Rebirth of the Wild Age

USA, California.

The breeze blows a corner of the curtain, and the dazzling sunlight shines in. In a daze, Sean Parker yawned and opened his eyes, then quickly closed them and raised his hands to block the light. After dawdling for a long time, he finally struggled to get up.

The woman who had been brought in last night was gone, and there were empty wine bottles on the floor, and the residue of some easily harmonized chemical.

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

Of course, Sean Parker has other hobbies. For example, he liked to visit various websites in high school, and he often broke in uninvited. As a hacker, he never failed, coming and going without a trace, until one morning, when his father saw his son surfing the Internet all night, he was so angry that he directly pulled out the keyboard, and was finally successfully located by the fbi.

A few days later, this Jackie Chan father discovered that his home was surrounded by a large number of FBI. It turned out that his son was suspected of attacking multiple government and military base websites.

Sean Parker was actually a blessing in disguise. He was a minor, and he didn't cause any huge losses. He only needed to be a volunteer for a few days. But after his glorious deeds spread, he attracted many organizations including CIA, and invited him to develop various software. In his third year of high school alone, he earned 80,000 US dollars.

At this time, Sean Parker met 15-year-old Sean Fanning, and the two hackers jointly founded the first pirated music website in the United States. This website quickly broke the tens of millions of registered users, but the bad influence it brought was that the American record company 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, the lawsuit dragged on for a year, and their pirated music website was finally forced to close down.

Sean Parker became penniless, even the money he saved from writing software was gone. His girlfriend persuaded him to serve dishes in Starbucks to make a living. This guy messed around for a few months, created an Internet address book, and managed to get financing from Sequoia Capital. It is a pity that he was often late and absent, and did not go to work in the company every now and then, and was finally kicked out of the management by Sequoia Capital.

Until now, Sean Parker is still fooling around, and the money he earned from his second venture was squandered by him.

Feeling a little hungry, Sean Parker first turned on the computer, and then ran to search the refrigerator. It's a pity that the refrigerator is already empty, only half a can of pork is left, but there is still an unopened bottle of red wine on the bedside table. So, he uncorked the bottle and drank to satisfy his hunger, half reclined in a chair and checked his e-mail.

One of the emails was from Eduardo Saverin, a rich second-generation kid who was also a member of the Phoenix sk club at Harvard University. The content of the email is probably: Dear Parker, I recently registered an Internet company with my friend in Florida. The company works. At present, the company still lacks a manager, if you are interested, you can come to be the president of the company.

Sean Parker didn't even bother to answer the email, because he always thought Saverin was an idiot, and he shouldn't discuss big things with him. But two days later, Saverin's email came again: Dear Parker, we urgently need your help. Just yesterday, we received a $1 million investment from Altair, and now there is no shortage of capital and technology , the only thing missing is a president who can lead the company on the right track. Of course, if you are not interested in this position, then I can only consider hiring another Gao Ming.

Altair?

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

During this period of time, the news of Google's listing has been raging, and Wall Street investment banks are already fighting over it. Sean Parker finally became interested, and immediately replied: Give me the company address, and I'll fly there right away!

...

Let's pull back the time to two days ago.

Zuckerberg had just attended a Harvard student party and met a Chinese-American female student of medical school, who was his later wife, Priscilla Chen, while going to the toilet. The two hit it off right away, talked all the way from the toilet back to the party, and made an appointment to have dinner together tomorrow.

Not long after returning to the dormitory, his roommate Moskowitz suddenly jumped up and shouted: It's an email from Altair, and Altair has taken a fancy to our website!

Are you trying to buy us again? Zuckerberg's wine was still awake.

It had been almost a month since Song Weiyang came to the United States at this time, and Facebook had already left the Harvard campus and became popular in more than 10 universities in the United States. There is an Internet company called friendster, which is also engaged in online communities, and it quickly targeted Facebook and tried to acquire it with less than US$100,000.

Zuckerberg didn't say anything about this, and the partner Saverin almost took out a wad of banknotes and threw the money directly in the other's face.

Saverin's psychological activities are estimated to be as follows: I am a rich second generation, and I just invested 15,000 US dollars for fun, and I only need 30% of the company's shares. Your little money is a fart, it's not as good as my annual pocket money, and you actually want to buy 100% of the shares?

