giants of the era

Chapter 389 Fake News

Yu Jingqiu has been in China for a while, and Li Zetian basically has a phone call with her every day.

What made Li Zetian helpless was that Yu Jingqiu fell in love with the filming of "A Bite of China", and refused to come back no matter how much she persuaded her.As we all know Zhou, filming a documentary is very hard. The film crew needs to go over mountains and mountains frequently, but how does her delicate body suffer!

"Honey, it's been too hard, come back!" Li Zetian called again to persuade him.

"It's not hard at all, so don't worry!"

"Okay, then you go to bed early at night, you must be exhausted during the day..." Li Zetian cared.

"I know~~"

"Well, I'm hanging up the phone!"

"Ah."

The time difference between the western United States and China is about 16 hours. At this moment, it is still daytime on the American side.

After Li Zetian made the phone call, he put the phone in his trouser pocket, and immediately turned on the computer to browse emails at work.

Since April, both the blog and the LinkedIn website have been launched one after another, except for the eBay website.

The eBay website is an e-commerce website, so the preparation time is slightly longer.

PayPal has been on the right track, so Zhou Qiqi began to gradually take over eBay.

Li Zetian looked at the e-mail. On July 7, the eBay website will be officially launched.

Qiqi's identity itself is the focus of the media. At that time, as long as the news is released before, there must be countless media to help promote it!

At this time, Li Zetian replied to Qiqi with an e-mail. eBay is an online auction and shopping website. After all, it is different from common e-commerce. Write soft articles for publicity!
Not long after the email was sent, Qiqi replied with an email: "Brother Zetian, you are really great! This idea you came up with is really brilliant!!"

Li Zetian replied with a smile: "Come on!"

"Um!!!"

A few days later, the news that Qiqi had switched jobs from PayPal to eBay spread like wildfire, and no one knew who spread the news, which immediately caused a huge sensation in the industry.

"Damn it, it's true, Zhou Qiqi actually quit? She didn't work under her brother's company name?!"

"What's the situation? PayPal is developing well under her management, so how could she change jobs?"

"What kind of company is eBay? It's so stupid?! It actually made Chronos Li's sister abandon her brother..."

"Whoever knows the inside information, tell me, what exactly does eBay do?"

"Damn it, isn't this fake news? It's made out of nothing so that it can be hyped with the help of Chronos Li's sister?"

"I think it's hype! This eBay company is too shameless!"

"..."

Zhou Qiqi, PayPal and eBay have not announced anything to the public.It's still just gossip, but the media is picking up on it.

Below the office building, dozens of reporters squatted. If the security guards didn't let them enter the building, they might have rushed in.

"We must interview Zhou Qiqi this time. What made her abandon her brother's property and work for another company!"

"Could it be that eBay is also the property of Chronos Li?" A tall reporter speculated.

A blond middle-aged man shook his head and said: "I don't think it's possible. I heard that eBay seems to be an e-commerce website. As we all know, Amazon was founded by Chronos Li. How could he create another e-commerce website?" company?"

The reporters next to him heard the words and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, Belloc's analysis is in place! It should be impossible for Chronos Li to create two e-commerce companies. Is it possible that these two companies will fight against each other and consume resources? Smart businessmen will not do this!"

"Yes, eBay should have been founded by someone else. However, I really can't figure out why Zhou Qiqi would leave PayPal!"

A reporter with a big belly laughed and said, "Hey, is the founder of eBay the boyfriend of Zhou Qiqi?"

As soon as the words fell, everyone around burst into laughter.

"Thomas, your imagination is really admirable!"

The portly reporter said with some pride: "Hehe, I've already thought about the title and content of tomorrow's press release - "The sister of the richest man in the world, Chronos Li, abandons her brother and joins her boyfriend's company"!! ! Haha, what do you guys think of writing like this?!"

"Hey, Thomas, I have to say, journalism really suits you!!"

"Yes, Thomas, you are a genius!"

"..."

Thomas was just joking, but seeing that everyone appreciated his idea, Thomas suddenly felt that this is really a good idea, alas, I really regret saying it, let the reporters know, maybe they will come back after they go back Plagiarizing your own ideas?oh damn...

