Chicago 1990

On January 3, 1997, at 6 o'clock in the morning, several uninvited guests in suits and shoes visited Highland Park. More than half an hour later, Goodman and O'Grady also rushed over in the wind and snow. They were still wearing pajamas in the study. Song Ya began to shout with excitement.

He was not swearing, but on the phone with Jim Clark, "Jim, Jim, no no no, don’t interrupt me, listen to me, didn’t I promise you the last time? I’ll hold the stock, I It has always been said and done!"

　　 "That's great, we will determine it in a more formal way." Jim Clark said.

　　 "I don't sign this ghost."

He pushed the documents brought by the men in suits far away on the table. This is a joint statement by Netscape executives and major shareholders, promising not to reduce their holdings of the company’s stock within six months. “I’m not a major shareholder. Participate in any decision-making and company management, without board seats and voting rights, and even internal information...Last time I saw an additional sign for you! Here again?"

　　 "This is useful for stabilizing stock prices. Investors don't know what you verbally promise in private!"

　　 Jim Clark also raised the volume, "Unless you cheated me last time, you actually intend to cash out after the market opens today!"

　　 "OMG! Do you have a murderous delusion Jim?"

　　 "What? Be careful when you speak! I made you rich!"

　　 "Get rich, get rich, what do you want to say to me forever? Business is business!"

"Never forget that I allowed you to enter the market, and never forget that I used to have 10,000 ways to get rid of your shares before going public! I can do it, but I didn't do it. You have already earned money on Netscape. How much did it cost? Huh? You should be grateful to the kid..."

"Hehe, that's just because I had the same vision as you at the time, and I was also chasing Mark Anderson. If you don't settle me as soon as possible, aren't you afraid that he suddenly changed his mind? And I have done a lot for the company, and I did my best before going public. Try my best to use my fame to help the roadshow, I... I was wearing a Netscape Logo hat even when I went to the White House to see the chieftain!"

　　 "Then you will continue to fight with us! I will give you back, let your Chinese doctor in charge of venture capital come to me, it is not convenient to say on the phone."

"I will also keep my promise Jim, but I don't sign this silly thing. Who knows if you are playing me again... Last time I sold 0.5% of the shares to your friends' investment company, no In a few days, your side has been so profitable... the stock price has gone from 135 to 170! I have lost a lot of money!"

　　 "You are embarrassed to mention him? They are all locked up."

　　 "Uh... Didn't the high point shoot?"

"What do you mean? They are not prophets. Okay, well, I don’t have time to quarrel with you. APLUS, you have read the document, then sign it, everyone sign, I, Mark, Bacchus, we need to unite now Today is very important to us, so please do us a favor."

"Then you say it earlier, I don’t have the energy to make decisions early in the morning. I just performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last night, and there is another one today. Do you understand the symphony conductor? This job requires 120 minutes of attention. , Very tiring!"

　　 "I apologize for this, I also thought and thought about it last night, but decided to include you in the joint statement to ensure that the opening today is foolproof."

　　 "You still said you have no persecution delusion!?"

　　 "My M-FXXK 2 billion worth almost lost half in a month! You talk to me about persecution delusion!? Would you like to talk about Huntington's disease again!?"

　　 "Heng what? Forget it, huh... this is the last time, the last time Jim."

　　 arguing with Jim Clark was dizzy, Song Ya felt that the guy's spirit was a little abnormal, the nonsense, of course, can understand it, and finally compromised after asking for some benefits.

　　, panting heavily, babbled and signed under the joint statement, then threw the pen and paper back to the man in the suit, and went to sleep again.

　　 "Harry?"

　　 After ten o'clock in the morning, he woke up naturally this time. He turned over and found that Halle was not next to his pillow. Maybe he had gone to exercise. He got up and washed up and went to the study.

