Chapter 361

In Li Mu's eyes, Mark Zuckerberg is a bug like existence.

Not only because he is the youngest 10 billion dollar super rich, but also because of his strong vision and ability in his entrepreneurial career.

Ordinary people start businesses. The key to creating an Internet giant like Facebook is that until 2013, Mark Zuckerberg's shareholding ratio in Facebook can still stand at about 30%, which is much stronger than those Internet giants in China who are 40 or 50 years old. Therefore, he can surpass all domestic Internet enterprises in personal assets This is also the place where he is very powerful.

Countless reborn people who appear in the novel will not miss holding Mark Zuckerberg's thigh. The way of holding his thigh is also strange. Some people went to the other side of the ocean to invest in him at the beginning of Facebook's establishment, and even went to the United States to find him. They became friends with him before Facebook's establishment, but Li Mu didn't think so.

First of all, if you wait for Facebook to be founded and then invest in Mark Zuckerberg in the United States, you can't logically say that there are so many Internet enterprises in the United States, so many enterprises and projects are born in Silicon Valley every day, how can a Chinese go all the way to find a Harvard University Student and take the initiative to invest money in him? Even Mark Zuckerberg is expected to be startled.

Moreover, it's not so easy for Chinese people to invest in American entrepreneurship, especially when it comes to the issue of corporatization. It's very troublesome to invest directly, and the other party is not willing to accept it. The most important thing is to have a company with perfect registration and complete procedures in the United States, and throw hundreds of millions of dollars on the account, and see good projects directly in the name of the company and be invested It's much more convenient and formal for those who sign contracts.

It's not appropriate to invest recklessly, and it's not safe to invest in advance. Mark Zuckerberg was a student of Harvard University First, and then he came up with the idea of starting a business in the school, and became an entrepreneur. He developed from a student to an entrepreneur who was born with the idea of Facebook. In the middle of that, he had planned the established route for a long time, if he didn't go there If he intervenes in advance, Mark Zuckerberg, who is far away from the ocean, will certainly push forward according to his original rhythm. He will certainly establish facemash in 2003, and will also create Facebook idea at the end of 2003 and start to implement it in 2004.

So, the most important part is finally coming.

Since Li Mu didn't interfere with Mark Zuckerberg's planned route, he would try to buy the Facebook domain at the beginning of his business. In that year, the owner of the domain offered a price of $10000, which scared off Mark Zuckerberg, who was still a poor student. If the domain name was in his own hands, by the end of 2003 and the beginning of 2004, mark Zucker Berger will definitely contact himself to try to buy the domain name, and Li Mu's ultimate goal is not to sell the domain name to him at the end of 2003, but to take this opportunity to directly invest in him.

Li Mu combed the time nodes of Facebook development in his mind.

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook went online. He started from Harvard and began to spread to other universities. At this time, he was an ordinary student and operated Facebook as a small after-school entrepreneurial project.

In September 2004, Mark Zuckerberg got his first angel investment from Facebook. PayPal founder Peter Thiel invested half a million dollars. At that time, Facebook showed its extraordinary expansion ability.

Li Mu can't help but fill out a picture in his mind.

If you pull the timeline to one day in 2003, Mark Zuckerberg, who was taking a class in a classroom at Harvard University, finally thought of Facebook's idea when he bit the 58th pencil head, and the more he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more wonderful and feasible it was, the more he suffered until the end of class and rushed to the dormitory , opened the computer, prepared to go to the proxy website of domain name registration, and registered the domain name of Facebook first. He didn't know whether the domain name had been registered, but he must be quietly expecting that the domain name is still in the state of pending registration.

When he filled in the domain name query box facebook.com This top-level domain, and then, he was distressed to find that the day dog! It seems that Facebook is not the first one to think of this phrase. Some people who have been hoarding domain names with dictionaries have thought of this phrase before.

And then, he can't wait to see this Facebook.com What the hell is it.

After opening it, he was relieved because there was nothing on the page, only one sentence: "the domain name can be sold." Then there is an MSN used as a link.

"It turned out to be a ghost saving domain names."

