hollywood melon man

Chapter 147 Facebook and Banana go public
  "Happy birthday……"

"Hurry, little Gilbert, hurry up and make a wish and blow out the candles..."

In Melon Manor, a birthday party is being held, and little Gilbert's friends have already come over.

Naomi Watts arranged the entire birthday party and invited a chef from an Italian restaurant to the manor to be responsible for the birthday dinner.

"Okay," looking at the expectant looks of his friends, little Gilbert clasped his hands together and made a wish with his eyes closed: "The first wish is that I hope everyone's life and career will be prosperous."

Xiao Lizi smiled and said: "I didn't expect that your wish was actually granted to us."

"Shh, don't talk, little Gilbert, go on." Sofia told Little Plum to shut up and continued to ask little Gilbert to make a wish.

"The second wish is that the company will be successfully listed this year and the stock will rise sharply."

"Okay, here's the third one!"

"I won't tell you the third one." Little Gilbert made a wish silently in his heart, then took a breath and blew out the candle.

"Congratulations, little Gilbert, you are twenty-five years old..."

"I'm twenty-five years old. Time flies so fast!"

Friends all gave their own gifts, and Xiao Lizi gave a set of fishing gear, which was expensive at first glance. Anglers can use the air force, but the equipment must be good.

Matt Damon gave a bicycle so that when he had nothing to do, he could ride on the promenade with little Gilbert to get some exercise.

Sofia gave her a set of clothes she designed herself. This year she also opened a clothing design company with her friends. She let little Gilbert wear the new clothes and evaluate them for herself.

The most interesting thing is that Scarlett's gift is actually a cat.

Scarlett liked cats very much, but Ms. Sloan did not allow cats to be raised, so Scarlett gave the cat to little Gilbert so that she could pet the cat at Cantaloupe Manor.

"Scarlett," little Gilbert stroked the kitten, which purred comfortably. He asked Scarlett, "Does this cat have a name?"

"No, please give me a name!" Sijia said.

Little Gilbert recalled that he had raised a cat in his previous life, named Toffee, so he named it: "Why not call it Toffee!"

"Toffee?" Sijia read it twice and thought it was good: "Okay, let's call it toffee."

As a result, the kitten Toffee became an official member of the Melon Manor and lived in the manor.

After the friends leave in the evening, it’s time to enjoy.

This time Naomi Watts dressed up as a teacher, Charlize Theron dressed up as a judge, and Cameron Diaz put on the costume of Catwoman from DC Comics, allowing little Gilbert to enjoy it again .

Knowing that little Gilbert loved this one very much, the three women were so full of tricks that it almost made little Gilbert feel so happy.

However, little Gilbert woke up from his home the next day and went to San Francisco to attend a pre-IPO meeting for Facebook.

Since 1995, Facebook has performed very well in the first and second quarters. With the massive growth of Internet users in North America, Facebook's users have also begun to show exponential growth.

At present, the number of Internet users in North America has reached 2500 million, and the number two in the country is only million. The next few combined are not as many as the number of Internet users in North America.

It must be said that Washington's proposal in 1993 to build an Internet information highway was quite forward-looking. While Internet users in other parts of the world are still using dial-up Internet access, North America is gradually switching to broadband Internet access.

This is like a rocket booster for Facebook, pushing the company to achieve rapid development.

As of the second quarter, Facebook has become the largest photo sharing and social networking website in the United States, and is widely popular among young people, with more than 5 million users.

After the meeting, Facebook also held a special press conference, attracting technology media, financial media, and even entertainment media to report on it.

Those technology and financial media were still curious about why the entertainment media was also involved in this matter, but they were not surprised to see little Gilbert sitting on the stage.

It is no secret that Gilbert Jr. is the largest shareholder of Facebook. People who care about this matter are speculating on how much wealth Gilbert Jr. will achieve after Facebook is listed.

The press conference was hosted by CEO Mark Ruhl, who cited various data to prove to the public Facebook's bright future.

"Since the first quarter of 1995, the company has entered a stage of rapid growth after initial development, and the company's shareholders are very optimistic about the company's prospects.

As the most popular social networking site nowadays, Facebook has set off a storm on the North American Internet. Its highly interactive and real-name social method has become a social phenomenon. "

Facing the media reporters, Mark Ruhr was high-spirited and confident.

“So far, Facebook has more than five million users, eight million monthly visits, and the total number of visits has already exceeded 100 million.

User activity is quite high, with an average user visiting more than ten times a month and browsing nearly fifteen pages each time.

No matter by any standard, Facebook's achievements are enough to make all employees of the company proud and to reassure shareholders. "

Holding a press conference is actually an act of showing off.

At the same time, it also tells the market and stock investors that the company is performing well and everyone is invited to actively buy.

This move was very effective. After the press conference, influential technology and financial newspapers such as "Silicon Valley Technology" and "Wall Street Journal" fully reported on this event.

"The Wall Street Journal" also said: "This July, the entire Nasdaq will be crazy about Facebook." In Hollywood, the focus is on little Gilbert. Unexpectedly, in addition to movies, little Gilbert also achieved great results in the fields of investment and entrepreneurship.

Many people in the Hollywood circle cannot have fun without Hollywood. Unexpectedly, little Gilbert actually took to the water like a fish in water, which made everyone admire him.

