The Wolf of Los Angeles - Chapter 305

Just four days later, Brian compiled a complete plan and handed it to Hawke.

When he was running for mayor of Kovina, he encountered extremely fierce competition, which accumulated rare experience for Brian’s team.

Especially in terms of external moves.

However, strictly speaking, the American election has developed to the present, and it has long been a normal method to attack each other personally, while raising oneself, and trying hard to belittle the opponents.

If you are not afraid of you being bad, you are afraid that your opponent is not bad enough.

The last governor’s revocation election and the mayoral Kovina campaign, the momentum of the donkey party was affected, causing the Elephant party to rise significantly.

This allowed Brian to gain the support of the California Elephant Party, and coupled with the power of the Ferguson family, he successfully became the only candidate for the Elephant Party to be introduced.

Brian also officially announced that he would participate in the next Los Angeles mayoral election and form a campaign team to start preparing for the election.

The primary job of the campaign team is to make money. If you don’t have money, don’t waste time. You can give in directly.

Hawke wrote a check for Brian and became the first funder.

Twitter will also fund Brian’s election.

Others like Pacific Investment and Fox TV will also fund Brian.

In the office, Hawke finished reading Brian’s plan and asked Edward: “If there is chaos in Los Angeles and mobilize your fellow citizens to join in and make the situation even more chaotic, isn’t it difficult?”

Edward laughed: “How can the chaos in Los Angeles be separated from black people? As long as the situation is a little chaotic, the people in Compton will definitely come out to buy big, or the kind that doesn’t have to spend money. We don’t even need to do much work. .”

He talked about a situation that often occurs on the streets of Los Angeles: “Every time there is chaos in a certain neighborhood in Los Angeles, the situation stabilizes a little the next day, and there will definitely be many black people selling second-hand goods on the nearby streets, with low prices and good quality, and around them. The shops can’t compete with them.”

Hawke could understand that one had costs and the other had almost no costs.

He said: “You make some preparations in advance and find some people. If there is chaos in Los Angeles next year, it is a good thing that will spread rumors in the black gathering areas.”

Edward thought of his younger brother Michael and the ugly trio who has been living in the Hollywood area, and said, “They are very suitable for this job. They are scattered on the streets, experienced and inspiring.”

Hawke modified some of the plan and added the black part, asking Edward to send it back to Brian himself.

While raising money, Brian also began to prepare in advance.

Hawke’s off-trading moves for him are a long-term plan.

For example, in terms of meteorology.

2004 is coming soon, and if the money is spent, our own experts will come forward to speak.

Meteorological experts from the University of Washington, University of California and California Institute of Technology respectively predict that the climate in Southern California will tend to drought in the next three years.

Southern California is already arid area. Since the new century, rainfall has decreased significantly compared with the 1990s, and large-scale wildfires erupt once a year on average.

The media is also reporting.

Ordinary people don’t care, and the city hall doesn’t care at all. Only those who are interested in stakeholders will pay attention after seeing it.

The relevant news soon spread to the CEO’s office of Wandefu Company.

This private company that controls most of the water resources in Southern California has immediately taken it seriously.

Capital is naturally pursuing profits, and Wandefu Company and Los Angeles City Hall have started a new round of negotiations to obtain more priority use rights for water resources.

If you get the resources and want to go out again, no one will be willing to let go if you don’t have multiple benefits.

Not only Wan Defu, but Twitter is the same.

After a long period of pulling, Twitter and Long-term Capital Management reached a final agreement on financing.

The former was ultimately valued at US$8.5 billion and raised US$1.7 billion from the latter.

At the same time, Twitter’s existing management also invested in shares and became a group of small shareholders.

Twitter adopts two dual equity structures of AB. Class A enjoys normal dividend rights, but the voting rights are normal. Class B enjoys additional voting rights in addition to the normal rights and interests of Class A.

There are many restrictions.

For example, Class A cannot be converted to Class B at any time, and Class B can be converted to Class A at any time.

For example, when Class B is transferred to non-company affiliates, it will automatically be converted to Class A, etc.

This structure gives Hawke a super voting right to the shares, cementing his position so that he doesn’t have to worry about diluting control in the fundraising process, while allowing him to control enough seats on the upcoming board, as long as he wants to , you can stay in the company as long as you want.

In addition to financing, Hawke also transferred a point of shares to the long-term capital management company.

In this way, including various incomes in the strategic planning business, his investment company and West Coast studio in the Cayman Islands control more than $100 million in capital flows.

Hawke needs a lot of cash to run the program for the Ackerman family.

