Lin Zhuoyun no longer goes to class, usually reviews manuscripts in "Sprout" magazine, reads and studies by himself after reviewing manuscripts, and occasionally writes poetry and prose.

The graduate thesis has already been completed, and the second revision is being made, and the defense will be made in another month.

Late spring, afternoon.

Just finished watching a movie, Song Weiyang held Lin Zhuoyun's little hand, and the two walked through the streets of Xujiahui. Song Weiyang smiled and asked, "Are you not going to continue your doctoral studies?"

"It's fun to work in a magazine when I don't read it. Lin Zhuoyun said.

Song Weiyang said: "If you are really interested in literature, you can try to make a literary website, under the banyan tree is quite good." ”

"I know under the banyan tree, and I have also sent an email to submit the manuscript, do you know the stationmaster under the banyan tree?" Lin Zhuoyun asked.

Song Weiyang said: "I don't know, but I can know." ”

Lin Zhuoyun said with a smile: "Throwing money at investment? As far as I know, the stationmaster under the banyan tree is not short of money." ”

"How do you know he's not short of money?" Song Weiyang asked.

"I talked to him," said Ms. Lin, "and I submitted a few articles, all of which were published under the banyan tree." This site cannot post articles directly, only through the website's email link. Every time, the webmaster is very serious, and after posting my article on the Internet, he has to write an email to reply to me. On one occasion, he pointed out that I had a typo, and he corrected it for me and told me not to mind. I thought this guy was interesting, so I chatted with him by email and found out that he was the owner of an advertising agency. ”

"Men and women?" Song Weiyang said.

Lin Zhuoyun smiled and said, "Jealous?"

"How is that possible?" Song Weiyang did not admit.

The founder of the banyan tree is William Zhu, a Chinese-American, who grew up in California and did not return to China to start his own business until 1994.

At the beginning, under the banyan tree was just William Zhu's personal page, because he loved literature, and he wrote articles and posted them on his website. Later, he got an email link to the website, and netizens could send an email to it, but he accepted all the interesting articles.

In this way, without publicity or advertising, the traffic under the banyan tree has increased year by year, and there have been 100,000 visits per day this year.

For a purely literary website, the number of visits was so staggering in 1999 that it was inevitably targeted by some venture capital firms. But William Zhu does not accept financing at all, this is just his personal hobby, not even a content editor, and he is also doing the daily maintenance of the website.

This person is really not short of money, once he went to London on a business trip, in order to ensure that the content of the website is updated, he actually made an international call from the United Kingdom back to Shenghai to dial up the Internet, and the review and release were busy all night, and the telephone and Internet bills were used up 7,000 pounds, equivalent to 100,000 yuan at that time.

Local tyrants!

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "The next time we talk, you will ask him if he wants to make the website bigger so that more literature lovers can communicate with each other." ”

"Okay, but I don't think he'll say yes. Lin Zhuoyun said.

When the two were walking and chatting, Hong Weiguo kept following a few meters away. And Shen Sizheng was at KFC nearby, drinking Coke while summarizing news and arranging trips for Song Weiyang.

Before she finished drinking a glass of Coke, Shen Si received a long distance across the ocean, and she said in fluent English, "Well, okay...... I see, I'll tell my boss. As for whether to travel to the United States, it is up to the boss to decide...... Well, okay, I'll let you know when it's arranged. ”

Hanging up the phone, Shen Si trotted out of KFC, chased after Song Weiyang and said, "Boss, Google from the United States is calling and has decided to conduct a second round of financing next month." The two founders of Google need your support and ask you to go to the United States in person, and they have a big difference of opinion with the venture capital firm. ”

Song Weiyang said: "Tell them that I will go at the end of the month. ”

"Okay. Shen Si began to flip through the schedule, and she had to arrange a reasonable time.

Google has developed rapidly this year, and because of Song Weiyang's advice, they have found a profit model in advance. Google's groundbreaking custom search advertising model brought Google's revenue to $12 million last year, which is a dazzling hit in a loss-making Internet industry.

Not only Wall Street venture capital firms are flocking to it, but even Amazon is tempted, bidding $200 million to buy a 40% stake in Google - Amazon has gone crazy and has deep pockets, having bought two companies in a month last year, costing nearly $300 million, and is still waving money for acquisitions this year.

The U.S. dot-com bubble has not only not burst, but continues to expand, and Wall Street values Google at nearly $600 million, seven or eight times more than the same period in history!

Doesn't that seem outrageous?

There is an online grocery delivery company in the United States called Webvan, which just broke $10 million in revenue last year, and has now been valued at $1.5 billion by Wall Street. Half a year later, the company went public, and its valuation quickly grew to $8 billion!

At this time, there is also a newly established Pets company, which will be directly listed next year, and it will take less than a year from registration to listing. The reason why venture capital companies are optimistic is only because when this website is doing publicity, its sock dolls are refreshing, so they spend all kinds of money to invest, wanting to take advantage of the fire of Internet stocks to make a wave.

Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly, not to mention that Google is a dragon.

Walking around Xujiahui, Song Weiyang said: "Go home, Doudou is about to get out of school." ”

"Boom!"

There was a loud bang in the distance, and the ground shook slightly, startling the pedestrians on the street.

Lin Zhuoyun tugged at her boyfriend's sleeve and said with a blank expression: "There was an earthquake?"

"It's not an earthquake, it's an explosion. Song Weiyang turned to look at the southwest, he had already remembered what it was, today in his previous life, he was working as a civil servant in Shenghai.

There was a crash near Hongqiao Airport!

It was a South Korean cargo plane that took off from Hongqiao Airport. When the air traffic control command plane climbed to an altitude of 1,500 meters, the plane's radio contact was suddenly cut off, and the plane, which was supposed to continue climbing, began to dive inexplicably and planted directly on a construction site in Shenghai.

Three South Korean crew members died on the spot, five Shenghai residents were killed and 42 were injured at the scene, and nearly 1,000 houses were damaged. The plane hit the ground, the intensity was equivalent to a 1.6 magnitude earthquake, and the epicenter was on the ground, and half of the sea could be felt.

At this time, Sino-US relations were tense, and after the plane crash, Western public opinion actually spread rumors that the South Korean plane was shot down by the Chinese army!

China and South Korea investigated for two years and finally determined that the cause of the crash was that the South Korean pilot had mislooked at the altimeter......

Song Weiyang returned to the car with an ugly face, and he remembered another thing, the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia was about to be bombed. It doesn't help him to know it, and who will believe him if he says it now? People will only see him as a madman.

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