Moskowitz excitedly said: That's Altair, the Altair who invested in Google! Song, Song, have you forgotten? A leader in the Internet industry! He just came 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!

Song will really come here in person? Zuckerberg finally sobered up.

Moskowitz nodded and said: Yes, he will come in person. The people from Altair also said in the email that Sohu, which Song invested in, has a similar website in China, which has more comprehensive functions than Facebook. I have already broken through China’s Internet firewall is closed, and it is now logging into Sohu’s Renren, maybe we can refer to Renren’s special features.”

Do you know Chinese characters? Zuckerberg asked.

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

Zuckerberg was quite speechless, and silently took out his mobile phone to make a call: Chen, hello, I'm Zuckerberg... yes, that's the long-faced man you met in front of the toilet at the party today, I have something to think about. Please help... ok, ok, see you tomorrow!

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

Priscilla Chen has only learned traditional Chinese characters, but this does not prevent her from browsing the mainland website: This is the function of the drift bottle, which will be sent to friends or strangers at random. Users who pick up the drift bottle can choose You can also use the website points or website currency to track down any picker of the drifting bottle, so as to establish a 'bottle friend' relationship.

Floating bottle? It's an interesting feature. Zuckerberg laughed.

Priscilla Chen pointed to the laptop again and said, This function is called 'poke', which allows you to 'poke' others.

Moskowitz asked, What's the use of that?

Not sure, Priscilla Chen said, Maybe it's a greeting, or maybe it's something else.

Zuckerberg asked: How does Renren make money?

Priscilla Chen repeatedly studied the website for a long time, and said: There is an advertisement column on the right side of the page. Users can click on the advertisement to earn points. These points can be used to buy some specific products. For example, the background of their own homepage, or some ordinary Gifts, these gifts can be given to friends.

Gift? Zuckerberg leaned over.

Priscilla Chen clicked on the interface of the gift mall: Look, these are all gifts. Some gifts can be exchanged with points, but most gifts need to be recharged to buy. There are e-cards, postcards, flowers, cakes, and cartoon images ... are all beautiful.

Zuckerberg and Moskowitz looked at each other, and the latter said with emotion: I can't imagine that China's online community has a more mature business operation model than the United States.

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

I'll buy it! Moskowitz was so shocked, I think Sohu's stock price is seriously undervalued. Just relying on this social network called Renren.com, Sohu's stock price should double its current price!

It's a pity that Renren's profit is not high now, and it was only at the end of last year that it got rid of the state of loss.

Zuckerberg originally had great confidence in Facebook. Although there are many similar American websites, he firmly believes that he is the best one. Now when he meets Renren in China, he instantly loses his arrogance and pride, because they have indeed done a better job.

I thought, we should take Song's financing and bring in a Renren employee who has more experience with this kind of site, Moskowitz said.

That's what I thought too, Zuckerberg said.

Moskowitz asked: Does Saverin need to be informed?

Zuckerberg said: Tell him after talking, he doesn't care much about the company anyway.

Later, some people said that Zuckerberg's character was too bad, so he turned his face and rejected Saverin and kicked Saverin out. But if there is a partner like Saverin, it will be quite depressing, at least in the early stage of entrepreneurship.

The rich second-generation Saverin treats Facebook like this:

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

What, the company doesn't have enough money? That line, I will invest another 10,000 US dollars, and you can calculate the shares for me.

Need me to manage the company? I'm sorry, I don't have time, I still have to study, and I also found a promising job in a big company.

Want me to help you with something? No problem, it's easy to sort out... Sorry, I forgot.

Saverin's indifferent attitude not only annoyed Zuckerberg and Moskowitz, but even Saverin personally invited Sean Parker to be the president, and he was very dissatisfied with this guy. Therefore, the three simply re-registered the company and retained Saverin's shares, but did not recognize Saverin as the founder, and did not bother to notify Saverin when accepting financing.

Zuckerberg said: Reply to Altair, we are open to financing negotiations.

Okay! Moskowitz was very excited. He had a premonition that he would become a billionaire because he held 5% of Facebook's shares at this time.

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