Thursday, January 1, 1981, the day of New Year's Day.

Outside the door of the New York Stock Exchange Center, it has long been surrounded by dense stockholders, investment institutions, newspapers and weekly reporters. After many difficulties, Jobs and others pushed away the questions of a group of reporters, and finally squeezed into the venue, and came to the lounge arranged by the trading center, waiting for the opening of the US stock market at half past nine in the morning.

Jobs wiped the sweat stains on his forehead, and said with excitement on his face: "BOSS, there are many people outside, I think the company will definitely achieve a good result when it goes public today!"

"Of course, don't the newspapers say that the market estimates us at around $40?" Huo Yaowen smiled and waved the Wall Street Journal news in his hand.

This is today's newspaper, which has a number of well-known Wall Street financial experts commenting on Apple's listing, all of which are optimistic about the stock price rising sharply at the opening.

"$40? no, I think it's going to be higher!" Jobs was full of confidence in the stock price of the company that was about to go public, and when he squeezed in outside, he was surrounded by a group of reporters and stockholders, and the feeling was amazing, there was a kind of excitement that was enough to excite and give Jobs a lot of confidence.

"Haha, it's best to be higher. Huo Yaowen laughed, no matter how much the stock price can rise after the opening of the market this time, the company can give birth to at least three new billionaires, namely Jobs, Roe Wayne and Watts.

The three of them have the most shares in the company except Huo Yaowen and Anna, followed by some management and technical teams who purchased shares internally in advance.

A group of Apple executives in the lounge are imagining how much the stock price can reach this time, some predict at least $40, some guess 50, and a few fantasize about reaching $100!

Of course, estimates of more than $50 are all fantasies, and the technology company with the highest stock price in the United States is IBM. IBM, a 70-year-old technology company, has produced four times the number of high-end high-tech products of various computers and typewriters produced by all other computer manufacturers in the world.

Don't look at the current Apple company is favored by the market, and it is very happy, but it is worse than IBM in terms of heritage, I don't know how much, just in terms of production and technical services, it is not comparable to Apple.

However, in recent years, in the field of personal computer technology, IBM has lagged behind Apple in its R&D team because of its early contempt, which is one of the important reasons why Apple has been able to break out of the encirclement under IBM's encirclement.

"Gentlemen, the time is almost up. ”

Before I knew it, the person in charge of the stock exchange outside walked in and said with a smile: "I don't know who you are going to ring this victory bell!"

Jobs subconsciously looked at Huo Yaowen.

Huo Yaowen glanced at him, shook his head and said, "Jobs, you go with Wayne, I've already knocked once, so I'll give you the opportunity." ”

Apple's listing rings the bell, and the commemorative significance can be said to be very high, but Huo Yaowen doesn't want to be too showy, just leave it to Jobs to complete this task.

Jobs saw that the boss had made up his mind, and after thinking about it, he nodded and agreed, he was actually quite looking forward to ringing the bell for this listing, after all, Apple was founded by him so far, and it is naturally best to ring the bell in person.

A few minutes later.

Jobs and the others walked to a bronze bell with a classical flavor.

This bronze bell was proposed by the head of the New York Stock Exchange a few years ago, after Huo Yaowen was listed on the Huanyu Newspaper Industry, to change the way of the electric bell to ring the bell.

After communicating with the New York Stock Exchange Commission, the person in charge decided to adopt this plan, and after two years of promotion, the listing bell has become a dream ceremony for every emerging company.

"Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven......"

With the countdown of the last ten seconds before the opening of the exchange, the three Jobs who held the wooden hammer were a little nervous.

"Knock!"

"Knock ......"

With the far-reaching and loud bell ringing, the stock market in the New York Stock Exchange officially opened.

As soon as Apple's shares were issued, they were immediately scrambling for them, and traders in white shirts were rushing to receive a steady stream of stockholders. Some investment institutions have already arranged for personnel to snap up the shares issued by Apple.

Five million shares of Apple stock are being sold at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.

Time passed little by little, and before the stock market closed that afternoon, 5 million Apple shares were sold out, and the stock price also rose to $45.87, surpassing the stock price of Wang Computer Company on the day after its listing.

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Following.

The Wall Street Journal: "Yesterday, Apple Computer was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, with a total of 4,876 transactions, five million shares issued by Apple were sold out, the stock price reached an all-time high of $45.87, and the price stabilized at $43.57 on the eve of the IPO close, Apple's market value has reached $3.178 billion, becoming the fourth largest technology company giant in the United States." ”

Los Angeles Morning Post: "Apple's market capitalization of $3.178 billion on the eve of the first day of its IPO prompted the company to produce five billionaires, about 300 millionaires. According to the analysis of Michael Dornan, a well-known financial expert on Wall Street, Apple has not only become the fourth largest technology company in the United States, but is also expected to surpass one of the technology giants in the next period of time. ”

U.S. Finance: "......"

