My Age of Investment

  Chapter 328 Microsoft enters the game

  April was spent amidst the noise of the media and the unwillingness of Yahoo and Google.

  Time came in May, and Facebook’s Silicon Valley office welcomed a heavyweight visitor.

  Bill Gates personally led a group of Microsoft executives to visit and visit Facebook.

  Looking at the young faces in the open-plan office area of ​​Facebook, Gates smiled and asked Xia Jingxing standing beside him: "Dalun, what is the average age of Facebook employees?"

"Twenty-five!"

  Xia Jingxing replied quickly, and then spread his hands again, "Of course, mainly because our three founders lowered the average age."

  Gates grinned. He liked chatting with the young man in front of him very much.

  Because the other party always looks at himself, as if his own halo of the richest man is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the other party.

  Confidence, free and easy, humorous, and even frankness are all the deep impressions Xia Jingxing left on him.

   "How many people are there on Facebook now?"

   Gates visited the three-story office of Facebook and found that the number of employees was far fewer than he had imagined.

   "Including oil pipeline and overseas employees, there are less than 300 people in total. To be precise, there are only more than 250 people."

   Gates frowned, "Just so few people, not only to maintain the daily operations of Facebook and YouTube, but also to complete the development of information flow products and advertising systems, and even set up a branch in the UK to expand the European market?"

  Xia Jingxing shrugged, "Of course, it's still a little bit difficult."

  He pointed to the employees at the workstation again, "Look at their dark circles, 9127 are all caused by staying up late and working overtime."

  "What is 9127?" Gates asked.

   "It means going to work at 9 in the morning, leaving work at 12 in the evening, and working 7 days a week."

   Gates was shocked by this, looking at Xia Jingxing with a stunned expression, and said, "Are they robots? They don’t need to rest? Does anyone complain?"

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "In my hometown, this is called blessing, it is a gift from God, and most people don’t have this treatment.

  In fact, in factories along the coast of China, there are many assembly line workers with the same work intensity as them.

  Everyone is human, there is nothing we can't bear. "

   Gates, the old capitalist feels that he is going to succumb to the wind. When it comes to exploitation, your socialism is still ruthless.

   "Did you do this and the employees didn't go on strike or sue you?"

  Gates felt that Xia Jingxing’s ability to manage employees so obediently was also a skill, and he was a little curious about how this young man did it.

  Xia Jingxing laughed "Ao Lao Lao", "First of all, overtime is voluntary. I never force employees to work overtime.

  You know, advertisers have exploded recently.

  Can this door-to-door business be pushed out? Then Yahoo and Google are not laughing to death.

  There is no way to work overtime, and it is too late for staff expansion.

  In addition, working overtime we find gold, just like Wall Street.

  I asked the financial officer to go to the bank to withdraw two million dollars in cash, and everyone sent ten thousand dollars on the spot.

  In addition, a few shuttle buses are also packaged to send employees to and from get off work every day to prevent them from wasting too much time on commuting. At the same time, they can sleep and rest on the shuttle bus. "

  Gates smiled, turned his head to look at the Microsoft executive behind him, and said: "Have you heard that, in terms of human management, we have to learn like Facebook."

  More than two hundred of them have built the advertising system, but what about Microsoft? We have 60,000 employees and we have been working on an advertising system for almost half a year, and we have not produced any products. "

  A group of Microsoft executives were so scolded that they could not hold their heads up, and felt a little wronged in their hearts.

  People in big companies are overwhelming. As the boss, you still don’t know? Can you compare with a startup company like Facebook that is struggling to make progress?

   After all, he was outside. Gates saved some face for his senior executives. He did not continue to reprimand, and he closed his mouth after a few words.

   "Dalun, now two months have passed, is it time to talk about deeper cooperation."

  Xia Jingxing knew that the old man Gates was thinking about investing in Facebook again.

  He nodded, "No problem, please follow me."

  Xia Jingxing brought Gates and his party to the Facebook meeting room, and called several senior executives, including the dog and the foreign girl.

  The little dog put up the PPT and reported the results while playing the pictures.

  "Facebook now has 64.28 million users..."

   Gates was taken aback, "Didn’t it just break through 40 million users some time ago?"

   "That's past tense. In the last two months, Facebook has achieved tens of millions of users growth for two consecutive months because of the launch of information flow products."

  Little Dog said with a smile: “According to this growth rate, we estimate that Facebook will officially exceed the 100 million user mark in three months.

  Complete the target four months ahead of schedule.

  At the same time, August is also the third anniversary of the launch of Facebook. "

  The old man Gates slowly nodded. In three years, he went from zero to one hundred million users, from the Stanford campus to covering three continents. This speed seems unrealistic.

  But the media, newspapers, and Silicon Valley are discussing Facebook every day, and people around them are also using Facebook every day.

  This again shows that this is not an illusion, but a fact that has already happened.

  The old man Gates is a person who has seen the world before, and he soon recovered his calmness and motioned to the little dog standing on the stage to continue speaking.

  Little dog nodded, "Tube has reached 52.02 million users so far, and it is expected to exceed 100 million users. It will take until the end of the year."

  There are already Facebook results ahead, and Gates quickly accepted the news.

  "The launch of the information flow product has enabled Facebook to reach 45 million daily active users, and the user's online time has reached 40 minutes, the number of uploaded pictures per week is 100 million, and the content shared every week is 500 million..."

  The little dog released the next picture, which listed various histograms.

  Little Dog introduced: “These are statistics from two months ago. There are only 30 million daily active users, users’ online time is only 15 minutes, and only 80 million content is shared every week...

  The introduction of information flow products has an impact on Facebook that is far more than the outside speculation. It has almost increased Facebook’s important data by 50%-500%. "

  Gates took a deep breath, careless!

  He quickly looked at Xia Jingxing, who was smiling at him.

   With Gates’ IQ, he quickly guessed the purpose of the dog’s display.

  Since you want to compare the data, why not take out the same period last year and separately take out the two months ago.

  What is this going to do?

  This is to tell myself that Facebook is no longer what it used to be.

  Thinking of this, Gates secretly regretted, why didn't he become stronger two months ago, and he invested in stocks at that time. In terms of valuation, it would definitely be a lot cheaper.

  However, he changed his mind. At that time, Xia Jingxing said that he had a big move and asked himself to wait for two months.

  It must be a clear plan, and will not change your mind for yourself.

  This made him withdraw his good impression of Xia Jingxing. This is a cunning little fox, who arranged for the old man clearly.

  Gates looked at Xia Jingxing, and said with a serious face: "Dalun, I admit that Facebook now shows greater potential.

  I withdrew the quotation I made two months ago, and now it’s up to you to make the price. "

   "Half a month ago, Axel transferred 2% of its shares to DST, a Russian investment institution, with a valuation of 10 billion U.S. dollars."

  Xia Jingxing spread out, "This is what we quoted, and it was valued at 10 billion U.S. dollars before the investment.

  Because of the launch of the advertising system, the valuation premium generated is not calculated. Who makes us and Microsoft a strategic partner? "

  The old man Gates was a little bit dumbfounded, saying that Microsoft seems to have taken a huge advantage.

  (End of this chapter)