Chapter 842： additional investment

842 Additional investment

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Evan Bell didn't stop in Palo Alto, he only stayed for one night and rushed back to Wyoming the next day because "Brokeback Mountain" was about to start filming. At this time, halfway through August, Li An felt that it would be too late if the filming did not start. The weather and scenery of the recent Brokeback Mountains were really suitable. In this way, Evan Bell also went through a busy week and returned to Wyoming to start the shooting of "Brokeback Mountain".

The cast of "Brokeback Mountain" is as expected by Evan Bell, consisting of Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, and Evan Bell. "Mountain" four protagonists. Among these actors, only the name of Michelle Williams will be slightly obscure, but in fact, this name has long been famous in ** movies.

Michelle Williams, born in 1980, her father is the most famous and brightest star in the futures trading world, and she also inherited this talent, she once won the national trading competition at the age of seventeen The champion, relying on 10,000 US dollars to make a profit of 110,000 US dollars a year later, has achieved remarkable results. However, Michelle-Williams is not here. Although she has not received the support of her parents, she is very determined to take the road of acting.

Michelle - Williams' first famous work is "The Age of Love" with Katie Holmes, this youth series made her a good popularity. Since then, she has filmed excellent movie works such as "Spiritual Station" and "Imaginary Hero". It is worth mentioning that she also collaborated with Ryan Gosling on "Lee Lan's America". This actor, who is active on the screen of ** movies and TV series, has always walked very solidly on the road of performance.

Evan Bell clearly remembers the future of Michelle Williams. In 2011's "Blue Valentine" and 2012's "A Week with Monroe", she was nominated for the Oscar for two consecutive years, and was praised as the best actress. She is one of the most talented actors in the new generation of actresses. And it was "Brokeback Mountain" that made Michelle Williams start her acting career. She relied on this film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and was highly praised.

These four actors, even Jake Gyllenhaal, who won the attention with "The Day After Tomorrow", all came from **** movies, and Evan Bell and Michelle Williams have experienced many acting skills. The severe test, only Anne Hathaway needs to break through and prove herself. Especially the role played by Anne Hathaway this time: Jack's wife Lulin.

The role of Lulin is not the lively, cheerful and carefree girl in "The Princess Diaries". Evan Bell carefully analyzed this role in the original novel for Anne Hathaway, and the description of Lulin in the original novel was written and written. Not much, but it vividly outlines a pungent, tacky woman with a touch of sadness and pride. Evan Bell summed up the character, "She's a carnivore." This is definitely a huge challenge and breakthrough for Anne Hathaway.

Fortunately, Anne Hathaway has enough time to adapt to the environment of the crew, to experience and speculate on how this role will be played. Because in the three weeks after "Brokeback Mountain" began filming, all the filming revolved around Evan Bell and Jake Gyllenhaal's life on the Brokeback Mountains.

Due to the participation of a large number of animals - both sheep and horses, and the newly formed crew also needed to run in, the shooting speed was not fast. By the end of August, Evan Bell and Jake Gyllenhaal were still fumbling, not only because they needed to act out the feeling of a slow-growing relationship between men, but also because Ang Lee was very strict with his acting skills. This feeling of calm on the surface and turbulent inside is not easy to grasp.

September has only just begun, and the "Brokeback Mountain" crew has an uninvited guest: Mark Zuckerberg.

Evan Bell looked at Mark Zuckerberg who was walking behind Teddy Bell and put down the script in his hand, "So, what happened?"

After solving the funding problem, the immediate needs of "Facebook" were relieved. The endster crashed because the server problem was not well solved, resulting in the collapse of the website and no further expansion. Now, the development of "Facebook" is steady and steady, and there is no problem with funding. Logically speaking, it should be developing steadily. But less than three weeks later, Mark Zuckerberg appeared again, and it was not a phone call, but he personally found Wyoming, and single-handedly, there was definitely a big problem.

Mark Zuckerberg looked around, Anne Hathaway was reciting the script by the side, Jake Gyllenhaal was sitting opposite Evan Bell, the two were just talking about the lines, and Michelle Williams Si is gone. She has always been elusive recently, making people puzzled.

