The modern financial industry is becoming more and more complex, but the essence of finance has not changed, although various technological advances have brought many changes, such as high-frequency trading and quantitative hedging. However, there is no essential change in the way the securities and derivatives market makes profits, and the most important thing is the price difference. Knowing that the world's stock markets will fall, and still going to do all kinds of unnecessary insurance measures to drag down their profits, that is really stupid and not fake. As long as you ensure that there will be no liquidation before the market and stock index fall, there is basically no danger.

However, Zhou Shi is not mainly to make money this time, cultivating their ability is the most important thing, and he must still do some hedging. Although Zhou Shi himself is always like a gambler, he will press all the chips at every turn, but he will not let the company do the same.

Alibaba's listing feels no different from its previous life, and it is still underwritten by Goldman Sachs, Da Mo and Deutsche Bank. The price is also at 13.5 Hong Kong dollars, a total of 867 million shares were issued, and 17% of the shares were transferred, of which 650 million were old shares, and Galaxy Capital could also get a part of it, and Alibaba Group held another 83% of the shares. Ma Ali wanted Zhou Shi to join in the fun, but how could he have this thought. During this period of time, during the listing of Ma Ali, Alibaba also became the focus of the media, and as soon as Zhou Shi came forward, the direction of the wind immediately changed.

Zhou Shi's current net worth is more than 4 billion US dollars, which is more than 30 billion soft girl coins when converted into RMB. What's more, he is also a self-made young tech tycoon, and his net worth is also more than Baidu's Robin Li and Tengxun's Xiaoma brother. Of course, these are not the point, there are reasons why they interviewed themselves, Guangdong's Yang Huiyan has a net worth of more than 100 billion, Facebook financing, a valuation of more than $15 billion, and Zuckerberg's net worth is close to $7 billion. These two equally young post-80s tycoons surpassed Zhou Shi and asked him what he thought.

Zhou Shi answered a few questions from reporters without pain, but everyone wanted to know more about Zhou Shi's "real" views on the other two people, or the "real" ideas they hoped to get.

"I know what people want to know, but I don't really have any other thoughts about Zach than blessings, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be soft in the competition. We'll have new information coming out soon. I hope you won't be disappointed!"

"Hello Mr. Zhou, does this mean that Time Friends have also obtained financing, how big is the scale of this financing, and which are the financing parties?"

"Hello Mr. Zhou, is Facebook going to buy Friends?"

"I heard that you and Zuckerberg are friends, will you use this relationship to let him buy Friends?"

"I heard that Jack Dorsey, who is close to you at Twitter, has been fired, YouTube has been acquired by Amazon, and Facebook has received huge financing, does this mean that your strategy in North America has failed completely? What are your plans in the future, and will you return to the United States?"

The questions were sharper and sharper, and Zhou Shi also knew that Jack Dorsey was actually driven away, and Dai Furui seemed to be in a hurry to take the position. Faced with such a situation, Zhou Shi had no choice but to retreat and avoid them. Fortunately, the financial reporter is not a paparazzi, and he did not chase after him.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to be so embarrassed. Seeing that Zhou Shi escaped from the encirclement of reporters with the assistance of several assistants, Li Ying couldn't help laughing.

"What's so funny, it's just a couple of clowns. "Zhou Shi

"You've been overtaken by Zuckerberg and you're not happy. "Li Ying

"Probably, but the situation is still under control. "Zhou Shi

"Just blow it. "Li Ying

"Andre, tell me about the integration process of our acquisition of Friendster. "Zhou Shi

"We have preliminarily completed the control of Friendster's management, and the specific integration plan has been completed, and we will get 60 million registered users from Friendster, including 15 million monthly active users and 3 million daily active users......." Andrew

"You've been prepared for a long time, why don't you announce the news in advance. "Li Ying

"Our biggest enemy now is MySpace, which requires us and Facebook to work together, the subprime mortgage crisis is coming, Time Friends will not be short of money, but Facebook will be short of money, if they are out of the game early, ySpace's model is backward, he will launch the historical stage sooner or later, we need an opponent with enough weight. If the network of friends unifies the market in the United States, some extremist groups may cause us a lot of trouble, and we need a sufficient opponent. "Zhou Shi

"But what if we can't fight Zuckerberg?"

"I can't do it then, although I am very confident that I can defeat MySpace, but after all, I haven't really done it, the future is unpredictable, there are geniuses in this world one after another, we don't need to pay too much attention to and worry about the opponent, it's better to be the best version of ourselves, and crush everything with strength." "Zhou Shi

"You're getting more and more confident. "Li Ying

"It's you.you who gave me more confidence!" Zhou Shi

A few days later, Friendster announced the merger with Friendster, which has more than 80 million users, making it the world's No. 1 social networking company. The next day, the company's share price plummeted, falling more than eight percent.

Brother Xiao Ma angrily scolded his mother in the office for selling batches, what is this, who did I provoke, what does the acquisition of American Friends Network have to do with Tengxun, inexplicable!

Only then did the news reporters in Xiangjiang know what Zhou Shi meant by the news, but although the news was shocking, there were still many people who spoke against it. After all, everyone knows the downfall of Friendster, and no one knows how many effective users there are and how much help it can bring to the American Friends.com. However, several other funds that are in talks with Zuckerberg to buy shares have canceled negotiations or proposed revaluations. This is similar to Zhou's vision, which can provide Zuckerberg with ammunition, but the scale must be limited.

The whole acquisition process went smoothly, and Friends.com did a lot of deductions to absorb Friendster's assets after months of preparation, and everything went smoothly.

Time Games' Happy Farm is low-key online, although everything is going on quietly, but such a game is destined not to be ordinary, viral marketing and fission promotion can bring explosive growth.

The first batch of funds from the Four Elephants Fund was quickly available, and then 1 billion Hong Kong dollars participated in Alibaba's IPO, but only bought less than 100 million Hong Kong dollars in shares. On the same day, Zhou Shi asked them to sell all these stocks and make a profit of 150 million Hong Kong dollars. With a return of 15% in just a few days, Four Elephants Fund has made a good start to enter Hong Kong. On that day, Alibaba's share price exceeded 40 yuan, an increase of nearly 300 percent according to the issue price, and Alibaba's market value exceeded $25 billion! Another giant on the mainland has risen!

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