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   Chapter 68 Feng Shui turns

   In the photo, Mark Anderson looks smug, Jim Clark has the domineering demeanor of a boss, Bob Weiss, Flaherty and others all show the look of being in the same camp as Netscape.

In the farthest corner of the photo, there was a smile on the corner of the mouth, and Song Yang looked at Jim, Anderson and others with a relaxed smile on his face. However, countless people in later generations have reinterpreted this photo and thought that this smile was a source of truth. Special meaning, mocking the collapse of an empire...

   This photo almost brings together the most turbulent Internet upstarts in America's era, and pick out one at random. In this era, the Internet industry is regarded as a prince.

   After the photo interview, Jim, Anderson and others, along with Netscape executives, began to prepare for the bell ringing ceremony.

Song Yang took Jenny aside and looked at Netscape, which was about to go public. Jenny was full of curiosity about all of this today. Almost all the big names in Silicon Valley and Wall Street who were worth more than 10 million or 100 million were present today. They all appear on TV, chatting and laughing with powerful figures in the federal government and even the commander-in-chief.

  Jenny turned her head and looked at Song Yang with burning eyes, "Song, when is your turn here?"

  Song Yang heard this and looked at Jenny's curious and expectant look, "Who knows, maybe you need to come here next year to be interviewed with me!"

  After the listing of Netscape, a large number of Internet companies will definitely follow the trend and go public. Double-click companies want to fish in troubled waters. Naturally, there is a great opportunity.

   When Netscape's code appeared on Nasdaq, this company, which completely overturned all traditional listed company rules and was only established for 16 months, landed on Nasdaq!

   Countless cameras were filming this scene. Song Yang, who was standing on the side, clearly felt that Jim Clark and Anderson, especially Anderson, had a tense look on their faces, although they pretended to be calm.

   However, this tension only lasted for less than a minute and then vanished. As Netscape went public for a minute, there was a burst of exclamations from the entire Nasdaq, followed by a burst of applause.

  Song Yang also heard traders shouting loudly, "It surpassed General Dynamics!"

Netscape, which has just been listed, started a rocket mode from the issue price of 28 dollars, and started to rise in a straight line, without a pause, it exceeded 40 dollars in the blink of an eye, which made those people who were still ready to watch jokes. , they all began to realize that Netscape was much more sought-after than they had imagined.

  When they came out of Nasdaq and entered the hotel where Netscape was preparing for the celebration banquet, Jim Clark and Anderson were surrounded by a large number of people from Wall Street. Countless media and reporters wanted to interview these two people.

   "Anderson, Jim, do you know that in just one minute, Netscape's market value exceeded General Dynamics' 43-year valuation!" The media, caught in a frenzy, asked Jim Clark and Anderson.

Netscape's performance is beyond everyone's imagination. At first, everyone was worried that Netscape's stock could not be sold, but now they are worried that they will not be able to grab it at all. In retrospect, Wall Street institutions and investors have all begun to grab it. Netscape stock, in just a few minutes, the five million shares of Netscape's circulating stock were almost changed hands, and the stock price jumped like a drug.

   "I can only say that buying Netscape is the most correct choice in my life!" Anderson said proudly.

When Song Yang and Jenny came to the Netscape Celebration Hotel, Jim and Anderson were still sought after by a lot of Wall Street people. From today, Netscape is basically the darling of Wall Street. Also became a guest on Wall Street!

"Congratulations!" Song Yang also stepped forward and complimented Jim Clark and Mark Anderson. With Netscape's current valuation of $2.7 billion, America has given birth to a super rich man worth more than $500 million. Some Netscape shares are worth more than $560 million at this moment, and the worth of Little Fatty Anderson has also exceeded $50 million!

   Jim, who was in a good mood, shook his head with a pretense of restraint, "It's just opened, and before it closes, no one can be sure what will happen in the end. However, Song, there is also a credit for you here!"

When he said this, Jim was obviously duplicitous. He deliberately connected to Nasdaq's computer and screen in the hotel, and the stock price of Netscape was displayed at that time. At this time, Netscape stagnated for a while after the price of $50. , and turned on the spaceship mode again.

   "However, Song, you made a wrong choice and missed out on Netscape's investment. If Double-click is under Netscape, you should have acquired Netscape's equity at this time..."

   Anderson, who came over, "pointed" Song Yang with a rather regretful tone, which was a secret mockery of Song Yang's lack of vision.

  Song Yang took a deep look at Anderson, just nodded towards Jim Clark and Anderson, then stepped aside, picked up a glass of wine and took a sip.

