My Age of Investment

"Peppa wants to talk to me?"

Xia Jingxing frowned.

This Peppa is not Peppa Pig, it's Larry Peppa.

If you compare Silicon Valley to rivers and lakes, Facebook, a potential rookie, is just a fit person, while Google is the leader of a large community, a very fierce one, which has beaten another veteran leader, Yahoo.

Now Google is taking aim at Facebook, and if we can't make peace, we can only start a war.

"If you don't want to see me, I'll simply reject Mayer."

Seeing that Xia Jingxing was silent, Kristina thought he didn't want to talk to Google.

In fact, she also felt that there was no need to talk about it, because Facebook could not be sold to Google.

"What if Google offers us $10 billion? Are you talking about selling it or not?"

Xia Jingxing looked at the foreign girl with a smile on his face and started joking.

Yang Niu smiled and shook her head, "Stop dreaming, it's impossible, at most $2 billion."

"That's a lot, almost 10% of Google's valuation."

Xia Jingxing counted with his fingers, "With so much money, I can do a lot of things.

First, spend 100 million dollars to buy a super-large farm and retire; then spend 100 million dollars to buy a private jet, and take a vacation all over the world; you can also spend 200 million dollars to buy a team and improve your reputation..."

Yang Niu burst out laughing, 2 billion US dollars, so clearly planned by the other party, not a penny left.

"Okay, stop joking, do you want to go to Mr. Page's private dinner?" the babes asked.

"Go, why not go?"

Xia Jingxing shrugged, "Anyway, it doesn't cost money, and it doesn't give gifts. The big households who bring it to the door must eat."

Yang Niu was stunned for a moment, "You don't want to sell the company, so... it's not good?"

"Who said I don't want to sell? It's just that their prices are not what I want."

Xia Jingxing had already made up his mind that he had to meet Peggy.

Eating big households is incidental, the main purpose is to see if it can divert the attention of the other party.

After explaining a little to Yang Niu, the other party understood his intention.

Google is going to go public soon, and it has a lot of money on its account. If this big dog is pouring all its firepower on Facebook, it is really not a good thing.

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Larry Page's house was in Palo Alto, and the journey was not far, so Xia Jingxing drove his Tzero and went to the banquet with the foreign girl.

In front of a villa, after parking the car, Xia Jing walked down, followed by Yang Niu.

He took a few glances outside the gate. The villa was very ordinary, not the famous technology mansion in the previous life, it looked very ordinary.

But the price is not cheap, because it is located in Silicon Valley, at least several million dollars in this area.

At present, Google has not yet listed, and living in such a house is not a grievance to the future technology giant.

Both of them are dressed up today.

Xia Jingxing did not wear the T-shirt that he wears for his daily work. He wore a more formal light blue long shirt, tucked the corners of his shirt into off-white slacks, and tied a belt, which was very formal.

Kristina was wearing an off-shoulder blue and white dress, she held Xia Jingxing's arm, the two walked towards the gate of the villa and rang the doorbell.

After a while, Larry Page and Mayer came out of the room and opened the door.

Peppa wasn't full of silver hair yet, but with jet-black hair, she looked very young.

In fact, he is also very young, only 31 years old this year.

Page very enthusiastically stepped forward to shake hands with Xia Jingxing and said with a smile, "Daren, welcome, I have long wanted to meet and chat with you, but there has been no suitable opportunity."

Page didn't act like a "social big brother" who was eyeing Facebook at all, and was very amiable.

But Xia Jingxing was not fooled by such superficial skills, Google was a hungry wolf and wanted to get involved in any field.

"Me too, very nice to meet you, Mr. Page!"

Xia Jingxing held the other's hand and shook it forcefully, like an old friend he hadn't seen for many years.

"Daren, you are as young and handsome as the rumors say!"

Mayer also smiled and stepped forward to shake hands with Xia Jingxing.

The woman was wearing a blue deep V low-cut dress with dazzling headlights, showing her style in every gesture.

Xia Jingxing glanced at this blond girl who looked a bit like Scarlett Johansson, and finally understood why Larry Page had an office romance.

After a few words of greeting, Larry Page made an inviting gesture and greeted Xia Jingxing and Christina to enter the room.

For this dinner, Page also specially invited a chef from a high-end hotel.

Four people in twos and twos, sitting on the long table in the living room, chatting while eating.

"Daren, speaking of it, I and you are still Stanford alumni."

In order to shorten the distance between each other, Page talked about Stanford.

Xia Jingxing nodded, "Yes, you are the object of our computer science students' admiration, and professors often use you as an example."

Paige laughed, thinking that the young man sitting across from him was very good at chatting.