To deal with these people, money is indispensable.

Considering tax avoidance, Hawke donated another sum to the already established Osmon Charity Foundation.

The Foundation nominally established the National Association for People of Color with Saint Steve to help sick minorities.

After the financing, Hawke still holds 56% of the equity and has 78% of the voting rights.

Twitter is still under his full control. Peter Thiel and Red Hoffman, who have long-term management of the company, will also provide platform resources for the promotion and development of Twitter.

The rapid development of Twitter has made these two people not want to wait any longer.

Because other investment companies were already eyeing each other, they rushed over.

With the completion of the financing, Twitter also established a board of directors, which adopts the method of two founders, one company executive, and an investor and an independent director.

Hawke, Mary Ferguson, representing Pacific Investments, Twitter management representatives Caroline Jones and Peter Thiel were confirmed to be on the board.

Independent directors are elected by the general meeting of shareholders, and their decision-making power is also in the hands of Hawke.

Adequate funds have further accelerated the development of Twitter, especially in overseas promotion, and the effect is more obvious.

Twitter expands its scale in an orderly manner, recruits personnel, formulates plans, cooperates with other companies, etc.

By the New Year of 2004, Twitter’s global active users exceeded 40 million.

As the number of users increases, the company’s advertising business is also making efforts.

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After the New Year, Twitter added 12 new advertising partners in North America alone.

There are also corresponding advertising signings in markets in different countries.

In addition, Hawke plans to set up a mobile phone program research department.

Smartphones have appeared on the market, and in fact, IBM launched its first smartphone as early as the early 1990s.

Since 2000, Motorola has launched the A6188, Ericsson has launched the R380sc, and so on.

Smartphones are also developing rapidly.

It won’t take long before Apple will launch its first generation smartphone.

Handheld smart terminals are the future of social media.

Currently, Twitter does not have enough talent reserves in this area, so Hawke decided to poach people.

After spending the New Year holiday with Erica, he contacted his neighbor Jet Brown on 20th Street in Santa Monica as soon as he went to work.

The headhunter of Glory International rushed to Twitter to meet Hawke.

In the reception room, facing the first big order in the New Year, Jeter made the warmest response: “What talent does Twitter need? Even if the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the chief of staff of the White House, I can help you dig it up. ! ”

Hawke waved his hand and said, “It’s not that exaggerating.” He said simply, “I’ve heard people talk about a company called Android that specializes in mobile phone systems and software development. Its team is very capable and creative.”

Jeter asked, “Is there any more detailed information?”

“I just heard from people, but there is no specific information.” Hawke searched online and did not find Android information, but he vaguely remembered that the company was established before 2004.

As for the more specific personnel or company addresses, he is not very clear.

Most people won’t remember these things even if they are fine.

Jeter understood and said, “A company that does this kind of business will probably be in Silicon Valley. I will rush to San Francisco tomorrow and start investigating from there.”

“The most important thing is to dig all the development teams over,” Hawke emphasized.

“I understand.” Jeter wrote down the Android name in the note book.

“You have a month,” Hawke said.

Jiete nodded: “No problem.”

Hawke left immediately, and Sasha came over to discuss the cost issue with Jet.

Jeter took a plane to leave Los Angeles early the next morning and rushed to San Francisco. While looking for an acquaintance, he also commissioned a survey company to find the mobile phone development company called Android.

There was no news from the acquaintance, and the investigation company provided a clue three days later.

Silicon Valley is located in the Mountain View area. There is a company just established in October 2003 called Android, but the company does not currently do mobile phone system and program development, and is developing and designing advanced operating systems for cameras.

Jet Brown immediately rushed to Mountain View and saw a small company with only four people in the two open garages.

The person in charge is Andy Rubin, who has worked at Apple and Microsoft.

When he learned about Jeter’s purpose, Andy asked, “Are you talking about Twitter? The world’s largest social media network company at present?”

Jeter said: “Yes, I’m commissioned by Twitter. If you’re interested in Twitter’s recruitment, you can go to Los Angeles to have a conversation with Twitter founder and chairman Hawke Osmond.”

Andy knew very well that if a company wanted to develop, the support of a large company was essential.

He sought the opinions of three partners and agreed to go to Los Angeles.

Jet then led Andy’s team to Los Angeles to have an interview with Hawke on Twitter.

The two sides talked for a long time, and Andy was very interested in what Hawke said about mobile phone system and software development, and also believed that this business was more promising than camera systems.

After brief discussions by the four founders of the Android company, they agreed to join Twitter to develop a smartphone operating system called Android. (End of this chapter)