Back to 1995

San Jose, a building belonging to the Bruno Family Foundation's property, with Uber's LOGO hanging on it. Originally, no one cared about this building, but at this moment, everyone knows that this LOGO is worth 45 billion US dollars!

After attending the P6 mobile phone launch conference and returning to the headquarters building, Kalanick's phone calls have not stopped, and people he knows and don't know have called him.

Before investing in the Scour music website established by Kalanick, the result was a disastrous failure. The investor who lost his pants also called Kalanick again at this time. He can only say that there is no permanent enemy. Scour went bankrupt. At that time, these people were going to court with Kalanick, and now they still have the cheek to call him, it can only be said that the beauty is touching.

"Kalanick, I'm Michael Ovitz!"

Just after hanging up a call, Kalanick's cell phone rang again, "Of course, Mr. Ovitz, of course I remember you!"

Kalanick had a pretty good impression of Michael Ovitz. After the bankruptcy of the Scour music website, Michael Ovitz suffered heavy losses. Not only did he not realize his idea of ​​relying on the Internet to make a comeback, but he lost tens of millions of dollars. Michael Ovitz was so angry that he could hardly hold his breath.

However, Michael Ovitz is not bad for Kalanick, compared to the gang who chased Kalanick and forced Kalanick to hide in Song Yang's family club in the suburbs of San Jose Ovitz did not pursue too many investors who did not dare to come out. After all, Kalanick was completely bankrupt at the time, and Hollywood also claimed huge compensation from him.

Kalanick has a good impression of Ovitz, of course, there is another possibility, that is, the other party is just like him, an unlucky guy.

After leaving the CAA brokerage company and being kicked out of Disney by Eisner, everything went wrong for Michael Ovitz, and his investment was in a mess. He wanted to come out again and established the AMG brokerage company, but he was also squeezed out by CAA. bankrupted.

"Congratulations to Kalanick, I knew you wouldn't be knocked down, my vision never goes wrong!"

Ovitz complimented Kalanick a few times. In the past, he would not have such a flattering attitude even when facing Hollywood superstars, but now, his influence is not as good as before, and his worth has shrunk a lot. old temper.

Kalanick knew what Ovitz wanted to say, so he said directly, "Mr. Ovitz, Uber can accept your investment, but you know, although I am also the founder, I am not a major shareholder of Uber. I can introduce you to Mr. Bruno as an Uber investor, but you also have to come up with a dollar that meets Uber’s valuation to invest!"

"I see!"

Michael Ovitz gritted his teeth and said to Kalanick, acting as if he didn't care about those dollars at all. Investing in Uber is definitely not cheap, but he has no choice. If he doesn't make a little dazzling investment, he will I'm afraid they will all be forgotten.

Compared with Kalanick, Evan Spiegel, who is called Song Yang's disciple by the media, followed Song Yang to the Alcatel mobile phone research and development base in San Jose.

Evan Spiegel has no objection to the title of Song Yang's disciple. He and PayPal President Aaron Swartz are considered by the media to be Song Yang's disciple.

Evan Spiegel has joined ICQ since his internship. He is one of the first to join Song Yang’s team. He also got his first pot of gold from ICQ. The new Pets pet platform was also established with the support of Song Yang Yes, how many people would dream of being called Song Yang's disciple by the media. This title brings not only a name, but also power, status, beauty, resources and so on.

Evan Spiegel showed his own banner, and he didn't care about those powerful people at all, but when he heard about his relationship with Song Yang, he had to treat him differently.

As the headquarters of Alcatel Mobile, the entire research and development base was brightly lit at this time, and there were many media and reporters gathered outside. Spiegel saw that all departments of Alcatel Mobile were busy.

"There are too many visitors to Alcatel's official website, and the server is overcrowded!"

When Evan Spiegel followed Song Yang in, he heard that the server was overwhelmed due to too many people visiting Alcatel's mobile phone official website from all over the world, which made Spiegel feel a little absurd, He didn't know how many people were logging into Alcatel's official website at this time.

Ertian also showed an embarrassing look on his face, "Add servers immediately and start pre-sale!"

Then Spiegel saw with his own eyes that the number of people who ordered P6 began to grow exponentially. Not only the official website, but also Alcatel's channel dealers and agents around the world, the phone calls to order P6 continued to ring.

eBay, Amazon, Lao Maozi's Yeadex, Yanjing's 8848, and Japan Softbank's Japan Yahoo also want to increase the supply of Alcatel mobile phones. After all, the money is too fast!

These platforms sell phones, even if they are sold at the price of Alcatel’s mobile phone official website. Every time they sell a phone, they can get a commission from Alcatel’s phone. Yes, the P6 machine is like gold, as long as you get the goods, you don't have to worry about selling them.

"Expand production capacity as soon as possible!"

Song Yang looked at Alcatel's mobile phone headquarters, which were constantly ringing and busy, and said to Ertian.

