You should know that in this era, there are not many founders who are truly persevering, confident and believe that their companies will become miracles in the industry.

After all, these people who play Internet companies these days are usually technicians. They come to Silicon Valley and start from garages. When the company reaches a certain scale, or is hyped up, many giants in the Internet industry often come to discuss acquisitions.

For example, Microsoft and Yahoo, the current industry overlords, in order to avoid these emerging network companies growing into their own opponents in the future, they are familiar with the way to kill using this soft knife to acquire.

Many once popular network software companies were acquired and merged by them at the beginning stage. Some of these network companies will turn into important branches of their companies, while others will simply be destroyed directly.

Most founders of online companies generally cannot withstand the temptation of huge checks in their hands by these industry giants.

As far as Li Yifan knows, even the two founders of Google have been shaken in this matter.

In fact, after they founded this company, rumors about their company have never disappeared.

When this company was first founded, they were looking for financing everywhere, but they encountered walls everywhere and found many large venture capital companies. However, when they saw their creativity, they couldn't even get rid of them.

In the end, if it weren't for the 25 million Sequoia Capital, they would probably have collapsed long ago.

Later, as their company improved, the competition outside never weakened, and in the field of online search, the original founder was Microsoft and the original Yahoo.

The competition between the two companies in this field has always been fierce, and Google is a completely latecomer, but the most advantage he has over these two companies is that he specializes in this, while these two companies are not.

Microsoft mainly develops various computer running software systems, while Yahoo's business is doing portal news. It can be said that the main energy of these two companies is not on online search engines.

It is precisely because of this that this new company took advantage of loopholes, quickly opened up the market, and gained a foothold in this field.

But when they had already taken shape, the two giants quickly realized the danger of the company, so they began to increase their investment in their search engines and began to compete with Google.

The reason why Google can survive the competition between these two giants is that they are specializing in this, and they have invested heavily in talent attraction.

You should know that giving employees generous salary and original shares is definitely a big deal, and it is this big deal that allows them to poach all the search engine talents in Microsoft and Yahoo to their own companies. While strengthening themselves, it also seriously weakens the research and development of search engines of Microsoft and Yahoo.

It is precisely because of this that at the end of this year, the number of shareholders of their company had reached 500. It is estimated that even the aunt who swept the floor became shareholders holding the company's shares.

On this side, it is a good thing to retain talents, but on the other hand, it is also a bad thing.

You should know that in the IPO financing regulations of startup stocks in the electronic technology network sector, there is a provision, that is, the company's original shares cannot hold more than 500.

This company obviously exceeded this standard, which is the main reason why no one can obtain original shares unless it is a talented person or a talent who has made outstanding contributions to the company since 2003.

What Li Yifan asked Heidi to do now is to acquire their original shares from the hands of those who hold the original shares.

Even if there is a regulation that these people cannot buy and sell these original shares now, they can now sign a bet agreement with them in the same futures. As long as you open the conditions high enough, I believe that many of these people will be moved.

According to Google's current scale and development model, even if their company goes public, its stock price is estimated to be less than 34 US dollars.

Who would have thought that when their company went public, the original shares would be priced at 85 US dollars, and their stock price tripled that year, and ten times more after a few years?

I guess even the founder of this company would not have thought of such an ending. So at this time, as long as you sign a futures contract with them, if the price of public stocks reaches or does not reach a certain price after listing, then you have to give me your stock according to the execution price we agreed on. I believe that there will definitely be many people in this company who are willing to do so.

Even if the boss of this company knows that such a contract is pure, he probably won’t have much opinion. After all, this company has gone public these days, but it’s still impossible.

And maybe this company will go bankrupt when a business mistake is made. Anyway, such things happen from time to time in the United States.

Today you are still a millionaire, but in a blink of an eye, maybe in just one day, you will become a penniless pauper. This is not a miracle, but a fact that happens all the time.

So as long as you order the execution price very attractively, I believe that many Google employees will be willing to sign such a transfer agreement with you.

Perhaps if this method attracts the attention of Google’s founders, they may also talk to you about cooperation and financing. After all, if you acquire their company’s stocks like this, they will feel nervous.

But everything is something that is possible.

After discussing the acquisition of Google stock with Heidi, Li Yifan remembered another company.

"Also, I once followed a speech by a man named Jack Dorsey on an online forum in the United States. His ideas were very interesting and gave me a lot of inspiration. I think after you go to the United States, please contact me to see if he has any idea of ​​starting a business. If he has it, maybe we can invest in him, but we will hold heavy shares in this company."

Li Yifan said to Heidi with a smile.

If it were a person who also experienced the history of the development of the American Internet in later generations, after hearing about the name of Jack Dorsey, he might have scolded Li Yifan for being shameless.

Because this is not an ordinary person, he is the founder of the famous Twitter in later generations.

Unlike the popular Facebook network in later generations, the Internet model of Twitter is also a perfection for the social network system, and more importantly, it is an instant messaging system.

You can post some new things you follow or know online in a timely manner, and then attract the attention of your followers. This kind of thing is called Weibo in China and is the famous Twitter internationally.

More than ten years later, like Facebook, this kind of thing has become two cornerstones for the improvement of social network systems, and it is two websites that are so popular that they can no longer be popular all over the world.

However, the development experience of this company is even more bumpy than Facebook.

The founder of Facebook back then had basic ideas in 2004 and improved the basic network architecture in 2006. During his time in Facebook, his ideas have always been paid attention to.

Just before his Facebook was listed, it was already hyped. Once it was listed, his Facebook was even more popular and very popular by stock market investors. There were even rumors that the company's future development will not be weaker than Google.

The founder of the website also became a billionaire with such hype.

The development of Twitter has not been so smooth. In fact, the Twitter concept was thought out by his founder, Jack Dorsey, from 2000 to 2001.

But after that, he also had enough financial support to improve his philosophy. Moreover, because wireless networks were not developed, even fixed networks were just beginning to become popular, so his philosophy was not recognized by many people.

Many investors are not interested in his philosophy, which is very different from the popularity of Facebook when it was born.

Dorsey and his friends insisted on the concept, but they were despised by many investors.

It was not until 2006 that he and several of his partners began to gradually implement his ideas on the Internet. That is to say, it took six years to start having ideas in 2000 and finally implement them. During these six years, they waved countless blows and disappointments.

Moreover, even after their Twitter was launched in 2006, it was not recognized by many people at the beginning. What really made them gradually become glorious was their cooperation with IPHONE launched by Apple in 2007, but this was just the beginning.

What really made Twitter famous is that in 2008, when Ao Xiaohei was running, he interacted with his fans through Twitter and announced his election situation at all times.

It is precisely this situation where you can interact with fans in real time that many big stars have discovered the benefits of this kind of software, which is a powerful tool for them to maintain their image.

As a result, more and more celebrities from all walks of life began to register their Twitter accounts and interact with their fans. It was the addition of these people that began to truly bring Twitter to glory.
Chapter completed!