"It's time for a few directors, our new version of Netscape Navigator 1.22 browser should be released online, do you want to visit the popularity of our new version of the software?"

"Of course we're going, how can we be absent from such a big event as the launch of the new version of the browser!" Jim Clark straightened his clothes and stood up and walked out, and Jia Lei and Mark Anderson also walked out with him.

The three of them came to the computer room with a sense of mission like junior high school, and watched the release of Netscape Navigator 1.22, an epoch-making browser software, which will be an epoch-making invention that breaks the network barriers of various countries.

With the launch of Netscape's open browser, computers from other systems can be easily connected to the same Internet system, so even users who did not use Netscape Browser have joined the ranks of Netscape Browser users, and Netscape's share in the browser market has soared to more than 80%.

As more people use Netscape Browser to surf the Internet, users from all walks of life are more and more interested in building websites and publishing content, and the more they need to build private web websites, the more they need to build private web website related applications and tools.

At this time, many companies also began to use the industry standards provided by Netscape Browser to develop various Internet web software, and the era of Internet commercialization officially began.

Jia Lei and Jim Clark watched as the number of Netscape browser users broke through the 10 million mark in less than a month, and the market value of Netscape skyrocketed overnight.

"Jia Lei: The number of our users is growing so fast, I didn't think that there would be so many customers who really wanted to build their own websites and buy these professional software from our company.

But after a few test releases, I found that as long as the operation process of the software we sell is simpler, people are happy to use them as ready-made templates to build their own and their company's websites.

And the more people who use our company's service software to make Internet websites, the bigger our customer base, and the larger the customer base, the higher the market share of our browser!

The only problem we have now is how to make our software spread faster and make more money. Jim Clark looked at the sales report and said excitedly that they were now making millions of dollars just by selling copies of browser software.

"If you really want to make a lot of money, can you learn from Microsoft to sell software?

Let's sell the kind of software you just said that allows people to make their own web pages, and we will definitely make a lot of money when the time comes!

After all, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to hire a professional network engineer to build a website for your company, and it is much cheaper to buy a website building template software directly from us. Jia Lei said.

"Yes! I think so too!" Jim Clark said happily after listening to Jia Lei's words, he now wants Netscape to become a large software company with a market value of tens of billions like Microsoft.

This is not Jim Clark's wishful thinking!

Human beings are naturally willing to seek the desire to communicate with others, and in the past, people on the Internet were unable to communicate happily across language and system barriers due to various system incompatibility.

By creating a unified, open, standard interface for data exchange, Netscape provides a way for all people and systems around the world to communicate with each other across language and technology barriers.

And Netscape launched its own newly developed network server software in a timely manner, and Jia Lei shouted the advertising slogan for this

"As long as any computer user uses Netscape's web server software, he or she can create a unique "homepage" on the Internet that is unique to him/herself.

At this time, people all over the world found that as long as they used the browsers and service software provided by Netscape, people from different countries could communicate with each other in computer language through Netscape Browser, so people began to buy the service software issued by Netscape in order to achieve the purpose of communicating around the world.

Both businesses and individuals are now crazy about creating a home for themselves on the Internet, because this is already the fashion trend and status symbol of the year!

Jia Lei even deliberately used his writing expertise to make more money and wrote a very attractive advertisement for this software.

"Dear Internet users, as long as you buy Netscape's web server software, you can build your own website on the Internet. ”

"If you are an ordinary person, you can post your favorite text and pictures on it!"

"If you're a business, you can use our new service software to implement internal communication and build an online platform for your business to showcase your business. ”

"If you're a businessman, you can advertise your products through the website, and everyone in the world can get to know your products through the Internet. ”

As soon as Jia Lei's very tempting advertisement came out, he directly explained the usefulness and functions of Netscape's latest network server software in the simplest language, and everyone could know the usefulness of this software to themselves through this, and then Netscape's network server software was bought.

And these people don't care about the high price of Netscape's software at all, and they start to rush to buy it.

At that time, Netscape's lowest-grade web server software was priced at $1,495, and if you add a secure credit card transaction software, the unit price would have risen to $5,000, and a copy of online software that could handle the data of enterprise users would have to sell for $50,000.

Spurred on by Netscape's epoch-making technology, the huge Internet server software market was officially formed, and people seemed to find out overnight that they could make a lot of money on the Internet that was completely free to use.

At this time, all the computer users around the world are crazy to buy the server software from Netscape like they bought the DOS operating system 20 years ago, and then go back to build their own website.

At that time, Hewlett-Packard alone purchased 100,000 copies of the navigator service software from Netscape, and this single business helped Netscape earn hundreds of millions of dollars.

