Reboot 2003

Chapter 221 129: Times Square ([-]-in-[-])

The end is coming. For Internet companies in this era, the end is Wall Street.

Vacations, raises, honors, fame, everything, the answer is on Wall Street.Only on Wall Street do past efforts count.

On this day, dark clouds squeezed the clouds in the sky, and a cold wind blew on the streets of Manhattan.

Chinese people in suits gathered downstairs, and then took public transportation to Times Square. Times Square is not on Wall Street, but it is very close. Nasdaq is a stock exchange that takes advantage of the trend of information technology to become bigger and stronger, so it is very interested in technology. The field is particularly enthusiastic. Before the bubble in 00, it was even the largest trading market in the world.

Take public transportation, step out of the subway station, and come to Times Square.

Times Square is located at the junction of Broadway Street and Seventh Avenue. For the American people, it is almost a cultural symbol similar to the Red and White Song Contest and the Spring Festival Gala. When you step out of the street, the billboards in the entire square are playing the red song "Kuaikan Media". Background advertising, and the middle and largest billboard is Nasdaq’s giant dynamic advertising screen.

Today, this billboard is the billboard with the most brand value in the world. It is also one of the most powerful commercial company advertising spaces in terms of traffic and image, and in the image dimension. This is also after it launches online advertising services in the future. , the reason why so many pheasant companies are willing to grab just the opportunity to play it once.

Nasdaq's advertising screens are not yet connected to the Internet. However, when a company goes public, Times Square advertising is included in Nasdaq's listing package.

At this moment, the advertising screens in Times Square were playing Kuaikan Media's logo and slogans, standing guard on both sides like the king's guards. Gu Wenjie put on the suit that his wife had specially brought, and with his men, strode Walked towards the entrance of the Nasdaq Building.

"That lunatic is here..."

Among the media waiting on both sides, discordant voices came out for some reason.

Unmoved, Gu Wenjie entered the hall and led his men up the stairs.

Nasdaq will take care of breakfast. Gu Wenjie poured a cup of hot tea in the restaurant and looked at the photo wall of the two children of Lao Xu's family in the corridor.

At this time a big bald man walked in.

Gu Wenjie remained unmoved. After the other party stopped in front of him, he lazily stood up and looked at the other party without shaking hands.

"What are you doing here?" Gu Wenjie asked him.

The bald man looked ugly: "Goldman Sachs is your brokerage!"

"You curse us every day for a broken stock market. I thought you had forgotten about it."

"If it weren't for my company and investors, I wouldn't want to say even one more word to you!"

Bex straightened his collar, turned around unceremoniously, and went to stand beside him.

He obviously came with malicious intentions, but in today's listing, there were many such 'uninvited guests'.

Some stock investors met them on the road and asked them: "Look, have your frozen accounts been unblocked?"

During the media speech, Yahoo President Semel came to the scene and stole his limelight. Semel looked frowning. Maybe it was because of the quarrel between Yahoo managers and Kuaikan yesterday. He didn’t even mind giving him a lesson in public. He said: "Gu, don't you know whose responsibility this company is in today's situation?"

Under a series of chaos, some people even couldn't hold it back——

Sister Liu from the customer service department was one of the first employees. After arriving at the trading floor, she suddenly ran out with her face covered: "I'm not going, I'm not going!"

The eyes of reporters and the cameras of TV stations are chasing everything here.

It's normal when you think about it. Look at the media... Its recent situation is very bad, so bad that people even wonder why it didn't suspend the listing process.

There were infighting on the board of directors, regulatory risks outside the market, failure to acquire overseas agent games, and the founders were involved in horizontal competition lawsuits.

I can’t say that these issues are very important. I can only say that since there are these issues, why does this company dare to go public?Due to the marginal cost of information transmission, in the public market, even if a boss's affair is exposed or a small copyright lawsuit is enough to cause a company's stock price to fluctuate significantly in the short term, Kuaikan Media will do so under such circumstances. Listing, if it were a normal company, the listing process would have been suspended long ago.

So why not abort?
It is said that there is a gambling agreement that is going to be listed. Now it is completely involuntary... In the final media hall, anxious eyes were focused on that man.

However, Gu Wenjie remained unmoved and seemed not to take these issues seriously at all.

Maybe - this kind of thing happens every day on Wall Street, and the fuss is just a boring accompaniment.

He came to the stage with steady steps and carefully read the company's public offering speech.

After the announcement, he picked up a hammer and struck the opening bell. Ribbons and fireworks sprayed out from the holes on the side. As the CEO, he smiled and clapped.

Behind him, some of the Kuaikan employees were smiling reluctantly, while others were standing in the background dejectedly, clapping their hands dully. Only the two children behind the camera equipment and outside the camera seemed to be taking the photos very enthusiastically, which made today's shooting even more exciting. This listing seems even more ridiculous.

