Chapter 457 82 Lafite and Mu Qiu Steal a Half-Day of Leisure
Several founders, including Arik Vardy, Vardy and Goldfinger, are certainly willing to accept the offer made by Li Xiaofan.
"Guys, if you accept my investment, I can also help you put ICQ on Yahoo's website for global promotion at a relatively low price. And on the Singapore Yahoo website and Pacific Online Bookstore that I created, I can help you put ICQ on the Yahoo website for global promotion. Completely free promotion, these two are currently the most popular websites in Asia..."
Upon hearing Li Xiaofan's suggestion, several founders including Arik Vardi, Vardi, and Goldfinger were so excited that their faces turned red. Yahoo is currently one of the most clicked and most popular free websites in the world.
In their hearts: Gosh, this is really a pie in the sky, there is such a good thing! The investor in front of me not only doubled the ICQ valuation and investment amount they quoted, but also planned to give them such good resources. What does it matter if the equity is diluted a little? After all, the control is still in the hands of the founders. inside.
However, Li Xiaofan then changed his words:
"However, I have a condition, which is: In addition, I will give you founders a sum of US$100,000 in cash. Can you exclusively license ICQ intellectual property and other technologies, patents, and usage rights in Asia to me? If You agree, I can arrange to transfer $500,000 in cash to your account immediately after signing the contract.”
Wow, there is also a big red envelope of 100,000 US dollars. This happiness comes so suddenly!
You must know that in 1996, this US$500,000 was a huge sum of money to several young people who had just retired!
Previously, Aric Vardy’s father Yossi Vardy only supported them with more than 10,000 US dollars.
Now the conditions offered by Li Xiaofan not only raised the valuation of their project to an astonishing US$1 million, and received an investment of US$400,000, but also received an additional US$100,000 in cash, which was simply beyond their expectations. !
Aric Vardy, who was stunned by the sudden happiness, did not forget to call his father Yossi Vardy to inform him of the latest situation.
On the phone, dad Yossi Vardy said to Arik Vardy:
"Arik, the Asian market is not our focus, as long as the European and American markets are in our hands. You can promise this young Chinese tycoon to sign the contract immediately. You can't miss such a good opportunity!"
After negotiating the terms of cooperation, Li Xiaofan signed a formal investment cooperation agreement with the four founders of Israeli Mirabilis Technology Company the next morning.
Subsequently, the financial director followed Li Xiaofan's instructions and remitted an investment of US$400,000 and another US$100,000 in special funds to the four founders of Mirabilis Technology Company and Arik Vardi.
After seeing the faxed remittance slip, Li Xiaofan and Arik Vardi signed a confidentiality and authorization agreement, and then obtained the software code source file of version 1.0 of ICQ.
Before leaving Mirabilis Technology Company, Li Xiaofan asked the founders for some technical details of ICQ.
In his previous life, Li Xiaofan was mainly involved in the electronics and semiconductor testing industries. He had basically no knowledge of software technology in instant messaging.
Arik Vardy briefly explained the relevant working principles of ICQ to Li Xiaofan:
"When a user's computer has our ICQ installed, in fact, this computer is both a server and a client. When a user logs in to our ICQ, his ICQ serves as a client and connects to the main server of our ICQ company. When you see who is online, your ICQ once again reads the list of online netizens from the main ICQ server. New users need to apply for a new ICQ number from our ICQ server before using it. number, connect to the Internet and start contacting friends on ICQ..."
Li Xiaofan asked: "How is information transmitted between ICQ users?"
"After starting ICQ, the computer will first connect to our ICQ server. The main function is to check based on the friend list on ICQ to see if they are online and their online status. We set this action to be done approximately every 120 seconds, so We will know what our friends are up to in a timely manner..."
Li Xiaofan continued to ask: "Then when we transfer information, files and use various functions of ICQ, are we always connected to the ICQ server?"
"Of course not. If it is always connected, then our ICQ server may explode! ICQ One of the biggest uses of the server's directory server is to provide the IP addresses of both parties. Once both parties are connected to the server, the directory server will record the IP addresses of both parties and send them to the other party. With the other party's IP address, we can use it to transfer information and files. . Therefore, the information is not transmitted through the ICQ server, but directly to the other party. This method is called Peer-to-Peer point-to-point transmission. Since our ICQ uses point-to-point network connectivity, it takes up almost no network bandwidth. Don’t worry about ICQ affecting other computer activities..."
