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Chapter 164
"Song, I hope this cooperation is a beginning. Goldman Sachs hopes to have more cooperation with you and is willing to help!"

Pellet Greene no longer concealed his intention to woo Song Yang. It is not that there have been geniuses in America, and there are not a few famous ones. However, in the past few decades, like Song Yang, they suddenly appeared like comets. From the beginning, there are only a handful of people whose wealth has increased explosively.

What's more important is Song Yang's age. Looking at the billionaires in America who are worth more than one billion dollars, the youngest is probably middle-aged. Even Bill Gates, who is now the richest man, was at Song Yang's age. , and they are still hanging out at Harvard, but Song Yang already has the qualifications to sit with those big shots in America!

Song Yang had a drink with Pellet Greene, "Of course, I also hope to cooperate with Goldman Sachs!"

Regardless of whether Goldman Sachs' solicitation is true or not, Song Yang doesn't want to offend Goldman Sachs who is walking sideways in America. Wall Street is entering the era of Goldman Sachs. Those who are targeted by Goldman Sachs will have a hard time living in Wall Street and America.

It was already night, and when the reporters and media outside the New York company were double-clicked, most of them had already dispersed, and it felt like there was no news to wait for.

Only a few lesser-known New York newspapers and media are still squatting outside waiting to see if they can squat down and get first-hand information.

Just as several reporters, wrapped in their clothes, resisted the cold wind in New York at night, they suddenly saw a group of people walking out of the office building. Some of them recognized the executives from Double-click here, as well as Pellet Greene and others. , and immediately surrounded him.

"President Whitman, how many shares will Double-Click issue?!"

"Manager Pellet Greene, is Goldman Sachs going to be an agent for double-clicking listed stocks?!"

Naturally, there is nothing to hide at this time, and the next step is to tout Double-Click Company.

"Goldman Sachs has indeed reached an agreement with Double-Click, and will be responsible for financing Double-Click. Goldman Sachs' securities business department will make an announcement later!" Pellet Greene said to the reporters in front of him.

After Whitman, Pellet Greene and others left, several reporters immediately got into the car and rushed back to their respective newspapers and TV stations, preparing to announce the latest news. Otherwise, wouldn’t they be in vain this day? waited.

Back at the hotel where he was staying, after running around for the past few days, he finally had an idea, and Song Yang was also relieved.

"Tomorrow we will return to Houston!" Song Yang said to Greg and Marcus.

Double-clicking to go public, of course, is to return to the old nest to celebrate, and the most important thing is the matter of American Telecom. Bank of Comerica is still waiting impatiently. It has received an order from Wall Street. It's half done, so naturally it needs to be celebrated.

"Next, you will be responsible for the promotion and roadshow of Double-click. Ryan and Double-click will cooperate with you!"

Song Yang told Whitman that the road show is not an easy job. It takes dozens of days to travel to dozens of cities, not only in America but also in overseas cities. Basically, it takes a long time on the plane every day.

Whitman is not worried. As the co-president of Double-click, this is what she has to deal with. No matter how many company executives in America want to get this opportunity, for Whitman, this is in the In her career, she definitely has a lot of ink!
The Netscape headquarters is still brightly lit at this moment, and countless people are still busy. At this moment, Netscape no longer has the leisurely holiday at the beginning of the war with Microsoft, and has already brought a little nervousness.

In Mark Anderson's office, countless times of arguments took place. Anderson, who was developing a new generation of Netscape version, could no longer code codes with peace of mind. He pushed the keyboard aside and said excitedly to Netscape President Baxter , "I don't agree with free, once free, Netscape is nothing!"

In the face of Microsoft's pressing step by step, Netscape's interior also began to become uneasy, and the dispute between free and paid Netscape browsers also began to appear.

"No one wants to be free, but now users are being snatched away by Microsoft. The marketing department has done a survey. In the case of products with similar functions, even if the free product experience is worse, users still tend to use free browsers!" Barker Sid said helplessly.

There are things that don’t cost money, so why pay for them? Even if you know that things that don’t cost money are not good, when it’s time to choose, most people in the world still choose things that don’t cost money. This is human nature.

"Netscape needs to make changes. Starting from Microsoft bundling the IE browser into the system, new users are beginning to turn to Microsoft on a large scale!"

Baxter said to Jim Clark, who is the real talker of Netscape and the godfather of Silicon Valley, who is sitting silently at the side.

In just half a year, Jim Clark, who was full of vigor when Netscape went public, seemed a little bit of a vicissitudes of life, and even lost interest in the new sailing superyacht that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

The effect of Microsoft's bundling of the IE browser into the system is taking effect immediately. The major PC manufacturers dare not reject Microsoft. This makes the world add a new IE browser every time a new computer equipped with the Microsoft system is sold. user.