"Dow Jones opens lower..."

The stock investors outside screamed. After the morning market opened, Nasdaq opened down and seemed to continue to fall. It seemed that today was another bad day.

Semel stood in the background, pointing to the curve with other managers, while Bex of Goldman Sachs stood at the entrance with his arms folded, sneering and looking away.

However, at this time, there seemed to be some kind of chaos happening in the trading floor that was difficult for ordinary people to be violent.

"KUK, what's going on with this stock?"

"Did it go down?"

"Yes, but it's also rising."

"And it seems to be rising even more violently!"

On the screen, the employees of Kuaikan Media Company followed their boss, clapped their hands listlessly among the floating ribbons, and looked at the screen in front of them.

They also saw the falling Nasdaq index outside, but on the small screen in front of them, Kuaikan Media's opening stock price was a bit hard to understand.

Although the trend cannot be seen yet, its stock price...

Everyone knows that the issue price is US$19, but the opening price has soared to US$25.

The large fluctuation after the opening seems to mean that the company's stock turnover rate is very high. In the colorful, red and green curve icon, it is even rising slowly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to go out and take pictures!"

The staff of the exchange issued a kind reminder. Perhaps because of this difficult-to-understand curve, they had friendly smiles on their faces, which seemed to represent some subtle change.

"Boss, big rise, big rise!"

Some people reacted, and others looked at Gu Wenjie, as if asking for a sign that 'it's time to celebrate'...

No one knows what the future will bring, but the market will always reveal the answer on time.

It may be a bit strange in the eyes of some people - Bex waited for a while at the entrance of the exchange, and the more he looked at it, the more uncomfortable he became, and finally he got angry: "How dare they..."

Although the rise and fall of stocks are caused by changes in market indexes, they are often not entirely determined by the market.

Think of that annoying, smug guy, now with a bunch of money in his hands.

In order to prevent yourself from losing face on Nasdaq, you may take the risk of trading on your own.

That guy... isn't he afraid of being discovered by the supervisor?
With this thought in mind, Bex finally couldn't stand it any longer and walked out of the exchange quite unhappily.

The sky became gloomier and the wind blew loudly.

A piece of newspaper blew over and stuck on Bex's face. Bex took it off and saw that there were still grease stains on the newspaper that were wrapped in hot dogs or buns, and he became even more angry.

But underneath the greasy food stains was a news photo of several Japanese people bowing on stage.

Today Sanyo Group announced that it will divest its mobile phone business, and an investor from China agreed to establish a joint venture subsidiary with them.

And this is just a small piece of news in the margin column. On the larger headline, there is the bright smile of the 'Wolf of Wall Street' himself, the cold eyes under the smile, and a message with a picture——

"Lehman Brothers released an analysis report revealing Goldman Sachs's financial difficulties and downgraded its stock rating." Baker's eyes bulged for a moment. He grabbed the dirty newspaper with both hands and read the words on the newspaper carefully. Before he finished reading the news, his hands He started to tremble and fell to his knees with a thud.

And the CEO of Kuaikan Media walked out of the door and strode past him.Paper and dust were floating in the sky, as if something had collapsed.

The media who were so angry just now shrank their heads and retreated. The stock investors in the exchange were arguing fiercely about the next decline and rise. The employees of Kuaikan were anxiously looking forward to following the hurried boss, but they saw the boss One person was picked out from the media who were trying to hide back in the crowd.

"Give me back my equity."

"Sorry, you won...but I have resigned because of you."

"Humph."

Gu Wenjie pushed him away, and the legendary manager who had turned into a pitiful old man retreated in embarrassment. It was Yahoo CEO Semel.

Why is he hiding?Why did he resign?Why did Gu Wenjie win?

Like a ridiculous drama gradually unveiling its veil, the story continues; his subordinates watched Gu Wenjie turn around and came up to help Gu Wenjie tidy up his tie. In the exchange behind him, the overall index was still falling today, but stock investors They let out amazing cheers. Did something good happen?
The Nasdaq media people began to organize for them to take photos. There were many people around who were busy spinning. Before getting the exact news, they tentatively celebrated...

In the center of the crowd, Gu Wenjie looked up at the sky for no reason and exhaled.

Then he sighed again.

I don’t know why, but at this critical moment, I took out my phone, wrote an email and sent it.

"It's a pity that you still haven't come, Lao Chen. The listing was a success."

The email was sent, but Gu Wenjie looked back.

Among the crowd of family members following him, Chen Qin took out his mobile phone and smiled.

Maybe I should have known this would happen.

Now, look at the media...this earliest company is actually irrelevant.

