<h4>Chapter 448 1998 NBA Draft 6</h4>


    Jake had to be careful because first, he wanted to make friends with the two and make them understand that Jake was able to invest and also understood technology, Jake didn’t need to meet Larry Page and Sergey Brin many times because next year he could do the investment and be their partner.


    Of course, even though Jake nned it all out calmly and just talked to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two could never imagine that Jake knew what would happen in the future and was just waiting for them to try to sell thepany to invest.


    Naturally, Larry Page and Sergey Brin did not expect Jake to know theirpany and just hoped that Jake was looking for opportunities to invest, but they were looking for an investor now that theirpany was starting.


    The truth was that Jake always saved a few million dors thinking about making this investment that he knew would be more important in the future than investing in shares of thepany Cisco, it was the same when he decided to invest in thepany Amazon.


    After getting this investment, Jake would no longer have to worry about saving money, especially since he would start receiving money from his NBA contract and sponsorships that would give him over 16 million dors a year.


    Especially since the year 2000 was approaching and Jake could sell his shares of thepany Cisco and would have a few billion dors to receive after that Jake would not have to worry about making any more investments.


    Of course, Jake still intended to make some millionaire investments that he knew would make a profit just to keep his investmentpany and maintain his employees’ and Emily’s sries.


    Emily was already receiving a sry of hundreds of thousands of dors a year and Jake intended to further increase her sry after he sold his shares in the Ciscopany, she was always by his side helping him with all his investments and would always be she wanted to continue working with him.


    So Jake would hire Haruto who was his friend at the university, so Emily would have fewer responsibilities and be less stressed about her responsibilities, Jake had intended to give her some well-deserved vacations for some years.


    So the other day Jake went to the restaurant to meet Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two had arrived before him at the restaurant and had some reports that could be from theirpany.


    "Good afternoon, my name is Jake Smith and I asked you to meet with the two of you."


    "Yes, Mr. Smith, it is a pleasure to meet you, they called us from the university and said that you wanted to talk to us, could I ask what it would be about?"


    "I heard you were doing a doctorate at Stanford University, I have a technologypany that has Stanford University students as its main developers."


    "So knowing how great they are atputing, I was curious when I found out, did you create apany based on your research project?"


    Larry Page and Sergey Brin were surprised when Jake appeared in front of them when they heard that the head of one of the most important students at Stanford University and that he was a major investor wanted to speak to them, both thought it was an excellent opportunity.


    But seeing how young Jake was if they didn’t know the information that he was an investor before they probably wouldn’t believe it, even if Jake was really wealthy and wanted to invest they just needed money and an investor who didn’t get involved in the development of theirpany.


    What happened was that as Larry Page and Sergey Brin were very busy with the university and theirpany, they didn’t keep up with the news and sports and didn’t know who Jake was, if they knew he was an athlete who won a gold medal and several marathons and was an NBA yer they would not be surprised that Jake was so young.


    Jake also didn’t want to exin who he was and didn’t intend to invest after this conversation with them, he just wanted to make friends with them and show that he was interested in thepany, so after they tried to sell thepany they wouldn’t be surprised that Jake invested a few million dors suddenly.


    Jake wanted to guarantee making an investment of $ 1 million to earn a percentage of thepany that was developing now, but he feared that it would change the future a lot if he made that investment and Larry Page and Sergey Brin might not think about selling thepany for Excite CEO George Bell for $ 1 million.


    If that happened, Jake could miss the investment opportunity and could own more than 25 percent of thepany without changing thepany’s future too much, after all, Larry Page and Sergey Brin would get a few millions of dor investments a few months after failing to sell thepany for George Bell.


    "Yes, Mr. Smith, we have apany whose main product is a search engine, it is a search algorithm in which when you type something to search the inte it shows the most searched and essed sites and the most used search words."


    "It is based on the PageRank algorithm that we created, and we realized that this search engine based on PageRank produces better results than the existing techniques."


    "We are against the use of advertising pop-ups on a search engine and we think that after we have more active users on our website we can create several methods to earn revenue even without using pop-ups."


    After that, the conversation continued and the two said several things that were important to exin the use of the search site that Jake actually knew better than they did, then Jake said some opinions of him about the search site that he had studied in the future that very impressed Larry Page and Sergey Brin.


    "I was really impressed with yourpany and the proposal you have for the inte, as you know I am investing in an electronic product developmentpany and I have invested in some technologypanies."


    "But probably next year I can invest in yourpany if the site shows better results, I cannot make a promise, but I will look for you when I decide to make the investment."


    When Jake said that Larry Page and Sergey Brin thought for sure that Jake had decided not to invest in theirpany and they were upset about it, of course, if Jake really wanted to invest he would give some time or say some amount to make amitment.


    But Jake was happy with this conversation and if the future didn’t change he could make his investment next year and thus secure another society that would be worth billions of dors to him in the future.


    Jake was also sure that if they ever saw him in the newspapers or on television they would recognize him and at the next meeting they would know exactly who he was, Jake knew that they had received an investment from Jeff Bezos and so it would be easier for him to negotiate when he revealed that he was an Amazon partner.


    After talking to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Jake said goodbye to Charlie and traveled to Los Angeles, soon Jake would have toe to Los Angeles again to start training, so he wanted to buy the house now so he could stay home with his mother until the Los Angeles Lakers team called him.


    Jake had a house in Miami that was actually the house that Jake gave to his mother, but Eva didn’t ept it so Jake didn’t tell her that that house was hers, so Jake thought that this house in Los Angeles would be the first house of himself that he would buy.


    Jake received, after signing the sponsorship contracts, the annual value of all thepanies, so Jake received 14 million dors, David Falk received 1.4 millionmission and thus Jake got 12.6 million dors.


    With more money that Jake had already saved after making the investments he had $ 43 million in the bank, thinking about the investment he would have to make next year in the Googlepany, Jake still had a lot of money that he could finally use as he wanted.


    So he spent two days looking for a mansion for him in Los Angeles in upscale neighborhoods, Jake didn’t think it would be a bad investment even if he happened to not be in Los Angeles too long because he could change teams.


    After all, in the future, he knew that because of intion and other things, real estate would appreciate more than 100 percent in value, so it was a good investment even if Jake wasn’t going to use the house in the future.


    Jake hired a real estate agent just to close the house deal and show him the houses he wanted, the real estate agent happily knew Jake and knew he would y for the Los Angeles Lakers team.


    As the agent was a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers team he thought that since Jake was buying a house in Los Angeles it meant that he intended to y for many years on the Los Angeles Lakers team.


    As the agent knew Jake was rich he had no hesitation in taking Jake to the neighborhoods with the most luxurious mansions in the city just as Jake had asked, he knew that yers liked to spend millions of dors buying houses when they started ying in the NBA.


    "Mr. Smith, we have several wonderful houses that are for sale in several upscale neighborhoods in Los Angeles, I will show you these mansions first and if you don’t want to I can show you the mansions that are not for sale, but then you will have to pay much more for them."


    What the real estate agent wanted to say to Jake was that there was no house that wasn’t for sale, he just had to offer a lot more for the real price that the house was worth to buy it, many rich people didn’t like to hear that they couldn’t buy one House.