reborn in america

More than ten years later in 1995, Amazon, a world-class enterprise, was officially launched. It was not the first online sales company in history, but at the beginning of its establishment, he held the idea of ​​developing Amazon into the largest bookstore in the world. Two years later, he went public and extended his tentacles to other industries, and finally became a super Internet giant with a market value of more than 5000 billion US dollars step by step.

And the first business opened by Adam's "Raphael" angel fund is Amazon, which may grow into a giant enterprise in the future. The founder of Amazon is Bezos who resigned from the financial services company DEShaw. This is A rare person with real Internet thinking in the 90s, he has a very clear and clear idea of ​​the future development of Amazon, a new company, and he does not want to make Amazon profitable in a short period of time, even he started from From the very beginning, the idea that it will not be profitable within a few years is ready.

Although Amazon is the first business of 'Raphael Angel Fund', when Adam was still planning how to contact and invest in Amazon, it was Bezos who first contacted Raphael Angel Fund, Bezos It was not because Amazon lacked start-up funds and wanted to find an angel investment round for financing. After all, Amazon had just been established, and the financial market did not value it high, and Bezos Bezos and Together with others, he established the most advanced and successful hedge fund trading management company in the world, and became the youngest senior vice president of the company in 1992. Therefore, there was absolutely no shortage of money in the early days of the company, which is why he started The company has been prepared for several years of losses since its establishment.

However, his contact with the Rafael Angel Fund is aimed at Peigong. You must know that there are many Internet software based on Adam's vision hatched in Nirvana, which naturally includes Internet shopping websites. The shopping website will be officially launched, and if true, it will inevitably have a crushing impact on the nascent Amazon.

It was only because of the previous monopoly complaint that Adam hesitated, and Bezos, who was born in the financial industry for many years and has a close relationship, naturally caught this information at the first time, so he contacted the Rafael Angel Fund in order to be able to Contact Adam, hoping that Adam can cooperate with him, and no longer aspires to set up a shopping website by himself.

I have to say that Bezos chose the right timing. On the one hand, he is indeed concerned about possible monopoly complaints in the future. On the other hand, it is also because Adam has a lot of projects in his hands. In just a few years, he has launched the Eden Browser, Inspur Portal, Unicorn BBS, and ICQ are popular Internet products with tens of millions of users, and several other follow-up products are also planned to be launched soon. It is true that a large number of successful products have hatched from Nirvana in a short period of time. It is a pity, but the rapid development of Thailand has also brought problems such as shortage of talents and chaotic management.

The shopping website is different from BBS, ICQ and other Internet products. Although it is an Internet website, it is closely related to offline. Therefore, more talents are needed for management, and things are more complicated. Adam has no suitable ones to deal with. However, Bezos has been proven by history to be an excellent business leader. Although it is certain that some benefits will be lost when cooperating with him, he is able to entrust most of the things to him instead of Fear of mismanagement leading to the death of the company.

For Bezos, if he can form a close relationship with Adam, let alone Adam’s angel round can provide a huge amount of funds for the initial development, so that Amazon’s development will be more rapid, and Adam’s resources on the Internet will be able to help him. To attract the first batch of customers, you must know that there are over ten million users who just registered for Eden. What a huge user group this is. As long as one percent of the traffic can be attracted to Amazon, Amazon can take off quickly. What's more, he knows that Adam With powerful online and offline publicity media, once these media are launched, their power is simply terrifying, and it is not even difficult to recreate an Internet hit-level product in a short period of time.

Therefore, when both parties were interested, Adam and Bezos had a good talk, and quickly reached an angel round investment contract. Adam took out 2000 million US dollars to take 80.00% of Amazon's shares and became Amazon Bezos, the largest shareholder, will become the second largest shareholder with 20.00% of the shares. After the contract is signed, Amazon will form a strategic alliance with Eden and conduct in-depth cooperation in publicity and other aspects.