'Following Netscape’s major shareholders and high-level executives’ announcements to postpone their shareholding in the company’s shares for six months, APLUS also announced to join this commitment before the opening of the market today. He still owns 2% of Netscape’s shares and closed before the holiday. Calculated by price, the market value is about $150 million...'

try{mad1(\'gad2\');}catch(ex){}　　 The financial station in the room is broadcasting, and the Bloomberg keyboard is cracking, "How about O'Grady in the morning? Oh, it's you... …"

　　 thought it was his stock broker who was shrinking behind the screen, but he didn't expect to walk over to see Hallie's short, fluffy black hair that had not been taken care of.

　　 "Netscape's stock price has just rushed back to a hundred dollars!" She announced the good news.

　　 "Why are you paying attention to this? Didn't you let you buy Netscape stock?" Song Ya asked strangely.

　　 "I didn't buy it or didn't buy it. I heard you arguing about this in the study in the morning. You all promised to postpone the reduction in holdings, right?" Halle asked.

　　 "Most of them count, but it depends on the situation...what about O'Grady and Goodman?"

　　 "Talk to Ms. Sloan in the living room downstairs."

"Oh."

　　 "You wait, you wait." Song Yagang wanted to lift his foot to leave, but was stopped by her, "Come here, come here...what does this Bloomberg news mean?"

　　 "Netscape released a new network directory standard LDAP. It is expected that more than forty software vendors and a large number of enterprise users such as Bank of America, Mobil, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson will support this standard."

　　 Halle pointed to a short news on the screen and asked.

"Uh...uh...it seems to be used in other company's intranet products, I am not sure." Song Ya recalled, without impression, "Anyway, it is a good thing. The development of standards will definitely help competitors Excluded from the market."

　　 "There is more..." Hallie turned out another one earlier.

　　‘Netscape browser will add...and so on. "This is longer and more professional. Song Ya jumped to look at it. "Some developers complained that the extended function code of Netscape browser supporting new features does not comply with the web programming standard Barabara promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium..."

　　 "Beast! The source of all evil!" He subconsciously scolded after reading it.

　　 "What's the matter? What do you mean?" Halle turned into a problem baby.

　　 "Uh...that is to say, after web developers develop web pages based on Netscape browsers, they are likely to have to work on IE compatibility, and vice versa." Song Ya replied.

　　 "What... mean..."

"That is to say, Netscape and IE have completely broken. In the future, when you visit the same website with different browsers, you may see different pages. You may even use IE to access everything. All functions are fine, but with Netscape Poor Berners Lee created the World Wide Web and gave up the patent, but he did not expect that his ideal of maintaining the reciprocity of the Internet and keeping it in the minimum order was quickly trampled by the listed US companies in order to maintain stock prices. ..." Song Ya sighed.

　　 "Are you good?"

　　 "Forget it, now Netscape still has a market share of about 80%. Web developers will definitely write code based on Netscape browser first, and then consider compatibility with IE or other manufacturers..."

Jim Clark and Mark Anderson are going to zoom in and work harder, taking advantage of the market share to force developers to stand in line, either you die or I live... Only the website programmers are sorry. If you want to make the web page compatible with different browsers In the future, the workload will be doubled or even more than that.

　　 "So some IT media will say that the browser world war has officially started, right?" O'Grady and the others came in, "Microsoft's market value and annual revenue are ten or even dozens of times that of Netscape."

　　 "But Netscape's stock price has rebounded. It seems that many investors are optimistic about us." Song Ya said.

　　 "Maybe they are optimistic about this." O'Grady showed him the latest issue of Frontline Magazine.

'Netscape President Bucksted talked about the unfair competition lawsuit initiated by Microsoft after the launch of IE3.0 in August last year. He said that they have obtained conclusive evidence. When Microsoft persuaded PC manufacturers to accept IE's bundling sales, he would The OEM license of the Windows operating system provides a discount of three dollars...'

　　 "Wow, did Microsoft really get caught this time? Are they so careless?" Song Yale said, "Unfair competition? Based on the dominance of the Windows operating system, this is enough to be classified as a monopoly, right?"

　　 "It looks like it is."

　　 Sloan handed over a document, "Jim Clark wants you to add another fire."

