In my memory, the Internet Shock Department often used a standard headline, 'XX may be the biggest winner', and every time I saw it, I just felt that there was some weird malice. However, with the conclusion of the Atlanta Olympics on August 4, many people began to look back and suddenly discovered that Ygritte may have become the biggest winner.
Not to mention anything else, just on the second day of the closing ceremony, when the stock market opened for the new week, Igret's stock price rose sharply by 3.3% that day, from US$439.1 billion at the opening to a high of US$453.6 billion, which is enough to prove this. a little.
This is certainly not for no reason.
On Monday, August 5, newspapers, television and online platforms controlled by the Westeros system began to publicize on a large scale a series of data traffic on the network platform owned by Ygrit Company during the Atlanta Olympic Games.
According to statistics from Eaglet, during the 17 days that the Atlanta Olympic Games lasted, a total of 320 million Internet users around the world participated in interactions on Olympic topics on Eaglet's portals, online forums, social networks, video websites and other platforms. , accounting for 70% of the current total of 460 million Internet users in the world.
Because of this large-scale hot event, the network traffic of Yigret's entire platform surged by 27% in more than two weeks.
Among them, Facebook social network and YouTube video platform have seen particularly eye-catching growth in users and content during the Olympic Games.
Although it will not be mentioned in the report, it is undeniable that the explosion on July 27 allowed the online platform with more immediacy and richer content to completely overshadow traditional TV and print media.
On the weekend when the bombing occurred, the number of visits to the entire platform of Yigrit reached a peak. Within 24 hours of the incident, more than 80 million directly related blog posts from all over the world appeared on the Facebook social network. In the same 24 hours, , the number of bombing-related videos directly from Atlanta on the YouTube video platform also increased by 270,000.
Therefore, popularity drives traffic, traffic contributes to revenue, revenue stimulates the market, and market value drives stock prices.
The stock price rose by 3.3% in a single day, and the wealth of all Yigret shareholders increased by US$14.5 billion in one day.
This is just the increase in the stock price of the Ygritte family.
As the leader of Nasdaq, the rise in Igret's stock price has driven the entire new technology sector. At the close of the day, the Nasdaq index also rushed to 4765 points. Although it failed to meet the market expectations some time ago on August 8 at the end of July. It broke through 5,000 points at the beginning of the month, but it is not far behind.
At the same time, the total market value of all stocks on the Nasdaq market has reached US$5.6 trillion.
Although the whole world understands that the bubble in the Nasdaq is quite serious, such a huge total market capitalization that directly exceeds Japan's GDP still makes too many capitals excited and crazy.
Simon is inevitably worried.
After all, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.
Therefore, Simon rushed to San Francisco on Monday and stayed in Silicon Valley for three days, mainly to make some adjustments before the Nasdaq fell off the cliff.
The world is actually in an irrational state many times, just like the two world wars. They seemed inevitable, but were actually accidental, because in a rational state, no one would want to launch a war that would kill tens of millions of people. A world-class war, however, the war happened just like that.
Same thing this time.
No one wants the Nasdaq to run wildly, accumulate bubbles to the maximum extent and then suddenly burst. However, under the general trend and in the face of interests, not even Simon dares to stop it.
You can only do what you can.
In fact, there is not much that can be done, other than to prepare for a rainy day, so that the new technology companies involved in the Westeros system can better survive the cold winter in the next few years. To be a little more ambitious, it is to make more and more profitable companies. Value new technology companies will survive the cold winter together to avoid fundamental damage to the foundation of the Internet industry.
What we need to do ultimately boils down to just one word: money.
Without food in a famine, people cannot survive.
In the capital winter, companies can only survive if they receive life-saving funds.
Simon discussed openly and honestly with the leaders of Yigrit for three days, and roughly finalized the plan. First, he began to tighten Yigrit's money bag. After the IPO, Yigrit held more than 20 billion US dollars in assets. With huge cash reserves, even though Simon has repeatedly emphasized that the company will inevitably spend some money, and this must change.
Secondly, a new batch of large data centers will be built around the world again.
At this stage, even though Yigrit's cloud computing services are becoming more and more mature, many companies still prefer to build their own servers. After all, subconsciously, most people are reluctant to rely on others.
However, once the industry's cold winter comes, many new technology companies will undoubtedly find it difficult to maintain expensive "self-built houses" and will have no choice but to "rent houses." Yigret's new batch of data centers will mainly provide this demand.
In the cold winter, with a 'house' and some 'food', you can basically survive.
Finally, Yigret also established a special enterprise evaluation team and began to quietly evaluate all aspects of the current operating conditions of new technology companies.
Simon is not that philanthropic.
After the new technology bubble bursts, some companies are worth saving, but many more have to be given up.
Moreover, Simon didn’t intend to do his good deeds in vain.
Although the entire Westeros system has been investing heavily in start-up new technology companies in recent years while developing its own key enterprises, it is conceivable that after the expected capital winter, it has experienced large-scale mergers and integrations, and the Westeros system has no interest in new technologies. Control of industry will become more entrenched.
Thursday, August 8th.
He was in San Francisco from Monday to Wednesday. On Thursday morning, Simon flew to New York before eight o'clock and arrived on the East Coast. It was still just working time here.
Girl A beside him reminded her softly. When he arrived at the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment on 66th Street in the Upper West Side, Simon had just finished reading some of the documents he had been looking at along the way. The last one was handed over by Girl C yesterday, about opening a joint venture with Starbucks. The plan of mini internet cafe function of Starbucks chain store.
The inspiration comes from the recent Olympic Games.
There is no mobile Internet at this stage, and several products of Tinco Bayer Company founded by Girl C all rely on the Internet. Considering the consumer mentality, whether they are iCam or iRec users, they obviously hope to be able to take photos and videos as soon as possible after taking them. Upload to the Internet to share with friends.
Just like during this Olympic Games, the most popular consumer places in Atlanta are the Internet cafes throughout the city.
After tourists from North America and all over the world took photos and videos, they looked for Internet cafes to upload and share, causing Internet cafes in the Atlanta area to be full almost around the clock.
Simon had promoted the development of the Internet cafe industry in North America a few years ago, but it was still 1991. The main purpose was to allow potential users to try the Internet and promote the public's access to network services. Unlike China, which can maintain a very prosperous Internet cafe industry for many years to come, Simon is actually not very optimistic about the development of the Internet cafe industry in North America due to its consumption capacity, so it quickly transferred related projects to cash.
In the solution provided by Claire, the function of the Internet cafe has changed. The core is no longer purely to provide users with Internet services, but as a supporting package for Tinco Bayer's products.
In fact, many Internet giants in Simon's memory have spared no effort to promote one thing, which is to allow more people in the world to connect to the Internet. For this purpose, giants such as Google or Facebook have opened their own network service companies and released network satellites. , create public WiFi and even try to use airplanes to provide wireless networks, etc.
Claire's plan this time is similar to what a series of Internet giants have done in the past.
The problem now is that it is too expensive to open an Internet cafe chain alone. Therefore, we cooperate with Starbucks all over the United States and even the world. Each Starbucks store adds several computers for users to upload instantly to form a mini Internet cafe. A very good choice.
This is a win-win solution.
Increasing Internet access, just like later providing free Wi-Fi, can attract more users to Starbucks. Similarly, uploading is more convenient and can also stimulate consumers to purchase electronic products such as iCam.
Therefore, both parties have shown obvious intention to cooperate.
Next is the specific cooperation plan. In the final analysis, it is still a question of money.