Evan Bell stood up and said to the partner in front of him, "Jack, I'll go for a walk." Then he and Mark Zuckerberg walked to the woods next to him, while Teddy Bell stayed where he was In case Li An came over for a while and couldn't find anyone.

"Shaun has found financing," Mark Zuckerberg said. "Typically, new Silicon Valley companies look to VCs to inject a lot of cash, and for a company of our size, a few million dollars is enough. But Sean said that if the wind invested capital, it would brazenly take most of the company's interests, and it might also squeeze us people out of management and take control of the company's best interests, and then withdraw the funds, At that time, we will be fools who help others to make money and get nothing for themselves.”

Evan Bell was stunned for a while. He didn't have that deep knowledge of venture capital companies, but any businessman's pursuit of profit is the only goal, which is probably very likely. And when you think about Sean Parker's experience, it's not hard to understand why he said that -- he's been kicked out of his company by VCs twice. "What do you think?"

"I agree with him that I have to have absolute control over the company. At the end of the day, we just need a few hundred thousand dollars to buy a few more servers," Mark Zuckerberg said quickly and simply. "Shaw En found a good friend of his named Reid Hoffman, an investor willing to give small start-ups or entrepreneurs a lot of startup capital. Hoffman is another social network's largest investor, and he Don't think the social networking system will eventually become a large network. So, he contacted another individual investor..."

Evan Bell shook his head, "I don't know about these processes, tell me the results."

Mark Zuckerberg glanced at Evan Bell. Like Evan Bell, he is not a person who does not understand and pretends to understand. Everyone is bound to have their own areas that they are not good at. If they pretend to not understand, then In the end, he was fooled by others and laughed foolishly. Mark Zuckerberg remembered his embarrassment when he went to meet these investors, because countless technical terms and technical terms, jargon made him dizzy, and he spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on. Great effort.

Nodding, Mark Zuckerberg retracted his thoughts. He originally thought that Evan Bell, as the company's largest investor and the only shareholder, hoped to have a clear grasp of every step of the company. Now look at it. Come on, he still thinks too much. Evan Bell is still Evan Bell, the Evan Bell that he can trust. "It turned out that Hoffman agreed to invest, he offered $5 million for the company's share price, and he decided to put in $500,000 in exchange for 10 percent of the company. In addition, there were three other investors who were willing to invest in two One hundred thousand dollars in exchange for some shares, these shares should be completed by diluting Savalin's shares, and the shares of the two of us will also be restructured."

History has come as usual, and Eduardo Savalin's shares will be diluted, and he will eventually be kicked out of the board. Although Evan Bell knew the result, he still felt a little embarrassed when it was about to become a reality. Eduardo Savarin may be a great performer and maybe even a manager, but it's hard to be a great trailblazer. Pioneers, 100,000 people or millions of people may not be able to make one.

"Once Savarin has the accounts clear, the formal trading of the shares can begin." Mark Zuckerberg didn't know what Evan Bell was thinking, and still said quickly, "But then I thought about it again. I thought, since it's just an investment of $700,000, instead of letting other people take too many shares and increase the board seats, it's better to ask first if you'd like to invest some more in our company. This way you can avoid having too many on the board. With people stepping in, and your opinion of our company has always been paramount, having a layman on the board is not what our team wants.”

Evan Bell is very surprised No wonder Mark Zuckerberg came alone today, I am afraid that the situation where he continues to increase investment is not what Sean Parker wants to see. "But it is impossible for the board to not add people, if the company is going to go public."

"I know, so even if you are willing to invest, I just hope that you can invest around half a million, and then the remaining 200,000 investment will be divided up by others, so that even if they join the board, they will have limited influence on decision-making. ." Mark Zuckerberg explained casually, "Are you interested in this investment?" Mark Zuckerberg looked at Evan Bell with some anticipation. Half a million dollars is definitely not a burden for Evan Bell.

In fact, Mark Zuckerberg has considered it comprehensively. Even if the shares held by Evan Bell rise again, with Evan Bell's personality, he is bound to become a constant source of ideas in the company, and important decisions for the company. , Evan Bell will not be involved too much, which is better for him.

Evan Bell thought about it a little and nodded, "If it can make the development of 'Facebook' better and smoother, why not?"

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