My Age of Investment

  Chapter 723 Public welfare undertakings

  The foreign girl wanted to walk over to convince her father, but Xia Jingxing grabbed her arm.

   "Forget it, let me know how much money I lost."

  Xia Jingxing said with a certainty, "Say it first, not for nothing, it will be treated as a bride price."

  The foreign girl is not unfamiliar with this thing about beauties, and she may still make a few jokes when changing to normal, but she is really not in this mood at this time.

  Because she couldn't bear to watch her father jump into the pit.

  Even if they give the father the bottom line, the psychological frustration caused cannot be made up for with money.

  The foreign girl was about to break away, but was held back by Xia Jingxing.

   "Look at your father's state, he is so excited, he even opened a celebration banquet in advance, and it will be on sale tomorrow, you can't convince him."

  Xia Jingxing actually doesn't care much about Walsh jumping into the pit. People of this age have to learn to pay for their actions.

   "Then we just don't care?" The foreign girl turned her head and asked.

   "I didn't say that I don't care! I will definitely think of a way to get the best of both worlds for you."

  "What way?" The girl asked.

  Xia Jingxing thought for a while, and replied: “Isn’t pasture his lifeblood? I invested in a travel website in China, and brought him some international friends to the head office?

  Don’t think this is a small step, but it is a big step towards the internationalization of Walsh Ranch! "

  The stretched face of the foreign girl suddenly burst into a smile.

   "This is what you said, when your father is hit, you will be responsible for enlightening him."

  Xia Jingxing patted "Bangbangxiang" on her chest, "It's on my body!"

  The foreign girl is finally relieved now.

  The two walked back to where they were, saying hello to everyone including Walsh before leaving.

  Walsh didn't care too much, but Xia Jingxing was pleasing to the eye again, because he knew that the prospective son-in-law must have persuaded the stubborn daughter.

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  The next day.

   Gates’ financial steward Larson led the team to visit Envision Capital, and the two parties had a secret discussion.

  Vision Capital presented various detailed data and market research reports on the US housing market.

  After seeing these things, Larson was relieved a lot about the financial action.

  After learning that Xia Jingxing personally planned to contribute 1.5 billion US dollars to these two funds, Larson asked Gates for instructions.

  Gates also showed the richest man's boldness and directly invested 500 million US dollars.

  With a capital contribution of 2 billion US dollars, the Lidong and Winter Solstice funds still have a vacant share of 1 billion US dollars.

  In view of this, Envision Capital sent a fundraiser, the Vice President of Customer Relations, to travel to major cities in the United States, and started a new round of fund raising for institutional clients and super-rich individuals.

  With two funds with outstanding historical performance, Lixia and Xiaoman, as a reference, the fundraising work is fairly smooth.

   Liu Hai and Jiang Ping returned to New York, and began to do some preparatory work in the newly leased office building on Wall Street by Envision Capital.

  Xia Jingxing, who stayed in Silicon Valley, received an invitation from Peter Thiel to attend a gathering of PayPal gang members.

  The meeting place was in Peter Thiel’s new home, in an apartment with sea views in San Francisco.

  Xia Jingxing rang the doorbell, and it was Peter Thiel who opened the door, with his boyfriend Matt Denzelsen standing behind him.

  Now, Xia Jingxing is not surprised, and shook hands with the two of them. After a few words of greeting, the two bottles of red wine he held in his hand were given to Peter Thiel as a gift for the new house.

  Xia Jingxing followed Peter Thiel and walked into the house.

  There are already many people sitting on the sofa, including the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, the founders of Yelp, Jeremy and Russell, and the sliding company Max...

  A group of people are playing poker and chess around a few cases.

  Because Peter Thiel became the top ten chess player in the United States at the age of 12, he brought the habit of playing chess to PayPal.

   PayPal was successfully listed that year, the founding team celebrated by holding a chess competition...

  With the acquisition of PayPal by eBay, the founding team went into disarray, but now seeing more than a dozen people reunited and still playing chess, Xia Jingxing feels that Peter Thiel’s influence on the entire team is very unusual.

  "Daren~"

   Seeing Xia Jingxing appear, everyone got up, fisted and greeted Xia Jingxing.

  Now, Xia Jingxing and the PayPal gang have forged a deep friendship, I belong to you, and I have your relationship.

  In the crowd, there are also a few fresh faces that Xia Jingxing has never seen.

  "This is David Sachs, the former COO of PayPal. He now founded an online genealogy service company Geni.com. If you want to know who your cousin’s cousin is, you can sign up for their website."

  Xia Jingxing took a few glances at the white male introduced by Peter Thiel, who is also a well-known member of the PayPal gang.

  Online genealogy service, in other words, is a social network with family and genealogy as the link.

