The Wolf of Los Angeles.

Just four days later, Brian put together a complete plan and delivered it to Hawke personally.

When running for mayor of Covina, Brian's team encountered extremely fierce competition, which provided him with valuable experience.

Especially in terms of off-the-board tactics.

But strictly speaking, in American elections, personal attacks on each other, elevating oneself while doing everything possible to belittle opponents have long been a normal practice.

I'm not afraid that you are bad, I'm afraid that your opponent is not bad enough.

In the last gubernatorial recall election and Covina mayoral election, the Donkey Party's momentum was affected, allowing the Elephant Party to gain a clear advantage.

This earned Brian the support of the California Elephant Party, and with the power of the Ferguson family, he successfully became the only candidate put forward by the Elephant Party.

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

The primary job of a campaign team is to raise money. If there is no money, don’t waste time and just admit defeat.

Hawke wrote a check to Brian and became the first financial backer.

Twitter will also fund Bryan's election.

Others like Pacific Investment Corporation and Fox Television Network will also fund Brian.

In the office, Hawke read Brian's plan and asked Edward, "If there is chaos in Los Angeles, it won't be difficult to mobilize your compatriots to join in and make the situation even more chaotic, right?"

Edward laughed. "How can the chaos in Los Angeles be separated from the black people? As long as the situation is a little chaotic, people in Compton will definitely come out to make large purchases, and they don't have to spend money. We don't even have to do much work."

He described a situation that often occurs on the streets of Los Angeles: "Every time there is chaos in a certain block in Los Angeles, when the situation stabilizes a little the next day, there will definitely be many black people on the nearby streets selling second-hand goods. The prices are low and the quality is good, and the surrounding shops cannot compete with them."

Hawke understood that one had a cost and the other had almost no cost.

He said: "You should prepare in advance and find some people. If there is chaos in Los Angeles next year, you can spread rumors in black communities."

Edward thought of his younger brother Michael and the three ugly guys who had been living in the Hollywood area, and said, "The ugly guys are very suitable for this job. They hang out on the streets, have rich experience, and can motivate people."

Hawke made some changes to the plan, added the part about black people, and asked Edward to deliver it back to Brian personally.

While Brian was raising money, he also began to make preparations in advance.

The strategy Hawke had prepared for him was a long-term plan.

For example, meteorology.

2004 is approaching, and as money is spent, experts will come out to speak.

Meteorological experts from the University of Washington, the University of California, and the California Institute of Technology have predicted that the climate in Southern California will be drier in the next three years.

Southern California is an arid region. Since the beginning of the new century, rainfall has decreased significantly compared to the 1990s, and large-scale wildfires occur on average once a year.

The media is also reporting on it.

Ordinary people don’t care, City Hall doesn’t care at all, only those with a vested interest will take notice when they see it.

The relevant news soon reached the CEO's office of Wonderful.

This private company, which controls most of the water resources in Southern California, immediately took it seriously.

Capital naturally seeks profit. Wonderful Corporation has started a new round of negotiations with the Los Angeles City Hall, hoping to obtain priority use rights for more water resources.

Once you get the resources, if you want to sell them out again, no one would be willing to let them go unless there is several times the profit.

It's not just Wandefu, it's the same with Twitter.

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

The former was ultimately valued at $85 billion and raised $17 billion from the latter.

At the same time, Twitter's existing management also invested and became a small shareholder.

Twitter adopts a dual-class share structure of two classes, A and B. Class A enjoys normal dividend rights, but normal voting rights, while Class B enjoys additional voting rights in addition to the normal rights of Class A.

There are also many restrictive clauses.

For example, Class A cannot be converted into Class B at any time, but Class B can be freely converted into Class A at any time.

For example, when Class B is transferred to a non-company affiliate, it is automatically converted to Class A, and so on.

The structure gives Hawke’s shares super voting rights, solidifying his position so he doesn’t have to worry about diluting his control during a fundraising effort while giving him enough seats on the upcoming board to allow him to stay at the company as long as he wants.

In addition to the financing, Hawke also transferred a percentage point of his stake to Long-Term Capital Management.

In this way, including various income from strategic planning business, his investment company in the Cayman Islands and the West Coast Studio controlled a cash flow of more than $1 million.

Hawke needs a large sum of cash to carry out his plan against the Ackerman family.

It costs money to deal with these people.

In order to avoid taxes, Hawke donated another sum of money to the Osmond Charitable Foundation, which had already been established.

The foundation will nominally work with the National Association for the Advocate of Colored People founded by Saint Steve to provide assistance to sick minorities.

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

Twitter is still under his full control. Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, who have long managed the company, will provide platform resources for the promotion and development of Twitter in addition to funding.

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

Because other investment companies are eyeing it and are ready to pounce.

With the completion of financing, Twitter also established a board of directors, which consists of two founders, one company executive, investors and independent directors.

Hawke, Mary Ferguson representing Pacific Investment Corporation, Carolyn Jones representing Twitter management, and Peter Thiel are confirmed to join the board of directors.

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

Adequate funding has further accelerated Twitter's development, especially in overseas promotions, where the effect is more obvious.

Twitter expanded in an orderly manner, recruiting people, formulating plans, cooperating with other companies, etc.

By the New Year of 2004, the number of Twitter's global active users exceeded 4000 million.

As the number of users increases, the company's advertising business is also gaining momentum.

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

There are also corresponding advertising contracts for markets in different countries.

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

Smartphones have been around for a while now, and in fact, IBM launched the first smartphone in the early 1990s.

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

Smartphones are also developing rapidly.

It won't be long before Apple launches its first smartphone.

Handheld smart terminals are the future of social media.

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

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

The headhunter from Korn Ferry immediately rushed to Twitter to meet Hawke.

In the reception room, facing the first big order of the new year, Jeter gave the most enthusiastic response: "What kind of talents does Twitter need? Even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of Staff of the White House, I can help you recruit them!"

Hawke waved his hand and said, "It's not that exaggerated." He simply said, "I've heard people say that there is a company called Android that specializes in mobile phone system and software development. Its team is very capable and creative."

Jeter asked, "Are there any more detailed information?"

"I just heard someone mention it, there is no specific information." Hawke searched the Internet and found no information about Android, but he vaguely remembered that the company was established before 2004.

As for more specific personnel or company addresses, he was not quite sure.

Most people won’t remember these things if they have nothing to do.

Jet understood and said, "Companies doing this kind of business are most likely in Silicon Valley. I will rush to San Francisco tomorrow and start investigating from there."

Hawke emphasized: "The most important thing is to recruit the entire development team."

"Understood." Jet specially wrote down Android's name on the notepad.

Hawke said, "You have a month."

Jett nodded, "No problem."

Hawke then leaves and Sasha comes over to talk to Jet about the expense.

The next morning, Jet flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco. While asking around among his acquaintances, he also commissioned an investigation company to find the mobile phone development company called Android.

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

In the Mountain View area of ​​Silicon Valley, there is a company called Android that was founded in October 2003. However, the company is not currently developing mobile phone systems and programs. Instead, it is developing and designing an advanced operating system for cameras.

Jet Brown immediately rushed to Mountain View and found a small company with only four people in two connected garages.

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

After learning about Jeter's purpose, Andy asked, "Are you talking about Twitter? The world's largest social media network company?"

Jeter said: "Yes, I am here on behalf of Twitter. If you are interested in Twitter's recruitment, you can go to Los Angeles to meet with Hawk Osmond, the founder and chairman of Twitter."

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

He consulted his three partners and they agreed to go to Los Angeles.

Later, Jeter led Andy's team to Los Angeles and interviewed Hawke on Twitter.

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

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