"You gave me a problem, Sean." Neil, who had gone out and ran back for a few days, said this first sentence.

"Have you encountered any difficulties?" Sean threw him a can of Blue Moon.

Since I took the beer advertisement, the other party has given me many boxes. Although it doesn’t cost a year, it will take at least two or three months to finish it slowly.

"Difficult?" Neil breathed, "What should I say, the timing of your choice is a bit better, Sean."

"Oh?" Sean raised his eyebrows.

"I have checked Google's relevant information in detail. How do you say it... Its domain name was registered by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 5, 2019. For more than half a year after this, it was just a website, searching for websites. It was not until August 1998 that it lost its first investment, about $100,000, and then another month later, on the anniversary of the website's launch, that the company was officially established in a friend's garage... Well, it's similar to Jobs." Neil, who read the information to Sean, whistled.

Sean grabbed his head with some annoyance: "Damn, if I had known this, I should have gone to them the year before."

"You're so optimistic about them?" Neil was a little surprised.

"Yes, so how are you doing?" Sean looked at him.

"It's not finished," Neil said, continuing to read for him, "and then, in the early '99s, the two of them planned to sell Google to Excite for $1 million."

"$1 million?! What a joke, they sold it?!" Sean was shocked.

"Of course not," Neil frowned, feeling that his attitude was really strange. "In fact, Excite's George Bell thought it was too expensive, so he refused their offer. After that, the two founders lowered the price to 750,000, but were still rejected."

"Standard idiot." Sean shook his head, but at the same time he was a little lucky. If he was really bought, Google might not necessarily become Google.

"Next, they persisted and announced that they would raise 25 million yuan in June 1999, and venture capital such as Sequoia Capital and KPCB paid for it." Neil said that he closed the folder.

"What then?" Sean asked.

"Don't you understand?" Neil grabbed his head and sighed. "They just raised stocks in private, and they are famous venture capital investments. Now they are not short of money. It may be difficult for you to invest at this time."

Sean frowned and didn't say anything. After walking back and forth between the room for two laps, he said again: "I don't think so. It's a good thing to have funds injected, and they shouldn't refuse. Secondly, there is another point, we have read the news before and said that the IT bubble burst was very serious and almost all IT companies were hit. So if we can persuade those venture capitalists to find people to share the risks, we have a chance. I remember Mr. ****Smann knew people from Sequoia Capital and KPCB, right?"

"You're really embarrassed, Sean," Neil looked at him depressedly, "I don't understand, there are so many search engines on the Internet, why do you prefer Google?"

"It's very simple, just like when I was optimistic about Microsoft and bought its stock," Sean said, pointing to his head, "Do you still remember? What I told you, my intuition."

As he said that, he sighed again: "In fact, I am optimistic about the Apple after Jobs returns, but unfortunately... I don't have capital..."

Sean, who felt a little off topic, quickly waved his hand: "Okay, let's not talk about these things, I don't have much request. Try to win at least 5% of the shares of $10 million. Don't you want to prove yourself again, Neil? This is an opportunity."

"After the lesson I learned last time, I no longer have confidence in myself." Neil said half-deeply and self-deprecatingly.

"Where you fall, you have to stand up. If you didn't seize the opportunity to do short-term operations, I might not have earned more than 20 million yuan, right?" Sean said encouragingly, and then added another handful of firewood. "I told you before that I plan to set up my own production company, and it is definitely not the kind of company that is completely affiliated with a large company. Are you interested in helping me manage it?"

"Production company?" Neil shook his head, "I didn't think I'd go over to manage the production company. You should know that I know nothing about movies, but..."

He suddenly laughed, with a hint of cunning: "If you can set up an investment company, I'd rather give it a try."

"Investment company?" Sean narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a long time, "But I'm not very good at investing."

"Isn't your intuition always very sensitive? First it's Microsoft, then Apple, now it's Google," Neil laughed, "Okay, Sean, try it out, you must also need to invest, right? Having a profitable investment company is also a way to open up your connections. Think about it, when the big Hollywood figures make money through your investment company, it's okay to support you want."

