King's Landing Nottingham

Chapter 45 Palo Alto
Chapter 45 Palo Alto

When it comes to Silicon Valley, many people are familiar with it, but when it comes to Palo Alto, few people know it.

Palo Alto is located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, only about 6 kilometers away from the center of San Francisco. Its population is only about 1955, but it has many world-renowned high-tech companies and high-density technical personnel. In [-], the famous Bell Laboratories moved the company that developed and produced transistors to Palo Alto, making it the birthplace of the American electronics industry. There is an American movie called "Palo Alto" about this city. city ​​story.

The name Palo Alto comes from two Spanish words, "Palo", which means tree, and "Alto", which means tall.The "tall tree" in Palo Alto's name is still alive today. It grows in Palo Alto Tree Park (El Palo Alto Park), and it is said that the tree is more than a thousand years old.

In March 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved Google to 3 University Road, Palo Alto, San Francisco, USA, and had their first real office. Combined with another company to inject $165 million into Google, this gives Google's R&D personnel more room to display their talents.

Zhao Tai and Wei Xun are anxiously waiting downstairs at No. 165 University Road, Palo Alto, waiting for a wonderful opportunity, a chance for Notts County to be proud of the Premier League in the next ten years.

"You boy must give me an explanation today. Do you know how far is New York and San Francisco? You said you were going to come here, why don't we just fly over and hand over the purchase of stocks to the people in the office. They have enough The ability to do it beautifully!"

Zhao Tai was very angry, he could eat instant noodles, but after only two days in New York, he was about to fly from the east coast to the west coast of the United States, he really thought he was a beast, God damn Wei Xun!
"Brother Tai, Brother Tai, calm down. I didn't remember this until I arrived in New York. After this is done, I will give you half a month's leave and let you go back to China to reunite with your sister-in-law. It's a lot of work for those who are capable, and I will feel at ease when you stare at me!"

After Wei Xun came to Nottingham, he had fully adapted to the new life. It was not until he arranged for employees of the Shengfei Group office in New York to entrust professional investors to buy Apple and Amazon stocks that he suddenly remembered one thing: the founder of Google The earliest angel investors of Larry Page and Sergey Brin were Amazon boss Bezos, who invested in Google in 1998.And Google was not listed in 2001, so Wei Xun decisively decided to leave 4000 million pounds to see if he could get a foot in Google.

As the second-ranked company in the world's top 2018 in [-], Wei Xun felt that there was nothing safer and more secure than this investment, a business that would make a profit without losing money. When Google went public, his own value would also rise accordingly.The reason why he didn't communicate with Zhao Tai in advance was because Wei Xun didn't know whether the two co-founders of Google would give him this opportunity to meet, and the two co-founders of Larry Page and Sergey Brin Compared with people who play technology as rock and roll, don't look at the current Wei Xun who bears the name of a club chairman, in the eyes of others, he is really a shit...

"Hello, who is Mr. Wei Xun?" A blond lady in a uniform with the Google logo called out from the gate of 165 University Road in Palo Alto.

Wei Xun hurriedly raised his hand to signal, "Here, here, I am Wei Xun!"

"Okay, please come in with me"

"Thank you..." Wei Xun and Zhao Tai just followed the Google staff into the famous Google office. Zhao Tai didn't care, but Wei Xun was very excited.

Due to Google's rapid development, the interior of the office is very crowded and chaotic. The largest wall in the office has the words "Don't be evil" written in huge three-color fonts, which is Google's motto.In a small conference room that had just been vacated, Wei Xun met Sergey Mikhailovich Brin for the first time. There should be no generation gap between 28-year-old Sergey and 25-year-old Wei Xun. Wei Xun was very excited when he saw the legendary character. The two founders of Google are very worshiped and worshiped as gods.

Perhaps because everyone has the experience of living in a socialist country, the communication between the three of them unfolded in a very relaxed environment. Even though Sergey spent all his time in the United States after the age of 6, he also learned about it from his father. There are many stories about the Soviet Union.

"Wei, are you the chairman of an English football club?" Sergey took the business card Wei Xun handed over and read it three times very carefully.

"Yes, Sergey, I am the chairman of the Notts County Club, and next to me is Mr. Zhao Tai, the CEO of the Notts County Co., Ltd..."

"Hello, Mr. Sergey", Zhao Tai politely extended his hand and shook hands with Sergey.

"Wei, I'm curious, how do you know that our patent is about to be issued, and the patent is applied in the name of Stanford University. Your understanding of this matter is like the FBI of our country. According to me As you know, professional football clubs don't do this..."

Wei Xun remembers that just this month, Google's webpage ranking mechanism PageRank was awarded a US patent, and this patent was issued to Stanford University, and Larry Page was also listed as an inventor.Just now at the door, Wei Xun wrote the content of this patent on a note. This was the only way Wei Xun could think of to get on line with Sergey and Larry Page.

