Chapter 361 Domain Name Set up, Fate Singing

In Li Mu's eyes, Mark Zuckerberg is a bug-like existence. hunting ? ? ? ?

Not only because he is the youngest billionaire, but also because of his strong vision and ability in his entrepreneurial career.

Ordinary people start a business, let alone creating a billion-dollar Internet giant like Facebook. The key is that until 2013, Mark Zuckerberg's shareholding in Facebook can still stick to around 30%, compared with domestic These Internet giants in their 40s and 50s are still a lot stronger, so he can surpass the founders of all domestic Internet companies in terms of personal assets, which is also where he is quite good.

The countless rebirths who appear in the novel will not miss to hug Mark Zuckerberg's thigh, and the way of hugging the thigh is also very strange. Some people went to the other side of the ocean to invest in Facebook at the beginning of its establishment, and some even ran special I went to the United States to find him and became friends with him before Facebook was established, but Li Mu didn't think so.

First of all, if you wait for Facebook to be founded, and then go to the United States to invest in Mark Zuckerberg, it will not logically make sense. There are so many Internet companies in the United States, and there are so many companies and projects born in Silicon Valley every day. How can a Chinese person travel so far? Find a Harvard college student and offer him money? It is estimated that even Mark Zuckerberg will be taken aback.

Moreover, it is not so easy for Chinese people to invest in American startups, especially when it involves corporatization. It is very troublesome to invest money directly, and the other party is not necessarily willing to accept it. The most important thing is to have a company in the United States with perfect registration and procedures. It is much more convenient and formal to see a good project sign a contract with the investee directly in the name of the company.

Risky investment is not suitable, and it is not safe to make an early investment. Mark Zuckerberg was first a Harvard student, and then he had the idea of ​​​​starting a business in school and became an entrepreneur. From a student, he became an entrepreneur. When it comes to an entrepreneur who gave birth to the idea of ​​Facebook, this is the established route that history has already planned. If he does not intervene in advance, then Mark Zuckerberg, who is far away on the other side of the ocean, will definitely follow his original rhythm Moving forward, he will definitely set up facemash in 2oo3, and he will definitely give birth to Facebook's idea at the end of 2oo3 and start implementing it in 2oo4.

Then, the most crucial part finally came.

Since Li Mu didn't interfere with Mark Zuckerberg's established route, he would definitely try to buy the Facebook domain name at the beginning of his business. Back then, the holder of this domain name quoted ten thousand dollars. Mark Zuckerberg, a poor student, if this domain name is in his own hands, at the end of 2oo3 and the beginning of 2oo4, Mark Zuckerberg will definitely contact him to try to buy a domain name, and Li Mu's ultimate goal is not to In order to sell this domain name to him at the end of o3,

Instead, take this opportunity to invest in him directly.

In Li Mu's mind, he sorted out the time nodes of the Facebook exhibition.

In February 2oo4, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook was launched. It started at Harvard and gradually spread to other universities. At this time, he was an ordinary student and operated Facebook as a small entrepreneurial project after school.

In September of 2oo4, Mark Zuckerberg got Facebook's first angel investment, $500,000 invested by paypa1 founder Peter Thiel, and at that time Facebook had already shown its extraordinary expansion. ability.

Li Mu couldn't help but make up a picture in his mind.

If you pull the timeline to a certain day in 2oo3, Mark Zuckerberg, who was in a classroom at Harvard University and deserted, finally thought of this Facebook Idea when he bit the 58th pencil. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this Idea was really great and very feasible, so he struggled until get out of class was over, rushed to the dormitory like a fly, turned on the computer, and prepared to go to the domain name registration agency website to register first. The Facebook domain name, he doesn't know whether this domain name has been registered, but he must be silently hoping that this domain name is still pending registration.

When he filled in the top-level domain name in the domain name query box, then, he was distressed, and it was a dog! It seems that the phrase Facebook is not the first to come to mind. Someone who randomly hoarded domain names with a dictionary thought of this phrase before.

Then, he couldn't wait to see what the hell this was.

After opening it, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, because there was nothing on this page, just one sentence: "This domain name is for sale." And then a msn for contact.

"It turned out to be a ghost who saves domain names."

At this time, Mark Zuckerberg breathed a sigh of relief. He would not immediately think of registering Thefacebook. He would think: "This kind of domain name should not be sold for much money, right? A few thousand dollars will be the top, if Haggling, maybe even cheaper, he certainly won’t be like me, able to combine the concept of a college student’s high-end social networking site with the slightly weird phrase Facebook!”

