Chapter 491 A Great Deal 5
The third quarter started with the Minnesota Timberwolves team in the attack trying to get the victory, Jackson advanced with the ball and pa.s.sed to Mitch.e.l.l on the right, Mitch.e.l.l received the ball and pa.s.sed to Joe Smith ahead.
Smith received the ball and Knight arrived to defend, Smith managed to spin and hooked to make 2 more points for the Minnesota Timberwolves team, the Los Angeles Lakers team"s weak defense also helped the Minnesota Timberwolves team to score more points.
Jake advanced with the ball trying to win this game, Jake pa.s.sed to Bryant on the right, Bryant received the ball and tried the move and soon two players from the Minnesota Timberwolves team went to defend against him.
Bryant tried to pa.s.s the ball to Horry ahead, Garnett came in defense and Horry still tried a feint and failed, Horry had to pa.s.s the ball to Fox from the left, Fox tried to advance and Sealy came to defend against him.
So Fox soon pa.s.sed to Jake behind who was only with Jackson defending against him, so Jake was quick and tried the shot from outside even with Jackson pressing in defense, Jake hit-making 3 more points for the Los Angeles Lakers team.
When Sealy didn"t try to help defend two Minnesota Timberwolves players Jake and Bryant had a chance to make the move and the points, realizing that the Minnesota Timberwolves coach asked Sealy not to defend against Fox anymore.
So Rick Fox was defenseless to try mid-range moves, but when he advanced Joe Smith came to defend against him and left Travis Knight defenseless, but Knight missed more attacks than Fox.
Of course, Travis Knight still managed to score a lot if he got more a.s.sists, but Fox hit more attacks than he did, and even Knight didn"t expect to be able to play in that game until he was warned by Coach Harris.
So the third quarter ended with the Minnesota Timberwolves getting a small advantage on the scoreboard and playing even better than at the beginning of the game, Jake played for 12 minutes and made 5 points, 3 a.s.sists, 2 rebounds, and 1 steal.
In the last quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers team still tried to win the game, but with the good defense of the Minnesota Timberwolves team and the bad defense of the Los Angeles Lakers team they ended up losing that game.
The Minnesota Timberwolves won the game with 92 points against the Los Angeles Lakers" 84 points, Jake had 5 points, 2 a.s.sists, 2 rebounds, and 1 steal and ended that game this time without even a double-double.
"And so the game ends with the Minnesota Timberwolves team winning, this is their fourth win in 4 games and the Minnesota Timberwolves team really got good players to be playing so well this season."
"Yes, Kevin Garnett had a good game today with more than 20 points and Sam Mitch.e.l.l also managed to make more than 20 points, with the Minnesota Timberwolves team"s good defense they managed to win."
"The Los Angeles Lakers team had Kobe Bryant who managed another double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds, and Jake Smith who failed to achieve another triple-double in that game with 26 points, 9 a.s.sists, and 9 rebounds."
"Jake Smith played well in that game, but if Shaquille O"Neal the Los Angeles Lakers team failed to attack as well and the Minnesota Timberwolves team"s strategy of putting two players to defend Jake Smith and Kobe Bryant when they had the ball did that they lose this game."
"This is the Los Angeles Lakers team"s first defeat this season in 5 games, so it"s not that bad, we hope Shaquille O"Neal comes back in the next game for the Los Angeles Lakers team to win again."
The players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were upset about the first loss of the season, but of course, they already expected that the team would lose a few times in the season, what was worse was that this loss had happened because Shaquille O"Neal did not play in that game.
Luckily after that game the whole team went back to Los Angeles because the next game would be just after 3 days and it would be a home game in Los Angeles, Coach Harris didn"t say much about the defeat and just said that they could rest the next day.
The players were happy with that, even though Jake who had great stamina was getting tired after playing 48 minutes in every game, Jake would not be training the next day, but he would not have time to rest because Larry Page and Sergey Brin would come to Los Angeles to talk to him.
