"It's my turn, change me!"

At the end of August, the game substrate manufacturer gave away two large arcade machines for nothing, one is an air combat game, and the other is a motorcycle racing class, of course, both use Voodoo chips, 3D air combat will be a little dizzy after playing for a long time, Halle and they are all rushing to drive a single motorcycle.

“Ho！”

Song Ya was summoned out of the basement by Dr. Mei, and this time the 3DFX trio took the initiative to visit Highland Park, as well as Ballard, the president of 3DFX, and Dr. Chen, the president of A+ Ventures.

Since large arcade game companies are not as sensitive to the price of game substrates as ordinary PC users, the market was quickly opened up after the superior 3D performance of the Voodoo chip was tested, and more and more arcade game companies began to design games based on the chip, and the number of orders skyrocketed, and the most difficult period was finally over.

The east is not bright, the west is bright, and the east corner is lost to harvest the mulberry elm.

"So the 20 million in the last two quarters is not needed?" Song Ya asked.

"Uh...... There's certainly better......" One of the trio took a note of the death gaze.

"There is still a gap in funds, but the financial predicament has been greatly alleviated, at least there is no need to ask people to find money everywhere."

"Banks, EA, Carmack, and graphics card manufacturers who were interested in investing in the company are starting to relent," Ballard said. ”

Song Yayi raised his eyebrows, "Oh? How so? ”

"They are willing to join us at a valuation of 100 million." The second of the trio said excitedly.

"Hehe, seeing that the prey on the chopping board is about to fly out of their mouths, they are in a hurry, right?"

Song Ya was angry with the guys who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob before, and at that time their offer was not even lower than this valuation, but now, ...... Hehe, 3DFX relieved itself, and they were finally willing to quote a more reasonable price.

How can this be the case if you are so kind? Do you really think you're some top hunter? It's longer than me, overturned, right?

But the price of 100 million ...... It's really good, I sold 10 million before and after owning 38% of 3DFX, which is equivalent to appreciating to 38 million according to the new price code.

Of course, the proportion of shares will shrink after accepting the capital injection, but it will not actually reach that much.

But after all, I made money on the books!

"Even if you don't have the money from the graphics card manufacturer, I don't want it if you give it to me."

The third of the trio said. They hate those guys who secretly organize price alliances, "The addition of Carmack and EA is beneficial to us, APLUS, their games create demand for our chips, if it weren't for playing those games, ordinary users wouldn't buy a graphics card for $399 at all." ”

"It's strategic, and with their money and partnerships, we can continue to talk to Wall Street people about the next round of capital injections, as well as the listing, and the prospectus can be written beautifully."

Ballard asked sincerely, "How?" APLUS, I think that's all there is to Carmack's psychological price, and this time he is personally paying for the investment...... He is very arrogant, and if we don't agree, he may have to turn around and support other chip manufacturers such as ATI. ”

"You are his traitors." Song Ya refers to the trio who have a close relationship with Carmack.

"No, no, how is it possible!"

The trio waved their hands repeatedly, "3DFX is our own business, we are the founders of the company!" Don't you remember APLUS? ”

"Hmph."

Song Ya is arrogant on the surface, but the mood is actually very happy, but now looking back, how can I say that this guy is definitely not a liar, at most he is a big mouth who habitually lies, and the founders of Silicon Valley technology companies are actually quite miserable at the moment......

And when the news of the new valuation of 100 million yuan comes out, can those financial media only turn back and lick themselves? Hey.

"What do you think?" He asked Dr. Chan and Dr. May.

The two also nodded.

"Alright then, you can start negotiating." The majority shareholder gave authorization, "If you need to come forward, you will be notified in advance, I have been very, very busy lately. ”

There is good news on the 3DFX side, and the other is not so rosy.

Jim Clark is a qualified founder of Silicon Valley, he really buried the pit, to Microsoft and to himself, after Microsoft released the seemingly competitive IE3.0, he sold 0.5% of the shares for 135 dollars, Netscape began to announce good news one after another.

First of all, Netscape and ATandT, the largest telephone company in the whole meter, have reached a strategic cooperation agreement.

A few days later, Netscape announced that it had also reached a strategic partnership with AOL, CompuServe, and Pordigy, three veteran Internet access and online service providers in the United States. At the same time, Netscape also acquired CompuServe's software division.

CompuServe's parent company, HandR Block, the largest tax preparation service provider in the country, has also entered into a strategic partnership with Netscape to provide technical support for its online and e-filing operations.

After Jim Clark quoted Clausewitz's famous quote in an earlier speech, 'offense is the best defense', Netscape launched the well-prepared Navigator Browser Gold Edition, which is not only more powerful, but also integrates a word processing program that breaks the boundaries between the browser and the Html authoring tool, allowing users to freely drag and drop files and images to challenge Microsoft's Word directly on another battlefield.

Their tech hero, Mark Anderson, also announced that next year, Netscape Browser will appear in TV set-top boxes and other devices that can access online content through digital TV, completing the 'last mile' that has always been on the mind of the Internet field.

After Netscape continued to swing heavy punches, Microsoft's side pulled thin, and the beautiful IE3.0 was exposed by hackers with major security vulnerabilities, and more and more bugs were found after users began to use it deeply......

When Microsoft released Windows 97 on the 28th, the patched IE browser was put into its Plus! The software package still failed to change the situation, and Netscape's stock price skyrocketed like a pill, not only completely recovering lost ground, but also breaking through the all-time high, approaching the $170 mark in one fell swoop.

That's ...... It's embarrassing, 17 minus 135 is equivalent to Jim Clark's Silicon Valley investor friend enjoying 25 percent of the return in less than a month after taking over the stock from him.

Overturned.

Although not making money equals losing, Song Ya still admires Jim Clark so much, he is indeed a Silicon Valley tycoon, Time magazine named him the business leader of the year for a reason, he is fast and ruthless, this is the real good hunter.

Anyway, he still has two percent of Netscape stock in his hand, and the stock price of Infoseek, which belongs to the Netscape system, rushed with the boss, so he can be regarded as eating meat and drinking soup......

"According to Microsoft's software update rhythm, it seems that Netscape's stock price will not be a problem before IE4.0 comes out."

Song Ya muttered to herself, "I was angry enough with him before, and I felt like I was looking for an opportunity to go to Silicon Valley and mend my relationship with Jim......