Chapter 148 Face yourself up

   Facebook's office in Silicon Valley welcomed a famous person.

  The visitor has golden curly hair, messed up in a mess, his face is full of beard, and he looks a bit rough and rough.

  The curly-haired man took a sip of the coffee that the Facebook administrator had just brought into the office, and smiled and praised: "Good coffee!"

  "If you drink more, you can drink more, you can refill unlimited drinks, and the toilet is also provided for free!"

  Xia Jingxing’s humor and humor succeeded in making the curly-haired man laugh. He smiled and said, “Darren, when I sent an email to Facebook’s official email address, I guessed that you would agree with me.”

   "Oh, why?"

  Xia Jingxing Xiao Mimi looked at the white young man sitting across from her, thinking that the other person was really rude.

   If it is not for absolute strength and self-confidence, it is purely pretending to be forced.

  Of course, this person may belong to the former.

  Sean Parker, born in 1979, is also a teenage hacker.

   At the age of 16, he hacked into the website of a Fortune 500 company. Because his father unplugged the keyboard of his computer, he failed to log out of the website and leaked his IP address, making the FBI track him down.

  Because he was under 18 years old, the court only sentenced him to voluntary labor in the community.

   At the age of 21, he founded Napster, a music-sharing website with his friends, which can be called the originator of P2P sharing technology and overturned the recording industry. Then he was sued for bankruptcy.

  Although the entrepreneurship failed, it gained a huge reputation.

The Kazaa software developed by the founding team of Scap, which was invested by Xia Jingxing, imitated Napster and praised Sean Parker, one of the founders.

   At the age of 25, he became the first president of Facebook in his previous life and gave a lot of business guidance to Zuckerberg, who was a novice in business at the time.

  Later, he retired and was worth billions of dollars by virtue of his shareholding in Facebook.

  At this time, Sean is far from successful.

  Because of Napster's bankruptcy, he is doing nothing to look for opportunities everywhere.

   Facing Xia Jingxing’s question, he appeared confident and smiled and said, “Because I have a way to help Facebook.”

  Xia Jingxing kept a polite smile, "For example?"

   "Napster had 80 million registered users at its peak, and I know how to make Facebook reach or exceed that number."

  Sean took a sip of the coffee, put down the cup, spread his hand and continued: "You lack a president like me!"

  Good guy!

  When you come up, you will nominate yourself as the president!

  Xia Jingxing narrowed a smile, staring at the curly-haired man sitting opposite, "The CEO of Facebook is not good."

  Sean looked calm, "I think I can handle this position."

  Xia Jingxing raised his hand and motioned to the other party to continue speaking.

   "Facebook is very dangerous now. Have you noticed this?"

  Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I really didn't notice it."

   "Facebook is now too focused on the campus market, while ignoring the vast off-campus market and the international market."

   Xiao En said with a serious face, "Dating.com is eroding your living space step by step."

   "The media also said the same as you."

  Xia Jingxing thinks this famous Sean is nothing more than that!

  Originally thought that the other party would offer "Rongzhong right", but it turned out that he thought too much.

  This is not the Zhuge Liang he wants to invite out of the mountain!

  He doesn’t know what the other party has helped by joining Xiao Mazi’s Facebook.

  Only a few things I know: The other party helped Facebook design the equity structure to ensure Xiao Mazi's right to speak in the company, and also taught Xiao Mazi a lot of business knowledge and the experience of people who came over.

  Especially helping Xiao Mazi get the $500,000 angel round financing of Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman. Sean Parker’s network resources played a vital role in it.

  Xia Jingxing thought for a while, if it is just these, the other party joining his company and becoming the president does not seem to help much.

  Because of the role that Sean can play, it seems that he doesn't need it anymore.

  However, he did not rush to express his position. He decided to wait and see first to see how much the other party wanted and whether it matched his ability and role.

  Sean didn’t know that he had been calculated clearly by someone, and he continued to elaborate from his own point of view: “I don’t know what preparations Facebook has done for the competition on Dating.com.

  But if I were the president, I would immediately arrange Facebook for a round of financing. After I got sufficient funds, I quickly opened Facebook to all people..."

  The point of view is very ordinary!

  There is no innovation!

  This is Xia Jingxing’s first feeling after hearing the other party’s explanation.