At this time, Mark Zuckerberg was relieved. He would not immediately want to register for the Facebook. He would think: "the domain name of this phrase should not sell for much money, right? Thousands of dollars will come to the top. If we cut the price, maybe it will be cheaper. He will certainly not be able to combine the concept of College Students' social networking site with Facebook, a slightly weird phrase like me! "Then Mark Zuckerberg added the MSN.

At this time, Li Mu, who had been waiting for Mark Zuckerberg for two years, went online smilingly.

"Hello, sir, I want to buy your Facebook domain name," Mark Zuckerberg said on MSN

"Oh? How much would you like to pay? "

"I think 500 dollars is a good offer for such a domain name."

Li Mu sent him a smile: "I'm sorry, I'm not very inclined to sell this domain name, but I'm more inclined to use it to make a social network. I started from college, and I've started to prepare for it. At the beginning, I'm going to take a few million dollars to play."

"I'm a dog in the sun!!!"

Think about it. What does Mark Zuckerberg think when he hears his idea being told by someone who owns a Facebook domain name?

At the end of the day, this man is ahead of himself in everything, and most importantly, he has money and is willing to invest millions of dollars to test the water.

There is a big difference between the rich and the poor.

If starting a business is like starting a large car rental company, what the rich have to do is to buy a bunch of cars, and then build an operation team;

the way for the poor is to find the cheapest way to save cars first, and then try to save one or two cars first. It's needless to say how hard the saving process is. It's impossible to purchase or purchase various parts Can not afford their DIY, and then match, do a variety of tests.

After this series of work, he finally proved that he could save one or two cars. At this time, if any investor recognized the cars they saved, he would give them a sum of money to save another batch of cars. This is the legendary Angel round investment.

Get angel investment and save a certain amount, but it's not enough to run a real large car rental company, and then find someone to invest in the second round, which is round a financing;

it's not easy to get round a financing, just enough amount, and then start to build a better operation team

It's almost half a century slower than the rich, that is, the tortoise and the rabbit race. If the rabbit doesn't make a big mistake, the tortoise will never catch up with him.

Although the metaphor is not very appropriate, the whole Internet business is like this. If Ma Yun wins the vacuum in the domestic market when he founded Alibaba, if someone directly takes tens of millions to do the same thing as him, he may have failed at the beginning.

At this time, Mark Zuckerberg was probably frustrated. He didn't know what to do at once. It might take a few days to think about it, but more likely, he gave up the idea of starting a business.

When he was not at his disposal, Li Mu suddenly asked him, "by the way, can you tell me what you want this domain name to do?"

"Me?" "I'd like to be a social networking site, too, but now I think I might need to think about it a little bit," says Mark Zuckerberg

Li Mu suddenly said generously, "it's really fate that everyone thought of going together. In fact, we have the opportunity to sit down and talk about this common idea of you and me. If the idea is the same, I can give you the domain name and invest a sum of money. You can help me to complete this plan. After all, I'm too busy to do something separately Other things, to others, I'm afraid he can't understand my plan. "

"Really?" It's hard for Mark Zuckerberg to imagine that someone is willing to invest in a nobody like himself, but the reason for the other side is also very good. You can think of going with me, which proves that you are very close to my thinking mode. If you can pass the test, I'm at ease to invest.

Li Mu said with a smile: "of course, it's true, but I have something to do recently. I'm going to Cambridge, Massachusetts. I don't know where you are? When I come back from Cambridge, we can make an appointment to meet at a place where I can ask my assistant to book a round-trip ticket for you. "

Mark Zuckerberg is actually in Harvard University, which is in Cambridge City. Li Mu's reason for saying this is to be more committed to the fish.

So, it can be imagined that when he hears this sentence, he will probably believe in fate like the Chinese, and will be excited and crazy

"God, sir, I'm in Cambridge! In fact, I am still a college student at Harvard! If you come to Cambridge, can we have a moment to meet you? "

"My God, this is the magic of the Creator! How can we have so many coincidences and coincidences? It's so lucky! In any case, I must meet you. Wait for my news. I'll contact you when I get to Cambridge. "

"It's God's will. I'll wait for you in Cambridge!"

"OK, wait for me, young man!"

This is the complete idea of Li Mu. To sum up, it can be called: setting up a platform for domain name and singing by fate.

Later, Li Mu can be sure that no matter where he was and what he was doing, the first thing to do was to buy a ticket to Cambridge City, USA (to be continued. )