Silicon Valley

In other words, Henry previously owned 20% of SoftBank. However, SoftBank diluted Henry's shares to 10.5% through various means such as financing and mergers.

Henry's initial investment in SoftBank was $100 million, in other words, SoftBank's market value at the time was $500 million. Today, SoftBank’s market value has risen to $60 billion. 10.5% of the shares can be exchanged for more than 6 billion US dollars, and the return on investment is still very high.

At present, SoftBank's main profit comes from Japan Telecom, which can bring SoftBank more than one billion US dollars in profits every year. With that money, SoftBank began investing in or acquiring other companies frequently. Especially in the cold winter of the Internet, SoftBank has been very active.

Time Warner acquired AOL not long ago, and SoftBank spent $2 billion to acquire an 80% stake in Global Online (Japan). And Time Warner also hopes to reduce the responsibility rate through this transaction, and the two sides hit it off. Now, SoftBank has invested in Taobao again, which has gradually become Henry's confidant.

Masayoshi Son likes to rely on intuition when making investments, but his intuition is often surprisingly accurate.

Invest without a word.

Buy without a word.

Anyway, as long as he feels ok, that's fine.

Faced with such people who do not play cards according to the routine, it is indeed a headache.

Henry feels that he should take the initiative and cannot leave the opportunity to SoftBank again.

...

At the end of 1998, in Mountain View, California, USA, the famous Google company in the previous life was quietly born.

The eldest of the three Worth sisters in Silicon Valley, Susan Wojcicki, rented the garage to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start their business here. In fact, it didn't take long for Susan to join Google as one of its early employees.

However, I have to say that Sergey Brin and Larry Page started a business in Susan's house. This... two men and one woman, fell in love over time, Susan and Sergey Brin soon happened A garage-era love. Sadly, the two later separated, and Sergey Brin and Susan's sister, Anne Wojcicki, began dating and got married. However, later, Sergey's unspoken company female employee or could not stand the temptation, became the mixed-race beauty manager of the Google Glass project known as the "Goddess of Google". The mixed-race beauty is said to already have a boyfriend and also work at Google. Put yourself in the shoes and think about it, the boss and his girlfriend got into it under his nose, what a word "angry" in this green hat!

Tolerable or unbearable? The green hat man eventually jumped to Xiaomi as a vice president.

Henry, as a senior network engineer in his previous life, had also heard a little about Google's gossip news. There is a saying that there is no reason for nothing. Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki then began to separate and divorced two years later. This is obviously a vivid example of the small three intervening, leading to the collapse of the family.

According to Henry, Anne Wojcicki is a biotechnologist, and the 23andMe rapid genetic testing company she founded is well-known in the United States.

23 means that the human body has 23 pairs of chromosomes, and 23andMe means its own chromosomes. 23andMe can detect the user's genes through a spit, so as to analyze the probability that the user may suffer from a certain disease. At the same time, you can also check your own bloodline and eighteen generations of ancestors. Many people have found relatives who have been separated for many years through 23andMe.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or fate? The wife of another Google founder, Larry Page, Lucy Southworth is actually a doctoral student in biomedical informatics at Stanford University, with a high level of biotechnology, and is also one of the founders of 23adnMe.

Henry couldn't help but summed up an experience for those women who wanted to join the wealthy: "If you learn biotechnology, you can marry a world-class rich man!"

Recently, Henry has been paying close attention to the development of Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have developed a new online search technology. Although it is not as good as Isearch, it is innovative and shining in many places. point.

"It's time to talk to them..." Henry muttered while lying on the sofa looking at the ceiling.

...

Larry Page and Sergey Brin staring at the monitor on March 2 in Susan's garage. Suddenly, there is the sound of parking outside.

"Sergey, there seems to be a guest at Susan's house?"

"Well, the car is parked at the door." Sergey said as he walked over and opened the garage door.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin looked up and saw a young man wearing sunglasses, accompanied by four men in black, walking towards the garage, to be precise, towards the two of them come...

"Who are you?" Sergey Brin stepped forward and asked aloud.

Henry chuckled and took off his sunglasses.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page were shocked after seeing each other's appearance, "You, you are Henry Williams?!!"

"That's right, it's me!" Henry asked back with a smile, "Hehe, aren't you going to invite me in and sit down?"

"Of course, please come in!" The two quickly nodded in response, and reached out to make a please gesture.

Henry then walked into the garage.

The garage is not big, with 20 to 30 square meters, surrounded by whitewashed walls, and a long table with a few tables in the middle, on which are placed six desktop computers and some other electronic equipment. Network cables, data cables, power cables and other cables are dazzling. Henry walked up to a large two-meter-high machine at this time. The machine had no casing, and a fan kept blowing on it to cool it down. Henry observed it and asked, "Is this machine your server?"

