Silicon Valley

Founded in 1992, DigitalGlobe is a small company with only one satellite and a market value of around $250 million.

Although Williams Aerospace has been established for a short time, as soon as you hear the name, you know that the background is not simple!

The successful listing of Global Online and Isearch has almost given Henry a layer of divine light! Anything related to him seems very unusual, not to mention that Williams Aerospace is a company under Henry's name!

When DigitalGlobe received the offer from Williams Aerospace, it was startled and held a meeting to discuss it.

DigitalGlobe is not the only company engaged in providing services for high-definition images. If DigitalGlobe wants to stand out and grow, it is in urgent need of financial support. If you can get close to Henry Williams, then there will be no pressure on funds, and you can grow rapidly with the resources of the group company!

After discussion, it was finally decided to accept the acquisition of Williams Aerospace.

Williams Aerospace invested $500 million in DigitalGlobe, holding a 66.7% stake. In the following week, Double Convenience completed the transaction. DigitalGlobe is officially part of Williams Aerospace!

Shortly thereafter, ICQ took over the baton from Isearch and continued to list on Nasdaq.

ICQ has been involved in various industries, especially in-depth cooperation with Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba, and has become a dedicated tool for chat shopping, with huge traffic and extraordinary influence! In addition, the launch of the ICQ game platform has made the company quite profitable. Then, in 1993, ICQ company successively launched three heavyweight game products (including ICQ Show, Personal Image Dressing System), ICQ Farm, and ICQ Pet, which quickly swept the Internet world!

The ICQ portal launched by ICQ has quickly become one of the three major portals in the world, second only to Global Online and AOL. Among them, Global Online's market share is 71.5%, while AOL's market share is 14.5%. Although the ICQ portal has not been established for a long time, it has developed rapidly and has a market share of 8.4%, making it possible to catch up with AOL!

ICQ's revenue rose from $200 million in 1992 to more than $4 billion in 1993, a 20-fold increase. Its growth rate was astounding, and the company's net profit was surprisingly high, reaching as much as 12.5 One hundred million U.S. dollars!

"Time Magazine" commented: "The Internet company with the most development potential!" Even Tian Shuai, CEO of ICQ, was elected as the 1993 Person of the Year.

Today, ICQ has become an essential tool for surfing the Internet, and almost every netizen has at least one account!

Compared with Global Online, ICQ Company is more legendary than Global Online Company, and even in turn encroaches on the share of portal websites. Therefore, countless people are more optimistic about ICQ Company! Obviously, ICQ companies that focus on making friends are more sticky to users.

The reason why Global Online has always been able to occupy the largest market share is that in addition to the first-mover advantage, the most important thing is to have global online email, which is used by almost 90% of the global Internet users and is in an absolute monopoly position. Now, Henry will be blogging and Twitter to the global online, the position will be stronger!

So, if ICQ portal website wants to grab market share, it may be difficult to grab it from Global Online. Therefore, the only thing it can grab is AOL's market share. Squeeze out AOL, and the rest is the global online portal and the icq portal, Henry can play whatever he wants...

Just one day before ICQ's listing, most hotels in New York City were almost full, and countless people rushed to New York and NASDAQ just to buy stocks!

ICQ's listing is also the same as the previous two companies. The IPO issued 200 million shares, accounting for 20% of the total share capital, but the issue price was $25.

The bell of Nasdaq was struck again, and Henry was almost familiar with the melody of the sound.

The day decided to be another crazy day.

At the close of the day, the stock price rose to US$150, and the market value exceeded US$150 billion, once again proving the popularity of Internet concept stocks!

When Henry appeared, reporters gathered around him.

"Mr. Henry Williams, how many companies do you have to go public?"

Henry thought for a while and replied, "There are many more. Ring the bell once a week, and it seems like two or three months are almost the same!"

The reporter was stunned when he heard this...

Sure enough, as Henry said, after that, almost every week, a company under Henry's name would go public.

The three major platforms of Nicholas International E-Commerce Company are listed one after another: Amazon is listed with a market value of 75 billion US dollars; eBay is listed with a market value of 65 billion US dollars; Alibaba is listed with a market value of 30 billion US dollars!

PayPal, the world's largest third-party online payment company, goes public with a market value of $45 billion!

The medical website Health website is listed, with more than 15,000 hospital franchise websites, the world's largest DNA database, the most complete disease database, and the most cutting-edge clinical experience database, with a market value of 40 billion US dollars.

Real-Networks, the world's largest and first online video software company, went public with a market value of $22.5 billion.

Tiantian Music, the world's largest Internet music company, went public with a market value of $25 billion.

The world's first Internet site, and currently the largest site, IReader, went public with a market value of $10 billion.

In addition to the popularity of pure Internet companies going public, even Internet-related server companies are also very popular. Noah's Ark is listed with a market value of $55 billion!

Qualcomm went public with a market value of $45 billion.

ARM goes public with a market value of $16 billion.

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The dizzying and staggering flurry of listed companies didn't stop until March. However, this has greatly stimulated countless people. During this period, not only Henry's company went public, but other Internet companies saw the good market and quickly listed their own companies. Of course, the results are not bad, as long as this company belongs to the Internet concept stocks, or even a little bit!

When seeing so many Internet companies going public, all of them are making a lot of money, and others are naturally jealous. They couldn't help but have a mentality of "a monk can touch it, but I can't touch it?", and they established Internet companies one after another!

According to an incomplete survey, the number of Internet companies in the world increased by 120,000 in the past three months!

The development speed of the global Internet has exploded at an unprecedented rate, becoming the fastest growing period in history.

The Chinese government was incentivized to contact Williams Telecom to build a larger $5 billion submarine cable for them. So, in early March, as soon as the news spread, China was internationally recognized as a "country with inter"!

At this time, the China Public Digital Data Network (chinaddn) built by the Chinese government itself was also completed and opened ahead of schedule. The network can reach 21 municipalities and provincial capitals, and can provide 776 2.048Mbps high-speed circuits and 2,588 other speed circuits. The digital data network in 16 provinces and 17 cities has opened business, and it is expected to cover more than 300 nationwide by the end of the year. City. Next year, Williams Telecom plans to open a new submarine optical cable, which will cover more than 2,000 cities across the country, further speed up the popularization of the Internet, and strive to be on par with the world average!

(To be continued ~^~.)