However, although Adam is the largest shareholder of Amazon, except for Adam’s veto power in the company’s major changes, the company’s daily development is fully entrusted to Bezos. Adam only provides opinions, and it is up to Bezos to decide whether to implement it.

In addition, after the contract was signed, Amazon entered into a state of full cooperation with another company in Adam’s hands—Marvel, and will fully represent the sales of Marvel’s comics and peripheral products in the future. Adam's Myth has reached an agreement that all novels published by Myth will be listed on Amazon in the future.

However, the biggest value for Amazon at present is not these, but a large number of code-named W R&D personnel in Nirvana Company joined Amazon. With their mouths closed, these mature programmers quickly propped up the entire Amazon. It is conceivable that Amazon will usher in a take-off soon after the complete integration is completed.

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Adam acquired most of Amazon’s shares, intending to enter the Internet shopping industry. Maybe 20 years later, people will remember this time and even mention it repeatedly. After a little mention in the financial newspapers, no one cared about it. Instead, another news made the whole market start to boil.

Adam's new book will be out on Thanksgiving!And the new book will be published for the first time in the form of Internet + newspaper serialization, or the newspaper will be four days slower than the Internet. Thanksgiving is on the Thursday of the fourth week of November, but the newspaper will be published on the Monday of the next week, although from the second week At first, the novels were released on Friday, but even so, it was three days earlier than the time published in the newspaper!

In a weekend that would amount to a century for fans of the novel, Adam's idea of ​​promoting his new product again in this way is palpable.

And the California Times also started counting down after Adam confirmed the release time of the new book, and announced the specific time and place of Adam’s release—at [-]:[-] noon on Thanksgiving Day, US Eastern Time, it will be released on a new Internet product called blog , all those who have accounts of Eden/ICQ and other products of Adam's company can have their own blog, where they can write and search for other people's published articles or other written works.

Adam is serializing this new work on the account named after himself on this so-called blog, and will release content from time to time, including daily life and so on.

Since the announcement of this news by the California Times, the number of users of this nascent Internet product has exceeded 50 in just one day, [-] in three days, and one million in a week, and the number of users has continued to grow over time. And only a week later, a large number of Wall Street people and newspapers have confirmed that this will be a super popular Internet product used by tens of millions of people, but when he will exceed tens of millions of registered users depends on Adam's follow-up. method.

And will Adam disappoint them?Of course not.During this week, the blog project team officially became an independent department from Nirvana, and quickly released several news that attracted the attention of the entire market and even the American public—all the writers signed by the California Times were stationed in the blog, although It is impossible to publish novels here in advance like Adam did, but you can use blogs to publish other works that have not been signed, and these works can directly face countless readers, and if they are recognized, they can even directly enter the book market.

It can be said that this work of the California Times is actually extremely unfavorable to him, because his choice will inevitably cause him to lose a large number of excellent authors, but it is extremely beneficial to this new Internet product that Adam advocates, directly enriching The content of the nascent blog.

In addition, the blog also applied for author labels for these people, and always paid attention to the quality of their published works and reader feedback. After confirming the quality of their works and market response, they signed contracts with them immediately, published them through the California Times or directly entered the sales market.

Another move is that Adam's close relationship, including actors who have cooperated several times, as well as the first popular star of the American Idol, TV drama actors promoted by PD TV, and the popular star of the second season of the American Idol, which is in full swing, are all stationed in the blog , once again introducing a large number of fans and interested ordinary people to the nascent blog.

These are just initial means. When more people use blogs, the real protagonists will shift from these people to ordinary users, and those ordinary users are the real protagonists of blogs.

However, for readers who have been looking forward to the novel for a long time, the content of Adam's new book is the real key. From the time of publishing the book, they follow the countdown of the California Times and wait until Thanksgiving.

The author has something to say: Recently, I have been so busy that I even forgot to drink water. The only hope is that there will be no overtime on the National Day, no overtime on the National Day, and no overtime on the National Day!I'm busy these days, don't make me work overtime~~~~~~~