No one yet knows what a fortune Netscape's 20 percent stake is. Historically, Netscape's initial public offering on August 9, 1995 has been a huge success.

Initially, they set an estimate at $14 per share, but the sentiment in the market prompted them to raise it to $28 per share. But even though the offering price doubled as expected, no one could have imagined that Netscape's final stock price on the day would be as high as $75 a share.

This exaggerated growth rate is almost the record of "one-day profit" on the US stock market. Netscape is considered the Microsoft of the Internet industry, and investors generally have great expectations. People rushed to buy Netscape shares, lest they lose this opportunity, and the 50 million shares issued were sold out within two hours. The frenzied anticipation of the market led Netscape, which was previously widely thought to have a market value of only $500 million, to grow to $2.7 billion in just one day.

And this market capitalization, it took General Dynamics 43 years to reach, and Netscape only took 1 minute. Even so, Netscape's stock has grown by one to two times in the following time. It wasn't until Microsoft released its own browser, Internet Explorer, that Netscape stopped on its booming path.

Even when Netscape was falling behind in the competition with Microsoft, Netscape was still as high as $4.2 billion and a significant portion of AOL shares when it was acquired by AOL. And its founder, Mark Anderson, went from being penniless to becoming a multi-billion dollar legend in just four years.

But all this, in June 1995. I'm afraid even Mark. Anderson himself wouldn't have believed it. Tens of millions of dollars, which is already his highest estimate of a 20% stake in Netscape. He absolutely couldn't believe it. Zhou Shuo actually poached at least $500 million from him.

Times Square in New York is also known as the crossroads of the world. If New York is the economic center of the world. Then Manhattan is the center of New York, and Times Square is the center of Manhattan. In this sense, it is not too wrong for Times Square to be called the center of the world.

Also known as the Condé Nast Building, No. 4 in the heart of the world is home to the world's famous high-tech stock market, the NASDAQ. Of course, in almost every building in Times Square, there is a legendary story. But the Nasdaq remains one of the most legendary. And today, it will once again witness the legend.

"Master, can this Netscape really reach a market value of two billion dollars?" Pang Zhou loosened his tie and asked incredulously.

Zhou Shuo smiled. Didn't answer his words. No one can really get an answer until the results are in. Even if he has the experience of his previous life, Zhou Shuo doesn't dare to say whether Netscape can still have such a strong rise after his own toss. But no matter what, Netscape, which has obtained 60% of the shares of Liuer Internet Company, is still the hegemon in the market. Even if today's release results are not satisfactory, I think that the next generation of Netscape browsers that have absorbed the technology of the six-eared browser will not be caught off guard by Microsoft, as it has been in the past.

Although he always had a feeling of unsteadiness about speculation in his heart, with Zhou Shuo's cooperation. Netscape still behaves like an internet hegemon.

“Five、Four、Three、Two、One！” Zhou Shuo looked at the clock on the wall, counted down the time quietly, and his hands involuntarily clenched.

With the ringing of a bell, the NASDAQ stock market on August 6, 1995 finally kicked off. The NASDAQ Trading Center in Times Square, New York. It is not the same as the stock market trading center in the ordinary sense of the past.

As a symbol of the high-tech stock market, the NASDAQ itself has long been electronic. Instead of rows of trading seats and relative hardware facilities, its trading center is replaced by a large studio. With high-tech projection screens. Traders in the past have been replaced by mobile electronics. Gone are the noisy shouts and the scattered dealers. Only reporters from major financial news television stations in Europe and the United States are stationed to report on the real-time situation.

And today, on the NASDAQ trading floor. But the usual calm and calmness was gone, and the financial and news reporters who flocked to the hall blocked the entire hall almost impassable.

The high-tech projection screen in the middle does not scroll to broadcast the real-time trading prices of each stock, but is occupied by the "N" shaped logo that steps out on the black and blue horizon. This is Netscape's logo, and its background is a map of the density of Internet nodes on U.S. soil, indicating the importance of the Internet in the U.S. economy.

Today is the day Netscape goes public.

As a major shareholder with 20% of the shares, Zhou Shuo certainly has the honor to watch this event up close.

On the trading floor of the NASDAQ, not only Zhou Shuo and Pang Zhou, but also Mark. Anderson, Oran. Clark, and even Tim, the father of the Internet. Bonas. Lee, they have all appeared here.

