Rebirth of the Wild Age

Lin Zhuoyun has not gone to class anymore. She usually reviews manuscripts in the "Sprout" magazine. After reviewing the manuscripts, she reads and learns by herself, and occasionally writes poetry and prose. ±Bo ∨ Luo ∨Xiao ± say

The graduate thesis has been finalized a long time ago, and the second revision is in progress, and the defense will be due in one month.

Late spring, afternoon.

Just after watching a movie, Song Weiyang took Lin Zhuoyun's little hand and the two wandered the streets of Xujiahui. Song Weiyang smiled and asked, "Don't plan to continue studying for a PhD?"

"I don't read it. It's interesting to work in a magazine," Lin Zhuoyun said.

Song Weiyang said: "If you are really interested in literature, you can try to build a literary website. It's pretty good under the banyan tree."

"I know under the banyan tree. I also sent an email to submit a manuscript. Do you know the webmaster under the banyan tree?" Lin Zhuoyun asked.

Song Weiyang said: "I don't know, but I can."

Lin Zhuoyun smiled and said, "I have invested money again? As far as I know, the webmaster under the banyan tree is not short of money."

"How do you know he is not short of money?" Song Weiyang asked.

"I talked to him," Lin Zhuoyun said, "I have posted a few articles in the past, all of which were published under the banyan tree. This website cannot post articles directly, only through the website's e-mail link. Every time the webmaster is very serious , After posting my article online, I also need to write a special email to reply to me. Once pointed out that I had a typo, he helped me correct it, and asked me not to mind. I think this person is interesting, so I emailed him After chatting, I realized that he is the owner of an advertising company."

"Male or female?" Song Weiyang said.

Lin Zhuoyun smiled and said, "Are you jealous?"

"How is it possible?" Song Weiyang refused to admit it.

The founder of Banyan Tree is William Zhu, a Chinese American who grew up in California and didn't return to China to start his own business until 1994.

In the beginning, under the banyan tree was only Zhu William's personal webpage. Because he loved literature, he wrote an article and posted it on his website. Later, he made an email link to the website so that netizens could send emails, but he accepted any interesting articles.

In this way, without publicity or advertising, the traffic under the banyan tree has increased year by year, and by this year there have been 100,000 visits per day.

As far as a purely literary website is concerned, the number of visits in 1999 was so alarming that it was inevitably targeted by some venture capital companies. But William Zhu does not accept financing at all. This is just his personal hobby. He does not even ask for a content editor. He does the daily maintenance of the website himself.

This person is really not short of money. Once he went to London on a business trip, in order to ensure that the content of the website was updated, he even made an international long-distance call back to Shenghai dial-up Internet from the United Kingdom. After the review and release, the telephone and internet expenses were used up. 7,000 pounds, equivalent to 100,000 yuan at the time.

Local tycoon!

Song Weiyang smiled and said: "Next time you talk, you will ask him if he wants to make the website bigger so that more literature lovers can communicate with each other."

"All right, but I guess he won't agree." Lin Zhuoyun said.

When the two were walking and chatting, Hong Weiguo had been following a few meters away. While thinking about KFC nearby, while sipping Coke, he gathered news and arranged the itinerary for Song Weiyang.

Before I finished drinking a glass of Coke, Shen Si received the long-distance overseas trip. She said in fluent English: "Well, ok...I see, I will tell the boss. As for whether to go to the United States, the boss needs to decide... , OK, I will notify your company after the arrangements are made."

Hanging up the phone, thinking trot away from KFC, chasing to Song Weiyang's side, said: "Boss, Google from the United States called and decided to conduct the second round of financing next month. The two founders of Google need your support. Please go there in person. During the trip to the United States, they had very different opinions with venture capital companies."

Song Weiyang said: "Tell them, I will be there at the end of the month."

"Okay." Shen Si began to look through the schedule. She wanted to arrange a reasonable time.

Google has developed rapidly this year, and because of Song Weiyang's suggestion, they found a profit model ahead of time. The groundbreaking custom search advertising model allowed Google to reach 12 million U.S. dollars in revenue last year, which is extremely dazzling in the generally loss-making Internet industry.

Not only did Wall Street venture capital firms flock to Amazon, but even Amazon was tempted to bid $200 million to acquire 40% of Google's shares. Amazon is crazy and has a lot of money. It acquired two companies within a month of last year. With nearly 300 million U.S. dollars in funding, this year, it continues to wave money to engage in acquisitions.

The Internet bubble in the United States has not burst, but it continues to expand. Wall Street's valuation of Google is nearly $600 million, which is seven or eight times that of the same period in history!

Does it feel outrageous?

There is an online grocery delivery company in the United States called Webvan. Last year, its revenue just broke US$10 million, and it has now been valued by Wall Street at US$1.5 billion. In half a year, the company's IPO went public, and its valuation quickly increased to US$8 billion!

At this time, there is also a newly established Pets company, which will be listed directly next year~www.readwn.com~ It takes less than one year from registration to listing. The reason why venture capital companies are optimistic is only because the socks dolls of this website are refreshing when it is doing publicity, so all kinds of money are invested, and they want to take advantage of the Internet stocks to catch a wave.

Standing on the vent, pigs can fly, not to mention Google is a dragon.

After a stroll in Xujiahui, Song Weiyang said: "Go home, Doudou will be over for school soon."

"boom!"

There was a loud noise in the distance, and the ground vibrated slightly, frightening the pedestrians on the street.

Lin Zhuoyun pulled her boyfriend's sleeve and said with a dazed expression: "Has an earthquake?"

"It's not an earthquake, it's an explosion." Song Weiyang turned and looked to the southwest. He already remembered what was going on. Today in his last life he was working as a civil servant in Shenghai.

A crash occurred near Hongqiao Airport!

It was a Korean cargo plane taking off from Hongqiao Airport. When the air traffic control commanded the aircraft to climb to an altitude of 1500 meters, the aircraft's radio communication was suddenly interrupted. The aircraft that was supposed to continue to climb began to dive inexplicably and landed directly on a construction site in Shenghai.

Three South Korean crew members died at the scene, five Shenghai residents were killed and 42 were injured, and nearly a thousand houses were damaged. The plane hit the ground with an intensity equivalent to a 1.6-magnitude earthquake, and the focal point was on the ground, which could be felt by a small part of the Shenghai.

At this time, Sino-U.S. relations were tense. After the crash, Western public opinion spread rumors, saying that the South Korean plane was shot down by the Chinese Communist Party!

China and South Korea have been investigating for two years and finally confirmed that the cause of the crash was that the South Korean pilots misread the altimeter...

Song Weiyang returned to the car with an ugly expression. He remembered another incident, that the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia was about to be bombed. He knew that it was of no avail. Who would believe it now? Everyone would only regard him as a lunatic.