Back To 1995

   Chapter 247 Thunder on the ground

   If you say "Time" magazine, everyone can understand Song Yang as the cover character. After all, Song Yang has been leading the trend of the Internet almost all the time.

  The ranking of Song Yang's worth in America's "Business Week" surprised countless people. There have always been media comments on Song Yang's worth, but most of them do not have accurate data.

   The valuation of technology companies is too erratic, especially in the current hot period of the Internet, the valuation of Internet companies is almost soaring.

But even so, this time, Song Yang was excluded from the third place in the "Top 100 Richest People in the Technology Industry" by Business Weekly, which surprised countless people. .

  Can Business Weekly, this time, among many controversies, Song Yang's worth was excluded from Microsoft's Bill Gates and Oracle's Larry Ellison, becoming the third most valuable person in America's technology industry!

  Business Weekly gave the reason for this ranking, "The outside world only pays attention to Bruno Song's genius performance in the Internet industry, while ignoring his accomplishments in the investment industry."

   "According to the media collected by this newspaper, including data obtained from third-party data companies, since 1995, Bruno Song established the first Internet company Double-click, and his net worth has grown explosively!"

Business Weekly listed various data collected about Song Yang. The newly listed Double-click company, based on Song Yang's shareholding, has brought Song Yang nearly 380 million dollars worth of knives, which is close to Four hundred million dollars.

The Hotmail mailbox was sold to Microsoft for $500 million, and Song Yang took away $320 million of it. This is all traceable, and the public information that can be found, that is, only double-click, Hotmail mailbox The two companies made Song Yang's worth reach 700 million US dollars!

   But in the data published by Business Weekly, these 700 million dollars actually only accounted for a part of Song Yang's worth, even the smallest part!

After Double-click and Hotmail mailboxes, "Business Week" also quoted from Enron, Comerica Bank, RICK and other companies, as well as from more than 60 Wall Street companies engaged in Chicago futures investment. Among the dividends before the reorganization of America Telecom and Telephone and Telegraph Group, Song Yang received at least more than one billion dollars in dividends!

When I saw this data, the entire media and financial industry were almost in a frenzy. There were rumors before that Song Yang engaged in a slapstick operation on America Telecom, but all the relevant parties kept their mouths shut, so that the outside world did not know the truth or falsehood. , This time, "Business Weekly" took great pains to invest more than 700,000 US dollars, and asked professional accountants and analysts to collect and analyze all data. I got a billion, and even a lot of beautiful knives!

America Telecom's one-billion-dollar dividend, plus double-click and Hotmail mailboxes, the information that can be collected on the surface has made Song Yang worth $1.7 billion, becoming the youngest "17-year-old" in history. Mr. Billion Dollar Knife!"

   When the Hotmail mailbox was sold last year, some media even ridiculed Song Yang as America's youngest "Mr. 500 Million Dollar Knife". After a lapse of one year, it has more than tripled, but the record is still maintained by Song Yang.

The "Surprise" given by the data of "Business Week" is more than that. The editor-in-chief of Business Week, after the mailboxes of America Telecom, Double-click, and Hotmail, especially emphasized that in addition to the company information that can be collected publicly, In addition to making inferences, Bruno Song also has a number of unlisted companies at home and abroad. The valuation of these companies by Business Week is for reference only, and there may be errors!

  The world's first and currently the largest instant messaging company ICQ, Business Weekly asked Silicon Valley venture capital and Wall Street investment bank experts for their opinions, and its valuation was 800 million US dollars, which is almost the same as the double-click company.

However, Business Week also emphasized that once ICQ can find a profitable direction, Internet advertising or high hopes in the game industry can be fulfilled in ICQ, then ICQ's valuation will double, and ICQ is also used by Wall Street and Silicon Valley venture capital. , rated as the most anticipated and most willing to invest in Internet companies of the year!

After ICQ, there is also Fortinet, which was invested by Song Yang. Its valuation is also considered to be hundreds of millions of dollars. Although Fortinet has not earned a cent yet, people in Wall Street and Silicon Valley still express their expectations for Fortinet. , I don't know whether the UTM hardware firewall that Fortis has been doing is reliable or not, but Fortis is the world's largest free antivirus software with over 10 million users, which is still enough for Wall Street investment banks to bet!

And Fortis is also hatched by Song Yang, and he gives money and resources. Song Yang occupies 40% of the equity of Fortis. The current valuation of this equity has also exceeded 40 million. Once Fortis is successfully listed, It's not just worth the money.

   In addition, "Business Week", and later, specially mentioned a company that has never appeared in front of Silicon Valley and Wall Street before.

