Chapter 517 Legendary Google and the Trip to Seoul

Li Xiaofan is very familiar with this "Legend" game. It is a youthful memory of a generation born in the 70s and 80s.

Li Xiaofan remembers that when he first joined the game "Legend" at the instigation of his roommate, he started playing as a mage. At level one, he hunted deer, scarecrows, rake cats, etc. outside the city. I feel so happy when I get an ebony sword. After level 7, I finally don’t need to change weapons.

Slowly I put on my magic robe and picked up the Yanyue Knife. I finally looked like a mage. I started to hang out in Centipede Cave, Pig Cave, etc. I went downstairs with my friends to get equipment, and slowly I bought life necklaces and magic wands. , rubies and other equipment are available, Li Xiaofan and his friends have also joined the guild, and the sand attack is about to begin.

Shabak has always been the most desired holy land in the hearts of every legendary player. Whether it is offensive or defensive, you can experience the blood-stirring passion! Sabak means glory. Even in the conquered areas, the legendary warriors who are indomitable and full of resistance will definitely raise their weapons again and again to fight for the Sabak in their hearts.

Regarding Shabak, Li Xiaofan's memory shows that the attackers used various tricks one after another, such as hiding people in shops and storming through secret passages! The most awesome trick Li Xiaofan has ever seen is that the enemy was not seen for half an hour after the siege began. However, at 31 minutes, hundreds of people suddenly poured out of major stores within half a minute. They relaxed and attacked Shabak. When they regrouped and fought back, the opponent had already set up a defensive formation and was waiting for them...

In his previous life, this Legend game was so popular. Li Xiaofan remembered that when he entered an Internet cafe, nine out of ten people were playing Legend. Legend recharge cards were sold all over the street. Many people spent more than 10,000 to level up on Legend.

In the previous life, there were not so many PC games and mobile games to choose from later on. Only "Legend" left countless crazy memories for Li Xiaofan and the others.

As a member of the vast community of "Legend" players, Li Xiaofan still clearly remembers those crazy things in the past.

In addition to the best equipment, the most important thing about playing "Legend" is to level up. When I occupied the Pig Cave with my friends to upgrade, I was afraid that my offline territory would be robbed. One of my friends just stayed offline for 3 days in a row. Looking back now It's really full of memories.

Li Xiaofan still remembers the news that shocked the entire legendary circle that year. In order to exchange for a dragon-slaying knife, a wealthy man in the game pointed at a Santana 2000 outside the door of an Internet cafe and said: Give me the knife and drive away!

Later, although the game industry was in full bloom, it was actually difficult to find a game that could make mature players in their 30s excited and crazy like the legend of the past. After ten years of drinking ice, it is difficult to cool down the hot blood. Later, those born in the 70s and 80s were overwhelmed by life, but the pursuit of passionate games has been deeply buried in their hearts...

Thinking of this, Li Xiaofan said to Gu Qijun: "Mu Qiu, Qijun, you guys immediately try to contact this ActozSoft software company in South Korea. We will go to South Korea to take over this company or this legendary game!"

Lin Muchiu and Gu Qijun were no longer surprised by the sudden whims of their boss Li Xiaofan, because the final outcome proved the young boss's incomparable wisdom and greatness.

"Director Li, I don't understand Korean, and I have no communication with the Korean side..." Gu Qijun said reluctantly.

Lin Muchiu smiled and said: "Qijun, when I worked at Ascendas Group, I was familiar with KOTRA, the Korean Trade and Investment Promotion Agency. I can first inquire about this ActozSoft software company through my friends at KOTRA's representative office in Singapore."

"KOTRA, the Trade and Investment Promotion Commune, what does this do?" Li Xiaofan and Gu Qijun asked curiously.

Lin Muchiu explained:

“The Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency is a non-profit trade promotion agency under the Korean government. They vigorously promote trade between Korea and overseas regions through various trade promotion activities such as trade information exchange, market research services, cross-border investment, technical cooperation and business contacts. Foreign economic and trade exchanges. KOTRA is the English abbreviation of KOREATRADE-INVESTMENTPROMOTIONAGENCY..."

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Before leaving Y-lab Entrepreneurship Incubator, Li Xiaofan also visited several projects.

One of them is the Google Google project created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

This project was discovered by Gu Qijun at the end of last year after Li Xiaofan's instructions and at the beginning of this year after inquiring about Tsinghua alumni who were studying in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Two years ago, Page entered Stanford University to pursue a doctorate in computer science.

At that time, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were collaborating on a search engine called "BackRub". After receiving a warm invitation from Li Xiaofan, the two settled in the Y-lab startup incubator in early 1998. . Li Xiaofan asked Gu Qijun to provide the two of them with two free workstations and a free subsidy of US$20,000.

This year, after Page and Sergey Brin gradually improved the "BackRub" search engine technology, the two began to cooperate in running Google searches and ranking web pages based on PageRank. At the same time, the two began to work on this The technology is looking for investors.

After receiving the news, Li Xiaofan asked Lin Muchu and Gu Qijun to go to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to negotiate.

Finally, in September this year, Li Xiaofan angel invested $1 million in their Google project, accounting for 40% of the shares of the newly established Google company. The post-investment valuation of this new Google search project was $2.5 million.

In the previous life, the first angel investment of $100,000 in the Google project came from Bechtolsheim, a Stanford alumnus and later vice president of Cisco. After that, the two borrowed money from family and friends and raised $1 million as the initial investment.

After watching the Google project, Li Xiaofan also went to see Elon Musk's GlobalLink company project.

Elon Musk's previous GlobalLink project has been renamed Zip2. Recently, the Zip2 project has developed rapidly and reached cooperation with several important newspaper companies to develop classified advertisements for newspaper companies, thus transforming into a ToB company.

In April this year, Elon Musk's Zip2 company had a wild idea and intended to acquire another search service provider called CitySearch at a deficit of $300 million, but the financial conditions of both companies were not very good, resulting in the failure of this fantastic acquisition.

Before meeting Elon Musk, Lin Muchu and Gu Qijun told Li Xiaofan that due to the failed acquisition, Zip2 received a lot of negative reports, causing the company's financial situation to decline.

When Li Xiaofan met Elon Musk, Elon Musk was very optimistic. He told Li Xiaofan an unexpected good news: the famous Compaq company extended an olive branch to his Zip2 company and was negotiating a comprehensive acquisition...

As one of the shareholders of Zip2, Li Xiaofan told Elon Musk that he would like to see Zip2 acquired by Compaq.

Li Xiaofan hoped that Elon Musk would continue to develop along the path of his previous life, and that he would make his move when the time was right...

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After Li Xiaofan returned to Singapore, Lin Muchu soon contacted the Korean software company ActozSoft through the KOTRA representative office in Singapore.

In early December, Li Xiaofan led Lin Muchu to fly directly from Singapore to Seoul, South Korea.

The weather in Seoul in December was extremely cold. Arriving from the hot Singapore to the snowy Seoul made Lin Muchu feel very exciting and fresh.

At this time, Incheon International Airport was still under construction, and Gimpo Airport was the largest international airport in South Korea.

In the afternoon, at Gimpo International Airport, ActozSoft software company representative director Cui Xiong personally met Li Xiaofan at the airport. Li Xiaofan, who came from Singapore, was simply an idol in Cui Xiong's eyes!

The famous angel investor and director of Yahoo, the chairman of Pacific Network Technology Co., Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed company, and the founder of the famous Yifan Venture Capital Fund... These dazzling lights made Cui Xiong and others admire Li Xiaofan very much.