The Goddess Shines on America

I don't know how many people are waiting for this moment.

At this moment, Orlando Bryan, the then CEO of Lucent Technologies, put down his work and switched the computer to the stock interface early, locking on the blank interface of a certain Nasdaq new stock. Ironically, as he watched the opening of Cisco, its "biggest" competitor in the router market, the computers used Cisco's router and switch gear.

At this moment, Jordan Belfort, who once again put on a cheap suit, once again used forged certificates to sneak into the Nasdaq exchange in order to get rid of the unemployment after the "87 stock market crash". He was staring at the screen with many stockbrokers, waiting for the stock they bet on to rise sharply. Jordan failed to fool James Cameron this time, but he also succeeded in making a real estate developer named "***" foolishly invest two million dollars in himself. He's such an easy guy, but it's a win-win.

At this moment, in the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Seattle, Bill Gates was sitting behind his desk, with his chin resting on his hands, staring at the computer with great interest. My friend Alice's own business is about to go public, and he has just entrusted a transaction of 800,000 yuan, and now he is bidding together with other orders. At the same time, he was also guessing, just as Paul Allen sitting next to him thought, this time there will not be another IT company with no eyesight that dares to make trouble when Cisco goes public, right?

At this moment, in the general manager's office of Los Angeles DreamWorks, Roger Lawrence turned off all the work that should be done, rubbed his chin, and clung to the blank stock chart. There is indeed no curve worth observing now, but as a professional venture capitalist who has worked on Wall Street for a long time in his early years, he is staring at the small display screen in the upper right corner where the bids are assembled. It is worthy of being the old employer where I worked part-time, and the professional company that I actively recommended to Alice. The accurate valuation will definitely bring a rich harvest for the opening. This is also one of the reasons why he also participated in the bidding with a large amount of money.

At this moment, James Wang was at home on leave, and stayed in front of the computer with Sophie without moving his position. Of course, Oscar and Hannah also asked for leave for this purpose, and the whole family would stay at home and stare at the computer, but because they were excited, they couldn't help but wander around the house. Of course, this is not the case for James. After all, unlike Microsoft, Cisco was established by his own daughter, even though she did not visit San Jose many times. His heart was so excited that if it weren't for knowing that his daughter could not be disturbed now, he couldn't help but make a phone call to San Jose.

Also at this moment, people in the entire Silicon Valley and most of the IT companies in the United States are also staring at the listing of the stock. Because everyone knows what the industry is like today. The computer hardware industry is maturing, and PCs are gradually spreading to millions of households; the new operating system is the first to be released under the leadership of Microsoft, and the news that Windows 3.0 will be launched in the spring of next year will really increase the market value of this company; Domestic telecom operators are accelerating network infrastructure construction, and people in the industry have felt the convenience that the network can bring to the economy. Therefore, when Cisco, the leader and leading enterprise in the emerging industry of "Internet hardware", is finally about to enter the stage of listing, God knows how many lines across the country will lead to the Nasdaq exchange at this moment.

Should it be something to be thankful for? Due to the "Exchange Gate" incident that Microsoft listed last year, the Nasdaq Exchange has upgraded its hardware configuration severely. It has not only installed Cisco's firewall, switches, and routers, the well-known "Three Musketeers", but has also introduced HP's -- no longer IBM -- purchased a number of mainframe computers. Therefore, when thousands of data traffic flowed here, it easily withstood the test.

"One more minute."

Staring at the well-adjusted clock, Alice read: "Fifty seconds!"

In the spacious and full office of the technical department, pairs of eyes are fixed on the monitor, and the eyes are constantly sweeping back and forth on the Y-axis of the opening position. The first turnover is historical data, and Cisco will definitely not be bad!

"Forty seconds!"

But at this moment, Alice's heart was calm, because she knew too much.

"Thirty seconds!"

To be fair, when Cisco went public in 1990, it was listed as a Nasdaq stock instead of a blue chip stock in New York and Los Angeles, and its opening price was only seven cents. It was only following the great development throughout the 1990s that its overall stock price came out of a standard "inverted figure-eight" shape, and easily achieved a price of $83 in 2000, an increase of nearly 1,200 times.