Jake can sleep well at his home in Los Angeles and the next day he woke up excited to make a big deal, he had already called Emily asking her to prepare the contracts and come to Los Angeles.
Jake was confident that he could close this deal because his offer was very good and he would invest a lot of money in a company that didn"t even have a million dollars invested yet, in addition, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were just rejected to sell the company.
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin arrived in Los Angeles by plane Jake had already sent a driver in a rental car to pick them both up at the hotel where he had made a reservation for both of them, it was a kindness Jake had made for both of them before the conversation.
The driver was waiting for them to get ready to take them to the restaurant where Jake was waiting for them, Larry Page and Sergey Brin knew that Jake was busy and so they accepted his request for them to go to Los Angeles.
Even though the two had accepted Jake"s invitation for this negotiation, they still doubted whether this time Jake would really make a good proposal, they knew that Jake had the financial means to make an excellent proposal, but even they knew that this was a risky investment.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin packed their things at the hotel Jake had prepared and changed clothes before going with Jake"s driver to the restaurant he had booked for them to talk business.
"It"s nice to see you again Larry and Sergey, sorry to ask you to come to Los Angeles, but you know how busy I"ve been lately."
"It"s okay, Jake, if your proposal is as good as you told me on the phone, we don"t mind coming to Los Angeles."
"Actually, I wanted to make you a proposal after the end of this NBA season, but as you even tried to sell the company, I was a little anxious to talk to you."
"We really thought about selling the company, but after we couldn"t do it, we thought better and decided to invest more time in it to make a great company."
"This is great, if you had asked my opinion, I would also say that it is crazy to try to sell a company like Google that has such great growth potential, that is why I want to invest in that company."
"And what is your proposal, Jake?"
"My proposal is thinking about what the future of the company can be at best, if you do a great job the company can do what I am investing and even more, then I am investing in you too."
"It is such a good proposal that there is no negotiation, you must accept or decline the proposal."
Hearing this Larry Page and Sergey Brin realized that Jake really wanted to make an excellent proposal and they were excited about it, of course, if it was not a good proposal he would not emphasize it so much that there would be no negotiation.
"Given the potential of the Google company, I am going to offer an investment of 25 million dollars and I want 50 percent of the company, but this proposal has some conditions."
"I want 50 percent and you should have more than 45 percent of the company with the current valuation of the company after my investment, I want a contract saying that I will never take less than 35 percent of the company"s shares no matter how diluted they are."
"In return, I will not have any decision power in the company with my shares, I sign a contract that I pa.s.s full powers that I have with my current 50 percent to you who will have 95 percent of the votes in the company."
"What do you think about this proposal."
Larry Page and Sergey Brin were really shocked by Jake"s excellent proposal at their company, even though 50 percent of the company was half of the company"s control, Jake said he would sign a contract giving up his voting power at the company and handing it over to them.
And Jake was offering $ 25 million for that 50 percent, they were denied to sell the company for less than $ 1 million and a few days later they received a $ 25 million investment proposal.
Their biggest fear was precisely to get a big investment in the company and thus lose control over how the company would grow, they wanted to keep their ideas and moral values in the company even with investment.
"Jake, Sergey and I have to discuss your offer, can you give us some time alone to discuss?"
"No problem, I"ll be out of here for a while and you will call me when you decide."
Jake left the restaurant confident that they would accept his proposal, especially because he said he would not get involved in their decisions for the company, Jake had to trust them because he himself did not know how to make a technology company worth almost 1 trillion of dollars.
Jake said he would not negotiate after making the offer, but if they refused he would ask for 40 percent as they did in their company"s first round of investment, the important thing was that Jake never cheated them and said he always thought the company worth what he was investing.
After all, investing $ 25 million at 50 percent, Jake was increasing the company"s valuation to more than $ 50 million, and Jake would still accept that his shares be diluted by 15 percent.