My Age of Investment

   Chapter 1041 Resolutely not give up

  "Mr. Bezos, long time no see, how are you? I wanted to contact you two days ago. Tesla, which we invested together, has a new breakthrough in technology."

Bezos on the other end of the phone was disrupted, and he was stunned for a few seconds before repliing with a smile: "Tesla is an excellent startup company. It can have today’s results and you cannot do without Darren. support.

  Bezos venture capital investment is not much, but as long as Darren you need, we will continue to support you. "

  Xia Jingxing laughed, Lao Bei is a reliable man. Apart from having common shortcomings with himself and Gates, there is nothing wrong with him.

  But he could feel that Bezos asked him to have other important things, mostly about investing in Ari!

   "Daren, I heard that Facebook's IPO plan has been stranded?"

   "Yes, the environment is not good, so recently I have been trying to find a new way for Facebook."

  "Investing in the Chinese market is your new way?" Bezos on the other end of the phone had a calm tone, and could not hear any likes or dislikes.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: “Facebook cannot enter the Chinese market like Amazon. We can only share the dividends of the Chinese Internet through investment.”

  "Only the Chinese market?"

Listening to Bezos's slightly questioning tone, the smile on Xia Jingxing's face gradually converged, and he replied without being soft or hard: "Our investment principle has always been to not interfere with the operation of the company, and the founder has great autonomy. right."

   "Haha, Darren, don't be angry, I just ask."

  Bezos changed the conversation and said: "Actually, I called today because I heard that your IPO plan has been stranded, and I intend to give you a big gift."

  Xia Jingxing quietly listened to Bezos and continued to say: “In the past, Amazon and Facebook have maintained a friendly cooperation, and both parties have benefited a lot from it.

  Now Amazon has decided to expand cooperation and signed a three-year, billion-dollar advertising contract with you.

  Increases revenue by hundreds of millions of dollars every year. Once Facebook restarts its listing plan, or has gone public, its market value will also increase. Darren, what do you think? "

  The corners of Xia Jingxing’s mouth raised slightly, and I have to say that Bezos’s hand is very high, and he is trying to test whether Facebook has plans to enter e-commerce or help Ari’s going to sea;

Secondly, if you agree to cooperate, Amazon will smoothly contract out Facebook’s e-commerce advertising, which will kill a lot of uncertainties. After three years, Amazon will definitely not be comparable to the current Amazon. By then, whether it is Facebook’s entry into e-commerce Shang, or Ari going out to sea, the threat posed will be much reduced.

Xia Jingxing secretly thought, if Facebook really has spare capacity to be an e-commerce company, then I will do it directly at Bezos’s words. Amazon officially launched FBA last year, that is, open its own logistics service platform to third-party sellers to provide sellers with Picking, packaging and terminal delivery services, this service greatly enhances the enthusiasm and user experience of third-party sellers.

  After three years, third-party sellers have become a climate in Amazon as early as, and the development space left for other e-commerce players will once again shrink.

  Unfortunately, Facebook’s current priority is to deepen its social business and hit the market, and Jack Ma is very happy. In fact, Ari has not had the ability to sail overseas on a large scale in recent years. It is just a small mess.

  "You need to talk to Christina about this matter. She is now the CEO, but I am personally grateful to Mr. Bezos for supporting us.

  Remember that when Facebook was first established, it was Amazon's generous use of its own logistics service platform that our T-shirts were able to sell all over the United States. "

  Bezos smiled. He basically understands Xia Jingxing’s attitude. As long as he doesn’t break into his own territory, then everyone is still good friends!

  Hung up Bezos's call, Xia Jingxing gave Christina a call and briefly explained.

  Although Facebook does not intend to do e-commerce business for the time being, the cooperation with Amazon cannot be unreserved. At least it cannot be an exclusive cooperation. The cooperation with Ari B2B website must be reserved.

  After listening to Xia Jingxing’s arrangement, Christina frowned and said, “Can Bezos agree? He made it clear that he wanted to buy three years of peace with 1 billion US dollars.

  If we continue to support Ari, why does he even spend this money? "

  "Negotiating, it must be a process of asking each other's terms. How can he say what he says.

  You don’t have to worry about not being able to talk about it. Amazon is now in a critical period of transformation. Bezos is a very strategic person and will not allow too many unexpected factors.

  A raccoon B2B is nothing but a threat to Amazon. As long as he doesn’t shake Amazon’s basic disk and engages in B2C and C2C, he should be able to tolerate it. "

  Kristina understands that now that Amazon’s expansion cannot be prevented, the money that should be made will naturally be earned, but at the same time, the e-commerce fire cannot be extinguished because of the money, and Ari is her own e-commerce fire.

Ari wants to go overseas, but at the same time lacks a heavyweight partner to provide support, and Envision Capital and Facebook together hold 44% of Ari's shares, and Softbank, a heavyweight shareholder who holds 20% of Ari's shares, has also become a major shareholder. Facebook shareholders, so Facebook and Ari naturally have a good foundation for cooperation.

  This is something that Amazon will never be able to give. How can it agree to share the cake of e-commerce business with Facebook? Some advertising fees are the limit. Maybe in the future, ads will not be launched.

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   "Darren, the contact with the management of Dropbox failed, and Sequoia has added another round of investment of 6 million US dollars."

  In the office, Ricky, the head of Vision Capital’s Silicon Valley office, made a report with a nervous expression. This was an important task assigned to them by the big boss some time ago.

  Xia Jingxing didn't talk to Ricky, but was looking at the information about Duo Treasure Chest intently.

  Founded in the summer of last year, this company originally developed a transparent file management system for Mac and Windows systems, synchronizing desktop files on the web, backing up files, providing file access anytime, anywhere, and more convenient file sharing services.

  It is a tool-based software, non-platform company. However, its debut on the "YCDemoDay" roadshow last year attracted the attention of Sequoia Capital and provided it with an angel investment of US$1.2 million.

This year the company began to launch computer and mobile file transfer functions for Fuxing mobile phones and smart fruit phones. It immediately attracted the attention of Xia Jingxing, who acquired 91 Assistant and ordered the development of Fuxing Mobile Assistant. He began to arrange for Rich to follow up on this. Companies.

  Not only because Duobaoxiang stepped on the vent, this company was also very famous in the past life, especially its cloud storage business, which is located in China, which is equivalent to Baidu Cloud.

   Putting down the documents in his hand, Xia Jingxing said with relief: “You can’t blame you for this. After all, Sequoia is the only one in Silicon Valley, and they have already cast an angel round and got stuck in advance.

  For good companies, Sequoia has never liked sharing. In order to compete for Google, they almost didn't fight with Kaipeng Huaying people. "

  While talking, Xia Jingxing laughed himself, the world is black, even though he likes solo investment and multiple rounds of betting on a company, he actually learned from Sequoia.

If there are too many failed projects in a fund, it can only be earned back from a successful company to make the fund return positive, or even make a substantial profit. The key to getting rich is to catch good companies and invest all the way. Give up your seat.

  Naked commercial society, there is no such thing as respecting the old and loving the young.

  Xia Jingxing suddenly reacted, "No, this is the first project you grabbed by Sequoia?"

  (End of this chapter)