Zuckerberg is a wizard after all, although his character is a bit slutty.

The entrepreneurial path he thought of was more diverse than Gu Cheng's hastily predicted.

It’s not that Gu Cheng’s vision is not as good as Zuckerberg.

After all, one is to exert his subjective initiative and be imaginative; the other is to think in reverse and try to review. Gu Cheng was able to think of Zuckerberg's focus by 70 or 8 points, which is already considered as a guess of the enemy.

After spending about half a month, Zuckerberg completed the work handover between him and yy.com and finally successfully escaped.

Because the contract was terminated early, 1% per year and 5% of the 5% share options were not obtained for five years, which was considered a waste of money. (The condition for 10% of the equity in five years was the additional preferential conditions proposed by Li Ying when she tried to retain Zuckerberg, which was not that high at the beginning)

However, after working in YY.com for a year and a half, Zuckerberg still has two or three million dollars in private money from his salary to the personal interests of various technology outsourcing suppliers.

With this money, he can save the angel round and even the A round of financing that was taken advantage of by investors, and use his own money to survive the most risky and the highest return on valuation returns. Of course, the premise is that he will not fail in starting a business.

In fact, as early as April, after studying the social war between yy and QQ in China, Zuckerberg had already made a newly registered software R&D organization with his family and girlfriend, who was holding white gloves on behalf of others. Then he used his own money to seek outsource technology outside and wrote the rough mold of the new product he wanted.

After the company was officially established, the outsourced resources were immediately introduced openly and the products were put on the market after two or three months of running-in testing.

If this is not done, according to industry management, you can wait until the angel round of money is in place before writing the code manually, and at least half a year will you achieve results. Zuckerberg can save the precious three-month time difference by running away privately.

The name of the new product, Zuckerberg tentatively sets it to be faechat, which is roughly equivalent to "face chat".

There is no doubt that this is an online dating tool that can make a comeback when viewing, and with the function of burning after reading, people can drive on a large scale without any scruples, and the burst photos will only become more common.

So the name "faechat" is very suitable.

In fact, chat is not very suitable for translation as "chat", it should be translated as "talking" or "chat up".

When chatting, you have to chat with a specific counterpart, and you can’t talk at all when you change someone casually.

When talking, you will talk to whoever you catch, and brag about pretending to be good, you will meet whoever you meet. This is also very consistent with the context of the word chat in English.

So, it's just "face chat".

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On this day, it was less than a week since Zuckerberg officially resigned.

His technical outsourced codes for various parties finally came into place three days ago and the functions were run through.

Finally, he personally sorted out the sample of the semi-finished software at hand and said to himself with confidence:

"Fechat looks good, the chat function is completely fine, the mosaic limited-time reading permissions, chat record destruction and packet grab permissions have also been tested. As long as you integrate payment tools and other external resources, you can spend money and get advertisements. Peter Thiel will definitely be interested in it if he promotes savagely."

He got a few computers and tried several accounts. He confirmed that there was no problem, so he packed up his things and prepared to go out and visited Peter Thiel again in San Jose.

He had contacted the other party before, but it was on the phone.

Peter Thiel has not yet gained the prestige of being the "Godfather of Silicon Valley Venture Capital", but his influence cannot be underestimated. He just established a venture capital fund called founde-fund this year, which mainly manages the funds of the former co-founder shareholders of Paypal, and absorbs some external funds, with a cumulative capital of billions of dollars. He specializes in finding many projects with marginal but complex and coordinated innovation potential to invest in Silicon Valley, with a harsh vision.

After all, in another time and space, Peter Thiel relied on the halo of "Facebook's first external investor, and the angel round eventually benefited 20,000 times" to reap the reputation of "the godfather of Silicon Valley venture capital."

Now that he hasn't invested money for Zuckerberg, he is naturally not qualified to be called "the godfather of Silicon Valley venture capital."

But regardless of whether Peter Thiel is the godfather or not, his status is much higher than Zuckerberg.

If Zuckerberg had not informed the wired secretary on the phone that he had posted the identity of "Yy.com Front CTO" on the phone, he would not even be able to call the phone for the first time.

After making an appointment, confirming that Peter Thiel is available, Zach drove from Palo Alto to San Jose by himself.

San Jose is also one of the major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area or Silicon Valley, and people from Paypal-Mafia are particularly fond of that city.

Perhaps it was because Paypal started a business there at the beginning, so these people later started found-fund, space-x, LinkedIn, and all opened their companies there.

Zuckerberg was familiar with the road, drove the car to founde-fund company in a hurry and stopped, went to the front desk to make an appointment, went straight upstairs and rushed into Peter Thiel's office.

"Mr. Till, it's great to meet you. Just call me Mark. Last time I briefed you on the phone. I think you will be interested today."

Zuckerberg went straight to the point and directly expressed his intention.

