"Boss, you've agreed to let us go public!" Xiao Huang looked at Boss Jia in surprise. In fact, he had mentioned the idea of going public several times before, but Boss Jia, who held most of the shares, did not agree. Xiao Huang did not expect that he would agree now.
"Yes!" Ever since the Maotai and South Korea incidents, Boss Jia had a clearer view of the listing of his companies.
If Boss Jia kept the company in his hands, he would become the target of public criticism. However, if he let the company go public, he would attract more forces as shareholders. Then, the Daqian Group would have common interests with them.
However, the Daqian Group's headquarters could never be listed. Only companies with good potential could be listed. Internet companies were a good choice.
"Oh right, it seems like the Internet bubble is coming!" Boss Jia touched his nose. Then, he became more determined to get his internet company listed on the stock market.
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In New York, a piece of shocking news instantly spread throughout Wall Street. The famous Internet company 51 Search had decided to go public.
This could be said to be the most shocking news for Wall Street at the end of 1996. In an instant, countless firms on Wall Street approached 51 Search.
Some wanted to represent 51 Search in the listing, some wanted to directly help issue the initial shares, and even a large number of investment institutions wanted to directly buy the initial shares.
It could not be helped. After all, Internet companies were the most sought after enterprises on Wall Street!
With the popularization of the browser and the huge development of the world's Internet users in 1996, the wild wolves on Wall Street smelled the scent of meat.
Don't think that everyone in the world is a fool. Only transmigrators have foresight. In fact, when the Internet first appeared, the wild wolves on Wall Street had already foreseen that the Internet would become the pillar industry of the future world. This was an unimaginably huge market.
This market had already been reflected in 1996. First of all, major enterprises all over the world had established their own official websites on the Internet. They used this three-dimensional method to promote themselves.
At the same time, the first generation of online e-commerce and online communication tools were launched. Most importantly, according to the results of a survey, once the netizens learned how to surf the Internet, they spent an average of about 2.5 hours a day on the Internet. This was a huge amount of wealth. This meant that there was a huge amount of advertising revenue!
"The Internet is the future!" Countless people from Wall Street shouted, and then countless people from the United States followed suit. They told all the investors that as long as they bought Internet stocks, they would definitely make a profit.
That seemed to be the case. In January 1995, Aoyou Browser was listed. The total market value was 150 million US dollars. Four months later, it had risen to 400 million US dollars. In 1996, the total market value of the company was 2 billion US dollars.
Yahoo was listed in June 1995, and its market value was 500 million USD. Now, it had a market value of 3 billion USD. The shareholders who bought the shares of these two companies had their personal assets multiplied by several times.
Microsoft's market value increased from 4 billion USD in 1993 to 11.8 billion USD in 1995. At the same time, Bill Gates became the World's Richest Man.
In 1996, Microsoft's market value was 28.7 billion USD. Their market value had doubled in a year, and their market value had increased by 17 billion USD. Bill Gates' personal assets had tripled, and he had secured his position as the World's Richest Man.
What was even more ridiculous was that during this period, more than 10 internet companies had gone public one after another, and none of them had lost money. How could investors not be envious of this?
All the investors are looking for the next Internet company, and 51Search is one of the most popular companies.
51Search's core business is the 51Search Engine, and this engine had developed to the point where all the netizens have to use it.
There are 50 million netizens in the world, and 45 million of them use 51Search. According to statistics, 78% of netizens have 51Search as their favorite website. This means the first thing they do when they go online is to visit 51Search.
Such a popular internet company was simply the most fragrant piece of Dongpo meat in the world. No one could refuse. 51Search had hired the most famous firm on Wall Street to help it get listed, and the process was completed quickly.
Soon, 51Search's listing was announced on various financial magazines. In the end, the CEO of 51Search, Xiao Huang, accepted an interview with Fortune Magazine.
He said that the company will sell 30% of its shares to get listed, and if everything goes well, the company will be listed in March 1997. When a reporter from Fortune Magazine asked Xiao Huang about the company's valuation after the listing, Xiao Huang, a Hua Xia citizen from the United States, said he does not need a lot. 30% of the company's shares can be sold for 1 billion USD, and he will buy a new batch of servers for 51Search.
After the announcement, 51Search's popularity in the US increased overnight. Under the media's publicity, 51Search's shares became a profitable stock. If anyone can get their hands on 51Search's original shares, they will be rich.
Under such publicity, everyone was looking forward to the day when 51 Search would be listed. Boss Jia, on the other hand, rushed to the Blizzard Studio.
Don't misunderstand, it's not that Blizzard is going to be listed, but that Blizzard's other game has finished its static and internal testing. Everything went smoothly, and it will be released into the market soon.
From the static testing, the company's internal testing, and the players' internal testing, everyone could guess that this was an online game.
But don't get too excited, it's not that Yamaguchi is coming. This MMORPG was originally released in 2005, and it's hard to develop with the current technology.
This time, they will be testing the MMORPG version of Diablo. This game was announced at last year's E3, and it finally landed on the market during Christmas 1996.
Boss Jia gave this game a memorable name, Diablo Chronicles.
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