“What we have to do is to do great things, not to enjoy life by making a fortune!”

Li Rui ended with an insincere statement.

He didn't know if he could convince Strom and Krieg, but he just hoped that these two guys would not forget their original intentions and last for at least another one or two years.

One or two years is enough for Ins to grow up. Once the number of users exceeds 100 million, and once they hook up with whatsapp, they will immediately become a powerful enemy that will make Facebook a headache!

If you still want to acquire it, you can exchange Facebook's stock.

"Dear Li, your words woke me up. If we sell ins now, then the Haikou you boasted about when starting a business before will become a joke!" Strom's personality was more outward and he shouted loudly.

Krieg also said: "Yes, our ideal was to change the world, not change life!"

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are often driven by one or several idealisms. Making money is not the first element of their entrepreneurship, and fulfilling their ideals is the same. Strom and Krieg, Acton and Kom of whatsapp are the same. This idealism sometimes leads them to make unreasonable decisions, but at some point it does cover them with an admirable halo of idealism.

"So, you decided not to sell it?" Li Rui asked.

"No sell." Strom shook his head.

Krieg also said: "Not selling."

Li Rui said: "It's great, so let's continue to work hard to change the ideal of the world. As for capital increase, Yu Na will fully represent me. I will be there any time you need funds!"

Strom said: "The number of ins users is increasing sharply, the server pressure is very high, and it does require funds. And the new features you just mentioned also require greater bandwidth and more employees. We urgently need to recruit people. So, I hope you can increase your capital."

Krieg said: "As you said before, you can invest 50 million magnesium to acquire 10% of the shares at a valuation of 50 million magnesium?"

"No problem." Li Rui said, suppressing the ecstasy in his heart.

After obtaining this 10% stake, Ins' equity structure is 45% Strom, 40% Li Rui, and 15% Krieg.

As the main founder, Strom still owns the most shares. Li Rui invests a total of 51.5 million magnesium, and is the second largest shareholder. As the co-founder, Krieg is the third shareholder.

As Ins continues to develop, the requirements for funds will become greater and greater. Li Rui relies on the right to give priority to subscription. As long as he goes through one or two capital increase, he will surpass Strom and become the largest shareholder. At that time, Ins' fate will be decided by him!

...

"Rejected?" Zach was so disbelief when he heard Christensen's report.

Christensen's face turned pale: "I can't believe it either. How could they refuse? They should know how sincere this is. I think they must be crazy."

Zach said: "Didn't you say before that Strom and Krieg are interested in the quotes? Why did this change occur?"

Christensen said angrily: "I guess it's all the people in the country who are making trouble. He also had a clear stand against it before. I think the change in attitudes between Strom and Krieg must be related to that people in the country."

"ruili, is this person?" Zach asked.

Christensen nodded and said, "That's right, it's him."

Zach frowned: "As far as I know, he not only invested in Ins, but also an investor in whatsapp, which is also a software I am very optimistic about. Why can this person always be ahead of us?"

Christensen said: "Do we want to give ins some color?"

Zach shook his head: "Don't act rashly. The Judicial Committee has been staring at us, believing that we are suspected of monopoly. If we take action against Ins now, we will leave a verbal statement. Moreover, a software with only 7 million users is not worth our big fight for the time being."

Christensen was still a little unwilling to give up: "Can you just forget it?"

Zach said: "Of course I can't forget it. Starting today, all engineers cancel their vacations and improve the picture function! Since ins doesn't want to sell it to us for 500 million magnesium, let him become worthless!"

...

Ins' problem was solved, before Li Rui could breathe a sigh of relief, Yu Na's phone call came again.

"What else?" Li Rui asked.

Yu Na said: "Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy, do you want to meet?"

Li Rui was stunned at first, not knowing who these two people were, but he woke up the next second and was the two founders of snapchat!

"See!"

Twenty minutes later, the video started and Li Rui met them.

Spiegel is very handsome, very handsome, less than 22 years old this year. His family is in excellent condition. His parents are both lawyers, and his mother is the youngest graduate in the history of Harvard Law School. When he first appeared on the screen, he had a bose headphone on his neck. It was hard to equate him with the youngest billionaire in the world in the future.

Murphy is not as handsome as Spiegel, but not bad either. His mother is a Filipino and his father is a magnesium. His mixed-race appearance makes him very exotic in the eyes of both Yazhou and Magnesium.

Spiegel and Murphy in the video were a little nervous, but they slowly relaxed after saying hello to the beginning. When Li Rui asked them about snapchat, Spiegel kept talking.

"It's amazing that you can notice this project. I remember we just said a few simple words on the school website." Spiegel said in surprise.

Li Rui said: "Yu Na is my agent in Magnesium Country. She is your Stanford classmate. She told me about this project."

Spiegel said seriously: "You have an extremely vicious and young and beautiful agent!"

Yu Na was confused. She was so busy that she had no time to watch the nonsense project on the school’s internal website every day. In fact, she was also very puzzled how Li Rui knew about this project. However, considering Li Rui’s previous behavior, this operation did not seem to be very surprising.

"Although the project has not started yet, we agree that this is a good idea that can be popular among young people. Maybe we can make a great company like Facebook!" Spiegel said again.

As expected, entrepreneurs are idealists. Such stories are born every day in Silicon Valley. Every day, thousands or tens of thousands of young people are dreaming of making great companies and devoted themselves to the vigorous entrepreneurship.

But how many people can succeed?

As the waves wash away the sand, people finally see only the figures of successful people, but ignore the countless losers who are crushed by the wheel of history.
Chapter completed!