December 23rd is only one day away from the traditional Western Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. It stands to reason that the next week or so is definitely the most important day of the year for Westerners.

Because of the actual existence of Christmas, a fairy tale holiday, Westerners who have been busy for a year can always take advantage of this time to enjoy a happy time of reunion with family, relatives and friends, as well as successive relaxing holidays.

But this year is 2008, and it is destined to be an extraordinary year because of the existence of a certain person.

Especially at Salomon Smith Barney, a daily company on Wall Street in the United States, as this traditional Western holiday approaches, there is a team that is so busy that they forget about the existence of the holiday.

"Kyle, let's carefully analyze Bing's growth data over the past few years. We need to re-examine its growth value based on the new situation in order to make more accurate pricing estimates, so that we can maximize our revenue this time."

"Okay, Boss..."

"Solo, we also need key materials for Bing's rapid growth after entering the US market. I always feel that if Bing can gain a foothold during this period, there must be more key information that we have missed. So, we must dig up

Come out and be used by us.”

"Understood, Boss, I'm already looking for someone to collect."

"Jim, please help Solo see if you can find any clues from Bing's cooperation with other companies in the past two years. This is very important to us!"

"Okay, Boss, I will dig harder."

"And Lyle..."

"Boss, I'm digging into the relationship between Bing's management and shareholders. Now I know that the Kaltix trio was personally invited by the major shareholder! They have been paid attention to by Google."

"Personally invited? Google attention." Solomon Russell suddenly waved his fist, "Well done! This is one of the important factors for us to re-examine Bing's issue price."

After issuing various orders non-stop, Solomon Russell, who was so excited, had time to take a good breath.

The past few minutes were simply numbing minutes, but he had to do it.

Nikko Salomon America, where he works, is a long-established securities company. In 2001, with 12% of the global securities market share, Merrill Lynch, a long-established securities company with 10%, was knocked off the global securities company list and became the world's number one securities company.

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In recent years, Merrill Lynch, which ranked second, has been eyeing behind them, and competition in his industry has always been fierce. Various factors forced him, the person in charge, to treat every business with caution.

But the reason why today is busier than usual is that the case they are responsible for has suddenly experienced a key change that will have a huge impact.

Ten minutes ago, they received an internal document that arrived four hours earlier than it was announced to the public.

This internal information comes from Bing, allowing him to determine that the changes that will have a huge impact come from their shareholder structure.

Data shows that the offshore company Victory Investment occupies the vast majority of Bing's shares. This Victory Investment has three shareholders, one of whom holds 90% of the shares is called Ning Zimo!

That's right, Ning Zimo.

Solomon Russell knew the name, and did so earlier than many.

In 2001, the year when Salomon Smith Barney knocked Merrill Lynch out of the top spot, he was responsible for following up on the stock issuance of PayPal, an emerging Internet company.

At that time, this company, which had been established for less than 2 years, was about to go public, and their stocks were operated by his leader.

Compared with the relatively popular treasury bonds that year, he was actually unwilling to participate in PayPal's mere US$1.8 billion stock issuance. But no matter how reluctant he was, he was "forced" to participate in the entire process.

And it was that participation that made him remember the name of PayPal's creative genius and the youngest COO in PayPal's history - Ning Zimo.

Fast forward seven years, and the former COO of PayPal did not start high and then go low. Instead, he has grown into the center of a topic that has been exposed continuously in the past year.

Following the iPhone launches in June and August this year, the former PayPal COO became a major shareholder of Facebook.

But that alone was not enough. He was overwhelmed by the continuous news in recent days.

First, a few days ago, Twitter announced the shareholder structure of its own company, and Ning Zimo's name was clearly listed. And then today, the largest shareholder of Bing, a future listed company, is actually the creative genius of PayPal back then?

But what shocked Solomon Russell the most was that almost at the same time, his old buddy from another group in the company revealed some unknown information to him.

The world's largest cloud service company - ACS;

LinkedIn, the world's largest professional social networking site on the Internet;

The world's largest video website - YouTube;

These three companies will prepare to go public early next year, and the Silicon Valley genius who surprised him repeatedly, Ning Zimo, the youngest COO in the history of PayPal, actually holds 30% of the shares of each of these three industry-leading companies.

Shares!

Together with Bing, Facebook and Twitter, we are the major shareholders of six Internet companies preparing to go public!

This young man who is only 25 or 6 years old in his senior year actually has the status of so many shareholders!

Although this may be due to the fact that the founders of these companies are all veteran backbones of the PayPal family. But having participated in the investment and founding of this series of companies, this series of operations is more than amazing.

Solomon Russell knew very well that the inside information he had was bound to be released sooner or later. If the Silicon Valley creative genius's astonishing shareholding status became known to the world, it would definitely have a huge impact on Bing's stock price after it went public.

