Chicago 1990

In Silicon Valley, after being discharged from the hospital, Song Ya went to Netscape again. Of course, he would no longer try to understand any programming language.

"Sorry, because a little episode on my side interrupted business."

He sat vigorously in the conference room, "Thank you for the flowers. I like them very much, Mr. Clark and Mr. Bucksted."

"Is the body recovered?" Buxder looked at him.

"It's all right, no problem, haha." Song Ya patted his chest.

"Ok……"

After ridiculing the difficult listing of DTS again, Jim Clark directly asked the staff to distribute the files, "APLUS, you know my style, since the Netscape browser professional version is selling well, then I will We intend to continue to accelerate the pace of listing, and advance the original listing date from September to August, August 9. Issue 35% of the total share capital of tradable shares, the issue price per share is tentatively set at 10 to 12 meters Knife."

"Wow, at this price, our market value will be..."

Song Ya made a mental calculation, "About 900 million?" He couldn't help but happily. According to his shareholding ratio after being compressed by these tradable stocks, it would be just over 3% under the conversion of 5%, so the original investment of 2 million It will be worth nearly thirty million by then.In fact, if you count it seriously, his shares at that time may be less than 3%, because Netscape has given some core employees incentive options to stabilize the people during this critical period of development.

"Almost. The two months of June and July are at stake for us. Everyone must continue to hype and increase the confidence of investors and brokerages."

Backsted pointed to Song Ya, "You also have to take on your obligations."

"No problem, what are you going to do with me? Bring the goods?"

"Bringing goods... Almost, we keep preaching our Netscape philosophy to the public, and talk about it when you have the opportunity, repeat it, and maximize your public influence."

Backstad lost another file and said, "There are mainly three points. First, Microsoft is wrong. The Internet represents the future, not a Windows operating system. The Internet can bring people closer and speed up information exchange. Barabala, you have to master all relevant concepts and don’t make a fool of yourself under reporters’ questions. We don’t want investors to think that we have found an early shareholder who doesn’t understand anything.”

"I understand, don't worry, I will memorize it all. The Internet represents the future, not a Windows operating system... Well, should you always catch Microsoft attacks? They are very powerful..."

Song Ya asked: "This is a paradox, right? If our accusation against Microsoft is correct, aren't we helping them recognize their mistakes? If our accusation against Microsoft is wrong, how can we get investors Agree?"

"Uh."

Backsd was shocked when he was asked, "Remember what you should be a big singer, this is a concept, a propaganda hype, you only need to know that repeated preaching is good for our listing and stock price."

"Okay."

Song Ya was very interested and continued to read the documents. "The second point is that companies must have a reliable record of profitability. This golden rule of Wall Street is no longer suitable for the new era. Investors must understand that in the early stages of the development of emerging industries It is very important to maintain rapid growth and market share leadership. This is an extremely important strategic advantage. Netscape browser currently has a market share of 80%, which is a strategic advantage..."

"Strategic advantage." Jim Clark emphasized as much as he did to students in class.

"Well, yes, strategic advantage...er..." The good student has another question, "Can't our professional browser sales make us profitable this year?"

"Yes, but that profit is not enough to support the stock price. Now the technology industry has a lot of hot money. The investment of programmers, computer hardware, and network equipment is high, and we have to make some strategic acquisitions to break through patent barriers..."

Backsted explained, "Strategic, pay attention to repeatedly mentioning APLUS, we are the strategists at the forefront of the industry, what do ordinary investors know? Just listen to our commands. This also shows that we will Where to spend the funds raised in the open market, to maintain our rapid growth and market share, to maintain our technology and patent advantages, as for profit, we will always think of ways in the future, such as the third point."

"Okay, maintain our rapid growth and market share, and maintain our technology and patent advantages..."

Song Ya kept repeating, "The third point: The facts show that Netscape has two major opportunities. In addition to the Internet, there are also corporate intranet construction. Corporate users spend more money on internal servers than ordinary users for professional browsers. Much more...Our alliance with companies such as SUN will defeat Wintel (the alliance between Microsoft and Intel), PowerPC (the alliance between Apple, IBM, Motorola and Lotus Software) in this market..."

"Wow, we are too ambitious." Song Yaquan couldn't help sighing after memorizing it.

"Don't say that about APLUS, I have always been an industry leader, we just have a bright future..."

Jim Clark said domineeringly.

"Of course, I admire you Mr. Clark very much. You created SGI... Now it's Netscape again." Song Ya complimented.

"Ok."

Jim Clark is confident now, "Anything else?"

"Oh, yes, there is one more thing. I am going to prepare some more money to increase holdings of some of our stocks in the open market after the listing. (Price) Everyone doesn’t look good..."

Song Ya took the opportunity to put forward his plan.

"Yes, this can also prove the confidence of our shareholders, remember to report to the board of directors and management agencies."

Jim Clark stood up and warned Song Ya with his index finger, "But be careful not to exceed 5%. If it exceeds, you are my enemy."

"No, I'll buy a little, a little bit, haha." Song Ya doesn't want to have enemies of this level (for now), "I didn't prepare too much money."

He did not leave much money for August 9th, ten million. If calculated at the lowest issue price of ten dollars per share, he would buy one million shares, one percent of the total shares.

But at the same time, he also invested heavily in Sun, 20 million, which has already allowed O'Grady to buy.

"APLUS! Can you talk about the reason for your sudden hospitalization?"

Leaving Netscape headquarters, he was surrounded by reporters outside. Of course, this was deliberate. According to his current bodyguard team, if he didn't want to, he would never be surrounded by reporters.

"Thank you for your concern, it's just a little embarrassing..." he replied loudly.

"But this is not the first time you have been rushed to the hospital, right? Are you taking medication or something?" another reporter asked.

"You all know that I never touch those things."

Song Ya glared at him.

"Or you have suffered some mental shock at Netscape. Do you own some shares in this company? Do you have any conflict with them?"

"Nonsense, I respect Jim and Bacchus very much, and I have had contact with Mark as early as UIUC. Our personal relationship is very good, the cooperation is also very smooth, there is no contradiction at all... This company started in August It’s about to go public, and Jim and I are all optimistic about the future of Netscape."

"What do you think of the prospects for listing?" a reporter asked.

Song Ya glanced at him approvingly and began to repeat, "Obviously, the Internet, only the Internet represents the future, not the window system. The Internet can shorten the distance between people... The golden rules of Wall Street are no longer suitable. In this era, relative to profitability, I think it’s more important to have a strategic uh, strategic advantage... There are two main development directions for Netscape in the future, Inter...cough cough, In..."

A little stuck, his face flushed slightly, "!"