The Nasdaq Exchange headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

As the opening time approached at 9:30 am, the atmosphere became more and more popular in the exchange hall, which was like canned sardines.

Paul Einhaut, a reporter from Barron's magazine, looked at Deborah Lippman, chairman and CEO of Instagram who was conducting an IPO speech on the stage, as well as the three women A, B, and C who participated in the IPO, as well as waist and leg sperm, etc., who were involved in the IPO, and had the urge to write an article "Westro's Women".

This is probably something that many journalists have longed for in recent years. Just like the 164 girlfriends of Howard Hughes were listed in a Los Angeles gossip tabloid that year, it caused a sensation.

Unfortunately, I can only think about it.

Howard Hughes just sent someone to buy out all the newspapers of that day, but there was no more follow-up. But if it were Simon Westeros, who would dare to expose the gossip of the super rich man like this, would definitely not be able to take advantage of it.

After all, the current influence of the Westeros system has exceeded the level of "when money starts talking, the facts will shut up". The collision between the Hurst family and Simon Westeros two years ago ended in a crushing defeat, allowing the American media, who had been "free" for more than half a century, to feel the power of money again.

Subsequently, the strengthening layout of the Westeros system in various aspects such as politics and media made public opinion increasingly weak in the Westeros system.

Just talk about Paul Einhort himself, the article in Barron's magazine that analyzed the Hollywood landscape last week was written by this reporter, but it only implicitly implies Daenerys Entertainment's monopoly tendency in Hollywood, but then encountered direct pressure from its parent company Dow Jones Group, implying that similar articles should not be posted in the future.

Today, Paul was specially sent to the Instagram listing site for an interview, which was the editor-in-chief' opportunity to "make up for the mistakes". Generally speaking, he would definitely write a piece of praise in the future, which was a kind of good intention of his boss.

As long as the article is published next week, the Westeros system public relations team, which is always paying attention to the trends of the US media, will probably not be included in some blacklists when he realizes that his attitude has changed.

Ultimately, there is no real freedom in the media.

Even the Watergate Incident back then was the result of a fierce competition between the two parties in the United States at that time. Otherwise, how could a newspaper that could only be supported by a widow because of his boss' suicide, dare to provoke President Nixon, who was powerful at that time?

Thinking of this, Paul Einhort only felt that a very serious problem facing America is the lack of a force that can fight against the Westeros system, whether it is capital or political. Without checks and balances, the Westeros system's control over this country will only become stronger and stronger.

Of course, I'm still just thinking about it.

Paul Einhort, who is middle-aged, has no idea of ​​being a martyr against capital, otherwise he would not have taken on the job today. If he had thought about it, he would have been full of flowers.

In the second thought, the D girl on the stage completed her speech, and Paul Einhort quickly applauded with the crowd.

Immediately, at 9:30, several Instagram executives, surrounded by the guests, pressed the button symbolizing the bell ringing together, announcing that Instagram stocks officially began trading on the Nasdaq market.

First of all, it is still in the inquiry stage, which is also something that many people pay great attention to today.

Because Instagram's IPO valuation is really low, the industry previously estimated that even if the valuation of this image sharing website is more than 10 billion US dollars, it turned out to be only 6 billion US dollars. Although many smart people quickly understood the intention of Westeros system to do so, they could not stop things from moving in the direction that some people expected.

After all, how can all parties not take advantage of this kind of advantage?

So, more than 20 minutes after the opening, when the first polling result was released, both inside and outside the market were shocked.

$17.00-$18.00.

Even if the intermediate value is taken, the first round of polling price will directly exceed half, reaching 52%, which means that Instagram's market value has directly exceeded the $10 billion mark, reaching about $10.3 billion.

As expected, stimulated by the popularity of Instagram listing, the Nasdaq's new technology sector's increase within half an hour of opening also directly broke through 1%, and the stock trading volume significantly exceeded that of previous days.

After the first round, after four rounds of inquiry, when Instagram's stock officially started to trade freely, the stock price had already exceeded US$23.