After some advice from Arik Vardy, Li Xiaofan suddenly realized that no wonder the thing he had asked Dr. Pan Zhanlong to develop had not been successful. Because I am basically an amateur, can something developed by an amateur with some remaining memories of past lives work?
There is a certain order of learning, and there is a specialization in the art!
After completing the contract with Mirabilis Technology Company, Lin Muchiu took Li Xiaofan, who was in a good mood, to visit the city of Tel Aviv in the afternoon.
She had been here several times before and was quite familiar with Tel Aviv.
The first place they visited was Rothschild Street, known as the most beautiful street in Tel Aviv.
Lin Muchiu introduced to Li Xiaofan that Tel Aviv is the economic center of Israel. Rothschild Street is named after the Jewish financier Rothschild. Israel's founding and economic strength are inseparable from the sponsorship and support of these wealthy overseas Jewish businessmen.
Of course Li Xiaofan had heard of the famous Rothschild family, but after he saw the English word Rothschild, Li Xiaofan smiled at Lin Muchiu:
"Mu Qiu, when I saw this street, the first thing that popped into my mind was the famous French Chateau Lafite and the five arrows logo."
“Haha, more than a hundred years ago, in 1868, the Rothschild family acquired the famous French Chateau Lafite and later established the Lafite Rothschild Group. The group’s logo is five arrows, among which the big one The letter R is taken from the family name Rothschild, and is composed of Lafite. The five arrows are the family emblem of the Rothschild family..."
"Why is their family's emblem with five arrows?" Li Xiaofan asked curiously.
Lin Muchiu explained:
"Actually, the emblem of the Rothschild family is five broken arrows. Meyer Rothschild, the founder of the Rothschild dynasty, had five sons, all of whom inherited the father's legacy. These five arrows The arrow comes from a story in the Bible: a dying father asked his five sons to break five arrows tied together. When they were at a loss, the father took apart the bundle of arrows and broke one of them. He said that the strength of the family comes from unity. One arrow is easy to break, but five arrows held together are not easy to break. . This is like the proverb that we Chinese often say: Brothers working together are stronger than gold! "
When Lin Muchiu said this, Li Xiaofan remembered that when he worked at the Nishiki Electronics Factory, the company MD Inababe Saburo gave an example of the story of the brothers folding chopsticks when he gave a lecture, as well as the Three Arrows Training from the Warring States Period in Japan...
The morals of these stories are actually the same.
The approximately two-kilometer-long Rothschild Avenue is one of the earliest roads designed in Tel Aviv and is well-known locally. Many old houses along the street have witnessed the historic moment of the founding of the State of Israel. In 1948, the Israeli Declaration of Independence was signed in Independence Hall on this avenue.
There are many performance halls on the avenue, which is also the cultural center of Tel Aviv. Many of Tel Aviv's most popular restaurants and cafes are also gathered in the surrounding alleys.
Li Xiaofan bought two bottles of 1982 Lafite in a wine shop on the roadside. It is said that 1982 was the best vintage for Chateau Lafite in the 1980s, and the price of Lafite in 1983 was only a quarter of that of 1982.
"Mu Qiu, come here, I'll treat you to drinking their Rothschild red wine on Rothschild Avenue!"
Lin Muchiu burst out laughing after hearing this: "Haha, thank you, Director Li!"
Although Rothschild Avenue is called an avenue, the space for cars to drive is actually extremely narrow, but most of the space is reserved for pedestrians. The center of the road is like a long park, filled with leafy poinciana trees.
There are many stools and benches in the park. Visitors who are tired from walking can take a rest, lie down and look at the sky or read a book. There is a mobile library next to the park, and many open spaces with canopies and sockets are also designed to provide conditions for outdoor working.
Tel Aviv is famous for its startups, and entrepreneurs often find inspiration on its lively streets.
Li Xiaofan and Lin Muchiu found a piece of grass, sipping wine and admiring the scenery on the street.
After busy work, there is a rare feeling of "stealing half a day's leisure"...