"Sergey, you may not believe me. I've been following you for a long time, since you just established Google, including the fact that you were expelled from Stanford University's Internet Department..." Wei Xun could only talk nonsense, "I'm time-traveling ?” No one would believe this.

"Oh, God, thank the school for kicking us out", Wei Xun's answer was obviously unsatisfactory, since he didn't want to say more, Sergey also avoided this topic very humorously.

"When I came in just now, I saw that your company's office was very crowded. I think the funds injected by Sequoia should have been used for research and development. I appreciate Google's development prospects, so I want to inject some funds into Google. Funds", Wei Xun's speech has always been so simple and direct, straight to the point and straight to the point.

"As far as I know, it is still very difficult for football clubs to make a profit. Dozens of millions of dollars is a drop in the bucket for us..." Obviously, Sergey didn't think that Wei Xun would be able to give Google Generate qualitatively changed funds to support their own research and development work. After all, football clubs do not make much money, otherwise the United States would have had a complete professional football league.

"4000 million pounds!" Wei Xun directly quoted the reserve price, and Zhao Tai, who was beside him, wanted to strangle this idiot to death. How could he pay the final price once in a business transaction?

"Fifty million pounds?"

"That's right, besides being the chairman of England's Nottsshire Club, I'm also the first heir of China's Shengfei Group, and I also own a catering group and a high-end tea company." Wei Xun had no reason to tell Sergey himself The money is won by gambling, if you say it, it will only make the other party feel that you are unreliable.Although the current scale of Wangjiang Tower and Magpie Tea Drinks is not large, and the profits have not yet reached expectations, Wei Xun still understands the reason for making a big banner out of tiger skins.

"So, how many shares do you want?"

"25%, buy it now", Wei Xun did not quote this price casually, he expected that 10%-15% would be good, but negotiating, it is impossible to leak out your bottom line, Wei Xun If I don't learn more, I'm afraid my legs will be purple by Zhao Tai...

"Brother Tai, why are you fucking with a woman, and you have learned how to pinch and pinch people! You have been educated by your sister-in-law at home, right?"

"roll roll roll!"

Wei Xun couldn't help making fun of Zhao Tai. Of course, these words were all in Chinese. Sergey was asking people to verify the information Wei Xun said, so Wei Xun and Zhao Tai had time and space to chat about other things.

Google is based on search engines, and it is really easy to find information about the companies that Wei Xun mentioned.Sergey quickly returned to the small conference room with a stack of materials. He is now convinced that what Wei Xun just said is true. These companies have good development prospects. Notts County Club is in the transfer market. Spending a lot of money, Wangjianglou Catering has a very good reputation in Nottingham, and it is full every day, and the cash flow of "Magpie" tea is also very sufficient. There is already an authorized company in Northampton that is distributing goods, and Wei Xun's big Background Shengfei Group is the most important enterprise. According to the strength on paper, Wei Xun really has no problem at all with the 4000 million pounds, and there is even room for additional investment in the future.

But Larry Page is not here now, and he can't decide by himself. The transfer of 25% of the shares is not a trivial matter. He needs time to discuss it with Larry Page. After all, compared with Page, Sergey is more like Is a pure high-tech research and development personnel.

In short, both sides of the first meeting were satisfied. Wei Xun and Sergey left contact information with each other and agreed to give a final reply on September 9.

This time, Wei Xun and Zhao Tai were no longer led out by the staff, but were sent out by Sergey himself, "It's a big shame," Wei Xun excitedly raised his arms and shouted.

"Why is it so big? If we invested money in him, why shouldn't he send us out?" Zhao Tai had a hard time understanding Wei Xun's excitement. In his opinion, this was a very normal business etiquette.

"That's Sergey Mikhailovich Brin!"

"I know!"

"Hey, you don't understand, you don't understand..." Wei Xun waved his hands with an inscrutable look.

Zhao Tai's anger has not completely dissipated, and at this time he was stimulated by Wei Xun again, with new and old hatred, Zhao Tai took off his leather shoes and threw it at Wei Xun's back, hitting steadily.

"Damn it, who hit me!" Wei Xun looked back, and Zhao Tai, who was only wearing one shoe, had already killed him. Seeing this, Wei Xun quickly picked up Zhao Tai's leather shoe and threw it in the opposite direction, then turned around by himself Just ran to where they lived.

On the wide expressway, the endless flow of cars formed a flowing river of lights, allowing Wei Xun and Zhao Tai to enjoy the night view of Palo Alto.When the two were wandering on the road, they found a Chinese restaurant with "authentic Chinese Sichuan cuisine". The chef turned out to be a Mexican...

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