Jim Clark, who was silent for a long time, said in a hoarse voice, "Netscape can't be free immediately, and it must not be free until it finds a new profit point. Very dissatisfied!"

Success is Xiao He, failure is Xiao He. Netscape, which was blown up by Wall Street, is now facing pressure from Wall Street. After Netscape's stock price reached its peak, it has fallen below $[-]. Investors, large and small, were very dissatisfied, and there were even calls to replace the president of Netscape...

Baxter is eager to make changes to Netscape, and there is also a reason for this. Netscape is now facing Microsoft, and it has already shown signs of decline. This always needs a scapegoat. It was suitable, but Baxter didn't want to take the blame, he felt that he could save it again.

"There is a very unfortunate news. According to the latest survey conducted by a market consulting company, after obtaining Hotmail mailboxes and cooperating with AOL and SUN, Microsoft systems are bundled, and IE browsers are used in overseas markets other than America. Users have completely surpassed Netscape!" Baxter said to the two founders in front of him.

"These traitors!" Mark Anderson gritted his teeth and scolded, Hotmail, AOL, and Sun, in Mark Anderson's eyes, were all traitors of Netscape.

"Continue to improve the performance of the Netscape browser and accelerate new profit points. We need to maintain Netscape's stock price. Wall Street's patience with Netscape will not last long. Once the support of Wall Street is lost..."

Jim Clark didn't finish his sentence, but Baxter and Anderson both knew what he meant. Now that Netscape is able to start a war with Microsoft with a market value of billions of dollars, it depends on Wall Street. Support, the number of users is one aspect, but once Wall Street does not support Netscape and gives up investing in Netscape and various resources, then Netscape will be completely unable to support it.

At this moment, Jim Clark's phone rang. Hearing the message on the phone, Jim Clark was silent for a while, and only responded, "I see!"

Seeing the gazes of Anderson and Baxter, Jim Clark signaled Baxter to turn on the TV, and said, "Double-click has reached a listing agreement with a Wall Street investment bank!"

Hearing this, there was a silence in the office. Although Netscape and Song Yang reached a "nominal" reconciliation, and when Song Yang released ICQ, Netscape even supported him, but there was already a gap between the two sides. , The nail is smashed down, and then pulled out, it will leave a hole.

"The latest news from Wall Street in New York has created a precedent for Internet digital advertising. DoubleClick, the largest Internet digital advertising company in America, today reached a stock underwriting agreement with Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Merrill Lynch."

The host of the TV station looked at the information in his hand and said, "The securities business department of Goldman Sachs has just officially announced the news. According to sources, double-clicking will set a new financing record for the Internet, and will raise more than 6000 million dollars... "

When they heard that Double-Click was going to raise $6000 million and go public at a valuation of $[-] million, Jim Clark, Anderson, and Baxter in the conference room couldn't help but watch TV. They were Internet professionals, so they naturally understood this. meaning.

Once the market really recognized the pricing of Double-click Company, the market value of Double-click Company soared. Even the speed of blowing up balloons was a bit faster than Netscape. A little giant of the Internet might be born soon. .

"As the major shareholder of Double-click Company, Bruno Song is very likely to use this to increase his worth by a large amount. According to the current pricing of Double-click Company, once Double-click completes the listing, Bruno Song's worth may increase again by [-] million US dollars. Above the knife..."

Seeing this, even Anderson felt a little envious. It is true that Netscape's stock price has doubled several times, but his net worth has not increased that much. When he sold his Hotmail mailbox, Song Yang's net worth surpassed him. After double-clicking to complete the listing, Anderson felt that Song Yang's worth might be equal to that of Jim Clark.

"It's too cheap for him!" Anderson looked at Song Yang's photo on the TV news, and said with a little bit of envy.

Just when Anderson and the others were about to look away, they heard news reported on the TV station, and Song Yang's name was also mentioned.

"There is news that Wall Street Futures Investment Corporation is preparing for a class action lawsuit. Many Wall Street Futures Investment Corporations have sued America Telecom to the Commodity Futures Commission of America, the Trade Commission, the Banking and Financial Supervision Bureau, and the Federal Communications Commission. "

"According to rumors, American Telecom has prepared a new communication line from Chicago to New York. Wall Street, including Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan and other institutional banks, has signed an agreement with American Telecom for the use of this line. There is news It is said that the value of this new line exceeds 30 billion US dollars..."

Jim Clark, Anderson, and Baxter were all dumbfounded watching the news on the TV.

　I paid off everything I owed, woo woo woo...

　
(End of this chapter)