Chapter 1075? Making History Every Day

On January 3, 1997, at six o'clock in the morning, a number of uninvited guests in suits and leather shoes visited Highland Park. More than half an hour later, Goodman and O'Grady also rushed over in the wind and snow. There were still people in pajamas in the study. Song Ya began to shout excitedly.

He wasn't swearing, but was on the phone with Jim Clark, "Jim, Jim, no, no, don't interrupt me, listen to me, didn't I promise you last time? I will hold the stock, I Always do what you say!"

"That's great, let's get it done in a more formal way," Jim Clark said.

"I'm not signing this damn thing."

He pushed away the documents brought by the men in suits on the table. This is a joint statement from Netscape executives and major shareholders, promising not to reduce their holdings of the company's stock within six months, "I am not a major shareholder, no Participate in any decision-making and company management, have no board seats and voting rights, and can't even get inside information... Last time I saw an extra sign for your sake! Now again?"

"This is useful for stabilizing the stock price. Investors don't know what you promised in private!"

Jim Clark also raised his voice, "Unless you were lying to me last time, you are actually planning to cash out after the market opens today!"

"OMG! Are you persecuted Jim?"

"What? Be careful what you say! I made you rich!"

"Get rich, get rich, do you want to read this sentence to me forever or something? Business is business!"

"Never forget that I allowed you to enter the market, and never forget that I have 10,000 ways to get rid of your little shares before I go public! I can do it, but I didn't do it. You have already made money in Netscape How much did you pay? Huh? You should be grateful, kid..."

"Hehe, that's just because I had the same good vision as you at the time, and I was also chasing Mark Anderson. If you don't get rid of me as soon as possible, aren't you afraid that he will suddenly change his mind? And I have done a lot for the company. I did my best before going public. Try to use my fame to help the road show, I... I even went to the White House to meet the commander-in-chief and wore a Netscape Logo hat damn it!"

"Then you continue to fight with us! I'll give you back, let your Chinese doctor in charge of venture capital come to me, it's not convenient to say it on the phone."

"I will also keep my promise Jim, but I don't sign this shit, who knows if you are playing me again... Last time I sold 0.5% of the shares to your friends' investment company, no In a few days, you have been bursting with profits... The stock price has rushed from 135 to 170! I lost a lot!"

"You still have the nerve to mention him? They are all locked up."

"Uh... didn't you make a move at the high point?"

"What do you say? They're not prophets. Well, well, I don't have time to argue with you about APLUS, you read the document, then sign it, everyone sign, me, Mark, Baxter, we need unity now , Today is very critical for us, just do us a favor."

"Then tell me earlier, I don't have the energy to make decisions early in the morning. I just performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last night, and there is another performance today. Do you understand the symphony conductor? This job requires 120 points of attention , very tiring!"

"I apologize for this. I thought about it last night and decided to include you in the joint statement to ensure that today's opening is safe."

"You still say you don't have persecution paranoia!?"

"My M-FXXK's 2 billion net worth has almost dropped by half in a month! Are you talking about persecution paranoia!? Do you want to talk about Huntington's disease again!?"

"What? Forget it, huh... this is the last time, the last time Jim."

After arguing with Jim Clark and getting dizzy, Song Ya felt that the guy was a little out of order.

Nonsense, of course I can understand it, I finally compromised after asking for some benefits.

Panting heavily, he signed the joint statement, then threw the pen and paper back to the man in the suit, and went back to sleep.

"Harry?"

At around ten o'clock in the morning, he woke up naturally this time. Turning over, he found that Harry was not beside his pillow. Maybe he went to exercise. He got up, washed and tidied up, and then went to the study.

'After Netscape's major shareholders and high-level officials announced that they would suspend the reduction of the company's stock for six months, APLUS also announced before the opening of the market today that it has joined this commitment. He still owns 2% of Netscape's shares. Based on price calculation, the market value is about 150 million knives...'

The financial radio station in the room was broadcasting, and the keyboard of the Bloomberg machine was crackling, "How is O'Grady in the morning? Oh, it's you..."

He thought it was his stockbroker huddling behind the screen, but he walked over and saw Halle's short, fluffy black hair that hadn't been taken care of.

"The stock price of Netscape has just gone back to $100!" she announced the good news.

"Why are you paying attention to this? Didn't you be told to buy Netscape's stock?" Song Ya asked strangely.

"I didn't buy it or I didn't buy it. I heard you guys arguing about this in the study this morning. You all promised to postpone the reduction of holdings to count as a profit?" Harry asked back.

"Mostly count, but it also depends... What about O'Grady and Goodman?"

"Chat with Ms. Sloan in the living room downstairs."

"oh."

"Wait, wait." Song Ya just wanted to walk away, but she stopped her again, "Come here, come here... What does this Bloomberg news mean?"

"Netscape released a new network directory standard LDAP. It is expected that more than 40 software vendors and a large number of enterprise users such as Bank of America, Mobil, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson, etc. will support this standard."

Harry asked, pointing to a short news item on the screen.

"Uh...uh...it seems to be used in its enterprise intranet products, I'm not sure." Song Ya recalled, but had no impression, "It's a good thing anyway, setting standards will definitely help competitors excluded from the market."

"And..." Harry dug out another earlier one.

'Netscape browser will add . . . and more. ’ This article is relatively long and professional, Song Ya skipped to read, ‘Some developers complained that the extended function codes of the Netscape browser to support new features did not comply with the web programming standards advocated by the World Wide Web Consortium...’

"Bastard! The root of all evil!" He subconsciously scolded after reading it.

"What's wrong? What do you mean?" Harry turned into a problem baby.