Thomas smoked, annoyed,

……

From daytime to night after get off work, Zhou Qiqi has never been seen coming down from the PayPal company building.

The reporters' legs are numb!
"Zhou Qiqi must have left from somewhere else. We can't interview anyone, so we can only go back home!"

"Oh, I've been waiting all day for nothing!"

"Flash, go home and rest, I'm so fucking exhausted!"

"Hey, Thomas, I'm really looking forward to seeing your paper tomorrow! How dare you write like that?" a reporter wearing glasses called out to Thomas.

Thomas chuckled and said, "You remember to buy a newspaper tomorrow!"

Unscrupulous reporters, unscrupulous newspapers, dare not write about anything.

When Thomas got home, he straightened his pen and wrote four to five hundred words in less than 10 minutes!
Then the press release was sent to the newspaper!

When the editor-in-chief saw it, his eyes lit up immediately, and he praised Thomas Dajia!

Yes, it's interesting!
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper immediately made a decision to make Thomas's article the headline of the next day's news.

The next day, the newspaper came out.

Thomas went to the newsstand and flipped through the other papers, then cursed.

"Made, sure enough, quite a few newspapers copied my idea. I'm really mad! I have to pay them patent fees!"

The owner of the newsstand smiled and said, "Hey, sir, do you want to buy a newspaper? There is big news! "The sister of the richest man in the world, Chronos Li, abandons her brother to join her boyfriend's company." The company she wants to join is also an e-commerce company called eBay, this is going to compete with her brother's Amazon company! Hey, sir, hurry up and buy a newspaper, I promise, the content is wonderful and will definitely surprise you!!!"

"Not buying!"

Thomas threw down the newspaper and left, cursing: "Buy some wool, that's my idea!"

The voice was too low, only he could hear what it was.

……

Before noon, many entertainment and gossip newspapers were sold out.

These fake news were flying all over the sky, causing a sensation in the United States for a while!
Even those very authoritative and serious media couldn't help reprinting the article of the bad reporter Thomas.

After reading the newspaper, Li Zetian shook his head in amazement.

After Zhou Qiqi finished reading the newspaper, her cheeks flushed a little, and she looked a little shy.

"Hmph, how can these newspapers write such nonsense! Create something out of nothing, fabricate scandals! Especially this reporter Thomas, who is really bad, and has no professionalism at all!" Qiqi said angrily, "How could I abandon my brother? , eBay is obviously also my brother's company!"

The American public likes to hear these news, and they like to watch the embarrassing things between celebrities, as if celebrities make a fool of themselves, and they are satisfied in their hearts.

The fake news fabricated by Thomas quickly spread all over the Internet, causing heated discussions among countless netizens!
But anyway, the eBay website has not yet officially launched, but it is already extremely famous!
A few days later, eBay held a press conference, and Zhou Qiqi personally admitted that she had jumped from PayPal to become the CEO of eBay.However, he did not answer whether it was because he abandoned his brother and joined his boyfriend's company.

As soon as the news came out, it naturally shocked the whole United States!
It was just gossip before, and many people thought it was fabricated by entertainment newspapers, so it was not credible.But Zhou Qiqi personally admitted to quitting, which is enough to cause a sensation.

So, since job-hopping is true, is it true that he abandoned his brother and joined his boyfriend's company?
Many people re-opened the newspaper written by reporter Thomas a few days ago and felt that it was extremely credible!

More people are paying attention to eBay, and there are a lot of topics to discuss.

Countless netizens criticized Zhou Qiqi verbally and in writing, and the scolding was terrible!

When Zhou Qiqi saw these netizens' comments, her face flushed with anger, feeling that she was extremely wronged.

"Brother, you see that netizens are scolding me, please hurry up and announce that eBay is also your company!" Zhou Qiqi couldn't help calling Li Zetian and said.

"Okay! I'll have someone hold a press conference right away to clarify for you, and you can cooperate with me!" Li Zetian nodded in response.

Many things, netizens do not understand the truth of the facts, they are easily influenced by public opinion, one-sidedly think what they see is correct, and then turn into keyboard warriors, swearing, ignorant of the so-called swearing!

As the saying goes, "Three people make a tiger"!
Well, it's really scary that a fake can be called real!

