It was not until Facebook had a little user base that Ye Dongqing had the idea of ​​contacting those celebrities, politicians, singers, models, etc. and asking them to register and authenticate users for free.

This is a win-win situation. They can get higher attention and skip the media and interact directly with many people. Facebook can use their star effect to attract more new users to join and retain them.

Isn't it a very good idea? I have started to form a group specifically responsible for this aspect and have contacted more than a dozen large brokerage companies. The first batch of popular users are appearing one after another, which is different from ordinary accounts. In Ye Dongqing's opinion, young people will like these, just like moving real social gossip into the digital network.

This is the benefit of rebirth, allowing him to know what he wants to do from the beginning and understand which direction he develops is most beneficial to him. Making money is second to the moment, and he is still in the initial stage of crazy attracting new users. Not to mention the Eurasian region, even the North American continent has not yet expanded, so it is still early to relax his vigilance.

According to the information Ye Dongqing has, many large companies have already targeted Facebook's new social model. For example, a founder of Google, such as OICQ, a subsidiary of American Online, has a large number of companies that follow the trend for development, mainly gathered in the Silicon Valley area and must first seize the vast majority of the market.

In his eyes, the market here refers to nearly 20 to 3 billion people in dozens of countries. The reason why Ye Dongqing thought about Google early was because she hoped to use this platform to achieve some degree of bundled sales in the future. After having experience in Microsoft's anti-monopoly, she believes that she can find ways to avoid monopoly accusations, such as developing a software sales platform and putting her products in the forefront.

At present, he is just busy accumulating capital, and he is a small fight in the early stage. His era that really belongs to him will not be able to be realized until the future. If he has ambition and ability, it depends on his luck.

As expected, after Richard Rockefeller proposed the idea of ​​financing, Ye Dongqing also declined on the grounds that there was no financing plan for the time being. The two had just met for a while and didn't have much topic to talk about. After talking for a while, they left each other's phone numbers and left each other...

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He gave a quotation of 60 million US dollars, and then there was no news from Mike Howell's real estate agent. He couldn't make the decision, and the only one who could make the decision was the seller.

When Ye Dongqing received his call again, six days had passed. During these six days he went to Silicon Valley and was busy with the resettlement of the new company. In fact, there was not much work that he needed to deal with. He mainly wanted to get familiar with the new employees. Employees in New York will soon move to work at the new headquarters. The Santa Clara area has developed well in recent years, with many apartments idle and no worries about having no place to live.

In order to avoid impulsive consumption, Ye Dongqing once again boarded the island in the Long Island area. After the visit, she decided to buy it and buy it in the name of Tamsui Investment Group. The specific matters were handed over to the lawyer for help. The seller cooperated enough and only took a short day to complete most of the procedures. The total price was 62 million US dollars. The seller bears all taxes and fees, the total down payment was 12 million US dollars, and the remaining ones were paid in three years.

It is difficult to make money, and it is too easy to spend money. Just buy a small island with a total area of ​​over 48 acres. It is about an hour drive from Manhattan. Ye Dongqing feels that it seems necessary to check the prices of helicopters or speedboats in the near future.

The performance of Tamsui Investment Group has not fluctuated much, and Facebook's valuation has been rising again and again, mainly because new users have been joining in, breaking through 20 million registration volume at a nearly terrible speed. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who had a little holiday with Ye Dongqing last time, just offered a quotation of 100 million US dollars, just to account for 25% of the shares. Combined with the Skype call program that has not yet been put into the market and is being optimized, the famous Japanese rich man has guessed what Ye Dongqing wants to do and is quite optimistic about it.

The rapid growth of users directly leads to the continuous upgrading of the plan to expand recruitment of new employees, from 300 to 800. Otherwise, it would be difficult to get busy because in addition to Facebook, Skype lacks staff, and his new idea of ​​the video sharing platform is also short of people. I thought it would be enough to rent two floors of office buildings, but now I have rented two more floors to prevent the inadequate future and the embarrassing situation of being divided by other companies.

Facebook is so popular recently, it is worth the price of holly and white. It is only April. Some media even asserted that it will be the most successful Internet company in 2003. After sweeping over a group of universities, many adults in their twenties and thirties are also trying to use it. The Japanese version, Spanish version, French version, etc. will soon be put into the market. As for specific optimizations for different regions, it will take some time to get out of time to start.

To be honest, even Ye Dongqing himself never thought that he would succeed so quickly. There is no competitive product on the market yet. You should know that it has only been more than five months since it was launched before Christmas last year. He felt that even if he offered a 1 billion dollar offer, someone would dare to take money to gamble.

Look at Google. In 1999, its founders tried to sell Google for $750,000. Now Google has not yet been listed and its valuation has reached nearly 10 billion US dollars. Last year, when Ye Dongqing just paid attention to it, the valuation was only about $5 billion.

This shows that investors do not really lose confidence in the Internet industry, but they just no longer believe in lies and know how to distinguish which companies are high-quality companies worth investing in. Judging from Facebook's current performance, it seems that they have won nearly 30 million US dollars in advertising and promotion contracts in succession in succession, which is very in line with their appetite.

It is impossible to sell. Last year, Google founder Larry Page said that he would not sell it if he was less than 5 billion US dollars. Ye Dongqing had a better vision. He did not intend to accept financing if he was less than 10 billion US dollars, unless there were reasons for having to raise funds, such as the capital chain was about to break. Combined with the enthusiasm of potential advertising investors, there was probably no need to raise funds. In short, this trip to Silicon Valley made him feel much better.

At this moment, Ye Dongqing took several employees of a famous architectural design firm to visit the island.

The apron and dock need to be renovated, and the main buildings that the Morgan family lived in also need to be renovated. In fact, it is okay to live there directly, but he doesn't want to make do with this kind of thing. He spent more than 60 million US dollars, so he still lacks this amount of renovation money.

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Chapter completed!