With the good situation of Apple's IPO on the first day, hundreds of newspapers across the United States have reported on this grand occasion, which not only increased the huge increase in Apple's stock price in the next few days, but also attracted more and more shareholders to participate.

Huo Yaowen also sold some of the shares held by himself and Anna when the stock price was at its highest, and after taking a large amount of cash, he only maintained the total shares of the husband and wife at about 40%.

In this way, although he is still the largest first and second shareholder of Apple, and the company is supervised by the Financial Listing Regulatory Bureau after listing, Huo Yaowen also stepped down as chairman of the board of directors and handed it over to Anna.

Lion Films.

"More than $3 billion!" Uncle Shao, who was busy dealing with the affairs of the new film company, couldn't help but be stunned when he heard that Huo Yaowen's technology company had a market value of more than $3 billion after it went public.

"Boss, Sixth Uncle?" Hu Jinzhuan saw that Uncle Shao Sixth was sitting there stunned, and shouted a few words in a low voice.

I don't know if I heard it or not, anyway, after a while, Uncle Shao Liu slowly exhaled and said a sentence from his mouth, "The future is terrifying!"

Thinking that his Uncle Shao Liu ran around the film company for decades, he finally raised the Shaw Brothers, but found that the market and the times could no longer accommodate the former mountain of the Shaw Brothers. I wanted to travel to Hollywood, USA, and at the age of 70, I worked hard again, but when I looked back, I found that Huo Yaowen no longer cared about the small profits of the film company.

"Knock Knock"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door of the office, and Li Hanxiang walked in outside the house, "Boss, I have contacted Wei Zhong and Wei Ming, and they said that they would come to see you for a while." ”

He ...... Are they willing to see me?" Hearing that his two sons were willing to see him, Uncle Shao stood up excitedly.

"This ......" Li Hanxiang said with an embarrassed face: "Wei Zhong and Wei Ming only said that they would come back to see you after a while. ”

Uncle Shao was stunned, then sighed in his heart, and said to himself: "It's good if you can come to see me, it's good if you can come to see me." ”

……

With the listing of Apple and the opening of the Lion Film Company established in cooperation with Uncle Shao Liu, Huo Yaowen reduced his stake in Apple while making initial production plans for the opening of the new film company.

In addition to transferring several producers and screenwriters from the United States Universal Film Branch, Huo Yaowen also handed over the outline of "Resident Evil" written at hand to the screenwriters to expand the plot and world view.

As the leading theme in B-grade films, the concept of zombies is not yet popular in the United States or the world, except for a "Dawn of the Living Dead" a few years ago, there are few movies and books on related themes.

In order to be able to hit Lion Films, the elements of horror films and thrillers are not particularly suitable for Lion Films, because most of the company's employees are transferred from Hong Kong or newly recruited. For American-style horror, thrillers, they are not very good at it.

But zombie films are different, based on the previous films in Hong Kong, such as "Zombie Taoist" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", as long as the concept is changed, then zombie films can be shot in accordance with zombie films, but the Taoist and talisman seals are changed to guns and bullets.

Zhang Che frowned and said bluntly after seeing the script for the first time: "Mr. Huo, isn't this a zombie movie?"

Huo Yaowen shook his head, "Zombie movies are still very different from zombie movies, zombies are a dark product, biased towards mythological elements. In the case of zombies, you can understand that it is a kind of abnormality produced by people under radiation, and they basically have no perception, touch and humanity other than retaining the instinct to eat. ”

"I wanted to see if I could make the company's first film, but the subject matter was ...... I'd better forget it. Zhang Che looked at the content of the script again, and gave up his plan to try to direct the company's first American B-grade film, the theme of this movie and the martial arts film he directed, it is simply incompatible, and there is no point of convergence.

Hu Jinzhuan and Li Hanxiang on the side also shook their heads, although they were quite interested in this theme, but as the first film of Lion Movies to invest more than two million US dollars, they did not have much confidence that it could be completed.

Huo Yaowen saw that the three of them refused, and smiled: "It's okay, I will arrange for a director to come over to shoot, and then you will follow and learn the filming process in the United States." ”

"I'm afraid I don't have that time, and I'll have to go back to Hong Kong in a while. Zhang Che shook his head, he came over this time, mainly to accompany Uncle Shao Liu to see how the new Lion Film Company is, and Hong Kong Shaw Brothers still lacks the support of his martial arts films.

The same is true for Li Hanxiang and Hu Jinshui, the three of them came to the United States this time, not to show their strength in the United States, but mainly to take a look with Uncle Shao Liu.

After all, the three of them are over half a hundred years old, and the shooting techniques and styles are completely different from Western films, and it is still too difficult to change them all over again, and there is not much difference in techniques and techniques, but in terms of Chinese and Western concepts and views, it is impossible to change them in a short period of time.

Seeing this, Huo Yaowen didn't continue to say, from the very beginning he knew that these three people came to the United States just to see how the new film company was, and the follow-up company's filming and production must be handed over to the employees here. Even if they are transferred from Hong Kong, they must all be plastic directors of the younger generation.

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