Even though this news will be delayed by one year from Bing's announcement, the major shareholders of the two largest social networking sites hold the vast majority of Bing's shares. If this news is exposed, it will definitely increase Bing's position significantly.

The stock price on the day of listing.

Nikko Salomon Smith Barney requires employees to understand the company's market. He himself has been in the brokerage industry for 20 years, so he naturally has a clear view of Bing's possible future prospects.

If a search giant like Bing, which accounts for more than half of U.S. Internet searches, joins forces with the top two social networks, even if we do not include the three major industry giants ACS, Youku and LinkedIn for the time being.

The territory occupied by this entire system is enough to confirm the dominance of the Internet.

Since it is an Internet overlord, Bing’s stock issuance plan cannot proceed as before.

Earlier, Nikko Salomon Smith Barney negotiated a 40% issuance share in the stock issuance of Bing. Now thinking about this decision, Solomon Russell wants to slap himself!

This 40% issuance share accounts for Bing's current estimated market capitalization of US$10 billion. Originally, they followed Wall Street and Silicon Valley's usual positioning of Bing as the top company in the search market. In fact, they only estimated the listing for Bing.

The last 20% increase.

In other words, the price per share of 40 US dollars is expected to rise to a maximum of 48 US dollars.

But now the situation has changed. As long as the identity of Ning Zimo, a complex shareholder with wide-ranging interests, is announced in a few hours, Bing's stock value appreciation after listing may not be able to stop it from rising by 40%.

40%!

This means $56 per share.

This at least means that Bing's market capitalization is likely to exceed US$140 billion on the day of listing, and correspondingly, the value of Bing's shares underwritten by Salomon Smith Barney will inevitably exceed US$14 billion!

If they had originally underwritten 50% or more, would they have made more profits?

But Solomon Russell also knew very well that Bing invited them to issue shares together with Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. As the industry leaders, it was already very good for them to take 40% of the stock issuance tasks.

Even if calculated based on the current situation, the stock issuance of Bing alone can account for 1.9% of their annual business of Nikko Salomon Smith Barney, which is already considered a considerable piece of business.

Not to mention, this amount still accounts for 20% of the sales share of the team he leads!

Just this one order can make the group of members he leads have enough to eat and drink for a year!

Solomon Russell thought of this and looked up at the busy team. Those guys were very busy because of the early news, but everyone's face was filled with enthusiasm.

They may also think like themselves, they should make good use of the final preparation period before Christmas to fully prepare for the stock price estimate of Bing's listing.

Solomon Russell couldn't help but look further out the window, and a question came to his mind.

I don’t know how the entire Silicon Valley, Wall Street and even the entire United States will react when this news comes out from Wall Street four hours later.

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"The listing of the company is what you have to report to me?" Richard John Bean looked into Ning Zimo's eyes quietly. After a long time, he smiled and said, "Based on what I know about you, I'm afraid you are not.

Don’t worry about unrealistic things like stock prices.”

"I don't care, but investors do." Ning Zimo smiled slightly, "If you can make some money, naturally everyone likes it."

"All right,"

Richard curled his lips, and the old naughty boy's expression made Ning Zimo laugh out loud.

The old man glared at him and said, "You are the first person I have seen who can combine dreams and money so perfectly."

"Hey, is this a scolding or a compliment?" Ning Zimo was curious.

"Praise for you," the old man chuckled after thinking about it, "Although I don't know much about the Internet, I have used Bing to search."

"Have you ever used it?" Ning Zimo felt amazing, "You are 99 years old and you can actually use a computer!"

"I'm not a stubborn person!" The old man glanced at Richard as he spoke.

Then, Ning Zimo was "bitten" by Richard who grabbed his trouser leg. The tacit understanding between the two "people" immediately made Ning Zimo dumbfounded.

Seeing that Ning Zimo was "helpless" towards Richard, the old man said quietly, "Six years ago, when you brought Mr. Lu to my place, you asked me for three things from the beginning to the end.

Words, these three words are the answer I casually gave you back then - 'curiosity'.

I didn’t expect that after so many years, you would implement and pass on the three words ‘curiosity’ by relying on the search engine named after my last name, and you would be so successful.

You know, what I call success is not that your search engine goes public. Rather, it means that your search engine does bring people a lot of convenience and helps people solve many problems."

As soon as the old man paused, Sima Lin, who had been paying attention to him, handed him a cup from the side.

The old man smiled and took it in his hand, then gave Ning Zimo a subtle look.

What the old man and the young man made right in front of Sima Lin was naturally visible to her.

Thinking of the metaphor of their actions, her face became hot again unconsciously.

Fortunately, the old man did not make any extra moves. After taking a drink of water, he continued:

“Bing is really a good thing. It allowed me to understand the changes in the world in the past hundred years through a computer. Especially in the field of heart disease, Bing’s professional library, even if I didn’t buy those books, I could still see the contemporary changes.
To be continued...