Under the spotlight, Li Mu adjusted the height of the microphone, then smiled and said: "Today is my first time coming to Nasdaq, and my first time standing on the Nasdaq podium to ring the bell. Come to think of it, it’s not for my own company.”
There was laughter in the audience.
Larry Page on the side also felt from the bottom of his heart that Beier had some face.
The first time Li Mu rang the bell, he actually rang it for Google. This was really a shame.
In fact, after being tortured by Li Mu for several rounds, this guy now has a bit of Stockholm syndrome.
Larry Page was originally a tycoon who could dominate one side, but after meeting another even bigger tycoon, his own attributes as a tycoon were invisibly eliminated.
What's even more tragic is that he himself is unaware of it.
Li Mu on the stage added at this time: "I have always been very optimistic about the development prospects of search engines in the Internet industry, because in my opinion, the greatness of search engines is that they can open a magical door for users in the online world. Any door.”
"As we all know, it is difficult to break through the barriers of time and space in our real life. If I want to go to the Central Square from here, I can choose to walk, ride a bicycle, sit or take the subway, but it cannot get me there in an instant;"
"If I want to return to China from here, then I basically have only two options, either a twelve-hour flight or a ten or twenty-day ship. Apart from that, there seems to be no other option. The right way, no one can build an arbitrary door that allows me to go to wherever I want to go in an instant.”
Speaking of this, Li Mu sighed: "This is the shackles of real society. Whether it is me, the Central Square, or the 9.6 million square kilometers of China, they are all made of atoms. We cannot let atoms transcend The speed of light travels across time and space in real life, but it’s different in the Internet world.”
"Everything on the Internet is made up of data, and data can be transmitted at the speed of light and reorganized infinitely in the Internet world. Therefore, I can sit at home in China and see New York and New York in an instant through the Internet. Central Square, or even face-to-face chatting with friends in New York. In a world where all information can travel at the speed of light, the founders of Google used their talents to create for us an arbitrary door that can lead to any place on the Internet. .”
"In the Internet world, search engines are your door. You can use search engines to go to anywhere you want to go in the Internet world at the fastest speed. In the real world, this is an existence that we dream of but cannot achieve. , but in the Internet world, it can be easily achieved by relying on search engines;”
"If I want to know about the Great Wall of China, I can open any door of the search engine and tell it that I want to go to the Great Wall, and it will immediately feed me all the information about the Great Wall. I can choose any one and read it at the speed of light. Get the data there;”
“If I want to see the Statue of Liberty, open a search engine, and in the next second I can see what it looks like, know information about it and its historical background;”
"Taking it more seriously, a search engine is not just an arbitrary door, it is also an Aladdin's magic lamp. Tell it what you want, and it will give you all the results you want;"
"I can't imagine how users can continue to use the Internet if they lose search engines. Compared with real life, it is equivalent to us not having transportation, and the efficiency of the entire world will be greatly reduced."
“Therefore, I firmly believe that as long as the Internet still exists, investors do not need to worry about Google’s development prospects. In the future, Makino Technology will also go all out to work with Google to provide better basic services for Internet users. , work together to create more convenient, more advanced, and better Internet services, thank you all."
Li Mu's casual words gave the investors on the scene a surge of chicken blood.
In their view, Li Mu's words gave Google great affirmation.
In Li Mu's view, since all the buddies are here, they must help Google to praise it. After all, he is also one of Google's major shareholders, and it will be of great benefit to him to promote Google.
Moreover, Li Mu's metaphor of "magic door" has indeed won the hearts of investors and media reporters present.
Search engines are such a thing. Magic that does not exist in real society can be realized on the Internet built with pure data.
If users want to find any information on the Internet, they can immediately get a lot of desired results by searching with a search engine.
For users, this is like eating French fries when you are hungry. The search engine will immediately place all the fries in the world in front of you for you to choose from.
This is the core value of search engines.
Although Google has been robbed of Android invisibly, as long as Google sticks to its search engine, it will still become a top Internet giant. As long as it follows the example of Baidu, it will have a market value of 200 to 300 billion or even 300 to 400 billion US dollars. It will be the same as playing .
Li Mu's metaphor allows people to more clearly understand the importance of Google and its core position that cannot be replaced now and for a long time to come. This will greatly help to increase Google's market expectations and investment recognition.
Larry Page was so excited after hearing this that his whole body was shaking. It was useless to say such things himself, as he was suspected of being a peddler. However, it was different when Li Mu said it. In the Internet field, who would question Li Mu's words? He has said so, who would still have doubts about Google
How high is the market's recognition of Google? All of this is waiting for the moment the bell rings!
