Outside the gate of the New York Stock Exchange hangs the logo of Amazon and two American flags, so that all the people passing by can know, oh, it turns out that today there is a company called Amazon listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Similarly, on the column-like railing of the bell platform on the trading floor, an Amazon logo is also hung, indicating that today's market opening bell will be sounded by Amazon for the IPO.

At nine o'clock, Richard Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, appeared on the trading floor with a smile on his face and invited Amazon's people who were going to ring the bell stand to wait backstage.

Bezos brought the company's CFO Zeda and his wife Mackenzer to ring the bell as representatives of Amazon, in addition, John Doerr as a representative of KPCB must go up, and Amazon also invited two writers, so there was still a position that was originally reserved for Zhang Chen, but Zhang Chen winked at Tang Miaomiao, "Miao Miao, you go." ”

"Huh?" Tang Miaomiao was startled, "How can this work?"

Zhang Chen said with a smile: "I won't go up, you are now a member of the board of directors of Amazon, and you deserve to ring the bell." ”

Tang Miao said hurriedly: "This is your first IPO company!

Zhang Chen shook Tang Miaomiao's hand: "This is "our" first IPO company, Amazon is the opportunity you discovered, you should enjoy this glory." ”

Tang Miaomiao was both moved and surprised, no matter what her family background was, she was only a little girl in her early twenties after all. Even if she is Song Zhaoming's granddaughter, it is unique in China to be able to become a director of a NYSE-listed company at this age and actually participate in the IPO bellring.

You must know that this is a real prince, who is working for foreign companies as vice presidents, and now in the nineties, the gap between China and world capital is far greater than imagined.

At present, the GDP gap between China and the United States is nearly 10 times, with the United States having a nominal GDP of $8.1 trillion, while China has a meagre GDP of $850 billion.

If the total GDP figure is too large to imagine, then the per capita GDP is an even more terrifying gap.

In the past 1996, China's per capita GDP was 704 US dollars.

GDP per capita in the United States - $30,540.

A gap of 1:44.

This also explains why, starting in the mid-80s and continuing into the first decade of the 21st century, the public voices of the cents in China were the loudest, and their popular support was the highest.

The gap is hopelessly large.

And the more elite the class, the more they can feel this gap in all directions, and the more desperate they are.

In a sense, China's economic miracle of the past 30 years is not the elite-dominated rise model of the West, but the creation of a group of ordinary people who are not so smart and not so broad-minded under the condition of blind optimism.

Sometimes, it's not like the more information you know, the better you can make the right decision.

Although Tang Miaomiao is not flattering and does not have such strong ambitions, she also knows what a rare opportunity it is for a Chinese person to ring the bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

Especially this is the first IPO among the projects invested by Tinder, which is of extraordinary significance to Zhang Chen, but Zhang Chen gave this opportunity to himself, which made Tang Miaomiao even more embarrassed.

Zhang Chen saw that Bezos and the others were waiting for them, and urged: "Hurry up, don't let people wait too long." ”

Tang Miaomiao bit her lower lip, stood on tiptoe and kissed Zhang Chen on the face.

Zhang Chen looked at the girl who was walking quickly to the backstage, and a smile appeared on his face.

Ringing the bell is of course very important, but for myself, the opportunity to ring the bell in the future is that in addition to the factors that I want to compensate for with Tang Miaomiao's guilt, it is also because this bell ringing, except for the "first time" factor, is really not of much significance to myself.

No matter how great Amazon is in the future, it is not its own work, and it has no feelings for Amazon, if the listed one is replaced by Matrix or Netart or even aliens, Zhang Chen's feelings will naturally be different.

The important people went backstage, and the reporters in the venue naturally set their eyes on Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen did not refuse the reporters' interviews, and talked about the scene with a smile on his face.

Zhang Chen looked at his watch, it was almost half past nine, and the reporters all dispersed from Zhang Chen's side, each finding a good position, ready to shoot the picture when the bell rang.

"Zack, I'm Richard Stingel a reporter for Time magazine, and I don't know if you have time in the near future, so I think we can talk. As soon as Zhang Chen turned around, he saw a middle-aged man with a smile on his face standing behind him.

Zhang Chen was quite surprised, although he also knew that his name and legendary story had recently begun to be known by many people in some fields, and even several sites pretending to be his personal website appeared on the Internet, but it was still a little incredible that Time magazine could be interested in him.

"You mean, you want to give me an interview?" Zhang Chen asked suspiciously.

Steingel smiled and said: "It's not so formal, it's just chatting, I'm doing a special issue about Internet instant messaging software, you are one of the founders of ICQ, and ICQ is the pioneer of instant messaging software, recently Microsoft has developed its own instant messaging software, and there are many startups are also flocking to this market, I hope to hear more professional opinions." ”

Zhang Chen knows, sure enough, it is still ICQ, and it has been three or four months since he sold ICQ, but in today's traditional media, three or four months is the time for the media and public opinion to ferment, it can be said that the heat of this news has not completely dissipated, and now as long as ICQ is mentioned, most people will still think of the name Zack.

Zhang Chen thought for a while: "I will ask my assistant to check the schedule, you leave me the contact information, I will ask her to contact you, however, maybe the interview will be conducted in California, and I may return to California at any time in the next few days." ”

Stengel's smile is very distinctive, a perfect interpretation of what it means to smile and not smile, at first Zhang Chen thought that the other party was too hypocritical, but later found out that it was not, it was completely because Stangel couldn't laugh, so his smile was very stiff.

"Okay, I do need to interview more Silicon Valley elites for this article, you can let me know when you come back, I will book the same flight, maybe on the plane, we can finish the interview. ”

Zhang Chen said casually: "Oh, since that's the case, you don't have to book a ticket, I will ask the assistant to ask you for identity information, I chartered a business jet, if you want, you can join us." ”

Stengel's eyes flashed, he didn't expect this teenager to start adapting to the life of a billionaire so quickly, as one of the most popular reporters in Time magazine, Stengel's professional ability is undoubted, he sensitively discovered the conflict in this teenager, perhaps, he can dig out more material from him and write a high-quality interview.

At this moment, the surrounding crowd began to stir, not only reporters, but even the 1,366 traders in the market looked up in the direction of the bell ringing platform.

Under the leadership of Grasso, the Amazonian bell ringing group ascended to the bell ringing platform.

Five minutes to go.

The last few chapters have been written hesitantly, there are too many stylistic choices, I want to set off from multiple sides, and I feel that this bell ringing is just a rehearsal for the protagonist, and it has not yet reached the real highlight. Don't show it, and I feel that the cool point is let go, and I am too unprofessional as a writer。。。。。。

(End of chapter)