Chapter 997

The network shock troops in my memory often use a standard title "XX is the biggest winner", and every time they see it, they only feel some kind of weird malice. However, with the conclusion of the Atlanta Olympics on August 4, many people began to look back and suddenly found that Igret might be the biggest winner.

Not to mention anything else, it was just the second day of the closing ceremony. The stock market opened in the new week. The stock price of Igret rose 3.3% that day, from $439.1 billion at the opening to a high of $453.6 billion in one fell swoop, which is enough to prove this point. .

This is certainly not for no reason.

On Monday, Aug. 5, newspapers, television and online platforms controlled by the Westeros system began to mass-promote a series of data traffic on Igret's network platforms during the Atlanta Olympics.

According to the statistics of Igreat, during the 17-day period of the Atlanta Olympics, a total of 320 million Internet users worldwide participated in the interaction of Olympic topics on the portals, online forums, social networks, video sites and other platforms of Igreat , accounting for 70% of the world's 460 million netizens at this stage.

Because of this large-scale hot event, in more than two weeks, the network traffic of Ygrit's entire platform has soared by 27%.

Among them, the Facebook social network and YouTube video platform saw particularly impressive growth in users and content during the Olympics.

Although it will not be mentioned in the report, it is undeniable that the explosion on July 27 made online platforms with more immediate content and richer content completely overshadow traditional TV and print media.

On the weekend of the bombing, the number of visits to Igrete’s entire platform also reached a peak. Within 24 hours of the incident, more than 80 million related blog posts from all over the world appeared on the Facebook social network. In the same 24 hours, Videos related to the bombings on the YouTube video platform also increased by 270,000.

As a result, popularity drives traffic, traffic contributes to revenue, revenue stimulates the market, and market value drives stock prices.

Shares rose 3.3 percent in a single day, adding $14.5 billion to the wealth of all Igreit shareholders in one day.

This is obviously just the share price growth of the Igret family.

As the leader of Nasdaq, the rise in Igreit's share price directly drove the entire new technology sector. At the close of the day, the Nasdaq index also rushed to 4765 points, although it failed to reach the end of July as the market expected some time ago. It broke through 5000 points in early August, but it is not far behind.

At the same time, the total market value of all stocks on the Nasdaq market has reached 5.6 trillion US dollars.

Although the whole world understands that the bubble of the Nasdaq is quite serious, the huge market value that directly surpasses Japan's GDP volume still makes too much capital excited and crazy.

Simon is inevitably worried.

It's a simple truth, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

Therefore, Simon rushed to San Francisco on Monday and has been in Silicon Valley for three days, mainly to make some adjustments before the Nasdaq fell into a cliff.

The world is actually in an irrational state many times, just like the two world wars, which seem inevitable but are actually accidental, because in a rational state, no one would want to launch a war that would cause tens of millions of deaths The world class war, however, the war happened just like that.

Same this time.

No one wants the Nasdaq to run all the way, accumulate bubbles to the greatest extent and then shatter. However, under the general trend, in the face of interests, even Simon dare not block it.

Only do what you can.

There is not much that can actually be done. It is nothing more than planning ahead so that the new technology companies involved in the Westeros system can survive the cold winter in the next few years. A little bit more ambitious is to let more valuable new technology companies. Technology companies spend the winter together to avoid fundamental trauma to the Internet industry.

To do these, in the final analysis, there is only one word, money.

Without food in a famine, people cannot survive.

In the cold winter of capital, companies can only survive better if they get life-saving funds.

Simon frankly discussed with several principals of Igret for three days, and the plan was roughly finalized. The first was to start tightening Igret’s money bag. After the IPO, Igret held more than 20 billion US dollars in the hands. Cash, even if Simon emphasizes it again, will inevitably be more lavish, and this must change.

Second, a new batch of large data centers will be built around the world again.

At this stage, even though Igreat's cloud computing services are becoming more and more mature, many companies still tend to build their own servers. After all, most people subconsciously resist being "under the fence".

However, once the cold winter of the industry comes, most new technology companies will undoubtedly find it difficult to maintain expensive 'self-built houses' and have to 'rent houses'. Yggrete's new batch of data centers mainly provides this demand.

In the cold winter, there is a 'house' and some 'food', which can basically survive.

Finally, Igreit also set up a special enterprise evaluation team, and began to quietly evaluate the current operating conditions of new technology companies in all aspects.

Simon is not so fraternity.

When the cold winter comes, some companies are worth saving, and many more can only be given up.

Simon, on the other hand, has no intention of doing good deeds in vain.

Although the entire Westeros system has invested heavily in start-ups while developing its own key enterprises in recent years, it is conceivable that after the expected capital winter, Westeros has experienced large-scale mergers and integrations.

The system's control over new technology industries will become more entrenched.

Thursday, August 8th.

He was in San Francisco on Monday and Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, Simon left for New York before eight o'clock and arrived on the East Coast, which was still just working hours.

Girl A next to her gently reminded that when she arrived at the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment in the Upper West District, Simon had just finished reading some documents that she had been flipping through all the way. Chain store Internet function program.

Inspiration comes from the recent Olympic Games.

At this stage, there is no mobile Internet yet, and several products of Tincobair, founded by Lady C, all rely on the Internet. Considering the consumer's mentality, both iCam and iRec users obviously hope that they can take photos and videos as soon as possible. Upload to the Internet to share with friends.

Just like during this Olympic Games, the most popular places to spend in Atlanta are the Internet cafes all over the city.

After tourists from North America and around the world took photos and videos, they sought Internet cafes to upload and share, resulting in almost 24/7 Internet cafes in the Atlanta area.

Simon has promoted the development of the Internet cafe industry in the past few years, but it was still in 1991. The main purpose was to let potential users try it out, so as to promote the general public to access Internet services.

Now, at least in the plan in hand, the function of the Internet cafe has changed.

The current problem is that it costs too much to open a chain of Internet cafes alone. Therefore, it is undoubtedly a good choice to cooperate with Starbucks throughout the United States and even the world to add several computers to each Starbucks store for users to upload instantly.

This is actually a win-win solution.

Adding Internet access, like Wi-Fi later on, could allow Starbucks to attract more users. Similarly, uploading is more convenient, and it can also stimulate consumers to buy electronic products such as iCam.

Therefore, both parties have shown obvious cooperation intentions.

The next question is the specific cooperation plan. In the final analysis, it is still a question of money.