Li Zetian didn't want Zhou Qiqi to be hurt, so he agreed to Zhou Qiqi's request.

Although it is possible to use this public opinion to continue to hype eBay, he does not want to do so.

Therefore, Li Zetian appeared in front of the reporter that day, scolding bad reporters and bad newspapers for their false reports. In fact, eBay is his business, and Zhou Qiqi is still single and has no boyfriend!The reason why Zhou Qiqi switched jobs was because PayPal was already on the right track, and Zhou Qiqi wanted a more challenging job!

As soon as Li Zetian finished speaking, the reporters were stunned.

Then, Li Zetian stated righteously that he would sue the reporter Thomas and his newspaper office for fabricating fake news and causing certain mental harm to the parties involved!

"It's over, Thomas is over! This guy is so stupid that he dares to spread rumors about Chronos Li and his relatives. Isn't he courting death?"

"Yeah, Thomas is hopeless, and he is too courageous! The British "Sun" slandered CHronos Li before, and the result? The "Sun" is gone!"

"Hey, some people can't do anything just for the sake of success, fame, and sensationalism! They've hit the iron plate, and they're going to die!"

"..."

After watching Li Zetian's press conference on TV, Thomas was sweating and his face was pale.

He panicked and regretted it!

The newspaper office he worked in was already in dire straits. Countless employees handed in their resignations and packed up their things.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper had dull eyes, and murmured, "How did it become like this? American entertainment newspapers often make a fuss about Chronos Li and fabricate all kinds of scandals, but they don't seem to care about him..."

The editor-in-chief looked at the court summons on the table and wanted to cry without tears!
As far as Li Zetian is concerned, Li Zetian certainly doesn't care if the newspaper fabricates his scandal with a female star or something, but if the newspaper hurts his family, Li Zetian will not let him go!

Therefore, Li Zetian will definitely punish bad journalists and newspapers!

Perhaps it was because Li Zetian hadn't shown off his power for a long time, and the newspapers thought that Li Zetian was easy to provoke, so these entertainment newspapers gradually became more courageous.

This time, let them see clearly, if the tiger does not show its power, it will treat me as a sick cat. Do you still dare to scribble? !
The lawsuits between Li Zetian, Zhou Qiqi, Thomas, and the newspaper were aroused.

The exposure of eBay company is also greatly increased!
It will soon be July 7th, and countless people are looking forward to the official launch of the eBay website.

As soon as the website was released, the number of visits was astonishing, and the number of registered users increased steadily!
Discovering that the eBay website is actually an online auction and shopping website, countless netizens were surprised and curious, feeling very novel, and at the same time began to try to conduct transactions!

After the first day, the eBay website completed more than 3 transactions!
The eBay website became popular very easily, and its popularity is not much lower than that of Amazon. Many venture capital institutions on Wall Street have evaluated the market value of eBay, all exceeding US$10 billion.

Goldman Sachs: "If eBay agrees to my investment, I'm willing to value it at $10 billion!"

Sequoia Capital: "Although eBay was released on the first day, its traffic can be ranked among the top ten websites! Sequoia Capital is very willing to invest in eBay and value it at $12 billion!"

DFJ: "DFJ is willing to value eBay at $15 billion!!!"

"..."

Seeing so many venture capital institutions chasing eBay so much, it can't help but make other Internet companies envy and hate!
"Hey, the eBay website has only been released for the first day, and there are so many venture capital companies wanting to invest in it, and they offer such good conditions. It's really popular!" The boss of an Internet company shook his head and sighed.

"Yeah, the gap is too big! Ordinary Internet companies, even after a few months of development, venture capital companies only need to spend a few million dollars to obtain at least 20% of the company's shares, and many have Maybe more than half of the shares! But look at eBay again, alas, it's really unbearable, it's so unfair!"

"No way, this is the reality! If the owner of eBay is not Chronos Li, even if the popularity is as hot as it is now, it is absolutely impossible for the company's market value to reach more than 10 billion US dollars on the first day of the website's release! "

"Well, these venture capital firms value Chronos Li."

"It's true, Chronos Li is too awesome and has achieved too much success. If I were the boss of a venture capital company, I would make the same decision! Investing in Chronos Li's company will definitely not lose money!"

"..."

PS: Happy National Day! !
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