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   Chapter 459 The sword goes sideways

  Meerson left Bill Gates' office in high spirits, ready to go back to work.

He believes that Microsoft's WP system has a great opportunity to overturn Saipan. Although in the past two years, it can't be as hyped as entering the browser industry, killing each other with a US knife all the way, but Microsoft is more expensive than Alcatel mobile phones. The rich and powerful, even if he used a US knife to win over those mobile phone manufacturers to join the WP system camp, Myerson felt that he could win the Saipan system!

After Terry Meyerson returned to the department, he immediately began to change drastically, taking over the Microsoft CE system department, and then directly announced the dissolution of the CE system. In the future, the CE system will not be updated, and services will not be provided. There is only one operating system for mobile devices, and that is WP!

   After adjusting Microsoft's interior, Lee Meirson began to win over a number of partners, from chip manufacturer Texas Instruments, to mobile phone hardware manufacturer Samsung, to telecommunications companies Vodafone England, Australia Talstra Telecom, etc., WP systems have begun to cooperate.

Even Melson plans to unite with Sendo, a British mobile phone manufacturer, to produce Microsoft's own mobile phones. Melson is obviously aimed at Alcatel mobile phones. Chips, hardware, telecommunications, mobile phones, plus WP system, Melson Sen is preparing to directly form a new mobile phone industry chain!

  Alcatel mobile phones are playing in the industry chain. Not to be outdone, Myerson is also ready to set up a mobile phone industry chain, and then promote the WP system to other manufacturers.

  In a small office in Los Angeles, the City of Angels, California, Kalanick, who had just dropped out of the University of California, Los Angeles, was crowding with six people in the office of this Internet company with Scour.

After all, the frenzy of the Internet makes the young people of America restless. Just like the rumors that Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and others who were promoted by the media dropped out of school in the middle of the school when they established a company and eventually became a billionaire when they became famous. The wind started to blow again.

   A group of Internet leaders headed by Mark Anderson, Song Yang, and Yang Zhiyuan are all young and famous, and they have been listed on Time Magazine and Forbes for many times.

Under the touts of the media, Kalanick also began to enter the pit, but in fact, among these people, Mark Anderson obtained a diploma. Although Song Yang has never been to San Jose University a few times, at least he is still hanging. Name, Yang Zhiyuan, as rumored, dropped out of school halfway, but the media didn't say that Yang Zhiyuan dropped out when he was studying for a Ph.D., and this degree has already beaten everyone!

Kalanick and the current 6 founders of Scour, on the other hand, really ran away. Before finishing college, they ran out together and pooled money to start this Internet company. Now, like Kalanick, he was fooled by the media and lame. There are not a few people who have gone through it. After the wind of the Internet subsides, we will know who is swimming in the fruit.

Kalanick, who was born in San Francisco, is just 21 years old this year. He can run out to build an Internet company. Kalanick must be confident. When he was in sixth grade, Kalanick learned programming. The family has children.”

   In the first 21 years, Kalanick had a smooth life, and he was admitted to the top three American public universities in California, Los Angeles, which proved everything.

   "We need to find investors, otherwise Scour may not make it to Christmas!"

Among the Scours, the person in charge of finance looked at the balance in the account and said to Kalanick that before the establishment of Scour, Kalanick and the others naturally swore that they would be able to get investment as long as the Scour website was established. People's favor, just like Netscape, Double-click, Yahoo, Lycos and other Internet companies that have been heard in recent years, are sought after by venture capital companies.

But in reality, they slapped them hard. There was no promotion funds. The Scour website was established, and there were few visitors. Investors were not interested in their resource search engine. They invested in major venture capitalists. The company's letter of intent for investment has fallen into disrepair, and there has been no news.

After all, no matter how you look at it, you can't see the potential of the Scour website. They can't let several major records and Hollywood film and television companies give up the publishing rights. Those things that Scour can search can't be listened to or can't be watched. Users come to the Scour website to do it. Well?

  People eat horse chews, plus rent, server fees, etc., let Kalanick and the others put together the founding funds, which began to be consumed seventy-sevenly eighty-eightly.

   "Maybe, we should let go of the restrictions on users to freely share and download music and video files!"

  Kalanick raised his head from a computer and said to the crowd that Kalanick has an adventurous spirit in his bones. In order to survive, he is willing to take risks, even take risks.

