Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 144 Fever (34)

Facebook has been growing under Ye Dongqing's supervision. In order to develop this program, he doesn't mind spending a lot of money in the early stage. He hired the best programmers, rented a very comfortable and spacious office, and purchased The best computers are available to employees.

Because I knew it would be successful, I planned ahead, bought a relatively good server from Oracle, and equipped it with the development of supporting customer management tools. Promote this product in the campus forum.

Contributions are rewarded. Unlike the difficult environment when Xiao Zha first started his business, Ye Dongqing himself can provide relatively good financial support, so this program has recently shown a trend of explosive growth of users. The total number of users is three On the 7th of the month, it officially broke through 8 million people, and was able to retain more than 77% of registered users. Recently, it is still expanding wildly with a figure of about 400,000 people per day, sweeping countless college students and high school students. Even Europe has more than 200,000 registrations!

This number is very scary. You must know that it has been less than four months since Facebook went online. If it was only worth 30 million US dollars last month, considering the recent outstanding performance, some organizations are willing to pay 160 million US dollars. Valuation financing it.

  It is not the first institution to try to raise funds recently, but this time the institution is very strong, the name is Waterfall Investment, and the founder is Mr. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft.

  Ye Dongqing doubts whether Gates himself knows about this investment, but being valued by these institutions is enough to prove his strength. Users spread one by one, and the expansion speed is very fast.

  The programmers in the company were busy perfecting the program day and night, and the second rented server was full again. However, the brand new server belonging to the company hadn’t been finished yet, so they could only continue to rent it.

  The reason for its popularity has something to do with how comfortable it is to use. Ye Dongqing first registered for a Facebook account in 2008. Now the experience of using it is similar to that at that time, and it is already a relatively mature product.

The speed of development was much faster than expected, so that the employees in the company were busy running around all day long, and there was a serious shortage of manpower, so Ye Dongqing went to Silicon Valley in person and asked human resources agencies to help recruit outstanding employees. Four floors of offices are leased in the Clara area.

  He wants to own his own headquarters building, but the financial situation does not allow it. After using Amazon stock to borrow 10 million US dollars, he squeezed out another 6 million US dollars from Freshwater Investment Group. It is time for a new round of expansion.

Let Mr. Alfred and several employees stay in Silicon Valley to help with interviews, quickly arrange new employees to work, and he returns to Danshui Investment Group from Silicon Valley, because Ye Dongqing needs to personally handle the matter of shorting crude oil. Money opportunity, next time you want to make quick money, you may have to wait for a long time...

The cooperation between    and Edward Johnson Jr. broke down too suddenly. Originally, Ye Dongqing thought that since she helped him earn such a large sum of money, the other party should believe in him more.

But in the end, the fat man resolutely withdrew his capital, left half of the profits to Leo-Y company, and took away the rest of the funds, a total of more than 100 million U.S. dollars. He used nearly 70% of his position to bet on the rise of oil prices. It's a bit small, and only uses eight times the leverage, but even so, after the time enters March, it has allowed him to earn more than 100 million U.S. dollars in paper wealth!

  Ye Dongqing seriously misjudged the situation. This round of oil price rise was stronger and faster than he expected. In recent days, crude oil futures prices have broken through 36 and 37 dollars one after another in an almost crazy manner! And it's still rising!

   That is to say, if Ye Dongqing hadn’t chosen to deliver and sell at around $29, he would have earned an extra $200 million so far!

  The money slipped through his fingers in vain, and he no longer talked about security. It felt worse than eating a bowl full of flies. He no longer wanted to look at crude oil futures prices, lest he want to hit his head against the wall.

  Of course, more than half of this profit belongs to little Edward, but Ye Dongqing doesn't have his rich mother, so he is more uncomfortable...

  The Wall Street Journal just praised Ye Dongqing some time ago. Today, the newspaper published a follow-up news, treating Ye Dongqing as a joke and missing hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. If this is not a decision-making error, then what is?

It was too late to regret it, but fortunately there is still a chance to make amends. He thought that the higher the rise, the harder the fall, and he started meeting with people from several investment banks and brokerages one after another in the morning, trying to use a margin of 5% of the total order amount to be short crude.

  Someone is willing to accept the order, but the deposit requirements are relatively high, so he has to prove that he has the ability to repay, and the chips in his hand are not enough, so Ye Dongqing took Facebook shares as a guarantee, and negotiated some deals one after another.

The price of crude oil futures fluctuated around US$36 and 40 cents, and today it reached as high as US$39 and 99 cents. It was even more crazy than a runaway wild horse. Various refined oil companies announced that they would raise oil prices, and then fell back To thirty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents.

Under such circumstances, Ye Dongqing paid a total of 40 million US dollars in deposits, 20 million US dollars in follow-up deposits, and almost 15% of Facebook stocks, and tremblingly held crude oil futures worth more than 790 million US dollars Just to deal with these contracts, Baker & McKenzie sent a whole team of 16 people in total, and it took half a day to review and process them for him.

Ms. Vigo and a group of executives clearly understand what it means to have a heartbeat. After all, the recent rise in crude oil is really good. The military has already been in constant action, and there is a posture that has to be launched, and the fleet has moved to its destination. .

Ye Dongqing is now bearish on crude oil, which is tantamount to dancing on the edge of a knife. In fact, even he himself does not know what will happen, but after a round of skyrocketing, the possibility of being forced to liquidate is not very high, and the oil price is about to peak Well, at least it seemed to him...

  Today is March 17th, there are a few more contracts in the company safe, the night view of the city outside the office is bright, and the real-time oil price is displayed on the office wall.

Laura came to his office at this moment, holding a bento box full of cut fruits in her hand, walked in and said: "I know you are still in the company because you haven't changed your clothes. The other employees have left. You Why are you still here?

  Fruit or steak rice bought from a convenience store, you can eat whatever you want, and you can go to the party later, and you can’t be hungry by then, after all, you eat so much every meal..."

  (end of this chapter)