Chapter 476

March 5.

Today is the first day for LinkedIn to move from Silicon Valley to the Wald Industrial Park in Seattle. At the same time, it is less than two days away from the third anniversary of the founding of LinkedIn.

At the moment, the huge, brand-new conference room has gathered as many as 12 leaders.

Geoff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn, one of the highest paid professional managers in the original time and space, also sits here.

However, the top position is vacant.

Because the protagonist of today's meeting is Zhuke!

"Mr. Weiner, I have to say that the new address of the company's headquarters is better than before." Morian Zilla, director of R & D, sighed.

"That's right."

George vicaster, director of marketing, echoed: "when we were in Silicon Valley, we shared a building with Waterworld animation. Yes, the Wald building has eight floors, and the area is not small. However, water world animation is a well-known animation production company in the world, with more than 300 employees in its headquarters alone. Well, there are a lot of people in Lingying. It's too crowded to share a building. "

Water world animation company, a listed company in the US stock market, has a market value of more than US $2 billion, much higher than the valuation of LinkedIn.

To tell you the truth, Lingying is a little frustrated in the face of water world animation company in Silicon Valley.

Who makes you inferior to others?

"Ha ha, it's different now. After LinkedIn moved to the Wald Industrial Park in Seattle, we occupied the best geographical location of the first phase of the industrial park. An 8-storey company building, two 6-storey administration buildings, three 5-storey branch offices buildings, and a 7-storey R & D building. "

"For now, our new headquarters at LinkedIn is more than enough to accommodate 1000 people working at the same time," financial director Timothy damora said with a smile

During the conversation, people's faces couldn't stop smiling.

No way!

All aspects of the company's new headquarters facilities completely exceeded their psychological expectations. Every employee of the whole company is very satisfied.

Even some employees who came to work in Seattle far away from their hometown were extremely satisfied after the company paid a lot of money for settling down.

“boss！”

At this time, all the senior executives in the conference room got up together. After all, big boss Zhuke came!

Zhu Ke sat at the top of the table and said, "the company has just moved into the new headquarters. You have a lot of work in your hands. I believe you don't want to spend your precious time here."

Hearing the speech, many people laughed.

Financial director damora: "boss, you know me. Long live your understanding. Moving into the new headquarters, a large number of equipment procurement has just been in place, and our financial department is busy with accounting recently. "

Wei long, one of the directors of the administration department, said: "our administration department and the personnel department are busy recruiting local graduates in Seattle recently. It's too late for us."

Juke nodded and said, "I'll make a long story short."

The voice fell.

Everyone present, including CEO Jeff Weiner, had the spirit of 12 points.

"By the end of February 2001, we will officially welcome the company's first round a financing and share expansion on the occasion of the third anniversary of its establishment."

"According to fortune, time, Bloomberg and other professional financial magazines, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan and other professional investment banks, we have made different degrees of professional evaluation on LinkedIn. Our current valuation of LinkedIn is $420 million! "

Juke looks around.

420 million dollars!

In just three years, Zhuke has invested as much as US $100 million and achieved such excellent results!

Especially after the early, the Internet bubble has been on the rise. The leading companies are still on the rise, but they are on the upgrade.

CEO Geoff Weiner said closely: "if it were not for the spread of the Internet bubble and the cooling of the market, our valuation would definitely exceed $800 million."

The big wave of the Internet bubble did not completely pass in early 2001, and many Internet Co still fell short of the capital chain.

"Lack of working capital... So do we in LinkedIn!"

Jeff Weiner solemnly said: "as you all know, our company's valuation is growing rapidly, but since the company was founded only three years ago, our book has been in a state of loss, which makes us have to be cautious."

Losing money, burning money, planning the number of users, expanding popularity and influence

All this has always been a hot topic for Internet companies.

Without enough capital investment and strong ally support, how can we defeat the emerging online recruitment and online employment agencies in the market?

"Well said."

Zhu Ke looked around and added: "we are the first batch of Internet employment agencies. We are also the most influential and powerful companies in online recruitment and online employment agencies. However, a large number of new and rising companies of the same type are catching up. If we don't pay attention, we will be surpassed!"

The existence of peers, fierce competition, is really a huge pressure!

If you want to be the leader of the industry, you must speed up the development!

Round a financing is imminent!

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A few days later.

The third anniversary of the founding of LinkedIn was held as scheduled.

Seattle, a large number of local business leaders, all arrived; There are also many Silicon Valley partners who come here specially;

It's very lively!

On the third day after the third anniversary celebration, the a-round financing of LinkedIn attracted a large number of powerful companies and rich people.

In fact, long before LinkedIn announced that it was going to launch round a financing, many big men had been eyeing LinkedIn.

For example, when he was less than half a year old, Bei guangtou, the boss of Amazon mall, proposed to Zhuke more than once to take a stake in LinkedIn.

Also, there is Microsoft!

Moreover, Hyde's head hunting company, one of the "top five global headhunters", has repeatedly wanted to participate;

Lingying is just like the rhythm of a sweet cake!

All of these companies are giants in various industries. They want money and strength.

However, we should also prevent the shop from cheating customers!

Especially Microsoft!

Throughout the historical process, Microsoft has taken a lot of shares in many companies, and then continued to make additional investment, gradually diluting the shares of the founder management team, and then turning it into a subsidiary of Microsoft.

Microsoft has a bad reputation!

Of course, Zhuke himself has also done the business of kicking off the founder of the company and occupying other companies. Like McAfee.

Others worry that Microsoft will occupy the nest, but Zhuke is not afraid!

Zhuke has the strength and is fully qualified to have an equal dialogue with Microsoft.

The second shift of the "New Year's report" was sent, and the minister continued to open the third shift.