Basketball: The Chosen Victim

Chapter 239 This is not a matter of millions or tens of millions, it is billions of dollars!

In 2012, the Mayans predicted the end of the world was coming, or so James expected.

Because watching a huge number of users pour into Wu Di's social platform Instagram, it hurts him more than killing him.

On a cool night in Miami, James was drinking red wine and swiping his phone in the yard of his mansion. Although he was "self-disciplined" in his diet, he never refused alcohol.

Although for professional sports athletes, alcohol is much more harmful to the body than so-called red meat.

But the explanation he gave himself was that he was self-disciplined enough, especially compared to Jordan.

"Thank you! Is there any reason left?"

James saw a message that Facebook would no longer redirect Lasso, put down his phone, covered his face, and sipped his glass of wine.

Although he didn't read many books, he still understood the meaning behind the news.

Lasso is over!

Wu Di is about to win again!

The $10 billion acquisition is estimated to be settled!

This incident has become a hot topic in the NBA circle since it broke out on the day of Wu Di's birthday party.

It has nothing to do with basketball, but it has become a hot spot in the NBA circle. The beginning of 2012 is so magical!
Although the specific amount has not been disclosed because the acquisition has not been successful yet, there are already different opinions on the Internet, some say 5 million US dollars, and some say 7 million US dollars, but according to James' estimation, if Lasso fails, it should be able to Reached 10 billion US dollars!

10 million dollars!

据说吴迪在10年圣诞节的时候投资了600万美刀占股30%，那如果最后收购价达到10亿美刀的话，600万美刀就能变成3亿美刀！

Just one year later, 3 million US dollars, 50 times the excess income!

Not to mention the NBA, Silicon Valley hasn't had such an exciting success story for a long time!

James is sour, more sour than the wine in his hand!
A month ago, when Zuckerberg invited him to help Lasso promote, he didn't dare to ask for shares boldly. He just made a simple request, that is, Lasso must help him accumulate fans.

Zuckerberg agreed to him and promised that for every three people who sign up for Lasso, one person will automatically follow his Lasso account.

James readily agreed, and let the director of his public relations team be responsible for the operation and promotion of the Lasso project, release more than 10 pieces of original content every day, and promote how useful Lasso is on Twitter, Facebook, and even Weibo every day. Want to snipe Instagram and let this crap product die quickly.

In the end, who knows, not only did Instagram not die, but it was getting better and better. Instead, Lasso was about to shut down...

Who can bear this?

In the Forbes annual income list of athletes released last year, due to multiple influences such as the substantial increase in the value of Nike's new endorsement contract, James' income reached a record 7900 million dollars, second only to boxing champion Mayweather's 8500 million dollars. Pressure Kobe to become the highest paid player among NBA players!

At that time, how beautiful he was!
Holding the best rookie, All-Star starter, scoring champion, double first team, MVP, AMVP and many other honors, only the championship and FMVP can get the Grand Slam!

Wealth, status and future!

And now, he hasn't even made it to the Eastern Conference finals, let alone the championship and FMVP, and the business field he is most proud of seems to be surpassed...

Fake!

NO!

He is a domineering emperor!
He wants to defend the glory of James!

However, $3 million...

The more James thinks about it, the angrier he gets!
This is already more than the total salary of all his previous careers combined!
And I heard that Systrom, the founder of Instagram, is a fan of Wu Di, and he took the initiative to seek investment from Wu Di...

Damn it, don't eat sour radishes!

Why didn't he have such good luck?
God is not fair!
He entered the NBA at the age of 18, and it is now exactly the 10th year. However, it has been a bumpy road. Finally, it will bloom and bear fruit last year. Who knows what will happen!
"Ah! I must win the championship this year!"

James shattered his wine glass angrily and ran towards the gym.

James couldn't stand it, and Zuckerberg couldn't stand it even more.

At the beginning, he thought that the acquisition of Instagram was a matter that could be solved with a maximum of 5 million US dollars, but it has been delayed until now, and 20 billion US dollars is the bottom line!

20 billion US dollars, it sounds like he is crazy, but the reason why he can start Facebook is because he has a sharper vision than everyone else.

When Facebook was just an idea of ​​the Winklevoss brothers, he accidentally got the opportunity to join the entrepreneurial group of the two brothers as a technical partner. If they succeed, they will all become billionaires with wealth and freedom!

But the problem is that the relationship between the two brothers is really good!

So good that Zuckerberg can't compete at all...

But if he came out alone, he could control the entire company!

So as to become a super rich man comparable to Bill Gates!

After several months of discussions, he has fully understood the two brothers' product ideas, and the rest is to write code, which is his original job.

The result is that since then until now, he is less than 30 years old, Facebook has grown into a super unicorn with a valuation of 190 billion US dollars, and has submitted an application for listing!