Zhou Shuo condescendingly looked down at the release hall below. The moment Anderson opened the champagne with a "bang", the red paper fell in the sky, and the entire Nasdaq screen began to show Netscape's stock trading.

Netscape's stock was issued at $28, but the stock price didn't stop here at all, and it jumped to $30. Then it began its own dizzying sprint career.

At the $30 level, it took a slight nap and seemed to be hovering in both directions.

Zhou Shuo and everyone present suddenly sweated in their palms, if the stock price showed a slight sign of downward trend at such a critical juncture, I am afraid that it would be an avalanche immediately.

The stock price didn't make people wait long, it seemed to stay for only ten seconds, or as if it stayed for ten years. It jerked its head up and swooped down again!

$35! If it weren't for the NASDAQ in the United States, if it were replaced by the Shanghai or Shenzhen markets, I am afraid that the price limit would have been raised long ago. Zhou Shuo has never been so grateful for the financial system of a capitalist country! Let's make this storm even more violent!

Netscape's stock price started at $35, which is finally a little bit normal. If the previous rally was a leap and bound, now it is just the style of ordinary stocks rising wildly.

The two curves of the number of transactions and the transaction price are almost a race to play a triple jump, first a rapid run-up, then two small step jumps, and the last is a high jump, jumping to the peak of stock students!

In just the first 10 minutes, Netscape's stock price climbed above $50. The turnover rate reached 40 percent in 10 minutes, and no one would choose to sell again after 20 million lots of shares were eaten.

Even so, in the eleventh minute, its market value was still rising. After breaking through $50, it was followed by $51 and $52......

More than 2.5 billion market capitalization!

Zhou Shuo shook his chair and no longer continued to watch the stock price behind him. As long as the history of Zhilu Dao has not changed because of his intervention, this is enough. In just ten minutes, Netscape has already gone to a height that most companies can't reach in a lifetime. 99.99% of the companies in the world, from birth to death, I am afraid that they will not even be able to touch its edge. Keep paying attention, it's just a bunch of numbers.

As a major shareholder with 20% of the shares, his worth has also successfully risen to more than $500 million! At the exchange rate of RMB 8.6, he is already a rich man worth 4.3 billion yuan! Although this money is not the richest man in the mainland, the top ten in 1995 will definitely not be able to run. Not to mention the embroidery city, even the entire Bohai Province, no one can compare with him as far as the eye can see. Although this money is not enough to make him rich and rival the country, it is easy to be rich and rival the city.

A year ago, he was just a principal of a vocational high school that had been sidelined with bankruptcy. At that time, a group of retired old professors who didn't even know who to find for reimbursement for illness surrounded him, just for hundreds or thousands of yuan in medical expenses.

Looking back now, it's a hundred years old. In the past year, Zhou Shuo has also asked himself many times, whether the burden on his shoulders is too heavy, and whether he has chosen a too difficult path?

If you are like those who have traveled through the predecessors, you have nothing to do to open the harem, or tease the "orphans and widows of the second generation of officials", wouldn't it be a very easy life?

But in life, there must always be pursuits other than money and women, right? Some people seek to blossom, but he only wants to pursue peace of mind and tranquility. When people are old, it is enough to look back on their lives and not feel ashamed of this opportunity of rebirth.

Zhou Shuo sat on the chair, his whole body relaxed like never before. In this year's time, he overcame all obstacles and made great strides, and finally single-handedly created a foundation that is still in sight.

Although he was still far from his goal, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. He is no longer a small person who is powerless in the industry, as long as he continues to invest, at least he has the ability to make his voice heard in the foreseeable future.

Only at this moment, his heart, which has been tense, can rest for a while.

"Master, Master!" Pang Zhou gently touched Zhou Shuo's body, but saw that he was slowly snoring.

He's tired, he's so tired. It's not physical exertion, it's mental exhaustion. In the course of the year, he barely had a second day off. If it weren't for Li Zhi's relationship, if he could occasionally adjust his mood, I'm afraid he would have already had a serious illness.

Now he was finally able to let go of the tension in his heart a little, and immediately fell asleep.

This sleep is three days and three nights. (To be continued......)

PS: The author of orz has not taken a break for four months since the book was opened. 6,000 words a day is already a very extreme state for me. There is no rest, no Saturday and Sunday, and I don't even dare to go to the after-work dinner.

Seriously, the author feels that his string is about to break