Nasdaq exchange headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
As the opening time of 9:30 a.m. approached, the atmosphere in the exchange hall, which was packed with people like sardine cans, became increasingly heated.
Reporter Paul Einholt from "Barron's" looked at Instagram Chairman and CEO Deborah Lipman, who was giving an IPO speech on the stage, and the three women A, B, and C who were participating in the IPO viewing ceremony. Even a group of women with waist sperm, leg sperm, etc. have the urge to write an article "Women of Westeros".
This is probably something that many reporters have longed for in recent years, just like when a Los Angeles gossip tabloid listed Howard Hughes' 164 girlfriends, which caused a sensation.
It's a pity that I can only think about it.
Howard Hughes just sent someone to buy out all the newspapers of the day, and there was no follow-up. But if it were Simon Westeros, who dared to expose the scandal of the super rich man in this way would definitely suffer. Walk along.
After all, the current influence of the Westeros system has gone beyond the level of 'when money starts talking, facts will shut up'. The collision between the Hearst family and Simon Westeros two years ago ended in a disastrous defeat, leaving The American media, which has been 'free' for more than half a century, once again feels the power of money.
Subsequently, the Westeros system strengthened its layout in various aspects such as politics and media, making public opinion increasingly powerless in the face of the Westeros system.
Let’s talk about Paul Einholt himself. The article analyzing the Hollywood landscape in Barron’s last week was written by this reporter. It only hinted at Daenerys Entertainment’s monopoly in Hollywood rather vaguely. However, it later encountered direct pressure from its parent company, Dow Jones Group, suggesting that similar articles should be avoided in the future.
Today, Paul was specially sent to the Instagram launch site for an interview. It was an opportunity given to him by the editor-in-chief to "make up for his past mistakes." Generally speaking, he would definitely write a colorful and praising article next, which can be regarded as a high regard for his boss. Kind of good intentions.
As long as the article is published next week, the public relations team of the Westeros system, which is always paying attention to the trends of the American media, will probably no longer put him on some blacklists if they realize his change of attitude.
In the final analysis, there is no real freedom in the media.
Even the Watergate incident was ultimately the result of a fierce game between the two parties in the United States at that time. Otherwise, how could a newspaper that could only be supported by a widow because of the suicide of its boss dare to provoke the then powerful President Nixon
Thinking of this, Paul Einholt only felt that a very serious problem facing the United States now is the lack of a force that can resist the Westeros system, whether it is capital force or political force. Without checks and balances, the Westeros system's control over the country will only grow stronger.
Of course, I'm still just thinking about it.
Paul Einholt, who is middle-aged and has a wife and children, never thought about becoming a martyr against capital, otherwise he would not have taken on the job he is doing today, and if he had thought about it, he would definitely be full of flowers.
In a flash, Girl D on the stage finished her speech, and Paul Einholt quickly applauded along with the crowd.
Immediately, at 9:30, several Instagram executives, surrounded by guests, pressed the button symbolizing the bell, announcing that Instagram stock officially began trading on the Nasdaq market.
The first is the inquiry stage, which is also a point that many people are paying close attention to today.
Because Instagram’s IPO valuation is really low, the industry had previously estimated that even if the photo-sharing website’s valuation was determined to be US$10 billion, it would be more than enough, but it turned out to be only US$6 billion. Although many smart people quickly understood the intention of the Westeros system to do this, they did not stop things from developing in the direction that some people expected.
After all, how could the capital of all parties not take advantage of this kind of advantage
So, more than 20 minutes after the market opened, when the first round of inquiry results came out, everyone was shocked both inside and outside the market.
USD 17.00-USD 18.00.
Even if the median value is taken, the increase in the first round of inquiry is more than half, reaching 52%, which also means that Instagram’s market value has directly exceeded the US$10 billion mark, reaching about US$10.3 billion.
Sure enough, stimulated by the popularity of Instagram after its listing, the Nasdaq new technology sector's increase directly exceeded 1% within half an hour of opening, and the stock trading volume was significantly higher than in previous days.
After the first round, and after four subsequent rounds of inquiries, when Instagram’s stock officially began free trading, the stock price had exceeded $23.
