Chapter 106

[Still, it seems that the family was once a family member.]

One storm passed, but in the end we were allowed to enter the dormitory where Mark would be.

When the door was opened, what was revealed was the lobby, an ambiguous space.

We tried to avoid meeting the students as much as possible, but eyes are already looking at us everywhere.

[Do you know where Mark Elliott Zuckerberg’s room is?]

In a hurry, I grabbed a male student passing by the hallway and asked.

He had a Sony CD player in his hand and earphones in his ears.

At first glance, as soon as I think that I have chosen the wrong subject, the polite student stares at me and asks.

[Where are you from?]

It was a clear boundary.

What came to mind was the stiff bills in my pocket.

When one of them is taken out and shaken, the student’s expression brightens.

chuck!

[The second room on the 3rd floor.]

The young man, with the 100 dollar bill in his hand, immediately turned to the road.

Looking at his bright and dazzling expression, he must be as sweet as someone who got a blank check.

He laughed and was about to climb the stairs, but Ryan’s words flew by.

[No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know if it’s even necessary.][Why are you here now?][If you also have eyes, look at the faces of those students. It’s like they’re looking at the bastards who always come to get our debt.]

That being said, the eyes are a bit irritating.

Where is your gaze?

Some of them seem to want to report a form that secretly picks up a phone somewhere.

[Don’t worry about it, let’s find it first. Maybe it’s already too late, I don’t know.]

For me, I had no choice but to rush.

According to history, Mark Zuckerberg must have dropped out of school around 2004.

It wouldn’t matter if it flowed as it is, but who can guarantee that his timeline would have flowed straight in the yard where history had already been twisted in many areas?

[How lucky you are.]

But it seemed like it was a bit of a concern.

The name written on the nameplate in front of him is clearly Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.

Proof that he is still at this school.

smart!

[who?]

Without hesitation, I knocked on the door, and a girl’s voice came from inside.

We looked at each other almost at the same time, and we looked like what was the case, and then the door opened, revealing the face of a girl who must have been about 20 years old.

[Isn’t this Mark’s room?][Okay, who are you?]

The eyes of the girl looking at us were not very different from those below.

It seems like what kind of tailors have come to this place, which is only for students.

Honestly, from my point of view, the fact that there are female students in a space only for men is more surprising, but I do not have time to think about it.

[here······.][Sorry, but this is a prohibited area for outsiders.]

She tried to close the door before I could finish her words.

widely!

But Ryan quickly pushed her feet through the crack in the door.

Afterwards, he spat her out in protest at her schoolgirl who stepped backwards from her with her startled eyes.

[Hey, let’s get into the habit of listening to people until the end. Does it look like we came to collect some debt?][Remove your feet before reporting to the office.]

The female student reacted with an attitude that was not at all discouraged.

She thinks something is wrong and she tries to deter Ryan.

This time, she hears her man’s voice from inside her.

[Who are you?]

Her face, which was revealed through the cracks in the door, was definitely the person I remembered.

Mark Elliott Zuckerberg.

Unlike the female student, he boldly opens the door and asks me again, looking up and down.

[I do not know where you came from, but outsiders are prohibited from entering this place.]

He whispered his words through one ear and looked inside.

A table with several computers and male students of the same age who are constantly coding something.

Perhaps that is the birthplace of Facebook.

[Who are you?][Ah! My name is Hyunseung Jin.]

At the same time as his prompting, he handed me a business card.

But he didn’t even think to look at it, slammed the door shut, and we stared blankly at each other again.

[What is this development?]

I groaned and knocked on the door again.

There seems to be a lot of commotion about what kind of conversations are coming and going inside, and then embarrassing words fly in.

[Are you Korean?][········ Yes, but.][I’m sorry, but I’m not willing to talk.][What now? Are you guys racist?]

Excited Ryan came out as if to kick the door at any moment.

I tried to stop him because I thought there was some misunderstanding, and then I knocked on the door again, and only then I heard words that I could understand.

[We never copied the platform developed in Korea.]

A platform developed in Korea?

copy?

In an instant, the two words formed a combination in my head in an instant.

And what came to mind was Cyworld.

It was then that I realized what that young man was wary of.

“Ah!”

Well, if you look at Facebook, there are a lot of similarities with Cyworld.

According to his memory, he said that he recognized the similarity through international students from Korea even before his return.

Perhaps I misunderstood that I was from Korea to take issue with it.

[What do you mean by that?]

Ryan, who did not understand the situation, looked at me blankly.

After waving his hand once, he spoke back inward.

[Something seems to have been misunderstood, but I am a person who wants to invest in your project. Let’s check the business card and talk.]

The business card he handed through the crack in the door was JW. The title of Chairman of Investment was stamped on it.

Recently in American society, the management of huge fund funds has become a hot topic every day, so I thought that he might have heard of it too.

As expected, the door opened again after a while, and his eyes looking at us were completely different from before.

