My Age of Investment

Nicholas was about to speak when Jonas, who was standing beside him, said first: "Let's talk about this tomorrow. Let's take you to experience the nightlife in Tallinn first."

Xia Jingxing was a little wary. If the investment matter was not finalized as soon as possible, he was afraid that there would be many dreams in the night.

Nicholas said with a smile: "Yes, you should come to Tallinn for the first time. I know there is a very good bar."

"bar!"

Andrew's eyes lit up when he heard this word, and Xun turned his head and said to Xia Jingxing, "I'm here, let's go and experience the local customs."

Xia Jingxing saw that several founders were moved, and they should all be suffocated. It is not good to spoil the interest at this juncture. Nodding, "Okay, it's getting late, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

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Andrew and Xia Jingxing followed the six founders to the bar where the taxi passed by before. The name of the bar was Valibar.

It was already midnight, the bar was still crowded, and the music was roaring.

Under the colorful lights, young men and women swayed the excess hormones on the dance floor.

As soon as he entered the bar, Andrew began to twist his butt to the rhythm, looking so slutty, how could he see the rigidity and dogma that a lawyer should have.

Nicholas found a seat, arranged for a group of people to sit down, and said to the waiter: "Six glasses of whiskey, two glasses of Millimallikas."

"I want a cocktail, no Millimallikas."

After Xia Jingxing heard it, he quickly said to the waiter.

Nicholas smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Millimallikas are a specialty here. You will regret it if you don't drink it."

"Then I still regret it!"

Xia Jingxing said with a meaningful smile, this wine has become famous all over the world with the fame of Scape, and it just so happened that he had heard of it before, so he did not dare to try the "poison" by himself.

Nicholas spread his hands and looked regretful. I don't know if it's because I didn't cheat people, or because I regret that Xia Jingxing didn't taste such a rare drink.

Andrew stretched his neck long and his eyes wandered around. After hearing the specialty wine, he hurriedly shouted: "I like specialty wine, give me two glasses!"

After the wine was served, Andrew took a sip and spit it out. He felt that his mouth could breathe fire. While fanning his mouth, he shouted loudly, "What's this for? Fuck..."

Xia Jingxing laughed, and the others smiled at each other.

"It's the signature drink, a signature cocktail of fennel vodka, tequila and chili sauce," Nicholas explained with a smile.

Andrew realized that he had been rinsed, and after drinking a few sips of the ice water that Nicholas handed over, he said in Chinese, "I'll invite you to Rongcheng next time to drink the hot pot base."

Andrew "explained" to Nicholas what "hot pot wine" was, while Xia Jingxing drank and chatted with the other five founders.

"Daren, Facebook is developing quite well. I heard that there are already four or five million users?"

As soon as Jonas spoke, he immediately attracted the attention of others.

Xia Jingxing smiled and nodded, "Yes, that's right!"

He didn't know Jonas' purpose, but modesty was obviously not a good habit for negotiating with Europeans and Americans.

In particular, there is still investment to be discussed next, and it is also necessary to add some weight and halo to yourself.

"very impressive!"

Jonas raised his glass and clinked with Xia Jingxing.

"If Skype needs to be promoted, can Facebook help us put an ad on the site?"

Xia Jingxing didn't hesitate, and immediately responded: "It's absolutely fine, Facebook is a social networking site, and integrating an Internet phone function on it will make it more convenient for users, isn't it?"

Jonas smiles,

"If Skype develops well, we can also feed back to Facebook, for example, we also advertise on Facebook, and everyone will benefit from each other."

Xia Jingxing always felt that Jonas' scheming was a bit deep and purposeful.

But it's better to say it clearly, so as not to plot against each other in private.

After a few conversations with Jonas, he did not neglect the others, and asked with a smile, "Tallinn, Ahti, Parret, I heard that you worked in Huiduo during the former Soviet Union?"

(Huiduo.com) is a global computer network for communication between different bulletin board systems (BBS), connecting them together.

The technical standard first originated from the communication protocol between amateur BBS enthusiasts in the United States. It was officially launched in early 1977, and began to mature in 1984. By the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, there were already existing systems all over Europe, America, Asia, Australia and Africa, a total of more than 12,000 platforms.

Domestically, it was a bit slower, and it was not until 1991 that the first platform was available.

Bonima, Lei Jun, Kingsoft Software Qiu Bojun, and Lao Rong (Wang Juntao), chairman of 8848.com, have all served as webmasters.

In fact, the domestic Internet started a lot late, but it actually ran to the front row. China and the United States have divided up most of the Internet unicorns in the world, which also puzzled many foreigners.

When the three heard Xia Jingxing asking about their past history of Huiduo Network in the former Soviet Union, they did not hold back and exchanged very happily.

Judging from their resumes, the three are considered hard-core Internet practitioners.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the three also opened a small company in Estonia and successfully produced and released several computer games.

But by 2000, the company had spent all its revenue and nearly went bankrupt, and the trio were forced to join a portal, where they became colleagues with Nicholas and Jonas, who later co-founded Kazaa, Sri Lanka Gap laid the groundwork.

Speaking of the experience of working together as colleagues before, Jonas told an interesting story.

"At the time the company asked me to develop the portal with Nicholas, and we had a lot of technical issues.

So they posted job postings in newspapers to look for talents. The daily salary was US$330, which was higher than the average monthly salary of Estonia at that time! "

Xia Jingxing said, "Fuck," the monthly salary of 10,000 US dollars, if converted into RMB, the annual salary is one million. The average engineer salary in Silicon Valley was not that high back then.

Jonas saw the surprise in Xia Jingxing's eyes and said with a smile, "Daren, don't think the salary is high, it's mainly because it's too difficult to find suitable talents. What we needed at that time were PHP engineers."

Jonas pointed to the three and said, "These three guys didn't know PHP at the time, but they still came to apply for the job, and then spent a week learning PHP and successfully completed the development of the portal website."

Xia Jingxing applauds, bulls are bullied!

Among the five, Annus, who had not spoken much, continued: "Then the Internet bubble and the portal collapsed, and the six of us started Kazaa together."

Annus was a little bald, and while drinking, he complained: "I had a good life, but the Americans sued us, saying that we violated copyright and spread Sex.

Not only were Nicholas and Jonas hunted, the four of us, as co-founders, were asked to appear in court in California to be questioned and to submit trade secrets about Kazaa.

Initially, the Estonian government rejected the request.

But in the second trial, the government couldn't stand the pressure, and the four of us were still questioned by American lawyers..."

Perhaps it was difficult to meet an outsider who was also a technologist, so he could confide in a few words, and Annus vented his emotions all at once.

"Annus, you're drunk!"

Jonas also noticed that the brother was talking a lot, and he started to scold the US government. He was still talking about his own country's stubbornness. He quickly patted Annus on the shoulder and motioned for the other party to shut up.

Xia Jingxing smiled, but he didn't feel anything.

As a country with a population of just over one million, and joined NATO, how dare you disobey the United States?

Through conversations with several people, he almost found out more about the situation of Scape.

Nicholas is the eldest, the main founder, with the largest shareholding and voice, followed by Jonas, and the other four co-founders are engineers, with much less shareholding and voice.

And intellectual property related to the Scale P2P protocol is also in the hands of Joltid, a company jointly owned by Nicholas and Jonas.

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