Chapter 739

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For a moment, the eyes of Richard, Ehrlich and all other executives focused on the new executive who spoke.

Seeing everyone looking at himself, the new general manager of the marketing department looked more confident.

"Next, it's the first highlight moment when he joined reels!" the executive thought. He was going to go on, and Ehrlich suddenly clapped.

"Bingo, Richard, you told me not to meddle in the company's executive appointment. Now, you've found an idiot to be an executive! Let me see the position. Oh, it's still the general manager of the marketing department. How can you get $500000 a year? Richard, you'd better give me this $500000 and let me work part-time!"

Erich's sarcasm made Richard look gloomy. The face of the executives who spoke just now also turned pig liver. Other executives seemed to have long been used to Erich's character and were silent.

"Ehrlich, that's enough. I haven't asked you why you refused Sequoia's investment this morning. As far as I know, Sequoia's valuation quotation has been given us $4 billion. You directly refused Sequoia without even discussing with us. Who dares to invest in our company in Silicon Valley in the future?" Richard asked in a low tone.

Ehrlich gave him a scornful look, put his face close to him and roared:

"Don't come with me, Richard. I've stressed many times that the person in charge of financing any project of Innovation workshop can only be me, including reels. If I hadn't supported you at the beginning, you still don't know where to be a yard farmer.

Are you satisfied with Sequoia's valuation of $4 billion? Boy, you're still too simple. Even Fang Zhe, the world's richest man, said that short video applications such as reels are projects worth hundreds of billions of dollars. It's stupid and a crime to sell them to Sequoia at a low price! "

Under the roar of Ehrlich, Richard was a little counselled. In his conscience, he also felt that the $4 billion given by Sequoia was a little low. You know, half a month ago, the valuation of reels was only $2 billion, which doubled in less than half a month. Fools know that reels has great potential in the future.

After scolding Richard, Ehrlich turned to scold the general manager of the marketing department who had just threatened to sue tiktok for plagiarism:

"And you, fool, you're fired. Now get out of here and get out of this conference room!"

Ehrlich's hard line made the executives on the scene worried. If reels didn't offer them enough attractive salary, how could they succumb to Ehrlich's arrogance.

The general manager of the marketing department glanced at Richard who was silent and left the meeting room with a cavity of resentment and anger.

"Well, now that the average IQ of everyone in this conference room has risen, it's time for us to discuss something useful!" Ehrlich said.

The executives were silent. Many of them were afraid of repeating the mistakes of their colleague just now and preferred not to speak.

"Who can come up with an effective strategy? I can give him the 500000 dollars saved by the idiot just now as a reward for smart people!" Ehrlich took out the money temptation.

In the blink of an eye, the executives who had just been silent made suggestions one after another.

There was a contemptuous and proud smile on Ehrlich's face. There was nothing that money could not do, just as Mary was willing to squat under his desk for it.

"Tiktok has just begun to be promoted globally. Reels has been online all over the world for nearly a year. It is much better than it in terms of user scale and operation experience in non Chinese regions!"

"If reels and tiktok compete, we don't need to care about this competitor. The key is that there is a big Mac behind it, Huizhong!"

"Huizhong is the ruler of the mobile Internet. It is difficult for us to compete with it in terms of resources and traffic!"

"Now, we should unite one or even more companies at the same level as Huizhong against tiktok and Huizhong, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and apple!"

"Giants like Google and Amazon have long been dissatisfied with the rise of Huizhong. We should take advantage of this opportunity to jointly win them over!"

As the executives discussed, Ehrlich smiled.

Ehrlich stood up, walked behind Richard, patted him on the shoulder and said, "well, Richard, don't be unhappy. Dinesh called me this morning and said that Megan Smith, Google's vice president, greeted me through him. Google intends to invest in reels!"

As soon as Ehrlich finished his words, everyone in the conference room showed a happy face after falling into a short silence, and Richard's mood improved in an instant.

Google! That's Google! One of the most powerful Internet companies in the United States and even in the world. If Google is willing to support reels, what else to worry about even if tiktok has the support of Huizhong?

Three days later, in the conference room of reels, Ehrlich and Richard signed an investment agreement with Franz, a partner of Google capital. Google will invest US $1.5 billion in reels and obtain 20% shares of reels. According to this calculation, Google's valuation offer for reels is as high as US $6 billion!

In one year, the super unicorn, whether Ehrlich or Richard, who achieved $6 billion from zero, fell into great joy and madness.

When Ehrlich held a grand party to successfully join the $1 billion club, the news that Google invested $1.5 billion in reels began to spread wildly in Silicon Valley and the world.

"Fu * *, Erich and Richard, the two plagiarism ghosts, become billionaires by plagiarism. It's really ironic!"

"What's good about reels? Its recommendation algorithm is much worse than tiktok. I brush tiktok for two hours. The more I brush, the more excited I get. But reels, I feel sleepy after five minutes!"

"Google is blind! Those users of reels are registered by the Southeast Asian brush company that Ehrlich and Richard spend money on. They are sold to Google for 5 cents a user, and each user is more than $200!"

"Reels copied China's tiktok, and everyone knows that Google can accept it. It seems that for money, Google has long since abandoned its faith."

"Now there's a good play. Tiktok + Huizhong is very curious about reels + Google. Who can win the last!"

"Machina tiktok, we knew that we copied China's voice last year. No matter what, I'll go and see what other applications in China's app store have not been copied to the US."

In the curse and irony of Silicon Valley, there is some jealousy hidden more or less.

And in China, tiktok, the world's headquarters of jitter, Future Ltd, Richard, the future occupation manager CEO, after watching Google's investment in Reels news, pondered for a moment, and then telephoned the office of president of Huizhong.