My Age of Investment - Chapter 1472 Wattsp

   Chapter 1472 Wattspur

   Mountain View.

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

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

   "The Social Network will be released tomorrow, do you want to watch it?"

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

   "Why go? Just because it was a movie ticket sent by Vision Capital?"

   The arrogant white man looked a few years older than his companion, and was pinching the mineral water bottle with a displeased expression. He had already squeezed the bottle flat, but he still didn't let go.

   "Bryan, we're running out of money on our account!"

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

   As long as it persists until next year, the users of WhatsApp Watsip will usher in a round of skyrocketing.

   When negotiating with VCs, we have enough leverage. "

  The bald man asked, "What if we can't raise money? John and they won't give us another $250,000 in seed funding."

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

   "I know you have a great opinion about Daeron Xia, but hasn't that been a long time?

   And it wasn’t Darren Xia who refused to hire us, it was Facebook’s HR.

  Derren Xia has little to do with Facebook now!

  Envision Capital has continuously released goodwill to us. I think we should sit down and chat with them and listen to their conditions.

   Survival comes first, everything else comes later. "

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

   "I'm not like you, I was born in a wealthy family in the United States, and I was born in a small village in Ermao country. In the 16 years before immigrating to the United States, I didn't even see what a computer was like.

   Arrived in the U.S., my family lived in government-sponsored housing, and lived on food stamps.

   I'm fed up with hunger and poverty, and I'm desperate to make my own piece of the sky in America.

  I think Darren Xia is very similar to me. Both were born poor and came from a backward country, and he became super rich by his own efforts, but I was still a nobody.

This may be an opportunity for us to connect with Darren Xia. Envision Capital is very energetic in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn, Tesla, Yelp... Many companies have received their investment and quickly become a Billion-dollar, multi-billion-dollar star startups. "

  Bryan took a deep look at his partner and said, "Okay, then let's go to the movies together tomorrow."

   "Brian, thank you!"

   "I didn't say I agreed to the investment from Vision Capital, I just went to see a movie.

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

   "Have you not read the novel?"

   "I'm totally not interested in Facebook!"

   "Duplicitous guy!"

  …

  …

  …

   in front of a movie theater in Palo Alto.

  Xia Jingxing sat in the back of a Model S car, chatting with Ricky Milner, the VC fund manager, in the Silicon Valley office of Vision Capital.

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

   "It's okay, mainly because Mark Anderson's marinated egg is very famous. After transitioning from an entrepreneur to a venture capital investment, relying on his past fame and resources, he got some good project resources.

   Recently Marc Anderson asked me to play football every day, and I hope we allow a16z to participate in Airbnb’s next round of financing. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded lightly, Mark Anderson is the founder of Netscape browser, and a lucky one who became famous at a young age. At the age of 24, he brought Netscape to the market.

   More than ten years later, Netscape was acquired by AOL, and Mark Anderson also changed from a handsome guy to a marinated egg.

Because of him, Mark Anderson did not invest in Facebook and Twitter as smoothly as he did in his previous life. His legendary color is not so strong, but it is still not to be underestimated. If nothing else, a16z, a nascent VC agency, may Become one of the largest rivals of Vision Capital's US VC funds.

   "Look at it. If the founders of Airbnb don't want us to exclusively lead the next round of financing, then you can bring in Mark Anderson and have a good relationship!"

"it is good!"

   After that, Ricky raised his hand to look at the time on his watch and muttered to himself, "What are those two guys doing, it's our turn for the movie scene soon, don't you come?"

  Xia Jingxing smiled, "Wait a moment! Don't underestimate these two guys, don't you think the mobile communication app they created is very interesting?"

   "I think it's quite ordinary, except for the design concept, everything else is unqualified.

  Especially their attitude towards VCs, if it wasn’t for your repeated reminders, I might have given up on this project. "

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

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

   hung up the phone, Ricky got out of the car in a hurry, and saw two middle-aged white men dressed as programmers standing at the entrance of the cinema not far away, and one of the bald men was still waving to him.

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

   "It's just them, right?"

  Ricky nodded lightly, then walked towards the two founders of Watsip with Xia Jingxing.

   "Jane Combe, Brian Acton, nice to meet you, great Watsup app development."

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

   "Daren, did you invite us to watch a movie?"

  Jane Combe, that is, the bald man did not suppress the surprise in his heart, and his voice trembled slightly.

   Brian Acton had always had a bad feeling about Facebook and Xia Jingxing, but seeing Xia Jingxing was a real person, all his unhappiness was thrown into the clouds by him, and he shook hands with Xia Jingxing with a smile on his face.

   "Yes, this is a biographical film based on the story of Facebook's entrepreneurship. Everyone is an entrepreneur. You can enjoy this film together."

  Xia Jingxing's approachable approach made Jane Combe, who already had a good impression on him, wildly increase his opinion value. He said cheerfully, "Daren, you are a successful entrepreneur and world-renowned, and we are just two small developers."

   "Facebook was originally just a small company. By watching movies, you can see a lot of familiar images."

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

"it is good."

   A group of people surrounded Xia Jingxing with smiles and walked into the cinema.

   (end of this chapter)