My Age of Investment

The film "The Social Network" is based on the book published by Ben Mozrich.

Part of the content is factual, and part of it is fabricated, or artistically processed.

Since its publication last year, it has achieved very good sales results in the United States, and countless American people have rushed to bookstores to have a look.

The love-hate relationship of the Facebook entrepreneurial trio, as well as the secret story behind the founding of Facebook, coupled with the exaggerated title, are still very attractive to many young people.

Ben Mozrich is indeed a well-known published author. A simple entrepreneurial story, but he wrote it with ups and downs and full of conspiracy.

In the film, although Xia Jingxing and Xiao Quan could not stand up to Kristina, they were both expelled from the company by her using various means.

In other words, Kristina is described by Mozlic as a woman full of scheming.

This incident made Kristina very unhappy, which led to the subsequent investment of Marvel Studios in "The Social Network".

Pomeranian Yixiao is one of them, and more importantly, Xia Jingxing planned a movie to hype up Facebook's IPO pricing.

If nothing else happens, Facebook will take advantage of the movie-watching craze and buzz created by "The Social Network" to complete a large-scale IPO on Nasdaq.

In the entire film project, in addition to the US$40 million investment from Marvel Studios, which is 100% controlled by Vision Capital, Sony Columbia Pictures also participated in the investment of US$20 million and served as the U.S. distributor of the film.

This movie is very interesting because the three founders of Facebook come from three different countries, so the movie markets in the three countries are all potential movie theaters.

In view of this, the three leading actors in the movie were also chosen to be Chinese, Japanese and Americans respectively. The crew even went to China and Japan to shoot some scenes.

Kristina is played by Lily Collins, a fledgling actress who has dual British and American citizenship. She has just turned 21 this year. She is young and beautiful, and is very consistent with the image of Kristina who was still studying at Stanford a few years ago.

As for the actor who plays Xia Jingxing, the crew originally wanted to find an ABC to play the role, but Xia Jingxing stopped him and demanded that a pure Chinese play him. In his opinion, ABC's body language and movements were too awkward.

Later, Hollywood came to China to recruit a leading actor to play Xia Jingxing, which caused a big sensation in China. All young actors in the entertainment industry took action, looking for connections and handing in notes everywhere, hoping to get this opportunity to break into Hollywood.

Because this movie is the first time that a Chinese person has played the leading role in a Hollywood movie except Bruce Lee and John Lone. He is not a villain or a bit player, but a glamorous image.

And there is news in Hollywood that "The Big Short" may be adapted into a movie. If nothing else, Darren Summer will be one of the leading actors.

In other words, the Chinese actor who performed well in "The Social Network" will most likely get a starring role in another Hollywood movie.

Moreover, no one knows whether biographical films such as "Fuxing Industry" and "Chinese Social King" will be made in the future.

Just by filming the role of Xia Jingxing, I would be lucky enough to rest on my laurels for half a lifetime.

Huang Huazhong, Wang Changtian, and Yu Dong all called Xia Jingxing and recommended many actors under their company, such as Oil King.

Xia Jingxing declined them all and appointed a contracted actor named "Lin Miao" from Jupin Pictures to participate in "The Social Network".

The young man was born in 1990 and is only twenty years old this year. He is handsome and handsome, and has learned martial arts. Most importantly, he looks somewhat similar to Xia Jingxing.

Originally, the company wanted him to star in "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman", but the movie was never made, so Xia Jingxing asked him to come to "The Social Network" first to get familiar with it.

If Lin Miao can gain some fame abroad, "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" can also try to be released overseas in the future.

As the Japanese actor who plays the puppy, Sony Columbia chose Kimura Takuya.

A 38-year-old middle-aged man, playing the role of a young man in his teens or 20s, he can't go too far wrong with a little makeup.

But this temperament can only be said to be seriously inconsistent with that of a puppy.

Xia Jingxing and his party of four sat in the back row of the theater, watching the movie with gusto.

On the big screen, the movie has been playing for more than ten minutes. Three young people from different countries have established Facebook websites and are struggling for development funds.

Lily Collins, who specially dyed her hair red, sat in a small office. Opposite her sat the young Kimura Takuya and Lin Miao.

"...How about we sell adult products directly? I have channels at home.

Stanford University alone consumes countless related supplies in a day. "

The puppy played by Kimura Takuya is not much better than in reality, and it caused bursts of laughter in the theater as soon as he opened his mouth.

Lily Collins folded her hands and said angrily: "Xiao Quan, we are a social networking website, not an e-commerce website, let alone an adult e-commerce website!"

Kimura Takuya said amusingly: "The essence of social networking sites is to make friends! The essence of making friends is to have sex!"

The theater burst into laughter again, and even Xia Jingxing couldn't help but laugh. It seemed that Xiaoquan had proposed selling adult products before, but had not realized his dream on Facebook, and now he had finally created his own adult empire with the entire industry chain through his own efforts.

"Okay, stop arguing, selling things seems to me to be a good idea to support the development of the website before we get venture capital financing.

