undertaking.

In January 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web entered the market, providing a way to create and quantify a library of search engine-friendly public domains on the network, now known as the Web, mostly in its infancy. This term has begun to gain popularity on the internet.

However, the public offering has not been good, and entrepreneurs willing to invest offer very little for a lot, even wanting the domain and the company's valuation, which is difficult. The two founders, David Filo and Jerry Fang, are workers who seek and support the spread of the internet, the web portal directory, and how to navigate the internet, they seek investment to create the apparent domain of Yahoo!.com, something they have been eager and on occasion to create a domain to expand the company's services.

In the following months of March, the dream began with both working from scratch, not until their professor Burton Mcmurty arrived with a call that would change their lives, a new investor from the university they attended, investing as a favor to Professor Tom for helping him hire former students for his company, according to Professor Burton, this person is very wealthy and is willing to follow the university contract, $150,000, and a bit more if the idea satisfies him, for a 30% stake in the company.

Although nobody wants to leave the tender portion of their company, only a few can afford it and pursue their ideas with loans, investments, which is the most common route, and fees. Still, schedules are not enough, most of the time failing if there is no secure backing, something that Stanford approximates. Still, they are always honest about the difficulty of starting a company.

-We will send all the projects; he's a busy man, and he will consider the proposals at night and send us more or less money depending on the company's interest. But he will certainly invest a minimum of $150,000, - said Burton Mcmurty trying to be as serious, but the energy faltered.

Pocket money! Who the hell is Billy Carson? Haven't heard of him in entrepreneur magazines, and a search for an artistic name Bill Darwin leads to an actor, maybe he's a producer or has a very good inheritance.

Burton can't know.

-We have the documents ready, the last offer was made 20 days ago. Everything is in order, - said David Filo, still in denial, as people are usually happy with investment in companies, but maybe it's an opportunity.

Burton already had seven projects in his hands, with Yahoo! being one of the most important, though not so much for Billy, Nvdia would be the most important company as it is an animation company.

-May I know who our investor is? - Jerry Fang asked.

-Someone who values the technology industry, he has an animation company that has made perfect movies, you know him by the Lux Animation or Pixar Studios label, - said, Burton.

Jerry raised his eyebrow at David Filo, to their embarrassment, neither had any idea about cartoons; that era had ended some time ago.

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Anne finished the day's business meeting, she reviewed the check on her desk, the bonus received brought her characteristic happiness, and she couldn't deny that the money would come in handy for her brother and niece's tuition. As the sole provider for the family, her burden was heavy, and the bonuses received were more of a relief for paying her bills.

She stretched her arms and paused in the office. With much to do and not entirely bothered by the next day, she decided to take a long spa day; Billy would handle the interviews, and her work was done. With a long yawn, all that was left was to enter Billy's office and the many tasks she had to accomplish in the coming days.

-Rachel dear, you're still working, - Anne said.

Rachel just nodded, something lately made her see Rachel like a frightened rabbit, one of those that hide at the slightest thing.

-Oh yes, I'm doing the business organization and paperwork for Billy's new company, - Rachel said.

-Tomorrow you'll do that, dear. It's late, and it's not good to work more than necessary, - Anne said.

-Yes, director, - Rachel said. Coerced, her nervousness increased when she saw Billy in the afternoon, she wasn't prepared, not even a little groomed, lost, and invisible she saw Billy arrive unexpectedly, and she didn't know how to react, other than to bury herself in paperwork. Tomorrow will be the whole day, and Rachel couldn't stop feeling embarrassed.

Anne felt like waking the girl up, but she knew Rachel. - Rachel dear, do you have time? I'd like to have dinner with you. -

-Of course, Director! Let me tidy up the desk and shut down the computer, - Rachel said, jumping from her seat and organizing everything meticulously. Her desk was alphabetically and colorfully organized, which impressed all the members. Near Raimon's desk, which was completely disorganized by Rachel's high standards, there was a series of Star Wars action figures on a small shelf, the chair had a Ghost Report/Yuyu Hakusho cover, mostly comic books, highlighting some specials on accounting, taxes, and investments.

Anne took a seat in a chair in front of the operations department desks, composed of Rachel and Raimon, and soon by a third member. Who hadn't been defined yet, but she hoped it would be a balance between Raimon and Rachel, it was better to bring a woman into consideration for Rachel, and experienced, a shiver ran through her, she needed to improve her resume as soon as possible, a course that would help her and fast.

-Do you have any opinion on Billy's new company? - Anne asked from her position.

-It's a great idea. Billy proposes to create a digital mailbox that connects people in seconds; his ideas range from the ease of using the mailbox and organizing emails to making it user-friendly. He plans to create the website, then sell it and work as a consultant for a price. He estimates the minimum price to be $400 million, up to a maximum of $600 million, which I consider impossible, but he explains step by step why so much money can be made in this activity, - Rachel said.

