Chapter 622 621. Excited Investment Opportunity
Liu Mang said he was "honored" to be on the headlines lying down.
Then the one who suffered was the Celtics who came to Atlanta on the 18th to challenge the Eagles away.
On the rest day on the 17th after back-to-back games, in addition to those weird online comments and the four major shooting guards collectively teasing Liu Mang, the most important and best news for the Eagles is Liu Mang's feet All the swelling from the injury has dissipated.
Therefore, Liu Mang, who still had playing time protection in the first two games, faced the "enemy" Celtics this time, the team that was upset and lost last time. Liu Mang played 34 minutes and made 12 of 27 shots. Scored 35 points and 7 assists, led the team to catch the Celtics who were also in pain after the trade, 98 to 71, the Eagles easily won 7 consecutive victories, and the record improved to 21 wins and 4 losses, continue to refresh Team history.
However, on the 20th and 21st, they played the Warriors and the Sonics back-to-back. Maybe they won too much and started to relax. These two games were very difficult for the Eagles. In the first game, they lost to the After leaving the Warriors, the Eagles have a big problem with their defense. It may not be a big problem. They just look down on the Warriors. The side effects of the strong mentality began to appear. When the weak team insists that they are a strong team, they play a little slack.
However, in the second game against the Sonics, the Eagles' defense immediately became very compact because of the loss to the Warriors in the previous game, but the Eagles' shooting became very bad in this game, mainly because of Liu Mang. He scored 30 points on 10-of-34 shots and scored 30 points in overtime, only to narrowly beat the Sonics 99 to 96. Although the process was a bit difficult, it was a win anyway.
After playing these two games, the Eagles' record became 22 wins and 5 losses.
On December 23, the last game before the Christmas game, the Eagles finally ushered in an explosion after two stinking games. Facing the Bulls, Liu Mang scored 14 of 20 in the game and beat Xin Li. Oddly broke out, scored 33 points, led the Eagles to easily kill the Bulls 109 to 80, and improved the record to 23 wins and 5 losses.
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"Uncle, this, this, and this, here...wow, Dinah likes it so much..."
"But, Dinah, we are giving it to someone else. What use do you like?"
"Dinah is also a child. If Dinah likes it, other children will like it too!"
"Are you sure other children will like this jigsaw puzzle with more than 10,000 small pieces?"
"Most definitely!"
"as long as you are happy!"
In the children's toy section of the supermarket, Liu Mang looked at the shopping guide who was smiling all over his face, as well as the pile of toys around the shopping guide that probably couldn't fit in the pickup truck, and the little loli who was still picking out, and felt bleeding.
Today is Christmas Eve, and it is already the third Christmas in the NBA. Liu Mang laments how time flies. Seeing Dinah, who has turned 9 years old a few days ago, she almost feels slim.
The Eagles are now a popular team in the league. They have earned so much money, so they naturally have to take their due responsibilities. For example, the players have to contribute to the community and send some gifts to people in the slums. Liu Mang The responsibility is to give toys to the children.
Liu Mang didn't know what to give, so he brought Dinah along to buy gifts together.
Dinah was very happy to hear this, and almost emptied the toy section of the supermarket until she saw that the pickup truck couldn't fit it, so she reluctantly left.
Liu Mang was heartbroken and spent more than 30,000 U.S. dollars to check out, and then sent the gift to the Eagles in Phillips Arena who were in charge of receiving the gift and the team staff who recruited college student volunteers to act as Santa Claus to deliver gifts tonight. .
The staff of the team were dumbfounded when they saw Liu Mang's pile of gifts full of pick-up trucks. Others gave gifts, all of which were meant to be counted. !
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The rest of the Eagles also came to the arena. In addition to handing over the gifts to the people in the slums to the team staff, there were also gifts from the players.
Liu Mang brought Dinah to the training ground of the arena. Most of the Eagles players were there, and they also brought some friends or family members.
Liu Mang is also a big boss now, and it's time to give gifts to the younger brothers. He and Raheem, Jason Terry, Ratliff, Stockton, Rasheed Wallace, etc. Waiting for the bosses, we have prepared gifts for the role players.
What Liu Mang prepared was that no one had a Walkman, and everyone else also prepared some electronic products, such as Raheem's laptop, Rasheed Wallace's new mobile phone, and so on.
And the little loli started to ask for red envelopes everywhere again. The teammates were used to the "Chinese New Year Etiquette" of Liu Mang's family. For example, Stockton, the "old man", gave each of his teammates a $1,000 knife The red envelope is simple and rude.
Looking at the stack of red envelopes in Dana's hand, even Barnes, who still had a salary of more than 500,000 dollars, was "blackmailed" for 500 dollars. This little loli has learned traditional Chinese culture!
After the presents were delivered, the Eagles players spontaneously organized a training session about tomorrow’s Christmas game against the Pistons. Today was originally a holiday, but playing the Pistons, the third-ranked team in the Eastern Conference, the Eagles players They are very important.
There are 5 Christmas games this year, and the one that kicked off is the Christmas game between the Eagles and the Pistons. The Pistons have been swept by the Eagles in the past two seasons. After Larry Brown took over the Pistons, the league felt that the Pistons The game against the Eagles must be something to watch, so this game was arranged.
