The next day, when Li Mu opened his eyes, Su Yingxue was wrapped in a hotel bathrobe and sitting on the window sill looking at the scenery.
Li Mu came out of the bedroom and walked through the huge corridor and living room. Local news was playing quietly on the TV.
According to the news, Boston has experienced a snowstorm that has been rare in several years. The snow in the suburbs is said to be close to one meter deep.
At this moment, the temperature outside has dropped to minus 20 degrees, but in the presidential suite of the Boston Hotel, the room temperature is 28 degrees, as warm as spring.
The suite was too big, so Li Mu looked for several rooms before he found Su Yingxue on the window sill in the sun room.
This sunroom has one-way glass on three sides and is located at the highest point of the hotel, so it has a panoramic view of the entire Boston area.
Outside the window, universities were falling like goose feathers, and Su Yingxue was looking out in trance.
Li Mu didn't wear shoes and made no noise when walking. When he came to Su Yingxue, she was startled.
"Oh, why did you show up all of a sudden..." Su Yingxue's cheeks were extremely rosy at this time, not only because of the temperature in the room, but also because of a bit of shyness.
Li Mu sat down next to her, looked out the window, and said with a smile, "The snow is really heavy."
"Yes." Su Yingxue nodded slightly and said, "The news said it might be the biggest snowfall in the past ten years."
Li Mu sighed: "It's not necessarily a good thing if it rains too hard."
After saying that, Li Mu asked again: "Do you have any classes today?"
Su Yingxue nodded: "Yes, it's just the afternoon."
Li Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then let's go there after lunch."
Su Yingxue asked: "Are you going to Harvard too?"
Li Mu said: "I'm going to meet Mark Zuckerberg. Are you familiar with him?"
"I'm not very familiar with it." Su Yingxue said, "I know that he created Facebook and is quite famous among college students. Now it has become popular on college campuses across the United States."
Li Mu smiled and asked, "Do you think this thing has a future?"
Su Yingxue said: "Yes, in the field of social networking for college students, it is still doing very well, but it may be difficult to develop further. After all, with Makino Technology here, YY is the largest platform for online social networking."
Li Mu nodded.
Su Yingxue is indeed a finance major and sees problems more thoroughly than the average person.
In fact, when I first invested in Mark Zuckerberg, I thought that I had won another large company with a future market value of more than 400 to 500 billion US dollars. However, as time went by, and Mark Zuckerberg After Berg's report on the development progress, Li Mu found that things did not seem to be that simple.
If Facebook wants to become a giant with a market value of 400 to 500 billion US dollars, it must at least ensure that it is the leader in the entire European and American social networking field.
First of all, YY’s current scale and status make it impossible to give it a chance to become the boss.
Therefore, Facebook has basically been put under a tight spell by Makino Technology.
Originally, Facebook was like a rapidly expanding balloon, which could fill most of the room. However, some corners of the furniture were beyond the reach of the big balloon. These small corners were like other companies of the same type. Living space.
This is actually very similar to Teng Xun. Teng Xun himself has blown up a huge balloon in the room, and the remaining corners have been eaten away by products such as Momo, Tantan, A Chat, and B Chat. No one can imagine that these products can replace Teng Xun and occupy the largest space in this room.
The same goes for Facebook. YY is so strong that it can only develop in the corners, such as universities.
YY is too powerful and too big, and it also covers too many users. For college students living in ivory towers, no matter how good the YY platform is, it will inevitably feel cliché. Now, Facebook has become theirs. It is an ivory tower social product, so it has developed very well among college students.
However, the problems that come with it are also huge. It is very difficult for Facebook to get out of college campuses.
For Li Mu, as he is the founder and owner of Makino Technology, it is naturally impossible for him to make way for Facebook. So for now, he can only temporarily sacrifice Facebook's interests and let it follow Makino Technology to check for leaks and fill in the gaps. 's younger brother.
When Li Mu came to meet Mark Zuckerberg this time, what he wanted to do was to understand his next development ideas and see how he could bring the greatest benefits to Facebook without touching the Makino technology cake.
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Facebook has now developed to a valuation level of hundreds of millions of dollars. Many capitals on Wall Street are very interested in this product that is very popular among college students. However, after careful study, we found out that this company was actually invested by Li Mu.
After learning that Li Mu was an investor, Wall Street raised their valuation of Facebook, believing that Facebook's current valuation is at least over one billion U.S. dollars. The reason is because it has the endorsement of Li Mu, a big shot.
Many funds believe that Facebook is a good project with good prospects, and with Li Mu’s endorsement, future investment risks will be much lower, so they all want to invest in Facebook, but without exception, they are all rejected by Mark Zuckerberg. .