In view of Little Gilbert's identity, some media began to hype Little Gilbert's squid ancestry. The Washington Post even gave Little Gilbert the title of Son of God.

Little Gilbert was stunned when he saw this title. Am I equal to Jesus?
  But if you think about it carefully, it doesn’t seem strange. Although the religious atmosphere in the West is indeed relatively strong and there are relatively loyal believers, most of the time religion is just a tool.

People use religion to achieve various purposes, such as the Crusades, which were ostensibly to punish heretics but ended up being wars to plunder wealth.

Little Gilbert is of squid origin, and this era happened to be a period when the squid-man myth was very popular. With a typical example like Little Gilbert, of course the squid group must promote it as a positive example.

For little Gilbert, this is actually a good thing.

When Facebook went public, little Gilbert received invitations from many elite squid groups, including groups supporting the place on the Mediterranean coast.

For little Gilbert, if he had to be a squid, he would definitely pursue liberalism and advocate world peace.

Therefore, little Gilbert did not go to the invitations from the extreme squid elite groups.

There are also factions within the Squid, and now the liberals can shout: "Little Gilbert belongs to our liberals..."

The differences between Gilbert Jr. and those extreme groups are also something other capital groups in North America are happy to see. As for the trouble caused by extremist groups, Gilbert Jr. entrusted his father, Gilbert Sr., to help deal with it.

It's impossible that they shot little Gilbert eight times in the back and committed suicide just because he didn't support the Zionist group, right?
  Of course, some people may say, if you don’t support these groups, will the Squid Group still support you?

At the very least, liberals will support little Gilbert. Little Gilbert can even become the leader of liberals, leading liberals to confront extremist groups, just like the Donkey Party and Elephant Party in North America.

As for the media, don’t worry. Much of Squid Group’s media power is controlled by Squid Capital, which supports extremist groups.

But in the next few decades, the world's public opinion will undergo tremendous changes. The Internet will eventually replace traditional media such as television and newspapers.

Little Gilbert laid out the Internet, starting with Facebook Banana, to fully control social networking sites, create Twitter, video sharing sites, and destroy traditional public opinion media methods.

Of course, with such a large propaganda machine in hand, little Gilbert will definitely become a thorn in the side of some groups, which requires little Gilbert himself to pay special attention and be careful.

Having said that, if Gilbert Jr., who became the super-rich man in the United States, died without explanation, the social turmoil caused by his identity and status would be severe.

With the social class structure in North America, no matter how chaotic the lower class people are, it will be fine. Anyway, there will be a steady stream of people from all over the world coming here to supplement the cheap labor force.

If something happens to the middle class, it will only be a minor incident, but it will not affect its essential foundation.

But if something happens to the super-rich at the top of society, it will trigger a massive panic in an instant.

Once paradise is no longer paradise for the rich, who will dare to transfer wealth here? How did North America become the center of the world?

Without these rich people, society would collapse in an instant.

It was difficult for little Gilbert to experience these things in his previous life in China. It wasn’t until I personally experienced life in North America that I realized that capital means the foundation of everything in Western society.

Of course, many things are hard to say. Maybe little Gilbert will learn from Musk and make a promise that I will never commit suicide and let the whole world know.

It is too early to consider these things now. At present, Gilbert Jr. is getting along quite happily with the major capitals, especially Squid Capital.

In July 1995, after everything was ready, Facebook executives rushed to Nasdaq to ring the bell for listing.

Little Gilbert rang the bell himself. At the moment the bell was struck, investors who were already ready rushed into the trading place and started buying Facebook shares.

Generally speaking, when a company goes public, it usually needs to do some roadshows to promote investors' confidence.

But Facebook didn't care at all. The moment the market opened, the North American Securities Regulatory Commission's website went down due to a large number of visitors, causing investors to curse in anger.

After the website was restored, investors found that Facebook's stock price soared from $3.8 to $11.7 per share.

This made investors even more crazy. More investors poured in and piled up Facebook's share price. By the time the market closed, the share price had risen to $15.3 per share.

The momentum of such a large-scale IPO is even more exaggerated than that of Netscape last year.

Mark Ruhl and Honey Mars both became multimillionaires through Facebook's IPO. As for the largest shareholder, Gilbert Jr., although he cashed out some of his shares, he still holds a large number of Facebook shares worth US$500 million.

The market value of Facebook as a whole reached US$1.3 billion after the market closed.

But this is not the end. Facebook stock still has a lot of room to rise. The stock price almost changes every day, and the rate of rise is very fast.

This is not over yet. After Facebook went public, Banana was successfully listed in August, making Banana's market value exceed 800 million US dollars in one fell swoop.

With shares in the two companies, financial media estimate that Gilbert Jr.'s personal wealth has exceeded US$1.5 billion.

The Wall Street Journal ranked Gilbert Jr. as the richest man under thirty, surpassing the heirs of Hilton and Lauder.

The most important thing is that unlike those who rely on their fathers, little Gilbert can almost be said to have started from scratch. This adds another legend to the American dream.

　I'm not very good at business, but it wouldn't be appropriate if I didn't explain it. I'll just write it down and get it over with in one stroke.

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)