Mark Zuckerberg was frightened by Li Mu’s words.
He would never dare to dream of a large project worth hundreds of billions of dollars. What he thinks now is that it would be great to be able to build a multi-million dollar project before graduating from Harvard.
Mark Zuckerberg said shyly: "Mr. Li, my biggest dream is to build a project with a valuation of over one million US dollars before graduation. If I can raise 20% at this valuation, I will be very happy." Satisfied."
Li Mu stared at this thin-skinned and shy young man in stunned silence, and really wanted to throw a sentence in his face.
"Fucking worthless!"
Yeah, really fucking useless!
I have a millionaire worth tens of billions of dollars rushing to invest in you, but you said that you would be satisfied with just building a million-dollar project. What's going on? Do you think your brother Li Muli flew thousands of kilometers from Silicon Valley to come here just to hear your nonsense like me
Seeing Li Mu looking at him in shock, Mark Zuckerberg thought that what he said was too full, so he hurriedly changed his words with a guilty conscience: "Mr. Li, in fact, for campus entrepreneurship, the valuation can reach hundreds of thousands. I’m very satisfied with the US dollar.”
"Hiss..." Li Mu came back to his senses and shook his head dejectedly. At the same time, he said to himself: "It's broken. Is it going to backfire? What if I show up and really turn this guy into a petty quarrel?" As a campus player, you are really doing something wrong.
However, Li Mu soon regained his confidence, because when he considered this issue in another direction, he discovered that Mark Zuckerberg's current "ineffectiveness" was not a big deal at all.
At this time, Mark Zuckerberg should have been "ineffective".
The dream of a project worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or one million dollars can actually be said to be ambitious for a current college student. Moreover, Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is just a small project. It's getting bigger little by little.
In fact, if you look at all the successful people in the world who started from scratch, they almost all started from a little bit. At the beginning, they didn’t believe how much they could do.
Mr. Ma of Tengxun never dared to imagine in 1999 that he could create a US$200 billion empire;
Alibaba’s boss Ma would never have dared to imagine in 2000 that he could fool another US$200 billion empire;
Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in 2003, would never have imagined that an idea he accidentally came up with would have a market value of US$400 billion.
Let alone them, even Li Mu himself did not expect that he could be able to achieve the current Makino Technology.
Earlier, wasn't it just that I wanted to build a music website and wait to sell it to Baidu to make some quick money? Dude, I didn’t have any big ambitions at the beginning.
Who would have thought that a music website would allow me to tinker with a little bit of ideas, and then with the mentality of giving it a try, I would use the music website to incubate and post it. In the end, it was done without any difficulty, and then Happy Farm was born. YY created the Makino Technology Ecosystem, and then Taobao and Alipay.
Li Mu suddenly felt emotional. The life of an ordinary person is just a low-quality cannon that rings once. Most of them cannot ring. If you are lucky, you will reach the peak after making such a sound in your life. Those two-ring cannons Among ordinary people, they are already awesome. But the life of a truly successful person is like an endless string of firecrackers. Once he finds the fire and lights one, it will definitely light up. There was a series of rings.
But there are also those whose lives are not good enough, just like a hundred-ring small firecracker, with two crackles, the effort of farting will be over;
But there is also that ruthless horn, which is simply endless red earth, and it will never end when it sounds.
Sometimes, a ruthless person will be unlucky. When he meets a squib, he will be suffocated all at once, and there will be no chance of him growing up later;
Sometimes, the sound of the ruthless horn is too unrestrained, and the awesome person will come over and urinate to stop it completely, and then it will completely stop...
If you put it this way, Mark Zuckerberg is the red earth that has circled the earth several times. He lit it when he was 20 years old, and he may not be able to finish it at the age of 40. It’s just that he hasn’t found his lighter yet. …
Thinking of this, Li Mu looked at Mark Zuckerberg like a miser staring at a mountain of gold and silver. He reached into his pocket and played with his Dupont lighter, wishing he could take it out and light this guy up right now.
Mark Zuckerberg felt guilty after being seen by Li Mu. He always felt that he would make a fool of himself in front of this big boss and this life idol, so he has always been a little cautious and always likes to have random thoughts in his heart.
At this time, Li Mu suddenly spoke, looked at Mark Zuckerberg with interest, and said: "Hey, Mark, don't you want to start a business? Think about whether you have a good project plan. If it is good, I will give you five The million dollar angel only owns 49% of your shares.”
Mark Zuckerberg almost cried.
I'm a Harvard kid, but I created Facemash and was rejected by idols before it was launched. How can He De be worthy of a five-million-dollar angel
Li Mu said that he would be given five million angels, but he would only account for 49%, which is equivalent to directly valuing the project at US$10.2 million! Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have to pay a penny, but bringing his idea to Li Mu is worth US$5.2 million! This is simply a good thing that I never dared to dream of!