After the transaction officially started, Paul Einhort barely got an opportunity to ask questions at another small media meeting on Instagram management. After the interview, he left an interview room on the exchange. The photographer Leonard, who followed Paul, suddenly couldn't help saying: "I hope I'm a woman now."

Paul knew why Leonard suddenly sighed. The two returned to the hall and planned to continue watching the market until noon. He said, "It is not difficult to do this now, but Simon Westeros probably won't like transgender people. Maybe you have a little chance to stay in a manly state."

"Impossible," said Leonard, who had long hair and was actually very attractive to girls. "From my observations over the years, Simon Westeros is very straight, very straight."

Paul looked up at the stock price monitor in the hall and smiled, "This is a pity."

Leonard did not mean to skip this topic, but said, "Just, did you notice the little girl next to Girl D?"

"Jennifer Brie?"

"So you know it too."

Paul nodded, feeling both emotional and envious, and said, "Westro played Madonna concert and danced on the stage. To be honest, this girl should be the most successful 'guoer' in history. Based on the stock she holds no less than 10 million Instagram shares, only based on the current stock price, her net worth has exceeded 200 million US dollars. If Instagram continues to rise in the future, it may even be on the Forbes list next year, and star chasing herself to the Forbes list, I have never heard of the second one."

Leonard also sighed and looked at the stock price monitor with Paul and asked: "What do you think Instagram's market value can reach the highest?"

"It's hard to say, it depends on the subsequent performance of this website," Paul shook his head and said, "However, with the current huge user base of 160 million, the market value of US$10 billion is more than enough. What's more, this company has the behind-the-scenes support of the Westeros system. I think that Igret may acquire Instagram in the future."

"This is unlikely. Igrit's current monopoly trend is so obvious. Even if the Justice Department's investigation is still just the Clinton administration, it will never allow Igrit to continue to expand, otherwise some other competitive websites of the same type will definitely start."

"There is nothing impossible, as long as Westeros feels it is necessary. What's more, Instagram's business is too single. Once it reaches a bottleneck, it will either be included or actively expand into other fields. Obviously, the former is easier."

The two were chatting when they suddenly heard a slight noise around them.

"500 billion, 500 billion!"

"Wow, the third one has $500 billion, I wonder how long it will take for the fourth one?"

"Where is the share price of Igret?"

“…”

As the noise was clamoring, before the two people could inquire, several groups of stock information appeared on the largest stock price display in the exchange hall.

It turned out that after Egret and Daenerys, Cisco's market value officially exceeded the $500 billion mark during this morning's rise, becoming the third super giant in the North American market with a market value of $500 billion.

Not only that, the market value of Igrit Company, which had exceeded US$600 billion in a single week after the election, has exceeded US$650 billion in market value a month later, which is obviously accelerating towards the more terrifying market value of US$700 billion.

Simon heard the news at the Instagram celebration reception at a hotel in Midtown at noon.

I was really busy in the morning and I had to pay attention to many other things.

For example, the North American box office data that just ended a box office week, there is no suspense. "Wonder Woman 2" easily won the single-week championship again, and the single-week box office in the next week still exceeded 100 million, reaching 101.22 million US dollars, becoming the second movie after "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" to achieve a two-week winning streak of 100 million.

After half a month of release, the cumulative box office of "Wonder Woman 2" has also reached 254.95 million US dollars. It can be said that 400 million is a foregone conclusion, and only 500 million is still suspense, mainly depending on the specific performance of a number of films in the next Christmas season.

This is a very tangled thing.

Because the two main movies in Christmas, "The Brave Game" and "Charlie's Angels", are also dominated by Daenerys Entertainment, if these two projects meet expectations, it may mean that the subsequent box office potential of "Wonder Woman 2" will be suppressed. If on the contrary, "Wonder Woman 2" may exceed 500 million US dollars, the box office results of these two opening projects will inevitably be unsatisfactory.