Thinking about the idea of

creating a second mailbox, selling it, and investing a little more in creating another mailbox that can be sold for another ridiculous price, - Rachel thought.

-A consultant, - Anne asked.

-Yes, a consultant. He says he will later charge established companies a consulting and leadership fee for creating or improving email systems, - Rachel said.

-Do you think it's possible? - Anne asked, totally curious now, about Billy's daring to get money, maybe buying Marvel Comics isn't so bad, - she thought. -Anne for her, who knew Billy's thoughts as well as anyone else did. –

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Contrary to what his close people thought, Billy was playing arcade games with Julie near a cinema. Julie was passionate about wasting time doing things she wanted, without caring more than when she did a job.

-Well, it seems you must be a very responsible man to graduate at such an early age, - Julie said.

-Not at all, I was lucky, and I have to take a complementary course for another two years to consider myself a true bachelor in the art of business administration, - Billy said.

Playing a Capcom game, Street Fighter, to his surprise, it was the third round he was being crushed by Julie, whose use of the character seemed ridiculous, even Raimon would be in danger with the wonderful skills demonstrated by Julie, maybe he could beat her.

-I see, I can't seem to organize my thoughts about what you truly want. Haven't you heard that wanting it all isn't possible? He who grasps much achieves little depth, - Julie said.

Executing a combo that caused the end of another round, Julie celebrated.

-I crushed you. You better take a deep breath because I show no mercy to anyone, - Julie said.

-Come on, let's play another game, - Billy said, ignoring the defeat, walking towards a shooting machine with big guns at its station, a game he was once again defeated in by Julie's unbelievable ability to take the time to break Billy's regular skill set.

They played Pacman, a closer match, and Billy won the game, followed by a basketball sports game where he was once again defeated by Julie, with her slender arms and tender way of shooting, it was certain she wasn't good, but she sank every ball she threw with a great skill that amazed Billy for no reason.

-You have more talent than I imagined. Now I know not to bet against you in any skill-based game won through practice and repetition, - Billy said.

-Please, I'd beat you in any game. Just pick one! - Julie said.

-Chess, - Billy said, one of his favorite games.

-We have time for you to suffer a painful defeat at my hands, - Julie said openly, a sign that she might lose, but she would gain a lot later with her skills, and Billy had no choice but to accept Julie's competitiveness, which was quick to capture his concentration, tested by a near victory.

They both played in the arcade without stopping much; at 11 pm, they arrived at the hotel, tired from the long day. Billy checked his phone and found five missed calls. Julie bid farewell with a nod and a smile promising a strong defeat in chess for the next few weeks.

He went down to the reception, and his package was there, eight folders with a considerable number of pages. He glanced over the names, many names that still didn't fit into specific ideas. Yahoo, the basic offer for 30% of the company was a conscious investment of $350,000, and a forthcoming injection of $250,000 to take over 30% of the company, an open credit of $300,000 without interest, and financial support. He thought of the TV show Shark Tank and how he now performed such acts for proposals that had not yet been born and were mere ideas in the air.

But it could be said that was what he was doing. It was clear that Yahoo! wasn't part of the entrepreneurship program, but there was a significant connection.

The second company that caught his attention was Excite, one that promoted a web search engine, something not very common at this time, with outstanding and decisive ideas. The offer was $450,000, in three periodic installments over a year.

The third was a venture that surprised him: Nvidia, a company headed by three names and one who was a doctor in electrical engineering, Jensen Huang, a Stanford graduate, they asked for $800,000 for 30%, along with the payment of a $100,000 debt.

It was simply pure gold, they were based on graphics processing and application programming interfaces. This could only be called a stroke of luck, Billy didn't hesitate to invest in the three companies even at the expense of investments he wanted to make in real estate. Now that didn't matter.

The values ​​were of course less than what the company should be worth, but it was enough for Billy, the potential of these three companies was gigantic to the point that he considered it a gift from heaven.

The last one shook him to the core, a stroke of luck, a proposal for a DVD rental network by mail, the entrepreneurs were, net-movie. Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph, proposed to create a library of movies and home deliveries to people, without the transfer, they asked for an initial capital of $300,000 for 10% of the company, along with an open credit of $500,000.

He gladly accepted it, the following companies, much more modest, stood out. A company creating educational software, applications for children, which led him to accept the offer of $190,000 for 30%, Jumpies was the name of the company, and the following companies he signed with the minimum, he looked at the clock and it was 3 am, he sighed deeply, quickly prepared eight reports, almost done, adjusted everything for the next day, and fell into the world of dreams.

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