Chapter 487 - A Great Deal 1 (1/2)
”Yes, I love to play basketball and I love to run and I like to win too, I am managing to make all my dreams come true, I was able to play in the NBA, I was able to be happy and you are also happy, mom, I know you suffered for many years and I think you're happier now.”
”I'm very happy, having a restaurant has always been a dream of mine, I have great friends around me, and you're happy what's most important to me, Jake, I'm sure your dad would be proud if he saw the man you became.”
Jake talked to Eva for a while and went to sleep to get the rest he deserved, the next day Jake woke up very early and rested, that day the team would have no game and only have light training.
Even though he was able to rest fully after a good night's sleep, Jake knew his body needed a few days like this to rest, Jake needed to rest his mind also with the pressure of NBA games.
Jake thought about just resting before going to train with the team, but he got a call from Emily saying that Charlie sent word that Larry Page and Sergey Brin had already tried to sell their company to Excite's CEO, George Bell and had failed.
Jake warned Charlie that if Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell the company and couldn't, it was for Charlie to tell him soon afterward, Charlie didn't understand how Jake knew they would try to sell the company, but he kept watching to see what happened and when what Jake wanted happening he asked Emily to let Jake know.
Jake was risking a lot by letting Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell the company because Jake knew he had already changed the future he knew and so it could happen that George Bell decided to buy Google and that would be a disaster.
Even so Jake decided to wait for everything to happen as it should, the only problem was that he didn't know when the two would try to sell Google, he just knew it would be in early 1999 and before June 1999 when they were going to make a round of investments.
So Jake asked Charlie to watch when Larry Page and Sergey Brin would try to sell Google and if they couldn't, it would be an ideal time to make his offer, now it seemed like the right time for that.
Jake was happy to hear that and thanked Emily and asked her to thank Charlie for the information, Jake had been waiting for it since the first time he met them both last year, Jake picked up the phone and called the number he talked to Larry Page.
”Hi, this is Jake Smith speaking.”
”Hi, Jake, I didn't expect you to call me so soon, you usually talk to me once in several months.”
”Hahaha, I know that, but I heard that you tried to sell the company and I was shocked to hear about it.”
”So you already know about that, we thought about selling the company to Excite, but we couldn't, after thinking about it we thought it might be good that we were unable to sell the company.”
”Of course it's good, you should have talked to me before trying to sell the company, I said I was interested in investing, I just didn't have the money to invest yet, but seeing that you tried to sell the company for 1 million dollars I decided that I should invest in the company right now.”
”I want you to come to Los Angeles on the 12th of this month, bring your lawyer because I am going to make an offer you cannot refuse and we will become partners.”
Larry Page was quiet on the phone if it was someone else saying that he certainly wouldn't go to Los Angeles thinking it might be a joke, but Jake had already told them several times about his interest in investing in their company.
They thought that Jake didn't really want to invest after going several months without making a proposal, but now Larry felt that Jake was really prepared to invest, at the very least they could talk to Jake and if they didn't like the proposal they would refuse.
”Okay, Jake, I'm going to talk to Sergey and we'll be there in Los Angeles on the 12th, I hope your proposal is as good as you said.”
Jake was happy that Larry agreed to do this meeting in Los Angeles, he couldn't go to California right now because he was at the beginning of the game season with his team and had trained almost every day.
If Larry said he wanted to hear his proposal then it meant that they were interested, after all, they intended to sell the company a few days ago for $ 1 million and Jake would offer much more than that for only part of the company.