The reason for rejection was partly because the money had not been spent yet, and partly because financing required one to say hello to Li Mu and get Li Mu’s nod.
For Mark Zuckerberg, building a company with a valuation of over one billion US dollars in such a short period of time is already a miracle among miracles. He attributes all this to Li Mu’s support, and He positioned himself as Li Mu's most sincere follower.
Now Mark Zuckerberg spends half of his time not in school, but traveling around the United States. He originally wanted to go to Canada to promote Facebook during this time, but when he heard that Li Mu was coming, he changed his itinerary. Harvard is waiting for Li Mu's arrival.
Li Mu sent Su Yingxue back to Harvard and went to a small single-family building on the Harvard campus.
This is Facebook's headquarters at Harvard. Although most of its employees are now in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg still keeps all employees with Harvard background on the Harvard campus. This has great significance for him and other Harvard students. General importance of flags.
Since Li Mu has a good relationship with Harvard, and Facebook is an entrepreneurial project invested by Li Mu and born on the Harvard campus, Harvard University has also given great support, just like the National People's Congress supported its creation of 3321.
Li Mulai kept a low profile, and neither the entire Facebook employees nor the Harvard administration knew the news. Mark Zuckerberg had been waiting in his office early, looking out the window.
When Li Mu's Cadillac drove into Mark Zuckerberg's sight, he stood up quickly and ran downstairs in a few steps.
Although Mark Zuckerberg doesn't look very good, this guy has a very kind face. He has a smile on his face every day. He looks like the little guy next door. In addition, he always wears casual clothes. He is a person of no means, so he doesn’t look like a successful person in any way. Even if he succeeds in starting a business later in life, most of the time he still gives people a feeling of being insecure.
Mark Zuckerberg was no exception at this time. He was wearing an ordinary black down jacket, a pair of old jeans that were somewhat white, and had unmanaged curly hair. He didn't look like a CEO at all.
Wang Yuanlang opened the car door for Li Mu, and Li Mu stepped out of the car. Mark Zuckerberg hurriedly greeted him. He walked very fast and the ground was slippery, so he looked like a big crab, which was quite funny.
Li Mu smiled and hugged him, and asked him: "You are a CEO after all, can't you pay attention to your image?"
Mark Zuckerberg scratched his head and said with a smile: "Everyone who works on the Internet is like this. They dress and dress however they feel comfortable."
Li Mu said: "Look at Larry Page, he wears a suit most of the time. Elon Musk looks like an old man, but he also wears formal clothes most of the time."
Mark Zuckerberg hurriedly said: "Mr. Li, I will pay attention next time. Whenever I meet you, I will wear formal clothes."
Li Mu shook his head and said with a smile: "You don't understand the point. The more you meet me, the less you need to care about your clothes. When you were drooling at Harvard looking at beautiful women, I could vote for you, let alone now. ?”
With that, Li Mu added: "I ask you to pay attention to your appearance in other situations besides me, such as in the company, meeting partners, or doing promotional activities. You must be able to set off your personality as a person." The temperament a CEO should have.”
Mark Zuckerberg was so busy that he nodded: "I will definitely pay attention to it in the future."
Li Mu smiled slightly: "Let's go up and chat. It's windy and cold here."
Mark Zuckerberg hurriedly said: "I haven't told the employees that you are coming. They will be very excited to see you!"
Li Mu asked him: "How many employees do you have here?"
Mark Zuckerberg said: "There are more than 60 employees here, more than 200 employees in Silicon Valley, and a local promotion team of nearly 100 people running all over the United States."
After saying that, Mark Zuckerberg added: "By the way, we are preparing to enter the Canadian market. A ten-person local promotion team has already arrived and is coordinating with local universities."
Li Mu nodded and said, "Stepping out of the United States is your first step to the world."
The two walked into the door of Facebook's Harvard headquarters while chatting.
Facebook has about forty employees at Harvard, and everyone was particularly excited when they saw Li Mu coming in.
In the minds of these employees, Li Mu is their beacon, the strongest motivation to guide them and urge them to move forward. Countless Internet people regard him as their idol and the goal they must win, so they suddenly see him appear on the Internet. Here, these employees are very excited.
Seeing how enthusiastic everyone was, Li Mu said to Mark Zuckerberg: "Mark, please introduce your team to me."
When Mark Zuckerberg heard this, he immediately said happily: "Come here, Mr. Li, let me introduce to you. This is..."
Li Mu originally didn't want to be too high-profile here, but seeing how enthusiastic everyone was about him, he felt it was not good to be too cold, so he greeted and shook hands with every employee after Mark Zuckerberg introduced him.
Li Mu patiently shook hands with everyone one by one. After completing the circle, he and Mark Zuckerberg went to his office on the third floor.
(End of chapter)