My Age of Investment

I spent five days at Walsh Ranch, and except for this little episode caused by "Finding the Cow", the rest of the time was very enjoyable.

Xia Jingxing followed Yang Niu to milk cows, feed cattle and sheep, and went fishing by the creek, and made grilled fish.

The idyllic life is very freehand, and people can't help but forget the intrigue in the shopping mall, forget the unhappiness, and make life a kind of enjoyment.

Five days passed in a flash, and it was time to leave.

The babes kissed their family members one by one and said goodbye to them.

The chubby girl Jessica held her sister's thigh tightly and didn't let go.

Yang Niu's second brother Brady looked at Xia Jingxing and reminded again: "Daren, you said that when I was an adult, you wanted to give me a Tesla electric sports car, I can remember it."

"It's a small matter, bring your driver's license and come to our company to pick up the car."

Xia Jingxing and Brady boasted that Tesla's electric sports car can compete with Ferrari and Porsche.

Then, Tesla was fascinated by this kid, and told Xia Jingxing a lot of embarrassing things about his sister, so he got a future Tesla sports car.

"Remember to advertise Walsh Ranch on Facebook!"

After the son reminded him, the old man, Walsh, came to remind him again.

Xia Jingxing nodded, indicating that there is no problem.

Little Walsh continued: "I didn't go hunting this time. Next time you come again, I will show you the game of "sniper rifle hunting wild boars". We also have a hunting club that specifically helps the state government kill wild boars. There's a bonus."

Xia Jingxing replied with a smile, the wild boars in the United States were infested, and the Americans did not eat wild boar at all because the taste was too great.

Then the wild boar breeding is exaggerated, and it has become a headache for Texas farmers and ranchers.

In China, wild boars are already extinct!

Old Walsh, leaning on a cane, waved goodbye to Xia Jingxing, and asked the latter to come to the farm for a holiday.

Xia Jingxing didn't know if it was because of the light of the Volunteer Army. Old Walsh, an American veteran who had participated in the Korean War, had a good impression on him.

Although they are opponents, the volunteers have won the respect of these US military veterans with their "brave" and "fearless" image, and they have also respected the Chinese people a lot.

The puppy is no good. Old Walsh has a cold attitude towards him, the defeated general of the U.S. military.

Yang Niu's grandmother Kayla and mother Caitlin also said a lot of farewell words to Xia Jingxing, and they had a good impression of this young Chinese man.

Xia Jingxing pinched Jessica's chubby face, "I'll give you a set of Disney dolls next time, okay?"

Jessica wore the pink Mickey ears that Xia Jingxing gave her, dressed like a little princess, carved in pink and jade, raised her hand, jumped on the ground, and asked Xia Jingxing to hug her.

As soon as Xia Jingxing picked her up, the little girl kissed him, making Xia Jingxing so happy that she was a little reluctant to let go of this cute little thing.

The puppy bowed to Yang Niu's family, thanking him for his hospitality.

It's just that when the puppy bends over, his face is a little abnormal.

The puppies are almost all lying on the bed these days,

I fell off the horse and felt nothing at the time. The next day, the puppy couldn't get out of bed, and the bruises on his back and buttocks attacked.

It was Xia Jingxing who endured the awkwardness, gave medicine to the puppy, and then helped with the massage to help complete the absorption of the medicine.

Of course, Xia Jingxing only pushed his back, and the medicine for his butt was given by the puppy himself.

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The three drove back to Austin by the way they came, and took the earliest flight back to San Francisco.

As soon as he returned to the company, Xia Jingxing began to arrange work for Yang Niu: "In your ranch, we took a lot of photos when we went sightseeing, you can arrange for the operation department to write a travel blog.

Let the operation department share and reprint it, and it will soon become a popular blog on the platform, seen by countless people, and the location and name of the farm are all revealed.

So, Mr. Walsh, Jr. won't bother me, will he? "

Yang Niu laughed and said, "Are you serious? In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't advertise."

"No, this time, Mr. Walsh Jr. lost a horse (horse) each. Although it's nothing in terms of property value, it's a bit of a loss for Mr. Walsh Jr.."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "The way to save his face is to have a steady stream of tourists come to Walsh Farm to travel and vacation there.

Vincent was envious and jealous, but we gave him a chance because he didn't like Facebook ads. "

Seeing Xia Jingxing's firm attitude, Yang Niu nodded and smiled and said, "Well, my father may be dying of joy.

His biggest wish is to witness the expansion of the family ranch to 10,000 acres in his hands, and it is best to buy Vincent Ranch.

But all of this requires the support of money.

If the ranch can develop a tourism and vacation business model in addition to farming, it may help him fulfill his dream. "

Xia Jingxing did not expect that little Walsh had such ambitions under his reckless appearance.

Yang Niu said before that when the ranch passed to his father, Walsh Jr., there were only more than 2,000 acres.

Now that the area has doubled, Walsh Jr. is still not satisfied with the status quo, and wants to double it again on this basis.

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a few days later.

George came to Facebook alone, ready to talk to Xia Jingxing.

"Daren, the development of Facebook is getting better and better! The last time I came, you all only had an office on the first floor, and now you have rented the upstairs, right?"

Sitting on the sofa in Xia Jingxing's office, George smiled and praised the development of Facebook.