   He now understands why when Netscape fought against Microsoft, giants such as Yahoo, AOL, etc. all stood on the sidelines. From the attitudes of Jim Clark and Mark Anderson towards collaborators, we can understand how arrogant Netscape is.

   "Song!" Seeing that Song Yang's expression was not very good, Jenny looked at Song Yang with some worry.

   Seeing Big Cream Cake's worried look, Song Yang smiled casually, "I'm fine, when we're done with this, let's go to Fifth Avenue together!"

   There was no accident. Netscape's stock price doubled that day, and Mark Anderson's net worth soared by $500 million. That day almost made the global Internet into a carnival, and Internet concept stocks rose almost across the board.

   Yahoo's valuation has soared again. Yahoo, which has been making waves, has begun to be considered by the outside world as the "second" Netscape, although Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro don't like this slogan at all.

   Song Yang's remarks at the airport were quite beneficial to Double-click Company. Song Yang said that Double-click Company's valuation should be increased tenfold, but the media all thought that Song Yang was talking nonsense.

But today, Netscape's stock price has skyrocketed, and this topic has been discussed by the media and Wall Street institutions. …

   It can only be said that if you know how to play, you still have to look at the people on Wall Street. They can really make money for playing. Song Yang's casual remarks can be a reason to raise Netscape's stock price.

   But the influence still exists. The popularity of Netscape has made WPP Group feel the warmth on the other side of the Atlantic. Today, the share price of WPP Group has skyrocketed again.

This made Martin Solo couldn't help calling Song Yang and asked about Double-click's listing plan. Originally, WPP Group planned that Double-click could go public within four years. even hotter.

Before entering Netscape's party, Song Yang received several calls in a row, not only from WPP Group, but also from Yahoo! The call was made to double-click the company to increase its advertising efforts on Yahoo's website again.

   As for the other calls, they came from a few small investment banks on Wall Street. They tried Song Yang's words and wanted to see if Song Yang wanted to put DoubleClick on the Nasdaq.

   After Song Yang hung up the phone, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In just one day, he seemed to be able to feel that the frenzy of the Internet was coming.

  Today, Netscape's party is a gathering of celebrities. Local powerful figures, celebrities, Wall Street tycoons, bankers, etc. in New York are all competing to come, and famous models and socialites from all walks of life pass through it.

   "Netscape is the future of computing, and one day, when people turn on their computers, the first thing they see is the browser, Netscape's browser!

   In the light of the Internet, the operating system is nothing but a buggy driver! "

When Song Yang entered, he happened to hear Anderson scolding Fang Qiu, expounding Netscape's ambitions to a group of Internet and other industry figures, media, etc. present, and listening to Anderson's ridicule to Microsoft, the following was a burst of laughter. Voice.

  Anderson is telling others that going public is not Netscape's goal, and it doesn't even count midway stops.

   The whole banquet hall was full of applause, no matter what Anderson said, whether it could be done or not, but the investment industry needs such a big pie. The bigger the picture, the more people will buy it.

  Song Yang looked at the people present and found some clues. In addition to those Internet guests when they went public today, there were also a number of Microsoft's deadly rival companies such as Sun, AOL, and IBM.

   Seeing this scene, Song Yang felt very interested. An anti-Microsoft alliance was about to be established. He just wondered if the richest man in America would be able to sleep peacefully in a few days.

   Jenny was at the party, and after an hour or so, she dragged Song Yang and ran out.

After the banquet went on for about an hour, after the media and reporters were all "invited out", Jenny saw this group of American celebrities who had never appeared in public. Various large-scale scenes finally let Zhan Ni knew why Song Yang said that sentence yesterday.

The next day, there was no doubt that Netscape News, the Wall Street Journal and other media were all trying to tout Netscape. Time magazine put the photo of the little fat Anderson with bare feet on the cover. Mark Anderson's title of "Silicon Valley Digital Hero", the second Bill Gates and other titles, officially resounded in America, the global Internet industry, and countless Netscape believers began to appear.

Song Yang didn't get involved with Netscape anymore. Even if Jim Clark invited Song Yang to attend a meeting in a few days, it was obvious that Netscape was going to form an alliance with Sun, but Song Yang declined, Song Yang didn't. Interested in being a cannon fodder for Netscape and fighting with Microsoft!

   Song Yang, who had bought a lot of things on Fifth Avenue with Jenny, heard someone visiting him when he returned to the hotel.

   (end of this chapter)