"Mr. Joel thanks Hewlett-Packard for taking care of our business, I didn't expect you to come in person this time. Jim Clark told Joel Cowley, IBM's vice president, that this was by far the biggest client he had ever received.

"You don't have to thank me, I should thank you!

If it weren't for your Netscape company that created the standard for Internet data transmission and display, and invented this software that is easy to use and allows people to recreate on it at will.

I'm really grateful for your software that allows everyone in the world to build their own website without the support of a research institute or a government, and to have a space to showcase themselves on the Internet!" said Joel Cowley.

And this software is suitable for them to use with their IBM computers, which is why IBM came to Netscape to make such a large purchase.

"We are really not as great as you say, in fact, I invented this software at the beginning at the suggestion of Jia Lei, and at that time I just wanted to make a little money with this software!" Mark Anderson smiled embarrassedly when he heard this, and Jia Lei couldn't help but cover his eyes with regret when he heard this.

Jia Lei didn't expect Mark Anderson to sell himself so easily......

"You don't have to be too modest, even if you really invented this software for money, that doesn't stop its important historical value in the history of the global Internet.

It is precisely because it can provide everyone with great value for money that this software can spread rapidly around the world. Joel Cowley said with a smile.

No one is stupid, and if the Netscape service is not really useful if it is really useful for money, how can people in other countries around the world pay three times as much as the price of using a multinational credit card to buy this software.

So Jia Lei and Jim Clark relied on this software to make a lot of money in the market, and their big move immediately caused the eyes of all Internet software companies to blush and envy.

Compared with traditional Internet software companies that also make copies of disk software, Netscape's business of selling digital copies on the Internet is simply unprofitable, so all people in the software industry in Silicon Valley are staring at the Internet virtual business market developed by Netscape under the stimulus of money.

Some of the most well-known companies here are software giants such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Apple, each of whom is now eyeing the virtual Internet market that no one has ever set foot in, and everyone is ready to join the competition for Internet business models.

*****

Netscape's sudden burst of profitability immediately attracted the attention of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, and in addition to a few large Internet companies that began to enter the browser market, Wall Street investors also began to pay attention to Netscape.

"Jia Lei, people on Wall Street came to us today to talk about financing again, do you think we should carry out Series B financing now?"

When Netscape was first founded, when Jim Clark went to pull investment, Wall Street people avoided him, they ridiculed Netscape as an Internet company that had no investment value, and the group of financiers on Wall Street even lowered Netscape's stock rating to a level that was not recommended.

"Huh...... Clark: You can't forget what those people said when you first pulled in the investment, right?

Since they used to ignore you, you should let them know what it means to be unclimbable!

The most important thing for us now is not to attract investment, but to continue to improve our Netscape browser software and server software, and let's wait until Netscape Navigator 2.0 browser is listed after the B round of financing. Jia Lei sneered.

When the time comes, his website home will also be listed, and the market value of Netscape will definitely soar again!

These Wall Street people are really shameless, they used to avoid Netscape as Netscape, but now once they find out that Netscape has signs of making money, they all come to grab meat.

I think that when Jim Clark first came out to start his own business, he had invested on Wall Street, but at that time, except for a venture capital fund company, no one on Wall Street was optimistic about the future development of Netscape.

"Jia Lei, you're right! Since they didn't invest when I asked them to invest in me, then I'm not in a hurry to talk to them about financing now, anyway, there is no shortage of money in our account. I'm finally able to take a bad breath at that group of villains on Wall Street this time!" Jim Clark laughed after listening to Jia Lei's words, and he was finally able to hold his revenge for being kicked out of the company by the capitalists last time.

For various historical reasons, Jim Clark has always disliked the banker investors on Wall Street, and since he made up his mind not to accept new investors for the time being, no one except the original investment company of his company has ever seen Jim Clark at all.

At this time, all the investment companies on Wall Street began to envy the venture capital fund of Netscape, the only company that invested!

*****

When Netscape was first founded, Jim Clark once called Doerr, one of the partners of Kleiner Perkins, when he was pulling money everywhere and had no way to invest.

At that time, Jim Clark told Doerr on the phone that he had found a young man named Anderson who owned a magical little software called the browser, which would be a promising invention.

Jim Clark told Doerr on the phone that he hoped Netscape would get venture capital from Kleyna Perkins and then build a company for Anderson's browser software system to try to commercialize it.

However, because Jim Clark was particularly disgusted with Wall Street investors, he also proposed a very harsh investment condition after making this invitation to cooperate, Kleiner Perkins had to invest $5 million in Netscape at one time, but the money could only buy 25% of Netscape's shares.

This stock price was more than double the actual value of Netscape's stock at the time, and some executives at Kleina Perkins immediately refused Jim Clark's request for financing without hesitation.

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