Hollywood Hunter

For the new technology industry, the first major event in 1995 was the update of the IE browser.

On January 1st, on New Year’s Day, Igrid’s core Internet software IE browser updated the latest version at one time in accordance with the antitrust settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice, and gave up locking the Igrid portal for The homepage of the software was changed to an open mode, which officially announced that Igrid had given up his monopoly on the Internet interface.

In the past few years, Igrid Portal's firm control of the traffic entrance has caused many technology companies that are difficult to implement to cheer and rush to greet the arrival of a new era.

Within the company, the company has given up its own company's strongest industrial moat. Many people are inevitably worried about loss, and they have to fight to meet the upcoming challenges.

This compromise even has a significant impact on the already launched IPO.

Although the portal is only a part of the huge product matrix of Igret, in the eyes of many people, in the past few years, it is precisely because Igret has monopolized the Internet interface, which has led to the rapid advancement of this company's products Comprehensive development.Therefore, investors will inevitably question whether Igrid can maintain the high-speed growth in the past without losing the monopoly on the Internet interface.

Only a small part of the core of the Westeros system understands that this concession is actually just a corporate strategic change for Igret.

The key lies in the'Google' search engine on the new default homepage.

Abandoning the portal monopoly and opening the search portal actually represents the strategic focus of Eaglet's company from the content to the platform.

Simon started instilling a concept to Bezos and others early on, the scale of network information is exponentially increasing, and no single enterprise can meet the differentiated needs of mass users for information. Therefore, Igri What we do in the end is not to produce content, but to create various platforms to integrate content.

The portal site of the Internet 1.0 era, carefully calculated is actually also a platform.

It is just because of the lack of online content in the early stages of the development of the Internet industry that portals have to focus on producing content while operating platforms.

After the Westeros system has spared no effort to support catalysis in recent years, the network information resources are already abundant enough, so now is the right time to start the Internet 2.0 era.

The search engine platform Google, the social networking platform Facebook and the e-commerce platform Amazon will be the top priorities of the Internet business segment of the company in the Internet 2.0 era.Of course, in order to guide competitors to go astray as much as possible, and strive for more development time for the three major platforms, on the surface, Eaglet will still attach great importance to the portal business.

A large number of media have discussed the long-term impact of this incident on the new technology industry. At the same time, the "Information Age" marketing plan that has just officially ended on December 31, 1994 and a series of industry data related to the new technology industry are also in the new year. At the beginning, it became the focus of media and public attention.

The Igrid portal opened a news feature on January 1st.

As of December 31, 1994, after preliminary statistics, the number of domestic Internet access users in the United States was 78 million, a year-on-year increase of 69%, and the total number of Internet users was 140 million, an increase of an astonishing 86%.As a result, the US network coverage rate has risen to 53%, far ahead of other countries in the world.

Among them, only the "Information Age" marketing plan in the last two months of 1994 contributed 20% of the two core data.

In terms of personal computers, in the whole year of 1994, domestic PC shipments reached 28 million units, of which 9 million units came from large-scale marketing in the last two months of the year.The number of PCs in the United States also officially exceeded the 100 million mark due to the rapid growth in the last two months of last year.

Globally, as overseas countries increase their efforts in the layout of the information industry,

In addition to extensive industry data, Eaglet also announced the growth profile of its own businesses on portals, e-mail, social networks, e-commerce, video games, outsourcing platforms, etc. in the past year. The high growth rate data all represent the rapid arrival of a new era.

The total population of the world at the beginning of 1995 was 5.7 billion.

Therefore, Igrid has judged that although the growth of the number of Internet users in the United States will slow down after the outbreak of the past year, globally, the current number of 230 million Internet users accounts for only 4% of the total population of the world. Start.Starting in 1995, Eaglet will greatly increase its overseas expansion.

In addition to Igret, industrial giants such as AOL, Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, etc., who have participated in the "Information Age" marketing plan for the past two months, have posted their own success stories.

This series of positive news was directly reflected on the first trading day of the 1995 US stock market.

Monday, January 2.

On the first trading day of the New Year’s opening year, as of the close of the afternoon, the Nasdaq index rose 2.7% to 1938 points, which is only one step away from the 2000 point mark.

