In Li Mu's eyes, Mark Zuckerberg is equivalent to Zhang Xiaolong in the eyes of Mr. Teng Xunma.
Li Mu will give him all the space, freedom, respect and rewards, but all of this must be based on the premise that he does not break away from his own system.
Li Mu firmly believes that there are no real friends and partners in the mall, and everyone serves himself. In this case, even if he is Mark Zuckerberg’s boss, he cannot ensure that he will always be in his system. Internal service.
Therefore, the more potential Mark Zuckerberg shows, the more Li Mu hopes to keep him in his core team for a long time.
Out of this plan, Li Mu came up with a new cooperation plan. He planned to personally invest US$5 million in Mark Zuckerberg, accounting for 49% of the shares, with a corporate valuation of US$10.2 million. At the same time, he wanted to use Makino Technology takes the lead, with Taobao Technology and Alipay participating in the investment. These three companies will jointly establish an investment fund, and then use this fund to invest $1.02 million in Mark Zuckerberg, accounting for 10% of the project.
In this way, Li Mu accounts for 49%, his own fund accounts for 10%, and Mark Zuckerberg accounts for 41% without spending a penny.
It seems that Mark Zuckerberg is taking advantage, but for entrepreneurs with a little ambition, they are not willing to sacrifice a large amount of equity in the angel round. Most entrepreneurs will not sell more than 100 shares to angel investors. 30%, not to mention losing the controlling position as soon as it comes up.
Mark Zuckerberg is so smart, and he sees problems deeply enough and has a long-term vision. As long as such a person has thought about his own project and has confidence in the project, even if the angel round takes a little less money to do it slowly, he will still be successful. They will not be willing to sell most of their shares directly to investors at the beginning.
Li Mu now values Mark Zuckerberg's creativity at US$10.2 million, but as long as Mark Zuckerberg is confident in his project, he will at least have the confidence to achieve a valuation of US$100 million for this project. In this way For him, the more shares he sacrifices now, the greater the profits he will lose in the future.
Li Mu believed that if he proposed this plan directly to Mark Zuckerberg, even if Mark Zuckerberg admired him, he would never agree.
Therefore, if you want to achieve this goal, you must use strategies to mediate slowly.
At this time, a light suddenly flashed in Li Mu's mind.
With the emergence of this inspiration, many of Li Mu's ideas became clearer, and a new script built around Mark Zuckerberg was quickly born in his mind.
So, Li Mu looked at Mark Zuckerberg inscrutably, smiling but saying nothing.
Mark Zuckerberg was a little confused by Li Mu's strange look. He didn't understand why Li Mu looked at him like this. Could it be that there was some huge bug in what he just said
Just as he was wondering, Li Mu suddenly stopped smiling and said with a sigh on his face: "Mark, there is an old saying in China that heroes think alike. To put it more simply, awesome people can always think of going together. You , and it really didn’t disappoint me!”
The sudden words made Mark Zuckerberg even more confused. Is Li Mu praising himself? Awesome people can always be thought of together. Does he think he is also an awesome person? Could it be that he and I wanted to go together? Does he also have the idea of making such a social product
Mark Zuckerberg was confused, but also horrified.
He couldn't help but ask Li Mu: "Mr. Li, what do you mean?"
Li Mu smiled slightly and asked him: "Since your project is inspired by Face-Books, what kind of name do you have in mind to give this product?"
Mark Zuckerberg blurted out: "I want to call it Facebook. It is simple, direct and easy to understand, because what I want to do is a page social product based on photos, and the most important thing in photos is Face."
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile in an expert tone: "Mark, although you are very smart, you are still a little immature in doing things."
Mark Zuckerberg asked in surprise: "Mr. Li, which aspect are you referring to?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "Let me ask you, if I want to buy a house in Manhattan, what should I confirm first?"
Mark Zuckerberg blurted out: “The first thing you need to confirm is your own needs, such as what kind of house you want.”
"No, No, No!" Li Mu stretched out his right index finger, shook it slightly, and then said: "The first thing to confirm is whether there are any houses for sale in Manhattan."
"Oh yes! Mr. Ma, you are right..." Mark Zuckerberg nodded in realization, then scratched his head and asked him: "But I still don't understand, what did I overlook in the Facebook project?"
Li Mu raised his eyebrows, smiled, and uttered one word: "Domain name!"
"Domain name?!" Mark Zuckerberg suddenly understood and blurted out: "Oh my god, I forgot to confirm the domain name. Oh my god, this is indeed an oversight on my part!"
Speaking of this, Mark Zuckerberg said with a glimmer of hope: "The word Facebook should not be commonly used yet, and it should not be registered in advance. Moreover, if Facebook's domain name has been registered, I think the purchase price should not exceed US$10,000, and this price range should still be acceptable.”
Li Mu chuckled: "It depends on who owns the domain name. If it is in the hands of ordinary people, a domain name registered for more than ten dollars and sold for ten thousand dollars is indeed very attractive and difficult to refuse, but if it is not What will happen to people who are short of money?”