"Uh... It means that after web developers develop web pages based on Netscape browser, they will probably have to work again to be compatible with IE browser, and vice versa." Song Ya replied.

"What's the meaning……"

"That is to say, Netscape and IE are completely broken. In the future, if you visit the same website with different browsers, you may see different pages. It is even possible to use IE to access all functions well, but use Netscape Poor Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web and gave up his patents, but he did not expect that his ideal of maintaining the equivalence of the Internet and keeping it in a minimum order was quickly trampled on by listed companies in the United States in order to maintain stock prices ..." Song Ya sighed.

"Is it a good deal?"

"Forget it, Netscape still has a market share of about 80%. Web developers must first write code based on Netscape browser, and then consider compatibility with IE or other manufacturers..."

Jim Clark and Mark Anderson are going to scale up their moves and force developers to take advantage of the market share advantage. It's either you or I live... I'm only pitiful for those website programmers. If you still want the webpage to be compatible with all browsers In the future, the workload will be doubled or even more than that.

"So some IT media will say that the browser world war has officially started?" O'Grady and the others walked in, "Microsoft's market value and annual revenue are ten times or even dozens of times that of Netscape."

"But the stock price of Netscape has rebounded, and it seems that many investors are optimistic about us." Song Ya said.

"Maybe that's what they're looking for." O'Grady showed him the latest issue of Front Magazine.

Netscape President Baxter talked about the unfair competition lawsuit initiated by Microsoft after launching IE3. OEM licensing of the Windows operating system offers a three-knife discount...'

"Wow, Microsoft was really caught this time? Are they so careless?" Song Yale said, "Unfair competition? Based on the dominance of the Windows operating system, is this enough to be classified as a monopoly?"

"Looks like it is."

Sloan handed over a document. "Jim Clark wants you to add fuel to the fire."

Song Ya glanced at the document, and then looked at the Netscape stock price on the screen of the Bloomberg computer with Infoseek and other "brothers" struggling to rise, "Okay."

After all, he had too much money trapped in it, so he turned on the Compaq computer equipped with a VoodooRush graphics chip, logged on to the American music website, and said, ‘Ha! Microsoft got caught by us! unambiguous evidence! Three meters! The price for Bill Gates and Ballmer to sell their souls is only three meters! '

Typing furiously, I glanced at the group photo with the bosses on the table in the corner of honor, forget it, after all, I know your father, let you go, he erased the name of the richest man, and scolded Ballmer , 'Ballmer sold his soul for only three yuan! The IE browser is not only free, but also sold in bundles, not only sold in bundles, but also threatened and lured major PC manufacturers! They're running a monopoly! Wait for the defendant to go bankrupt! '

'We should break up Microsoft! '

‘Politicians in Washington! Stop being deaf to their monopoly! '

'MICROSOFT! '

Posting a few messages in a row is hard to say. The entertainment reporters who often come to steal news are not sensitive to financial content.

Anyway, try your best. Netscape's stock price regained its stability by $100 at the close of trading in the afternoon, which also drove the stock prices of many Internet upstarts to rise. It seems that Jim Clark's combination punch has obvious effects.

In the evening, he adjusted his tuxedo a little bit, walked briskly onto the stage with a smile on his face, greeted the celebrities with a smile, bowed, and took care of every angle of the audience, and the audience responded with applause.

This is the last scene of the New Year's concert, hugging and shaking hands, he walked through the procedure leisurely, stood on the podium, glanced at the faces of the various voices and choir members, and when he felt that it was almost done, he switched to full face With great devotion and devotion, he forgot both things and me, and started waving and jumping with the baton in his hand.

The notes flow.

"As the most successful African-American star and investor, at the beginning of 1997, APLUS is making new history every day..."

In return, Jim Clark asked a heavyweight financial evening newspaper to publish a touting article, the text was very nasty, "On January 1, APLUS first created the record industry's highest artist share of 20.1%, just surpassing MJ and Madonna's twenty percent contract is one tenth of a point. '

'He led Fergie and other singers from Sony Columbia to Universal's Geffen Records, which not only decisively changed the territory of the American record industry, but also won the top 60 million signing fees in one fell swoop, which is second only to MJ ...side by side with Madonna. '

"Besides, among the record labels founded by African Americans, A+ Records has a transaction valuation of 160 million, surpassing all its predecessors, ranking third only after Motown and the original DefJam Records. '

On that day, APLUS used the huge income it earned from the recording industry to not only save Littman Publishing House and High Fidelity Magazine, which were in trouble, but also pull the 20th Century Fox Film Industry back from the brink of bankruptcy in one fell swoop. After investing 60 million in the Titanic project, the production cost of this film history masterpiece directed by Cameron has reached an unprecedented 210 million...'

On January 2nd, APLUS generously fulfilled its promise and transferred 15% of the equity of A+ Audio Company to its entrepreneurial partner Delay. The final internal equity relationship. The American music website is now the world's largest dedicated classical music website, the largest music forum, the second largest music data website after Quanmusic, and the third largest gossip forum after AOL and Webchat entertainment . As a pioneer, it will set an absolute benchmark for other professional websites waiting to be listed...'

‘On January 3, APLUS gave great support to our technology hero Mark Anderson. He not only expressed his firm support for Netscape’s series of stock price defense methods, but also frequently talked about Netscape’s lawsuit against Microsoft. He officially declared war on the "dragon" Microsoft on social media, angrily denouncing Microsoft President Ballmer as a Judas who sold his soul for the three-meter knife, and also called on Congress to spin off the industry overlord, the world's largest software company, if it really succeeds ...'

The performance was more perfect than yesterday. After more than three minutes, Song Ya slowly pressed her hands down with satisfaction.

There was once again warm applause in the concert hall.