Ace Hollywood

readx(); In fact, including poaching, as long as there are no problems in the contract and law, the former employer does not need to be considered. The main reason why Daniel wants to discuss with Page is that in addition to keeping Mark's stock, he hopes that Google can continue to cooperate with F2F, instead of having a grudge with a search giant, which is a great challenge for any website. nightmare. Although based on the principle of fairness, it is impossible for Google not to display the results of F2F, but as long as it does some tricks, the impact on F2F during the promotion period is still huge.

But even so, this issue can't be used as a bargaining chip on the bright side, at most it can be regarded as a bonus - after all, this is not a slave gift, but a job flow.

As a result, Google's two requirements need to pay a considerable price.

The information given by Page before was rather vague, and Daniel was also curious about what Google was going to pay.

"If you think you need to, Google can fund your new project, as a minority shareholder, and share some of the resources with your new website."

Daniel couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

"Paige, there is no need for us to say such nonsense, I don't know if you want to know about this new project or if you want to know about my available funding flow, both of which are obviously confidential. I'm sorry I can't reveal it to you. , but one thing I can tell you is that the funds for the new projects have been in place, and I have no plans to bring in new investors for the time being. And, conceited, so far, the projects I've invested in, including some you know, except for MB Others, like DD Pictures and Weta Digital, I've never failed, they've all gone up in value. So if Google is considering investing in this new idea, it should be your third request.

You should understand that I am not an entrepreneur who has just graduated. I am not short of capital and resources. It makes no sense for me to sell a promising project at the very beginning. "

Paige watched Daniel intently for a while, and smiled as well.

"Your confidence is abhorrent, but it's as charming as your personality and talent."

"Okay. If the previous plan is achieved, in our first request, we will give a very good offer."

Paige paused, giving Daniel a space to think.

This is of course one of the real exchange conditions. Daniel's 16% stake in China can eventually be exchanged for how much Google's issued shares. It's about Daniel's immediate net worth.

"If that's all, I think my offer might surprise you."

"We will provide you with 10 million or less of the internal IPO shares below the actual issue price by a certain percentage."

Larry Page was quick to say Google's killer feature.

10 million shares in the total share capital of 270 million, which is equivalent to 3.7% of the shares, plus the exchange proceeds, which means that Daniel will become a member of Google's board of directors, and the upper limit of his Google equity may be as high as 5% or more. .

Daniel knows that Google is a company with a market value of more than 200 billion, and 5% is 10 billion.

"The money is still too little." Daniel sighed inwardly.

This is of course a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for outside investors, although Google's internal equity incentives are very broad, once it goes public. There are not a few millionaires created, but these are middle and senior managers. The only way for outside investors is through subscription. However, in addition to this, some people with social energy, of course, can obtain part of the subscription rights to promote success.

Since the two sides have reached an agreement in principle.

Then there will be protracted negotiations - for Google, it will definitely be less cost-effective the further you go, because the valuations of MB and MB are increasing rapidly. The Nasdaq tech sector is recovering, and that's for internet startups. Definitely a big plus.

After the two secretly talked, the two teams immediately began to negotiate the framework and schedule.

This continued when Daniel left Clara City, but there wasn't much that required them on the itinerary after that.

Go to your old business. It was very painful to pretend to know nothing, which was quite interesting to both parties when Daniel entered Javier's office.

It's hard to believe that MB has grown from nothing to the scale it is today, and Daniel has never been to MB's headquarters.

So give him a good introduction to the building on this floor that belongs to him. It is very necessary. MB does not have too many employees. So far, there are no more than 200 employees in the headquarters, and the average age is very low. This is highly praised by social security organizations, because MB has provided many young engineering talents who have just graduated. 's position.

This is also because MB has a very clear technical plan, so it can be reduced by one level in terms of cost and manpower.

This is the power of strategy.

"When I visited Google, we talked about some problems with MB." After chatting with Javier for a while, Daniel and Javier began to turn to the topic. "You may have expressed similar opinions to me in a subtle way before."

Javier looked at him suspiciously.

"Haha, don't be nervous, I'm talking about some views on the company's development direction. You said that the balance between the number of users and profitability is an issue that needs to be considered."

