Chapter 143: Rebellion
In California that winter, Facebook was like a sheep, while the Silicon Valley internet companies and venture capital firms bombarding it with offers were a pack of wolves, chasing it while fighting among themselves. Every one of them tried to get the two founders to nod, usually in vain. Only The Washington Post Company had fought its way through, and by cooperating with its president, Donald, Su Can had directly driven Sean Parker out.
Likewise, this had also repelled Zhan Hua's Red Leaf Fund on a strategic level.
Zack had not expected this. Neither had all the Silicon Valley companies that had believed they could succeed that winter, much less Su Can himself.
Life was always full of coincidences of one kind or another. Even with his wealth of knowledge about the future, even with his fresh approach to life, even with every careful step he took, things beyond his control and judgment still cropped up, sending his heart racing.
Man proposed, heaven disposed. That was precisely it.
Ideally, Su Can would have used Big Banyan Construction's connection with Zhan Hua to establish a mutually beneficial relationship. Zhan Hua would then have financed Facebook through overseas capital at a reasonable price, giving Su Can more say when other investors came aboard later. With Zhan Hua's team working with him, Facebook's subsequent funding rounds would surely have become increasingly effortless, allowing Su Can to bring the future internet's Web 2.0 legend to life as easily as moving his own limbs.
But the uncertainty of rebirth, coupled with Su Can's one-sided wishful thinking, had made him overly optimistic about human nature. In Zhan Hua's eyes, personal favors were one thing, business another. The asking price was too high-arrogant, even. What gave him the right?
And Zhan Hua's attempt to