The second game was the battle between the Magic and the 76ers for the scoring title. Originally, this game was also very interesting. Iverson was the scoring champion in 2001 and 2002. McGrady was the scoring champion last season. The battle of the two scoring champions is very interesting, but this year the Magic team collapsed, and Iverson of the 76ers may not come back until the end of January and early February. The league's calculations made a mistake.
The third game is the Rockets away game against the Suns, Yao Ming and Stoudemire's traditional center and the new era center. The duel is always attractive, and the duel between the two best centers of the younger generation in the same class has attracted the attention of many fans.
In the fourth game, the Timberwolves played against the Spurs at home, and the matchup between the two No. 21s continued.
The finale is the game between the Big Four Lakers and the Nets, the king of the East in the past two years, which is also worth seeing.
The Eagles players started training, and Dinah wandered around the arena with Rasheed Wallace's daughter. The two teenage girls had a lot to talk about.
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After the training, Liu Mang took a shower, changed his clothes, and prepared to go home with Dinah. As soon as he came out of the locker room, he saw Schwartz coming with someone!
"Ace, I've been looking for you for a long time!" Schwartz walked towards Liu Mang with the young man next to him.
"Jeff, have you brought someone to try out again? Our team is not busy, right? I was training just now, and my phone is in the locker room." Liu Mang took out his phone, and sure enough there were several missed calls on it. It was all from Schwartz, Liu Mang shook the phone screen towards Schwartz.
Liu Mang thought that Schwartz had brought someone to try out again, and looked at the young man next to Schwartz who looked like a college student. He was so ugly, wearing an old suit, the kind that exploded, but he looked a little familiar , Liu Mang had an impression of this face, and asked curiously: "Is this undrafted? Too thin! Is he very talented Jeff?"
"Oh, no, Ace, he's not here for a trial training, let me introduce you..."
Before Schwartz finished speaking, the young man next to him who looked like a college student who was regarded by Liu Mang as a turkey walked up confidently and said, "It's a great honor that you, Ace, regard me as a player for trial training. Like basketball, but like you said, I'm too skinny to play in the NBA, but I can play streetball, my name is Mark Zuckerberg, a sophomore at Harvard University."
Zuckerberg tried to maintain a confident appearance on the surface, but he was very nervous inside. In the past half semester, he has been rejected by many investors. Of course, he has learned a lot from it. Be confident in front of your partner, neither humble nor overbearing, otherwise you will be underestimated, if you are underestimated, basically you will lose most of your investment.
After Zuckerberg introduced himself, he smiled on the surface and looked nervously at Liu Mang, hoping to make a good impression.
But... Zuckerberg noticed that Liu Mang looked at him with weird eyes after hearing his self-introduction. He felt like he was being stared at by a hungry wolf. The shirt inside was all wet.
Schwartz looked at Liu Mang staring at his junior with that sizing up and down look. He didn't know what Liu Mang was thinking, but his junior would help if he could, and this junior was indeed talented. If he If I have money, I have helped. The key is that I have no money.
Schwartz said to Liu Mang: "Ace, let me introduce you, this is a computer genius from Harvard University..."
Liu Mang waved his hand, knowing that he accidentally saw someone as a prey again, mainly because he was too surprised, he never expected to meet Zuckerberg!
Schwartz seems to be a graduate of Harvard University's financial management and law majors many years ago, but he didn't pay attention to it before. Who knew that he and Zuckerberg actually knew each other, and introduced Zuckerberg to himself in the early days of his business. know.
Seeing Liu Mang waving his hand, Schwartz thought that Liu Mang didn't want to listen to his next introduction. He knew that Liu Mang had already seen it. He was another college student entrepreneur who wanted to find venture capital. In this peak period of Internet development, Thousands of college student entrepreneurs emerged from various top universities in the United States, but 99% of them eventually went bankrupt with investors’ venture capital, especially after the Internet bubble crisis in the late 1990s. People have become more cautious about Internet venture capital, and it is more difficult for college student entrepreneurs to find investors for venture capital. In the NBA, there are also many retired players who have gone bankrupt because they poured money into the Internet.
Schwartz glanced at Zuckerberg helplessly, and Zuckerberg felt cold in his heart. In the past few months, he has been rejected by countless "local tyrants", and there are many people who are more impatient than Liu Mang. .
Just when Zuckerberg was about to say goodbye and leave in despair, and kept a little dignity, he suddenly heard a word from the Chinese "local tyrant" in front of him.
"Jeff, Zach, let's go to the conference room to talk, it's not convenient here."
After Liu Mang finished speaking, he saw Rasheed Wallace who came out of the locker room after taking a shower, and said to Tianzun: "Rashid, you saw that Dinah asked her to come to the conference room to find me, thank you."
Rasheed Wallace responded and went to find his daughter. After he moved to Atlanta, his daughter and Dinah went to a school, one grade higher than Dinah, and they had a good relationship, knowing Dinah and himself My daughter went to play.