Although Mark Zuckerberg has not actually started a business, he, as an internet-savvy enthusiast, is very familiar with matters in the venture capital circle.
Angel investing may seem very selfless, but in fact, angels are more deceitful than anyone else, because angel rounds use very little money to gain huge profits. Angel investors seem to be lying, and they want to invest with 10 million US dollars. One hundred people, but his calculations were even more ruthless. When he invested ten million in one hundred people, what he was pursuing was that if one of the hundred people became one, he would get ten million back; if there were two, he would get back ten million. It can achieve 100% profit; if it can be ten, it will make a lot of money.
Therefore, angel investors’ investments are not angelic at all. They are very demanding. They will check every investor thoroughly, then carefully evaluate the project, study it thoroughly, and then give one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand dollars. Each one of them was a hundred times more cunning than the pawn shop owner.
In this environment, the promise Li Mu just made to Mark Zuckerberg was truly an angel to his grandfather and an archangel.
Seeing Mark Zuckerberg's confused look, Li Mu thought he couldn't believe it, so he added solemnly: "Don't think I'm joking with you, think carefully about your project plan." , come to me with your BP. Remember, I only need a share of your BP and nothing else. As long as your BP is decent, I will fulfill my promise, and I will not limit your spending, as long as you spend it on You can spend whatever you want on the right place, and the faster you spend it, the better. When the money is spent, I will invest in your second round. Not only will I continue to invest in you in the second round, but I will also give you an additional 5% premium on the market valuation! Nothing else. , just have money!”
BP refers to Business-Plan. Li Mu’s words are so clear that he can’t be more clear. He only needs Mark Zuckerberg to think of an idea and then write it in the plan and show it to himself. , As long as the content of this plan looks good to Li Mu, he will immediately give him five million US dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg was really stunned when he saw that Li Mu was not joking with him.
This feeling is just like when the post-80s generation was a little kid, looking for his father with a snot in his nose: "Dad, give me two cents to buy a cannon."
Dad took out his wallet and pulled out two old people's heads: "Go and buy two hundred yuan. Come back when you finish."
"Dad, two hundred yuan can't be used up in one day..."
"Put it all in the box! If that doesn't work, just pick up some chopped firewood and light it on the fire, then throw it all into the fire! Come to me after you put it away, and I'll give you money to buy more and put it away again!"
Lawrence, who was sitting next to Li Mu, and Xie Huairu, who was sitting opposite Li Mu, heard the conversation between Li Mu and Mark Zuckerberg. The two looked at each other, and each could see the shock in the other's eyes.
Good guy, Li Mu is really not an ordinary person. He promised an investment of five million US dollars to an 18-year-old boy who just entered college. How many PhD students graduated from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, with projects, products and... Relatively mature business models can’t raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in financing everywhere. Li Mu promised Mark Zuckerberg five million dollars in just one sentence. This is really rich!
Especially the last sentence, "Nothing else, just money." Even if it is said in English, it is full of pretentiousness.
Xie Huairu's forehead was throbbing with veins when he heard this. Good guy, Li Mu's way of doing things is really unusual. If nothing else, just because he was 20 years old and could pretend to be cool, which scared even his 40-year-old self. This guy He is definitely not an ordinary person! If he didn't become his nephew and son-in-law in the end, it would be a huge loss to the old Xie family!
Li Mu didn't know who Xie Huairu was, nor did he know that he was Zhao Ziqiu's biological uncle. Seeing him exchanging looks with Lawrence in shock, he didn't care at all.
Feel free to be shocked. Mark Zuckerberg is destined to be the best among men. The more I take him seriously in advance, the more reasonable my speculation will be when he succeeds in the future.
In this way, if Mark Zuckerberg becomes successful in the future, as a man who earns hundreds of billions of dollars, he will give the world the feeling that: nothing else, I have identified this kid, and I will give you money if you want it. He needed resources to give resources and experience to impart experience, so he was smashed out like this.
At that time, I will be able to take a lot of credit for Mark Zuckerberg's success, acting as if I am Mark Zuckerberg's boss and the godfather who led him into the world.
No matter how shy he is, Mark Zuckerberg knows at this moment that he has seized a golden opportunity. With Li Mu's words, it is entirely possible for him to achieve a career on the university campus! Now that the world's best angel investors are in place, all that's left is a good project!
Mark Zuckerberg couldn't help but think of his aborted Facemash. For a moment, he wanted to pick it up again, but soon he completely rejected his idea.
Even if facemash is really successful, wouldn't it conflict with Li Mu's father's "Paradise Town"? You still have to think carefully and come up with a Good-Idea that does not directly conflict with any of Li Mu’s dad’s products, and preferably complements Li Mu’s dad’s product line!
(End of chapter)