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"Let's raise a glass to the newly minted Billionaire, Tony Jiang!"
With a call to action, everyone at the party cheered and raised their glasses in unison.
This kind of party, which didn't quite align with Jiang Yizhou's personality, was naturally orchestrated by others.
"Cheers!" Jiang Yizhou was swept up in the atmosphere, downing half a glass of beer. After a bit of conversation, he let himself go with the flow.
"Sergey, why isn't Larry Page here?" Jiang Yizhou asked as he followed Sergey to a corner with their drinks, noticing his usual companion was absent.
"Larry has a bandage on his head and felt it wouldn't be worth it to come, so he decided to skip it!" Sergey explained with an understanding look. "By the way, Tony, now that you're a Billionaire, what are you planning to do next? World travel? A super villa? Or maybe start a new venture?"
Jiang Yizhou slightly pursed his lips; he wasn't quite sure what to do. Aside from venture capital, there seemed to be very few options left for him.
Writing songs? Sorry, he didn't even understand sheet music beyond knowing the rhythm.
Writing? Perhaps he could wait for the right moment to start a website and promote himself as the boss. With his past experiences of failures, becoming successful wouldn't be too difficult, but that would have to wait until online payments matured.
Making movies was out of the question; his skills were only enough for some adult videos, and he would worry about them being leaked after watching them a few times before destroying them.
After thinking it over, he realized he could only focus on venture capital or buying stocks. For instance, with his current 5.5 billion dollars, after a series of operations and expenses from acquisitions and gifts, part of it went into buying Yahoo stocks. Currently, Yahoo's market value was just over 2 billion dollars. Therefore, instead of making large-scale purchases in the market, he sought negotiations for bulk trades with investment firms looking to exit. He planned to exchange America Online stocks for Yahoo stocks. So far, he had acquired 4% of Yahoo's shares, just shy of the threshold for disclosure.
According to U.S. law, acquiring more than 5% of a publicly traded company requires filing and disclosure within ten days to ensure public access to information is fair. After that, any change of 1% must also be reported.
Why buy Yahoo? Because it was profitable; from now until the peak of the bubble, it could rise fiftyfold—not something to take lightly. He didn't want to go through elaborate plans or deceive investors for money; in this era, buying Yahoo stocks was the best option due to its large scale and significant growth potential.
One major concern when reborn into stock trading was the butterfly effect. If the market was too sensitive, even a small investment could disrupt changes; foresight would become useless. This was precisely how the domestic stock market operated—while millions could thrive easily, once reaching tens of millions and trying to speculate on stocks clearly manipulated by others, it became problematic as large institutions would already be aware of your actions.
"For me? Of course, I'm choosing venture capital! You and Larry Page—your Google is my first target. I'm currently waiting for my investment company to finish setting up; I've been quite relaxed during this time. How's your progress going?" Jiang Yizhou asked casually.
Now he can achieve financial freedom! Selling elink and reclaiming the shares of Ailumese and Zheng Yi didn’t count before, because he still had to be accountable to the shareholders.
Now, it’s done. He has basically reclaimed Ailumese and Zheng Yi. He only spent a symbolic hundred thousand Dollar to reclaim the remaining shares of Zheng Yi, while for Ailumese, he spent one million Dollar to reclaim most of it.
In fact, apart from idg, some of the participating Venture Capital Firms were unwilling to exit because they were optimistic about Jiang Yizhou’s future. For example, kpb, which rejected the offer due to McGowan’s sincerity, and Sequoia, which participated in the second round of financing for Ailumese.
However, it’s not a big deal; he has already secured 94% of the shares, and keeping these two institutions around is beneficial for expanding his network.
Sergey shrugged helplessly, saying not to bring up such unhappy topics!
“Tony, there’s no need to be so gloomy when you’re this happy!” Then he left with his glass in hand.
Due to Jiang Yizhou’s status, he was never short of female companions. However, seeing Song Rushi looking at him from a distance with interest made it hard for Jiang Yizhou to feel any excitement; he mostly kept things understated.
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“The Youngest Billionaire!”
This was the headline of this issue of Computer Report. It was quite sensational, but after reading the content, everyone felt a sense of regret; it was clearly more conservative than expected. What shocked everyone who received this newspaper was the story inside.
A young man who had never touched a computer sold his own company for 5.5 billion Dollar in just one year. What does this number mean? At least on the surface, there are very few people richer than this nineteen-year-old in the country.
Looking at the printed words on the newspaper depicting a person recklessly entering the realm of Internet, constantly creating miracles—one million in venture capital, a valuation of one hundred million, and ultimately ending with a fortune worth several billion Renminbi, all within just about a year including the preparation phase.
If previously Jiang Yizhou’s reputation was only known among industry professionals, now he is recognized by a wide range of Computer and Internet enthusiasts.
“General Manager Ma Huateng?” For Ding Sanshi, who was preparing to start his own business, he saw a familiar name in this newspaper.
When he went to Deep City last year, as Station Master Ma on Huiduo Network, Ma Huateng received many netizens like him, so they were somewhat acquainted.
However, Ding Sanshi later worked at an ISP and, taking advantage of his job, set up a Firebird BBS, gradually distancing himself from the essentially asynchronous bulletin board that was Huiduo Network.
"I didn't expect that after such a long time without contact, Ma Huateng has actually fought his way up to such a high position!" Ding Sanshi remembered Zhengyi Technology and the momentarily famous Jiang Yizhou; perhaps he could really go look for him?
At the same time, there was Zhang Chaoyang, who, as a returnee, along with Xiong Xiaoge, who was involved in this acquisition deal, naturally had more access to information.
"It seems I have already rejected him?" Zhang Chaoyang suddenly felt a bit lost and eager. He had now started looking for venture capital across the ocean through Xiong Xiaoge, an iAlumni connection.
But this time, there was none of the boldness he had when discussing investment matters with Jiang Yizhou; everyone was putting on airs. In his view, this was one of the biggest challenges of entrepreneurship.
He contacted many venture capital firms, but the results were all cautious; they were uneasy about him not having produced a finished product yet.
Zhang Chaoyang felt it necessary to analyze how much overlap there was between Sohu and Set Sail, as well as how large the Chinese market would develop. If possible, Jiang Yizhou's extremely relaxed venture capital would be perfect!
Raising funds is difficult; it's harder than climbing to the sky!
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