In fact, the reason why Daniel turned a blind eye to this fairly obvious problem is not only that he hopes to maximize the benefits and keep more equity until the valuation is high enough, but that the content is caught in a misunderstanding. At the time of his arrival, whether it was QQ, WeChat, WeChat in the East, or Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, whatsAPP in the West, etc., the number of users was 100 million. The biggest problem they faced was how to not hurt too much. and user experience to achieve profitability. This is a particularly big problem, and it is even more difficult to achieve this goal in countries where intellectual property rights are lacking, because original content can easily be misappropriated illegally, content creators are not paid, and platforms do not receive a share. There are many differences from the West.

Therefore, in Daniel's subconscious, he always felt that the most important way to make money from social media.

He completely ignored a normal development law of MB, that is, it has not accumulated enough users, and many people are deterred by this highly mature business model.

They will feel like not joining a social media. Instead, they registered an ebay account, and the important thing is that there is nothing worth buying on MB yet, in their opinion.

This time with Larry Page. gave him a wake-up call.

Standing in the future has both advantages and disadvantages. Some things need to be based on the present, and the solution is undoubtedly more reference.

Javier was surprised to hear Daniel take the initiative to talk about this topic. Also very excited.

As a pioneer in the industry, he is very sensitive to the development of other financial forces.

Although currently limited by MB's complex patent portfolio, there are no competitors with enough weight to stand up, but the development of technology is very rapid. Javier can guarantee that if MB does not determine the despairing advantage after 2005, in this The advantage in the competition of the model will be lost quickly, because it is clear that a company will definitely give users a bad impression after operating for many years. If there are enough good choices at this time, active users will lose a lot.

At present, the development speed of MB is satisfactory, because the introduction of stimulative publicity strategies has led to a sharp increase in the number of users, but this is definitely limited. It may be very difficult for users to rapidly increase without strengthening the core features of its information distribution and its flat communication.

So, he was very excited to hear that Daniel was starting to think about it.

"However, Javier. This is one aspect, but I think just like movie marketing can stimulate users, some appropriate business practices can also help to accumulate users. For example, shopping discounts for women, for seniors Health information sharing, etc. How to achieve the coordination between the increase in the number of users and the progress of the business model should be an advanced topic of MB. I think MB, especially the planning and creative departments, should do more on this topic A lot of research, of course, for now, in order to accumulate the number of users. It is necessary to give up some profit points.”

After thinking about it, Daniel still intends to reveal his expectations, "I think Raymond and Google will invest more than 300 million development funds together for MB's overseas expansion and user acquisition plans."

This figure clearly exceeded Javier's expectations.

"Are you going to put in another 200 million or so? If you don't plan to give up your existing stake."

Daniel hesitated. This was a top-secret negotiation between them and Google, and revealing it to Javier might not be a good option.

"The investment ratio Raymond will discuss with Google. After all, the funds are limited, and it is not impossible to make concessions on the shares. That is not realistic."

Javier didn't know that Daniel had taken money from the crude oil market.

"Greek Wedding" and "Hotel Rwanda" have made a lot of money for DD Films, and Raymond's investment has been very efficient - this is seen from the speed of Daniel's accumulation of wealth~www.readwn.com~ So Javier is not surprised that Daniel has money on hand, but if the money is so much that he can still keep DD Films running by pulling out 200 million, it will surprise him.

In the end, Daniel did not get through with Javier, and any information leakage could cost Daniel a lot of money in the intensive negotiations with Google.

He had to be careful.

MB is located in Sunnyvale, close to Cupertino, where Apple is located, and in fact, Silicon Valley is not that big.

Apple is the penultimate stop of his trip. After a one-day stay at Apple, he will visit PayPal, a subsidiary of Yibei, and return to Los Angeles after half a day to end this visit.

In addition to the negotiation with Page, the second purpose of this trip is, of course, to meet the legendary Steve Jobs. It would be better if we could find out a little bit of the secret, but if I remember correctly, the secret research and development should be from 2003 Or it started in 2004, no matter which year it is, now Jobs must have a complete idea in his heart. (To be continued.)

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