My Age of Investment

"To be honest, we are now short of working capital and need your investment, Darren."

After chatting for a while, Nicholas returned to the topic and talked about investing directly.

The other five founders, as well as Andrew, all looked at the young man sitting on the sofa.

Xia Jingxing shrugged, "Of course, I came to Estonia this time for this matter."

Nicholas smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll show you the products first."

He dragged Xia Jingxing and Andrew to a messy bedroom.

The bedroom was turned into a "black Internet cafe", the bed was emptied, there were six or seven computers, the ground was full of various wires, and instant noodle buckets, cigarette butts, and empty wine cans were thrown on the floor.

Xia Jingxing and Andrew endured various pungent smells, and after choosing two workstations to sit down, Nicholas helped them start the software.

"Wow, what is this?"

Andrew looked at the dialing interface on the computer and yelled.

Xia Jingxing picked up the phone on another computer and said with a smile, "This is an internet call!"

Andrew listened carefully, and sure enough, there were two voices, one was directly transmitted to his ears from the room, and the other was transmitted from the computer.

"This is interesting!"

Andrew became interested, began to talk a lot, and sang songs.

Xia Jingxing also spoke to the computer, the two of them asked and answered questions and tested the product in an all-round way.

Nicholas and the other six stood by the door, watching all this with a smile.

No one can see their product and be indifferent, and this time is obviously no exception!

After playing for a while, or testing it for a while, after Andrew confirmed that he could really make an Internet call, he praised Nicholas and others with a smile, and at the same time made a small suggestion.

"The sound is a bit distorted, and sometimes the transmission is a bit stuck..."

It's all small flaws, no big problems.

Nicholas nodded, then shrugged, "Yes, we've noticed these issues too, but we don't have the money to recruit more people to perfect it right now."

Andrew nodded, it was the truth.

When he thinks about it, six people can make this thing, and there is no big problem. It is already very good, and he can't ask for more.

"Hey, do you charge for this online call?"

Andrew suddenly remembered something and asked seriously.

"We intend to make it free to help us acquire more users."

Nicholas added with a smile, "Of course, we will also look into more value-added services, such as using our Skype software to make calls to landlines and mobile phones, and these services can be charged."

"It's called Skype?" Andrew asked.

Jonas, the other founder next to Nicholas, nodded, "Yes, it's composed of "Sky" and "Peer", but since the domain name of 's has been registered, we changed it to Skype."

"Peer to Peer technology."

Xia Jingxing continued with a smile, "Both Napster and Kazaa have used this technology, which greatly facilitates the online experience of netizens, but it also touches the cake of the vested interests."

P2P is the abbreviation of peer-to-peer, also known as peer-to-peer technology. It is a peer-to-peer network that does not have a central server and relies on user group nodes for information exchange.

Different from the traditional C/S central server structure, each user node in the P2P network is both a client and a server, and can serve as a server to provide services to other nodes at the same time.

Napaster is the P2P music sharing and downloading website that he mentioned last time when he answered questions from entrepreneurs at Stanford, because it caused large-scale music piracy,

It was sued for bankruptcy by the Recording Industry Association of America and five major record companies.

Kazaa is also a P2P file sharing program, which has improved a lot on the basis of Napster.

It was officially launched in September 2000 and became the most downloaded software at that time. Almost every second, several users downloaded music, videos, software, games, pictures and files through P2P sharing technology.

The developers are the six people in front of them, who have developed such a dangling software, why are they still mixed up like this?

That's because the Nicholas team broke down with the American film and music companies.

The companies sued Kazaa for copyright infringement, which forced them to dodge US lawyers and court subpoenas.

Xia Jingxing had heard about what happened to Nicholas and his five friends in his previous life, how could he say "miserable".

Once Nicholas was at a theatre in Stockholm, and his wife received flowers from a stranger with a letter tucked inside it with a court summons.

Nicholas was startled and ran away, but in the end the summons was not delivered.

In addition to being in Stockholm, Nicholas suffered the same incident in London and also escaped.

I heard that when Nicholas fled back to Estonia from other places, he brought his team back by boat, because only in this way could he escape the identity check.

Even back in Tallinn, Nicholas was terrified every day.

"As long as someone knocks on the door, and we can't judge the identity of this person, I will hide under the table in fear." In an interview with a media, Nicholas himself admitted the past.

For fear of being arrested, Nicholas and Jonas were afraid to fly to the United States for several years, and even though Kazaa was later sold to an Australian businessman, they were afraid to fly.

Fortunately, the two spent more than 100 million dollars to settle the lawsuit and reached a settlement with American film, music companies, and associations, and the days of hiding in XC were officially over.

At present, Kazaa has been sold, but the film and music companies in the United States have not let them go, so they are still in a mess, and the development of Scape is also sneaky.

When Xia Jingxing mentioned Kazaa, the expressions of the six people were not very natural, because it was a time that was both dangerous and exciting, and it was unbearable to look back on.

As the leader of the team, Nicholas shrugged generously, "It seems Daeron, you are very aware of what happened to us."

Xia Jingxing was afraid that the other party would think too much, and said with a smile, "I have no other intentions, I also admire your technical ability very much.

At the same time, I sympathize with you, the bastards in the record industry and the film industry are really greedy.

Live by copyright, lack of innovation, look at the movies released in recent years, and the albums released, what kind of shit...

Lying down on the credit book of the past, it will be over sooner or later! "

Hearing Xia Jingxing scolding the Hollywood giants and several major record companies, the expressions of several Scale development members turned a little darker, and they thought that Darren's words were quite nice, and they suddenly got closer to each other.

Andrew was still at a loss, but he also heard a few key words, "Kazaa", "copyright", and he planned to check it on the Internet later.

"How much do you need?"

Xia Jingxing had seen the product and knew the past glory of this six-member group.

For the next investment, basically you don't need to think too much, as long as the price is right, the investment is done.