"If the movies I starred in or produced can be sold every time, this can also be achieved," Sean raised his eyebrows, "Don't think I don't know what you are thinking. Neil, it's really good, it sounds good, but in fact, it's trying to get enough opportunities to hone and prove yourself?"

"Of course," Neil had no intention of denying it at all, "I admit that I did try to hone and prove myself better, but you also have to admit that Sean, this is good for everyone. You use your sensitive intuition, win over those big guys, and make money, why not do it?

Then, he used a tone of temptation: "Now is a good time. If Google's prospects are really good, then borrowing a newly established investment company to invest will definitely make you famous. Although I don't have your intuition, I know how to collect information and analyze information. These can be done on the Harvard campus, so even if I am in college, I can master the operation of the investment company. What's more, with the internship opportunity, I can contact many Wall Street big names. Besides, your production company needs to develop scale, make big investment movies, and you can also attract investment through investment companies, right?"

"I have to say, Neil, you're very good at talking." Sean said, touching his chin, "How much start-up capital do you need?"

"Just be on par with your production company," Neil waved his hand indifferently. "Investment companies, like production companies, don't spend much money. Most of the time, they use other people's money to operate, so as long as the interior can operate smoothly, this is very similar to film production."

"Okay, then I'll pay 500,000 yuan, you'll be the CEO, and I'll give you 10% of the shares, how about it?" Sean said immediately.

"30%, I can invest 200,000 yuan." Neil smiled.

"Then let's say that." Sean nodded immediately, "Okay, now you should contribute to my Google shares, and there is still a 5% commission."

Despite some considerations, Sean agreed to Neil's request, because if everything goes well, he will definitely make some investments, just like pursuing Google shares now. So, in this case, it would undoubtedly be very safe and convenient to own his own investment company.

Without capital, no matter what you want to do, just like Sean was optimistic about Microsoft and Apple, but he didn't have that much capital, so he could only watch them rise and fall and make some money from it.

Some people may say that if you don’t have capital, then you can find a way. As long as you successfully make your first pot of gold, you will be vast in the future. Although that’s right, the question is, how to make your first pot of gold? Especially, Sean was just an ordinary person in his previous life. Even if he read some information about starting from scratch, he would easily forget it as time goes by. After all, the human brain is not a computer, so it’s enough to search for whatever you want, and the power of time is often easily underestimated.

What's more, it doesn't mean doing. He was just a child for a long time. Any parent with a sound mindset who hears his child say that which stock is about to rise and which stock is about to fall, or when something happens, and yells to invest in this and that investment, his first reaction is probably to take him to consult a doctor, whether he has ADHD or paranoid disease.

Capital is not so easy to obtain, just like Sean was told by Neal before and invested in the financial market and went long. If he hadn't been lucky, he would have really gone bankrupt.

Fortunately, I finally took another solid step. Although I only bought 500,000 yuan to set up a film company, it seems much weaker than those laughing film companies worth 20 to 3 million yuan, but in fact it is not a small number.

According to US law, it only takes a few hundred dollars to set up a company, not to mention those small companies affiliated to large companies or even laughing studios. Although Sean also thought about whom he wanted to be affiliated with, it was more important to open up the situation. If he developed well over time, it would be certain to be independent.

Even so, 500,000 is enough. There is no need to prepare all departments for the time being. You can take it slowly. Anyway, you have to start with low-cost movies. Moreover, as Neil said, the production company is like an investment company and does not require much liquidity. As long as you find a good script and establish a project, you can get investment. This is another reason why Sean agreed to establish an investment company.

Of course, one of the prerequisites is that Frederick can help him find a better management talent to be responsible for the newly established production company, and Sean will definitely not do it himself.

"Don't let me down, Neil and... Fred," Sean muttered, thinking about it, "We will succeed, we will."
Chapter completed!