On February 1, 1990, at exactly 8:00 a.m. New York time, the Amazon e-commerce website went live quietly.
There was no press conference, no announcement to the public, in order not to attract the attention of other bookstores.
However, "Amazon" suddenly appeared on the popular website of Yahoo.
At the same time, more than a dozen banks, led by Wells Fargo, officially launched online banking and helped Amazon with its publicity.
At this moment, many netizens open the Yahoo portal, and the Amazon e-commerce website attracts people's attention, and they click into it curiously.
"Wow, what kind of website is this, it's full of books!!!" Someone exclaimed in surprise.
"There are really a lot of books, of all kinds. I just searched and found that all the books I know can be found here!"
"Oh, 'Amazon has millions of books!' University libraries don't have as many books as there are on this site!"
"Oh, you can buy books on this website! As long as you fill in the contact information such as address, phone number, etc., you can send things by courier. The payment method can be cash on delivery or online payment! Uh, online payment needs to be activated online. Bank, and then use online credit to complete the payment task... If you want to open online banking, you must go to Wells Fargo Bank, Los Angeles Bank, etc. to go through the relevant procedures. Haha, online shopping, online payment, it's a bit interesting!!"
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Internet users who entered Amazon's website were all shocked. Now is not like 2016, which can be called the era of the wild Internet, and Amazon's e-commerce website was born, isn't it shocking? !
It didn't take long for Amazon's e-commerce website to be launched on the Internet, and people were attracted by this novel website, and many people even placed orders to buy some books. Because these books online are at least a quarter cheaper than books in bookstores!
Some books cannot be found in bookstores, but they are available on Amazon.com.
In addition, for many people who don't have time to buy books, online shopping is very convenient, and express delivery to the front door is very convenient.
On the same day, Amazon calculated that more than 500 books were sold online.
"Although it doesn't sell as much as brick-and-mortar chain stores, it's a good start!" Li Zetian smiled happily after learning the sales data. He knows that many people don't trust Amazon's e-commerce site, so they're afraid to shop online, and they don't have online banking.
Yu Jingqiu, who was sitting on the sofa eating melon seeds, smiled and said, "Well, it is indeed a good start, and it is actually worth several chain bookstores. Speaking of which, e-commerce websites do have advantages over offline brick-and-mortar stores. First of all, the cost is low, and secondly, the space is ignored. All netizens can easily access the Amazon website. If the number of netizens exceeds 100 million, or even 1 billion, Amazon will definitely become the largest retail bookstore in the world. There is no need for a facade, and there is no need to hire too many. Staff, save a lot of money!"
"That's right, it's just that Amazon will lose money for a long time in the future..." Li Zetian smiled bitterly. Yu Jingqiu may not know that Internet companies burn money very hard, and there are not many netizens today. , In three to five years, Amazon will not even try to make money.
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Soon, a month later, Li Zetian asked Jeff Bezos to pay close attention to the movements of other bookstores, but they completely ignored Amazon.
"Made, I think too highly of them..."
Li Zetian shook his head with disdain in his tone. Since they are indifferent, Li Zetian is secretly happy. When Amazon dominates the online shopping market, they will wait to cry, a group of short-sighted people!
Due to the small number of Internet users, Amazon does not plan to spend a lot of money on publicity, but develops step by step. Li Zetian began to turn his target to Japan, always paying attention to the trends of the stock market and real estate there. Li Zetian estimated that the stock market crash was coming. At the same time, the two Germanys were expected to be unified, and the people of East Germany and West Germany were very violent. In the midst of this chaos, Li Zetian wondered whether he could fish in troubled waters and make a fortune.
In the morning, Li Zetian had just eaten breakfast and was still a little sleepy, so he squinted for a while on the chair on the balcony. Because I stayed up late last night and worked until the early morning, I am a little bit down now.
After a while, there was a knock on the door, Li Zetian opened his eyes and called her in.
Dongfang Yuqin pushed in the door, walked over quickly, and with a look of excitement, "Mr. Li, the Japanese stock market has fallen, and it has plummeted!" Dongfang Yuqin said loudly.
Hearing this, Li Zetian suddenly got agitated and stood up from his chair!
"The Japanese stock market has really plummeted?!!" He asked uncertainly.
"It's absolutely true, the news I just received!"
"Great!" Li Zetian's eyes lit up, his face full of excitement, "It seems that we are going to make a lot of money again! Once the Japanese stock market crash breaks out, it will definitely last for a long time. Keep shorting, While destroying Japan, you can still make money! At that time, I am afraid that many capital predators will come to Japan, especially those guys on Wall Street who eat people without spitting bones. They will definitely cut meat from Japan. The Japanese government wants to save the market, It's as hard as going to the sky!"
"Yeah!" Dongfang Yuqin nodded in agreement.
Since the "Plaza Accord", Japan has become a fat sheep, and European and American countries are waiting to fatten it and then slaughter it. Now is the time...
At this time, Japan was crying in vain.
"How is that possible?! Why did the stock market suddenly plummet!!"
"Property prices have plummeted too! My house!"
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Panic began to spread.
The next day, the Japanese stock market continued to plummet, showing no signs of recovery. People finally realized that the stock market crash is coming!
At this time, many media have said that the Japanese stock market crash and real estate bubble are serious, and Japan will usher in an extremely serious stock market crash.
These media are alarmist and add fuel to the fire. There is actually a shadow of the United States behind them. They pushed Japan to a cliff. Li Zetian was happy to see it succeeded, and frantically shorted the stock market and fell into trouble.
"I call you Japanese local tyrants still arrogant, will you still be arrogant in the future?" Li Zetian mocked.
Japanese companies have been severely hit in this stock market crash, and Li Zetian's company can just take the opportunity to develop. In addition, this stock market crash caused many companies in Japan to go bankrupt. Li Zetian would do well to buy them, so that these Japanese employees would not lose their jobs. In other words, Japanese workers are hard-working, responsible for their work, and the R&D personnel are quite ingenious. They are all good employees...