Now, his keen eye is at work again, and he's gotta get Instagram!

Or create an Instagram like Facebook!

In fact, as the soon-to-be youngest billionaire in the world, he doesn't mind others saying he plagiarized.

So much so that he spent 6500 million US dollars to reach a settlement with Facebook stock and the Winklevoss brothers.

But now he is pulling his face down and plagiarizing Instagram again...

"Mark, Wu Di refused to meet with us..."

On the private plane, the secretary put down the phone in his hand and said.

"Hey, I should listen to Priscilla..."

Zuckerberg muttered, rubbing his frown.

Priscilla Chen is his Chinese-American wife. When the number of Instagram users soared, she suggested continuing to negotiate and raising the purchase price instead of going to the end of the competition.

But Zuckerberg suspected that Priscilla was a fan of Wu Di, so he gave Wu Di a favorable opinion.

In addition, he also firmly believes that he will be able to do a good job in Lasso, thus teaching Wu Di a painful lesson!

However, now Lasso has failed completely, Facebook has no license to sell, and the negotiation has fallen into a very passive state...

Zuckerberg looked at Wu Di's information in his hand. He understood that Wu Di meant to quote first and then negotiate, but if he directly quotes now, what price is suitable?
If according to the previous valuation model, Instagram has reached $40 billion, is this okay?
After thinking for a while, he turned to the secretary and said:

"Call Senator Wheeler and ask him to arrange a meeting between me and Daniel Gilbert."

……

On the morning of February 2th, the Cavaliers players were sweating profusely in the Cavaliers training hall.

They just lost to the Thunder led by Durant 101-113 yesterday.

On the court, Durant spoke harshly, and even publicly stated that his agreement with Scarlett is still valid, that is, as long as he wins the FMVP, Scarlett will still date him.

But since Wu Di's birthday party, who doesn't know that Scarlett is the sister-in-law of the knight?

Durant's idea, not to mention Wu Di, the Cavaliers players did not agree.

The two sides were full of gunpowder, but the Thunder won the game with a more stable output and home court advantage.

"Hey, basketball is a sport that uses brains. If you just go up and press like this, if I am an attacker, I don't need to break through at all. If you just post it, you will be fouled!"

While making movements, Wu Di took the trouble to explain the essentials of defense to Butler.

Butler pursed his lips, as if he had different opinions on Wu Di's explanation, but due to Wu Di's prestige, he did not refute aloud.

Wu Di's eyes were fixed, he didn't care about this superficial harmony, what he wanted was to win:

"NO! We are a team. During training, if you have a problem, speak up immediately. Otherwise, you won't have any chance on the court!"

Butler nodded resentfully, and said angrily:
"I can't adapt to the intensity of the game at all now. If I continue to be so timid, how can I defend? Besides, besides yesterday's big beard, who would be so cheap?"

He is too thin, especially at the small forward position, so if he wants to have an aggressive defense, he can only make this kind of mad dog defense.

However, Butler's words left the trainers on the side speechless:
"Oh shit, JB, that's your reasoning? You want to solve a problem, you can't cover it up with a bigger problem! It's not a question of timidity at all, it's a defensive skill..."

Wu Di is also speechless, this is a newcomer, his ideas are too easy to go to extremes, either reckless or shrinking, there is no second state in their world, and Butler is a special axis among them, otherwise he would not be in the world. Only broke out in the fourth year of his career.

"Patrick is like me, why don't you bother him?"

Butler argued that, in his opinion, Beverly's defense was more reckless than his. Why did Wu Di and the trainer only trouble him?
This sentence attracted Beverly on the other side, and he demonstrated his defense live:
"See, although I look reckless, my footsteps are very reasonable, you pure suicide defense!"

Butler stopped talking, but Wu Di looked at him, and it was obvious that there would be repetitions later.

And if you want to learn reasonable footsteps, you don't have to be reasonable if you want to be reasonable. Butler has to have muscle memory that has been practiced countless times, physical fitness that can be used, and on-the-spot judgment.

It is difficult for newcomers to adjust, but relatively speaking, Butler is also the most difficult to adjust.

Owen has fewer problems, and it is routine, and Scott can guide and take care of him alone.

Thomas Jr. needs to put less energy, but it’s not that he has no problems, but many problems of this guy, such as height, can’t be solved at all, so he can only adjust to the rhythm of the team as soon as possible. Be in a hurry.

During the training break, Gilbert paid an unexpected visit. After delivering a pep talk to the players, he called Wu Di to speak:

"Di, come to my house for dinner tonight! Are you free?"

Wu Di judged sharply from his tone that it shouldn't be as simple as eating. He took Gilbert to a place relatively far away from his teammates:
"Boss, is there anyone else?"