But it’s really inappropriate to sell adult products. We sell T-shirts! A T-shirt with the Facebook logo printed on it…”

Then the camera turned and the three of them appeared in the Yiwu Trade City in China, surrounded by a bunch of small vendors.

After going round and round, the three of them still couldn't find the purchase channel, and finally found Ali Baba...

Then, along with a burst of dynamic music, a large number of young people wearing Facebook T-shirts began to appear on campus.

The three founders were so busy that they were on their feet. Several different sets of shots were shown on the screen. Some were rushing goods to China, some were contacting other schools to sell T-shirts, and some were looking for Amazon to discuss cooperation...

At the same time, the number of registered users displayed in the Facebook backend began to soar, reaching hundreds of thousands, millions, and tens of millions... until it captured all universities in the United States and began to penetrate into high schools.

Seeing this scene, Jane Koum, who was sitting next to Xia Jingxing, couldn't help but asked in a low voice: "Darren, is Facebook's first pot of gold really earned from selling T-shirts?"

Xia Jingxing smiled slightly, "Do you think it's possible? Is it free to purchase the goods?"

Jane Koum suddenly realized it and said: "It was the capital obtained from angel investors, right?"

Xia Jingxing nodded lightly and said nothing more.

Seeing this, Jane Koum also watched the movie with peace of mind and asked no more questions.

At this time, the movie has already played the scene of Facebook’s Series A financing.

The three founders worked together and battled wits with various venture capital institutions. Finally, they rejected the stingy and domineering Sequoia Capital and chose Axel as a Series A investor.

After the $50 million was received, Facebook's development was like riding on a rocket. It began to change its guns, moved out of school, and moved into Silicon Valley...

At this time, the movie was almost halfway through, and the storyline began to reverse. The three founders went from being inspirational, united, and funny in the first half to being divided, degraded, and depressed.

First, Lin Miao was caught cheating on a date with another girl by Lily Collins, and then Kimura Takuya started to have a wild and debauched life...

After the conflict arose, the three people began to quarrel.

Gradually, Lily Collins began to take control of the company, and Lin Miao and Kimura Takuya were marginalized.

Just when the two were becoming dissatisfied, Lily Collins took action again.

Under the guise of getting back together with Lin Miao, she got into bed together, and the two of them plotted against Xiao Quan in bed.

Then, the puppy was out, left the company, and began to concentrate on developing his own adult kingdom business.

Then, Lin Miao was also kicked out by Lily Collins.

But here, there is a difference between the movie and the movie.

In the novel, after Xia Jingxing and Kristina broke up, he boarded a plane to Wall Street in New York alone, and his career rejuvenated.

But this year's news proved that the two broke up several years later. They both gave birth to one child and were pregnant with another.

So there are different scenes in the movie. The two people went through countless twists and turns and finally chose to forgive each other.

At the end of the movie, Lin Miao rode to a country pasture and saw a pregnant Lily Collins.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, on the endless grassland, two people reunited after a long separation stared at each other silently...

Then, the movie subtitles began to appear, the lights in the theater came on, and the audience began to get up and leave.

Xia Jingxing and his four others followed the crowd and prepared to leave. Then he heard many people discussing the movie.

"What does this ending mean?"

"You can't even understand this. Christina finally chose to forgive that playboy from China."

"Ah? Didn't they break up?"

"Didn't you read the news in the past few months? Daren Xia's old habit happened again. She was kicked out by Kristina and she even lost her shares."

"Derlenxia is so miserable! Kristina is so scheming."

"Derlen Xia brought all of this on himself! The name makes it very clear, the birth history of Facebook, a story about sex, money, genius and betrayal.

Darren Xia is a genius, but he betrayed Kristina because of sex, so all the money went to Kristina. "

…

Xia Jingxing noticed that most people were despising him. After seeing this, he finally felt relieved.

It doesn't matter if he gets scolded a few times, just don't scold Kristina.

Putting aside the fact that fans scolded him for being in reality, the entire movie received pretty good reviews from fans.

In addition to reflecting the collision of Japanese culture, Chinese culture and American culture, it also portrays the images of the three leading actors in a three-point way, and basically reviews the entire founding process and development stages of Facebook.

As the company expands, the mentality of the three protagonists also begins to change, paving the way for the eventual parting of ways.

Listening to the voices scolding him all the way, Xia Jingxing finally walked out of the movie theater.

He looked at Jane Coombe and Brian Acton behind him and said, "How about we go have a cup of coffee?"

The two looked at each other and nodded. Although they wanted to ask Xia Jingxing what he thought of the movie and which plots were true and which plots were false, they finally held back and decided to talk about business first before talking about anything else.

The four of them took two cars and arrived at a coffee shop. After ordering a few cups of coffee, they sat under a sun umbrella outside and started chatting.

"I have been paying attention to your company for a long time, about a year ago."

Xia Jingxing's words surprised the two founders of Wazipu. They did not answer and continued to listen patiently.

"Wazipu was a company registered in February last year. A few months after launching the p app, it gained 250,000 users.

