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Chapter 44 Zuckerberg's Housewarming Gift

After a few days of shipping.

The equal distance was shortened to more than 500 kilometers. A silver-painted Sikorsky S-76c+ helicopter set off from the deck of the freighter and flew straight to Lanai Island.

According to the command, it docked next to the golf course, and the movement it made was not small, attracting everyone's attention.

Unexpectedly, in just over half a month, I saw my beloved big toy again.

In order to buy it back then, Su Rui spent more than ten million dollars in all miscellaneous things, and the daily maintenance cost is also staggering.

Ordinary multi-millionaires in the United States can't afford this level of helicopters. They are much cheaper than those from travel and sightseeing companies, and they are much more comfortable.

Su Rui has already come to the tarmac in person. The pilots of the helicopter are a father and son named Bode and Bode II. Generally speaking, the pilot's son is called Little Bode.

When the father and son stepped off the helicopter.

The handsome little Bode immediately opened his hands towards Su Rui, and said in his mouth:
"Haha! I thought it would take a long time to see you. When I learned that you hired me and my dad again, I was so excited. It has always been one of my dreams to settle in Hawaii, second only to Las Vegas. Adams and Miami.”

"You have to be prepared. Life on Lanai is not as exciting as it was in Los Angeles. The nearest nightclub is on Maui. There is only one bistro in town."

I have known Little Bode for a while, and although I haven't gotten to know him well enough to be a good friend, we usually deal with each other often.

After Suri finished speaking, he shook hands with Old Bode again.

Old Bode's personality was much more stable than his son's. He took off his helmet and told:
"The flight across the sea is almost two hours, and I just circled around Lanai Island. The scenery is so beautiful. Drinking will delay things, and it would be better without nightclubs. Like many children who grew up in Los Angeles, my son needs to know what to do It's real life, my wife and I lived in Texas when we were young, and it was full of pastures and cattle and sheep."

"Texas is a good place. You are welcome to Lanai Island. Later, someone will help you find a house to live in Lanai Island. You may often receive tourists in the future, and work will not be easier than in Los Angeles."

When Su Rui recruited the father and son again, it had been negotiated in advance.

In addition to providing accommodation and basic salary, the rest of the bonus is calculated according to the flight time, so the more tourists use the helicopter, the happier the Bode father and son will be.

In recent years, more and more people have helicopter pilot licenses. With the economic downturn, job opportunities and income are decreasing. Therefore, they are willing to travel all the way from Los Angeles to Lanai, Hawaii to find work.

When purchasing an island.

Some houses, land and shops in Lanai Town were also taken over by Suri.

It is nothing more than feeling that living in a hotel is more comfortable, so I decided to temporarily live in the Four Seasons Hotel with a view of Hulop Bay before the completion of the hilltop villa.

Anyway, the local population is small, and the real estate prices are cheap, so it would be a waste to leave it idle. It is better to use it as a staff dormitory to attract more foreigners who come to look for jobs.

Come forward to say hello and ask Secretary Amanda to help arrange the driver father and son.

Walking on the golf lawn, Su Rui heard the ringing of the mobile phone in his pocket, took out to look at the screen, and found that it was Xiao Zha, the Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook.

The two sides have not been in touch for a while, and the last time they met was when the board of directors was held in May.

Su Rui just got on the phone.

I heard Zuckerberg speaking in a hurry, and said: "Man, I have prepared a housewarming gift for you, and it has been sent to the airport in Hawaii. Please pick it up as soon as possible, and I will post the transportation information later. , sent to your mailbox."

"……what gift?"

As one of the earliest investors in Facebook, Su Rui participated in the A round of financing when he was in college.

Even the name "Facebook" was changed by him, and he provided many good suggestions for the product.

The two sides are not quite right in terms of personality.

Although they didn't become a partner who talked about everything, they didn't have any conflicts at all, and they got along very well.

It is normal to send small gifts to each other to maintain the relationship between each other and not to be too alienated.

Zuckerberg told him: "During my trip to Dubai last week, I met an Arabian horse, and I thought you would move to Hawaii to run a ranch, and thought you might like it."

"Wow, I'm just short of a horse. I read Facebook's third-quarter financial report, and the increase in active users is still very strong."

Listen to Suri finish.

Zuckerberg replied:

"That's right, just in time for the financial crisis, this is an opportunity for us, and the cash on the books is relatively abundant. Recently, we are researching several companies. If we decide to acquire at that time, I hope you can support me."

"No problem, thanks buddy..."

This is nonsense.

Zuckerberg has Facebook's decision-making power, but he is just asking for the opinion of his fourth largest shareholder.

If the other party is really determined to do something.

Then, with Su Rui's right to speak on the board of directors, he will definitely not be able to stop the other party's actions, so it's better to give him a favor.

It was just a ride to make money.

With more than US$400 million in Facebook's A round of financing, it has raised more than US$7 million so far, a full multiplication of more than 100 times. The stock price is still rising and the development prospects are full. Su Rui has nothing to be satisfied with.

in Silicon Valley.

Entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs and investors are investors.

Although the latter has an impact on entrepreneurs, after the project is successful, you must learn to let go, so as not to plunge the company into chaos and affect the confidence of shareholders.

Since I chose to do venture capital business from the very beginning, rather than start my own business.

Suri's goal is simply to throw money out and try to make more money back.

Miscellaneous chores such as enterprise management are issues that only the management needs to consider. As long as there are no major problems, he is generally too lazy to intervene.

Zuckerberg manages Facebook, which has a market value of over [-] billion U.S. dollars, and it has long become popular.

It seems that the scenery is infinite, but in fact, Su Rui is not necessarily chic, and there are too many restrictions in all aspects.

As the CEO of an Internet company, he not only needs to worry about other shareholders, but also faces pressure from competitors. Subordinates are also difficult to manage, and a lot of time and energy are consumed by work every day.

Everyone has aspirations.

Anyway, so far, Su Rui has not regretted his original choice. In fact, he was very rich at that time and had the opportunity to swallow Zuckerberg's team whole.

It's just that in this way, Facebook may not necessarily be able to grow to the size it is today...

Hang up the phone quickly.

It is obviously inappropriate to use a helicopter to transport horses. If the horse is startled in mid-air, it is easy to cause a big mess.

Thinking of this, Su Rui decisively contacted the old cowboy Andy and asked him to take two locals from Lanai Island to the airport on his own yacht.

I thought it was Honolulu again.

After opening the email software and reading the logistics information sent by Zuckerberg, I found that the Arabian horse was at the Kahului Airport in Maui next door.

It was only half an hour away, Su Rui changed his mind temporarily, and decided to accompany Old Andy and the others to pick up the goods...

(End of this chapter)