Then Mark Zuckerberg added this msn.

At this time, Li Mu, who had been waiting for Mark Zuckerberg for two years, went online with a gloomy smile on his face.

Mark Zuckerberg said on msn: "Hello sir, I want to buy the Facebook domain name in your hands."

"Oh? How much are you willing to pay?"

"I think, for such a domain name, five hundred dollars should be a good offer."

Li Mu gave him a laughing expression: "I'm sorry, I'm not really inclined to sell this domain name, I'm more inclined to use it to make a social network, starting with college, and I have already started to prepare, Be prepared to get a few million dollars to play in the early days.”

"I'm a real dog!!!"

Think about it, what would Mark Zuckerberg think when he heard his idea being uttered by someone with a Facebook domain name?

After all, this person is ahead of himself in everything, and most importantly, people have money and people are willing to put millions of dollars to test the waters.

There is a big difference between a rich person starting a business and a poor person starting a business.

If starting a business is likened to wanting to start a large car rental company, then what the rich have to do is to buy a bunch of cars and build an operation team;

The way people who don’t have money is: first find the cheapest way to save a car, and then try to save one or two cars out first. Needless to say, how laborious the saving process is, the procurement of various parts, procurement, or purchase is impossible. Great self dIy, and then collocation, do various tests.

After this series of work was completed, he finally proved that he could save one or two cars. At this time, if an investor recognized the car they saved, they would invest a sum of money and let them save another batch. This is the legendary angel round investment.

Get angel investment and save a certain amount, but it is not enough to run a real large car rental company, and then find someone to invest in the second round, this is the A round of financing;

I finally managed to get the A round, and I barely saved enough. At this time, I will start to build a better operation team...

This is almost half a century slower than the rich man, which is the race between the tortoise and the hare, and if the hare doesn't make big mistakes, the tortoise will never be able to catch him.

Although the analogy is not very appropriate, the whole Internet entrepreneurship is like this. If Jack Ma was successful in the vacuum of the domestic market when he founded Alibaba, if someone directly took tens of millions to do the same thing as him, he might have has failed.

At this time, Mark Zuckerberg was 80% discouraged. He didn't know what to do at once. It might take a few days to think about it, but more likely he gave up the idea of ​​​​starting a business.

Just when he was not overwhelmed, Li Mu suddenly asked him, "By the way, can you tell me what you want this domain name to do?"

"Me?" Mark Zuckerberg laughed at himself: "I also want to be a social networking site, but now, I think I might need to think about it."

Li Mu suddenly said generously: "Everyone thought of going together, this is really fate, in fact, we can sit down and talk about this common idea between you and me if we have the opportunity. If the ideas are the same, I can give you the domain name. , I will invest another sum of money in you, and you will help me complete this plan. After all, I am really too busy, and I want to do other things in my own body and leave it to others. I am afraid that he will not understand my plan. "

"Really?" It's hard for Mark Zuckerberg to imagine that someone is willing to vote for a nobody like himself who has nothing, but the other party's reason is also very good, you can think of going with me, this proves that you and I The thinking mode is very close. If you can pass the test, I can rest assured to invest in you.

Li Mu smiled and said: "Of course it's true, but I have something to do recently. I'm going to Cambridge, Massachusetts. I don't know where you are? When I come back from Cambridge, we can meet at a place where we can meet. I can ask my assistant to book a round-trip ticket for you."

Mark Zuckerberg is actually at Harvard University, and Harvard University is located in Cambridge. The reason why Li Mu said this is actually because he was more determined to be hooked.

Therefore, it is conceivable that when he heard this sentence, he would probably believe in fate like a Chinese person, and would be crazy with excitement...

"My God, sir, I'm in Cambridge! In fact, I'm still a college student at Harvard! If you come to Cambridge, can we meet?"

"My God, this is really the miracle of the Creator! How can there be so many coincidences and coincidences in us? This is really fate! No matter what, I must meet you, then wait for my news. , I will contact you when I arrive in Cambridge."

"This is really God's will, then I will wait for you in Cambridge!"

"Ok, wait for me, boy!"

This is Li Mu's complete idea. To sum it up briefly, it can be called: setting up a stage with a domain name, and singing by fate.

Afterwards, Li Mu was certain that no matter where he was or what he was doing at the time, the first thing he had to do was to buy a plane ticket to Cambridge, USA... (To be continued.)