Back To 1995: Chapter 61 I really don\'t want to be famous
Chapter 61 I really didn't want to be famous
No matter how you say it now, Enron is a giant company in America and even in the world, so when Enron also announced to enter the Internet industry to build the world's largest e-commerce platform, the impact can be imagined.
The slogan "Recreate Enron!" was also uttered by Enron. The instigation of this slogan was astonishing, which directly caused Enron's stock price to soar by 7% that day.
This kind of performance made all those who were still questioning Kenneth and Jeff Skilling shut up. The stock price is the best reaction. That is, on this day, the value of those who invested in Enron has risen. More than 7%!
"This is not the end. Looking back in the next few years, this may just be the beginning of Enron's stock price!" Wall Street institutions are also cheering for Enron, and they like this kind of story.
Throughout America, including Texas and Tennessee, several state media that put pension funds on Enron are also fanning the flames, shouting the slogan "New Enron".
The Enron Online website, which has not yet started to be built, has been touted by the media as the world's largest business website, with a valuation of more than 30 million US dollars. That is, Enron Online, which only has one domain name, has a valuation of more than 10 million US dollars. knife.
This made a bald founder who had just been established for a year and changed his company name to Amazon less than a month ago. When he saw this news, he also let out a long sigh. On the other hand, the valuation of Amazon did not exceed 30 million US dollars, because no matter how you look at it, Amazon is losing money now...
Affected by Enron Online, Nasdaq was also affected that day, and the index directly broke through 1,000 points. This year, it has more than tripled since the beginning of the year from more than 300 points. The entire Nasdaq and Silicon Valley have begun to There is a breath of frenzy.
Following this ride, there is also the small and transparent Double-click Company. Although Enron only announced that Double-click will be the technical partner of Enron Online, Wall Street and Silicon Valley analysts still raised the market value of Double-click again. More than 100 million US dollars!
A company established only half a year ago has a valuation of more than 100 million US dollars, which has subverted countless people's impressions of the Internet.
According to the current estimates of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, after Netscape goes public next month, it will basically become the Internet company with the largest market value in the world. If it is ranked according to the current valuation of Internet companies in America, Double-Click is also ranked at the top. Twenty, although it is the existence of the tail of the crane!
Song Yang's value has skyrocketed again in name. The founder of a company valued at tens of millions is treated differently from the founder of a company worth hundreds of millions. Although for Song Yang, these are of no use at all. If it is not listed, he will not be able to cash out.
But now the Internet industry in America has begun to be in full swing.
Today Devers School is crowded with people. Song Yang, Jenny and other graduates are all wearing graduation gowns. Greg, Dana, Gallo and others also came to participate. The whole Devers School is full of people today. It was boiling, today was Song Yang's graduation ceremony at Devers School.
The whole street was decorated, not only students and parents, but also well-known figures in the community near Devers School, pastors and district councilors, etc., all showed up today. There were not so many people here, but Song Yang The existence of Adrian and others all cheered on. A founder of a company with a valuation of hundreds of millions is a touted existence in any city in America!
As soon as he entered the scene, many people surrounded Song Yang. After seeing Adrian, Song Yang walked over first.
"Member Adrian!"
"Song, you did a good job, I heard about your cooperation with Kenneth!"
Adrian leaned into Song Yang's ear and said with a smile, in his opinion, he deserved some credit for the cooperation between Double-click Company and Enron Company. If he hadn't invited Song Yang to his banquet, Song Yang would not have met Ken Nice, Adrian feels that the tens of thousands of dollars that Song Yang donated to him for the campaign is definitely worth the money.
Song Yang could only nod his head, and reluctantly accepted Adrian's "good intentions". When the line from Chicago to New York started construction, he still needed to rely on Adrian's contacts in the federal states.
"Song, let me introduce some friends to you, Harris County Attorney General Chuck Rhodes," Adrian pointed to a tall, thin middle-aged man, and said with a smile to Song Yang, "He made Houston The guy who countless people can't sleep at night!"
Song Yang looked at Chuck. Although the latter had a smile on his face, he always felt uncomfortable being stared at by Chuck. Although Adrian was joking, Chuck was indeed a powerful figure in Houston.
He can directly decide whether to prosecute a person, that is, whether to send a person to a federal prison, especially now that the Attorney General of the American Federation has more and more power, and some powerful figures can even suppress federal police detectives, such as In the case, the federal police detectives became soy saucers and were only responsible for collecting evidence. The rest of the evidence review, whether to prosecute, and the trial were all in charge of the chief prosecutor!
