First-class seats are limited, and it’s hard to differentiate between them, so we simply buy business-class tickets, which cost 14,000 per ticket.

Sister Bao sat to the left of Zhou Buqi, near the window.

To the right of Zhou Buqi, at the other end of the aisle, was Tang Binchen.

The main purpose of our visit this time was to connect with those investors and Zuckerberg, determine the specific financing plan, and sign the contract. Basically, everything that should be discussed was discussed in the email.

"It's better to have an interview."

"This is wrong thinking."

"Um?"

Tang Binchen said: "This is a different business culture. In China, we may be more accustomed to discussing business face to face, and pay special attention to the cultivation of personal relationships. It is different in the United States. Their habit is to discuss business through emails and sending short messages.

.Especially for high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, the founders are all technology-savvy, and they particularly hate contact with Wall Street. They don’t see each other if they can, and they don’t talk about personal relationships, but only cooperation and interests.”

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "If we only talk about profits and nothing else, it will be easy to do business. If this can be done in China, private enterprises will only develop better."

Tang Binchen nodded and added: "Not only that, communicating through email also has the advantage of forming a kind of written evidence that binds each other's behavior. Once the agreement is written down, they will generally follow the agreement. For example

If there is a violation, the other party may resort to legal means.”

Zhou Buqi said with deep approval: "It seems that when negotiating business with Americans, you really have to pay attention to methods. If we follow our method, there may be misunderstandings. How is your negotiation going? Over there at Facebook

What is going on?"

Tang Binchen said: "Relevant evaluation agencies have given valuations, ranging from US$500 million to US$600 million. However, Facebook is now well-known, and many technology companies have made inquiries, including AOL, Yahoo,

Companies like Google, Microsoft, etc.”

"I heard that it has reached more than 2 billion US dollars?"

"That must be a rumor."

"Have you ever communicated about the specific situation?"

It's quite funny to say that the person responsible for such an important investment project is actually a part-time student from the game project team of Friends Network.

It can be seen that Ziweixing is currently seriously short of people.

The growth rate of talents can no longer keep up with the development of the company.

Tang Binchen said: "Zuckerberg mentioned it, saying that the outside world is just rumors and cannot be trusted. However, it is true that many technology companies have inquired about the price, and only one really quoted the price."

"who?"

"Yahoo."

"Formal offer?"

"Yes, Yahoo quoted US$1 billion. Several early investors and directors of Facebook all expressed support for the acquisition plan. But Zuckerberg did not agree. He insisted on developing his own development. This is how he contacted many parties and asked for

Start B financing and dilute 5% of the shares."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "The market valuation is US$500 million, but he rejected the quotation invitation of US$1 billion. This person is amazing."

Tang Binchen said "Yeah", "Yeah, I checked the relevant reports. In the past few years, Yahoo has acquired too many companies, hundreds of them. But there are only two companies that can really refuse a US$1 billion offer.

One is eBay, the other is Google, and Facebook is the third.”

This is awesome.

eBay, the e-commerce giant!

Even if it is defeated by Taobao in China, it is still the e-commerce platform alongside Amazon in the world.

Not to mention Google, it is the most technologically advanced Internet company of our time.

Zhou Buqi clenched his fist, "This investment project must be completed!"

Tang Binchen is more concerned about another point, "If all the social games we develop in the future can be launched in English and be launched on Friends.com and also on Facebook, that would be a huge success. Well...but the cultural differences between the two countries are a bit

You need to do a good job of research."

Zhou Buqi had already felt it and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, friend trading is not suitable for the United States. But it doesn't matter. As long as the financing is completed and a strategic cooperation with Facebook is reached, this kind of social game can be negotiated."

Speaking of which, he was quite emotional.

Due to various reasons, he failed to become the original shareholder of BAT. After a lot of effort, he caught a ride on Baidu through a wave of tricks, for which he also paid a price of 260 million.

Unexpectedly, the flowers inside the wall faded and the flowers outside the wall bloomed.

First it was YouTube, then Facebook. This was to take advantage of the American Internet wave.

The flight from Yanjing to Los Angeles takes 12 hours.

Sister Bao put down her chair, lay down and fell asleep.

Zhou Buqi asked the flight attendant for a blanket and covered her with it. But he couldn't fall asleep.

…

Arrive in Los Angeles at 5pm local time in Los Angeles.

Since we are from another country, we have to go through customs first.

Zhou Buqi had never been to the United States in his previous life. Fortunately, someone had taught him before. He followed the immigration officials to the checkpoint and then waited for interrogation by the customs officials.

There are 5 people in front of me.

There were police officers with live ammunition standing guard nearby, which looked particularly scary.

What the hell!

Guns are not allowed here!

Zhou Buqi's two bodyguards both had military backgrounds and could not be taken abroad. He suddenly became a little worried about safety issues. After leaving the country, he had to contact the local security company quickly.

He took the shortest route and queued for 15 minutes.

The customs official was a chubby black man, and his tone of voice was very gentle.

"Good oil?"

"Waste, three grams of oil, my oil?"

"Get lost!"

After exchanging junior high school greetings, the black uncle spoke more slowly, and then asked a few more questions, including the purpose of his coming to the United States, the length of his stay, etc.

After all, Zhou Buqi is also a top student, and he answers questions fluently.

By the time everyone had successfully passed the customs and received the gifts, it was already 40 minutes later.

In the hall, I saw someone holding a big sign from a distance, with Chinese characters written on it: "Zi Wei".

Two girls were picked up at the airport.

One has black hair, yellow skin, and a slim figure, wearing a beige windbreaker; one has yellow hair, white skin, is hot and sexy, wearing a low-cut woolen sweater in a white waist-length jacket, with a very deep groove.

Deep, seemingly bottomless.

"Senior Sister Zhen."

Xue Baoshan had a big suitcase, but Zhou Buqi took care of it. She walked over happily, smiling sweetly.

Zhen Yu was very enthusiastic and called out happily: "Baoshan!"

Then, he opened his arms and gave her a big hug.

After coming to the United States for more than half a year, I have become a lot more enthusiastic.

Next, he hugged Zhou Buqi again.

However, the other people in the group were not familiar with each other, so they just smiled and nodded, as if they knew each other.

"Let me introduce to you, this is Emily, my roommate, and she is also studying at Wharton Business School. She and Zuckerberg are alumni."

This blond girl with blue eyes and low-cut breasts had a shocking aura, which immediately made the fatigue of this group of people disappear a lot, and hormones and dopamine were flowing out.

"Okay, stop looking. I don't know. I thought they all came from the grassland, like hungry wolves." After Zhou Buqi looked at them fiercely for a few times, he turned back and said harshly to these young men.

Warning.

snort!

Don’t lose the country’s image!

Xue Baoshan's face turned red, and Zhen Yu covered her mouth and laughed. Fortunately, Emily couldn't understand, and she kept having a silly laugh, with a bright smile and white teeth.

The sky has turned dark, everyone went to eat and then returned to the hotel.

I will officially set off to meet Xiao Zha tomorrow.

It is the first time for everyone to come to the United States, but they are all top students. Their English accent may not be accurate, but they can handle simple daily communication easily.

Emily seemed to have taken a liking to Li Xian. During the meal, she kept taking the initiative to chat with him, her green eyes sparkling from time to time.

Zhou Buqi lowered his voice, "Is your sister reliable? I remember you told me that she has a boyfriend, right?"

Zhen Yu shrugged, "You don't care."

"You are not a woman!"
To be continued...