Except for "Wonder Woman 2", other films from the past week, including Disney's "101 Spotted Dogs", which only received $24.39 million in the entire first week, are not worth mentioning.

Another thing to talk about is a new film that will be launched today, "The Mind Catcher".

As the main prize-winning star of Daenerys Entertainment this year, of course, if nothing unexpected happens, it will also be a box office star. "The Spirit Catcher" seems to be a literary and artistic film with a new work, but under the packaging of Daenerys Entertainment, it has become famous recently.

Let’s talk about the main creators, in addition to the well-known director Gus van Sant and Robert De Niro, who needs no further fame, among the other three young actors, Da Ben, as the screenwriter and the first male supporting role, also gained high popularity with "Bully Night" some time ago. The heroine Kate Beckinsale is one of the heroines of "Charlie's Angels" that will be promoted at the end of the year.

Against the backdrop of these filmmakers, coupled with the $10 million in promotional budget invested by the Gaomen Film Group, "The Spirit Catcher" has already locked in the recent movie hits in advance.

All that is missing is a preview reputation.

In addition to the reputation of the preview, another reason is that the Golden Globe Awards in January next year will be announced on December 11. At that time, while winning the reputation of the media and audience through the preview, "The Spirit Catcher" can also pass the Golden Globe Awards and win another marketing hotspot.

Therefore, compared with the usual two-week preview cycle of other films, "The Mind Catcher" will only have one week preview, and will be launched on December 13 with "The Brave's Game".

As for the prospects of the film, Simon was not worried at all.

You should know that the former "The Spirit Catcher" was released almost with the same period "Titanic". Under the strong crushing of the ship, it still showed the strength of a commercial film with the theme of art films. It not only won a series of Oscar nominations, but it only won a box office of 130 million US dollars in North America.

Now, under the quality of the film that Simon personally ensured, both the main creators and the promotional promotion have been significantly upgraded. Even if he wants to survive under the attack of "The Brave Game" and "Charlie Angel", Simon is not worried at all. After all, no matter how powerful "The Brave Game" and "Charlie Angel" are, they are not as powerful as "Titanic".

Instagram's lunchtime celebration reception scene.

As soon as Simon arrived, he was entangled by Little Jenny who had changed into a small white dress, not caring about the gaze of other guests around him.

But in this pseudo-loli who had no connection with Loli but stayed in the 1.5-meter-5th zone, he gently knocked on the forehead, letting the girl hold her back, Simon walked towards the D girl and the others, smiling and congratulating her.

Immediately, not only A, B, C, D, waist, leg, Indian girls and other women related to Instagram listings, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Shiver and other supermodel Internet celebrities also gathered at Simon.

Seeing that Simon Westeros was soon surrounded by a group of women, other guests at the scene inevitably gave birth to the same thoughts as a photographer in Barron's Weekly in the morning.

Of course, the female guests at the scene were even more complicated.

Women are so angry that women are more angry.

Not to mention that Claire Gain, a C-girl who directly squeezed into the third place in the Forbes US 400 Rich List with a net worth of US$29.5 billion this year, the launch of Instagram once again created several female billionaires who are obviously close to Simon Westeros.

It is inevitable that the goblins at the scene gather around Simon.

Everyone has been working hard in the circle for many years and has become a talent. Who would think they are much worse than the founders of Instagram? What everyone lacks is just opportunities.

A man can obviously give them such a chance easily.

Unfortunately, some people want to get up, and of course some people are also guarding the situation. It turns out that it is not easy to say a few words to Simon Westeros.

Simon talked about the Instagram stock price trend in the morning. The D girl standing next to Simon had no intention of getting out of the way and turned the topic to a non-work direction: "Boss, we have heard of the performance of the Metropolitan Opera tomorrow, but I forgot to say hello in advance. When I asked today, A said there were no tickets, but we wanted to go and watch it tomorrow night. What should we do?"

Girl D's tone was a bit coquettish, and she didn't have the style of the founder of a billion-level new technology company.
Chapter completed!