Chapter 714 Amazon

"Why are you going to Seattle?" Li Li looked at the other party with some surprise: "Are there any of your friends there?"

"No." Fang Minghua shook his head: "Have you heard of the website Amazon?"

"I haven't noticed it. What does it do?"

"It's a website that specializes in selling books, that is, an online bookstore. The website address is in Seattle." Fang Minghua answered truthfully.

"Online bookstore? Do you mean that Ashley Press will also be an online bookstore in the future?" Li Li immediately understood.

"That's what I mean." Fang Minghua smiled and said, "I want to talk to the owner of the website."

"Oh, okay, but I have classes recently and can't go with you."

"It doesn't matter, I can go alone."

"Okay, I'll pack your luggage after dinner, and be careful on the road."

The next morning, Li Li went to class, and Fang Minghua went out with a suitcase, took a taxi to San Francisco International Airport, and boarded a flight to Seattle.

Seattle is located on the Pacific coast in the northwest of Washington State, between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. It is about 1,300 kilometers away from San Francisco, and it only takes more than two hours by plane.

After getting off the plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Fang Minghua took the airport bus to his destination.

Fang Minghua did not go to Seattle, but Bellevue, the fifth largest city in Washington State and the third largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, across Lake Washington from Seattle.

On the website, Amazon's registered address is here.

When he arrived in the city, Fang Minghua entered a telephone booth on the street, took out a coin and put it into the coin slot, and then dialed the number left on the website.

There was a response from the other side soon, but it was a woman's voice.

"Hello, I'm Fang Minghua, from China, I want to find Mr. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com." Fang Minghua stated his purpose straight to the point.

The person who answered the phone was Jeff Bezos' wife MacKenzie Bezos. She was very surprised to hear that a Chinese was looking for her husband, but she still told Fang Minghua politely: "Sorry, Mr. Fang, my husband has gone to New York and can only come back the day after tomorrow."

"Oh, okay. Mrs. Bezos, I'll come the day after tomorrow." Fang Minghua said.

Anyway, he was not in a hurry.

After asking for the specific address of Bezos's home, Fang Minghua hung up the phone.

Then let's go around Seattle for two days.

It is said that there is a very good Pop Culture Museum in Seattle, which contains a large number of precious cultural relics and artworks related to pop music, movies, and television, which are worth visiting.

Here, Fang Minghua was alone with a travel bag, enthusiastically visiting Seattle's attractions, including the Pop Culture Museum, the Gum Wall, and the Chihuly Glass Art Garden.

Over there, Bezos finished his business in New York and rushed back to his home in Bellevue.

Bezos lives in a bungalow in the suburbs of Bellevue. The locals call this kind of house a rambler house. This is what he rents. The monthly rent is not expensive, $890.

"Dear." His wife MacKenzie saw her husband coming in with a suitcase, hugged and kissed him, and then asked, "Did you see Mr. Nick Hanauer?"

Nick Hanauer is not an ordinary person. He is a famous investor. Bezos went there to attract investment!

Hearing his wife's question, Bezos replied: "Yes, Nick is very interested in our website and my business plan, and he promised to invest 100,000 US dollars."

"My God, only 100,000 US dollars!" MacKenzie was immediately disappointed: "As far as I know, the assets of the investment company under Nick's name have reached hundreds of millions, but he only invested 100,000 yuan!"

Bezos was not very frustrated, but comforted his wife: "It's good to be able to invest 100,000. Look at other investors who only invest 10,000 or 20,000."

Bezos was right. In the past six months, Bezos has visited nearly 30 investors, of which only 12 were interested in his website, and the average investment was only 30,000!

"But when can we achieve our goal: 1 million US dollars?" MacKenzie was worried again.

"Don't worry, I remember there is an old Chinese saying that "there must be a way when the car reaches the mountain." Bezos comforted again.

When mentioning the Chinese old saying, MacKenzie suddenly thought of the Chinese who called him the day before yesterday, and hurriedly said: "Bezos, a Chinese called you the day before yesterday and said he wanted to talk to you. ”

“Chinese? What to talk about?”

“About the website.”

“Oh, let’s talk about it.” Bezos said casually, and then asked: “How is the website running? Is there any problem?”

“There is a bug, and there is a small problem with the link.”

“I’ll go and take a look. "

Bezos said and walked into the garage.

His website was built in the garage. He was a technician, promoter and driver. If someone placed an order to buy a book online, he would drive to a nearby book market to buy it and then send it to the other party.

When Bezos was busy, Fang Minghua also came by taxi.

The weather in Bellevue was very bad today, with a howling north wind, which was obviously much colder than San Francisco.

The driver quickly found where Bezos lived according to the address he gave.

It was a bungalow, but it looked different from the bungalow where Li Li lived, and it looked bigger.

Fang Minghao knocked on the door politely with a travel bag on his back. The one who opened the door was a blonde young woman, MacKenzie.

After Fang Minghua introduced himself, MacKenzie let him in, and then told him that Bezos was working in the garage and she would go to call him now.

Fang Minghua looked around casually. The furnishings in the house were rather simple.

Yes, how good could the conditions be for a startup?

A few minutes later, Bezos came out with a cup of coffee. His bald head was particularly eye-catching.

The two sat down, MacKenzie made another cup of coffee for Fang Minghua, and the three of them started chatting.

"Mr. Fang, do you want to talk to me about something?"

"Oh, yes, I'm a Chinese writer." Fang Minghua had just said half a sentence when MacKenzie next to him suddenly exclaimed: "Oh my God, you are a writer! Is it Minghua!"

"Yes."

"Oh, I like to read your novels!" MacKenzie was a little excited.

Huh?

Her own fans?

However, according to MacKenzie's resume on the Internet in later generations, she was a novelist and later wrote two novels.

At this time, MacKenzie actually talked about literature with Fang Minghua. Bezos next to him was a little depressed, but he didn't say anything.

He knew that his wife loved literature, although now was the most difficult time for starting a business. His wife not only had to do the company's finances, but also had to take care of the children at home, and the house at home was not big enough.

She would use the time when her family was asleep late at night to create her own literature in the bathroom.

After a while, MacKenzie suddenly thought of something and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, you were originally talking to my husband about something, but I ended up talking to you about literature."

"Nothing." Fang Minghua looked at Bezos again: "Mr. Bezos, I have seen your Amazon website on the Internet, and I am very interested. Do you need investment?"