Chapter 1122

After leaving Seattle's Boeing Airport (Jinzhen International Airport), Li Feng said goodbye to gates. Naturally, gates went back to his home. Li Feng declined Gates's invitation to his home and took the long waiting motorcade directly to the Skyline Hotel in downtown Seattle and the central business district of Seattle.

The Skyline Hotel in Seattle is naturally the skyline brand of Li Feng Hotel Group. It is a 5-star hotel in Seattle's central business district. Not far away is the famous four seasons hotel. Now it is one of the best hotels in Seattle.

As for the motorcade to meet Li Feng at the airport, it was provided by the hotel. The big boss Li Feng stayed in the hotel in person, which naturally caused a rush in the hotel. When Li Feng's motorcade arrived, from the hotel manager to the suite housekeeper, they were waiting at the gate of the Hotel.

Standing in front of the French window of the suite specially reserved for himself on the top floor of the hotel and looking at the urban landscape of Seattle, Li Feng was relaxed and happy. To be honest, Seattle really has a unique geographical location.

Located between Puget Bay, a famous Bay in the Pacific Ocean, and Lake Washington, surrounded by Olympic Mountains, the metropolitan area is densely covered with forests, rivers and lakes. It is still a typical temperate oceanographic climate, warm in winter and cool in summer.

Similarly, Seattle also has the world's most famous giant enterprises, not to mention Microsoft. There is also one of the competitors of Northrop Raytheon. Boeing's headquarters is now in Seattle, but later Boeing seems to have moved its headquarters to Chicago.

In addition to these two giants, there is also a rising star Amazon. Amazon in future generations is naturally a technology giant comparable to Microsoft, with a market value of more than trillion. By the way, there is Starbucks. Of course, Starbucks is still a little guy compared with giants such as Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing.

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In addition to these giants, there is the famous Seattle SuperSonics, which is now a strong team in the NBA. In the mid-1990s, the supersonics competed fiercely with Jordan's bulls and Karl Malone's jazz. Unfortunately, whether the supersonics's George Carl, Sean camp, Gary Peyton or the black-and-white double evils of Utah, they all met Jordan, the king of basketball, The result can be imagined. I can only sigh that life is not at the right time.

In 1998, Seattle has been recognized by the American people as the most livable city with the highest quality of life. Seriously, Seattle is really a geomantic treasure land.

"Ringling..."

"Hi... This is St. John Lee..."

"John, don't bother. I'm bill."

"Oh... Bill, do you think so of me and call me soon after you left?" Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone, Li Feng immediately joked back.

"Er... John, it's your fault. No wonder you have a great reputation. No, I just got home and received a lot of calls. Many people asked for your news. Many people from Amazon called. Are you interested in attending a party?"

"Well... Bill, when did you become a middleman?"

"Er... You think I want to. Who knows what they think. Suddenly they all called me. What can I do?"

"Well, how about I wait for your arrangement?"

"OK, John, I'll arrange a private party at my house in two days."

"OK, then I'll wait for your notice."

"That's it. Hang up first!"

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After hearing Li Feng's consent, gates directly hung up the phone and left Li Feng speechless for a while.

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Li Feng was really surprised that Gates suddenly received a lot of calls. He thought when he was so popular. Of course, he also understood Gates' meaning. After all, those who can call bill gates in person can think clearly. They are all powerful people, and gates can't refuse directly.

Similarly, Li Feng is also looking forward to the next party. After all, this is also one of the normal social activities.

In the next two days, Li Feng's mood was very different from that of the last time he came to Seattle. The last time he came to Seattle was to invest in Amazon. Although Amazon also passed the listing and capital and share increase twice, Li Feng decided to follow the investment. At that time, there were no major problems and contradictions, resulting in that Li Feng did not come for the last two capital and share increase.

Since its listing in 1997, in fact, Amazon has gone through two rounds of capital and share increase, raising nearly $800 million. Otherwise, it has raised tens of millions of dollars with Amazon's just listed, which is not enough for Amazon's expansion.

At least so far, Amazon has acquired two Internet companies, junglee, a data mining company, for us $186 million respectively; And spent nearly $100 million on planetall, a social networking company.

Originally, it was necessary to spend a lot of money to acquire IMDB, the world's largest film database company, but because this company was invested and established by Li Feng, the result is still in negotiation.

Originally, Amazon had a little working capital, but due to the conflict with Li Feng, the last working capital was directly invested in the stock market to stabilize the stock market. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars were directly consumed.

There was no problem with the last two capital and share increases, that is, there was a problem with this capital and share increase. According to Li Feng's idea, it is estimated that the scale of this capital and share increase is indeed a little large. According to Amazon's plan, this capital and share increase needs to raise $1 billion.

Although Amazon used to be the Star stock of NASDAQ, and now its stock price is moving towards $200, with a market value of more than $20 billion, the amount of one-time financing of $1 billion is still a little worrying. Moreover, such capital increase and share expansion can not be calculated according to the market value. After all, the market value is only a group of figures on the stock market.

Li Feng is famous for his large amount of cash. The group represented by Bezos may worry that if most of the $1 billion shares are taken away by Li Feng, Amazon may really be surnamed Li at that time, which has led to a series of recent events in Amazon.

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In the past few days, Li Feng not only visited the famous scenic spots in Seattle, but also collected information about Amazon in his hands. Especially when Li Feng saw that Amazon's share price was about to push to $200 and its market value was 30 billion, his heart was a click.

According to Li Feng's plan, the NASDAQ Internet bubble will not appear or break up until 2000, but when it sees Amazon's stock price and market value, it hesitates.

According to my memory, it seems that Amazon's market value peaked at about $230 billion before 2000. It seems that today's market value has reached its peak. Now it seems a little uneconomical to increase capital and shares.

Like Amazon and other companies, after the Internet bubble burst, market capitalization does not shrink to less than 10%. Today, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested to get a small share of the stock. If we wait until the bubble burst, we can easily reach 10 times the share.

At this time, Li Feng really felt that it was difficult to ride a tiger. After all, it was so big. If he had a tiger head and a snake tail, it would be over. It's not only bad for his face, but it's not a self smashing sign.

Li Feng doesn't know that Amazon in history did not perform well in the stock market in 1999. It reached its peak soon after the new year, with a market value of more than $30 billion, but it won't last long,

Since the beginning of May, share prices have been pouring down all the way. By the end of 99, at the beginning of 2000, when the bubble was at its peak, the market value should have been at its peak.

Of course, with the collapse of the Internet bubble shortly after the new year's 2000, share prices went down all the way, and eventually the market value shrank by 95%, leaving only 2 or 3 billion dollars in market capitalization.