Chapter 150: Preparing for a venture capital company
As the most developed capitalist market in the United States, there is no shortage of opportunities. Every young person who wants to start a business has a dream in his heart. Back then, Gates dropped out of Harvard University and founded Microsoft. After going public, he became a billionaire. This is
The incident has become a legend, and Gates himself has become an idol for young people, the best footnote of the American Dream.
Americans are like that. As long as they have an idea, they go for it and all aspects support it. At least it is very easy to set up a company, unlike China which requires approval from every department.
This makes the U.S. market full of opportunities, and some wealthy people will take the initiative to need these opportunities, so investment institutions were established.
There are many well-known venture capital institutions in the United States, such as Sequoia Capital. The most famous case of this company is its investment in Apple, Cisco, etc., and it will also invest in Google in the future.
There is also kpcb company. kpcb is the initials of its four founders. In 1990, this company was only somewhat famous and not yet the top in the industry. However, ten years later it became great, especially in 1999.
In the Internet era of the 1900s, kpcb successfully invested in high-tech companies such as Sun Microsystems, AOL, Compaq Computer, Google, eBay, and Amazon.
Of course, these are all their success cases. There are actually more failure cases, but the media will not report them when they succeed.
The cash flow of Shengtang Company is too sufficient. Every year, in addition to all aspects of the company's budget, it also distributes dividends to everyone, but that's it. In the end, the remaining Shengtang executives still have two to three billion US dollars. After a few years, the Shengtang account
Nearly a billion dollars have been put on it.
Theoretically, this money belongs to Liu Lang, Lucas, Mu Xiaohu, Ye Jinsheng, Lin Guodong and other senior executives, but how much can they spend? It doesn’t cost much to buy a car or a house, but Mu Xiaohu has many girlfriends, so he can spend it on himself.
One million is a lot, but he owns 10% of the shares and has nearly 100 million in his account.
Should I put this money in the bank to earn interest? The bank interest rate in the United States is very low, much lower than inflation, so only fools would put it in the bank.
You can also invest in the stock market, such as buying stocks of high-quality companies. Shengtang, Nike, Coca-Cola and Wan'an are the first choices. In fact, many Shengtang employees have to re-buy their own company's stocks for most of their annual dividend income.
, but the short-term yield of the stock market will not be too high. Even Shengtang Company only increased by 50% in three years.
The return rate of venture capital companies is very high. Once the bet is successful, the return can be several times or even ten times in the short term. For example, Sequoia Capital invested in Apple and obtained dozens of times after its listing, and it was listed in the United States.
It's very easy. Sometimes you don't even need a product, just a concept can make money in the market.
With Shengtang Company having so much money and many connections, Lucas and others had long had the idea of establishing a venture capital company, and they firmly believed that Liu Lang was an expert in this field.
Is there anything that Liu Lang doesn't know? It doesn't seem like he has it yet. He majored in mechanical engineering and got A+ in all his graduate grades. He even gave up the requirement to get a direct doctorate from Stanford University and became Professor Claire, who is known for being strict with his students.
depressed.
No one knows what the strengths of Liu Lang's major are, but the economic book "The Third Industrial Wave" he wrote has been ranked No. 1 on the "Time Magazine" best-selling list of economic books for four consecutive years, selling a total of
More than three million copies were published.
Not only are economic books selling so hot, "Digital Survival" written by Liu Lang three years ago has become popular in the past two years after being ignored for a year, including Wan'an, Steve Jobs, Gates, etc.
Almost all high-end IT people, including big guys, have mentioned this book on different occasions. Of course, just mentioning this book is nothing. Many of the predictions in the book have begun to come true one by one.
Last year, the United States took the lead in building a regional network in a small area, which is called the prototype of the Internet. Even at the beginning of this year, the U.S. military using the regional network was attacked by hackers, which made the U.S. military very unhappy.
LAN, hacker attacks, these are all mentioned in the book "Digital Survival".
So now, this book has become the bible for researchers engaged in the Internet and artificial intelligence. Even though the content written in the book seems out of reach with today's technology, they firmly believe that the predictions in the book will come true.
What is written in gives them a way forward.
This book has become very popular since last year. It has sold more than 100,000 copies in two years. In addition, several universities such as Stanford have listed this book as an elective course for college. This has allowed more college students to understand what it is.
It's called real high technology.
In fact, "Digital Survival" has been listed as an official course in many universities in China. In terms of promotion level, it is even greater than that in the United States. However, the domestic environment is much worse than that in the United States. People who truly understand the concept of the Internet
There are very few of them, and many students cannot understand the meaning of the book. The country is also thinking of ways to build related equipment in several universities to at least let students understand this book first.
This is what Liu Lang did in the United States besides entertainment. He majored in traditional mechanical engineering and wrote a best-selling book on economics and a best-selling book on high-tech. There are no obstacles from tradition to the future. Is this still a human being?
?Is there anything he doesn’t know? Does such a person still have a "king's law" if he doesn't engage in venture capital?
In addition, Liu Lang has already had the idea of establishing a venture capital company, and this time he will complete it when he returns to the United States.
In the first few days after Liu Lang returned to the United States, he spent time with Lucas, Lin Guodong and others to discuss the company's development issues in the next three years. In terms of movies, he was going to make a "Lion King", and more than a hundred color pictures made up a movie.
The journey of revenge and growth of a little lion named Simba.
Cattermole and Lucas looked at these pictures with only wonder and speechlessness. Let’s not talk about the storyline, just these exquisite pictures are so beautiful that people can’t put them down.
These pictures were all drawn by Liu Lang in his spare time from work, which can be regarded as a way to adjust his life. Moreover, his paintings are all formed in one go, and there will be no changes after the painting is completed, so these pictures do not waste much of his time.
Liu Lang has provided explanations for every picture, and all the animal images involved in the film have appeared in them. It can be said that the film has been drawn on paper by him, and he only needs to shoot it.
Lucas shook his head repeatedly while listening, not denying the other party, but a kind of helplessness towards Liu Lang's super imagination. A simple revenge story turned out to be so attractive after being re-created by Liu Lang. Why did you become so attractive at the age of ten?
So excellent? I don’t understand, I don’t understand.
Cattermole has long been accustomed to this kind of thing, he just needs to perfectly present the fairy tale world constructed by Liu Lang.