On January 3, 1997, at 6 o'clock in the morning, several uninvited guests in suits and leather shoes visited Highland Park, and more than half an hour later, Goodman and O'Grady also rushed over in the wind and snow, and Song Ya, who was still wearing pajamas in the study, began to shout excitedly.

He wasn't swearing, but talking to Jim Clark on the phone, "Jim, Jim, no, no, no, don't interrupt me, listen to me, didn't I promise you last time?" I'll hold the stock, I've always done what I said! ”

"That's good, let's settle it out in a more formal way." Jim Clark said.

"I'm not going to sign this."

He pushed away the documents brought by the men in suits on the table, which was a joint statement from Netscape executives and major shareholders, promising not to reduce their holdings of the company's shares for six months, "I am not a major shareholder, I do not participate in any decision-making and company management, I have no board seats and voting rights, and I can't even get inside information...... Last time, I saw that I had an extra re-sign for your sake! And now again? ”

"It's useful for stabilizing the stock price, and investors don't know what you're verbally promising in private!"

Jim Clark also raised his voice, "Unless you were cheating on me last time, you are actually planning to cash out and walk away after the market opens today!" ”

“OMG！ Do you have delusional murder jim? ”

"What? Be careful what you say! I am the one who brought you rich! ”

"Fortune, fortune, do you want to remember me for the rest of your life or what? Business is business! ”

"Never forget that I allowed you to enter, and never forget that I had 10,000 ways to get rid of your shares before going public! I can do it, but I haven't done it, how much money have you already made on Netscape? Well? You should be grateful boy......"

"Hehe, that's just because I had the same good vision as you were at the time, and I was chasing Mark Anderson, if you didn't settle me as soon as possible, weren't you afraid that he would suddenly change his mind? And I have done a lot for the company, and I tried my best to use my fame to help the roadshow before going public, I ...... At that time, I even wore a hat with the Netscape logo when I went to the White House to see the commander-in-chief! ”

"Then you continue to fight with us! I'll give you a reward, let your Chinese doctor in charge of venture capital come to me, it's inconvenient to say on the phone. ”

"I'm going to keep my promise Jim, but I'm not going to sign this, who knows if you're playing tricks on me again...... Last time, I sold 0.5% of the shares to your friends' investment companies, and within a few days, your side was even making a profit...... The stock price rushed from 135 all the way to 17! I'm losing a lot! ”

"Are you embarrassed to mention him? They've all been trapped. ”

"Uh...... Didn't shoot at the high point? ”

"What do you say? They are not prophets. Okay, okay, I don't have time to talk to you, APLUS, you've read the document, then sign it, everybody, me, Mark, Bacsd, we need to be united now, today is critical for us, just do us a favor. ”

"Then you said it earlier, I don't have the energy to make a decision early in the morning. I just performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last night, and I have another one today, symphony conductor, do you know? It takes 120 minutes of concentration and it's tiring! ”

"I apologize for this, I also thought about it last night, and I decided to pull you into the joint statement to ensure that today's opening is foolproof."

"You're still saying you don't have paranoia about being victimized!?"

"My M-FXXK worth of 2 billion is about to drop by half in a month! You talk to me about victim paranoia!? Would you like to talk more about Huntington's disease!? ”

"Heng what? Forget it, huh...... This is the last time, the last Jim. ”

quarreled with Jim Clark dizzy, Song Ya felt that the guy's spirit was a little abnormal, talking nonsense, of course he could understand it, and finally compromised after asking for some benefits.

Gasping for breath, he signed the joint statement document, then threw the pen and paper back to the man in the suit, and went back to sleep.

"Hallie?"

At ten o'clock in the morning, he woke up naturally this time, turned over and found that Hallie was not by the pillow, maybe he went to exercise, got up and washed up and went to the study.

'Following Netscape's major shareholders and senior management statements to suspend the reduction of the company's shares for six months, APLUS also announced that it has joined this commitment before the market opens today, and he still owns 2% of Netscape's shares, with a market value of about 150 million yuan based on the pre-holiday closing price......