The editor-in-chief of    Business Weekly commented on this company in person, "Yeadex in Eastern Europe, we accidentally discovered that Bruno Song invested in another Internet company!"

   "We had never heard of Yeadex before we did our research on this company, but after we investigated this Eastern European Internet company through a research company in Eastern Europe, it was completely beyond our expectations.

Eastern Europe has always been considered an Internet desert. Yeadex is currently Lao Maozi's largest Internet advertising company, the largest e-mail company, the largest instant messaging software company, and Lao Maozi's only telecom operator service provider. In addition, Yeadex is Lao Maozi. The largest local e-commerce company, it also owns various industries such as security, food processing, machinery manufacturing, etc. Yeadex's e-commerce includes second-hand commodity trading, cross-border trade, remittance, home appliance trade and other businesses!

   In the first half of this year alone, Yeadex's revenue exceeded $980 million! "

Through these words, I can feel that when the editors of Business Weekly saw the Yeadex company information they received, the feeling that they could put duck eggs in their mouths. The ghost knows where this Yeadex company came from. It came out, and it developed too fast.

   Say it is an Internet company, but the things it mainly does are basically reselling and reselling. No one in the Internet industry makes money, mainly reselling small household appliances, daily necessities and so on.

   Says it is not an Internet company, but it sells dog meat under the banner of the Lao Maozi national Internet industry, and it is a big enclosure. What is Yeadex?

But this is also invested by Song Yang, but it is certain. As for the valuation of Yeadex, no one knows. Some people think that it is worthless. Eastern Europe is the desert of the Internet. How many users add up to Yeadex? It closed itself soon after.

   But there are also people who think that Yeadex has great potential. Once the economy of Eastern Europe improves and Lao Maozi stabilizes, it will be a market of hundreds of millions of people, which is enough to make Yeadex a behemoth.

For Yeadex, Business Weekly did not make a valuation, but the other one, although it was hollowed out by Song Yang, is still in the cycle of the telecom industry. Yang's stake in America Telecom is also worth more than $4 billion.

   This thing is to fool people, but it sounds really bluffing. If you add all these up, then Song Yang's worth has reached a terrifying 6.8 billion US dollars!

This controversy is really too big. Almost as soon as Business Weekly published the rankings, the media quarreled into a pot of porridge. Everyone thought that Song Yang's net worth could not be so high, but after extra calculation, it was so outrageous. Counting, he immediately became one of the three most valuable people in America's technology industry!

   Even if the America Telecom is eliminated, Song Yang is still worth nearly two billion dollars, the top Internet industry in America, and even the veteran Jim Clark has to stand aside.

After the release of the latest issue of "Business Week", its editor-in-chief even gave an interview to the TV station to answer questions about the ranking, "We can guarantee that the ranking of Bruno Song may even be low. , his real worth may be far beyond our expectations. In fact, when we collected this information, we never expected that he would invest in so many industries. We have no way of knowing whether he also invested in other industries, but Bruno Song, is definitely the one who may be underestimated!"

"Following the publication of Bruno Song's wealth rankings by Business Week, Forbes and Fujiby's two wealth lists have also released Bruno Song's wealth rankings one after another, ranking him in the top 60 of America's 100 Richest List... "

  Double-click after the company went public, Song Yang, Whitman, Kavy Lehman and others went on a small vacation. They had been tense for so long and needed to relax.

   In the Lake Champlain Resort Hotel in New York at the moment, Song Yang, who was eating breakfast, watched the TV station's report on his worth. The media in the past two days almost went crazy because of this.

The news on the    TV station continues to report, "Affected by Internet expectations, the Forbes Rich List stated that it is not ruled out that Bruno Song's net worth may increase significantly in the future."

   Then came the TV station. Various experts gave various interpretations of Song Yang's investment and worth. Anyway, they paid more attention than Song Yang.

"In addition, according to the latest news in Silicon Valley, the Internet Society proposed by Bruno Song may vote in San Jose in the near future. Experts from Wall Street and Silicon Valley all believe that this will have an important impact on the world Internet pattern, but there are also small Internet companies. Said that this may accelerate the injustice of the Internet..."

When a piece of news appears, it is impossible to always applaud it, and the voice of opposition naturally exists. Those small Internet companies understand that once the Internet Society is established, their life will definitely be difficult, but they dare not express their opposition, but only dare to poke in the dark. Gotta complain to the media.

   In addition to these, some voices against Song Yang have not stopped!

   I still owe three chapters and will pay it back.

   (end of this chapter)