With the three major technology giants in the Westeros system and the U.S. Department of Justice raising a settlement of antitrust investigations, Cisco, which had been volatile in stock prices, continued to rise in the last month of 1994, on January 2 Thanks to a series of positive news, Cisco's share price, which still holds more than 80% of the global network equipment market share and has an absolute leading market position, rose by 3.5%, and the closing market value has reached 156.3 billion U.S. dollars, ranking first in the global market capitalization of listed companies. A throne.

Following Cisco is AOL.

According to preliminary public data, although a large number of telecommunications operators have developed ISP services at no cost in the past two years, AOL, which has taken the lead in the industry in the past year, has expanded into the Great Lakes region and the southern United States market by leading giants such as AT-T and Under the attack of a large number of small ISP service providers, still 15.1 million new users have been strongly harvested in the United States, the overall number of users in the United States has reached 47.7 million, the annual growth rate is still as high as 46%, and the local market share is as high as 61%, far ahead The second-ranked AT-T has a market share of only 19%.

Moreover, the reason for emphasizing locality is that, over the past year, AOL's overseas users have grown equally gratifying.

In the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Italy, Russia, and other markets that are focused on development, under the suppression of local local operators, AOL has still harvested more than 3.7 million new users in the past year, and the total number of users has reached 5.1 million.

Based on the total number of 52 million Internet users in overseas countries, AOL's market share in overseas countries is also close to 10%.

After previous efforts, AOL also successfully obtained the German ISP access license in the second half of last year, and established a joint venture with telecommunications operators in two important markets in Japan and South Korea. Therefore, although the local growth slowed down, the United States The outbreak of online overseas business has just begun.

AOL is now completely different from AOL, which has taken the wrong development path in Simon's memory and caused it to fall apart.A truly top Internet service provider across the globe.

On January 2, the first trading day of the 1995 opening year, the share price of AOL also rose as high as 2.9%, with a closing market value of $139.2 billion.

Daenerys Entertainment, which once jumped first in market value when the three giants of Westeros technology encountered an antitrust investigation, ranked third. On January 2nd, the stock price on the New York Stock Exchange increased slightly by 0.7% to close. The market value is 132.6 billion US dollars.

Although the growth rate is slow, since the listing on July 1, last year, Daenerys Entertainment's stock price has continued to show an upward trend, and the terror market value of hundreds of billions of levels is beyond the reach of other Hollywood studios.

At the end of last year, Microsoft started extensive testing of the Windows 95 system. Because of the strong response of the new system and the rapid decline of direct competitor Apple, the market value has increased rapidly in the past year, and it officially became another 100 billion market value company in mid-December last year. .

On the day of January 2, Microsoft's stock price rose 1.9%, closing market value reached 115.3 billion US dollars, ranking fourth.

The veteran industrial giant General Electric ranks fifth, with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars, and is the only traditional industrial group among the top five.

On the day of January 2, General Electric shares rose 0.9%, closing the market value of 106.1 billion US dollars.

Compared with the dazzling glory of several other emerging companies, GE's 100 billion market capitalization seems to many media to be the last glory of the American industrial age.

After the top five billion-dollar giants with market capitalization, Intel, SUN, Oracle and other new technology companies, the market value is also constantly crushing various traditional corporate giants.

When Daenerys Entertainment went public in July last year, when it became the first company with a market value of US$100 billion in US history, many financial media believed that US$100 billion was already the ceiling of the market value of a listed company, and they predicted that Danellis The market value of entertainment will drop significantly in the second half of the year.

As a result, within six months, five hundred billion giants have emerged in the US stock market.

Cisco's terror market value of up to 156.3 billion U.S. dollars has raised the market value ceiling previously predicted by the media to another order of magnitude. Looking at it now, 200 billion U.S. dollars is probably only a matter of time.

When capital markets marvel at the record highs of a series of technology stock markets, a certain issue is hard to ignore.

Among the five billion-dollar market value companies, the Westeros system clearly occupies four.

Although the door classmates have expressed their dissatisfaction with the Westeros system more than once, no one can deny that Simon’s holding of nearly 20% of Microsoft’s shares has allowed him to exceed Paul Allen after continuous reductions. Become the second largest shareholder of Microsoft.

