It no longer felt like sighing over who they envied.

Even if it really was Google from a past life, Su Yehao's net worth was more than a billion dollars, while those two were just poor students at Stanford University.

It was purely the possibility of finding a good seedling that made him a little excited.

Venture capital firms in Silicon Valley were too fierce, and truly good projects would be snapped up in the blink of an eye.

Some well-known teams would just toss out an idea, and angel investors would immediately swarm. By the time they had a little fame, it might not just be Series A funding; even Series B and C rounds would be arranged. The equity would have long been divided up, and a group of people would eagerly wait for it to go public on NASDAQ, leaving no opportunity for Su Yehao.

For example, Yahoo, founded in 1995, already had a market value of over a billion dollars when Su Yehao started investing in it in 1997, which was last year.

The earliest investors earned hundreds of times their returns, while he only earned a few times. When he added to his position later, Yahoo's market value had already reached over three billion dollars. He only got to drink some broth. Fortunately, he had invested enough capital, so the profit scale was still considerable.

Calculating the rate of return, it was far worse than the earlier investors.

The "BackRub Company," which had only been officially established for two months, had already obtained a total of $350,000 in angel round funding from others with just an immature technology, including even Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle.

Su Yehao's net worth exceeded 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, while Larry Ellison was a genuine member of the "Billion-Dollar Club," with a total net worth of 27 billion US dollars.

Of course.

After expanding the business, it was difficult to attend to every detail.

Su Yehao highly suspected that the person who invested in BackRub Company was just an employee under Larry Ellison, and perhaps he himself didn't even know that he held shares in this company.

After all, the scale of BackRub Company was too small, so small that it was difficult to attract attention.

If Su Yehao hadn't been holding onto the idea of ​​picking up bargains and panning for gold, he wouldn't have personally browsed these unsolicited "harassment letters" either.

In Silicon Valley, there was a group of investors who weren't very strong, who liked to spend a few thousand or tens of thousands of dollars to invest in some garbage projects, spreading their nets wide to catch small fish.

After they had screened them out, by the time it got to Series A, Series B, or even Series C, the truly powerful large companies liked to make a move. Although this cost a little more money, it was easier to find reliable and high-quality projects.

Those cannon fodder projects that had problems or no market prospects often fell before Series A. With tens of thousands of entrepreneurial projects in Silicon Valley, no one would have the energy to screen them all.

Therefore, Su Yehao felt that Yahoo's Yang Zhiyuan was actually quite unlucky. In his previous life, he was abused by survivorship bias.

People only paid attention to the Google that he let go, but ignored the fact that during this period, he might have also rejected thousands of unsuccessful garbage projects.

Similarly.

Perhaps Yang Zhiyuan, who was burdened with heavy tasks, didn't even know that he had brushed shoulders with Google. The blame of his subordinates would only be pushed onto him, the CEO.

Nowadays, everyone was groping in the dark. To achieve success, luck was undoubtedly very important...

While others were groping in the dark.

Su Yehao had always been walking on a brightly lit road.

John Zhou, the chief operating officer of tvt, arranged for someone to test the BackRub search engine. That evening, at nine o'clock, he sent a professional evaluation report directly to Su Yehao's email.

According to the test results, the conclusion was that the algorithm was relatively novel and had great potential.

As for some professional evaluations, Su Yehao skimmed through them quickly.

He only wanted to know whether BackRub's technology was good or not. As for asking where exactly it was good, that was something that technical personnel needed to pay attention to. It had nothing to do with him as the boss.

Even if he didn't know whether BackRub Company was Google or not, it didn't stop Su Yehao from deciding to take some time to contact them.

He wasn't sleepy tonight anyway.

He had KOKO Venture Capital arrange for him to meet Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The location was set in a bar near Stanford University.

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin were roommates at Stanford University.

Now, one was twenty-five years old and the other was twenty-four years old, and both were pursuing doctoral degrees.

Since starting their business, the two had moved out and rented a house outside. Among the dozen or so employees under their command, several also lived with them, saving money by sleeping on the floor and sofa. Even the space in the garage was used.

To prevent disturbing nearby residents and being complained about and kicked out.

At this moment, a group of people didn't dare to speak loudly, and were talking in low voices, sitting around the TV playing games, eating pizza and drinking some beer.

Craig Silverstein, the technology director, had gone out with his girlfriend for a day today. At this moment, he suddenly thought of something and asked, "How did that investor that the founder of Iron Kong Games introduced to you go?"

"When Sergey and I went, we only saw the butler. The information has been sent over, but it may have been thrown into the trash can at will. His mailbox was full."

Larry Page said.

Sergey Brin nodded, and while playing the game, he said, "As expected of the founder of tvt chat software, his yard is especially large, located in Atherton, where real estate prices are the most expensive. I stood outside the iron gate and could only see the roof."

"That's normal. tvt is more interesting than iCQ, with high interactivity and fun. People spend 10 million US dollars just to buy servers. My classmate works there and can meet that 10 million dollar treasure every day. But there are many girls on iCQ. When you search for people nearby on tvt, it's easy to crash and find very young girls, so I still choose to support iCQ."

A strong man with a big belly said, holding a bottle of beer in his hand, his chin almost covered by his beard. He was a newly recruited database engineer at BackRub Company and graduated from MIT.

Larry and Sergey exchanged glances, both worried that this database engineer, who they had finally found, would be hooked away by the data servers in tvt.

After all, their BackRub's server only cost more than 100,000 US dollars, which was already considered an overspending with gritted teeth, thinking of "getting it done in one step" and using it for a year or two.

Sergey Brin sighed and said:

"Don't forget, that Su from Hong Kong is a very rich Asian tycoon himself, and even has the strength to swallow iCQ. I was shocked when I heard the news, because he seems to be only twenty years old. Iron Kong Games was bought by him for 2.9 million US dollars, and he also provided Andrew with a job. Andrew not only bought a house in Menlo Park, but also bought a convertible Corvette C5."

Seeing that everyone was attracted by these words and looked a little depressed, Larry Page immediately clapped his hands to attract attention and said:

"Don't worry, we will have all of this in the future. Hurry up and promote it in the forum tomorrow. We have won more than 3,000 new users, and the user retention rate exceeds expectations. When the product is more perfect, we will spend about 50,000 US dollars to find a place to place advertisements."

Technology Director Craig Silverstein, eating onion rings, said lazily:

"I don't know how much the ad space on iCQ sells for. I saw a Mars candy chocolate ad while chatting. Christmas is coming soon. What gift should I give my girlfriend..."