"Mr. Zuckerberg, or can I call you Mark?" Peter Thiel is already 40 years old and has a much more steady manner. He controls the rhythm of the conversation with light weight and pours a little cold water on Zuckerberg.

"I think there may be some misunderstandings between us about each other's intentions. The project you mentioned last time is indeed quite interesting, but it has not reached the level that makes me want to invest. I think there is a big problem with the operationality here."

Zuckerberg came with confidence, and the other party's statement really caught him off guard.

He quickly explained the entry point of his entrepreneurial project, took a different approach to innovation, and analyzed the hidden pain of social product users. Blabla said a lot in a hurry, trying to arouse the other party's desire to invest.

"Peter, you have to understand that if it were two years ago, this project would have absolutely no future, because those who showed their show on the Internet in that era were far from the audience. No one would be frustrated because a blogger on a product such as myspae is more knowledgeable and has a higher status than himself. At most, netizens would be unwilling to give up and irresponsible squirting a few words, and then after spraying, they would count and not take it to their hearts.

But after yy.com appeared, the situation was completely different. Every person who pretended to be around him, people in his circle of friends, and at least alumni of the same school. The excessive sharing of the strong above has forced the weak and those who are unwilling to reveal their true strength to find a new hole to vent. My project is definitely the product that you can find the most in line with this pain point in the next two years!”

After saying this, Peter Thiel still did not touch Peter Thiel. Zuckerberg could only grit his teeth and tell the last killing move he had originally prepared to treasure.

He was not afraid that Peter Thiel would immediately copy it after learning from him, after all, it was too late to go. However, if Peter Thiel still did not invest money for him after listening, he would have to find a spare tire as quickly as possible to solve the problem of funds and payment tools. If the time difference was delayed for a few months, maybe his creativity might be copied.

"I not only have a limited time-based picture for large-scale pictures, but also anti-screenshot viewing function, but in the future I will also use your resources to find an online payment tool to use red envelopes to pay the money from the aid. I even designed a derivative function evolved from yy's "Grab Group Red Envelope" function, so that group users can set a threshold for grabbing packets before sending red envelopes.

Anyone who distributes red envelopes in this group with more than a certain number of times the number of red envelopes is snatched, or whose memory amount is significantly lower than the average amount of red envelopes in the group will not be qualified to grab high-authority red envelopes. In addition, the amount allocation of group red envelopes will also change from the yy mode to the "faster clicking, the more money" mode to absolutely random.

Think about it, what does this mean is actually a kind of online blocking, which makes people unable to stop. Even if Americans do not have the habit of grabbing red envelopes, as long as there is a mentality of "there is no right to grab them anyway, as long as I send more and grab them more, I will be lucky and may make money." How many users will it attract?

From SE love to gambler mentality, all the tricks that drive human sexuality, dopamine, adrenaline, you can find them in my faechat. Where else do you go to find a second project?

However, no matter what Zuckerberg said, Peter Thiel was unmoved. After he hit the wall, he could only find another spare tire in shame.

Online payment is Zuckerberg's weakness. He is not short of money, he is just lacking in resources in the sub-field of Internet finance.

And in the United States, obviously no one has more resources in this regard than Peter Thiel, the father of paypal.

Until Zuckerberg left the found-fund foundation, he didn't know why Peter Thiel's attitude changed so much, and was much worse than the previous communication on the phone.

There is no way, who made Gu Cheng and Li Ying low-key?

He obviously helped Zuckerberg, but he was unwilling to jump out and pretend to slap in the face.

So after about half a year, at the end of 2005, Zuckerberg, who was looking for other resources to make a difficult journey, came back and knew where he was.

...

"Happy cooperation, I will get you a new and credible online payment tool immediately, and bind it as a plug-in for yy international version. As for equity shares and valuations, I will finalize it with Ms. Li in the future."

After seeing Zuckerberg off, Peter Thiel called Gu Cheng that night.

Half a month ago, before Zuckerberg left the company, Li Ying was ordered by Gu Cheng to take the initiative to come to cheat Peter Thiel.

Li Ying used both soft and hard skills, showing her social skills, which easily made Peter Thiel think that "the internal investigation of yy.com has already discovered the truth about Zuckerberg's contact with him", and thus the truth is drawn.

Don’t doubt the difficulty of such a thing. If you play ordinary conspiracies and tricks, the Americans are not the opponents of the Chinese. In addition, Li Ying used the bait to allow Peter Thiel to invest in yy.com to fish in exchange for Peter Thiel not to invest in faechat, and the other party was half-rejected and half-held and got on Li Ying’s pirate ship.

"Happy cooperation, I promised you that the investment share will not be small." Gu Cheng gave the other party a clear letter and hung up the phone.

He turned to Li Ying, who had been a little nervous, sat opposite him waiting for news, and gave the beautiful lady president a warm smile: "It's done, thank you for your hard work recently, please celebrate tonight."
Chapter completed!