My Age of Investment

On the eve of returning to China, Rao Lei organized a meal, called Xia Jingxing, Shen Si, Shen Xinyi, and Gao Lili, and set up five or six tables in the Chinatown Chinese restaurant in San Francisco.

Out of consideration for his friend Qiu Zhiyi, Xia Jingxing suggested that Rao Lei choose the Chinese restaurant opened by Qiu Zhiyi's cousin.

After everyone was seated, they started chatting.

"Jing Xing, I heard that Facebook is valued at more than 100 million US dollars?"

Lin Yaocheng and Xia Jingxing sat at a table, and soon after they were seated, they couldn't wait to ask Xia Jingxing.

His opening attracted the eyes of this table and the tables next to him.

Xia Jingxing was not good at stealing Rao Lei's limelight, so he smiled lightly, "There's no such thing, it's all rumors in the market!"

"Don't be humble. I heard from a few friends who are investing. Now Facebook is one of the most sought-after investment targets in Silicon Valley."

Lin Yaocheng is a Chinese and grew up in the United States. Although he speaks Chinese well, he obviously has not learned the deep Chinese cultural connotation. He has learned a lot of American dross.

They don't understand humility, they think that there are achievements, why not show it upright.

"Hahaha, let's talk later!"

Xia Jingxing pointed to Rao Lei who looked slightly embarrassed next to him, "Today is Senior Brother Rao's farewell banquet, we should toast him a few more glasses of wine.

See you again, I don't know when it will be. "

"Now that the traffic is so developed, there is an opportunity to meet at any time."

Lin Yaocheng looked at Rao Lei and said with a smile: "You go back to the motherland to inquire about us first, and we will come to you in two years."

Rao Lei waved his hand, "You two are both successful people now, the foundation has been laid, and I still need to start from scratch when I return to China."

Lin Yaocheng asked, "I think about it, go back to China to start a business? In what way?"

Liu Jian, who was sitting on the side, answered, "What's the most popular right now? Naturally, it's a social networking site."

Liu Jian looked at Xia Jingxing and said jokingly, "Jingxing, don't mind, it's definitely not the same type of website as Facebook, and the design and functions will be different."

Xia Jingxing sighed in his heart that the inertia of history is still great, and most of them are going to go the old way.

"What do I care? There may be dozens of social networking sites in the United States now. I'm not the king of the mountain. I drove this road and planted this tree. Everyone must stay and buy road money."

Xia Jingxing shook his head and laughed, as if he didn't mind.

Liu Jian smiled and looked at Rao Lei, who gave him a slight wink.

Rao Lei had told him before that Xia Jingxing was not the kind of person who cares about things.

What's more, it's very early for the two to start a social networking site in China and compete with Facebook, and they may not even have a conflict in their entire lives.

Because no Chinese Internet companies have come to the United States to carry out business, Ahri's kind of opening an office, the symbolic meaning is greater than the actual meaning.

On the contrary, the two of them are worried that Facebook will come to China!

"Jing Xing, if Facebook comes to China in the future, you have to be merciful and include us."

Rao Lei is half-testing, half-jokingly preaching.

"Hehe, it's too early to talk about this. Facebook has no idea of ​​international expansion for the time being. Just an American university campus is enough for us to deal with."

Now, when it comes to expanding into China, Xia Jingxing does think it is too early and impractical.

The two founded social networking sites in China, and naturally there is no competition with him.

If it really wanted to enter China, Facebook at that time did not know how big it was.

Most of the "incorporation" Rao Lei said was to leave a way out for himself.

When eaby entered the Chinese market, it took the acquisition of eBay as a springboard.

After joking for a while, seeing that Xia Jingxing really had no grudges, Rao Lei and Liu Jian also relaxed a lot.

After all, Xia Jingxing was young and promising, and it was naturally the best to maintain a good relationship, and no one wanted to make enemies everywhere.

"What kind of social networking site do you two plan to build? Tell me, let's give you two some advice."

Lin Yaocheng asked while eating.

Rao Lei said with a smile: "Okay, then I'll talk about it, and everyone will give their opinions.

We want to build a complete social circle by "finding friends of friends", so as to distinguish it from the first-generation dating model of anonymous dating from strangers. "

"Isn't that the Chinese version of Friendster?"

