My Age of Investment

  Chapter 78 Six months and fifteen days

  A few days after Blackburn left, the director of Amazon California came to the door and brought a cooperation agreement.

  The cooperation agreement roughly stipulates:

   Facebook opens an online store on Amazon, which provides marketing, technical support, and logistics discounts.

   Facebook does not have many obligations, just hang an Amazon store redirect link on the homepage.

  After all, Amazon’s support in logistics is solid, and at least Facebook has to put an advertisement on the homepage.

   While advertising for Facebook’s own online store, it is also advertising for Amazon to increase the traffic of the latter.

  So Amazon didn’t suffer much, unless the online store’s business was very poor and the Facebook diversion effect was very poor.

  Xia Jingxing showed these contracts to Andrew, and the latter did not dare to neglect, after all, large companies operated more on the contract.

  There are really problems with this inspection. Some responsibilities and obligations are somewhat vague.

  According to Andrew's pick, Xia Jingxing beat the contract back.

   Amazon saw that it was foolish, and finally it was honest and did not continue to play tricks on the contract.

  After the two parties signed the agreement, Facebook opened and built its own online store with the help of Amazon's California branch.

  Xia Jingxing, Yang Niu, and Little Dog have no experience, and the people from Amazon teach them step by step.

  Five interns, except Walker, a related household, all the other four were sent to the Amazon California branch for training for half a month. Professional Amazon staff will teach them how to operate the online store.

  Walker is more special, and the use value has not been squeezed out yet.

  His main job content is still hooking up with the University of Texas system to help Facebook quickly enter and occupy Texas universities.

  Arizona is almost done. It has contributed tens of thousands of users to Facebook, and it is still growing rapidly.

   Walker went to his aunt, who was the school manager, to conquer the University of Texas system.

  Xia Jingxing also promised him that once the goal of 500,000 users is completed, 0.5% of the options will be issued immediately.

  So the other party is very motivated every day, contacting and hooking up with all the people at the University of Texas, and trying hard to get this reward.

  The other four people don’t have so many resources.

  Working to this day is basically squeezed out of value. All the classmates, friends and all kinds of relationships that can be contacted are exhausted.

   Therefore, Xia Jingxing “turned them waste into treasure” and sent them to run an online store.

  Shen Xinyi, Gao Lili, Ellen, and Debbie have no objection. What's so bad about learning online shop operations with pay, and having money to get them, and also being able to learn skills?

  Hate not to study for a few months.

  But Xia Jingxing can't wait that long.

  Fufu Apparel has produced samples of T-shirt, and asked someone to bring the samples to Facebook.

  After receiving the samples, Xia Jingxing called Rebecca, a fashion design consultant, and asked the other party to provide comments.

  Rebecca stood on a professional point of view and commented on it.

  There are no major problems, but there are a few minor ones.

  Xia Jingxing reported the problem to Wang Youfu, and urged the other party to change according to Rebecca’s comments.

  At the same time, the order contract was sent to China, and the order was formally placed, for which a deposit of 60,000 US dollars was also paid.

  The technical team did not let them idle either. Xia Jingxing asked them to find a place on the homepage to put the Amazon link, which should be conspicuous without affecting the aesthetics of the website and the user experience.

  So, Evans and his four little brothers, along with meditation, and the little dog, had meetings all day to discuss this matter, and also made several experimental versions.

  But Xia Jingxing was not satisfied, so he called back and asked them to do it again.

   Facebook company, like a clockwork, is up and running quickly.

  Everyone is not idle, they have their own tasks.

  Little Dog was sent to engage in technology, and Yang Niu followed four interns to learn online shop operations.

  Only Xia Jingxing was relatively idle, and was called away by Old Man John.

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   "Mr. Hennessy, you are looking for me."

  Xia Jingxing came to the principal’s office, smiled and looked at the old man sitting in the chair at work, guessing the other party’s purpose in finding himself.

  Old man John glanced at Xia Jingxing, pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down and say."

  After Xia Jingxing sat down, the old man John began to ask about the development of Facebook.

   "Blackburn also called me and praised you for being very good."

  After asking about work, the old man smiled and talked about other topics.

"Ugh!"

  Xia Jingxing sighed, "It's a pity that I didn't negotiate a big contract with Amazon."

   "Just be content with you, there are five million new users and a contract of hundreds of millions of dollars."

  Speaking of this, Old Man John also shook his head and laughed. He didn't know what to say, and the ignorant were fearless.

   "I'm not kidding, as long as Amazon signs this contract with us, I will earn him 100 million sooner or later."

  Xia Jingxing made an understatement. A small target was like a dime in his mouth.

  Old man John didn’t want to argue with him here, so he started talking about business.

  "The entrepreneurial community wants to invite you to a sharing event, what do you think? I want to participate too."

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "Okay? What day? What should I prepare?"

  Stanford is this kind of adjustment. The principal often attends activities organized by entrepreneurial associations, answering questions from entrepreneurial students, and imparting and sharing business experience.

  Old man John waved his hand, “The day after tomorrow, you don’t need to prepare anything, just chat with the students, just like friends.”

   "Like a friend? The kind that says nothing? Tell them everything?"

  Xia Jingxing deliberately pretended to be stupid, pretending to not understand anything.

  Old man John said in a bad mood: "What do you think?"

  "Then I'll tell the truth! I never reserve it for my friends."

  Xia Jingxing smiled melancholy.

  Old man John knows that he is a man and will not be fooled at all. Waved his hand like a fly, "Daren, you should go back to work."

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  Two more days passed.

  A large classroom for classes, there are no empty seats.

  But it's not a class, it's just sharing entrepreneurship.

  Xia Jing walked onto the stage and saw a black and yellow one under the stage, all human heads, and several hair colors, very international.

  There were three seats on the podium, one for Xia Jingxing, one for Old John, and one for the hostess.

  The three people were seated separately. The hostess took the microphone and spoke a few opening remarks, and started today's question.

  The students under the stage were silent and looked at the stage intently.

  Hostess: "Dalun, when did you start Facebook?"

  Xia Jingxing: “As a freshman at the time, I didn’t know a friend, so I thought we should build a platform for making friends on campus.”

  Hostess: "It's easy to ask, how many universities does Facebook have now, and how many users does it have?"

  Xia Jingxing: "As of yesterday, it officially broke through 500,000 users and entered 182 universities."

  Hostess: "This is really an amazing number. Can you remember how many days Facebook has been in operation to this day?"

  Xia Jingxing: "Six months and fifteen days!"

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  (End of this chapter)