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   Chapter 643 Introduction

  Bezos listened to Song Yang's words, his heart skipped a beat, he couldn't tell whether Song Yang's words were unintentional or intentional, Bezos had a feeling that Song Yang seemed to be a little more optimistic about Amazon than him.

   "Sure, Amazon will not let you down, Amazon will become the most valuable company in America in the future!"

Bezos was also in front of the camera. In front of everyone, he said with a joking tone. Everyone present took this as a gimmick, or it was for the little leeks who bought Amazon stock. Tell them that the two major shareholders, Song Yang and Bezos, will not easily sell their Amazon shares.

Song Yang and Bezos stood together for the financial media and reporters present to take pictures. Song Yang was not Amazon's first investor, but he was one of the largest investors. He didn't have Song Yang's wave of assists. , Amazon can't stand out in the e-commerce industry so quickly.

   "KPCB Ventures supports Amazon's transformation. I and KPCB partners will always support Amazon. Barnes & Noble is just a passerby to Amazon!"

   After Song Yang, Bezos, and a group of Amazon executives took a group photo and were about to ring the bell, John Dole, a director of KPCB Ventures in Amazon, said to the media, expressing KPCB's support for Amazon.

Amazon started with books. Now, in the field of books, its sales have almost surpassed Barnes & Noble, the largest bookstore chain in America. After the listing, as long as Amazon destroys Barnes & Noble in one fell swoop, Amazon can transform Amazon into many fields such as retail, clothing, toys, electrical appliances, etc. .

   In fact, Amazon started before, Amazon and eBay are the two major Internet sales platforms for Alcatel P1 mobile phones.

   It’s just that in the electrical appliance industry, Amazon can only be considered a small business. After the listing, as long as Barnes & Noble Bookstore is completely destroyed in the book field, Amazon will begin to transform.

  John Dole said these words in front of so many media today, in fact, he wanted to express that KPCB is the one who supports Amazon!

Song Yang glanced at John Dole with a smile and walked up to the stage with Bezos and others to start ringing the bell. Bezos was not planning to come today, but with Song Yang's support, Bezos still led people Come to the scene, otherwise the big gold master came, but he didn't come, it is really unreasonable.

When the bell was ringing, Amazon's code appeared on the Nasdaq. This was witnessed by Song Yang himself. The fourth listed Internet company was the second one that Song Yang handed over. And this month, In Song Yang's hands, there will be another one that will log on to Nasdaq!

After    went public, Amazon’s issue price gradually began to rise from $18, but compared to the appalling performance of Netscape and Yahoo, Amazon’s stock price on the first day of listing did not perform very violently.

The key is that Wall Street and Silicon Valley are a little vague about the future of the e-commerce industry. They don't know what this industry will look like in the future. Amazon, as the world's first listed e-commerce concept stock, can still lose money now. It's a mess, and it's a constant battle with Barnes & Noble.

   "Congratulations, Bezos!"

   The congratulations to Bezos and Amazon are endless, but the battle is much weaker than the original Netscape and Yahoo, and even the battle of the double-click listing is a bit fiercer than Amazon.

   "Director Bruno, what do you have to say to investors who bought Amazon stock?!"

   The reporter from the Finance and Economics Channel of ICNC TV took the opportunity and raised the microphone to his big financial sponsor.

  ICNC TV station is developing towards a TV group. This year, it will set up several professional TV stations, including premium channels, entertainment channels, and financial channels, etc., and specially set up a team of financial reporters, who will squat in New York all the year round.

   You may not give face to other TV stations, but Song Yang is definitely impossible to refuse in the face of his own TV station.

   "The Internet will have companies that change the world, and Amazon may be one of them..."

Facing the camera of ICNC TV station, Song Yang blew it for Amazon. This scene was seen by countless viewers. Many people who didn't pay much attention to Amazon also set their sights on it. I don't know if it was a coincidence or it was really big. Injustice believed Song Yang's words, and as soon as Song Yang finished speaking, Amazon's stock price was pulled up to $21!

  Song Yang is optimistic about Amazon. He is optimistic about Amazon in a few years or even more than ten years, not the current Amazon. Whether these leeks who bought Amazon's stock can survive until that day, Song Yang has no idea...

After the listing, Amazon’s stock price soared by 16%, and its market value soared from US$650 million to US$840 million, and the sword pointed to US$1 billion. For Amazon, this performance has definitely been calculated. The crowd.

   "Amazon was successfully listed today, and its current market value has exceeded $840 million. The founder of Amazon, Bezos, who holds more than 40% of Amazon's shares, and his family are worth more than $300 million..."