After the official start of trading, Paul Einholt barely got an opportunity to ask questions at another small media meeting of Instagram management. He ended the interview and left an interview room on the exchange. The photographer who followed Paul Leonard suddenly couldn't help but said: "I wish I was a woman now."
Paul knew why Leonard suddenly lamented this. The two returned to the hall and planned to continue watching the market until noon. He said: "It is not difficult to do this now, but Simon Westeros probably I don’t like transgender people, maybe if you remain a man, you still have a little chance.”
"It's impossible," said Leonard, whose appearance with long hair is actually very attractive to girls: "According to my observations over the years, Simon Westeros is very straight, very straight."
Paul looked up at the stock price monitor in the lobby and said with a smile, "This is really a pity."
Leonard had no intention of skipping this topic, but said, "Just now, did you notice the little girl next to Miss D?"
"Jennifer Bry?"
"So you know it too."
Paul nodded, feeling both emotional and envious at the same time, and said: "That girl in Westeros who guest-starred at Madonna's concert and jumped on the stage. Frankly speaking, this girl should be the most successful 'fruit' in history, with her holdings Instagram has no less than 10 million shares. Based on the current stock price, its net worth has exceeded 200 million US dollars. If Instagram continues to rise, it may even be on the "Forbes" list next year, chasing stars to catch up with " Forbes" list, I haven't heard of the second one."
Leonard was also filled with emotion. He and Paul looked at the stock price monitor and asked, "What do you think the maximum market value of Instagram can be?"
"It's hard to say, it depends on the subsequent performance of this website," Paul shook his head and said, "However, with the current huge user base of 160 million, a market value of US$10 billion is more than enough, not to mention this company. There is also the behind-the-scenes support of the Westeros system, so I think Ygritte may acquire Instagram entirely in the future.”
"This is unlikely. Yigret's current monopoly trend is so obvious. Even if the Department of Justice's investigation is still just a pretense of the Clinton administration, it will never let Yigrit continue to expand, otherwise some other peers will Competing genre sites are bound to cause a stir.”
"Nothing is impossible, as long as Westeros feels it is necessary. What's more, Instagram's business is too single. Once it reaches a bottleneck, it will either be absorbed or actively expand to other areas. Obviously the former is easier."
The two were chatting when they suddenly heard a slight noise around them.
"500 billion, 500 billion!"
"Wow, the third one is worth US$500 billion. I wonder how long it will take for the fourth one?"
"Where's the stock price of Ygriet?"
“…”
Amid the commotion, before the two of them could inquire, several sets of stock information appeared on the largest stock price monitor in the exchange hall.
It turns out that following Igret and Daenerys, Cisco's market value officially exceeded the US$500 billion mark during the morning's rise, becoming the third super giant in the North American market with a market value of US$500 billion. Tyrant.
Not only that, the market value of Igret, which had exceeded US$600 billion in the week after the election, has exceeded US$650 billion one month later, and it is obviously accelerating towards an even more terrifying market value of US$700 billion. .
Simon only heard the news when he arrived at the Instagram celebration reception at a hotel in Midtown at noon.
The morning was really busy and I had to pay attention to many other things.
For example, there is not much suspense about the North American box office data that just ended a box office week. "Wonder Woman 2" easily won the single-week championship, and the single-week box office the next week still exceeded 100 million, reaching 101.22 million US dollars, becoming the second highest-grossing film in history. It’s the second movie after “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” to hit the $100 million mark for two consecutive weeks.
Within half a month of its release, the cumulative box office of "Wonder Woman 2" reached US$254.95 million. It can be said that 400 million is already a certainty, and only 500 million is still in suspense. It mainly depends on the specific performance of a number of films during the Christmas period.
This is a rather confusing thing.
Because the two major Christmas movies, "Jumanji" and "Charlie's Angels", are also films led by Daenerys Entertainment. If these two projects meet expectations, it is likely to mean "Wonder Woman 2" The subsequent box office potential will be suppressed. If on the contrary, "Wonder Woman 2" may exceed 500 million US dollars, the box office results of these two opening projects will inevitably not be good.
Except for "Wonder Woman 2", other films in the past week, including Disney's "101 Dalmatians" which ultimately only received $24.39 million in its first week, are not worth mentioning.