   "But in this case, we will be sued by Hollywood records, film and television companies in federal court, and they will sue us for bankruptcy!"

Among the few people, someone immediately said that the current federal law does not require the sharing of movies and records on the Internet, but everyone understands that as long as copyright issues are involved, it will touch Hollywood companies. tolerated.

   "This is Los Angeles. Scour is a website for users to search for music and video resources for the convenience of users. Federal law does not prohibit users from sharing!"

Kalanick said loudly that since the establishment of Scour company, it has not improved, and Kalanick's temper has become irritable. The reason why he chose to establish Scour in Los Angeles instead of returning to his birthplace of San Francisco is that Kalanick wants to The Scour company established is related to Hollywood.

Kalanick also visited big Hollywood companies, but before he finished speaking, he was bombarded, and asked several Hollywood giants to take out the copyright and hand it over to Scour to put it on the Internet. There is no specific profit plan, just saying From the Scour website, you can allocate advertising fees to Hollywood companies and the like. Hollywood giants don't want to hear such a nonsense plan at all.

  Those companies in Hollywood are unkind, and Kalanick is ready to be unjust. He directly lifts the restrictions and allows users to share files. As for the shared music, movies, etc., whether it is pirated or not, Kalanick can't care about it.

   As long as it can quickly attract users and increase the click-through rate of traffic, the Scour website can attract the attention of investors, get venture capital or even… go public!

   As for the future, the big deal is to get on the bus first and then make up the ticket, and then buy the copyright from the Hollywood company. Now, Kalanick just wants to keep the Scour company alive.

Kalanick's remarks caused several people in Scour to argue endlessly. Some agreed with Kalanick's idea. After all, they would not be able to live, and they would not care about the right way. Some thought that the risk was too great, and it was rejected by Hollywood giants. If you catch a sore foot, I'm afraid I won't sue them into bankruptcy!

While arguing, the door of the small office was suddenly pushed open, and a young man walked in and looked at the few Kalanick people sitting in the small office. The young man looked around the office and thought again. Kalanick turned around a few times, "Is this Scour company?"

  Kalanick nodded, looked at the young man in front of him, and said with doubt, "May I ask who you are?"

"I'm Evan Spiegel, commissioned by an investment company!" Hearing the person in front of him is exactly the person he's looking for today, Evan Spiegel smiled, this place is really It was hard to find, so he struggled for a while to find it.

   Hearing that it was an investment company, Kalanick was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but get excited, "You want to invest?"

  Evan Spiegel grinned, "Could it be convenient to talk about it?"

Kalanick sat across from Evan Spiegel in the coffee shop one street away from Scour's office. After hearing Evan Spiegel's words, he finally couldn't help asking, "Your Meaning, as long as the Scour website is allowed to release restrictions on user sharing, allowing users to freely share and download music and movies, you are willing to invest in Scour?"

Just now, he was talking about this with a few other people, but now someone suddenly found him and told Kalanick that as long as those restrictions were released, he could invest a lot of money in Scour, which made Kalanick feel , it's kind of weird.

   "Scour website is a very special P2P sharing model, which may be a new model of the Internet in the future!"

Evan Spiegel is talking nonsense about the reasons for investing. In fact, he doesn't understand and is not interested in these things. With what Evan Spiegel learned at Stanford, he knows it with his eyes closed. The thing is playing a side ball, but today he came here to give Scour a knife, so naturally he would say it nicely.

  Kalanick was silent for a while, and finally asked, "Can I know, who invested in Scour?"

Evan Spiegel threatened that he was from an overseas investment foundation, but Kalanick knew that he was talking nonsense, but Evan's conditions were indeed tempting. The A round was invested in Scour.com. 8.5 million US dollars, and will provide Scour with the best promotion resources, and will find B-round investors for Scour in the future.

   However, the conditions were so good that Kalanick always felt that there seemed to be some special meaning behind this investment.

  Evan Spiegel was silent for a while, but said to Kalanick, "My investor, let me tell you, he will support you, even if Scour fails to go public, he will still invest in you in the future!"

When Evan Spiegel rushed back to Song Yang's San Jose villa, he saw that there seemed to be a party going on in the villa. The two co-presidents of ICQ, Erin and Wesley, as well as Gallo, Greke, and Marku Si, Xie Qing, including several city councilors from San Jose, and a group of celebrities from San Jose all came here. The atmosphere in the villa was lively and noisy, and they seemed to be waiting for something.

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