Seeing the astonishment on Mark Zuckerberg's face, Li Mu added: "For example, if Facebook's domain name is in my hands and I am unwilling to sell it to you, what will you do?"
Mark Zuckerberg felt that Li Mu was making things difficult for him, but he did not dare to get angry, so he had no choice but to say: "Then I will do the next best thing and register a domain name for TheFacebook."
Li Mu looked aggressive and asked him again: "What if The Facebook is also in my hands?"
At this time, Mark Zuckerberg felt that Li Mu was really deliberately making things difficult for him, but he still patiently replied: "Then I'll sign up for thatfacebook!"
Li Mu asked again: "What if that Facebook is also in my hands?"
Mark Zuckerberg felt as if he was being played, and his unconvinced temper was aroused. He retorted: "I can use countless word combinations to match Facebook. You can't register all the domain names that contain Facebook." .”
Li Mu nodded: "That's what I say, but if you lose the domain name of Facebook.com, then you will lose the most important network entrance. If you also lose the domain name of TheFacebook.com, then you will Be more passive. Unless you change your product plan and rename it Facewall or something else, your Facebook project will always have flaws. This is an innate and irreversible disability."
As he spoke, Li Mu's expression and voice became serious, and he continued: "What I'm talking about is just the situation where the domain name has been registered by someone. What's more serious is if the person who registered the domain name has the same product plan as you. , what should you do at that time? We have the same product plan, but someone else has the best domain name, wouldn’t you be more passive at that time?”
Mark Zuckerberg nodded repeatedly: "I understand, Mr. Li, your education is right. When I go back, I will take a look at the domain name immediately and try to register the domain name. If the domain name is preempted, I will register a replacement. Domain name, while contacting the domain name owner to test whether he is willing to transfer it.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "This kind of thing happens sooner rather than later. Just wait a moment and I'll ask my assistant to bring the computer."
With that said, Li Mu called Li Ziwei and asked her to come over with her laptop.
A minute later, Li Ziwei carried Li Mu's computer bag to the reception room where Li Mu and Mark Zuckerberg were.
In this era when WiFi has not really been born, world-class schools like Harvard have network cable interfaces throughout the school. There are multiple network cable interfaces in the reception room where Li Mu chats with Mark Zuckerberg.
After Li Mu's laptop was directly connected to the network, he handed the computer to Mark Zuckerberg and said with a smile: "You should confirm it now."
Mark Zuckerberg nodded. Although it was a Chinese Windows system, he still opened IE according to the icons and entered it in the URL bar.
The best way to test whether a domain name is registered is to directly query it on the website where the domain name is registered, but that operation is relatively troublesome. Mark Zuckerberg was very anxious after being told by Li Mu, so he used the most direct method, first Open the domain name you want to register in IE. If the domain name can be opened to a certain page, even if it is just a sales prompt, it proves that the domain name has been registered.
If the domain name cannot open any page, but cannot find the status of the server, it may not be registered yet. In this case, further confirm its true ownership.
However, the results of the domain opening soon frustrated Mark Zuckerberg.
On the page, there is a line like this: For domain name cooperation, please contact MSN...
"Oh my God, the domain name facebook.com has indeed been registered!"
After saying that, Mark Zuckerberg said again: "I'll try TheFacebook..."
On the page, it also displays: For domain name cooperation, please contact MSN...
Mark Zuckerberg almost collapsed. He tried thatfacebook and thisfacebook again, but each page showed the same content and the same MSN email address.
"Oh my God! This person has hoarded so many domain names related to Facebook. What on earth does he want to do!"
Looking at Mark Zuckerberg who was in great pain, Li Mu smiled slightly: "You can add this MSN and ask."
Mark Zuckerberg immediately said: "Okay, I'll leave him a message right now!"
After saying that, he immediately opened MSN from the desktop, logged in to his account, and said to himself: "Oh, I haven't logged into MSN for a long time, and I can't even remember the password..."
After trying three times, Mark Zuckerberg finally logged in to his MSN number that he had not used for a long time. The first thing he did after logging in was to add the MSN number left on the page as a friend and leave a message to the other party: "You OK, I'm interested in your Facebook.com, if you're considering selling, please make me an offer as soon as possible."
After speaking, Mark Zuckerberg sighed: "I hope he won't open his mouth like a lion..."
Li Mu laughed and said, "I don't think he will open his mouth like a lion, because he has no intention of selling this domain name at all."
Mark Zuckerberg was confused when he heard this: "Mr. Li, why are you so sure?"
Li Mu smiled and said nothing, and then logged into his MSN, which he had not logged in for a long time. Sure enough, a pop-up message flashed in MSN. Li Mu opened the dialog box and what he received was exactly what Mark Zuckerberg had just sent to him. of that message.
When Mark Zuckerberg saw this scene, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He was so shocked that he could not utter a word. He never dreamed that Li Mu had actually dug a big hole for himself, and if he fell into it, he would die. A pit from which you can never climb out!
(End of chapter)