Reborn multinational giant

Greed is the original sin of mankind, and it is also the ladder of human progress. In Silicon Valley, people will not laugh at greedy people, but at people who are not enterprising and achieve nothing!

The furious Ehrlich finally awakened the people who lay in the bedroom from the backyard after the party orgy after a lot of vandalism in the backyard.

Richard asked when Ehrlich was not sleeping and arguing in the morning, Ehrlich took the only empty wine bottle at his hand and threw it at him!

Ehrlich is a violent person. Richard, who lives with Ehrlich for a long time, has no doubt about this. After flashing past the bottle thrown by Ehrlich, Richard He also became a little annoyed, until Ehrlich ranted to him: "That fucking Chinese software is online!"

Compared with Ehrlich’s response to the phone call, it took a few seconds before he knew what happened. Richard was stunned on the spot. Kiki imitated Momo’s development, and even later in order to speed up the development process, Kiki later The development of Momo is based on the plagiarism of the Chinese version of Momo that is already on the line and fine-tuned. Richard feels that his familiarity with Momo is probably far greater than the kiki he developed by himself!

The innovative soul of Silicon Valley has long been suppressed in Richard's heart by the evil money and the excellent results after kiki went online, and it was not until this time that he was struggling to release it.

Not far away, Dinesh and several other kiki developers, who came to the backyard to investigate the cause of Ehrlich’s quarrel, also heard the news that Momo was online. They were dumbfounded and didn’t know if they could do something. what.

Why, why the damn Chinese software landed in the United States so soon, if it landed two months later, I believe Kiki has left it far behind, even if it’s landed four or five days late, as long as Kiki With more than 1 million users, they can use this to get venture capital investment, even if there is no valuation of 10 million US dollars, a valuation of 5 million US dollars is good, at least Ehrlich can recover a little capital!

"I said long ago that we shouldn't plagiarize. My friends heard that we made a piece of software that copied China, and they didn’t even want to interact with me!" Dinesh complained with some post-mortem nagging, in Silicon Valley. Innovative parties have a natural contempt and estrangement for the gold worshipers. The former believe in God, and the latter believe in Satan!

The nagging and complaining of Dineshma's backfire made Ehrlich even more annoyed. He roared loudly to make Dinesh shut his mouth and the whole backyard became quiet.

"We can't just give up. We still have a chance. Momo has just launched. We already have more than 600,000 download users. Our software is among the best in the appstore and other app stores!" Ehrlich was not willing to give up. Although "Li Gui sees Li Kui" did not have much confidence in him and Richard's team, it is impossible for him to watch the 700,000 dollars he just spent on the water!

Everyone was silent about Ehrlich’s sophistry. What Ehrlich lost was money. Richard and Dinesh lost their faith and the spirit of Silicon Valley. Even at this moment, Richard, who has never spoken. De, has had serious self-doubt about himself, because this is already his fourth entrepreneurial failure!

"We are online three days earlier than Momo. As long as we can get investment and spend money to promote immediately, I believe we will soon establish a lead!" Ehrlich is a bit dissatisfied with the mentality of Richard and others. I have lost my confidence, how could I have taken a fancy to their team in the first place.

At this moment, a fat blond man who had just joined Richard's team a few days ago, some only raised the cell phone in his hand and said:

"They have been recommended by Apple's appstore for premium apps!"

This sentence, like the last slam, smashed Ehrlich's only illusion in his heart, and was recommended by Apple?

Ehrlich understands what this means, which means that the lead established by Kiki three days in advance will soon be overtaken by Momo.

"Moreover, the WeChat under the Chinese company Huizhong..."

"Enough!" Ehrlich snarled and stopped the fat programmer with no eyesight from speaking. Does he still want to sprinkle some salt on his wound?

In the morning, Ehrlich never received a call from any venture capitalist, as if overnight, he was still chasing after yesterday. The Silicon Valley VCs who circled Ehrlich had forgotten the existence of Ehrlich and Kiki. !

The days are going to go on, and the hot potato is always going to be shot. After a long period of inhalation (big) hemp and soothing, Ehrlich called back the venture capitalists who called him yesterday.

"Sorry, Mr. Ehrlich, we still need to think about it."

"Ehrlich, you are so embarrassed to call me, 3 million dollars? I'll give you 30 dollars and ask you to wake up for a cup of coffee?"

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Ehrlich, who had called back more than a dozen calls, became even more discouraged. His valuation of kiki dropped from US$5 million to US$2 million. No one was willing to take the order, and even had two greedy angel investors. , I want to spend 300,000 dollars to buy the whole kiki, do you think I am stupid?More than 600,000 users and Lao Tzu spent 700,000 US dollars plus a team of hard work for a month, just to change you 300,000 US dollars?

Although Ehrlich was unwilling, he was already a little shaken in his heart. If he persisted, I am afraid that no one would even want 300,000 US dollars. The code of this kind of project can be sold online for 5,000 US dollars. , Still the 600,000 users who just registered for Kiki, unfortunately, Ehrlich did not know that these users can stay on Kiki for a few days!

Just when Ehrlich was in despair, he suddenly remembered that Richard had made an appointment yesterday to meet Mary, the broker of the Founders Fund this afternoon. Anyway, this was their last hope. He was looking forward to being The fund founded by Peter Thiel, known as the godfather of investment in Silicon Valley, can have a different vision from those venture capitalists who have fallen into trouble!

"Investment of 500,000 US dollars, valuation of 2.5 million US dollars!"

Ehrlich never expected that the manager of the founders fund, Mary, would agree to continue investing in the kiki project!

"However, I have two conditions. First, you must ensure that there is no possible dispute between kiki and momo, the software from China, on copyright. I think it is difficult for you to guarantee this. So our second condition That is, no matter what method you use, you must ensure that the secondary development and upgrade of kiki is completed within half a month, and that after the upgrade, there is no possibility of copyright conflicts with the Chinese software momo.

If you fail to do the above two points, then the relationship between us will end, and we will also liquidate this project to recover our investment losses as much as possible!"

Both Ehrlich and Richard, who left the founders fund headquarters, contained a cooperative investment agreement signed with their names. Things are so neat and simple. If there is no such damn Chinese software, the speed of getting the investment so fast is enough Become a good talk in Silicon Valley, but in Silicon Valley, everyone likes to invest in innovative projects, even if such a project looks so fake and unreliable, as long as someone is willing to spend money for you.

However, plagiarism projects are different. Silicon Valley hates plagiarism, and Silicon Valley despises plagiarism even more. However, Silicon Valley cannot tolerate it. A foreigner, a software from the East, will act recklessly in the American and European markets that they consider to be in their pockets.

The rise of WeChat has given them enough vigilance. If you don’t pay attention, Huizhong uses the routine of keeping a low profile + surrounding the city from the countryside, instantly nurturing WeChat into an existence that is difficult for them to resist and compete, so this time, they will not allow the same. It happened again.

"This is Silicon Valley's challenge to outsiders, but before that, you must wash away the disgusting plagiarism from you!" This is Peter Thiel that Mary connected before Ehrlich and Richard left the founders fund. The content of the phone call in person.