Mayer was not happy, "Not only you and Darren, but Christina and I are Stanford students too?

What do you mean by ignoring the two ladies outright? "

"Yes, all four of us are alumni. Today is also a gathering of alumni. Let's have a drink together."

Page raised the glass and greeted Xia Jingxing and Christina with a smile.

Without talking about business matters, Page and Mayer cooperated with each other and kept talking about topics related to Stanford, so that everyone could get acquainted first.

After three rounds of drinking, and the conversation became eager, Page suddenly sighed: "Actually, starting a business is very hard, it's a mental and physical competition that seems to never end.

In 2001, we invited Mr. Schmidt to be the CEO of the company. Sergey and I slowly learned to let go, and the whole person felt a lot easier.

Google is still two months away from going public. I want to wait for the listing, and then slowly withdraw from the company and do something meaningful.

In order to start a business, I don't even have a family now, and my life is a mess.

When you let go of all this, you have more time to plan your life. "

Page spoke with deep affection, as if he had seen through the trivial matter of business.

If Xia Jingxing hadn't opened up, he would have almost believed his evil.

Google is listed, you are relieved, and you come to persuade me to go back to the mountains and not ask about world affairs.

Sounds good, but I'm only 20 years old?

Do you persuade me to retire at the age of 20?

Facing Paige's eyes, Xia Jingxing pretended to be empathetic: "Yes, keep developing products, keep expanding the market, and keep defeating all kinds of competitors.

To be honest, I'm a little tired of living like this too! "

Peggy's eyes lit up, just as he was about to speak, he was preempted by Xia Jingxing, who sighed, "But I'm only twenty years old, it always feels weird to retire now.

And on the day I dropped out of school, I swore in front of Principal John that I would take the company public.

Therefore, even though there are many difficulties and obstacles at the moment, I can only overcome them one by one.

In a few years, when Facebook goes public, I may be like Mr. Page and rethink my life. "

Seeing that his words had no effect at all, Page frowned and asked, "Daren, why do you insist on going public?

In the European and American business world, mergers are very common, and it does not necessarily have to be listed to be successful. "

Xia Jingxing nodded, "No way, the oath must be kept.

I think in another two or three years, it will be listed when the number of Facebook users is 50 to 60 million, or 70 to 80 million.

I don't care when it goes public.

If Google is still interested in "cooperating" with Facebook at that time, it is not impossible to consider it. "

"Wait two or three years before listing?"

Peggy frowned, not believing Xia Jingxing's words, and asked, "I think Facebook's user growth is very good now? Why don't you wait any longer?"

Xia Jingxing shook his head with a serious look on his face: "I can't wait, as for the situation of Facebook, as you probably know, there is a shortage of money, very short of money.

And our business model has not yet been figured out, we chose to go public as soon as possible, you know? "

Xia Jingxing smiled and blinked at Page.

Page chuckled, the stock market is not in the 1990s anymore.

If you can’t make money and don’t have a stable profit model, even if it goes public, it will soon be abandoned by investment institutions.

If you develop Facebook with this kind of thinking in mind, it's a bit hard to say what the future will be like.

He is also generally clear about the situation of Facebook, which only spends money, not making money.

User growth is good, but it's actually like that.

"Facebook is a social networking site and your main business, but YouTube isn't it? Have you ever thought about stripping YouTube? Google is very interested in YouTube."

Peggy looked at Xia Jingxing with a smile and said these words.

Xia Jingxing sucked in a breath of cold air, so it turned out that the other party was interested in YouTube?

It is possible that the acquisition of Facebook is a false shot, and the real purpose is to take a fancy to the online video industry.

As he expected, Page said what he said in his heart: "I will not hide it from you, Google's mission is to make the world digital, which of course includes online video, and this business will help Google improve its search engine.

In the future, users will not only search for text and pictures, but also videos, which will serve as a data source for our search and mining. "

Xia Jingxing nodded lightly, it was natural for Google to develop into a search tyrant.

The YouTube side has just shown a little sign of becoming bigger, and Google has insight into the trend.

Those old-fashioned media groups still think it doesn't matter, these Internet giants are much more savvy.

Xia Jingxing quickly thought about the countermeasures in his heart, thinking of appearing to be harmless to humans and animals, so he said:

"Actually, I want to make YouTube a sub-product of Facebook, video social networking, and everyone can share videos to complete social networking."

Page frowned, "Haven't you thought of making it into Internet TV? Kill the traditional media?"

Xia Jingxing shook his head and continued his serious nonsense: "I don't dare to think so big, as the Fox executive said, they have money and have a good cooperative relationship with the TV and film production team..."

Page nodded, not feeling that Xia Jingxing was talking nonsense, because this is the status quo, this is the truth.