Ertian wiped the sweat off his forehead and nodded quickly. He felt that P6 might be popular, and he had already increased the production capacity of P6. But now, let alone satisfying the first wave of demand, I am afraid that it will be produced. None of the off-the-shelf machines may be able to meet tonight's scheduled sales!
The Wall Street Journal took the lead in announcing the next day, "Alcatel P6 smartphone sales exceeded expectations. According to the analysis of third-party data companies, Alcatel P6 omni-channel pre-sale sales exceeded 340 million, and the pre-sale amount exceeded 22 billion US dollars!"

When they saw this news, the entire technology and financial industry was shocked. After the P6 press conference, they all knew that the pre-sale might be good, but they didn't expect it to reach this point. The sales exceeded 22 billion US dollars, and the gold-absorbing ability of P6 completely exceeded their expectations.

If you pass by the American Telecom flagship store that sells P6 mobile phones and other electronic retail stores, you will see that there are a large number of people queuing up in front of these stores early this morning, and the federal police have to come out To maintain order, many of these queuing crowds came with tents. Obviously, they may have lined up here after the P6 press conference last night!
As for Times Square in New York, which appears on TV stations such as ICNC and ABC, you will see that as America’s largest electronic retail flagship store of American Telecom, the crowds queuing up here are even more terrifying. Still increasing.

"These guys don't sleep at all!"

Dwight, the gang boss who came from a slum in New York, couldn't help cursing when he saw the dark queues in Times Square, as well as the constantly moving cameras and reporters.

Dwight's small gang has been a scalper since the P4 mobile phone, which made him a real profit. After tasting the sweetness, Dwight made a fortune every time Alcatel released a new phone.

This time the P6 is so powerful, it is naturally impossible for him to miss it, and he even contacted overseas scalpers. As long as he gets the P6 machine and sells it backhand, he can directly get 10,000+ or ​​even more US dollars. Dwight is ready Who knows, I went to many retail stores in New York that sell P6, and the crowd almost lined up outside the street.

Dwight heard that America Telecom's retail flagship store in Times Square, New York, is the store with the largest stock of P6 phones in America. He heard that the stock exceeds 60 phones, so he brought a few of his men over. Who knows what he saw? It was a large black crowd, and even America Telecom's signboard couldn't be seen.

"Boss Dwight, do we still have to line up?!" A younger brother, looking at the crowd, couldn't help asking Dwight.

Dwight stared, "I've already taken the deposit, and borrowed a lot of dollars from other gangs to buy a P6 machine, do you want to queue?!
Those Albanian gang lunatics, you don't know, they can do anything! "

After scolding, Dwight could only lead a few of his subordinates to line up honestly. He wanted to jump in the line, but the Blackwater security guards and the Federal Police Department who maintained order had already been watching them. The New York Federal Police Department, on weekdays, Donations from the Bruno Family Foundation, Alcatel Cell Phone, ICQ and other companies are not missing. At this time, they must work hard. If Dwight is in a hurry, they dare to send Dwight to the mob who was shot and killed by the federal police. News headlines!

When New York Times Square was still queuing up, Nasdaq and stock markets around the world also opened one after another. Without any surprises, the stock prices of traditional mobile phone brands led by Nokia and Motorola immediately began to collapse, and various investment institutions took the lead. In 10 minutes, Nokia's stock price plummeted from $30 to $25, and its market value of 480 billion was wiped out, causing the entire old European technology stocks to collapse, not to mention the local stock market in Finland, which became a ghost story.

Even if Nokia urgently announced that it would launch its own brand of smartphones within the year, it would still not help. Nokia is like this, and other mobile phone brands on the market can be better.

Today, almost all major mobile phone brands in the world are cutting prices crazily to clear inventory. Even the latest flagship mobile phones are sold with [-]% off, [-]% off or even [-]% off, just to clear the inventory. It doesn’t matter if you lose money or not. , everyone knows that if you don't sell it, you will have no chance to lose money, and it will be completely smashed!

On the one hand, the prices of major mobile phones have been reduced to clear the inventory. On the other hand, the largest wave of withdrawals in history is also being born. Countless users who have newly purchased mobile phones have returned feature phones and ordered Alcatel P6 smartphones instead.

"As of 6:[-] p.m. in America, all the local P[-] machines in America have been sold out, and America Telecom's electronic retail flagship store has announced the suspension of business!"

"Alcatel mobile phone agents in nine Western European countries, including England, Germany, France, and Italy, have collectively announced that the P6 is sold out. Starting tomorrow, the purchase of P6 phones will be restricted locally. Each telecom user can only buy one P6!"

"Alcatel mobile phone announced at Yeadex, the agent of Lao Maozi, that the 32 P6 phones sold on behalf of the company have all been subscribed."

The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and other media reported in the afternoon, "P6 mobile phone sales on the first day plus pre-sales, sales exceeded 580 million units!"

(End of this chapter)