Chapter 123 Bar

  Nicholas was about to speak, Jonas standing next to him preemptively said: "Let’s talk about this tomorrow, let’s take you to experience the nightlife of Tallinn first."

  Xia Jingxing is a little alert, and investment matters are not finalized as soon as possible, because he is afraid of long nights and dreams.

  Nicholas smiled and said: "Yes, you should come to Tallinn for the first time. I know there is a bar that is very good."

"bar!"

  Andrew's eyes lit up when he heard this word, and he turned his head and said to Xia Jingxing: “I’ve come here, let’s go and get a taste of the local customs.”

  Xia Jingxing saw that the founders were all moved, and they should all be suffocated. It's not good to spoil the interest at this juncture. Nodded, "Well, it's not early, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

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  Andrew and Xia Jingxing followed the six founders to the bar where the taxi passed before. The bar was called Valibal.

  It's already midnight, the bar is still crowded, and the music is roaring.

   Under the colorful lights, young men and women swayed excess hormones on the dance floor.

  Only when he entered the bar, Andrew followed the beat and began to twist his butt, looking so slutty, he could not see the slightest bit of rigidity and dogma that a lawyer should have.

  Nicholas found a place, arranged for a group of people to sit down, and said to the waiter: "Six glasses of whiskey, two glasses of Millimallikas."

  "I just want a cocktail, not Millimallikas."

  Xia Jingxing quickly said to the waiter after hearing it.

  Nicholas smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Millimallikas is a specialty here. You will regret it if you don't drink it."

   "Then I still regret it!"

  Xia Jingxing said with a meaningful smile, this wine has gained a certain fame all over the world with the fame of Scape. He happened to have heard of it, and he didn't dare to try "poison" by himself.

  Nicholas spread out his hands, looking regretful. I don’t know if it’s because of not being pitted, or because Xia Jingxing didn’t taste such a rare drink.

  Andrew's neck stretched old and his eyes wandered around. After hearing that there was a specialty wine, he hurriedly shouted: "I like specialty wine, give me two glasses!"

  After the wine was served, Andrew spit out after taking a sip, feeling that his mouth could breathe fire, while fanning his mouth, he shouted: "What's this? Fuck..."

  Xia Jingxing laughed, and the others laughed at each other.

  Nicholas explained with a smile: "This is the specialty wine, a specialty cocktail made of anise vodka, tequila and chili sauce."

  Andrew realized that he had been shaved, and after drinking a few sips of the ice water that Nicholas handed over, he said in Chinese: "I invite you to go to Rongcheng to drink hot pot bottoms next time."

  Andrew “explained” Nicholas what “hot pot wine” is, and Xia Jingxing drank and chatted with the other five founders.

  "Dalun, Facebook is developing very well. I heard that there are already four to five million users?"

  Jonas opened his mouth and immediately attracted the attention of others.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right!"

  He doesn’t know Jonas’s purpose, but being humble is obviously not a good habit for negotiating with Europeans and Americans.

  Especially there is investment to be discussed next. It is also necessary to add some weight and aura to yourself appropriately.

"very impressive!"

  Jonas picked up his glass and clinked with Xia Jingxing.

  "If Scape needs promotion, can Facebook help us place an ad on the website?"

  Xia Jingxing almost didn’t hesitate, so he just responded: “It’s absolutely okay. Facebook was originally a social networking site. It’s more convenient for users to integrate an Internet phone function on it, isn’t it?”

  Jonas smiled, “If Scape develops well, we can also feed back to Facebook, for example, we also advertise on Facebook. We will benefit each other.”

  Xia Jingxing always feels that Jonas's scheming is a bit deep and purposeful.

  But it’s okay to speak clearly, so as not to calculate each other in private.

   Talked to Jonas for a few words, he did not ignore the others, and asked with a smile: "Tallinn, Ahti, Parrett, I heard that you worked at Huiduo.com in the former Soviet Union?"

  Fidonet (Fidonet) is a global computer network used for communication between different bulletin board systems (BBS), connecting them together.

The technical standard originated in the communication protocol between amateur BBS enthusiasts in the United States. It was officially launched in early 1977. It began to mature in 1984. By the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, it had already spread across Europe, the United States, Asia, and the United States. There are more than 12,000 platforms in Australia and Africa.

   Domestically, it was a bit slower, and it was not until 1991 that the first platform was established.

   Bonima, Lei Jun, Kingsoft Qiu Bojun, 8848 website chairman Lao Rong (Wang Juntao) have all served as webmasters.

  In fact, the domestic Internet started much later, but it actually ran to the front row. China and the United States have divided most of the Internet unicorns in the world, which also makes many foreigners puzzled.

  The three people heard Xia Jingxing ask about their history of Huiduo.com in the former Soviet Union, and they did not keep it. They exchanged very happily.

  From the perspective of their resumes, the three are also considered **** Internet practitioners.

  After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the three also opened a small company in Estonia and successfully produced and released several computer games.

But in 2000, the company ran out of revenue and almost went bankrupt. The three were forced to join a portal site and became colleagues with Nicholas and Jonas. They also co-founded Kazaa and Sri Lanka. Gap laid the foundation.

   Speaking of the experience of being a colleague before, Jonas mentioned an interesting story.

  "At that time, the company asked me and Nicolas to develop the portal website Everyday.com together, and we encountered many technical problems.

   So he posted job information in the newspaper to find talents. The daily salary was US$330, which was higher than the average monthly salary of Estonians at that time! "

  Xia Jingxing said "fuck", with a monthly salary of 10,000 US dollars, and an annual salary of one million when converted into RMB. The salary of ordinary engineers in Silicon Valley was not so high at that time.

  Jonas saw the surprise in Xia Jingxing’s eyes, and said with a smile: "Dalun, don’t think that the salary is high, mainly because it is too difficult to find suitable talents. What we needed was PHP engineers at the time."

  Jonas pointed to the three and said, “These three guys didn’t know the PHP language at the time, but they came to apply for the job, and then it took a week to learn PHP and successfully completed the development of the portal website.”

  Xia Jingxing applauded and applauded!

  Among the five people, Anus, who has not spoken much, then talked: “Later, the Internet bubble and the portal collapsed, and the six of us founded Kazaa together.”

  Anus had a bald head, and while drinking, he spit out: "I was living a good life, but the Americans sued us, saying that we violated copyright and spread sex.

  Not only Nicholas and Jonas were hunted down, the four of us, as co-founders, were asked to appear in court in California to accept questions and submit trade secrets about Kazaa.

  Initially, the Estonian government rejected this request.

  But in the second instance, the government could not withstand the pressure. The four of us were still asked questions by American lawyers..."

  Maybe it was hard to meet an outsider who was also a technical person. You can tell a few words, Anus vented all his emotions at once.

   "Anus, you are drunk!"

  Jonas also noticed that the brother talked a bit too much, and he began to scold the US government, and he was still talking about his own country’s bones, so he patted Anus on the shoulder and motioned to him to stop.

  Xia Jingxing smiled, he didn't think there was anything.

  As a country with a population of just over one million, it has joined NATO again. How dare to disobey the United States?

  Through conversations with a few people, he almost figured out more about Scape.

  Nicholas is the boss, the main founder, the equity and the right to speak, Jonas is the second, and the other four co-founders are engineers, and the equity and the right to speak are relatively much less.

  And the intellectual property rights related to the Scape P2P agreement are also in the hands of Joltid, a company jointly owned by Nicholas and Jonas.

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  (End of this chapter)