Looking at George who was dressed neatly and dressed like an elite at all times, Xia Jingxing didn't know what the other party was going to do suddenly, he smiled and said, "Thank you! The development is okay, we still need to work hard!"

George asked Xia Jingxing for nothing, but mainly wanted to sell F Club.

He could understand how ruthless Facebook is. Hundreds of high schools on the East Coast are overwhelmingly sponsored by Facebook for various activities.

F has shrunk back to high schools in the Boston area, barely on par with Facebook in the area.

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But high schools in other areas, as far as he knows, are about to be occupied by Facebook.

Originally, he also expected Zuckerberg to bring him a little surprise.

But the longer you wait, the more disappointed you become, and the chances of success are slim.

If it goes on like this, F Club will definitely be finished, and his one million dollar investment will be wasted.

While the current situation was not too ugly, he wanted to try to see if he could sell F Club to Facebook to recover a certain amount of losses.

Although this is humiliating, as long as you can stop the loss, it is nothing.

Investing rationally and not acting out of anger is the investment principle that his father taught him since he was a child.

"Daren, I'll tell you the truth. I invested in a photo social networking site. Maybe you've heard the name, FaceClub, which is very popular with high school students."

While talking, George observed Xia Jingxing's expression, the latter's expression was calm and not surprised at all, it seemed that he should have known about his investment in F Club.

Now that the other party knew, George just opened the skylight and said something bright.

"Photo social networking should be regarded as a supplementary business for Facebook, and as far as I know, many Facebook student users are resistant to opening Facebook to all groups of people.

If Facebook buys F Club and focuses on the campus market, it may be a good solution. "

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "Student resistance is a thing of the past. Now many students on Facebook have friends outside the campus."

Acquisition is impossible. Xia Jingxing felt that no matter how much money the company has, it can’t be so wasteful. It’s useless to buy a product that is quickly beaten by Facebook.

As for photo social networking, that is indeed the future trend.

But this "future" refers to the era of mobile Internet. Sharing photos on mobile phones is much more convenient and faster than computers, and can be shared anytime, anywhere.

With these conditions, photo social networking has really ushered in a golden development opportunity.

Now, the potential is very limited, and Facebook itself has the function of uploading pictures, so there is no need to create a sub-product, not to mention diverting website traffic, and it is very uneconomical to pay a sum of money.

George heard the refusal in Xia Jing's jargon, but he was not discouraged, and still persuaded: "Facebook has a cash reserve of tens of millions of dollars, which is indeed a lot.

But in a high school student market alone, it cost 2 million US dollars, which is not worth the gain.

You pay 2.5 million US dollars, and I can sell the F company to you at the original price. At that time, the valuation of my shares was only so much, and I didn't earn a cent. "

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "This means nothing to us."

George frowned, "If you're not satisfied with the valuation, you can lower it a little bit, how about $2 million?

I take part of the loss and Facebook removes a potential threat. "

Xia Jingxing didn't expect George to be so persevering, didn't he express his rejection clearly enough?

"Don't say 2 million US dollars, it is 1 million US dollars, and we will not acquire F Club, because this is not in line with Facebook's development strategy."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "I'm very sorry, it's hard for you to go!"

George's face sank, "Daren, you'd rather invest $2 million to expand the market than buy a potential competitor with $2 million?

Although the process is different, the result is the same, and the goal of pruning the threat is also achieved. "

Xia Jingxing shrugged, "The problem is that we have already spent the US$2 million, and if we spend another US$2 million to acquire F Club, that's US$4 million.

If you had come to me some time ago, I might have been interested in your proposal. "

George said with a cold face, "Don't you think that if you spend 2 million dollars, you can end this war?"

Xia Jingxing heard the threat in George's words and said with a nonchalant smile, "If you want to continue investing in F Company, you shouldn't come to me today, right?"

George is speechless.

This is also where he struggles. Sufficient funds are essential for F Club to sing a good match against Facebook.

He has already invested a million dollars, and it is not a problem to invest another one or two million dollars.

But this amount of money is like a beggar in front of the face with tens of millions of dollars in hand.

Playing to burn money, F Club can't play Facebook anyway.

What's more, F's money is all his money, but Facebook's money is equity financing.

Although he showed weakness in his heart, George said with a strong face on his face: "It may be because of your remarks that my competitiveness has been aroused again, thus creating a difficult opponent for Facebook."

Such cruel words had no effect on Xia Jingxing.

He knew that George had a Forbes father who was quite powerful.

But George himself doesn't have much money at his disposal, otherwise, the last time Facebook raised financing, it wouldn't be so deductible, so he was ready to find out.

If George was a little more arrogant, he would not resist the other party's investment.

Talking too much is useless, Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "Perhaps so! The industry is also prosperous because of competition."

George spread his hands and said with regret on his face: "Okay! Then let's all compete well!"

He stared into Xia Jingxing's eyes, "See if the industry is really prospering because of competition."

When it comes to this, George also knows that the stop loss plan has failed, and then he will either carry it to the end or increase the position!

With all kinds of thoughts, George left Facebook.

Xia Jingxing looked at the figure of the other party leaving and said nothing.

There are no permanent interests and no permanent friends.

Speaking of friends, it's over. He and George are far from being friends, just acquaintances.

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