Chapter 249: Miscellaneous Matters (3/4)
Amazon's share price has been rising fairly well since the Freshwater Fund's investment, which doesn't mean it's all smooth sailing, and as it scales up, a lot of problems start to surface.
Funds are just one of them, Amazon is burdened with a lot of debt, those debts need to be paid off with interest, there is no need to worry about the security of the capital chain, what really needs to be paid attention to is how to provide them with better services in the case of more and more users, and further expand the market, win the market in Europe and some countries in Asia, Canada, Australia and other countries are also accommodated.
Looking back, in July 1995, the "Book City Amazon" was officially launched, claiming to be the largest bookstore on the planet, with nearly one million books sold in it. However, there were only nine Amazon employees at the time, including Jeff Bezos and his wife, and the year coincided with the first wave of the dot-com bubble in the United States, and even though the online bookstore showed some bright prospects, investors were cautious and reluctant to invest too much in him.
It's funny to say that at that time, Amazon, although it displayed nearly a million books on the website, was actually zero inventory, and after users placed orders, Bezos and his employees went to the publishing house to buy books and send them out, it is hard to imagine that such a company has such a huge scale today.
By 1999, Amazon had raised nearly $2.2 billion and expanded its business to sell toys and electronics, and later built seven logistics centers in the United States and Europe, and introduced recharge cards to make online shopping easier.
However, when the dot-com bubble burst and Amazon was in trouble, Bezos had to stop some online warehouses and distribution centers under construction to get a respite, and its market value was cut by about four-fifths, and it has not recovered until now.
Jeff Bezos has worked on Wall Street, with a strong Wall Street "imprint", such as decisive, sociable, clear thinking, etc., especially in the pursuit of money, only if you like money first, you will use more time to think about how to make money, Ye Dongqing has to admit that in the period after his investment, Amazon has made a lot of changes, and has been constantly optimizing under the leadership of Mr. Bezos.
At this time in 2004, Amazon's business scale is still not large, and the goods sold are mainly concentrated in those fields, such as household goods, baby products, beauty products, food, etc., and the scale of logistics and warehousing has gone up, and the cost has also increased, which is why Mr. Bezos complained to Ye Dongqing just now.
Amazon is no longer a small company, providing services for more than 20 million users, and the size of orders per day is not small, which makes Amazon's executives a little at a loss.
Ye Dongqing didn't tell the truth, he does not know much about the online mall industry, but much more than the current Mr. Jeff Bezos, in his opinion, if you want to stimulate the company's profit increase, you should also consider open source while reducing expenses, and he happens to know a few good solutions, such as cloud service programs that match users with various goods, these can already try to develop, and the use of transportation robots in logistics warehouses is also a good way to save money, and it will not be lazy.
There is a way, don't be too anxious for the time being, Amazon is facing less competition now, it doesn't matter if it's a little late, it will lead to Amazon's cash flow being more tight, Ye Dongqing wants to make Mr. Bezos realize that he is a useful partner, so as to avoid being marginalized in future development, and throw out a good idea from time to time, which is more in his personal interests.
Laura went to London and continued to go back to school, because of her participation in the Victoria's Secret catwalk, she was already a famous celebrity in school, which caused many men to run to pursue her without their own strength, and to be honest, Laura was a little annoyed by this.
In her heart, Ye Dongqing may not be handsome enough, and she is quite flowery, but that kind of mature and confident temperament is definitely something that these young people in school can't learn, and it has a kind of meaning that the sea is difficult to water, at least until now, Laura has not known that there is a peer around twenty years old who is more successful than Ye Dongqing, and even around thirty years old, there are not many people who can reach that height.
In the past, I would be angry because of Ye Dongqing's flowery heart, but now it's okay, Laura thinks that she has also become the kind of girl whose private life is chaotic, and she blames herself deeply for this, and is annoyed that she shouldn't drink too much alcohol that night, and the Long Island Iced Tea cocktail with a lot of Coke, with some green apple juice, it tastes pretty good, but I didn't expect the wine to be so strong, and the alcohol is covered by the sweet taste, if Laura often drinks, she must know about it.
She didn't know who the man was that night, and even guessed about Leonardo DiCaprio, this thought made her a little better, after all, at least it wasn't an old man who was quite old and had already lost his head, and in recent days he was struggling with whether to call his colleague Gisele Bundchen, and Laura remembered very well that she was the fruit girl who slept in the same bed with her that day.
I thought about talking to Ye Dongqing, but in the end I decided to hide it, and I blamed myself many times for it, yes, from her point of view, concealing it is indeed the best move at the moment, and I am very worried that I will be photographed that night.
Ye Dongqing didn't expect that after he left her and left first that day, he would put Laura in such a difficult predicament, men, he could see more openly in this kind of matter, and it was impossible to take the initiative to mention it to Laura.
So, Laura found a rather lame reason, called Gisele Bundchen, pretended to care about her relationship, and asked what happened after their quarrel that night, and said that she had drunk too much, and went to the room with her, or there was no way to continue asking.
Miss Bundchen doesn't remember much, or she has no memory of what happened after her breakup, and when she thinks of her breakup, she instantly cries to the point of burst, complaining to Laura over the phone, saying that she will never get back together again, she is a scumbag and so on.
Laura rolled her eyes angrily, she didn't care about Bundchen's emotional entanglement at all, but she was too embarrassed to hang up the phone, and it took more than half an hour to get relief......