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.
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.
I am not afraid of you being bad, but I am 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.
Bryan 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 financial backer.
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, it is not difficult to mobilize your fellow citizens to join in and make the situation even more chaotic, right?" >
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, and they are still the kind that doesn't have to spend money. We don't even want to How much work is needed. "
He talked about a situation that often occurs on the streets of Los Angeles: "Every time a certain block in Los Angeles is in chaos, and when the situation stabilizes a little the next day, there will definitely be a situation on the nearby streets. Many black people sell second-hand goods, with low prices and good quality, and the surrounding shops cannot compete with them."
Hawke could understand that one had costs and the other had almost no costs.
He said, "Prepare in advance and find some people. If there is chaos in Los Angeles next year, fortunately, rumors will be spread in the black gathering area."
Edward thought of his younger brother Michael, and he has been doing it all the time. The timid trio living in the Hollywood area said, "They are very suitable for this job. They are lingering on the streets, have rich experience, and are also inspiring."
Hawke revised the plan Some, and the black part was added, and Edward sent it back to Brian himself.
While Brian raised money, he 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.
The University of Washington, University of California and California Institute of Technology have come out, predicting that the climate in Southern California will tend to be drought in the next three years.
Southern California is a drought 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, the city hall doesn't care at all. Only those who are interested in stakeholders will pay attention after seeing it.
Related news quickly 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.
Capitals are naturally profitable, and Wandefu Company and Los Angeles City Hall have started a new round of consultations, wanting 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.
It's not just Wandefu, but Twitter is the same.
After a long period of pulling, Twitter and Long-term Capital Management Company reached a final agreement on financing.
The former is 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, strengthening his position so that he doesn't have to worry about diluting control in the fundraising process, while allowing him to control enough on the upcoming board of directors. There are many seats, as long as he wants to stay in the company.
In addition to financing, Hawke also transferred a point of shares to the long-term capital management company.
This way, including various incomes in the strategic planning business, his investment companies and West Coast studios in the Cayman Islands control more than $100 million in capital flows.
Hawke needs a large sum of cash to run the program for the Ackerman family.
Funds are indispensable to dealing with these people.
In view of 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 made these two people not want to wait any longer.
Because other investment companies were already eyeing each other, they rushed over.
As the financing was completed, Twitter also established a board of directors, which adopted the method of two founders, one company executive, and an investor and an independent director.
Haoke, 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, with more obvious results.
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 has added 12 new advertising partners in North America alone.
There are also corresponding advertising signings in markets in different countries.
In addition, Hawke intends 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, etc.
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.
Twitter currently has insufficient talent reserves in this area, so Hawke decided to poach people.
After Erica spent the New Year's holiday, he contacted his neighbor Jet Brown on 20th Street in Santa Monica as soon as he went to work.
This headhunter from 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: "It's not that exaggerated." He said simply: "I heard people say that there is a company called Android that specializes in mobile phone system and software development, and its team is very Ability and creativity." Jett asked, "Is there any more detailed information?" "I just heard someone mention it, but there is no specific information." Hawke was I checked online and found no Android information, but I vaguely remember that the company was established before 2004.
He is not sure about the more specific personnel or company addresses.
Most people won't remember these things even if they are fine.
Jet got to know 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."
Hawke He emphasized: "The most important thing is to dig all the development team."
"I understand." Jeter wrote down the Android name in the note book.
Hawke said, "You have a month."
Jayte nodded: "No problem."
Hawk left immediately, and Sasha came over to discuss the cost issue with Jet.
Jet 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 is no news from the acquaintance, and the investigation company provided a clue three days later.
Silicon Valley is located in the area of Mountain View. There is a company just established in October 2003 called Android, but the company currently does not 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.
After learning about Jeter's purpose, Andy asked, "Are you talking about Twitter? The world's largest social media network company?"
Jet said, "That's right." , I was commissioned by Twitter. If you are interested in Twitter's recruitment, you can go to Los Angeles to have an interview with Twitter founder and chairman Hawke Osmond. "
Andy knows very well , If a company wants to develop, the support of large companies is 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. 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 discussion, the four founders of Android company unanimously agreed to join Twitter to develop a smartphone operating system called Android. (This chapter ends)