Chapter 2114 Caught Off Guard

Early on August 5th, Eastern Time.

Many Chinese people in the Palace Hotel got up early this morning, and Wang Weigang of Zhalang Technology was no exception.

In fact, as a special staff member of Zhalang, he got up earlier than everyone else in order to report the listing in a comprehensive and detailed manner.

Such work is undoubtedly very hard, but it is a job that colleagues in their department will compete to do.

A Chinese company going public in the United States will bring many aspects of influence. The most direct one, of course, is to create a large number of rich people.

But many other incidental effects are unimaginable for those who have not experienced it.

For Wang Weigang, when he was questioned by the immigration officer at the New York airport, when he said that he was here to attend a company's listing ceremony, he enjoyed a treatment that he rarely enjoyed in normal times: the staff member's serious and vigilant, and very impatient face, actually smiled immediately.

This is a rare moment when he can get respect from these guys.

There was no movement in the corridor. Obviously, everyone in Wolf Factory needed more time to prepare this morning.

Wang Weigang and his colleagues took the elevator downstairs with their cameras. When they left, they were treated differently by the waiter again. Wang Weigang knew that it was because of the badge they wore on their chests.

The oval white badge had the Wolf Factory logo very prominently displayed, and below it was the words "NASDAQ" and the Wolf Factory listing code.

The staff of the Palace Hotel may not know who these Chinese are, but they know that the stocks of these Chinese wearing such badges will be listed on NASDAQ today.

So these people deserve their respect.

Wang Weigang and his colleagues took a few photos of several cars parked in front of the hotel. It was a luxury fleet including a stretched Lincoln, which was their means of transportation today.

They looked towards Times Square again. NASDAQ seemed very quiet at this time, but even they were not calm at this time.

When they went upstairs again, they found that the restlessness of the owners was far beyond their imagination.

The corridor, which was quiet before, suddenly became lively. Many doors were open, and many people stood at the door in dishevel, talking fiercely.

It seemed like something was going on?

Soon, Wang Weigang saw an acquaintance, Ma Sheng, the manager in charge of investor relations, who was the senior executive of Wolf Factory who contacted the media representatives last night, holding a few newspapers and hurried into a room.

Wang Weigang and his friends knew that it was the room of Robin, the founder of Wolf Factory, the protagonist today.

Soon, many people followed in, all with solemn and indignant expressions.

So, what happened?

They quickly found the answer from the newspaper.

The headlines on the newspapers were in a familiar style, typical headlines that never stop shocking people, such as Wolf Factory "will be ordered to rectify by Chinese regulators", "Robin recently agreed to sell the company to Google", and Wolf Factory founder "renegated his promise"...

After hastily browsing through several newspapers provided by the hotel, Wang Weigang looked at his colleagues in shock, and at the Wolf Factory people who were rushing around, what was going on?

In short, this was definitely not a good thing.

He spent a few minutes browsing through them roughly and quickly figured out the cause and effect.

Wolf Factory is suspected of providing pornographic and inferior search suggestions to the public; Robin seems to have recently expressed to several fund managers that he would sell the company if Google offered $2 billion, but he immediately broke his promise after receiving a positive response from Google; in order to get more Americans to subscribe to their stocks, Wolf Factory has been using the promotional method of bundling with powerful peers that have been recognized by investors...

Is this all true?

At least the last point is clear to Wang Weigang and others, and it is indeed true.

The first two points also seem to be well-founded and do not seem to be false.

However, they can be sure that with Wolf Factory's influence in China, or in other words, with domestic traditions, the relevant regulatory authorities will not choose to take any measures against Wolf Factory at this time anyway.

Later, the company also proved this to them. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and other institutions did have similar movements, but it would definitely not be on the first day of Wolf Factory's listing.

But even so, the impact on Wolf Factory is obviously very negative. Wang Weigang and others immediately thought that this would most likely affect the performance of Wolf Factory's stock today.

Presumably, this is why the people of Wolf Factory are so angry now.

Soon, they saw today's protagonist hurried out of the room.

Of course, he was wearing a suit and tie, but his hair was not well-groomed, or, the well-groomed hair was messed up by the owner. The sideburns were okay, and it looked like he had a bang on his forehead.

His usual elegant smile was gone, and he didn't even look at them. He was holding a mobile phone in his hand, and was talking to someone anxiously.

Watching the group of people hurriedly passing by, Wang Weigang and his colleagues hurried back to the room to get other equipment and hurriedly followed.

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The destination of the luxury convoy was Goldman Sachs.

This was originally today's itinerary. The stocks of Wolf Factory will be traded after the market opens today. Later in the afternoon, the team of Wolf Factory will not ring the bell, but start the closing ceremony to complete their listing.

Downstairs, Wang Weigang and his team saw that the senior executives of Goldman Sachs hurriedly took the Wolf Factory team in.

Although they were quite far away, he could still clearly capture the exasperation on those people's faces through the camera.

Judging from the lip shape, the two curse words beginning with "F" and "S" that are common in the United States appear quite frequently.

If you put yourself in their shoes, this is indeed understandable.

The senior executives of Wolf Factory were welcomed into a conference room by representatives of Goldman Sachs and other underwriters who came, and then the door was tightly closed.

But Wang Weigang and his team could clearly feel the anger contained in the conference room.

This is really true!

"You keep an eye on me, I'm going to smoke a cigarette," Wang Weigang really couldn't stand such a depressing atmosphere.

But when he passed by the window of the conference room, he couldn't help but stop for a while and heard some voices coming from inside, "It's Google, it must be Google!"

After that, it seemed that someone slapped something on the table, "We only care about whether these reports are true?"

Oh, I think those slapped on the table should be newspapers.

Wang Weigang came to the stairwell and found that someone had already got there first. It was a senior executive of Wolf Factory he knew. At this time, he lowered his head to the wall, holding a cigarette in his hand. The cigarette was about to burn his hand, but he didn't seem to feel it.

He retreated silently.

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But no matter what, what should be done must be done.

At 10 o'clock, Wang Weigang followed the large group and entered the Goldman Sachs trading hall.

According to his previous experience, it should be full of laughter and joy at this time, but today is obviously an exception.

Needless to say, the people of Wolf Factory, the investors of Wolf Factory, are also gloomy at this time, and even the underwriters are not happy.

Standing in the office, Wang Weigang can clearly feel that the hall of Goldman Sachs, which accommodates hundreds of traders, seems to be filled with low pressure at this time.

He took a few close-ups of the chief trader of Wolf Factory's listing in the office and found that he was also not relaxed.

To say that this trader is actually not an ordinary person, this is a person specially arranged by Goldman Sachs.

Also in August last year, he was also responsible for the first transaction of Google in the United States on Nasdaq. This was originally a suggestive or superstitious decision, but now it seems that such superstition is mostly useless.

The shouts of traders soon confirmed Wang Weigang's guess, "26, 25..."

On the day of Google's listing in August last year, the traders' shouts were high-pitched, excited, and passionate, and the response was also warm applause.

But today, the same trader's shouting voice was emotionless.

Naturally, there was no applause in response to him.

The opening price fell below the issue price, which was something no one had expected before.

Wang Weigang looked at the gloomy faces around him, and he doubted whether the closing ceremony scheduled for the afternoon would be cancelled by Nasdaq.

However, he was sure that the celebration dinner that had been prepared and scheduled for the evening should be cancelled.

He heard a sound from the sky, and then it started raining in New York again.