Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 104 New Year's Beginning

   During the holidays.

  Nasdaq trades normally during working days, and the flow of funds has been greatly reduced.

Those stocks of the Freshwater Fund were tepid, with a small loss of more than 2.4 million US dollars. It has been up and down since the end of last year. What greets people is a slow bull market that has lasted for several years. It has begun since the end of last year .

  Employees are coming back to work soon. Today is January 1, 2003, and there are two days left before the end of the holiday.

  Office workers are not students. The longest holiday every year is the period from Christmas to New Year in the West. Unless they accumulate holidays for vacation, the beginning of the year means that they have to return to big cities and return to busy work.

  Ye Dongqing is the boss herself, so she has almost no idea about whether to have a holiday or not.

  He only knows that he needs to get more funds this year, and seize the remaining bargain hunting opportunities. Although he has lost more than 10 million US dollars in a row, he can think about it from another angle, which means that the starting price will also decrease.

Others are still in panic, but he greedily scours around and hoards stocks. He will never release them easily unless he has to. Leaving aside the growth rate of the stocks themselves, after a few years, he will be able to get a lot of money every quarter just by paying dividends. money.

In addition to the business on Wall Street, according to the plan, we will also develop Facebook well this year, laying a solid foundation first, and if you have time, you can also find other startups suitable for investment, such as Google and Amazon, which have a market value of several billion dollars. Enterprises are too expensive for Ye Dongqing. Even investing in Tencent makes him feel embarrassed, and he can't afford so much money in a short time.

  There are opportunities everywhere, but the hard part is that the principal available for investment is still not enough.

  No one would dislike having a lot of money, and so did Ye Dongqing. In fact, from the end of last year to now, it took only a few months to create a business of this scale, which is enough to make people salivate with envy.

   Look at the crude oil futures market again.

The attitude of Washington is unclear, and several countries in the Middle East have increased crude oil production. After the oil price reached its peak last month, it has fallen rapidly. If Ye Dongqing holds it until now, only one profit will be left. More than 18 million US dollars, the receiver who took over his funds at that time lost money.

   In fact, you can still enter the market at this time, but the risk is too great. It is far less safe than shorting the high crude oil futures after the war broke out, and it is not as safe as during the crazy oil price two years later.

  Ye Dongqing is not a god.

  He thinks it is better to be more stable in the near future. As for whether to spend 10 to 20 million dollars to try it, he has not made up his mind at the moment.

  Generally speaking, I still tend to enter the game. Last time, I was able to risk the funds of investors, but now I can’t. The account is under supervision, and the movement of large funds cannot be hidden from others.

   Fortunately, Danshui Fund Company currently has some book profits left. He can decide how to invest in this part, and the Securities and Exchange Commission has no control. It stipulates that investors' money cannot be used, and it is not said that even the company's book profits cannot be used.

  Really looking into it, few financial institutions represented by Wall Street companies are absolutely clean.

  Most of the time, the money is right in front of your eyes, and who would be really stupid enough not to move it? After all, compared with the benefits, the price to be paid for breaking the rules is too small

   Send Laura home.

  The lawyer told Ye Dongqing that she was by her side at that time, she let go of a worry, and was ready to face any consequences.

  Ye Dongqing didn't discuss this matter with her in detail, and hoped that Laura would understand it by herself, use her brain before deciding what to do in the future, and make a decision after weighing the pros and cons.

   This Mercedes-Benz Big G appeared downstairs in the hotel for the second time today, and drove away immediately. After returning, I was busy with Laura's business, and I didn't have time to visit Facebook.

I heard from the phone yesterday that the number of users has exceeded 10,000. Compared with those large Internet companies, this number is a bit pitiful. Yahoo, Google and other giants search tens of millions of times a day and open hundreds of millions of websites. However, Ye Dongqing I already feel pretty good, as long as the product quality passes the test, I can always achieve better results in the future.

On the way to the company, I thought that maybe I should recruit more new employees and start to develop it more perfectly. The patent matter should be handed over to a third-party company. When I first created it, I had no money in hand. Recently, I can be a little more generous. Avoid being cut off halfway because the development speed is too slow.

  Even if there is a patent, a big company can think of a way and can always "learn from experience" to make a product with a similar price. How can he have the strength to compete with others? Where is the user base? It is clear at a glance who is strong and who is weak.

  I bought some food and gifts in the middle of the festival to express my condolences to the employees who stayed overtime during the festival. The bonuses will also be prepared in advance, and I will let those employees take a short vacation after they start to work.

Facebook company, the program launched is called Facebook, translated into Chinese as "Facebook", which focuses on socializing with users with text and pictures, fills in correct personal information when registering, and can search for possible friends through data matching, such as the same school, Users in the same community currently only launch matches from well-known universities, which is a crude version that is brought to the market to test the waters.

There is not much to say. Ye Dongqing went to the company mainly to condolences and understand the situation. When he learned that the proportion of registered users who reactivated their accounts within three days was only 4.5%, he knew that he wanted to operate well. I guess it won't be that easy.

  The problem is that there is not enough money that can be invested. Money is needed for promotion and drainage, and money is also needed for the next expansion of employees.

At present, the average monthly salary of programmers in New York is as high as 6,000 to 10,000 US dollars, and those with more experience are even higher. If you hire 100 people, the monthly staff expenses will be hundreds of thousands. The current book is more than 8 million US dollars. It is hard to say whether it can survive the first quarter of this year.

   Once I start a company, I spend money like water. It can be expected that the early days of starting a business will be difficult.

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  In January in New York, it snows at every turn, the cold wind whizzes through the tall buildings, and pedestrians wrap their clothes tightly.

   Taking advantage of the holiday, most of those who went home to visit their relatives or went on a trip rushed back to the city on the 3rd. It is said that both the airport and the station have been congested.

  The mass migration of millions of people has put heavy pressure on New York's transportation hubs. The police have taken to the streets to maintain order in crowded places. The lively Manhattan island is back.

Young people from other places who decided to come out and work hard, have not yet experienced the cruelty of New York, and still have beautiful fantasies about this city. The Statue of Liberty, the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building, and the Metropolitan Museum are popular places, and the radio host repeatedly reminded them It's okay, don't go there.

Some people who originally lived in New York chose to develop in cities with less pressure. Many of them will never come back to live after leaving. Landlords don’t care at all, because newcomers will still rent their houses. The world is sending all kinds of talents to New York. Or mediocre ordinary people with dreams in mind.

Under such circumstances, the companies under Ye Dongqing's name resumed normal operations, and held meetings with employees of Freshwater Fund, Golden Island Financial Management, and Facebook within a day. He personally formulated a "2003 Development Plan" and promised If the goal is achieved at the end of the year, another three months' salary will be given as a reward, and a luxury car and a luxury house will be given away.

  This cake painting is relatively large, and it is not easy to eat it.

For example, the 500 million US dollars in customer assets of Freshwater Fund and the 10 million registered users of Facebook, in the eyes of his employees, are distant goals that need to be looked up to. The task is to "develop offline", help the company recruit more new employees, strive to capture several major states on the east coast, and make the company famous.

  New year and new weather, continue to focus on the big plan to make money, Ye Dongqing set a small goal of 200 million US dollars for herself, 150 million for Freshwater Fund, 50 million for Facebook.

  After Laura heard about it, she blatantly mocked him: "Don't dream, you are lucky if you didn't lose the money you earned, money is not so easy to earn."

  (end of this chapter)