Chapter 542 Do you still need a reason to dislike you?

Author: Linjiangxian

Chapter 542 Do you still need a reason to dislike you?

Seeing that George Soros became interested, Joe Bert immediately assured him and said: "I swear with my most devout faith that this news is absolutely true. With this news, we can directly short the Fun News Company

!”

Joe Burt wants to short-sell Fun News Company on Wall Street. He is definitely not strong enough on his own, so he wants to move George Soros. As long as Soros also participates, relying on Soros's strong connections and funds, he can short-sell

Fun Facts Company is foolproof.

Seeing that Joe Bert actually swore his faith, George Soros immediately smiled cruelly. Lu Yiming had cheated him when he was in Xiangjiang, and he would always remember this grudge.

This time, of course, he would seize the opportunity and return the favor.

After hanging up on Joe Burt, George Soros called Cliff Asness and James Chanos and invited them to short Anecdote's stock.

Cliff Asness and James Chanos are also very interested in being able to cause some trouble for Lu Yiming, not to mention if this thing is done well, they might be able to make some money.

Therefore, the two readily agreed to Soros's proposal.

Zhonghai, No. 699 Yuyuan Road.

Although it has been a few days since he entered the fire, Bill Gates seemed to have no intention of leaving. Instead of returning to the United States, he found an excuse to live directly in Lujia Garden.

Fortunately, the Lu Family Garden is large enough and has enough rooms. Even if Bill Gates moves in with his bodyguards and entourage, it will still look very empty.

But Lu Yiming was very unhappy.

In the yard, two people were lying on wicker chairs, drinking coffee and soaking up the sun. Lu Yiming complained: "Because of you, my threshold is almost crossed."

In the past few days, waves of business elites and political figures have come to visit Bill Gates, making Lu Yiming unbearable.

However, Bill Gates did not have the slightest awareness of his guests. Instead, he said with a smile: "Didn't I tell you when I came here? I want to take this opportunity to give myself a good vacation. You are mine.

Friend, you won’t be unwilling to receive me, right?”

Lu Yiming had nothing to do with him, an old scoundrel. The two were chatting. Bill Gates answered the phone and winked at Lu Yiming and said, "Someone over there in the United States seems to want to short-sell. Are you there again?"

Something happened?"

Lu Yiming took a deep breath and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Good guy, are there any interesting stories about short selling? Where did this fool come from?"

He was very confident about the future of Fun News, so after receiving the news, Bill Gates did not panic at all. He still had a smile on his face and his tone was very relaxed: "I don't know, but what the heck, don't slaughter the fat sheep that come to your door."

Bai Buzai."

Lu Yiming deeply agreed.

Although lying to a fool seems to be an unethical thing, the other party took the initiative to bring it to your door. If Lu Yiming didn't have the beauty of a man, wouldn't he have let down this gift of nature?

Nowadays, the revision of Quwen has been completed, and the coordination with operators has entered the final stage. The subscription service will be launched soon. Going short on Quwen at this point does require a little imagination.

June 30, 2000, Nasdaq Stock Exchange of America.

Ding Sanshi led a group of NetEase executives to perform the bell-ringing ceremony with a small hammer. At this time, he was in an excited mood.

As soon as the company goes public, you will become a rich man!

Recalling the time when he started his business, he was so poor that he ate pig's feet every day, Ding Sanshi now only feels that his future is bright.

The company's executives huddled together excitedly. From now on, they are all millionaires, or even multi-millionaires!

Ding Sanshi, who holds 48% of NetEase's shares, has a net worth of over US$200 million based on the issue price of US$15.3, making him a billionaire!

As an Internet company, the entrepreneur Ding Sanshi holds an incredible amount of shares.

If you look at Fatty Ding’s peers, you will know that the founder of Penguin, Xiao Ma, holds less than 9% of the shares; Alibaba’s Jack Ma holds 7% of the shares and only became famous after 2009.

Brother Dong holds 15% of the shares, and Baidu Xiaolizi holds 16% of the shares.

This shows how vigilant and cautious Fatty Ding is when facing capital as an entrepreneur. Especially after Wang Zhidong was kicked out of Zhalang by Lu Yiming and several other directors, he felt even more sad.

We dare not relax even a little bit about our controlling stake.

At the end of the bell-ringing ceremony, representatives from Merrill Lynch Far East Co., Ltd. and Deutsche Bank, as stock underwriters, Holvey and Felix also came over to congratulate.

"Mr. Ding, congratulations."

"According to the saying in my hometown, you have become a mother-in-law after being a daughter-in-law for many years."

"It should be the result of hard work and hard work, haha."