Gilbert raised his eyebrows, feeling a little unhappy in his heart. Wu Di knew that he was the boss, yet he still asked such a question! ?

So what if there are other people, shouldn't Wu Di give him this face?

Seeing this, Wu Di knew that Zuckerberg would appear at tonight's dinner and didn't run away, so he looked straight and said:

"Daniel, you know this is not only about my own interests."

However, when Gilbert heard the words, he looked as if he had been insulted, and turned his head with a livid face and left.

Wu Di sighed, he could guess why Gilbert was suddenly angry.

The interests involved in this wave of acquisitions are too great, billions of dollars, once the acquisition is completed, Wu Di's worth will skyrocket!
Gilbert was angry. On the surface, it was because Wu Di didn't give him face to go to Zuckerberg for dinner at his house, but behind the scenes, he was jealous that Wu Di had such a good opportunity, but he didn't take him to make money.

However, Gilbert didn't want to think about it. Once Wu Di met when Zuckerberg didn't make a new offer, wouldn't that give up the good situation that had originally taken the initiative?

This is not a matter of millions or tens of millions. This is an acquisition of billions of dollars. How could Wu Di be careless?

As for not taking him to make money, this idea should never have occurred!
Business is not about charity. Wu Di took Ariana to make money because he took a fancy to Ariana's ability and resources in commercial transformation, and Gilbert had never introduced him to a brand owner in terms of business. How could he Will Gilbert earn the money?

It can only be said that people are always greedy. When you find a ladder to climb up, there will always be someone who wants to drag you down.

Sadly, this person is often a friend or family member, because they know your weaknesses best.

"Hey, in fact, I make money because of Krypton talent points to lead the team to the championship!"

Wu Di sighed. He understood that if he didn't show up tonight, the relationship between him and Gilbert would be regarded as a rift. Originally, the two of them might become Cuban and Nowitzki in Cleveland, but it is estimated that they will soon Difficult.

"If there is a chance in the future, I will start a team myself!"

Wu Di shook his head, no one is perfect, and Gilbert is generally regarded as one of the most good-natured team owners in the NBA. He can only try his best to grasp his goal, which is to bring the Cavaliers a championship!
In any case, this team has special meaning to him. The city still believes in him and hangs his poster high in the center of the city. His goal is not just to win a championship, but to build a dynasty Otherwise, he wouldn't have worked so hard to bring newcomers...

Gilbert admitted that he was jealous of Wu Di's wealth.

Zuckerberg can use his contacts to find him, and his business sense tells him that this is definitely an epic deal of billions of dollars.

Billions of dollars, Wu Di has nearly 30% of the shares!
Huge gift crab, after this incident, Wu Di is even richer than some team owners, such as the owner of the Spurs...

That night, Gilbert and Zuckerberg waited anxiously at home, but Wu Di still did not show up until 9 pm!
Zuckerberg returned to the hotel and called Priscilla:
"Honey, let Gilbert invite Wu Di, but Wu Di still doesn't show up, what should I do next?"

Back then, when Zuckerberg married Priscilla, many people said that Priscilla, who was not good-looking, was promoted, but in fact it was Zuckerberg who really made money.

Priscilla joined Facebook as an executive at the beginning of its founding, and made many major decisions that are very beneficial to Facebook. When she got married, she also took care of Zuckerberg's desire for control and signed a prenuptial agreement, which is equivalent to Bai worked part-time for many years.

For Zuckerberg, beauty is something that is extremely cheap and readily available. Priscilla's intelligent mind and kind personality are what make him worth investing in marriage.

Just like Durant's pursuit of Scarlett, not only because the widow sister is the ultimate sexy stunner, but also because of the status of the widow sister in Hollywood.

Wu Di held a birthday party, which was organized by the widow, and the entire Avengers crew had to come. Robert Downey Jr. even gave Wu Di the Ark reactor as a birthday present, as well as various famous star directors. Who else can achieve such a level? Effect?

And Priscilla is Zuckerberg's most trusted military adviser.

"Wu Di is a top professional sports player. His will is very firm. In this negotiation, you will never be able to compete with him!"

Priscilla paused, and continued:

"Do you still remember the Winklevoss Brothers, they are only No.6 in the double occupant rowing in the Olympic Games, it is already a nightmare for you to go to court with them, Wu Di will only be more difficult than them!"

Zuckerberg broke down. He thought of the Chinese fate that Priscilla had told him before, and he felt that his fate was definitely wrong!
"Well, what shall we do now?"

"We should immediately send a sincere offer, just like how we solved the case of the Winklevoss brothers back then, and satisfy Wu Di and the others as soon as possible, and the listing of Facebook is the most important thing!"

(End of this chapter)