MTL - Rebirth: Japanese investor-Chapter 29 San Francisco

   Chapter 29 San Francisco

   Kishimoto got out of San Francisco International Airport and took a taxi to a hotel near Stanford University. Before he came, a reservation had been made over the phone.

   Kishimoto Masayoshi checked at the front desk of the hotel, and then got a room card for the corresponding room. He took the elevator in the hotel and went upstairs.

   He walked through a corridor, looked left and right at the room numbers in the two rows, and easily found his room. After opening the door, he walked in and closed the door with his backhand.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi walked to the sofa in the small living room of the suite, first put down the large backpack on his back, then turned around and sat down, leaning on the back of the couch.

   The living environment here is average, but the price is not cheap. However, it's a convenience to draw your own. He was in no rush to talk to Larry Page and Sergey Brin about angel investing.

   In all fairness, Masayoshi Kishimoto is not 100% sure he will be persuaded. The reason is very simple. They are all elites with independent thinking ability, and they are not the kind of idiots who think they are smart.

  The most important point, there is also a Silicon Valley near Stanford University. Silicon Valley is not only a gathering point for American high-tech companies, but also a gathering point for many angel investment companies.

   Don’t talk about a good project, even if it’s just a good idea, as long as you can convince the decision-makers of the angel investment company, you can also get angel investment from the angel investment company. Here, there is a complete operating system.

   This is not at all just a name, saying that it will build Zhongguancun in China's Silicon Valley. Angel investment companies in China are simply wonderful. Either they want to spend a small amount of money and have absolute control, or they invest in buying 10% of the company's shares, but they still need a veto.

   Masayoshi Kishimoto can fully understand why Alibaba accepted SoftBank's venture capital in the first place, and why many well-known Chinese Internet companies listed on Nasdaq.

  Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake Capital and other investment companies with foreign backgrounds but localized packaging are popular in China, and they have made a lot of money.

   is that the conditions they offer are more reasonable than those of local Chinese investment companies, so that both parties can accept them.

   Furthermore, there will be no excessive involvement and interference in the operation and operation of the invested company. This is also something that is difficult for Chinese local investment companies to do.

   The problem of local investment companies in China is the cultural dross of the Chinese people. You have to listen to me if I have money. Even if it is wrong, you have to listen to Lao Tzu.

  If he can't convince Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Masayoshi Kishimoto, who also has alternatives, will not easily give up this lucrative first choice.

  The reason why he was able to easily persuade Jin Zechen of NCsoft was that the other party was in urgent need of funds, and he happened to be the one who could provide the funds.

   In addition, he understands how online games are all over the place. So, the two sides can hit it off. He realized the first successful investment with low investment and high return in the future.

   Masayoshi Kishimoto is very clear that the United States is in a completely different situation, and the economy is doing well! In 1998, for many countries in Asia, it was still a difficult year to extricate themselves from the whirlpool of financial turmoil.

   However, it is really a golden age for investing in Internet companies. The period from 1995 to 2001 was the Internet bubble era.

   There are naturally many alternatives for Kishimoto. Bezos' Amazon, Pierre Omidyar's eBay, Yang Jieyuan's Yahoo, etc. are all companies that have just started.

   If you buy the stocks of these companies at this time, you will definitely make huge profits in the future. In addition, investing in Intel is also a good choice.

   This year, Intel's founder Andy Grove made a wrong decision, which led to Intel's huge losses and a sharp drop in its stock price, which forced him to take a back seat.

   Masayoshi Kishimoto is well aware that this does not mean that Intel can't do it. In the future, the cpu of the personal PC in this world is still the world. Intel is still the king.

  AMD is no match for it either. Apple has its own relatively independent set of software and hardware, and it is not as extensive as the market it occupies.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi also read a book "Only the Paranoid Can Survive" by Andy Grove before crossing. In the current year, he has too many good projects to invest in.

   However, when he thought of this, he couldn't help lowering his head, holding it in his hands, and showing an extremely painful expression on his face.

  I knew it in advance, but I didn't have enough money to make a related investment, and let the opportunity pass by in vain. It was a painful torment.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi slowly raised his head and calmed down a little. I still have a chance in the future. After all, in 2000, the Internet bubble will burst.

   At that time, these high-quality Internet companies selected by him will also be negatively affected and impacted, but for him, it is a good opportunity.

   In 2000, I will no longer have the pain and suffering I have now, after all, I will have more money in my hands. This first high-yield return came from the dividend that Jin Zechen's NCsoft online game company gave him to hold the 40% stake.

   In addition to the United States, the Internet era in China has also begun, and the seeds have also landed. It's just that there are too few investors with foresight.

   In Masayoshi Kishimoto's view, the Chinese are quite talented in the Internet and computer-related industries. Due to some limitations of China's national conditions and traditional thinking at that time, although we seized the opportunity, we also missed the priority in some fields.

  Lei Jue's "King of Kings" is China's first graphic online game. Its eponymous text MUD was opened at the end of December 1996. The developers are a couple of doctoral students from the Institute of Materials Science of Tsinghua University in Taiwan.

  Chen Guangming and Huang Yuzhen, they met and fell in love because of the Internet, and they also embarked on the road of entrepreneurship together because of online games. This is also China's first online game to enter the Korean game market.

   Yang Jieyuan, who founded Yahoo, was once famous and became an idol for many young people, especially Chinese young people. It also includes the self before rebirth.

   Actually, before Yang Zhiyuan, there was a more powerful Chinese, that is Wang An. Wang An Computer, founded by Wang An, was once able to compete with IBM.

   He is a world-renowned inventor and a wealthy entrepreneur. In the United States, a country of immigrants, he is considered the first person to be a "distinguished immigrant". In 1986, his personal worth reached 2 billion US dollars, ranking 5th in the US rich list and the richest Chinese in the world.

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