1109. Longwang Shu
This is definitely a good thing, and it was selected by Li Yifan. After spending time with Li Yifan for a long time, Heidi particularly believed in his vision.
Because from the beginning of getting to know him until now, any investment project he likes has really no business that loses money.
This time, Li Yifan asked her to give up the United States, so he found this guy named Jack Dorsey, and then formed a company to develop this website and software. After Heidi learned about Li Yifan's idea about this Twitter, she agreed without thinking much.
However, she also put forward one of her own requirements, that is, she also wanted to invest in this online company. How could Li Yifan refuse Heidi's request?
Of course, he agreed without hesitation. In fact, although the two of them have no status now, they are actually the kind of family that does not distinguish between each other and you and me.
Heidi agreed to her request. With her ability to do business and her relationship with her in the United States, Li Yifan knew that this Twitter company that will stir up the US Internet storm in the future will definitely belong to her.
When he thought of this, he felt unconcealed happiness. The development of this company could be said to have suffered a lot.
The idea was born two years later than Google, but it was four years earlier than its other competitor, Facebook, but its development experience was the most difficult among these companies.
Google went public in 2004 and quickly became the new favorite of the Internet sector. Not only did the two bosses become billionaires, but many employees of many companies became millionaires.
Facebook went online in 2004 and listed in 2012. It also created a listing miracle for an online company. Before Facebook went public, the company was hyped again and again by the cooked news media. In short, it was already very popular. When it was announced, it immediately led to crazy netizens, directly paralyzing the fact that the US Stock Exchange website was.
Facebook has created a miracle of over 100 billion yuan after its listing. As a website covering only 53% of the United States, it is not as good as Microsoft and Google. It is even worse than Yahoo’s website. Creating such achievements is a powerful hype.
This is also the main reason why Facebook's stock price fell rapidly after experiencing the initial madness of listing. Even the crazy decline of stock prices once caused panic among investors and investors.
Fortunately, Facebook operators did not lose their own way. They quickly expanded overseas by changing their business models.
And by changing the business model concept, Facebook became the website with the largest number of uploaded pictures in the world. It was precisely through this expansion method that they gradually stabilized their position. They really came from behind, and even surpassed Microsoft for a time and became the top name in the Internet company industry.
But compared with the above two companies, Twitter can be called an ugly duckling.
Its philosophy was born in 2000, and it took nearly a year for his founder Jack Dorsey to perfect the concept of this website.
After the concept was improved, Jack Dorsey did not develop this website. The reason was very simple, he had no money.
It was not until six years later that he found several like-minded friends, developed the website, and officially went online, which was two years later than Facebook, where the concept was born after him.
At this time, Facebook, which is also the cornerstone of the social platform, has become very popular in the online world and has begun to gain popularity among investors.
Many Wall Street investors visited Mark Zuckerberg's door with checks. Some hoped to provide financing for his company, while others spent a lot of money and simply wanted to acquire his company.
At this time, Twitter was completely in a row of neglected cars and horses. It only had a few hundred users in a few months after it was launched, and most of them were employees of the company themselves, which shows how bleak the situation was at that time.
It was not until August 2006 that someone retweeted the news about the San Francisco earthquake through Twitter that people began to realize that this was not a boring software that could just greet each other, what to eat for breakfast, and what to eat for dinner.
After 2007, with Apple launching the iPhone, and the bundling of Twitter and this smartphone began to make people realize this software more.
But there are still many people who regard this software and website as a spam software and website, and not many people start to use it.
It was not until the emergence of Ao Xiaohei, who had a dark horse in the election, and announced that he had opened Twitter and the fact that he interacted with his voters that people began to notice the importance of this software.
After O'Xi Hei opened this software, another famous figure in the United States, the NBA star, the Big Shark O'Neal, also opened this software. It was after these two celebrity effects that this software began to truly attract consumers' attention.
And it was in this year that the software received his first $1 million investment, and his company's valuation was only $5 million in that year.
By 2008, with the heat of the presidential election war and the final victory of O'Xihei, this software suddenly became famous, and more celebrities chose to open their own Twitter.
The addition of these celebrities from all walks of life has also brought Twitter enough followers and users. That is, this year, Twitter received his first financing of over 10 million, that is, 22 million US dollars.
From then on, Twitter really embarked on the road of healthy development until they started to go public at the end of 2013.
It is the bumpy road that Twitter takes that makes Li Yifan pay the most attention to him.
If he chooses Facebook to invest, he will at best become a shareholder of Facebook in the end, but if he chooses Twitter, he will be the chairman of Twitter in the end!
This is, although Twitter may not be as large as Facebook in the future, he still chose Twitter as the key to entering the first part of the US Internet industry.
As a strong person, he prefers to control a company. Even if he does not come into contact with the company's daily operations, it is much better to have full control than to be an important supporting role in a company.
But on the other hand, Li Yifan was still a little unwilling to accept it.
You should know that in later generations, after several years of baptism and adjustment, Facebook was a large network company that confirmed its position as the number one platform for social networks.
If he doesn't take action at this time, after he really becomes born, it will be a little too late, and it will inevitably make him feel like he missed it.
As a experienced person, it’s like knowing that Google will have a great future, but I also feel like I’ve tasted the first pie. This feeling is very bad.
He also wants to interfere in the development of Facebook, but after all, Mark is probably just entering Haval and has not dropped out of school to build a website.
Although Facebook's idea has always existed in his mind, he has not thought that he would really put this website into practice.
What investment should we talk about at this time?
Did you tell Heidi, go to Haval, the United States, find someone named Mark Zuckerberg, and ask him to quickly develop a social network, and then we will invest money for him?
Isn’t this a crazy idea? You should know that the biggest difference between Mark’s Facebook and Twitter is that Mark’s Facebook is that after he had an idea, he started to start it.
Twitter, after Jack Dorsey had an idea and basically improved it, ran around looking for funds, but it took six years to start it.
Now Jack Dorsey has just improved his philosophy and started looking for like-minded partners, and is running around looking for funds to start a Twitter website.
So at this time, if you give him a check and propose some business philosophy they have figured out in later generations, you can become a major shareholder of Twitter, and finally increase publicity costs and raise more financing a few more times, you can become the real big boss of Twitter.
But for Facebook, it will never go smoothly.
So he felt a headache about how to interfere in Facebook, although he also felt a little greedy and was too arrogant.
But as a capitalist, who is not the case? Faced with such huge profits and promising companies, who doesn’t want to get in and intervene?
What's more, the funds I have on hand are very sufficient now.
Anyway, I have to invest in this money. Isn’t it a bit too bad to be able to intervene in such a good project now?
When Li Yifan thought of this, he felt a little upset.
"Yifan, your idea is very good. I didn't expect you to have so many ideas about the Internet. If possible, I think you really don't have to continue to go to this university. You have so many good ideas. I think you might as well start an Internet company in the United States. We have funds and a little bit of it. As long as you have these two things in the United States, you don't have to worry about not being able to find talents. If we start an Internet company in the United States, I believe that future development will definitely be worse than Google and Microsoft..."
Chapter completed!