Youtube is just a little ant in several major media groups.

It's very nice for people to comment on you a few words. It is normal to ignore it directly.

"According to the size of Facebook, it must be very difficult to promote these things."

Page changed his words: "But Google is different, we can support YouTube to achieve bigger dreams.

Darren, you can seriously consider my advice.

Handing over YouTube to Google will surely have a better future.

At the same time, Google and Facebook can also form a good partnership. "

Seeing that the two were chatting vigorously, Kristina never interrupted. At this time, she couldn't help but interject: "Actually, Mr. Page, I think Google's most important task at the moment is to defeat Yahoo."

Hearing the name of his nemesis, Paige turned his eyes quickly, looking directly at Christina.

Yang Niu looked at Page without showing weakness, and said in a calm tone: "Yahoo is Google's biggest enemy.

Only when the main business of the search engine wins, can Google rely on the steady stream of advertising revenue to invest in other businesses.

Compared to Yahoo, Facebook is just a startup that has only completed Series A financing.

Many of our businesses are still being explored, and have been developing around text, pictures, videos, etc. and social-related businesses.

We didn't do a search engine, we just wanted to gain a foothold in the social space. "

Page laughed, spread his hands, and looked innocent: "Christina, you misunderstood me, I don't regard Facebook as an enemy, but want to be friends with you."

Xia Jingxing nodded and smiled, "The same is true for us, the main business of our two companies is actually not much competition.

Even if Google wants to launch a video website, it is more of a complementary relationship with us. "

"Complementary?"

Page was a little suspicious of this word, and looked at Xia Jingxing with surprise.

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "Yes, you heard right, it is complementary.

Google is trying to subvert traditional media and bring TV to the web, right, Mr. Page? "

Page pursed his lips. The young man was right. Google has such ambitions and doesn't care about petty troubles.

"It is equivalent to Google's video business, which wants to broadcast movies and TV series on the Internet.

Facebook videos are basically personal videos uploaded by users.

Are the two bound to conflict? "

Xia Jingxing looked at Paige with a smile, and continued to pour the other party's ecstasy soup: "This is not a conflict, these are two different video modes.

What we want to do is to bring more possibilities to Facebook's social business.

Now most of Facebook users are YouTube users. They upload videos, share them on Facebook, and let their friends like and comment.

So YouTube is a leg of Facebook, and it is impossible to sell it to Google.

I suggest you make one yourself, following Google's own ideas. "

After Xia Jingxing said this, Peggy suddenly felt as if he was thinking wrong.

Google has a team of thousands of engineers, and it is not too difficult to make a video website.

Although there are many users of YouTube, the foundation has been laid, but it is not particularly suitable for them.

There is also controversy among high-level executives about "acquiring YouTube videos or launching their own video website".

It was he who decided to get in touch with Xia Jingxing first to see how the conversation went before making the final plan.

"Well then, Daeron, that's all for today!"

Page said with a smile: "I hope our two companies can have more cooperation, traditional media, that is the object of our innovation."

If you can think so, then I'm relieved.

Xia Jingxing sneered in his heart and said with a smile on his face: "Of course, we are going to make the market bigger and the cake bigger together. More should be cooperation and overthrow the old world order together."

Paige had a smile on his face, but he was actually making a quick calculation in his heart.

He recognized some of Xia Jingxing's views, but at the same time reserved some of his own opinions, or the company's opinions.

Google does have the idea of ​​entering the field of online video, but there is no guarantee that it will be successful.

The development model of YouTube is still somewhat deviated from the ideas of Google's executives.

They analyzed that the video quality of YouTube is a bit poor.

Originally, they wanted to acquire YouTube and then make some renovations to quickly expand the video site by using YouTube's user base.

But Xia Jingxing rejected his good intentions, so Google could only launch its own video website to compete with it.

Xia Jingxing said that the two websites were complementary, and he did not believe it at all.

Will YouTube suffer a devastating blow if Google Video pushes out higher quality videos?

This is not something he should think about.

He also did not have the obligation to remind Xia Jingxing, the other party was so careless, it was good!

Peggy looked at Xia Jingxing who was also smiling, both of them had their own thoughts.

Although nothing was successful at a dinner party, both parties thought they had gained a lot, and both thought they had paralyzed each other.

Page and Mayer sent Xia Jingxing and Christina out of the villa.

"Thank you Mr. Page for your hospitality, then let's go."

Xia Jingxing sat in the car, and before leaving, he waved his hand to Page and said goodbye.

Paige also waved, nodded and smiled.

Watching the bright yellow sports car gradually go away, the smile on Paige's face gradually disappeared, replaced by a cold look on his face.