416【Crash and Bombing】

Lin Zhuoyun didn't go to class anymore, and usually reviewed manuscripts in the "Sprout" magazine. After reviewing manuscripts, she read and studied by herself, and occasionally wrote poetry and prose.

The graduate thesis has already been finished, and I am doing the second revision, and I will be defending it in a month.

Late spring, afternoon.

Just after watching a movie, Song Weiyang held Lin Zhuoyun's little hand, and the two of them strolled along the streets of Xujiahui. Song Weiyang asked with a smile, "Aren't you going to continue your PhD?"

"I don't want to read it anymore, it's quite interesting to work in a magazine." Lin Zhuoyun said.

Song Weiyang said: "If you are really interested in literature, you can try to build a literature website. Under the banyan tree is pretty good."

"Under the banyan tree, I know, I also sent an email to submit a manuscript, do you know the webmaster under the banyan tree?" Lin Zhuoyun asked.

Song Weiyang said: "I don't know him, but we can know him."

Lin Zhuoyun smiled and said, "Another investment? As far as I know, the webmaster under the banyan tree is not short of money."

"How do you know he's not short of money?" Song Weiyang asked.

"I talked to him," Lin Zhuoyun said, "I submitted a few articles, and all of them were published under the banyan tree. This website cannot post articles directly, only through the website's email link. Every time, the webmaster is very serious. , After posting my article on the Internet, he also wrote a special email to reply to me. Once he pointed out that I had a typo, and he corrected it for me, and asked me not to mind. I thought this person was very interesting, so I emailed him After chatting, I found out that he is the boss of an advertising company."

"Male and female?" Song Weiyang asked.

Lin Zhuoyun smiled and said, "Are you jealous?"

"How is it possible?" Song Weiyang refused to admit it.

The founder of Banyan Tree is William Zhu, a Chinese-American who grew up in California and did not return to China until 1994 to start his own business.

At the beginning, under the banyan tree was just Zhu Weilian's personal webpage. Because he loved literature, he wrote articles and posted them on his website. Later, he made an e-mail link for the website, and netizens can send e-mails, but he accepts any interesting articles.

In this way, without publicity or advertising, the traffic under the banyan tree has actually increased year by year. By this year, there have been 100,000 visits per day.

As far as a purely literary website is concerned, the number of visits was too amazing in 1999, and it was inevitable that it would be targeted by some venture capital companies. But William Zhu didn't accept financing at all, it was just his personal hobby, he didn't even invite a content editor, and he did the daily maintenance of the website himself.

This person is really not short of money. Once he was on a business trip to London. In order to ensure that the content of the website was updated, he even made an international long-distance call from the UK back to Shenghai to dial up the Internet. After a busy night of reviewing and publishing, the phone and Internet fees were used up. 7,000 pounds, equivalent to 100,000 yuan at the time.

Local tycoon!

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "Next time we talk, you can ask him if he wants to make the website bigger so that more literature lovers can communicate with each other."

"Okay, but I guess he won't agree." Lin Zhuoyun said.

When the two were walking and chatting, Hong Weiguo kept following a few meters away. And Shen Si was drinking Coca-Cola at the nearby KFC while summarizing news and arranging the itinerary for Song Weiyang.

Before she finished her glass of Coke, Shen Si received a long-distance call. She said in fluent English: "Well, okay... I see, I will tell the boss. As for whether to go to the United States, it is up to the boss to decide... um , OK, I will notify your company when the arrangements are made."

Hanging up the phone, Shen Si trotted away from KFC, chased after Song Weiyang and said, "Boss, Google of the United States has called and decided to conduct a second round of financing next month. The two founders of Google need your support, please go there in person." When I went to the United States, they had a big difference of opinion with the venture capital firms."

Song Weiyang said, "Tell them, I'll be there at the end of the month."

"Okay." Shensi began to look through the schedule, and she wanted to arrange a reasonable time.

Google developed rapidly this year, because of Song Weiyang's suggestion, they found a profit model in advance. The pioneering custom search advertising model allowed Google's revenue to reach 12 million US dollars last year, which is extremely dazzling in the generally loss-making Internet industry.

Not only Wall Street venture capital firms swarmed in, but even Amazon was tempted, bidding 200 million US dollars, wanting to acquire 40% of Google's shares--Amazon is crazy, rich and powerful, it acquired two companies in one month last year, costing a lot of money. The capital is close to 300 million US dollars, and it is still waving banknotes for acquisitions this year.

The Internet bubble in the United States not only did not burst, but continued to expand. Wall Street valued Google at nearly 600 million U.S. dollars, seven or eight times higher than the same period in history!

Do you think it is outrageous?

There is an online grocery delivery company in the United States called Webvan, whose revenue just broke $10 million last year and is now valued at $1.5 billion by Wall Street. In another half a year, the company's IPO went public, and its valuation quickly grew to $8 billion!

At this time, there is also a pets company that has just been established, and it will be listed directly next year. It will take less than a year from registration to listing. The reason why venture capital companies are optimistic is that when this website is doing publicity, its sock dolls are refreshing, so they spend all kinds of money investing in order to take advantage of the Internet stocks.

Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly, not to mention Google is a dragon.

Strolling around Xujiahui, Song Weiyang said, "Go home, Doudou will be out of school soon."

"boom!"

There was a loud noise in the distance, and the ground shook slightly, which frightened the pedestrians on the street.

Lin Zhuoyun tugged at her boyfriend's sleeve, and said with a blank face, "An earthquake?"

"It wasn't an earthquake, it was an explosion." Song Weiyang turned and looked to the southwest. He had already remembered what happened. He was working as a civil servant in Shenghai today in his previous life.

There was a plane crash near Hongqiao Airport!

It was a Korean cargo plane taking off from Hongqiao Airport. When the air traffic control commanded the plane to climb to an altitude of 1,500 meters, the radio contact of the plane was suddenly interrupted. The plane, which was supposed to continue to climb, began to dive inexplicably and fell directly on a construction site in Shenghai.

Three Korean crew members died on the spot, five Shenghai residents died, 42 were injured, and nearly a thousand houses were damaged. The plane hit the ground with an intensity equivalent to a 1.6-magnitude earthquake, and the epicenter was on the ground, which could be felt by half of Shenghai.

At this time, the relationship between China and the United States was tense. After the crash, Western public opinion actually spread rumors, saying that the South Korean plane was shot down by the Chinese army!

After two full years of investigation by China and South Korea, it was finally confirmed that the cause of the air crash was that the Korean pilot misread the altimeter...

Song Weiyang returned to the car with an ugly face. He remembered another thing, the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia was about to be bombed. It doesn't help if he knows it, who will believe it now? Everyone just sees him as a lunatic.

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