  As Facebook has completely brought the concept of social networks into flames, various vertically subdivided social networks have also been born.

  The popularity of the Geni Gurney.com in the previous life is based on information on the website showing that the ***, who is participating in the election of the chief commander, is not only a distant cousin with Cheney, who was then the deputy commander of the United States, but also a distant relative of George W. Bush.

  How to find out, is that each user uploaded his own genealogy, and information networks are related to each other, and which people have relatives are naturally revealed.

  The website is still very interesting, and it will be even more fun to add DNA information in the future.

  Xia Jingxing and this name are very interesting. The friend named Sachs shook hands and said: "I am very interested in your genealogy website. Will you accept investment?"

  Peter Thiel laughed, "Haha, Darren, why do you always ask people from PayPal if you want to invest?"

  Xia Jingxing stalled, "No way, who makes you guys suitable for entrepreneurship?"

His sentence is really not a compliment, and in addition to establishing a series of unicorn companies, PayPal members are also good at engaging in angel investment and incubators, such as Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, etc. Such super unicorns have investment from this group of people.

  Sachs said that there is no need for investment for the time being, and Xia Jingxing nodded and skipped it.

  "Dalun, if you have to invest, just invest in this friend's project!"

Peter Thiel pointed to a brown-skinned young man in his thirties next to him and introduced: "Prema Shah, formerly a product manager of PayPal, now he has founded an online online loan platform called Kiva. Very interesting."

  Xia Jingxing’s eyes stared out. The familiar taste, is it a P2P peer-to-peer loan? But he remembers that the online lender is LendingClub?

  Prema Shah shook hands with Xia Jingxing and introduced: “Kiva is a non-profit private-to-private microfinance institution dedicated to providing small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries to achieve the goal of poverty eradication...”

  After listening to the introduction, Xia Jingxing understood that this is a charity loan company, so he asked, "Do you charge interest?"

  Prema shook his head, "No! We are an interest-free loan, and there is no income from lending the principal. The website mainly relies on donations to operate."

  Xia Jingxing looked at Peter Thiel, who smiled and said, “Dalun, in my opinion, helping charity is an infinite merit.

  We have gained success and money from this society, and now we are going to feed back the society, so that the most authentic aspect of human nature, that is, the truth, goodness and beauty, is reflected. While we are happy, we also help others. "

  Xia Jingxing nodded. If it is P2P for public welfare, there will be others. Other P2P, whether domestic or American, will be wiped out.

  Prema said, "Darren, do you know Professor Yunus’ Grameen Bank? Our model is similar. Through our website, you can lend money to poor people who are in dire need of funds.

  He may be a farmer, and he needs 200 US dollars to buy a better farm tool;

   may also be a mother of five children who needs $2,000 to open a store for her children to read.

  It is impossible for the poor who don’t have any assets to borrow from commercial banks.

  Poor people living on the poverty line may only find ways to fill their stomachs every day.

  Lend them venture capital and let them look a little further in the future, so that they can truly get rid of poverty. "

  Peter Thiel added: “Given the microfinance miracle created by Yunus in rural Bangladesh, he may become the Nobel Peace Prize winner this year.”

  Xia Jingxing knew about this, Yunus did indeed win the prize, nodded and said: "Okay, I am very happy to do charity.

  I want to ask, is China included in the borrower’s nationality list? "

   "Of course it is covered!"

  Prema spread his hands and said with a smile: "China is the world's largest developing country and the country that needs our help the most.

  In fact, our website wants to hire you as Kiva's Chinese consultant, and we are planning to enter the Chinese market in the next phase. "

  Peter Thiel smiled at Xia Jingxing, “I asked you to come over today, not only to reminisce about the past, but also to introduce Prema to you.

  Now, PayPal allows them to use online payment services for free, and Google and Yahoo provide them with free keyword search services.

  If possible, we would also like to request Facebook and YouTube to provide Kiva with free advertising services. "

   "This is not a problem at all!"

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "In addition, I can also provide you with a loan of 1 million US dollars."

   "That's great, thank you Darren."

  Prema thought for a while, and then said: “Dylan, we can exclusively lend this million dollars to Chinese borrowers.”

  Xia Jingxing smiled, she was on the road, so she replied: "Then I will let Chinese websites such as Ari, Hainei.com, Tudou.com, etc. provide you with free ads."

  Prema was overjoyed, Peter Thiel glanced at the little brother, the corners of his mouth raised, now you know the energy of Darren!

  Xia Jingxing does not reject this cause at all. This is actually encouraging people to use hard work to get rich and get rid of poverty. It is very positive. It is worse than direct donations to cultivate inertia. It is always better to ask for help than for yourself.

   Gossiping with the members of PayPal, Peter Thiel pulled Xia Jingxing aside.

  (End of this chapter)