Best Actor

    Let's imagine a story where you're a young man, a college student, proficient at programming, doing a lot in high school, and being hired by the best software companies in the country . But you turned them down and got into the university, which wasn't really what you wanted to do, so the next year you hacked into the school computer's database and nearly got kicked out.

    After that, you start building a social networking site, and it starts to gain popularity, more and more users sign up, and you don't know what it can bring, it's just cool. At this time, someone finds you and thinks that you should develop the website, you should go to Silicon Valley to seek opportunities instead of staying in the university, and let the website rise and fall.

    You are hesitant, you really want to promote this cool website, but you are not very clear about the operation, and your initial partners have no lofty vision. You just want to get your investment back as soon as possible, and you are always skeptical about the person who took the initiative to find you. At this time, someone brought news that someone who had graduated from this university before recommended the website to his friends. , will invest a lot of money for the development of the website, and only 35% of the shares.

    This makes you very excited, as the first person to find you said, the IT industry can only flourish in Silicon Valley. So you decide to meet the investor because he is also a well-known Hollywood actor, a star with many fans.

    Next, you met this star, an investor, he was very young, only three to four years older than you, he praised your website, he also thought it was cool, And compare it to a well-known website he previously invested in. This makes you very excited, and also makes you very proud, because not long ago, the website he invested in was successfully listed, making his 20 million investment into 1.8 billion, and everyone said that he has an excellent vision.

    Moreover, he took out several million, as long as he took 35% of the shares, and said he would not interfere with the operation.

    "You can make such a cool website, of course, only you can run this website, because only you know how to keep this website cool, no one can replace you, this is No one can take your stuff. I just want to witness the rise of another Internet empire, make money from it and get some help when necessary." He said that, very sincere.

      Most were successful. But you still feel that 35% is a bit too much, and you are also worried about whether he will really keep his promise, but the rare opportunity is right in front of you, so you should not give up easily... So, how do you choose?

    That's how Sean took 35% of Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg, this... little boy - yes, little boy, because he has severe social impairment . According to the information collected, he has no friends since high school, and is quite obsessed with IT technology. Like all geeks, he is not good at running websites.

    It may sound a bit funny, a person with a serious social disorder has created a social networking site that is popular with many people on the Internet, and will sweep the world in the future, after Google Create another miracle in the IT industry. But this kind of thing is not uncommon in life. Just like many popular comedians who can bring joy and make people laugh on the screen, like genius comedy stars, they are not happy in life. There is even depression - probably because of this, they can show their joy on the big screen as much as possible.

    In short, Zuckerberg is easy to deal with, just do what you want, praise his website, praise his technology, and promise not to touch his cheese, plus there is a listing of Google As the most successful example of his current investment, it is not difficult to convince the other party.

    In fact, when he performed that in the office, the other party was already tempted - this scene has been in the movie for a few years, it is the movie about the establishment of facebook, Xiao Eun played himself in it. It was an interesting experience, and when he first got the invitation, he thought they wanted him to play Zuckerberg.

    This is another story, turn back, although Zuckerberg is easy to deal with, but Sean Parker is not easy to deal with, although this guy has the same name as Sean, and he is also a geek , hacked into the servers of major companies at the age of 16 and was punished for community labor for being underage. But he is also a businessman. As early as 1999, he joined Sean Fanning - another Sean - to create Napster, a software that can download MP3 music freely on the Internet, and established a website.

    Of course, in the end, because several major record companies sued Napster for infringement, this software quickly declined, but it is undeniable that it affected many later music software, even Apple's iTunes refers to Napster 's writing program.

    Compared to Sean Fanning, who is focused on technology, Sean Parker is a generalist and involves a wide range of things. Napster's earliest venture capital was drawn by him. After getting kicked out, he founded Plaxo, an online address book service, got a lot of VCs, and was kicked out again soon after.

    But in any case, he got to know a lot of venture capital institutions in Silicon Valley, and he is still sensitive in the IT industry, otherwise he would not find Zuckerberg so quickly, and strongly suggested He goes to Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg trusted him very much, so although he was tempted by Sean's conditions, he handed over all the negotiation matters to him. This guy negotiated with Neil and the others in a hurry, so that he could negotiate with more VCs at any time. Contacts to rely on, want to cut their holdings or ask for more investment - mostly the former.

    And it is said that he also designed a share structure for Zuckerberg to ensure that he has absolute control over Facebook, and now he is negotiating with Neil and them for this. In short, this guy is a smart **** who knows how to use what he has in his hands for the best benefit. It's not easy to deal with this kind of guy.

    Fortunately, just like the saying on the Internet that Sean heard in his previous life, you are not afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs, although Parker can speak well and put on an appearance that he is not afraid of delay, But it happened that someone on their side was holding back.

    Eduardo Savalin, who first founded Facebook with Zuckerberg and is also his classmate, started with Zuckerberg because he always wanted to make the website profitable to recover his investment serious conflict. Especially after Zuckerberg moved to Silicon Valley and restructured the company, the conflict between the two sides began to sharpen and peaked after Zuckerberg and Sean met and commissioned Parker to negotiate, because that's what he, the CFO, should be. Things to do.

    The consequence is that Savalin froze the bank's funds in anger, he is only a young man after all. Then Zuckerberg got angry. In his opinion, even a minute of Facebook downtime would not be tolerated, and Savarin would be destroying his site by doing so. Of course, before he could find a way to teach him a lesson, he had to keep the site up and running, and he only had enough money to support it for two days.

    At this time, Parker finally made a mistake. Although he put on an expression of "I can contact more funds at any time", he did not actually act. He's only a young man after all, only a year older than Sean, so he didn't even think about the fact that one of the founders would freeze his bank account, even though he hated Savalin.

    It is too late to contact the venture capital at this time, and only Sean can take out the money immediately. Finally got what I wanted.

    "I should probably give that Zuckerberg partner a medal, otherwise, I don't know how long it will take us to get it done." After Neil told him that it was finally done, he was said so.

    I'm really complaining. According to the original estimate, it only took two or three days to get it done. As a result, Sean Parker dragged it abruptly to September. If it wasn't for Savarin, maybe Really give in. Of course, this is also a reminder to remind Neil to pay attention, the other party also has very powerful guys, don't take it lightly.

    Like this investment, although 35% of the equity has been retained, some concessions have been made. For example, although it is different from ordinary shares, it is also on the priority list of dilution, but there are certain proportion. This seems to be one of the equity structures that Parker designed for Zuckerberg. Anyway, there are a lot of terms, which makes Sean dizzy, but since Neil said that a small loss is not a big problem, as long as they raise money again , you can give priority to taking money to maintain your own shareholding ratio, that's fine.

      The right to speak at Google doesn't help much. Although he has always been honest before, his representatives are just a **** on the board, but with the development of Google, his acting career will need their cooperation or help sooner or later, if he wants to have a certain right to speak in Hollywood.

    Think about it, what else can gain popularity in a short period of time and then sell it to Google? By the way, what is the name of "Weibo" on the US side? Oh, and which one... What is the "oily turtle"?

    Although I can barely remember something, Sean still doesn't know how to convert it into something practical. He has no technology, let alone how to find a programmer to write it, and he doesn't have that much time. So he finally used a stupid method, searching the Internet for keywords of what he wanted every day or every week, and once they were established, he could invest in the first time.

    It's stupid, but it saves time and works.

    Well, the topic is too far away, let’s talk about the current things. After entering September, Sean finally won the second trophy in his life, the Emmy Award trophy.