In a world where everything can be measured in terms of capital, all responsibilities and feelings pale in comparison. Looking at the healthy capital flow and broad prospects of the media, he didn't have to worry too much, even without the good news provided by Gu Wenjie himself. , it will always succeed...it just has to wait a little longer.

But behind the curtain, there is always something at a lower level controlling everything, and as individuals who are inhabited by money, they will always look forward to more efficient ways to increase wealth.

Now that the listing is successful, it can indeed be regarded as a beginning and an end. For entrepreneurs, this can also be regarded as a part of the growth experience.

If a poor entrepreneur wants to become a real player on the capital poker table, he usually has to go through one or two rounds of working for others. Although he may not be able to make a lot of money, it is not that he will not have other opportunities to get on the poker table, but generally speaking , there will be such a stage.

But for him, and even Gu Wenjie, this stage really meant nothing.

As wealth chasers, they have reached a lower level. Kuaikan Media is still just the starting point of the journey. Now it has reached a new stage, but they are already further away.

What we have to do next is just to continue to improve efficiency along the previous path.

If there's any problem, it's that he's still just a primary school student...

If you think about it carefully, it's quite interesting.

If he were not a primary school student, he would probably be the one standing here today, Chen Qin thought.

Of course, this is not necessarily a bad thing. For example, if he were Gu Wenjie, I am afraid it would not be so easy to cash out from Kuaikan Media.

However, it is more convenient for adults to do things after all, and the benefits are of course self-evident.

Thinking wildly like this, Chen Qin replied to an email: "Yes, I'm watching it on the live broadcast channel. Although I don't think it's useful, it's a part of our growth. You should also relax a little. "

"Ugh!"

At this moment, for some reason, Xu Lingling suddenly pushed him from the side and pointed forward carefully.

Chen Qin raised his head subconsciously, but he happened to meet the eyes of the middle-aged man in a suit in the crowd not far away. He also held a mobile phone and turned back to look at Chen Qin.

A gust of wind blew by, making it a bit chilly.

Then he felt a biting chill behind his back. Chen Qin saw Gu Wenjie staring directly at him and blinked in confusion.

But the next moment, his eyes were misaligned with his, and Chen Qin focused his sight farther away - papers were flying in the sky, Times Square was in chaos under the clouds, and Bex was still kneeling by the door of the exchange. , staring at the newspaper in his hand, the short-staffed security guards struggled to maintain order on the scene, and even the staff in doll costumes were also helping.

And among the crowd, a man in black...

"Get down!"

Chen Qin suddenly pulled Xu Lingling down, and then there was a loud noise from the clouds, which seemed to be a thunder, but then there were panic and chaotic shouts from the scene——

"what happened?"

"security guard……"

"Quick, call the police!"

"The CEO is dead... selling off..."

Chaos came quickly. Some people ran to the other side of the street, and some got into the exchange. A crackling sound like firecrackers suddenly broke out. The leather shoes that came over almost stepped on Chen Qin's back, which made him realize that lying down might not be the best solution. What a good idea.

"Xiaoqin! Lingling!"

Fortunately, Lao Chen took the lead and rushed over, grabbed the two children with brute force and ran away.Xu Lingling still grabbed Chen Qin's clothes and refused to let go. Chen Qin turned back and looked at the crowd. Gu Wenjie's figure had clearly fallen to the ground.

There were people surrounding him. Several security guards who had been maintaining order with their doll costumes had skillfully drawn out their guns and started to fight back. The air was filled with blue smoke.

How is this going?

Lao Chen, holding a child and a child, ran wildly to the side street, squeezed out of the crowd of people rushing to the exchange, and escaped from Times Square.

Just now, he was still thinking about funds and stocks. Chen Qin felt that he couldn't even think about it. It wasn't until Lao Chen couldn't run anymore and Xu Lingling called her dad that she realized that Lao Xu was chasing after him from behind. It seemed that he had no one. Something happened.

"Oh, Lao Chen, I just saw you running out with Lingling..."

"What's going on over there?"

"I don't know, someone was shooting, oh my god, I heard the sound of bullets flying past my ears!..."

The two adults yelled and talked for the rest of their lives. Lao Chen was so tired that he couldn't breathe. Others beside him were also talking to each other about their fear and nervousness. Chen Qin was still looking back. The square was already very crowded. Far.

But at this moment, the phone vibrated again.

When I opened it, I saw that it was from Gu Wenjie.

is he all right?
He was vaguely relieved, but then he discovered that this seemed to be two emails connected to the previous one.

"But Lao Chen, you always said this is useless, and you also said we need to grow.

I think so. In addition to having a beginning and an end to everything, now that Kuaikan Media has finally gone public, I think it’s not meaningless.

So Lao Chen, do you think we have grown up now? "

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