Chapter 1043 Sequoia's Lobbyist

Larry Page's greatest pursuit in life is to do his best to transform everything in the real society WWW..lā

Inspired by the library model in college, he created a search engine and created Google. After creating Google, he has invested more than $400 million and spent ten years to put more than 20 million physical books in the world. Digitization, which gave birth to Google Books;

In addition, he tried to use a camcorder in the last century to take pictures along the way. According to the way he was at that time, he stopped every 100 meters to take a few pictures, and then transmitted these pictures to the computer. From this, he came up with the idea of ​​digitizing the street view all over the world and making it available for users to browse online. After a few years, Google Street View was released. Landscapes of ten countries, thousands of cities, millions of streets.

Then, he used more advanced satellite and aerial photography technology to take a 360-degree "photo" of the earth, and then Google Earth was born.

Right now, Larry Page is making his first large-scale digitization attempt, Google Books.

Larry Page feels that there is no second person in the world with the same crazy idea as him to digitize the world's books and put them on the Internet.

However, what he didn't expect was that Li Mu took this model as a suggestion to himself through only a few metaphors of his own.

This made Larry Page a little nervous and a little embarrassed.

The nervousness is that he is worried that Li Mu will also be interested in such a model. Google does not have an advantage over Muye Technology in doing such a thing now, and it has only just started. If Muye Technology also does it, it will be easy to catch up;

It was embarrassing because he didn't know how to answer Li Mu. First of all, he didn't want to tell Li Mu that Google was already doing this, but if he didn't tell Li Mu, when he launched Google Books in the future, Li Mu would definitely feel that he was a Inspired by him, that would be embarrassing.

A serious person like Larry Page is very concerned about the source of creativity. He does not hope that one day his Google Books project will be misunderstood as plagiarizing other people's ideas.

After thinking about it for a while, Larry Page made up his mind and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, I'll tell you a secret message, the Google Books project is already in operation, and the purpose is to put the whole Real-world books moved online.”

Li Mu pretended to be surprised and said, "Then the workload is really huge!"

Larry Page nodded and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter how big it is. This is one of the few dreams in my life. Even if I give everything, I will complete it."

Larry Page deliberately said firmly, he hoped that Li Mu had better not be interested in this project. If he was really interested, then when he knew that he was doing his best for this project, he should also back down.

Li Mu smiled lightly and said to Larry Page, "This is a great dream, and I think you can definitely achieve it."

Larry Page breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Muye Technology is also very great. I think yy has the opportunity to become the core product that carries the communication between people in the future Internet world. This kind of carrying can be done. To the borderless, if yy goes smoothly, it can even carry the online communication of all mankind.”

Li Mu smiled humbly: "Mr. Page,

The goal of carrying all mankind is too lofty, and now I actually just want to penetrate the American market. "

Larry Page looked at Li Mu and said, "Mr. Li, Internet products are the products with the least impact of geographical restrictions. When Google was founded, it never imagined that it would be where it is today. Back then, I didn't even dare to imagine netizens in the United States. , and now, Google has become a must-have tool for Internet users all over the world, good products know no borders, as long as the product can be launched, it will definitely be able to conquer more users, the same principle applies to yy.”

After speaking, Larry Page said again: "Actually, in my opinion, yy is only one step away from being popular all over the world."

Li Mu couldn't help but ask him, "Which step?"

Larry Page said decisively: "Financing! Ordinary companies exchange time for money, and great companies exchange money for time. What yy needs now is comprehensive and rapid development. After successful financing, you can immediately make great strides into the global market. ."

Li Mu nodded and said, "The financing has already been promoted, but Muye Technology is not in a hurry at this time."

Larry Page asked him: "Is there any capital you prefer?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Theoretically speaking, whoever gives more money will naturally prefer whoever we are."

Larry Page said: "Let me recommend a capital to you."

Li Mu asked Larry Page: "Mr. Page, don't you want to recommend Sequoia to me?"

Larry Page's expression was a little unnatural, saying: "Google's most critical round of financing was led by Sequoia. Based on our long-term cooperation, I think Sequoia is definitely the best venture capital in this industry. "

Li Mu said: "Sequoia is good, but for Muye Technology, it depends on who gives more money."

Larry Page said: "Sequoia has a very strong capital relationship. If the IPO goes public in the future, Sequoia can play a big role. Sequoia is also planning for Google to go public. Once the listing is successful, the development of the company will be greatly improved. The situation will be broader.”

Hearing this, Li Mu asked with a smile on his face, "Mr. Page, aren't you a lobbyist for Sequoia today?"

Hearing what Li Mu said, Larry Page felt a little embarrassed. He scratched his head and smiled, and said, "The CEO of Sequoia heard that I was going to meet you, so he deliberately told me to try to persuade you."

"Persuade me?" Li Mu asked curiously, "Persuade me for what? Persuade me to accept their $16.5 billion offer?"

Larry Page hurriedly said: "Of course not, the 16.5 billion US dollars is that they lack sufficient understanding of the actual value of Muye Technology, and now they have set a new price, and it is a very sincere price, but I don't have a chance to sit down with you and have a good chat, so I hope I can help him convey a message that he wants to interview you."

Li Mu smiled and said: "The interview is fine, but not now, the financing window of Muye Technology does not always open. It was opened once before, but Sequoia refused, so this window will not be opened for the time being, but Sequoia can follow us and take it. Some of the actions here, when the financing window opens again, everyone will sit down again and have a good chat.”