Back To 1995

   Chapter 137

   Looking at the media reports on Enron, Song Yang pouted and took a sip of tea, feeling that the rush along the way had finally slowed down a bit.

   Picked up a newspaper with a picture of Enron's two bosses, Kenneth and Jeff Skilling, laughing in front of the construction site of the Houston Energy Exchange Center building.

   On the first day of the launch of Enron Online's website, it detonated the global energy industry, with a turnover of nearly one billion dollars. This was the first time that energy futures appeared on the Internet market, attracting investment players from all over the world.

   Now that Enron is online, the biggest player is Enron itself, which constantly trades America's natural gas, oil, electricity and other energy futures with investors from all over the world.

   In the media and newspapers, these players made millions of dollars from energy futures trading on the day the Enron Online website went live. Song Yang almost saw the news that is often "shocked" in later generations.

   For example, a lottery player won tens of millions of lottery tickets in one lottery, etc. This kind of news keeps appearing. Although some people buy lottery tickets for a lifetime and can't win a lottery once, they are still stimulated by news and continue to buy lottery tickets.

Now Enron is online, playing this kind of routine, constantly promoting the huge profits of energy futures trading. This thing has more pitfalls than stocks, and it is leveraged. If you win once, you may not make much money, but if you lose once, you basically have to On the rooftop!

But there is no shortage of gamblers everywhere in the world, not to mention the opportunity to get rich in a second. The Internet has infinitely magnified this feature. It is estimated that it will not be long before gamblers from all over the world will converge on Enron Online. This is so much more exciting than being in Las Vegas.

  Song Yang flipped through a few newspapers. Various media and newspapers were full of praise for Enron.

   "Energy company in the new era!" This is the media's praise for Enron. As for Exxon and others, they have been completely disliked by the media. Countless media have touted that Enron has represented the future of American energy!

  Enron's stock price took off even more, and Jeff Skilling, who dominated Enron's new business, is now a man of the Americas.

Even on the Wall Street side, they are competing to befriend the person who is scheduled to be the next helmsman of Enron. There are even media predictions that in the future, the global energy industry will dance according to Jeff Skilling's baton, and even Those oil countries will be influenced by Jeff Skilling.

Jeff Skilling threatened that Enron would become the world's largest energy trader within two years. It was rumored that Jeff Skilling was planning to allow Enron to acquire MG, the world's largest metal floor trader. Several trading companies in the company really want to realize the slogan of "rebuilding an Enron".

Everyone is singing praises to Enron. As for the volatility of the energy trading market, whether Enron will lose money, no one has mentioned it. Maybe some people have thought of it, but they all think that Enron can handle it. After all, before Napoleon failed, he also No one would think that His Majesty the Emperor would also be captured...

   Some Wall Street analysts claimed that the revenue of Enron's online platform, coupled with energy trading and other businesses, Enron's new business will completely surpass the original natural gas pipeline business, which has attracted major investment institutions in America to increase their positions in Enron's stock price.

   Looking at these media reports, Song Yang just shook his head. He just felt that this was a crazy era. Enron's current beauty is infinite, which will make everyone feel the madness of the Internet.

Enron, which has put energy futures trading on the Internet, is almost wildly sought after. Of course, as the "technical partner" of Enron's online platform, Double-click Company is also included in the "Enron Concept" stock ranks, which makes Double-click Company's valuation. The value soared a lot again, successfully breaking through 400 million US dollars!

For this news, Song Yang didn't know whether to laugh or be helpless. The double-click company, which has not yet been listed, can be said to be gaining popularity all the way. First, Netscape, its valuation has reached hundreds of millions of dollars, and then Microsoft's IE browser, and now it is again I got to the concept of Enron.

  Where there is popularity, there is a double-click company. It has a valuation of 400 million US dollars before it goes public. In today's America's Internet industry, it is also among the best.

In the current American Internet industry, the Internet company with the highest market value is Netscape's $5 billion market value. Even Yahoo's current valuation is not as good as Double-click, which is only more than $300 million, and this year, Apple has lost a mess. Today's market value is less than 1.9 billion US dollars...

   San Jose University after Christmas has regained its calm. After the acquisition of Hotmail mailboxes, Song Yang clearly felt that his situation at San Jose University had also undergone subtle changes.

  When he was worth tens of millions in the past, no matter it was the management of San Jose University or those people, Song Yang was just wooing and befriending him.

Now that Song Yang's worth has broken through the threshold of hundreds of millions of dollars, he can clearly feel that Song Yang's intention to win over Song Yang is even more serious. It is even rumored that the University of San Jose already wants to put Song Yang on the board of directors of the University of San Jose. The title of honorary director.

