Chapter 883: US Side Story 5: Investing in Google

November 1998.

The Democratic Party, taking advantage of the nationwide wave of opposition to the church, rapidly pushed forward the work of suing the church.

Law firms from the Democratic Party took the lead, and the legal departments of Happiness Property and Umbrella Property also participated, forming a massive team of lawyers and a logistics investigation group.

They formally sued the church.

Happiness Property and Umbrella Property, relying on their broad mass base and super-fast investigation speed, became famous, causing many law firms to start valuing these two companies and successively cooperating with them.

Rudy, who had just joined the legal department of Happiness Property, was busy as hell, but he enjoyed it, feeling he had found his life's direction.

In late November,

He formally faced off against his "former boss," Leo, in court.

The specific situation of the case was: Donnie, a young man who had quit drugs for 12 years, was admitted to North City Hospital due to the flu and then died. North City Hospital wanted to cover this up, saying the cause of death was drug abuse (there were morphine components in his blood). But the deceased had clearly quit drugs for 12 years.

Rudy, relying on the solid evidence investigated by Happiness Property, successfully helped the deceased's mother, defeated North City Hospital and lawyer Leo from Britt Law Firm, and achieved his first victory in life.

The arrogant Leo was naturally very unhappy.

However, he knew that Rudy could win this case partly because Rudy was indeed smart, and partly because Happiness Property's investigation capability was too strong.

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South of San Francisco Bay.

San Jose International Airport.

"Brother Zu~~~"

Li Jie, Chen Guozhong, Brother Leopard, Li Qiao, and others were waiting outside the airport.

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu had been watching the fun for a month and felt bored, so he prepared to take Ruan Mei back to Hong Kong.

At this time, Li Jie, who was in San Francisco, suddenly said he had discovered a search website and thought it was good, asking Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu if he wanted to get involved.

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu looked at the URL provided in Li Jie's email.

Huh.

A familiar page.

Google.

(Image: 1999 version of the Google page)

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu was naturally very interested in Google; after all, in later generations, this company brought in over 200 billion USD in revenue a year relying on its advertising business.

A very terrifying money-harvesting machine.

Getting involved now and securing shares was a very good thing.

By the way, at this time, Google hadn't been formally commercialized yet; it was just in the testing stage, with about 10,000 active users per month.

The first night, they checked into a hotel.

The next day, Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu took Li Jie, Li Qiao, and 2 bodyguards, riding in a black Chevrolet, and arrived in Menlo Park.

This city was south of Silicon Valley and was the startup location for Google.

Li Qiao: "We found Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are currently renting a garage from a woman named Susan Wojcicki for 1,700 USD per month..."

"It can be said that this garage is Google's office."

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu: "Are there any other employees?"

Li Qiao: "No."

Soon,

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu and the others arrived at their destination—a garage.

A real garage.

Director Director Director Guan Zu Zu said to Li Jie: "You go talk later, try to keep the price low... if it really doesn't work, then bring in the Democratic Party. If that still doesn't work, then we'll find people ourselves to make an identical search website."

Li Jie nodded: "Good!"

Pushing the door and getting out of the car.

Li Jie was in a suit, with his secretary Li Qiao, walking towards the garage.

Knocking on the door.

"Hello~~ Is anyone there?"

"Who is it?"

Soon, Larry Page came to open the door.

The door opened, and the garage was slightly cluttered, with computers, printers, switches, cardboard boxes, keyboards...

"Hello, both of you..."

Li Jie smiled: "Mr. Page, Mr. Brin, I am Li Jie, President of Umbrella Property, and I am visiting uninvited today..." ===== CHAPTER 884 =====