My Age of Investment

A few days after Blackburn left, Amazon’s California regional director came to the door with a partnership agreement.

The cooperation agreement generally stipulates:

Facebook went to Amazon to open an online store, and the latter gave marketing, technical and other support, as well as logistics discounts.

Facebook doesn’t have many obligations, just hang a link to Amazon’s store on the homepage.

After all, Amazon’s support in logistics is real, and Facebook at least has to put an advertisement on the homepage.

While advertising for Facebook’s own online store, it is also advertising for Amazon to drive traffic to the latter.

So Amazon doesn't suffer much, unless the online store business is very poor, and Facebook's diversion effect is very poor.

Xia Jingxing showed these contracts to Andrew, who did not dare to neglect them. After all, big companies have a lot of tricks on contracts.

There is a real problem with this inspection, and some responsibilities and obligations are vaguely worded.

Following Andrew's thorns, Xia Jingxing returned the contract again.

Seeing that Amazon could not get through, it finally became honest and did not continue to play tricks on the contract.

After the two parties signed the agreement, Facebook opened and built its own online store with the help of Amazon's California branch.

Xia Jingxing, Yang Niu, and Puppy all had little experience, so the Amazon people taught them hands-on.

The five interns, except Walker, a related customer, were all sent to Amazon's California branch for half a month of training. They were taught by professional Amazon staff and taught them how to operate an online store.

Walker is special, and the use value has not been drained.

His main job is to hook up with people in the University of Texas system, help Facebook quickly enter, and occupy Texas universities.

Arizona is almost done, contributing tens of thousands of Facebook users and growing rapidly.

Walker went to his aunt, who was a school trustee, to prepare to conquer the University of Texas system.

Xia Jingxing also promised him that as soon as the target of 500,000 users is completed, 0.5% of the options will be issued immediately.

So the other party was very motivated every day, contacted and hooked up with all the people at the University of Texas, and worked hard to get this reward.

The other four people don't have that many resources at hand.

Work to this day has basically been drained of value, and all the classmates, friends and relationships that can be contacted have been exhausted.

Therefore, Xia Jingxing turned them "trash into treasure" and sent them to run an online store.

Shen Xinyi, Gao Lili, Allen, and Debbie didn't have any objections. They were paid to learn the operation of the online store, and they had money and skills. What's wrong?

Can't wait to learn for a few more months.

But Xia Jingxing couldn't wait that long.

Wealthy Apparel has produced a sample T-shirt, and asked someone to bring the sample to Facebook.

After receiving the samples, Xia Jingxing called the costume design consultant Rebecca and asked the other party to give advice.

Rebecca commented from a professional point of view.

There are no major problems, but there are a few minor ones.

Xia Jingxing reported the problem to Wang Youfu and urged the other party to make changes according to Rebecca's advice.

At the same time, the order contract was sent to China, and the order was officially placed, for which a deposit of US$60,000 was also paid.

The technical team also did not let them idle. Xia Jingxing asked them to find a place to hang the Amazon link on the homepage, which should be conspicuous without affecting the beauty of the website and user experience.

Therefore, Evans and his four little brothers, plus meditation, the dog held meetings all day to discuss this matter, and made several experimental versions.

However, Xia Jingxing was not satisfied and called back and asked them to do it again.

Facebook is running like clockwork.

Everyone is not idle, they have their own tasks.

The puppy was sent to do technology,

Yang Niu followed four interns to learn how to operate an online store.

Only Xia Jingxing was more idle and was called away by Old John.

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"Mr. Hennessy, look for me."

Xia Jingxing came to the principal's office, smiled and looked at the old man who was sitting in the chair working, guessing what the other party was looking for.

Old John glanced at Xia Jingxing, then pointed to the chair next to him, "Sit down and talk."

After Xia Jingxing sat down, old man John began to ask about the development of Facebook.

"Blackburn also called me and said you were nice."

After asking about work, the old man smiled and chatted about other topics.

"Ugh!"

Xia Jingxing sighed, "Unfortunately, we didn't negotiate a big contract with Amazon."

"You can be content, it will be five million new users and contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars."

Speaking of this, the old man John shook his head and laughed, not knowing what to say, the ignorant is fearless.

"I'm not kidding, as long as Amazon signs this contract with us, I will make him 100 million sooner or later."

Xia Jingxing put it lightly, a small goal was like a dime in his mouth.

Old John didn't want to argue with him here, and talked about the business.

"The Entrepreneurship Society would like to invite you to a sharing event. What do you think? I will also participate."

Xia Jingxing nodded, "Okay? What day? What am I going to prepare?"

Stanford is such a tune, and the principal also often attends activities organized by entrepreneurial societies, answering questions from entrepreneurial students, and teaching and sharing business experience.

Old John waved his hand, "The day after tomorrow, you don't have to prepare anything, just chat with the students like a friend."

"Like a friend? The one who says nothing? Tell them everything?"

Xia Jingxing deliberately pretended to be stupid, pretending to not understand anything.

Old John said angrily, "What do you think?"

"Then let me tell the truth! I have never reserved my friends."

Xia Jingxing smiled naively.

Old John knew his character well and would not be fooled at all. He waved his hand like a fly, "Daren, it's time for you to go back to work."

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Two more days passed.

A large classroom used for classes was full.

But not classes, just sharing entrepreneurship.

Xia Jing walked to the stage and saw that the audience was full of black and yellow, all with human heads and several hair colors, very international.

There were three seats on the podium, one for Xia Jingxing, one for Old Man John, and one for the hostess.

The three took their seats, and the hostess took the microphone and gave a few opening remarks, and started today's question.

The students under the stage were silent and stared at the stage.

Hostess: "Daren, what was the opportunity for you to start Facebook?"

Xia Jingxing: "As a freshman at the time, I didn't know a friend and felt that we should build a platform for making friends on campus."

Hostess: "It's convenient to ask, how many universities has Facebook entered and how many users does it have?"

Xia Jingxing: "As of yesterday, it officially exceeded 500,000 users and entered 182 universities."

Hostess: "That's an amazing number. Can you remember how many days Facebook has been in operation today?"

Xia Jingxing: "Six months and fifteen days!"

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