For NetEase to be listed, the support of securities firms is essential, so Ding Sanshi was very polite to these two people.

"Haha, we're all happy together. You all played a big part in the company's successful listing."

For several days after that, Ding Sanshi stayed in the United States. Watching NetEase's listed market value break through to 465 million US dollars, he couldn't help but feel proud and felt that there was a lot of potential in the future.

However, his happiness did not last long. NetEase's stock price soon fell below the issue price, and even fell by more than 30% at one time!

What scene does Ding Sanshi boast that he has never seen?

But he has never seen this scene before!

He hurriedly found his senior executives and asked: "What is going on? Why did the stock price suddenly drop so much? I haven't heard of any negative news from the company. Is someone short-selling us?"

"I'm calling to see if there is a problem in the country."

The senior executives were also frightened by this drop. Now that Ding Sanshi asked about it, he did not dare to neglect it and quickly called domestic and foreign branches to learn about the situation.

After several phone calls, the senior executive understood the reason and reported to Ding Sanshi: "Mr. Ding, the company has neither exposed any scandal nor been maliciously shorted. It's because our NetEase portal has received a lot of visits these days.

fell, so it was directly reflected in the stock price, and investors began to be less optimistic about our business potential."

Ding Sanshi was shocked. The most important thing for Internet companies now is various data indicators, such as portal websites. Click-through rates are very important. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the lifeline.

After all, most Internet companies are losing money and making noise, selling "the future", and the future cannot be illusory, let alone empty words, otherwise how can they fool investors into throwing money?

So the only thing you can brag about is naturally how many users your website has and how many people use it to prove your future business potential.

But now the click-through rate of the website has plummeted, which is really killing me.

"Why did it suddenly become like this? Is it a technical reason, such as our website crashing due to too many visits?"

The executive said truthfully: "I hope this is indeed the problem, but..."

Ding Sanshi said angrily: "But you are so big, what kind of twist will you give me if you have nothing to do? Say it quickly!"

Na Gao Pipeline: "According to feedback from the company, the number of visits to the website has dropped because users have been robbed of interesting stories."

Ding Sanshi frowned and asked, "What is the interesting story?"

However, he immediately realized that his old rival Zhalang had changed its name to Quwen after Lu Yiming acquired a large amount of shares. Recently, he had been busy with NetEase's listing, so he forgot about it for a while.

Both companies are in the information field. It can be said that except for the different names, everything is similar. The business overlap is almost 100%.

"Why is it so easy that Fun News has stolen our users? Did they use some means to attract new users? But there is no conflict between visiting Fun News and visiting NetEase. Why do netizens just look for Fun News and stop coming to NetEase?"

Ding Sanshi was puzzled and immediately opened the computer at hand and entered the website address of the interesting story.

As a colleague, Ding Sanshi knows a lot about anecdotes. As soon as the website is opened, the home page that pops up has a uniform color tone, and it has obviously been specially designed. There are not only text but also pictures in the large and small squares.

And they are arranged according to the popularity of the news, with clear levels. It can be said that just by taking a glance, it is clear which news is the key.

Ding Sanshi suddenly felt very strange.

He suddenly remembered the NetEase homepage, which was densely packed with text, hyperlinks, and advertisements.

He himself couldn't bear to look at it.

It's okay not to compare, after all, everyone was just as bad before.

But now there is someone in the industry who has taken the lead in making changes, and it immediately gives people a sense of standing out from the crowd.

Ding Sanshi is very unhappy because NetEase has become a rookie among the outstanding chickens!

No wonder traffic can be stolen by interesting stories.

On this page, even Ding Sanshi had to admit that if he wants to read news, he must go to the interesting news page!

Ding Sanshi randomly clicked on a piece of news.

The title is centered and bold to highlight the key points. A summary in small characters below leaves a first impression on the reader. The main text below is clean and tidy.

It can be said that watching the news here is simply a kind of enjoyment.

This is much better than finding the main text from the advertisements in NetEase News and refining the central idea yourself!

The best thing is that after reading the news, there is actually a comment area below, where registered users can leave messages to express their opinions and interact with other netizens.

Ding Sanshi realized that this function was the ultimate killer!

Ding Sanshi browsed the news comment section and almost noticed that he had high blood pressure.

“The fun facts are really awesome, and the layout is amazing.”

"After looking at so many portals, Fun News is definitely a breath of fresh air in the industry. I haven't seen any advertisements here."

"Criticizing NetEase and Sohu by name, all I clicked on were advertisements. I was obviously looking for news, but I was confused by the advertisements."

"I will be a die-hard fan of Qujing from now on. Let them go to hell with NetEase and Sohu."
To be continued...