　　 Song Ya glanced at the file, then looked at the Netscape stock price on the Bloomberg machine screen with Infoseek and other ‘brothers’ struggling to attack, "Okay."

try{mad1(\'gad2\');}catch(ex){}　　 After all, he got too much money inside. He turned on the Compaq computer equipped with the VoodooRush display chip and logged on to the American Music website, ‘ha! We caught Microsoft! unambiguous evidence! Three meters! Bill Gates and Ballmer sold their souls for only three meters! ’

Typing frantically, I glanced at the photo with the big guys on the honor corner table in the middle, forget it, after all I know your dad, let you go, he eliminated the name of the richest man, and scolded Ballmer. ,'Ballmer sold his soul for only three meters! IE browser is not only free, but also bundled sales, not only bundled sales, but also threatening to lure major PC manufacturers! They are playing a monopoly! Wait for the defendant to go bankrupt! ’

　　‘We should spin off Microsoft! ’

　　‘Politicians in Washington! Stop pretending to be deaf about their monopoly! ’

　　‘MICROSOFT! ’

　　 Post a few in a row, the effect is hard to say. Entertainment reporters who often steal news are not sensitive to financial content. They are gradually getting tired, and they will no longer reprint every message of their own.

　　 Anyway, I’ll do my best. At the end of the afternoon, Netscape’s stock price regained a firm position of $100, which also drove the stock price of a group of Internet upstarts to rebound. It seems that Jim Clark’s combination of punches has an obvious effect.

　　 At night, he tidied his tuxedo slightly, smiled, walked briskly on stage, greeted with celebrities and dignitaries, bowed, taking care of every angle of the audience, and the audience responded with applause.

This is the last stage of the New Year’s concert, hugs and shakes hands. After he walks through the procedure without hesitation, he stands on the podium and glances over the faces of the various voices and chorus people. It feels almost done, and he switches to full faces. His devotion and piety were forgotten, and the baton began to swing and jump in his hand.

　　 notes flow.

　　’As the most successful African-American star and investor, at the beginning of 1997, APLUS is creating new history every day, every day...’

In return, Jim Clark asked a heavyweight financial evening newspaper to publish a touted article. The text was very awkward. "On January 1st, APLUS first created the record industry’s highest 21% singer share, just over MJ and MJ. Madonna's 20% contract is 0.1 point. ’

'He led a group of singers such as Fergie to switch from Sony Columbia to Universal's Geffen Records. Not only did he decisively change the map of the American record industry, he also received a top 60 million signing fee, which is second only to MJ. ...Side by Madonna. ’

'In addition, among the record labels founded by African Americans, A+ Records surpassed a group of predecessors with a transaction value of 160 million ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ only ranked behind Motown and the original DefJam record third. ’

'On the same day, APLUS made great use of the huge income earned from the recording industry. It not only saved the struggling Littman Publishing House and high-fidelity magazines, but also pulled the 20th Century Fox Pictures back from the brink of bankruptcy. After investing 60 million in the Titanic project, the production cost of this masterpiece of film history directed by Cameron has reached an unprecedented level of 210 million...'

'On January 2nd, APLUS generously honored its promise and transferred 15% of the shares of A+ Audio Company to its entrepreneurial partner Dilai. This move is considered to be a subsidiary of A+ Audio, and the America Music website’s listing plan is cleared. The final internal equity relationship. The American Music website is now the world’s largest classical music website, the largest music forum, the second largest music data website after QuanMusic, and the third largest gossip forum after AOL and Webchat entertainment. . As a pioneer, it will set an absolute benchmark for other professional websites waiting to be listed...’

　　’On January 3rd, APLUS gave our tech hero Mark Anderson great support. He not only stated his firm support for Netscape’s series of stock price defense wars, but also frequently talked about Netscape’s lawsuit against Microsoft. He formally declared war on the "evil dragon" Microsoft on social media, blaming Microsoft President Ballmer as a Judas who sold his soul for a three-meter knife. He also called on Congress to spin off the industry overlord and the world's largest software company, if it really succeeds. ...'

The performance of 　　 was better than yesterday. After more than three minutes, Song Ya slowly pressed his hands down with satisfaction.

　　 There was another warm applause in the concert hall.