A Mercedes-Benz S600 parked on the side of the road, and a short-haired woman wearing a windbreaker got out of the car.
This woman has blond hair and looks to be about thirty-five years old. She is carrying a Hermès Kelly bag in her hand and wearing high heels.
Her name is Danielle Kenning.
I just switched jobs from a Wall Street consulting firm last month to work at KOKO Venture Capital. I graduated from Columbia University Business School in New York and have been working for ten years. Now I have an annual salary of US$200,000, and I also have the opportunity to receive dividends.
She is a proper female elite in the financial industry and quite beautiful. She has helped Su Yehao negotiate several projects for more than a month.
However, Danielle Kenning was not in a good mood at the moment. She was having a happy chat with a colleague at a party when the president of KOKO Venture Capital called her to help.
It's my break from get off work now, so it's strange that I'm in a good mood.
No matter where they are, employees always hate working overtime, let alone a small company with little reputation.
Being able to open a company in such a residential neighborhood is enough to explain many problems.
When she walked towards the door, the database engineer with a beard in the room quickly saw her through the light in the yard, and he went to the window to look out, and said excitedly: "Why is there such a sexy woman?
Appearing at our door? Who is in love!?"
"Wow, although I seem a bit older, I like this temperament, it's my type." Craig Silverstein, the technology director of the anti-link company, also came to the window and said with a smile.
The doorbell rings.
Larry Page went to open the door, stood at the door and asked: "Good evening, is my car blocking the road? Do you live..."
Danielle Kenning interrupted him and walked directly into the house.
After scanning around, she found that the environment was messy. There were more than a dozen computers in the living room and pizza boxes on the sofa.
Sure enough, it was just a small company that seemed to have no future. Entrepreneurial teams like this are everywhere in Silicon Valley.
Her high heels made a clicking sound on the disrepaired wooden floor. Danielle Kenning put on a businesslike attitude and told her, "It's unimaginable that my boss would actually be interested in your project."
If you're interested, I'll give you ten minutes to change clothes, pack up and follow me."
She is undoubtedly a very strong woman.
Danielle Kenning's acting style is very capable. For example, she was the person in charge of negotiating the acquisition of the Iron King game company they mentioned before.
At that time, the founder of the Iron King game company relied on the fact that the number of game players exceeded 37,000. Lion asked for $7.4 million. Danielle Kenning packed up and left without saying a word, and the deal was done that afternoon.
Other people on the entrepreneurial team almost turned the founder into a polished commander, and could even destroy the "Donkey Kong" game where the gorilla broke through the levels.
After a little bit of trickery, the other party realized the gap between the two parties and obediently accepted the purchase price of US$2.9 million.
First contact.
Larry Page doesn't have much favorable impressions of her, but a refined woman with temperament is always easier to forgive.
He did not blame Danielle Kenning for breaking into the house, but asked: "Who is interested in my project, and who is your boss? Also, how do you know that I live here? The company just moved more than a month ago. The externally registered address is..."
"It's an office at Stanford University, right? Don't worry about how I know this. Go change your clothes quickly. I heard that you sent the project promotion materials to my boss today. The boss of ICQ and TVT now wants to meet you in person. , listen to your thoughts, do you understand?"
Danielle Kenning was in a bad mood, but she also understood that with Su Yehao's usual style, if there was nothing serious, he would not be busy talking about business at this late night.
At first, she thought that maybe there was a young beauty in the founding team, so she arranged to meet at a bar near Stanford University. But now after reading it, she realized that she was definitely overthinking it.
Larry Page hurriedly called Sergey Brin, and they went upstairs to their rooms to change clothes.
Although there are many rich people in Silicon Valley, for a small start-up team, the opportunity to introduce a project to a super rich person in person is definitely a rare blessing.
As for Danielle Kenning, she looked at the fat man with a beard who looked very geeky and asked curiously: "Your company is making a search engine, right? How many customers does it have?"
"...more than 8,600, an increase of 700 from yesterday."
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After hearing this, technology director Craig Silverstein resisted the urge to strangle his colleague and explained hurriedly:
"Because we have only been established for more than a month and have not yet started investing in publicity, we want to make the product more successful and strive to satisfy all users! The current users cannot explain anything. We have a more scientific and mature set of Yahoo’s algorithm patents are too bad compared to it. They only know how to acquire some messy companies. I suspect that their CEO doesn’t even know what the purpose of the companies he acquired is, and Yahoo is still so inaccurate anyway.”
After hearing about "algorithm patents", Danielle Kenning seemed to understand why Su Yehao was interested in it.
In Silicon Valley, patent advantages are a big killer and have the opportunity to be converted into massive wealth. Sometimes large companies are choked by the patents of small companies. Similar things are not uncommon.
She smiled slightly and said in a cold tone: "If I remember correctly, my boss is now the seventh largest shareholder of Yahoo, and Yahoo's CEO Yang Zhiyuan also went to play tennis with him last week. Maybe you can play tennis with Yang Let’s meet sir and discuss your opinions in person?”
"..."
Craig Silverstein's head was buzzing, he felt like he had been hit by a gun, and his whole life was dark.
He hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, I mean our search engine has more advantages, but now it certainly cannot be compared with giants like Yahoo. Since we are shareholders of Yahoo, this is even better, isn't it?
Your boss should know a lot about search engines, and our cooperation can produce the effect of one plus one being greater than two."
Danielle Kenning didn't care what he said.
It’s just that he habitually remains cold and creates a persona that is “difficult to talk to”.
She is engaged in venture capital and belongs to the capital side. If her temper is too mild, she will easily suffer losses. People think that they can take advantage of her, so it is better to be stronger.
I have to say that the results are indeed quite good, and several projects I have handled have been completed perfectly.
After a few minutes.
Larry and Sergey, who had no time to clean up carefully, put on formal clothes and ran downstairs. One was wearing leather shoes barefoot, and the other had his pants unzipped and his shirt unbuttoned.
If you want to succeed in your Internet business, you will have to burn money in the early stages.
The total starting capital of these two people is only about 600,000 US dollars. They can't accomplish anything because they are afraid of letting Su Yehao, the big financial backer, go.
Over there at the bar.
When Su Yehao saw these two people, he observed them carefully for a long time, and they seemed to look familiar, especially Larry Page.
Sitting on the black sofa, with a fruit plate and drinks in front of him, Su Yehao asked before they could speak: "Anti-link... Why isn't your company called Google?"