When some people have not forgotten the shock and numbness caused by last year's Forbes Simon's $300 billion personal net worth, according to Westero's public shareholding ratio and market value at the close of January 2nd, only Cisco, The four companies, AOL, Igret, and Microsoft, have brought Simon a total value of $294.7 billion, a distance of 300 billion, which is only a slight difference in one trading day.

However, in addition to the four companies, the Westeros system still owns Igreat, which has been given a high valuation of US$100 billion by many analysts before it is listed, and that he has an increasing right to speak on Wall Street. Cersei Capital, as well as Melissa Sandra, which continues to expand in the fashion industry, Nokia, which has become the world's largest mobile phone giant, as well as the wholly-owned regional telecommunications giant Verizon, and Australia's premier Mining giant BHP Billiton Group, as well as Intel, SUN, Oracle and other billion-level new technology elites with heavy holdings, and many more such as Tinkerbair, Aaliyah, etc. may not know when they will emerge Various types of startups.

All these, the value is geometry?!

After many events in 1994, the North American media were quite cautious when expressing their views on the Westeros system. Even so, some media people couldn’t help but live in the newspaper the next morning: Simon Westero The money is too much.

Simon wouldn't think of remedy when all the pressure was on his face like Bezos remembered.

The Simon & Janet Westeros Foundation announced on Wednesday morning that Simon will once again inject US$3 billion into the foundation to fund the establishment of professional computer classrooms and training of professional classrooms in primary and secondary schools in poor areas of the United States. In order to allow those young people from low-income families who cannot afford PC and network expenses to keep up with the latest technology.

As for the source of this funding, Simon intends to obtain it by reducing a small amount of AOL shares.

Only this matter has not been made public.

Because it is conceivable, such as Simon must be accused of tax avoidance.

Even if the charity project has been publicized, in fact, there are still a lot of dissatisfaction voices, Simon just let the public relations team of the Westeros quietly write down, just complaining, if entangled, Simon will not be polite.

In addition, Simon also commissioned an article in the New York Times to analyze the ultimate attribution of Simon's personal wealth in a future after many years.

The conclusion is that because this asset is too large, it is impossible to set up a foundation for management like the Rockefeller or Ford family. In the future, more than half of the share will inevitably return to society and become the collective wealth of the American public.

An analysis article also appeared in the Los Angeles Times on the east coast, pointing out that relative to revenue, whether it is Cisco or AOL, or Daenerys Entertainment and Microsoft, there is a serious bubble component in the market value.

The bubble will one day burst.

Because most of Simon’s personal assets are those stock assets with serious bubbles, in fact, they are far less exaggerated than the surface numbers.

When the bubble burst, Simon Westero's personal wealth may not even reach $200 billion.

At the beginning of the two newspapers, and under the deliberate guidance of the Westeros family media PR team, Simon's personal wealth will eventually return to society and Simon's personal net asset figures were seriously exaggerated. Two public opinions gradually spread.

Ah Q spirit is actually a common problem for all human beings.

No distinction is made between east and west.

Just like when Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton first appeared on the Forbes Rich List, countless reporters rushed to Walton’s hometown and found a mediocre old man wearing a broken pickup and wearing cheap clothes. He was suddenly disappointed. Others laughed at the fact that it was not like the richest man in America.

After contacting this circle, Simon also knew more about the inside story.

Sam Walton's life in private is definitely not as simple as the media advertises, just like the media later advocated Xiao Zha to open the fit to live a simple Barabara, but he did not know that the world's limited number of wind sons were placed in his garage, nor did he know that Xiao A seemingly gray sweater is worth $2,000.

Similarly, Simon is giving the public a soothing nipple of public opinion this time.

Simon Westero's wealth is unsustainable, and Simon Westero's wealth is seriously overestimated.

In short, seeing Simon's personal wealth is not as exaggerated as expected, the public's emotions will calm down a lot unconsciously.

Subsequent media feedback also proved that the effect of this public opinion operation was very good.

Simon's $3 billion charity program will not be discounted at all, and will even access the network for computer teachers who will be distributed throughout the United States.This is not too generous, Simon also intends to install a batch of popular video games from EA for these teaching computers.

Education is the king.