The financial radio station in the room was broadcasting, and the Bloomberg keyboard was crackling, "How's the morning O'Grady?" Oh, it's you......"

I thought it was my stockbroker who shrank behind the screen, but I didn't expect to walk over and see Harley's fluffy short black hair that hadn't been taken care of.

"Netscape's stock price has just rushed back to a hundred dollars!" She announces the good news.

"What are you paying attention to this? Didn't you buy Netscape stock? Song Ya asked strangely.

"I didn't buy it, I didn't buy it, I heard you guys arguing about this in the study in the morning, and you all promised to postpone the reduction of your holdings for profit, okay?" Harley asked rhetorically.

"Mostly, but it also depends...... What about O'Grady and Goodman? ”

"Chat with Ms. Sloan in the downstairs living room."

"Oh."

"You wait, you wait." Song Yagang wanted to lift her feet and leave, but she stopped her, "Come here, come here...... What does this Bloomberg news article mean? ”

"Netscape has released a new network directory standard, LDAP, which is expected to be supported by more than 40 software vendors and a large number of enterprise users such as Bank of China, Mobil, Mastercard, Johnson & Johnson, etc."

Hallie asked, pointing to a short news message on the screen.

"Uh...... Belch...... It seems to be used in other companies' intranet products, I don't know. Song Ya recalled, without impression, "In short, it is a good thing, and the formulation of standards is definitely conducive to excluding competitors from the market." ”

"And there'......," Harley pulled out another one from earlier.

'Netscape Browser will add ...... And so on. "Some developers complained that Netscape's extended code to support new features did not comply with the Web Consortium's Web programming standard......

"Brute! The root of all evil! After reading it, he subconsciously scolded.

"What's up? What do you mean? "Hallie is a problem baby.

"Uh...... That is to say, in the future, after web developers develop web pages based on Netscape Browser, they are likely to have to work again to be compatible with Internet Explorer, and vice versa. Song Ya replied.

"What...... Meaning......"

That is to say, Netscape and IE have completely broken up, and in the future, you may see different pages when you visit the same URL with different browsers, and it is even possible to use IE to access all the functions are good, but not with Netscape. Poor Berners Lee, who created the World Wide Web and gave up patents, did not expect that his ideal of maintaining the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet and allowing it to maintain a minimum order was quickly trampled on by listed companies in the United States in order to maintain the stock price......" Song Ya sighed.

"Is it good?"

"Forget it, now Netscape still retains about 80% of the market share, web developers must give priority to writing code based on Netscape browser, and then consider compatibility with IE or other manufacturers' ......"

Jim Clark and Mark Anderson are going to amplify their tricks and work hard, taking advantage of the market share advantage to force developers to stand in line, either you die or I live...... It's just a pity for those website programmers, if you still want the web to be compatible with various browsers, the workload will be doubled or even more than in the future.

"So some IT media will say that the browser world war has officially begun, right?" O'Grady and they walked in, "Microsoft's market capitalization and annual revenue are more than ten times or even dozens of times that of Netscape. ”

"But Netscape's stock price has recovered, and it seems that many investors are optimistic about us." Song Ya said.

"Maybe that's why they're bullish." O'Grady showed him the latest issue of Frontline Magazine.

'Netscape President Bacsd talked about the unfair competition lawsuit they launched after Microsoft launched IE3.0 last August, saying that they had obtained solid evidence that Microsoft offered a three-dollar discount on each OEM license for the Windows operating system when persuading PC manufacturers to accept IE's bundle......

"Wow, Microsoft really got caught this time? Are they so careless? Song Yale said, "Unfair competition? Based on the dominance of the Windows operating system, this is enough to be characterized as a monopoly, right? ”

"Looks like it."