  The opponent must be a technical expert, there is no doubt about this.

   But one or two hackers, for the current Facebook, are no different than a normal programmer.

  Maybe the salary of ordinary programmers is still lower, and there are not so many stinking problems, so that they can be used.

  There are a lot of problems with this curly hair, especially opium cigarettes.

  Because of taking drugs/drugs in his previous life, Sean was arrested by the police.

  The Facebook board of directors was afraid of affecting the company’s reputation and directly asked Xiao Mazi to kick the other party out of the company.

  Xiao Mazi did not hesitate to deal with his business enlightenment teacher, and directly cut down on the horse.

  Because Sean also invested a sum of money in Facebook in the angel round of financing, he was eventually able to retain a portion of Facebook shares and was sadly out of the game.

  When Xiao Mazi was in college, she didn't know that "the website is operated by a company" at first, and thought that "the website is operated by an individual."

  This kind of commercial novice is also trained by Sean Parker.

  But Xia Jingxing doesn’t need this kind of training. No matter how he ventured into the street in his previous life, he is better than Xiao Mazi in the same period.

  For Sean Parker, Xia Jingxing thinks that the opponent may be really "luck is greater than strength."

  A good entrepreneurial partner was helping him when he founded Napster. When he met Xiao Mazi, he could be regarded as "matching opponents and meeting talents", and they just matched!

  He suddenly remembered that in 2010, his previous life, Sean Parker, started another business.

  He founded a social video service company called Airtime.

   has not been launched yet, it has won 8.3 million US dollars in A round and 25 million US dollars in B round, which shows how impatient the venture capital is and how high the expectations of this great **** are.

  However, after the product goes live...

  Live 400 people per day and 10,000 per month.

  After a joke, I never heard of this great **** continuing to start a business.

  A person’s good fortune is over, or that his time has passed.

  After thinking about this, Xia Jingxing has already had a rough assessment of Sean’s value.

   directly said, "Sean, let’s talk about the treatment! What do you want?"

  Xia Jingxing didn’t expect Xia Jingxing to be so direct either, but Rejoice was just what he wanted. He replied, “I hope to get a certain share of Facebook, and it doesn’t matter in terms of salary.”

  Xia Jingxing did not respond positively, and continued to ask: "What is the certain equity?"

  Sean hardly thought about it, and just blurted out: "Give it 3% first. It doesn't matter if you distribute it over many years."

  3%, or give it first.

  Xia Jingxing felt that the other party was still a little self-esteem, and said lightly: “The equity of the Facebook co-founders is only a little higher than the 3% you asked for. This is too much, we can’t give it.”

   "The 2%, it's okay to distribute it over four years!"

   Xiao En lowered his conditions a little bit, looked at Xia Jingxing, and waited for the answer from the other party.

  This is already his lowest psychological expectation.

  As a founder of a website with 80 million users, he thinks he is worth the price.

Before    came to find Facebook, he had already talked with people on Diaoyou.com.

   But it is a pity that the other party did not meet his conditions.

  So he came to Facebook again to look for opportunities.

  It can also be seen from the order of meeting that he is more optimistic about Dating.com, and Facebook can only be ranked second in his psychological position.

   "One percent of the equity will be distributed in three years. If you leave halfway, you will have nothing."

  Xia Jingxing considered it for a while and decided to give Sean a chance.

  I think that the other party’s "luck is greater than strength" view is not necessarily 100% correct.

  Give others a chance, but also give yourself a chance!

  The other party’s failure to establish a social video website in his previous life is not necessarily all due to ability problems. Factors such as advanced products and background have a great influence.

  A change of age and platform may be another result.

  Sean took a deep breath, shook his head, stood up without a trace, and prepared to leave.

   "Thank you for your coffee!"

  Before he left, he did not forget to say thank you, and he was very open-minded and calm.

  Maybe you don’t want to be underestimated by Xia Jingxing!

  Xia Jingxing can only express regret for this result, and did not say anything to save Sean.

  Because of who has left the earth, it will always turn around.

  Everyone must face up to their own abilities, even after success, they must consider themselves three times a day.

  Look at whether you have made the platform or the platform has made yourself.

  Without Jack Ma, the e-commerce platforms of Shao Yibo and Daqiangzi will not necessarily be worse than Taobao and Tmall, or even better.

  (End of this chapter)