With the end of Li Mu's speech, there are only three minutes left before the bell rings.
Nasdaq Chairman David Ball invited the two people to the bell ringing stage. The big screen behind them displayed a huge Google logo and the final countdown to the listing time.
Li Mu and Larry Page stood side by side in front of the bell ringing platform, with more than 20 Google executives behind them. There was no microphone here, so Larry Page couldn't help but excitedly said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, I think Today, Google’s stock price may increase by more than 50%!”
"50%?" Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "Except for Makino Technology, the Internet IPO that has attracted the most global attention, I personally came from China to endorse your platform. It must be at least doubled before it can be justified, right?"
There are many monster stocks on Nasdaq, and it is not unusual for them to rise 200% in one day.
However, most of the companies that can rise 200% in one day are companies with relatively low market capitalization. For example, the market capitalization set before the listing was US$1 billion and the stock price was US$5. As a result, the stock price rose to US$15 on the first day and the market value exceeded US$3 billion. Dollar.
For example, on the day the Chinese company Qutoutiao was listed on Nasdaq, its share price soared 191.29%, from the opening price of US$9.10 to a maximum of US$20.39!
Less than 20 minutes after the market opened, the increase exceeded 100%. The growth rate is so fast that it can be regarded as second to none among Chinese companies listed in the United States.
But the embarrassing thing is that although Qutoutiao’s business growth rate was very fast before its listing, its business foundation was unstable, and it lacked innovation and breakthroughs after its listing. In less than a year, its stock price continued to fall.
This situation is considered normal on Nasdaq.
However, it is rare for a stock with a market capitalization of more than 10 billion US dollars to rise more than 100% in one day.
But Li Mu feels that companies like Google have a very high market share. It can be said that except for China, in other countries with Internet in the world, the market share is at least 90%, and some can even reach 100%. This is not a monopoly. But it is better than a monopoly. Such an enterprise has high profitability, development prospects, high security, and will inevitably have very high market recognition.
Today's 100% increase is not a miracle. It is just a big move that will be released in one go.
As the time counted down, Larry Page nervously adjusted his breathing.
Li Mu and he pressed their hands on the bell button. When the countdown entered the last ten seconds, everyone at the scene started shouting the countdown.
Three, two, one!
When the whistle sounded, Li Mu and Larry Page pressed the red bell button together.
The melodious bell rang in Nasdaq in an instant!
Google is officially listed!
The 50 million shares in circulation immediately became tradable, and the price that appeared within the first second of the opening shocked the entire Nasdaq!
$126.6!
The opening surged 57.5%!
At the moment of listing, Google's market capitalization instantly reached an astonishing US$75.6 billion from the US$48 billion set by the IPO!
The entire Nasdaq went crazy because of this number.
The media immediately reported this almost crazy rise to the world in real time.
Investors who subscribed for Google stock have already started to party with excitement.
There are only 50 million shares in circulation on the market. If everyone is not optimistic about Google's prospects, once the price rises a bit at the opening, those holders who are not optimistic about Google will sell and close when the gains are good, while others do not hold shares. Investors are also more cautious about it. In that case, the rise in stock prices will soon be curbed.
If everyone is very unfavorable about Google's prospects, it might fall below the issue price on the first day.
However, the current situation is that everyone is too optimistic about Google's future.
Even Li Mu came out to endorse it, so what else is there to worry about? Is it enough to earn 57.5%
No, of course not, this company has unlimited prospects and this stock is suitable for long-term holding.
Driven by this mentality, Google stock is rarely sold.
And there are so many investors outside holding money like crazy waiting to enter the market, just like people who have been in drought for a long time looking forward to the rain, looking at the sky with their mouths wide open, waiting for a few drops of water to fall from the sky.
The more this happens, the more the stock price goes up.
Two minutes after the opening, the stock price almost jumped to $138, an increase of 72.5%;
The first circuit breaker is triggered and trading is suspended;
After a brief pause, the transaction is opened;
The stock price continues to rocket like a rocket.
Twenty minutes after the market opened, the stock price had risen to $159, an increase of 98.75%, and the second circuit breaker occurred!
Thirty minutes after the market opened, the stock price rose to $164, an increase of more than 100%!
The entire Nasdaq has gone crazy.
Institutions holding large amounts of Google stock are also going crazy.
(End of chapter)