Chapter 1434 E-Commerce Appears!

Shen Yi's suggestion is to hand Leeson over to Singapore.

After all, Leeson's actions violated the laws of Singapore, so Singapore would handle it as it pleased. If Sir Yang wanted to stay in London or take him back to London, it would be much more troublesome.

Of course, if it was handed over to Singapore, Leeson and the wrong account would be made public.

However, it has little impact now, because Barings Bank has been acquired by the Empire Group, and the Empire Group will inject huge amounts of funds to increase the development of Barings Bank.

In addition, Barings Bank now has its Asian headquarters, which means that Barings Bank's business is actually readjusted.

On the other hand, it further consolidates Hong Kong's global financial position.

Historically, when Huifeng Bank moved its headquarters back to London, it had a great impact on Hong Kong's global financial position. In addition, it was precisely because Huifeng Bank moved its headquarters to London that a group of Chinese companies followed suit and moved overseas.

However, none of this is possible now.

Now Barings Bank is under the management of Shen Yi.

. . .

The Barings Bank affairs were handled.

Yang Ming turned his attention back to the Internet.

And this is exactly pointing to the upcoming e-commerce companies.

Among them, the most typical one in history is that this year, the future world's richest man Bezos founded Amazon.

Historically, Amazon was founded by Bezos on July 5, 1994, and was originally called Cadabra. The nature is a basic online bookstore.

However, the visionary Bezos saw the potential and characteristics of the Internet. When a large physical bookstore provides 200,000 books, an online bookstore can provide readers with more choices than 200,000 books.

Bezos renamed Cadabra after the Amazon River, which breeds the most species of organisms on the earth, and reopened in July 1995.

At this time, there should actually be no Amazon company.

However, Yang Ming is very clear about what the emergence of e-commerce will mean.

In addition to the world's richest man like Bezos in the United States, Alibaba founded by Ma Yun and Jingdong founded by Liu Qiangdong in China all started from Amazon.

Of course, next, Yang Ming knew that there were companies such as eBay.

At this time, Yang Ming was thinking.

Should he let someone set up Amazon alone, or send someone to find Bezos?

Although Yang Ming was still very clear about the Amazon model, what he really valued was of course people like Bezos.

This is why he invested in Apple and Oracle over the years, but did not interfere with the development of these companies.

And historically, Amazon's success was of course inseparable from Bezos.

At this time, Bezos had already established the predecessor of Amazon, but it was not yet called Amazon.

Moreover, after Bezos established Amazon, he needed to raise funds everywhere in the early stage, because e-commerce, especially the business model like Amazon, is very capital-consuming.

"Sir, what are you thinking about?" Zhou Huimin had already gone to another villa to rest and take care of her pregnancy.

Now it was Guan Jiahui who stayed with Yang Ming.

"Some things about the company."

Now Yang Ming really needs to think clearly.

Should he invest in Bezos' company or set up a separate company?

This may have a great impact on the future.

Looking at Guan Jiahui in front of him, Yang Ming decided to send someone to invite Bezos to Hong Kong to meet him.

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Historically, in the embryonic stage of the Internet in the mid-1980s, a product called "International Stamp Exchange" came out of nowhere, which made humans realize that they could buy and sell products directly online, but due to the technical limitations of the times, the product was buried in the long river of history and became a "sacrificed" "pioneer".

Although the International Stamp Exchange was strangled by the times, its "spark" began to "spread across the prairie" since the 1990s. Companies that use the Internet to buy and sell goods have sprung up everywhere. They firmly took over the banner of leading the development of e-commerce. Among them, eBay, which connects users with trading needs, and Amazon, which sells directly to consumers, are the most dazzling "new stars".

This world, that is, last year, in 1994, Bezos, as a senior vice president of an investment bank, sat in his office, thinking about his own future business empire.

China is in the "blowout period" of Internet entrepreneurship, and countless young people are desperately "running" to seize the benefits brought by the popularization of the Internet.

Bezos, who was originally a senior vice president of an investment bank, was just a bystander in this "run". But when he learned that some Internet projects had increased their users by 2,300% in just one year, a figure that was almost impossible for traditional offline industries to achieve, Bezos' heart was completely ignited. He judged that the Internet would be another existence that could change the lifestyle of all mankind after steam and electricity.

Throughout the history of mankind for thousands of years, even if new lifestyles emerged, commercial behavior would always be an indispensable existence, but it was just a different way of display.

In the steam age, we wrote letters for "mail order", and in the electrical age, we called for "telephone purchase".

Therefore, Bezos concluded that selling things on the Internet must be a "golden idea".

In 1995, he chose to start a business in Seattle. Before that, he gave up his enviable job and took his business plan to attract investment.

In the business plan, Bezos decided to make vertical products. As for what vertical item to choose, combined with his data analysis of many years of investment experience, he came to the conclusion of "books".

Bezos has already established a company, but the company has no money. Although he has good ideas, he hopes to sell books online to replace the usual model of buying books in bookstores.

Suburban Seattle.

Cadabra Company.

Wearing a suit, just 31 years old, with thick hair, Bezos saw the plan in front of him and was ready to see how to convince other bigwigs or venture companies to get financing.

However, at this time, there was a knock on the door.

One of the few female employees in the company pushed the door open and said, "Boss, someone wants to see you."

At this time, Bezos was just the boss of a small company. If someone came to see him, he would be even happier if it was an investor.

Bezos hurried up.

He didn't expect that the person who came to see him was actually a Chinese.

The other party first took out his business card and handed it to the other party.

"Mr. Bezos, I'm from Empire Group."

Empire Group?

Bezos was very surprised.

He knew very well how terrifying the Empire Group was, because the Empire Group was in Silicon Valley and even in many places where Empire Group had invested.

Of course, including the current supercomputer software company, Oracle, Golden Gate Technology, etc., almost all of them were invested by the Empire Group.

And the most popular Internet company now, Yahoo, is also said to be invested by the Empire Group.