Chapter 1043

Larry Page's greatest pursuit in his life is to make every effort to digitize everything in the real society.

Inspired by the library model, he founded search engine and Google in University. After the founding of Google, he invested more than 400 million dollars to digitize more than 20 million kinds of physical books in the world in ten years, which gave birth to Google Books;

in addition, he tried to use a camcorder to drive along the road in the last century Tu took photos. According to his way at that time, he stopped every 100 meters to take a few photos, and then transmitted them to the computer. As a result, he initiated the idea of digitizing street views all over the world and making them available for users to browse on the Internet. Then, several years later, Google Street View released that through countless Google Street View cars, people can stay indoors and online Enjoy the scenery of dozens of countries, thousands of cities and millions of streets.

Then, he used more advanced satellite and aerial photography technology to take a 360 degree "picture" of the earth, and then Google Earth was born.

Right now, Larry Page is making his first big digital experiment - Google Books.

Larry Page doesn't think there will be a second person in the world who has the same crazy idea of digitizing books around the world and then putting them on the Internet.

However, what he didn't expect was that Li Mu, just through a few metaphors of his own, said this model as a suggestion for himself.

It made Larry Page nervous and embarrassed.

The tension is that he worries that Li Mu will also be interested in such a model. Google is now doing such a thing, which is not superior to Muye technology, and it is just starting now. If Muye technology is also doing it, it is easy to catch up with it;

embarrassment is because he does not know how to answer Li Mu at once. First, he does not want to tell Li Mu that Google is actually doing this One thing, but if you don't tell Li Mu, when he launches Google Books in the future, Li Mu will feel that he is inspired by him, which is too embarrassing.

Real people like Larry Page care about the source of ideas. He doesn't want his own Google Book plan to be misinterpreted as plagiarizing others' ideas one day.

After thinking about it for a while, Larry Page made up his mind and said to Li Mu, "Mr. Li, I have a secret message for you. The project of Google Books is already in operation. The purpose is to move the whole real world books to the Internet, as you just said."

Li Mu pretended to be surprised and said, "that's a huge workload!"

Larry Page nodded and said with a smile, "it doesn't matter how big it is. It's one of the few dreams in my life. Even if I do my best, I will finish it."

Larry Page purposely insisted that Li Mu should not be interested in the project. If he is really interested, he should also withdraw when he knows that he is doing his best for the project.

Li Mu smiled quietly and said to Larry Page, "this is a great dream. I think you can achieve it."

Larry Page said with a sigh of relief and a smile: "Muye technology is also great. I think YY has the opportunity to become the core product of human communication in the future Internet world. This kind of bearing can do without borders. If YY goes smoothly, it can even carry the online communication of the whole mankind."

Li Mu said with a modest smile, "Mr. Page, the goal of carrying all mankind is too far-reaching. I just want to make the American market through now."

Larry Page looked at Li Mu and said, "Mr. Li, Internet products are the products with the least impact from geographical restrictions. When Google was founded, it didn't expect to be able to reach this point. At the beginning, I couldn't even imagine the Internet users in the United States. Now, Google has become a necessary Internet tool for Internet users all over the world. Good products have no national boundaries, as long as they can put the products into practice Launch, will be able to conquer more users, the same applies to YY. "

Said Larry Page: "in my opinion, YY is only one step away from being popular all over the world."

Li Mu couldn't help asking him, "which step?"

Larry Page was adamant: "financing! Ordinary companies use time for money, great companies use money for time. What YY needs now is comprehensive and rapid development. After successful financing, it can immediately move forward to the global market. "

Li Mu nodded and said: "the financing has been promoted, but Muye technology is not in a hurry for this moment."

Larry Page asked him, "is there any capital you prefer?"

Li Mu said with a smile, "in theory, whoever gives more money, we will naturally prefer who."

Larry Page said, "let me recommend you a capital company."

Li Mu asked Larry Page, "Mr. Page, aren't you going to recommend Sequoia to me?"

Larry Page's expression is somewhat unnatural, saying: "the most critical round of financing for Google is Sequoia leading investment. Based on our long-term cooperation, I think Sequoia is definitely the best venture capital in this industry.""Sequoia is not bad, but it depends on who gives more money to Muye technology," Li said

"Sequoia's capital relationship is very strong," said Larry Page. "Sequoia will play a very important role in the IPO in the future. Sequoia is also planning for Google's IPO related matters. Once the listing is successful, the development situation of the enterprise will be broader."

Hearing this, Li Mu asked with a smile, "Mr. Page, are you a lobbyist for Sequoia today?"

Li Mu said that Larry Page was a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and said, "the CEO of Sequoia told me that I want to meet you and told me to try to persuade you."

"Persuade me?" Li Mu asked curiously, "what do you advise me? Persuade me to accept their offer of 16.5 billion dollars? "

Larry Page said: "of course not, 16.5 billion dollars is that they don't know enough about the actual value of pastoral technology. Now they have set a new price, and it's a very sincere price, but they don't have the opportunity to sit down and have a good chat with you, so I hope I can help him convey a message that they hope to have an interview with you."

Li Mu said with a smile, "the interview is OK, but not now. The financing window of Muye technology will not be opened anytime. It was opened once before, but Sequoia refused, so the window will not be opened for the time being, but Sequoia can pay attention to some of our next actions. When the financing window is opened again, you can sit down again and have a good chat."