My Age of Investment

the next day.

Pebble Beach Golf Course.

With a crisp sound of "bang", the white ball crossed a beautiful parabola and landed on the tender green lawn, not far away was the vast and spectacular coastline.

"Papa Papa~"

Xia Jingxing was watching where the ball landed when he heard a burst of applause behind him.

He looked back and found that Yang Zhiyuan was walking towards him with a smile, followed by a caddy with a backpack.

"Dai Lun, I haven't seen you for a few months, and your skills are getting better. You have to let me order later."

After approaching, Yang Zhiyuan first shook hands with Xia Jingxing with a smile, and then patted Xia Jingxing's shoulder affectionately.

The two have known each other for several years, there have been cooperation and competition between them, and now they have almost let go.

Of course, this is based on the growing strength of one side, which has contributed to this situation.

If you want to win respect, you must rely on your strength to speak. This is an eternal rule of social operation.

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to congratulate you. Congratulations to YouTube for completing the A round of financing, and Facebook for completing the C round of financing."

Yang Zhiyuan looked at Xia Jingxing with a smile on his face, and his tone was sincere.

But Xia Jingxing saw a trace of loneliness on his face. The reason is not difficult to guess. The market value of this once 100 billion US dollar giant has dropped to around 20 billion US dollars. Not only did it lose to Google, but it was also surpassed by Facebook. .

Seeing that so many juniors have surpassed themselves one by one in terms of M\u0026A options, and even defeated the products they launched, anyone will feel a gap in their hearts.

Xia Jingxing didn't mean to show off at all, and nodded with a smile, "Thank you!"

The two walked forward slowly while talking.

"After completing this round of financing, the plan for Facebook's listing should be put on the agenda, right?"

Xia Jingxing shook his head, "I haven't made a corresponding plan yet, and the company is still losing money. Let's see in two years. Anyway, there is no shortage of money."

Now there is not much competition between everyone, and he doesn't mind revealing a little bit of the real situation to Yang Zhiyuan.

Yang Zhiyuan smiled, "If it's going to be listed soon, let me know, and I'll use my pension money to buy some shares."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "Why are you old? You are still so young. Just like me, you have a bright future."

Yang Zhiyuan laughed loudly, "Daren, it's a pleasure chatting with you."

After chatting for a while, the two started playing.

After hitting the ball on the green, the two walked over slowly.

"Daren, tell me, what can I do for you?"

Yang Zhiyuan knew that Xia Jingxing basically didn't engage in useless social activities, so if he asked him to play golf, it must be something to discuss.

Xia Jingxing glanced at Yang Zhiyuan, and said with a smile: "Haha, Jerry, you've already said that, what kind of service is there? I want to discuss cooperation with Yahoo for mutual benefit."

"Oh, then I'm interested."

Yang Zhiyuan stopped, leaning on the club with both hands and looking at Xia Jingxing.

"I'm making a cell phone, you know that?"

Yang Zhiyuan nodded slightly, "I heard that many people are ready to laugh at you. They say that hardware is no better than the Internet, and you don't have industrial experience, so it's easy to fall into a big fight."

Xia Jingxing laughed without hesitation. Not only his domestic counterparts and rivals looked down on him for making mobile phones, but there were also many people in Silicon Valley who were not optimistic about his second venture.

With the increasing valuation and influence of Facebook, although he retreated to the second line, there are still many eyes on him.

In other words, in Silicon Valley, he is not too big or too young.

"Do you think I can make a mobile phone?" Xia Jingxing looked at Yang Zhiyuan with a smile.

"I believe in you, you can definitely make a mobile phone."

Yang Zhiyuan paused, then changed the subject, "But the structure of the mobile phone industry has long been formed, and it is very difficult for you to fight your way out.

Mobile phones are no better than the Internet. A large number of patent barriers are just obstacles, and your technology accumulation is not enough. You need to be mentally prepared to fight for ten years. "

Xia Jingxing smiled and said nothing, not only Yang Zhiyuan,

Most people in this era dare not stroke Nokia's beard lightly. In their view, making mobile phones is a dead end.

"Okay, let's talk about cooperation. I want to build Yahoo mail into our mobile phones, and send and receive emails through mobile phones."

Yang Zhiyuan seemed to have guessed it a long time ago, with a calm face, he said calmly: "If you want to win the business mobile phone market with the email function, I advise you to give up this idea, BlackBerry has already done a very strong job in this area. "

Xia Jingxing spread his hands, "How will you know if you don't try it? Besides mailboxes, we will also seek breakthroughs in other functions."

Yang Zhiyuan smiled lightly, anyway, he persuaded everyone who should be persuaded, it was Xia Jingxing's own business whether he would listen or not.

"No problem, I will greet the people in the company, you can directly let the people in your company come to connect."

"Haha, refreshing!"

"Okay, let's keep playing!"

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The cooperation to take down Yahoo went very well, but it ran into a little trouble here at Google.

In the coffee shop downstairs of the Facebook company, Marisa Mayer looked at Christina and Xia Jingxing who were sitting opposite her, gently stirring the silver spoon in the cup.

"I told Page about the plan you proposed, Darren, but he didn't give me any answer. Maybe he has his own considerations."

The foreign girl looked at her "best friend", smiled and said: "Mayer, we have been good friends for so many years, tell me, is it because Page still resents us."

Mayer stopped his hands and looked up at the foreign girl, "Perhaps, you were too decisive in rejecting Google's "good intentions" back then, and later poached many of our elites in the advertising department, and robbed us of many of them. advertiser.

If it were me, I might not forgive you so generously. "

"But Android and Facebook are two companies!"

The foreign girl spread her hands, "Except for equity, Darren has nothing to do with Facebook now.

The built-in Google service in the mobile phone is also helping you to promote the market, which is very cost-effective for everyone. "

Mayer shook her head lightly, "Then I don't know what he's thinking, you know, I'm done with him."

The foreign girl opened her mouth, but swallowed the words again.

This plastic sister of hers has actually helped enough. For the matter she entrusted, she even went to find her ex-boyfriend in private.

Asking him for more help is indeed a bit unspeakable.

"Thank you, Mayer."

Xia Jingxing finally spoke, and thanked the blonde girl in front of him with a smile.

"Darren, you don't have to be so polite. We are all friends, and it's easy to do with a little effort. It's just a pity that I didn't help you."

Xia Jingxing said with a smile, "I'm already very grateful, I'll leave the rest to myself."

Mayer glanced at Xia Jingxing, who looked at her with a smile, not at all discouraged, but rather confident.

"Well, good luck."