Chapter 2002: Determination

Looking at the familiar world outside, Hastings was a little excited sitting in the car.

He was not excited because he came to Los Angeles, but because he was going to Feng Yiping's house next.

After becoming the CEO of Netflix again, he had no grudges against Feng Yiping, and felt that Feng Yiping was the same to him, but apart from work, the two had no personal relationship, which was a bit unsatisfactory for him.

Logically, with a relationship like theirs, at least they should take their wives and children out to eat together - this is naturally not a relationship of a meal, it should be a symbol, a symbol that he really believes in you and relies on you.

This is something that even his wife Patty knows, "Feng has only had work dealings with you. Is he still dissatisfied with you? Look at Randolph, I heard from Julie that they had been to Feng's house a long time ago,"

Hastings was also a little depressed about this, because of his previous actions, Feng Yiping trusted Randolph more, which was also natural, so to a certain extent, it was also his own fault.

Especially at the end of last year, he took the initiative to invite Feng Yiping to his home with his girlfriend, but Feng Yiping refused vaguely, which made Hastings even more worried.

How could he know that Feng Yiping was at that time, Huang Jingping and Ma Ling all ignored him, so he had to live alone in the mountains.

Therefore, he took the relationship between himself and Feng Yiping a step forward, and had close contacts with Feng Yiping outside of work, making the relationship between himself and him more reliable and more down-to-earth. This is what Hastings has always wanted to do, but he never found a suitable opportunity.

Unexpectedly, this has made a breakthrough now, and he can actually visit his home, which makes him a little excited.

This place really looks good. After the car drove into Feng Yiping's mansion in Beverly Hills, he couldn't help turning his head and looking around for a while.

This place is not unfamiliar to him, and he also knows that the owner of the house he just passed is Jessica Alba.

Because at the beginning of this year, so many newspapers reported that Feng Yiping took three Hollywood actresses out to sea, and reported on his house and his neighbors.

When the car drove to the parking lot, he looked at Feng Yiping standing at the door and couldn't help but open his mouth wide. What was going on?

At this time, not only him, but also Randolph and Zuckerberg who came over couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

Among the three of them, Randolph had seen Amanda held by Feng Yiping more than once, but who was the little boy who looked very dependent on him and very cute in his hand?

He was sure that it was not the child of Feng Yiping and Huang Jingping.

At Feng Yiping's age, it was surprising that he and Huang Jingping had such a big daughter, but he actually had a son who looked older?

Zuckerberg was also quite uneasy. Counting it, his young boss, who graduated from college, only graduated in more than a year and less than two years, actually had two children?

And these two children didn't seem to be born from the same mother.

This really refreshed his impression of Feng Yiping.

He had always thought that Feng Yiping was the kind of person who was, how should I put it, quite old-fashioned in life. As a senior executive of Facebook, he also knew that the Chinese restaurant Man Ting Fang that Feng Yiping had opened at great expense was for his girlfriend, but now it seems that there is a great possibility that it is not the case?

"Welcome, welcome," Feng Yiping said with a smile, "Zuck, you are here too,"

Hastings and Randolph came to Los Angeles because of his arrangement, but Zuckerberg was not.

"I want to see you before I go back to India," Zuckerberg said.

"Well, come on, Amanda, Vincent, call me brother," Feng Yiping said to the two children.

"Brother," the two children shouted crisply.

Beside Feng Yiping, perhaps because of the fearless Amanda, Vincent also looked much more generous.

"This is Uncle Hastings and Uncle Randolph,"

"Hello, uncle,"

"Hi Amanda, we have met, do you remember me?"

"It seems, I have some impression," Amanda said with her head tilted, looking like she was searching her memory bank seriously.

"Oh, let me introduce you, this is my daughter Amanda, and this is my son Vincent," Feng Yiping said with a smile.

"So cute," even Zuckerberg, who was just in his early twenties, couldn't help saying.

I believe no one would dislike Vincent after seeing him.

"You guys go to your room first, put down your things, and take a rest. Don't worry, we have plenty of time,"

Anyway, this self-built house was built big enough considering that relatives from both sides of the country would come.

Of course, in Beverly Hills, you would be embarrassed if you built it too small.

