehao a chance at all.

For example, Yahoo, which was founded in 1995, had a market value of more than one billion U.S. dollars in 1997, when Su Yehao started investing in it last year.

The first batch of investors earned hundreds of times the income, but he only earned a few times. When he increased his position later, the market value of Yahoo had reached more than 30 billion U.S. dollars. He picked up some broth and drank it. Fortunately, he invested enough capital. The scale of profit is relatively considerable.

Calculating the rate of return, it is far worse than previous investors.

The "anti-link company", which has only been established for two months, has received a total of 35 US dollars in angel round financing from others, including Oracle's founder Larry E. Leeson.

Su Yehao's net worth exceeds tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, and Larry Ellison is one of the members of the "Ten Billion Dollar Club", with a total net worth of $270 billion.

Of course.

After the stall is large, it is difficult to cover everything.

Su Yehao doubted that the person who invested in the anti-link company was just an employee of Larry Ellison, maybe he himself didn't even know that he held the stock of this company.

After all, the scale of the anti-link company is too small, so small that it is difficult to be noticed.

If it weren't for Su Yehao's constant desire to pick up leaks and pan for gold, he wouldn't have personally browsed these "harassing letters" delivered to his door.

There are a group of investors with little strength active in Silicon Valley. They like to spend thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to invest in some rubbish projects and cast a wide net to catch small fish.

After they are screened, the A round, B round, or even the C round, the truly powerful large companies like to sell. Although it costs a little more to do so, it is easier to find reliable high-quality projects.

The kind of cannon fodder that has problems or has no market prospects often falls before reaching the A round. There are tens of thousands of entrepreneurial projects in Silicon Valley, and no one has the energy to screen them all.

That's why Su Yehao felt that Yang Zhiyuan from Yahoo was actually more unlucky, because he was abused by survivors in his previous life.

People will only pay attention to Google, which was let go by him, but ignore the thousands of unsuccessful garbage projects that may have been pushed down during this period.

same.