  Ebay, one of the two e-commerce giants in America that is now as famous as Amazon, is also watching Amazon's listing ceremony at the moment.

   "Pierre, Song absolutely supports eBay. When eBay goes public, the market value will definitely surpass Amazon!"

When the market value of Amazon began to soar, and Song Yang's words that Amazon could change the world, eBay CEO Whitman turned to eBay's founder and now eBay's technology president Pierre Omidyar said.

Calculating it, eBay is regarded as "one's own person". Song Yang holds 55% of eBay's equity. In addition, North American Global Investment Fund, Double-click Company, Whitman and others all hold some eBay's equity. eBay is from top to bottom. They were all from Song Yang's side.

   On the contrary, it is Amazon. After the listing, Song Yang’s equity was diluted to a part, and now he holds less than 30% of Amazon’s equity.

   Hearing Whitman's words, Omidyar knew that she was afraid of herself and had a gap with Song Yang. Omidyar smiled and said to Whitman, "I understand!"

Omidyar is not stupid. Now Song Yang is not only a major shareholder of eBay, but also in Song Yang's camp, eBay is a collection of thousands of favorites. There are double clicks to advertise on eBay, ICQ and Xue Leshan Online are eBay drains traffic, PayPal provides payment services for eBay, and eBay has now run out of America, and has established servers in North America, Europe, Eastern Europe and other places, and the user scale is also higher than Amazon.

Turning on Song Yang, Omidyar could not see any benefit. He stayed on eBay as the technical president. After eBay was listed, Omidyar would be famous and profitable, and his net worth would soar a lot. Omidyar was born in technology, and now this model, he feels is the most suitable for him.

Omidyar has been in contact with Song Yang for so long, and knows that Song Yang is not a Wall Street type. When he buys a company back, he kicks the founder away. Song Yang has also acquired a lot of companies now. , Alcatel Mobile, Xue Leshan Games, including eBay, Song Yang has kept the founders and main technical personnel of these companies, which is not only rare in Wall Street, even in Silicon Valley.

Song Yang didn't overshadow Omidyar and the others. Instead, he delegated power to them and provided them with sufficient research and development funding. For Omidyar, who came from a technical background, staying under Song Yang's hands is better than other companies' intrigue. Many, even when he established eBay, he was not as comfortable as he is now. At that time, he had to think about finding sponsors for eBay every day and trying to attract users. Now these things don't need Omidyar's headache.

   Whitman was very satisfied with Omidyar's attitude. Omidyar didn't think about fighting for power with her, and she was less troublesome.

   "Ebay has made a profit of US$15.7 million in the first half of the year, and it may make a profit of more than US$40 million this year. If all goes well, it will be able to be listed on eBay next year.

   Not even just eBay, it may be able to list with other companies together! "

Whitman picked up a document and said to Omidyar that her current focus is basically on eBay. Although she still serves as the president of DoubleClick, she is busy preparing to send eBay to the market. At that time, Whitman will be the first professional manager of Wall Street to send both companies to Nasdaq!

   Unlike other e-commerce companies that lose money, eBay has always made money by charging platform store fees, auction fees, and advertising fees.

The model of   ebay will definitely limit the development of ebay, but now in the e-commerce industry, ebay is one of the few e-commerce companies that can make money back.

   "This month, you will go to New York with me to participate in the ICQ listing ceremony!"

When Omidyar left, Whitman raised his head and said to him that when ICQ went public, all the heads of companies in Song Yang's camp, as well as a number of people in the Internet and technology industries, would basically support him. This time will also be the most grand listing in the Internet industry this year, or even in the next few years.

   On the second day of Amazon's listing, Bezos' avatar appeared on the cover of "Time Magazine". The previous Internet covers of Time Magazine were Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan, Song Yang and others.

According to Amazon's performance, it was not easy for Bezos to be on this cover before, but Time Magazine still gave Amazon this treatment, and Time Magazine gave Bezos a title, with a tone of ridicule and anticipation, "Amazon is about to change the world?"

   Obviously, Time Magazine and others put Bezos on the cover of the magazine, mostly because of Song Yang. Most of the technology industry also regards Song Yang's words as a joke.

   "I will buy a hand of Amazon stock and wait until ten years later to verify whether what Bruno Song said is true."

The editor of Time magazine wrote in a news report on Amazon, "Amazon's market value will take time to verify, and Bruno Song's worth has increased by $250 million after Amazon's listing, and it will take another ten days. , maybe the number will be tenfold!"

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