My Age of Investment

Mountain View.

In a Frisbee field, a dozen men and women wearing short-sleeved shorts and yoga pants were happily playing Frisbee.

After playing for a while, two sweaty middle-aged white men were exhausted and left the game first.

"The Social Network is released tomorrow. Do you want to go see it?"

The speaker was a tall, slightly bald white man in his thirties. While he was drinking mineral water, he asked his Frisbee teammate who was sitting next to him and was also his entrepreneurial partner.

"Why go? Is it because the movie tickets are sent by Vision Capital?"

The white man with an arrogant tone, who looked a few years older than his companion, was squeezing the mineral water bottle with a look of displeasure on his face. The bottle had been crushed by him, but he still didn't let go.

"Brian, we don't have much money in our account anymore!"

"I know that! But as long as we save some money, we should be able to last until next year.

As long as we persist until next year, the number of users of pWazipu will usher in a surge.

Only then can we have enough leverage when negotiating with venture capital. "

The bald man asked: "What if we can't raise funds? John and the others will not provide us with another $250,000 in seed funding."

The man named Brian moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something, but finally swallowed his words.

"I know you have a big opinion against Darren Xia, but hasn't that incident happened a long time ago?

Moreover, it was not Darren Xia who refused to recruit us in the first place, but Facebook’s HR.

Darren Xia no longer has much to do with Facebook!

Envision Capital has shown goodwill to us continuously. I think we should sit down and have a chat with them and listen to their terms.

Survival is the first priority, everything else comes second. "

Brian looked at the bald man and asked, "Jane, do you really think so?"

"I'm different from you. You were born into a wealthy family in the United States, but I was born in a small village in China. In the 16 years before immigrating to the United States, I never even saw what a computer looked like.

When we arrived in the United States, our family lived in government-subsidized housing and received food stamps.

I was tired of feeling hungry and poor, and I desperately wanted to create my own place in America.

I think Darren Xia is very similar to me. We were both born poor and came from a backward country. He became a super rich man through his own efforts, but I am still a nobody.

This may be an opportunity for us to connect with Dai Lunxia. Vision Capital is very powerful in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn, Tesla, Yelp...many companies have received their investment and have quickly become Star startups with billion-dollar and multi-billion dollar valuations. "

Brian took a deep look at his partner and said, "Okay, let's go watch a movie together tomorrow."

"Brian, thank you!"

“I didn’t agree with Vision Capital’s investment, I just went to watch a movie.

To be honest, I am also a little curious, what kind of story is told in "The Social Network"? "

"You haven't?"

"I'm not interested in Facebook at all!"

"Duplicitous guy!"

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The entrance to a movie theater in Palo Alto.

Xia Jingxing is sitting in a Model

In the back seat of the S car, I was chatting in a question-and-answer style with the Silicon Valley office of Vision Capital, the VC fund manager Ricky Milner.

"I heard that a16z has been very popular recently?"

“It’s not bad, mainly because Marc Andreessen’s Braised Egg is very famous. After transitioning from an entrepreneur to a venture capital investor, he relied on his past reputation and resources to get some good project resources.

Recently, Marc Andreessen invites me to play golf every day. I hope we will allow a16z to participate in Airbnb’s next round of financing. "

Xia Jingxing nodded lightly. Marc Andreessen was the founder of the Netscape browser and a lucky man who became famous at a young age. He took Netscape to the market at the age of 24.

More than ten years later, Netscape was acquired by AOL, and Marc Andreessen changed from a handsome boy to a braised egg.

Because of him, Marc Andreessen did not invest in Facebook and Twitter as smoothly as he did in his previous life. His legend is not so strong, but he still cannot be underestimated. If nothing else, a16z, a new VC institution, may Become one of the biggest rivals of Vision Capital US VC Fund.

"Just watch and deal with it. If the founders of Airbnb don't want us to exclusively lead the next round of financing, then you can bring in Marc Andreessen and make a good relationship!"

"good!"

After saying that, Ricky raised his hand to look at the time on his watch and murmured to himself: "What are those two guys doing? It's our turn for the movie soon. Why don't we not come?"

Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Wait a little longer! Don't underestimate these two guys. Don't you think the mobile communication application they created is very interesting?"

“I think it’s quite average. Except for the design concept, everything else is unqualified.

Especially their attitude towards venture capital. If it weren't for your repeated warnings, I might have given up on this project directly. "

Xia Jingxing was about to speak when he suddenly heard a long series of ringtones coming from Ricky's jacket pocket.

"You're here? Where are you? Okay, I'll be right over."

After hanging up the phone, Ricky hurriedly got out of the car and saw two middle-aged white men dressed as programmers standing at the entrance of the cinema not far away. One of them, a bald man, was still waving to him.

After Xia Jingxing got out of the car from the other side, he put on his sunglasses and walked to Ricky's side.

"It's just the two of them, right?"

Ricky nodded slightly, and then walked towards the two founders of Wazipu together with Xia Jingxing.

"Jane Coombe, Brian Acton, nice to meet you, Wazip App Development is great."

The two people whose names were called looked at Xia Jingxing and were stunned for a few seconds before they recognized Xia Jingxing.

"Dylan, you asked us to watch a movie?"

Jane Coombe, the bald man, could not suppress his inner surprise, and his voice trembled slightly.

Brian Acton had always had a bad impression of Facebook and Xia Jingxing, but when he saw Xia Jingxing in person, all his unhappiness was forgotten and he shook hands with Xia Jingxing with a smile on his face.

"Yes, this is a biographical film adapted from the entrepreneurial story of Facebook. We are all entrepreneurs, so you can enjoy this film together."

Xia Jingxing's approachability made Jane Coombe, who was already fond of him, have a crazy increase in favorability. He said cheerfully: "Darren, you are a successful entrepreneur and world-renowned, and we are just two small developers."

"Facebook turned out to be just a small company. By watching the movie, you can see many familiar scenes."

Xia Jingxing was not in the mood to talk anymore and waved his hand, "Let's go, the movie will start soon. Let's talk after watching the movie."

"good."

The group of people walked into the cinema surrounded by Xia Jingxing with smiles on their faces.

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