[You JW. Are you the representative of Investment.][The CEO is this friend next to me, and I am the person in charge of the parent company of JW Investment.][Five! This is an honor. Anyway, here’s the business department and computer science department, and the kids’ recent interests are all about JW. It was a situation where I was curious because I was an I.][··········.][Don’t you know? These days, JW is called the genius of investment. To be honest, such praise is not unreasonable if it is a field that generates astronomical profits every year without a single loss.]

For a moment, my gaze naturally turned to Ryan.

With his shoulders soaring high into the sky, he stings and does something different when our eyes meet.

[Anyway, please come inside.]

Zuckerberg opened the door wide with a belated look on his face.

I want this conversation because it’s so hard.

Shaking his head, he lifts it up as he scratches his head with a mischievous smile.

[I am sorry. There are a lot of things that I need to be concerned about these days… Besides, I’ve been having some trouble with one of my friends recently with a project problem. ]

I looked around the room with him behind me.

All computers have their screens turned off.

Even the students who were working can not see where they have gone.

[The structure is connected to the next room, so I went there for a while.]

As if reading the meaning of my expression, Zuckerberg offered us a seat with a brief explanation.

You were such a young friend.

After looking at his face for a while in a strange feeling, he spoke again with a shy expression.

[By the way, how did you find out about my project?]

He still looked wary.

Well, no matter how far a footless horse travels a thousand miles, it doesn’t really make sense to me that I know of their project, which started just for the sake of socializing.

In this case, I have no way to explain it.

Except for just lying.

[As I said, we are an investment company. As a result, the economy and society of each school. And I have a pretty close relationship with the professors of IT-related departments.][··········.][Isn’t it one of our strategies to preempt promising students in advance? Anyway, Harvard is one of those schools that should be prioritized. So, while I was having a dinner with some professors a while ago, I heard a pretty interesting rumor.][··········.][Some of the students are working on sharing their profile. The moment I heard those words, I just felt it. Maybe that’s a lot of money.][··········.]

He narrowed his eyes and looked at me.

It’s as if it’s strange to hear the words that seem to represent their own thoughts.

I put the shirt I was holding onto the chair and looked at him again.

[Before the conversation, let me ask you one thing. The platform you are developing on right now. Is it just for friendship?]

He neither affirmed nor denied.

In other words, it does not mean that there were very few expectations for commercialization.


For me, this is a good starting point.

[As a Harvard student, you must have read Alvin Toffler’s books, right? In the future, he said, information will be his greatest asset. But now you are making… Ah! I’m sorry, but what was the name of the platform you’re making now?][The Facebook.][i See. Anyway, I understand that the purpose of Facebook’s creation is to share profiles, but I’m now paying attention to what Elvin Toffler is talking about.][··········.]

He swallowed a gulp.

Again, those words were in line with his usual thoughts.

From now on, the conversation seems to be a little more comfortable.

[Perhaps you have imagined that too. If Facebook goes beyond just socializing, it is deeply rooted in society. So what will happen if the number of subscribers exceeds hundreds of millions and reaches hundreds of millions.][··········.][Perhaps that would be a huge temptation for companies that need to sell things. After all, advertising is effective only when it is sprayed where people gather.](Read more @ wuxiax.com)

[··········.][Actually, it’s not just advertisers that are good because people flock to them. Facebook also thinks that it is possible to create as many means as possible to generate revenue through a huge number of users, am I wrong?][··········.]

He made his expression clear.

It was as if he had glimpsed his future in advance.

But for some reason, he tilts his head and asks a random question.

[By the way, didn’t you say you were Korean?][·······Why is that? Shouldn’t Koreans invest in you?][It’s not like that, but I’m curious as to why you decided to invest in me in a country that already has a platform called Cyworld in Korea. To be honest, I think an already completed platform would be more appropriate as an investment target.]

He paused for a moment and looked at him.

An expression waiting for a plausible answer.

He laughed and spit out the words.

[Investment is a company that has a high potential for growth in the first place, but unfortunately I didn’t see any growth potential in them.][··········.][And······.]

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth.

Because I can’t comment on a platform that hasn’t been released yet.

An algorithm that gradually evolves with his own business acumen and sensibility.

The resulting addiction and the ability to connect it to a profit structure.

In fact, there is no guarantee that I will succeed just because I follow it, and I can’t afford to even bother with it in the first place.

[······· And I think that being born with the title Made in USA on its back has more favorable conditions to expand into the world.][··········.]

He looked at him with a look of nonsense.

But isn’t that wrong?

In the Western society of this age, most of the cases do not even know where Korea is attached to, and no matter how much a topic is raised there, how likely is it that it will spread to the world?

But Made in USA is different.



[Anyway, I will cover all the funds necessary for development for the time being, so you just focus on completing the project.]

As soon as he spoke, he pulled out a checkbook from his pocket.

His bewildered gaze flew toward the checkbook, and he added one more word from there.

[Trust comes from money.][··········.]

He ripped the check at the end of the sentence.

Exactly twenty million dollars.

Ryan, who was watching, took out the contract he had prepared and threw out the message he had set up beforehand.

[One million of this can be used to fund development needs. And the rest is to prepay approximately 40% of the initial value of the company you will soon establish.][··········.]

Can you make nuclear weapons too?-107

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