Another thing that needs to be mentioned is a new movie that will be screened today, "Good Will Hunting."
As Daenerys Entertainment’s main prize-winner this year, of course, it will also be a box office hit as expected. “Good Will Hunting” seems to be a more literary film by a newcomer, but under the packaging of Daenerys Entertainment , has recently become famous.
Just talking about the main creators, in addition to the already famous director Gus Van Sant and the famous Robert De Niro, among the other three young actors, Ben, as the screenwriter and first supporting actor, also appeared some time ago She has gained high popularity with "Boogie Nights", and the heroine Kate Beckinsale is one of the heroines of "Charlie's Angels" that will be promoted at the end of the year.
With the support of these filmmakers and the US$10 million promotional budget invested by the Gaomen Pictures team in advance, "Good Will Hunting" has already become a popular movie in the near future.
All that's missing is word of mouth.
In addition to word-of-mouth, another reason for choosing to start the screening on December 6 is that nominations for the Golden Globe Awards in January next year will be announced on December 11. By then, the screening will gain word-of-mouth from the media and the audience. At the same time, "Good Will Hunting" can also be nominated for a Golden Globe Award and once again become a marketing hot spot.
Therefore, compared to the usual two-week screening cycle of other films, "Good Will Hunting" will only be screened for one week and will open on a large scale together with "Game of the Brave" on December 13.
As for the future of the film, Simon is not worried at all.
You know, "Good Will Hunting" was released almost at the same time as "Titanic". Under the strong crush of the big ship, it still showed the strength of commercial films with the theme of literary and artistic films, and not only won a series of Oscar nominations , only in North America, it earned a box office of US$130 million.
Now, with the quality of the film ensured by Simon himself, both the main creative and the promotion have been significantly upgraded. Even if it has to survive under the attack of "Jumanji" and "Charlie's Angels", Simon is not worried at all. After all, no matter how powerful "Jumanji" and "Charlie's Angels" are, they can't be as powerful as "Titanic".
Lunch celebration reception scene on Instagram.
As soon as Simon arrived, he was entangled by little Jenny who had changed into a white dress, not caring about the looks of other guests around him.
He just lightly knocked on the forehead of this pseudo-loli, whose height had nothing to do with loli but stayed in the 1.5-meter range. He let the girl hold him, and Simon walked towards Girl D and the others, smiling and congratulating her.
Immediately, not only A, B, C, D, waist, leg, Indian and other women related to the listing of Instagram, but also Cindy Crawford, Claudia... Schiff and a large number of supermodels and internet celebrities also gathered around Simon.
Seeing that Simon Westeros was quickly surrounded by a group of women, other guests at the scene inevitably had the same thoughts as a photographer from "Barron's" that morning.
Of course, the thoughts of the female guests present were even more complicated.
It's really annoying for women to be compared to women.
Not to mention C-girl Claire Gein, who has directly squeezed into the third position on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans this year with a net worth of US$29.5 billion. Just the listing of Instagram today has once again created several people who are obviously similar to Simon Westeros. Close female billionaires.
It was inevitable that the goblins on the scene would gather around Simon.
We all have become experts after years of hard work in the industry. Who would think that they are any worse than the founders of Instagram? What everyone lacks is just opportunities.
A certain man could obviously easily give them this opportunity.
It's a pity that some people want to get closer, and of course some people are guarding against it. As a result, they find that it is not easy to say a few words to Simon Westeros.
On Simon's side, after chatting about the Instagram stock price trend in the morning, Girl D, who was standing next to Simon, showed no intention of getting out of the way and directly changed the topic to a non-work direction: "Boss, we are all listening to the performance at the Metropolitan Opera House tomorrow. I told you, but I forgot to say hello in advance, so when I asked today, A said there were no tickets, but we want to go see it tomorrow night, what should we do?"
Girl D's tone was a bit coquettish, not the founder of a tens-billion-dollar new technology company.
However, Simon could only shake his head at this: "Then I really have no tickets, or I have to wait for the next show..." As he said this, he thought about Girl A, but when he saw that she was still shaking his head, he had no choice but to shrug his shoulders to express regret.