"Yes!" Larry Page nodded embarrassedly, "Because we didn't have the money to buy a server, we bought some second-hand electronic components, and then designed and assembled a server ourselves. Oh, although it looks a bit ugly. , but the performance is not bad! Mr. Williams, please take a seat!"

"Thank you." After Henry sat down, he looked at the somewhat restrained two people, and smiled lightly, "Don't be nervous, two people. Actually, I heard that the Google search you developed is operated at Stanford University, and the response is not bad. So , I came here specially to meet the two geniuses."

At this time, a woman's voice came from outside.

"Who are you?!! Why did you break into my house?"

"Oh, it's Susan's voice!" Sergey introduced Henry. "Mr. Williams, she's the owner of this house!"

"I know, invite her in."

Sergey nodded and immediately went outside, calling out "Susan".

"Sergey, who are they?" Susan wondered.

"Susan, Henry Williams is here!!!" Sergey approached her ear and said in a low voice and excitement.

"The richest man in the world, Henry Williams?!!"

"That's right, it's him!" Sergey said, taking her hand. "Come on, Mr. Williams told you to come over."

Susan Wojcicki nodded excitedly.

After entering the garage, Susan saw Henry and Larry Page chatting and laughing happily.

"Mr. Williams, this is Susan Wojcicki!" Sergey introduced.

"Hello, Mr. Williams, nice to meet you!" Susan said excitedly.

"Hello, beautiful Ms. Susan."

Susan Wojcicki was thirty, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin were more than a year older than Henry, about twenty-five or sixteen.

Henry said straight to the point: "The purpose of my visit this time is very simple. It is to acquire Google. At the same time, it is to invite the two, and Ms. Susan Wojcicki to join Isearch together!"

Larry Page asked: "What will Isearch do with Google when it buys it?"

Hearing this, Henry smiled: "Isearch is not just a search company, it will expand its business and develop towards a diversified technology direction. Therefore, I am going to reorganize the company and use a holding method to combine Isearch's search salesmen and Other businesses are separated. Google’s name will remain and become the parent company of Isearch. At the same time, a GoogleX laboratory will be set up within the company to conduct research on cutting-edge technologies based on search technology, such as artificial intelligence…”

icq's research on artificial intelligence has unique advantages. As an Internet search giant, Isearch has more data to process, and its research in artificial intelligence should be stronger. In Henry's view, the status of artificial intelligence in the future will definitely replace icq and Isearch. At that time, Henry will focus on artificial intelligence, supplemented by icq social networking and Isearch search, to form a super huge artificial intelligence enterprise!

For now, let icq and Isearch compete with each other in AI. The so-called high place is too cold. The siri artificial intelligence developed by icq is almost invincible. It should require external stimulation to make it feel urgent, and then it can develop faster.

"After the company's reorganization, in addition to giving you high salaries, I will also give you allotment of shares. Although there may not be many shares, the higher the market value of the company, the more valuable it will be. In addition, if a subsidiary is listed, you will also own Part of the subscription rights. How? Are you interested in joining my company?"

Google is too small to be a complete nobody compared to Isearch. However, they couldn't believe that Henry wanted to set Google as the parent company of Isearch. For a time, the excitement in Larry and Sergey's heart was beyond words to describe!

Moreover, in the face of the attractive conditions offered by Henry, the three of them looked at each other in dismay and could not refuse at all.

Within a minute, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Susan Wojcicki nodded, expressing their willingness to accept Henry's invitation.

Henry is overjoyed, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are not only innovative technical geniuses, but also have unique vision and are extremely good entrepreneurs! As long as you cultivate a little, you can be on your own! Although Susan Wojcicki is not as powerful as the first two, she has a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University and a master's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her ability can be described as very powerful. In her previous life, she served as a senior vice president in Google's most important and profitable advertising business unit, and was ranked 16th in the "Top 100 Women in the World".

Henry promised Larry Page and Sergey Brin $2 million a year, Susan Wojcicki $1.5 million a year, and paid $5 million to acquire Google, but the $5 million Converted to the shares of Google after the reorganization.

$2 million is a very high salary in the United States, and Larry Page and Sergey are very satisfied with this. After all, they are just out of the gate at the moment, and they are not the two giants of Google in the previous life. Of course, $2 million is definitely a lot less than the CEOs of many big companies. Some CEOs, such as the CEO of F1 racing companies, get an annual salary of $80-90 million, which is the world's number one.

The main reason is because Larry Page and Sergey Brin are too young, and they are still young in Isearch. If Henry offers them tens of millions of dollars in annual salary, it will be cold. the hearts of employees. However, Henry believes that with the abilities of the two of them, sooner or later, they will come to the fore. When the time comes, I will promote them and increase the salary!

(To be continued ~^~)