When he got home, Li Rui tossed and turned.

Wealth and power, like love and desire, like night and day, like men and women, one side, cannot be separated.

Whether you want to be rich or to be rich, you need help from noble people.

Chen Qin is still a seedling now, and sooner or later it will become a towering tree, providing protection for Li Rui.

Other people’s nobles either rely directly on them or cultivate them.

Li Rui plans to raise Chen Qin, a noble man, by himself.

It sounds like a noble person when he is a good person.

Li Rui knew the difficulties of lacking noble people.

In his previous life, his boss was a billionaire after all, but because he lacked a noble man who could shelter from the wind and rain, he had to build bridges of smoke, pave the way for wine, make fun of sex, and block disasters no matter what he did.

Li Rui followed the boss to see too many gifts and then opened the door, wanting to attack the city and make wine for soldiers, but it is difficult to travel on the road and do money and do horses.

He also summarized his experience: asking for someone is like swallowing a three-foot sword, relying on someone is like the nine heavens, it rains and slips on the ground, falling and climbing on his own, if you want others to help him, exchange cigarettes for tea!

So if he meets Chen Qin in this life, he will never miss this opportunity!

Wednesday, October 20, 2010.

Li Rui lay down until eight o'clock in the middle of dreams and was thinking about things and could no longer sleep.

I got up and checked my emails and my phone, and there was indeed a lot of new news.

【White Moonlight】: Kevin and I went to Mountain View and found whatsapp headquarters, but Brian Middledot; Acton Middledot; Jane Middledot; Koum seemed to be hostile to business investment. After hearing about our purpose, we simply connected

I don't want to see you.

[White Moonlight]: Kevin found a relationship and had to get Acton’s whatsapp number and added a friend. He has not yet passed.

[White Moonlight]: Acton passed Kevin's friend application, Kevin introduced you to him, but Acton only replied one sentence.

[White Moonlight]: noads!nogames!nogimmicks! Translated, don’t advertise! don’t play! don’t gimmicks!

[White Moonlight]: Kevin said that whatsapp currently has a stable income and is not short of money for the time being, so it may be difficult to deal with. Unless you agree to these three conditions first, you can continue to discuss it, so what should you do next? Wait until you can wait.

You instruct.

Li Rui smiled.

This result was actually within his expectations.

Whatsapp is originally an atypical startup.

Unlike the two founders of Ins, Acton and Coum are both early employees of Yahoo, with sufficient startup funds and a unique set of behavioral principles.

Because there is no shortage of money, whatsapp has had famous three rules since its founding.

First, the service does not have advertisements!

Second, protect user privacy and the server does not store messages!

Third, the service purpose is to continuously improve user experience!

It can be said that whatsapp is a company full of idealism and an extremely conservative company.

Whatsapp currently has millions of users, but they don’t even have the intention to raise funds at all. They rely entirely on the savings of the two founders and the investments of their friends to support them.

Li Rui knew that this time would not last too long, so he had to hurry up.

At most one year, venture capitalists will come like tiger sharks smelling blood. Although whatsapp tried hard to resist the invasion of capital, it eventually had to fall under the sickle of capital and accepted Sequoia Capital's

funds.

This also made a footnote to the later tragedy of whatsapp.

In 2014, after Facebook spent 20 billion magnesium, capital surrendered, and Acton and Coum had to accept Facebook's acquisition under tremendous pressure.

Although whatsapp was not commercialized immediately under their insistence, unfortunately, personal beliefs were too fragile in the face of the power of capital. After only four years, they had to leave the company they founded.

From then on, whatsapp set sail in the ocean of commercialization, and no one mentioned the three rules of Acton and Koum again.

Whatsapp is the core of Li Rui's future plan and the most critical component of the entire business network. It must not fall into the hands of others.

No matter how he uses any means, he will occupy the largest stake in whatsapp. This is his biggest weapon to compete with Facebook, Amazon, Penguin and Ah Li in the future!

[Hunter]: Let Kevin keep in touch with Acton, you guys go back to San Francisco first and wait for my news.

Turning off the computer, Li Rui rubbed his temples. Drinking alcohol and sleeping all night did not make him feel so tired, and the oil and salt of whatsapp would not give him a headache.

What he worried about the most was time.

Only half a year!

Sequoia Capital should have set its sights on whatsapp now, but it has not yet made up its mind.

Once Sequoia takes action, Li Rui's current strength is not enough.

So, he must seize the initiative.

But what exactly should we do to impress Acton and Kom, two extremely conservative guys?

He picked up the phone casually, and the news on it finally made Li Rui a little happier.

Xinlang VB data continues to rise, and has reached 8.5 million.

At this rate, there should be no problem when you draw the lottery on the weekend.

On the other hand, Yuanhang Xintiandi's sales are also very optimistic.

Five houses were sold on Tuesday, with sales of 5.73 million.

As long as you maintain this rhythm, you may be able to liquidate before the New Year.

There is also good news from Wu Pengju. Guangdong Issuance has approved his loan application and submitted it to Guoyin for review.

If all goes well, you can get a loan next week.

After dealing with the chores at hand, Li Rui returned to the computer and some concepts in his mind gradually became clear.

He decided to write a letter to Acton and Koum.

Open the document and Li Rui wrote it in his fourth-level magnesium language.

Whatsapp in my mind should have the following characteristics.

First, encourage valuable services and attract more and more high-quality content creators.

Second, help people eliminate geographical restrictions, and you can enjoy the convenience of communication whether you are in Meizhou, Yazhou or Philippine.

Third, eliminate intermediaries, deception, and let everyone connect directly.

Fourth, to build a truly decentralized system, I suggest you learn about Bitcoin here. I think that is the model that all information systems should have in the future.

Fifth, build an ecosystem, for example, what we want to build is a forest, with animals, plants, weather and microorganisms, rather than building a palace.

Sixth, whatsapp should be a dynamic system, never rigid and self-improvement.

Seventh, pursue traffic, but do not blindly follow traffic.

Eighth, all considerations will be based on one premise, that is, user value is the first.

It took several hours before Li Rui finished writing what he thought and sent it to Yu Na, asking her to help her modify it and forward it to the two founders of whatsapp.
Chapter completed!