   If it wasn't for the appearance of food, it is estimated that the title would be placed on Song Yang's head now. As for the double-click company, it was recognized as a cooperative company by the University of San Jose.

As for the various fraternities of San Jose University that had been quiet, they found Song Yang again. There are many fraternities that are well-known throughout America, and there are several fraternities that Song Yang has for a while. Some are hard to refuse.

Song Yang spent half a day at San Jose University and rushed to the new office building of Fortinet Company. Before Christmas, after Fortinet was angry with Netscape, he officially debuted in the Internet industry in America, and today is also the time when he moved into the new office building. office building.

  Fortune's new office building is not far from ICQ's office. When Song Yang entered, the first impression was that compared with the previous grass stage team, there are many more fresh faces in Fortis now.

   I have to say that rubbing the heat is indeed the best way to promote it. It's nothing more than those celebrities in the entertainment industry who have been rubbing hard.

  Fortis is also equivalent to taking Netscape's reputation and rapidly increasing its popularity. From a little-known Internet company, it has now become a "top stream" in the Internet industry in America!

   "Boss Song!"

   Seeing Song Yang entering the office, Xie Qing hurriedly stood up. Although he changed the office building, he didn't need to squeeze into the original small office, but Xie Qing was still full of various documents and materials.

Song Yang waved to Xie Qing, indicating that he didn't have to mess with tea and coffee. He glanced at the busy office outside and saw that the current staff of Fortis has expanded to 60 or 70 people, compared with the original one. The scale can be said to have expanded tenfold.

   "How's Feita doing now?!" Song Yang retracted his gaze and looked at Xie Qing.

"not bad!"

It seems that Fortis is really good now, Xie Qing has a smile on his face, "Fortis PC antivirus software, the download volume has exceeded 1.7 million copies, but in terms of profit, I am afraid it is difficult to compete with Norton, McAfee and other old antivirus software. software vendors!"

  After debuting with the help of Netscape, Fortis launched its own computer version of anti-virus software. Fortinet's anti-virus software is divided into personal version and enterprise version. To put it bluntly, it is free for personal use and charges for enterprise anti-virus software.

Fortinet represents an emerging Internet anti-virus software, which is free for ordinary users, which makes Fortinet’s anti-virus software popular rapidly, but this thing loses money and makes a lot of money. Now we can only wait for users to stabilize and start advertising online, and then repay part of the cost. .

As for the enterprise version of Fortis antivirus software, the progress is not obvious. After all, the largest market for antivirus software is enterprise and corporate users, and traditional antivirus software giants such as Norton and McAfee dominate the world. Major PC manufacturers are almost dominated by several major antivirus software. The giants have scratched points.

Song Yang is not too worried about Fortis' profitability. Fortis's role is not just profit. Otherwise, Song Yang would not have contacted Fortis immediately after receiving the acquisition fee from Microsoft. Invested a sum of money, helped Fortinet to replace a new office building, built a real hardware security laboratory for Fortinet, and purchased a batch of new equipment.

   "Fortinet does not need to be too anxious to make a profit. What Fortinet needs to do now is to become the PC antivirus software company with the most users in the world!"

"As for profitability, Fortis can start from overseas markets. In the future, the Internet security market for overseas computer users and companies will be an emerging blank market. If Fortis can occupy overseas markets, it may not be able to compete with giants such as McAfee. High and low."

  Song Yang said to Xie Qing that there was no benefit at all in competing with antivirus software giants such as McAfee and Norton in America.

Xie Qing listened to Song Yang's words and quickly came to a conclusion that Song Yang was actually very optimistic about the overseas Internet and PC markets other than America, and might even be on a par with America's market. But it is completely different. Now the technology industry believes that the global technology center is in America. As for the other places, it is a technological desert, and there is no value for investment...

"I can ask Microsoft to accept the cooperation of Fortinet, and wait until Fortinet's antivirus software has enough market to launch UTM devices. In the future, there are more important things on my side, and I need Fortinet to come here. Do!"

Now Song Yang is in the honeymoon period with Microsoft. Before Netscape is defeated, Microsoft will definitely not turn against Song Yang, and Fortis is on the front line of fighting Netscape. In any case, Microsoft needs to One or two, otherwise, which company will be willing to help Microsoft charge into the battle in the future.

  Xie Qing heard the different meaning in Song Yang's words, and couldn't help asking, "What do you need Feita for?"

   (end of this chapter)