This is an amazing achievement and the pace of development is very fast.

At the end of last year, you upgraded the app and added the function of sending pictures, which suddenly became more popular.

But troubles also come. Facing the massive growth of users, you need to recruit more people and rent better servers.

But you just put up a slogan in the office: No advertising, no games, no tricks.

I'm curious, how do you plan to survive? "

Jane Coomb smiled and said, "Dylan, you know us quite well!"

"I just said that I have been following your team for a long time. At the same time, I am also a user of Wazipu."

Xia Jingxing opened his phone and showed the Wazipu application installed on his phone.

Jane Koum nodded, "Thank you for your recognition of us! We have also considered the issue of survival for a long time. We plan to charge for Wazipu. It is not expensive. You can download it for US$0.99."

Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "The price is indeed not expensive, and most people can afford it. However, if there is a fee, users can only pay through credit cards or electronic platforms, which will exclude some users, such as students.

Don’t underestimate student users, they represent the future of a company.

I have another question, if a similar application to Wazipu appears on the market and it is free, how do you plan to respond? "

Jane Coombe was about to speak, but partner Brian Acton answered first: "Darren, before answering your question, can we also ask you a question?"

Xia Jingxing turned his attention to Brian Acton, who had a calm face, as if he was not afraid that his interruption would cause Xia Jingxing's displeasure.

"Okay, just ask!"

Xia Jingxing glanced at Ricky Milner, who was about to have an attack, and signaled him to calm down.

“Is Envision Capital planning to invest in Wazip?”

Xia Jingxing nodded slightly, "Including but not limited to investment."

Brian Acton frowned, "Besides investment, are there any other ways of cooperation?"

"This is the second question."

"Okay, then I'm fine."

Brian Acton was quite knowledgeable, but Xia Jingxing was not as knowledgeable as him. He had just chatted a little more with Jane Combe, and felt that this person should be a breakthrough.

Jane Koum thought about Xia Jingxing's question for a while and replied: "If free similar applications appear, we should only cancel the charges, at least for a period of time, and then charge after gaining a competitive advantage."

Xia Jingxing said: "Your strategy is correct, but it does not apply to Wazipu now.

From what I understand, you're supposed to have just raised $250,000 in seed funding from five former Yahoo colleagues? It has been more than a year since the application was launched, and it has not received any new investment.

I think if there were sufficient funds, the number of users of Wazipu could be several times what it is now. "

Jane Koum looked at Xia Jingxing with a smile on her face and said, "So we accepted the movie tickets you gave us."

Xia Jingxing suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Is the movie good?"

Jane Koum said: "It's not bad. I didn't expect you, Darren, to be embarrassed when you first started your business."

“Since the financing, I haven’t been too embarrassed.”

Jane Koum was amused by Xia Jingxing's words and said, "Darren, actually we are not opposed to accepting your investment, provided that..."

Speaking of this, Jane Comb paused, glanced at her companion and then said: "We have our insistence not to interfere with Wazipu's operations. For example, as you just mentioned, we don't sell ads, we don't make games, we don't Playing tricks.”

“I respect every entrepreneur’s decision, just as I was respected by Axel.”

Xia Jingxing changed the subject and said, "But you might as well listen to my terms first."

Hearing this, Jane Coombe and Brian Acton both became serious.

"Two options. First, Vision Capital invests US$10 million. We want 25% of the shares and the right to lead the next three rounds of financing."

Jane Koum frowned slightly, but remained silent. The pre-money valuation of US$30 million was not low, but the right to lead three consecutive rounds of financing made him hesitate.

Xia Jingxing observed the situation and noticed that Jane Koum might not be so satisfied with this plan, so he added: "The second plan is for Facebook to acquire you and give you US$40 million in cash or stocks of equivalent value."

"We will not sell the company." Brian Acton said firmly.

Xia Jingxing said calmly: "Wazipu is a good application, but it is obviously not profitable and needs the support of a giant company."

"Maybe you're right Darren, but we definitely have ways to keep the company afloat."

Xia Jingxing ignored Brian Acton and set his sights on Jane Coombe. Judging from the information collected, this immigrant from the U.S. was eager to succeed in the United States and change the fate of his family.

Faced with Xia Jingxing's conditions, Jane Combe was indeed very moved, but he had an agreement with Brian Acton, and the most important one was not to sell the company.

Seeing that his partner was holding on under Xia Jingxing's sugar-coated bullets, Brian Acton nodded secretly in his heart. Then he turned his attention to Xia Jingxing and said, "Darren, we cannot accept the second plan. Wazipu is ours." It’s not for sale, but it’s also a stage for us to realize our dreams.”

"After selling the company, you can still lead Wazip forward."

"Sorry, I can't accept that."

Xia Jingxing stopped trying to persuade him. If he didn't want to sell it, he wouldn't sell it. Anyway, he had a backup plan.

"What about the first option? What's your answer?"

Brian Acton said: "25% is too much. We can accept half."

"Are you afraid that Facebook will compete with you?"

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