Liu Mang looked at Zuckerberg, who was stunned because of the sudden turn of events, and said with a smile, "Let's go, Zach, don't you want to attract investment? Or did I get it wrong?"
Schwartz patted Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg reacted, and quickly followed Liu Mang in front.
Zuckerberg will be the super boss of the Internet in the future, but he is still a 19-year-old kid. Although he tried his best to pretend to be an adult, he was still suppressed by Liu Mang's momentum.
Zuckerberg just wanted to give Liu Mangla an investment and found Schwartz, the senior who gave a speech at school last time, and he really wanted to give it a try.
Liu Mang is a Chinese. The image of Chinese people who are unscrupulous in business and conservative about emerging industries has been deeply rooted in the United States. Chinese people prefer to invest in real estate and other real industries. Now even black players in the NBA are unwilling to invest in the Internet. , Zuckerberg didn’t have much hope for getting investment from Liu Mang, a Chinese, but he just gave it a try. Zuckerberg was disappointed once again, but he didn’t expect a turnaround!
Even Zuckerberg, the future super strongman, couldn't keep calm.
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Zuckerberg took out his USB flash drive, adjusted his mentality, and used the projector in the conference room of the Eagles to play his carefully prepared slideshow. Little Lolita, who was sitting and watching obediently, began to introduce her "Grand Plan and Albert Plan".
Just like what Liu Mang thought, Zuckerberg came to attract investment for his Facebook startup. What Zuckerberg introduced to Liu Mang now is an extremely crude version of Facebook’s design. Of course, it is to attract investment. , will draw a super pie, and Zuckerberg is no exception.
It's just that Liu Mang knows that Zuckerberg's pie will really come true in the future!
For Zuckerberg's current initial version of Facebook, which is lacking in both design and function, Liu Mang did not use some advanced functions he knew to make suggestions in the future. He didn't know if his suggestions would make people There is a problem with the development of Facebook. After all, the current Internet equipment and information transmission technology are far inferior to the future. If Facebook is allowed to develop too aggressively and the actual conditions cannot keep up, it may affect the future development of Facebook. Therefore, Liu Mang didn't say anything, just listened.
The main reason is that he is too excited. This is a super Internet brand with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars in the future. He puts it in front of him. Put on a casual listening look.
Zuckerberg finished the slide show while introducing, and then said to Liu Mang: "Ace, this is my plan, I believe I can change the lives of the entire human race!"
After listening to Liu Mang, he was silent for a while, and then asked: "Zach, how much investment do you need, what is your funding plan, and what benefits can I get."
Simple and rude, asking directly about his own interests, Liu Mang is so direct, but Zuckerberg has a bottom line in his mind. He wants an investor who is more interested in money than dreams. This kind of investor , Zuckerberg is more at ease, mainly because if he meets a dreamer and messes up with the dreamer's money, he will inevitably feel guilty in his heart.
After some discussions, Liu Mang invested 5 million US dollars!
Zuckerberg had no idea that he could get $5 million in investment!
Liu Mang asked Schwartz, who understands the law, to study the contract. He found no problems, and of course there is no problem. Satisfied with the transfer, Liu Mang signed and stamped with Zuckerberg.
Liu Mang saw Zuckerberg's signed and stamped contract, suppressed his inner excitement, and stretched out his hand and said, "Zach, I'll let Jeff give you the money, happy cooperation."
Zuckerberg also felt like he was dreaming. He actually got an investment of 5 million dollars. He could use a better server to give users a better experience and lay a better foundation at the beginning of promoting Facebook!
Zuckerberg couldn't suppress his excitement anymore, and shook hands with Liu Mang very excitedly.
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Zuckerberg went back to Boston excitedly with the contract. He called his partner, but the partner didn't seem to believe that he could get an investment of $5 million, so he wanted to go back to celebrate with the contract. up.
Schwartz was surprised to see that Liu Mang invested 5 million dollars in a junior who was engaged in the Internet. He originally thought that it would be very good if he invested tens of millions of dollars. For the help of a rare genius junior, I didn't expect to get 5 million!
"Ace, aren't you afraid of the dot-com bubble?" Schwartz asked after Zuckerberg left.
"Jeff, the future is the era of the Internet, your junior will definitely succeed, he will be the next Bill Gates, and he will help me make money!" Liu Mang finally couldn't help but said excitedly.
This is an Internet brand with a market value of hundreds of billions in the future!
The market value cannot represent real money, and Facebook rarely pays dividends, and after 2017, Facebook will be in a big crisis, but the small dividend is not a problem, and it will be fine if it is sold at that time!
Schwartz was noncommittal to Liu Mang's words. There are too many talented college students who claim to be the next Bill Gates. In the end, there is no one in a million, and 5 million dollars is against Liu Mang, who earns more than 20 million dollars a year. It may be a lot, but it’s not too much. It’s far from the point where Liu Mang can go bankrupt. Schwartz knows that Liu Mang is not the kind of extravagant and wasteful person like most black athletes. It won't have too much impact on Liu Mang, at most the cheapskate boss will feel sorry for him.
Some people have always said that it is too low to invest in buying a house in a school district, so just write and see, there will be no follow-up plot, and there is not much need, just know that investing in high-tech is enough
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