Chapter 320: Spotlight and New Highs
The beautiful NBC reporter asked:
"Jerry, it is said that early last year, the first person to discover the value of your Yahoo project and invest in your Yahoo project was Sequoia Capital, a famous investment institution on Wall Street in the United States. That Bole from Sequoia Capital was the original Is our media colleague Mr. Michael Moritz right?”
"Yes, what you said is basically correct. The first person who decided to invest in our project among several investment institutions that were interested in our project was indeed Mr. Moritz from Sequoia Capital. Thank you very much Mr. Moritz and Sequoia Capital. But, Miss Reporter, you're only half right. In fact, there was another investment company in Singapore that first invested in our project with Sequoia Capital last year. The founder of this Singapore company is a young man from mainland China!" Jerry Yang told NBC with a smile! The beautiful outbound reporter responded.
"A young man from mainland China, an investment company from Singapore, the other side of the Pacific Ocean?" A group of media reporters nearby exclaimed in surprise. This was the first time they heard this story.
Jerry Yang smiled and said: "Yes, the person who invested in our Yahoo project together with Sequoia Capital was a Singapore-based Yifan Holdings Pte. Ltd. from across the ocean. The founder and executive director of this Singapore-based Yifan Holdings is Li Xiaofan. From mainland China. He is here today.”
Then, Jerry Yang pulled over Li Xiaofan who was standing next to him and introduced: "This handsome young man is Mr. Li Xiaofan, the founder of Singapore Yifan Holdings I mentioned just now!"
After Yang Zhiyuan finished speaking, a group of media reporters pointed their cameras at Li Xiaofan, and they suddenly focused on Li Xiaofan.
This beautiful international reporter from NBC first asked on behalf of the reporters:
"Hello Mr. Li, just now Jerry, the founder of Yahoo, introduced to us that at the beginning of last year, you and Mr. Moritz of Sequoia Capital explored the value of Yahoo, and together with Sequoia Capital, you became the first to invest in the Yahoo project. One of the two investment institutions. We are very curious about how you discovered the value of the Yahoo project and made up your mind to invest in the Yahoo project when you were a young man from mainland China on the other side of the Pacific. of?
Facing the cameras of various TV media, the recording microphones stretched under his eyes and nose, and various cameras with long guns and cannons, Li Xiaofan, who was not fully prepared for the spotlight, was stunned for a moment.
Unexpectedly, media reporters would focus on him so quickly, but he quickly calmed down and prepared a plan.
Li Xiaofan smiled and began to answer reporters' questions in fluent English:
"I came to the beautiful island country of Singapore to work the year before last. At the beginning of last year, I had the urge to start a business. I quit my job at the multinational electronics factory and founded this Singapore-based Yishun with the help of the famous Tang family in Nanyang. Fan Holdings Pte Ltd…”
“Last year, I met several friends who were majoring in computer science at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. By chance, when I went to surf the Internet in their computer room at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore, I learned about it for the first time. I learned about the Yahoo Internet search engine created by Jerry Yang and Ferro. At that time, I felt that this project was very worthy of investment. At that time, I was running a good sunglasses business and had some spare money. Later, I applied to the U.S. Embassy in Singapore. I got a business visa and flew to Stanford University in the San Francisco Bay Area to look for Yahoo.”
Li Xiaofan continued to introduce: "The search for Yahoo was not smooth at first. I asked a lot of people on the Stanford campus. Many students studying at Stanford did not know that there was such a Yahoo company. Later, after some hard work, After searching, I finally found this Yahoo company in a second-hand RV in a very remote corner of the Stanford campus. That day, when I first met Jerry Yang, he I didn't sleep well all night, and my whole body was swollen, and my eyes looked like panda eyes. When I walked into their second-hand RV office, it was a mess. The server fan inside kept radiating heat, and the answering machine rang every minute. Suddenly, phones were thrown everywhere on the floor, and there wasn’t even a decent chair in the whole room. The room was dark, and there were dirty clothes, takeaway pizza boxes and other debris everywhere..."
When Li Xiaofan said this, the two founders, Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro, who were next to Li Xiaofan, laughed knowingly, and the media reporters were also amused.
Li Xiaofan laughed and continued: "At that time, another Singaporean beauty partner who was traveling with me almost covered her nose and turned around and ran away. Fortunately, I persisted. Because I also started a business from scratch, and I understand very well. The two founders, Jerry Yang and Ferro, who had just started their business, had a very difficult time in the early days of their business!”
"Since Yahoo had no entrepreneurial funds at that time and limited funds, their servers often went down. A group of young entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Filo had to sleep in the RV all night to work on duty and get up at any time in the middle of the night to solve various problems. So. , they focus on the Yahoo project and solve various problems with website usernames at any time. They I have no time to take care of my personal life. It was really hard for them to start a business. Here, I want to pay tribute to these great founders, Jerry Yang and Philo, for giving me this opportunity! Investing in such a great project like Yahoo allows me to enjoy huge returns and wealth today!”
After Li Xiaofan finished speaking, Yang Zhiyuan, Ferro, and the media reporters at the scene gave warm applause.
Today, Li Xiaofan wore a handsome dark suit. He spoke fluent English, spoke elegantly, had a good temperament, and was tall and handsome. He immediately won the favor of all the media reporters present.
Immediately afterwards, reporters from print media such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times surrounded Li Xiaofan and asked many questions.
Li Xiaofan smiled and answered patiently one by one. He said that people are in high spirits during happy events. In the end, he became more and more relaxed and looked like a star in the spotlight.
After interviewing Li Xiaofan, media reporters gathered around Moritz of Sequoia Capital and Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group for interviews.
When walking out of the media interview room, Tang Xinyi held Li Xiaofan's arm and said: "Dear, when you were interviewed by these reporters just now, you were so elegant and elegant, like a diplomat with temperament, very photogenic, so handsome!"
"Haha, my little mouth is so sweet today, I will treat you well tonight..."
Tang Xinyi coyly whispered: "My dear, how many times should we come tonight?"
"As many times as you want, until you beg for mercy!"
"Disgusting! You are really that powerful..."
When the two of them returned to the demonstration hall of the Nasdaq Exchange while chatting and laughing, Tang Xinyi pointed at the big screen and suddenly shouted: "Dear, look, Yahoo's stock price has reached a new high again!"