Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 597: Adding Ten Million_1

Chapter 597: Chapter 597: Adding Ten Million_1

The number scrolling on the big screen finally stopped.

It was "0032535." Milosevic and his friends looked puzzled because they did not understand what this number meant.

However, the host quickly explained it to everyone.

This was according to the order of comments left on the lottery information on the Facebook network.

This number represented that the 32,535th comment had won the grand prize!

Then the host and Rossiyana opened the Facebook network page on the spot, under Wang Ye’s personal page, they went searching for the winning message.

The Facebook network itself had this feature; every comment under a posted message would be numbered in sequence.

When they found the lucky comment, Milosevic and his friends stared in disbelief, glancing at each other blankly.

Because the username displayed in the comment was "Milosevic"!

"Did I win?"

Milosevic murmured in disbelief.

"You won!? How is this possible!" His friend also could hardly believe it.

At this point, on TV, the host was cheerfully opening the winning user’s profile while laughing, "Let’s see, which city is this lucky person from....oh, congratulations, Milosevic, a junior from the Computer Science Department of Petersburg University!"

With this confirmation, the winner was indeed Milosevic, a junior in the Computer Science Department of Petersburg University...

Because the page appearing on the TV screen was all too familiar to Milosevic—it was his own!

Now his friend recovered, he looked suspiciously at Milosevic, "Didn’t you say that there were only a few hundred comments when you commented, how come there are more than thirty thousand now?"

He remembered this clearly, because Milosevic was the one who told him about the lottery!

Not many people knew about it at the time, so there weren’t many comments.

His friend also remembered that when he commented, there were only a few thousand comments; which would be within ten thousand in sequence.

Milosevic shyly smiled, and spoke a bit awkwardly.

"My first comment was indeed near the top, but then I had an idea and tried writing a few more comments to increase the odds of winning. I found out that each person can post three comments under this lottery information. If you try to post more it blocks you...there must be some restriction."

His friend was stunned. He had no idea that was an option...

"You! Why didn’t you tell me? If I knew I could post three times for each account, my chances of winning would have tripled..."

It took him a while to get the words out.

Milosevic laughed, "I thought you knew, you’re usually on the Facebook network more than me, you should be more familiar with these functions."

No matter what, his friend was genuinely happy for Milosevic.

Although he didn’t win himself, if his good friend won, wouldn’t he also get a chance to ride in a Land Rover Range Rover luxury car!

Ask Milosevic to lend it for a few days then, take out the girl he likes for a spin...

This event, just thinking about it brings joy to the heart!

......

The first lottery held by Wang Ye on the Facebook network was a resounding success.

Not only did he gain three hundred thousand followers in a week, but the daily, weekly, and monthly active users on the Facebook network saw a significant increase as well.

From being a promising new website, it transformed into a site with considerable reputation in the Russian internet space.

The user circle was no longer limited to university campuses. More users from the society started joining the network. This was truly breaking the circle!

In response to this, Sergei visited Wang Ye personally to express his gratitude.

Inside the office of the Duma Building, it was Sergei’s first time here.

Sitting on the sofa, he appeared restrained. Seeing the beautiful Rossiyana bring two bottles of chilled juice for him and Wang Ye, he quickly stood up and took them with both hands.

Wang Ye waved his hand and laughed, "Relax a bit, you’re the CEO now anyway. When discussing business, you can’t be like a university student who hasn’t left school yet."

In fact, Sergei is two years older than Wang Ye!

But in terms of maturity and handling matters, he is far less experienced than Wang Ye.

However, Sergei had no intention of competing with Wang Ye. The whole of Russia only had one young person with such achievements and it was him, there was a difference between geniuses as well!

Sergei expressed his gratitude awkwardly to Wang Ye. He reported on the development of the Facebook network and planned for the next step.

As far as the data was concerned, Wang Ye had already seen the company’s report. Sergei did not need to say much.

Regarding the next plan, Wang Ye had some suggestions to offer, because he felt that Sergei was too conservative, and the development speed was too slow!

You see, in the Internet industry, there is no fastest, only faster!

If you’re slow for just one step, you’ll be outpaced in every step!

Contrary to that, if you’re ahead for just one step, you would lead in every way.

Therefore, the Facebook network must seize the opportunity to grow as fast as possible before the competition arises.

Strive to become the number one in this segmented domain worldwide, to kill off the competition in its "cradle"...

......

"Your plan is good, but I think you should be bolder and not limit your vision to the Russian internet. You should know that in the internet world, the English internet space is still the primary market. So, we must launch an English version of Facebook as soon as possible. Expand to Europe, to America, and capture the market!"

Wang Ye said passionately to Sergei.

Sergei rubbed his hands, appearing a bit embarrassed, "Well...I have considered it. However, going overseas would require more personnel resources and...money."

Last time, Wang Ye invested one million US dollars, and according to Sergei’s plan, this money was to be spent over a year!

So, they had to budget carefully, the internet industry cost a lot of money.

Without funds, Sergei dared not think too much. He only planned according to the budget.

"Haha, the issue is mainly with funds, right? If funding is sufficient, is it difficult to resolve the personnel resources issue? In this case, I will make an additional investment of ten million US dollars into the company, and after this money goes in, the equity ratio will stay unchanged. But let me make it clear in advance, for the next round of funding, we have to go by the rules. Either your shares will be diluted or you will have to put in the necessary funds to keep your share ratio the same..."

Wang Ye said smoothly.

Sergei was both surprised and overjoyed at his words, an additional ten million US dollars?

Then the funds for the next step of development of the website would be sufficient, and many plans, initially scheduled for later, could be implemented now!