The Internet shocked the troops in memory often used a standard title "XX became the biggest winner". Every time I saw it, I felt a strange malice. However, with the closing of the Atlanta Olympics on August 4, many people began to look back and suddenly found that Egret might become the biggest winner.

Not to mention anything else, just the second day of the closing ceremony, the stock market opened in the new week, and the stock price of Igret rose 3.3% on the same day, from the opening of US$439.1 billion to the high of US$453.6 billion, which is enough to prove this.

Of course this is not for no reason.

On Monday, August 5, newspapers, television and online platforms controlled by Westeros system began to promote a series of data traffic on the Internet platform of Igret during the Atlanta Olympics.

According to statistics from Igrit Company, during the 17 days of the Atlanta Olympics, a total of 320 million Internet users worldwide participated in the interactions on Olympic topics on platforms such as Igrit's portals, online forums, social networks, video websites, etc., accounting for 70% of the total number of 460 million netizens worldwide at this stage.

Due to this large-scale hot incident, over two weeks, the network traffic on the entire platform of Igret soared by 27%.

Among them, Facebook social networks and YouTube video platforms have achieved particularly impressive user and content growth during this Olympics.

Although it will not be mentioned in the report, it is undeniable that the explosion on July 27 made the online platform with stronger immediacy and richer content completely surpass traditional TV and print media.

On the weekend of the explosion, the number of visits to the entire platform of Igret reached a peak. Within 24 hours of the incident, more than 80 million related blog posts from all over the world emerged. In the same 24 hours, the number of videos related to the explosion on the YouTube video platform also increased by 270,000.

Therefore, popularity drives traffic, traffic contributes revenue, revenue stimulates the market, and market value drives stock prices.

The stock price rose by 3.3% in a single day, and the wealth of all Egret shareholders increased by $14.5 billion in one day.

This is obviously just the growth of the Igrit family's stock price.

As the leader of Nasdaq, the rise in Igret's stock price directly led to the entire new technology sector. At the close of the day, the Nasdaq Index also reached 4,765 points. Although it failed to break through 5,000 points at the end of July and early August as expected some time ago, it was not far from the same.

At the same time, the total market value of all stocks in the Nasdaq market has reached US$5.6 trillion.

Although the whole world understands that the Nasdaq bubble is already quite serious, and that the huge market value of Japan's GDP has been directly surpassed by Japan's huge GDP, it still makes too much capital excited and crazy.

Simon was inevitably worried.

A very simple truth is that the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

Therefore, Simon arrived in San Francisco on Monday and stayed in Silicon Valley for three days, mainly making some adjustments before the Nasdaq fell on the cliff.

This world is often in an irrational state, just like two world wars, which seem inevitable, but are actually accidental, because in a rational state, no one wants to launch a world-class war that kills tens of millions of people, but the war just happened like that.

The same is true this time.

No one hopes that Nasdaq will run wildly, accumulate bubbles to the greatest extent, and then shatter. However, under the general trend, even Simon dares to stop the interests rashly.

Only do something within your ability.

There are not many things that can be done in reality, and it is nothing more than planning ahead. Let the new technology companies involved in the Westeros system survive the cold winter in the next few years. If you have a little more ambition, it is to allow more valuable new technology companies to survive the cold winter together and avoid fundamental trauma in the Internet industry.

All that needs to be done is actually only one word, money.

Without food in famine, people cannot survive.

In the cold winter of capital, enterprises can only survive better only if they get life-saving funds.

Simon openly discussed with several officials of Igrit for three days, and the plan was roughly finalized. The first thing to do was to start tightening Igrit's wallet. After the IPO, Igrit held more than $20 billion in cash. Even if Simon emphasized it again, it would inevitably be a little more generous, and this must be changed.

Secondly, a new batch of large data centers will be built around the world.

At this stage, even though Igret's cloud computing services are becoming more and more mature, many companies still tend to build their own servers. After all, most people subconsciously resist "living under others' roofs".

However, once the industry winter comes, most new technology companies will undoubtedly find it difficult to maintain expensive "self-built houses" and have to "rent houses". The new batch of data centers in Igret mainly provide this demand.

In the cold winter, there is a "house" with some "grain", which can basically survive.

Finally, Egret also set up a special enterprise evaluation team and began to quietly evaluate the current operating conditions of new technology companies in all aspects.

Simon is not that fraternal.

When the cold winter comes, some companies are worth saving, but more can only be given up.

On the other hand, Simon didn't plan to do good deeds in vain.

Although the entire Westeros system has been vigorously investing in startups while developing its own key enterprises in recent years, it can be imagined that after the expected capital winter, after large-scale mergers and integration, the Westeros system's control over the new technology industry will be more deeply rooted.

Thursday, August 8.

We were both in San Francisco on Monday and Wednesday. On Wednesday morning, Simon set off for New York before 8 o'clock and arrived on the East Coast. It was still working hours here.

A girl beside her whispered reminder that when she arrived at the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment in the Upper West District, Simon had just finished reading some documents that she had been looking through along the way. The last one was handed over by Girl C yesterday, a plan to cooperate with Starbucks to increase the Internet access function of Starbucks chain stores.

The inspiration comes from the recent Olympics.

There is no mobile Internet at this stage, and several products under Tinkobaier, created by C Girl, all rely on the Internet. Considering the consumer mentality, whether it is iCam or iRec users, they obviously hope to upload them to the Internet as soon as possible after taking photos and videos.

Just like during this Olympic Games, Atlanta's most popular consumption venue is Internet cafes everywhere in the city.

After tourists from North America and around the world took photos and videos, they looked for Internet cafes to upload and share, resulting in Internet cafes in Atlanta being filled almost all day.

The development of the Internet cafe industry that Simon promoted in the past few years was only in 1991, and the purpose was mainly to allow potential users to try it out in order to promote the general public to access network services.

Now, at least in the solution in hand, the functions of Internet cafes have changed.

The current problem is that it is too expensive to start an Internet cafe chain separately, so it is undoubtedly a good choice to cooperate with Starbucks, which covers the United States and even the world.

This is actually a win-win solution.

Adding the Internet function, just like Wifi later, can allow Starbucks to attract more users. Similarly, uploading is more convenient and can also stimulate consumers to purchase electronic products such as iCam.

Therefore, both sides showed obvious intentions to cooperate.
Chapter completed!