Lin Yaocheng came out as soon as he heard it, and blurted out a question.

"Yes, the emergence of dating sites has brought us a lot of inspiration."

Rao Lei said with a smile: "We have carefully studied dating sites, and it seems that Asians are more liked by Asians than whites."

Looking at Xia Jingxing, Rao Lei continued: "If you say something ugly, don't mind Jing Xing! Maybe the current Facebook is not very popular with Chinese people.

On the contrary, I am more optimistic about the Dating.com model taking root in China. "

Xia Jingxing smiled and said nothing.

There are penguins in China, and other social networking sites are destined to be a tragedy.

There have been discussions in the past life, why can't China publish Facebook? That's because there are penguins.

The development of social networks is fairly good, only Weibo and Momo, but they are differentiated competition with Penguin, and the rest are corpses.

Because Penguin has too many QQ users, and the launch of the QQ space function, the rest of the SNS websites are basically cold, and they are simply fighting an unequal war.

Of course, there is also a dead spot for penguins, that is, WeChat during the transition from PC to mobile Internet.

Kill WeChat, and penguins will be seriously injured if they don't die.

Look at Baidu's change from the first place in BAT to a unit of measurement for the market value of giants. Ali and Penguin are equal to a dozen degrees, Pinduoduo and Meituan are equal to three degrees...

You can see how miserable the former giants have fallen behind in the mobile Internet wave.

Seeing Xia Jingxing pondering, Rao Lei and Liu Jian thought he was angry and a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, Brother Rao, you are right. I also think that foreign companies entering China must carry out localization transformation, otherwise they will definitely not adapt to the environment."

Xia Jingxing quickly recovered and said with a smile.

Rao Lei nodded, "It's natural, we're just borrowing some of the ideas from Dating.com, and won't copy it in its entirety."

"Besides the different market positioning, Facebook and Dating Network should have similar functions, right?

Why don't you make a Chinese Facebook account? You can also ask Jing Xing to buy a share. "

Lin Yaocheng said with a smile, "I am more optimistic about the development of Facebook, at least currently Facebook is the number one in the industry."

Rao Lei smiled bitterly. These questions are more tricky than the next, so it's really hard to answer them.

Liu Jian and Xia Jingxing had a less relationship, and they spoke more casually without so many worries.

"Jing Xing, as a friend, I also remind you, don't let Facebook stay on campus all the time.

Compared with the campus market, the market outside is ten or twenty times larger!

If Facebook misses this golden period of development, it is very likely that it will only be a "campus social networking site" forever, and the word "campus" cannot be removed. "

Xia Jingxing could feel that the other party's starting point was good, but he disagreed.

But he still nodded and smiled, "The plan is not that long-term, we still want to take it step by step, first win the campus market and then talk about other things.

After all, in the campus market, we have an advantage.

And go outside and compete with dozens of social networking sites, each of which is currently ahead of us. "

Seeing that Xia Jingxing was so stubborn and even a little short-sighted, Liu Jian smiled and stopped trying to persuade him.

After talking about career and work, everyone began to chat about their study abroad life in these years.

"After a trip abroad, I have indeed gained a lot of knowledge and broadened my horizons a lot."

Recalling the ten years of life in a foreign country, Rao Lei was filled with emotion.

Liu Jian also wanted to go back to China to start a business with Rao Lei, so he continued to sigh with emotion.

"In addition to knowledge, I also earn some dollars, in short, it is much better than working in China.

However, China is currently in a period of rapid development, and there are many opportunities in all walks of life.

After returning to China, if you can seize one or two opportunities to start a business, it will definitely be better than working in the United States for a lifetime..."

Hearing the two bosses impart their life experience, the students at other tables gathered around with wine glasses, and toasted the wine while realizing the Tao.

Chinese Chinese restaurants are not so strict about alcohol control.

Xia Jingxing also picked up the small and exquisite wine glasses, and each toasted Rao Lei and Liu Jian, and wished them a long journey back to China and a successful career.

After some fun, ready to go.

Rao Lei, who was full of alcohol and flushed, pulled Xia Jingxing aside, as if he had something to explain.

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