"See you later, Amanda, Vincent," Hastings and Randolph greeted the two children with a smile, and followed Leticia to their room.

Zuckerberg stayed, still impetuous and straightforward, and without even sitting down, he asked directly, "Feng, when you came back this time, I heard that News Corporation was interested in acquiring MySpace, but we didn't respond, and I always felt uneasy."

"You know, in any case, MySpace is a social product with its own characteristics, and it is also a company that we can call a competitor, at least in the United States. If it has the strong support of a strong company like News Corporation, it may have great development opportunities."

"If MySpace intends to be acquired, shouldn't we also show interest? But why did I hear Mike and Sandberg say that you have no interest in this, including News Corporation's intention to acquire you, you are indifferent?"

Feng Yiping heard this and nodded at him, "Not bad, now you know how to look at the problem from the overall perspective of the company."

This guy is really growing up very fast.

Zuck, who is growing very fast, was a little shy after hearing Feng Yiping's praise, "I'm just a little worried."

"Have a glass of water first," Feng Yiping said, pointing to the juice on the table.

This time when he talked about work, not only Vincent was there, but Amanda also sat obediently beside him.

"You can worry, which is a good phenomenon, indicating that you have made progress," Feng Yiping praised him again.

He really liked to see the youngest and most astute world's richest man acting a little embarrassed in front of him.

Things like this can be said to be his exclusive pleasure.

"Why don't I acquire it? I believe you can think clearly, because I think that spending a high price to acquire MySpace will not help our business much, right?"

"From the product function point of view, it is true," Zuckerberg nodded.

The biggest feature of MySpace is music. This is actually a very simple thing for both NEXTDOOR and Facebook. Just add one more function. Zuckerberg thinks that he can finish this task in half a day at most.

Besides, NEXTDOOR already has many such forums established by music lovers.

"You are right. If News Corporation successfully acquires MySpace, there is a great possibility that their number of users will have a qualitative leap in a short period of time. I think that in the one to two years after their acquisition, it is very likely that the number of users will exceed nine figures,"

"Then why don't we take action?" Zuckerberg was a little anxious.

"Don't worry, drink some water," Feng Yiping pointed at the cup in front of him again.

Can I not drink? Zuckerberg really wanted to say something.

But he really didn't have the courage to do so in front of Feng Yiping.

He picked up the cup as he was told and gulped down a big gulp.

Then someone touched his back, and when he looked down, Amanda was holding a tissue, "Brother, here,"

"Oh, thank you," he took it and wiped his mouth, but should I also be an uncle?

"Hastings, Randolph, please sit down," the two of them had changed their clothes at this time and came to the sunny backyard.

"Thank you," Hastings noticed that before sitting down, Randolph also looked at the house below. The two were old friends who had reunited and smiled at each other, which was also one of their tacit understandings.

"News Corporation is interested in acquiring MySpace. You all know that Zuck is very worried about this," Feng Yiping briefly introduced them.

"That is also a relatively professional product," Hastings said.

"However, the function is still too single," Randolph said.

"This can actually be regarded as his characteristic," Zuckerberg said.

"My opinion is that even if News Corporation can successfully acquire MySpace - because I heard that Viacom has also expressed interest in MySpace, even if News Corporation successfully achieves its goal and makes MySpace's users exceed 100 million in the next one or two years, it is actually not a big problem," Feng Yiping said.

"Because I am not optimistic about the long-term development prospects of MySpace,"

"Why?" Zuckerberg asked.

"There can be many reasons. First of all, the Internet companies previously acquired by News Corporation ended up with the same bad ending as those acquired by Yahoo,"

"There are still big differences between doing news, operating a TV station, and managing and operating a social networking site, especially when the helmsman of News Corporation is an old man,"

"I don't mean to be disrespectful. I just want to say that Mr. Murdoch may not necessarily understand what MySpace is about and how it can attract so many users,"

This truth, including Hastings, the oldest person here, understands, and it is indeed the case.

"Another main reason why I am not optimistic is that I can even predict that when MySpace reaches 100 million users, it will be its peak. After that, I believe it will quickly go downhill and will no longer pose any threat to us,"

"Really?" Xiao Zu asked again.

"Really," Feng Yiping said very confidently, "In the future you will find that this will be more real than real gold,"

ps: Happy New Year!