Rebirth

From Seattle’s Boeing Airport (Goldentown International Airport), Li Feng bid farewell to Gates. Gates naturally went back to his home. Li Feng declined Gates’ invitation to go to his home. The waiting convoy headed towards the Skyline Hotel in downtown Seattle, in the Seattle Central Business District.

Seattle's Skyline Hotel is naturally a Skyline brand under Li Feng Hotel Group. It is a 5-star hotel in Seattle's Central Business District. Not far from it is the famous Four Seasons Hotel, which is now one of the best hotels in Seattle.

As for the convoy that came to meet Li Feng at the airport, it was provided by the hotel. The big boss, Li Feng, personally checked into the hotel, which naturally caused the hotel to be in a hurry. When Li Feng’s convoy arrived, everything from the hotel manager to the suite housekeeper, etc. Already waiting to welcome each other at the entrance of the hotel.

Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the suite specially set aside for him on the top floor of the hotel, and looking at the city view of Seattle, Li Feng feels relaxed and happy. To be honest, Seattle really has a unique location.

Located between the famous Gulf of the Pacific Ocean-Puget Sound and Lake Washington, surrounded by the Olympic Mountains, the metropolitan area is densely covered with forests, rivers, and lakes. It is a typical temperate oceanographic climate, with warm winters and cool summers.

Similarly, Seattle also has a world-famous giant company, Microsoft will not say, there is also one of Northrop's competitors, Boeing is now headquartered in Seattle, but later Boeing seems to have moved its headquarters to Chicago went.

In addition to these two giants, there is also the up-and-coming Amazon. The later Amazon is naturally a technology giant comparable to Microsoft, with a market value of over one trillion.By the way, there is Starbucks. Of course, Starbucks today is still a little guy compared to giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Boeing.

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In addition to these giants, there is also the well-known Seattle SuperSonics, which is now a strong team in the NBA. The Supersonics in the mid-90s competed fiercely with Jordan's Bulls and Karl Malone's Jazz. Unfortunately, whether it is the Supersonics George Carr, Sean Kemp, Gary Payton, or the black and white double evil spirits of the Utah Jazz, all met Jordan, the open basketball emperor. The result can be imagined, and I can only lament that their lives are not in time.

In 1998, Seattle has always been recognized by the American people as the most livable city with the highest quality of life. Seriously speaking, Seattle is really a treasure of feng shui.

"Ring Ling Ling..."

"Hi... This is St. John Lee..."

"John, don't have to be so troublesome, this is Bill."

"Oh..., Bill, don't you think about me that way? You called me shortly after you left?" Li Feng replied jokingly when he heard the voice on the other end of the phone.

"Uh... John, this is to blame you, no wonder your reputation is too big, no, I just got home and I kept getting phone calls, and many people asked about your news. Among them, Amazon Many people are calling, are you interested in attending a party?"

"Huh... Bill, when did you become the middleman?"

"Uh..., you think I think, who knows what they think, they called me all of a sudden, what can I do."

"Well, how about I wait for your arrangements?"

"OK, John, then I will arrange for a private party in my house in 2 days."

"OK, then I'll wait for your notification."

"That's it, hang up first!"

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After hearing Li Feng's consent, Gates directly hung up the phone, leaving Li Feng speechless for a while.

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Li Feng was a little surprised when Gates suddenly received so many calls. He wondered when he was so popular. Of course, he understood what Gates meant. After all, he could call Bill in person. Gates's, think about it clearly, are some people with weight, and Gates can't directly refuse.

Similarly, for the next party, Li Feng is also looking forward to it, after all, this is also one of the normal social interactions.

In the next two days, Li Feng’s mood was completely different from the last time he came to Seattle. The last time he came to Seattle, he invested in Amazon. Although Amazon also passed the listing and increased capital and shares twice during this period, Li Feng decided to do everything. With the investment, there were no major problems or contradictions at the time, resulting in the last two capital increase and share expansion Li Feng did not come.

Since its listing in 1997, Amazon has actually gone through two rounds of capital increase and share expansion and raised nearly 800 million US dollars. Otherwise, with Amazon’s new listing, it has raised tens of millions of US dollars, which is enough for Amazon to expand.

At least so far, Amazon has acquired two Internet companies, namely, the acquisition of Junglee, a data mining company, for US$186 million, and the acquisition of Planetall, a social networking company, for nearly US$100 million.

In the original history, it was necessary to spend a lot of money to acquire IMDB, the world's largest film database company, but since this company was established by Li Feng, the company is still negotiating.

Originally, Amazon still had some operating funds, but due to this conflict with Li Feng, the last amount of operating funds was directly invested in the stock market to stabilize the stock market. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars were directly consumed.

There was nothing wrong with the last two capital increase and share expansion, that is, there was a problem with this capital increase and share expansion. According to Li Feng’s idea, it is estimated that the scale of this time is indeed a bit large. According to Amazon’s plan, this capital increase and share expansion requires financing 10 Billion dollars.

Although Amazon was previously a star stock of Nasdaq, its stock price is now moving towards US$200, with a market value of over 20 billion, but the amount of one-time financing of US$1 billion is still a bit worrying, and such capital increase and share expansion cannot be based on market value. To calculate financing, after all, market value is just a set of numbers on the stock market.

But Li Feng is notoriously rich in cash. The group of people represented by Bezos may be worried that if most of the 1 billion US dollars of shares are taken by Li Feng, then Amazon may really be named Li directly. This has led to a series of recent Amazon events.

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In the past few days, Li Feng has been visiting the famous attractions in Seattle, and he has also collected information about Amazon. Especially when Li Feng saw that Amazon’s stock price is about to reach 200 US dollars, the market value is At the time of the 30 billion leap, I felt a little stunned.

According to Li Feng's plan, the Nasdaq Internet bubble would not appear or even burst until after 2000, but when I saw Amazon's current stock price and market value, I hesitated.

According to the understanding in memory, it seems that Amazon's market value peaked at around 230 billion U.S. dollars before 2000. Seeing that today's market value seems to have reached its peak, it seems a bit uneconomical to increase capital and expand shares. Up.

Like Amazon and other companies, it seems that after the Internet bubble burst, the market value does not shrink to less than 10%.Nowadays, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested to get a small amount of shares. If you wait for the bottom of the bubble after the bubble bursts, the funds can easily reach 10 times the shares.

At this time, Li Feng really felt a bit hard to get off the ground. After all, it was such a big noise. If he was overwhelming, it would be over. Not only would it look ugly, it would not be a self-assuming sign.

Li Feng didn’t know that the historical Amazon did not perform well on the stock market in 1999. It reached its peak soon after the New Year, with a market value of more than 30 billion US dollars, but the good times were not long.

Since May, the stock price has been pouring all the way. By the end of 1999 and the beginning of 2000, it was the peak of the bubble. The market value should have been at its peak, but Amazon's stock price and market value dropped by half.

Of course, with the burst of the Internet bubble shortly after the New Year in 2000, the stock price fell all the way and the market value shrank by 95%, leaving only a market value of 230 million US dollars. This is really tangled.