Sloan handed over a document, "Jim Clark wants you to add fuel to the fire." ”

Song Ya glanced at the documents, and then looked at the Netscape stock price on the Bloomberg screen with Infoseek and other 'little brothers' struggling to attack, "Okay." ”

After all, he had too much money trapped in it, so he turned on his Compaq computer equipped with a Voodoo Rush display chip and logged on to the Amerika Music website, 'Ha! Microsoft got caught! Conclusive! Three meters of yuan! Bill Gates and Ballmer sold their souls for only three meters! ’

Typing frantically, halfway through the photo with the bigwigs on the honor corner table, forget it, after all, I know your father, let you go, he eliminated the name of the richest man, and scolded Ballmer, 'The price of Ballmer's soul is only three meters!' IE browser is not only free, but also bundled sales, not only bundled sales, but also coerced and lured major PC manufacturers! They're doing monopolies! Wait for the defendant to go bankrupt! ’

'We should spin off Microsoft!' ’

'Politicians in Washington! Stop playing deaf and dumb about their monopoly! ’

‘MICROSOFT！ ’

After sending a few messages in a row, the effect is difficult to say, and the entertainment reporters who often come to steal the news are not sensitive to financial content, and they are gradually getting tired and will no longer reprint every one of their messages.

Anyway, just do your best, and at the close of the afternoon, Netscape's stock price regained its footing, and it also drove the stock prices of a number of Internet upstarts to recover.

In the evening, he tidied up his tuxedo slightly, smiled and walked briskly onto the stage, greeted the celebrities and dignitaries with a smile, bowed, and took care of every angle of the audience, and the audience also responded with applause.

It was the last of the New Year's concert, hugging, shaking hands, he stood on the podium after completing the program unhurriedly, his eyes swept over the faces of the voices and the choirs, and he felt almost there, so he switched to a face full of devotion and piety, forgetting about things and himself, and the baton began to wave and jump in his hands.

The notes flow.

'As the most successful African-American celebrity and investor, at the beginning of 1997, every day, every day, APLUS is making new history......

In return, Jim Clark had a heavyweight financial evening newspaper publish a touting article with very sensual words: 'On January 1, APLUS first set the record industry's highest 20.1 percent singer share, which is exactly 0.1 percent more than MJ and Madonna's 20 percent contract. ’

He led Fergie and other singers from Sony Columbia to Universal's Geffen Records, which not only decisively changed the landscape of the American record industry, but also won the top 60 million signing fees in one fell swoop, an achievement second only to MJ...... Shoulder to shoulder with Madonna. ’

In addition, among the record labels founded by African Americans, A+ Records surpassed its predecessors with a transaction valuation of 160 million, ranking third behind Motown and the original Def Jam records. ’

On the same day, APLUS used the huge income earned from the record industry to not only save the troubled Littleman Press and High Fidelity Magazine, but also pull Twentieth Century Fox Pictures back from the brink of bankruptcy in one fell swoop, and after investing 60 million for Fox's Titanic project, the production cost of this film history masterpiece directed by Cameron reached an unprecedented record 210 million......

On January 2, APLUS generously fulfilled its promise to transfer 15 percent of its stake in A+ Audio to its entrepreneurial partner, DeLay, in what is believed to be a final internal stake in the A+ Audio's subsidiary, America, for the listing of A+ Music. The Amerika Music website is now the world's No. 1 classical music website, the No. 1 music forum, the second largest music data website after All-Music, and the third-largest gossip forum after AOL and Webchat entertainment sections. As a pioneer, it will set the absolute benchmark for other professional websites waiting to be listed......

On January 3rd, APLUS gave our tech hero Mark Anderson great support, not only expressing his staunch support for Netscape's series of stock price defense tactics, but also frequently talking about Netscape's lawsuit against Microsoft. He officially declared war on the 'evil dragon' Microsoft on social media, angrily denounced Microsoft President Ballmer as a Judas who sold his soul for the sake of a three-meter knife, and called on Congress to break up the industry hegemon, the world's largest software company, if it can really succeed......

The performance effect was more perfect than yesterday, and after more than three minutes, Song Ya slowly pressed down his hands with satisfaction.

The concert hall once again burst into warm applause.