"This is Harris Coast Guard..."
Adrian introduced a few people to Song Yang, all of whom obviously belonged to his camp. This was also "inadvertently" showing Song Yang his strength and connections. The Attorney General of Houston, the Coast Guard and the like, all is his man.
On this occasion, Song Yang and Adrian could only say a few words in a hurry, and then they were pulled aside by Daanna.
"Song, Pastor Andrew hasn't seen you for a long time!"
Dana pulled Song Yang to a man dressed as a priest. Song Yang knew that this was Andrew, the pastor of the community in Houston.
Song Yang didn't have a deep impression of Andrew, in fact, he hadn't been there a few times at all, but Song Yang didn't say that when facing Andrew, "Pastor Andrew, I always wanted to go with Aunt Daana, But you know I'm too busy!"
"I see!"
Andrew seems to be very "understanding", "But I still hope that Song, you can come to church with Gallo and the others, and listen to..."
"Sure, I want to donate a sum of money to Pastor Andrew and the church through the Bruno Foundation, to repair the church and do some charity activities!"
The Bruno Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Song Yang. Now Dana is managing it. In fact, it is donating money to schools, hospitals, charities and other places in Houston, and buying some food and clothes to help those in the slum communities. By the way, now that Dana is in Houston, she already has the title of a charitable lady. Many newspapers in Houston have reported this, and this is also a common routine...
Hearing that Song Yang wanted to donate another sum of money to him, Andrew did not show a smile on his face, but he was overjoyed. If he wants to go further as a pastor, he also needs more supporters. In America, all these Can't do without Meidao!
Amidst the noise, Song Yang walked to the temporary stage and took out the speech script that he had prepared long ago. Song Yang also asked Irene, an MBA from the University of Houston, to polish the draft.
“I never thought that I would stand here. My greatest expectation was to stand on the baseball field and take down the opponent’s field for the jersey I was wearing, but…”
Hearing this, Stanton, who was sitting in the audience, covered his face in pain. He didn't know why Song Yang kept mentioning this. Stan had already been invited by a baseball team from a not-so-famous university in Texas. Stanton, I feel that he will be famous in America in the future, and the one who teases him the most is that without his baseball bat, Song Yang would not be where he is today, but Stanton said that he really does not want to be famous in this way ah!
"But Pastor Andrew often told me that when God closes a door for you, he will definitely open a window for you. Of course, we must be prepared enough to discover the sunlight that shines into the room through the window. For that I want to thank Uncle Greg, Dana..."
Andrew, who was mentioned by Song Yang, turned his head slowly with a solemn expression, and gestured to the eyes cast around him. He had the demeanor of a master. Although Andrew couldn't remember it, he had never been to him a few times since he was a child. Song Yang, when did you hear him say that?
"Thank you Devers School, thank you Congressman Adrian, for all you have done for Devers School and Houston!"
After Song Yang finished speaking, there was a burst of applause from below. This bowl of thick chicken soup fully demonstrated that Song Yang was forced to leave the baseball field after being injured, and then went through untold hardships to get all the experiences he has today. The identity of a genius baseball player fell to the bottom, and he climbed up again with the figure of a technological genius. He built all this from scratch, isn't it Biboren Chuanyan?
After Song Yang came down, he was still a little unsatisfied. Let alone other people, Song Yang himself was a little angry. He will use this version as the basis for speaking in public in the future. At most, he can upgrade a level and make a patch or something. .
Song Yang knew that Adrian came today to build momentum for the next election, so after coming down, he directly invited Adrian to speak on stage.
"Song, I didn't even know you had gone through so much!"
After Song Yang came down, she was hugged by Daanna who was wiping away tears. She used to think that Song Yang didn't come back in the middle of the night and was fooling around outside, but she didn't expect that Song Yang taught himself to code and program all night long, and in order to find Double-click the company's first customer, and waited for three days and three nights outside the Telephone and Telegraph Group, braving the zero-degree temperature, waiting outside Wired magazine, just to see Kevin Kelly, wait, listen Dana wiped tears with all the women present.
Greg and Gallo all looked at Song Yang with strange expressions. How do they feel? Song Yang and what they experienced did not happen in the same world. Besides, Song Yang, with the face of a young Hollywood creampie, can still Turned away by Kayla with the keys to the WIRED office building? !
(end of this chapter)