Silicon Valley

Although the data center strategic plan is not supported by ordinary shareholders, Henry has absolute control over the company and is determined to do so!

On May 1, the "Williams Cloud" company was officially established in San Jose, California. Henry led the investment of 10 billion US dollars, and the rest of the companies invested 10 billion US dollars in total. The initial investment totaled 20 billion US dollars. First, 4 data centers will be built in the United States. Build 2 in Europe, 2 in Asia, 1 in Russia, and 1 in South America.

The name of Williams Cloud Company makes others look in the clouds and do not understand what it means.

There was no official explanation.

Henry's plan is to tell everyone after the construction is completed that when the time comes to provide them with cloud services, they can feel the goodness of the data center!

It took months for the data center to start, and Henry's eyes quietly turned elsewhere.

Facebook's corporate headquarters.

"Hello, Mr. Rowan, I'm Alexander Charles, the representative of Goldman Sachs Group. Our company believes that Facebook has a certain potential for development, so we want to invest in it!" said a middle-aged man with blond hair.

Rowan, a Chinese-American man in his thirties, is the CEO of Facebook.

Rowan directly refused: "Mr. Charles, I'm really sorry, there is no financing plan for the Facebook website at the moment!"

Charles sighed slightly, "Okay, but if you need anything, please remember to inform Goldman Sachs, this is my business card!"

With that, Charles handed Rowan a silver business card.

"Okay, thank you, if necessary, we will!" Rowan nodded.

As soon as Charles left, Rowan asked the secretary, "Who's next?"

"It's Mr. Ford Brook, the representative of Sequoia Capital."

"Well, invite him in!"

After a while, Ford Brook walked into Rowan's office. The thing that Ford Brook regretted the most in his life was that he had gone wrong and only invested in Cisco, not Henry! ! !

The style of investing in the venture capital world. Some look at projects, and some look at people. Look for this person to develop, invest in him! Sequoia originally had the best relationship with Henry. But the boat of friendship has been overturned, and Sequoia Capital has not been able to enjoy a series of rich returns brought by Henry's rise all the way!

This investment in Facebook was also first proposed by Ford Brook at Sequoia Capital. Late one night, Ford Brook discovered Facebook on the Internet. He immediately had an intuition that Facebook would be very popular in the future! Afterwards, Ford Brook was sleepless, wrote reports that night, and then responded to the company early the next morning to invest in Facebook!

"Hello. Mr. Ford Brook!" Rowan held out his hand. Say hello.

"Hello, nice to meet you, Mr. Rowan!" Ford Brook reached out and shook hands with Rowan.

"Please sit down!"

"thanks!"

The secretary brought Ford Brook a glass of water at this time, and Rowan immediately asked, "Sequoia Capital also plans to invest in Facebook?"

"Yes, that's right," Ford Brook nodded and smiled.

"Can I ask, do you value Facebook?" Rowan said.

Ford Brook laughed: "Of course, since we Sequoia Capital want to invest in Facebook, we will naturally value it before that!"

"What is Facebook's valuation?"

"$3 billion!!!" Ford Brook smiled confidently.

Although the Internet bubble has already begun. However, Facebook has not been in business for a long time, and Sequoia Capital can value Facebook at US$3 billion, which is extremely rare!

However, Facebook is not short of money, and the behind-the-scenes boss of Facebook is Henry Williams, who doesn't need anyone else to finance it!

Rowan has never been worried about funding issues. Even if the other party offered a valuation of 10 billion US dollars, Rowan could not agree. At the same time, he has no right to promise!

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Brooke!" Rowan shook his head. Said, "Facebook is currently not short of funds, so no financing is needed!"

Ford Brook said unwillingly: "We can also increase Facebook's valuation!"

"Can it be increased by 100 times?" Rowan said lightly.

Ford Brook's eyes widened, 100 times, isn't it more than 300 billion US dollars? ! A social networking site comparable to ICQ? Ford Brook shook his head and said to himself, this is impossible.

However, at the moment of his veto, he suddenly remembered what a 10-year-old child said to him 10 years ago: "Mr. Brooke, I think the market value of Cisco will reach 500 billion US dollars in the future!"

Although 10 years have passed, these words are still in my ears...

Today, Cisco's market value will soon exceed 400 billion US dollars, obviously, 500 billion US dollars is not out of reach! ! !

"Mr. Brooke? What's wrong with you? Suddenly stunned?" Rowan asked.

"I'm fine..." Ford Brook shook his head and asked with a serious and serious expression, "Mr. Rowan, do you really think Facebook's market value can reach $300 billion?"

Rowan shook his head in his heart, don't say you don't believe it, even I don't believe it, but the boss Henry Williams said casually that the future Facebook will be at least a $300 billion big company...

However, Luo Wen's face was calm and he said lightly: "It's hard to predict anything, maybe it is, maybe it is not!"

Ford Brook nodded, if the "boy" was sitting opposite, then he would never miss it again, but unfortunately it was not the "boy" sitting opposite! Ford Brook then said goodbye to Rowan.

Facebook can't talk about it, he has several other goals!

In 1995, there were 4 super strong dark horses, in addition to the Facebook website, there are YouTube, LinkedIn, TripAdvisor.

Facebook is a social networking site that requires real-name registration. It is very famous in major universities in the United States and has become an Internet company that is developing very fast! However, since he can't invest, Ford Brook can only express his helplessness!

YouTube is also a new star among Internet websites. In addition to watching film and television works, this website can also upload its own video recordings. It was very popular among netizens for a while. Every day, various funny and funny videos are uploaded to YouTube, and the user traffic Quickly squeezed into the top fifteen of Internet sites, attracting major venture capital institutions to invest! Sequoia Capital is no exception, Ford Brook's next target is YouTube!

LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals, and it also provides job-seeking services. It has become popular among white-collar workers.

TripAdvisor is a travel community, travel review website, you can check travel information on it, and you can also make online bookings for planes and hotels. With Henry's secret support, TripAdvisor website has established cooperative relations with many tourist attractions, hotels, and airlines offline. The website is rich in content and quickly spreads across the Internet.

After Ford Brook walked out of Facebook, he couldn't help but turn his head and took a deep look...

"Drive, go to YouTube!"

"Okay, Executive Director!"

(To be continued ~^~)