"Twenty seconds!"

But now it is slightly different. Not only did the Bosacks not launch the first router until 1986, but the quality is definitely not as advanced as that of Alice. The product was launched late, and the speed of market expansion is far from what it is now. The switch of God’s main force will not be acquired until 1993, not to mention the super-best-selling firewall that debuted in advance in response to the "Exchange Gate".

"Ten seconds!"

Therefore, the early development of Cisco and the accelerated warm-up of the industry market will inevitably make this listing on December 31, 1987 far exceed the achievements made by Alice in 1990 in her lifetime. She had nothing to worry about at all.

"Nine seconds!"

The audience was silent.

"Eight seconds!"

Leonardo Bosack was silent, but anyone could see the cold sweat on his forehead.

"Seven seconds!"

Sandy Bosack rubbed his hands nervously, almost jumping up.

"Six seconds!"

"five!"

"Four!"

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

Suddenly, a string of numbers was displayed.

15.87.

"Fifteen yuan, eighty-seven cents!"

"Everyone remember this number for my mother!"

Following the girl's sudden shout, the entire office instantly turned into a sea of ​​uproar. A total of seven or eight employees stood directly on the table, screaming like crazy; the female employees didn't have time to maintain their image, and the girls with curly hair had their hair messed up, let alone those young girls with ponytails.

"congratulations!"

The executives hugged each other in front of the stage, and the Bosacks embraced each other first, and immediately opened their arms to Alice.

"Haha, fifteen dollars, which is higher than Microsoft's original opening price... No, the issue price, haha, the issue price!"

If the opening price is a big joke, who doesn't know that Microsoft is the direct cause of the "exchange door"? The high issue price set by the investment company in charge of the IPO was hacked by the damn IBM to block the lively bidding of Haoduan, so that it could only split the market by a pitiful few cents. How could the case back then be applied to Cisco?

"It will rise, and it will definitely rise again!"

"We're all rich!"

"Long live Alice! Hey, who is that, how many shares do you own!?"

"Guys, stop cheering and stare at the screen!"

Under the influence of the caring person's voice, the hilarious voice gradually became quieter, and everyone stared at the monitor.

Of course it is rising, but the rate is not astonishingly high, at least not like Microsoft's soaring from a few cents in a straight line.

"An angle of 30 degrees." Looking at the trend of the curve, Alice nodded in satisfaction and said, "This pattern is pretty enough, let's go up slowly. If the price closes at 20 yuan, our income will be indispensable."

20 yuan is only a 30% increase, and it will definitely be easily achieved. No one doubts this. Unlike Microsoft, which only allocated 2 million US dollars for shares when it went public, Cisco, which had a monthly profit of 5 million US dollars, easily sold 50 million US dollars and allocated 10 million shares at an issue price of 5 yuan.

In other words, even a 30% increase, including the current opening price, will definitely bring the company's market value to 200 million yuan!

200 million...

Just thinking about it is a chilling word. After all, the development of a company is basically calculated in years, and now it is only the first day of opening. With an initial capital of 50 million yuan and a single-day net income of 150 million yuan, if you think about it for a while, you will know how bright Cisco's development prospects will be even one year later!

"How could it be so high?" So immediately after the excitement, when the calmness gradually returned, Posak first raised a question: "The five yuan issue price offered to us during the IPO, I still think this amount is too high. After all, we only have a development history of three years. But now, the opening price of fifteen yuan..."

"Because of the combined effect." Alice looked at the trend chart and said: "Most companies develop step by step normally, but we have encountered many emergencies. For example... the gate of the exchange."

Upon hearing this word, the executives around burst into laughter.

Because it was really a big deal.

Although IBM suffered losses, who knows how many institutions made profits from it when its stock price was in a downturn. But to say who the biggest beneficiary of this incident is, there is really no one but Cisco.

The first is the increase in hard power, that is, a large number of companies want to buy its products, and the large number of orders is the direct culprit for the company's recruitment of thousands of employees in just three years. Even so, offline manufacturers with limited productivity have to delay the transaction time of many orders to a high degree. It was a lucrative, consistent, long-term profit, and the ones Alice got from the White House and the Pentagon were not as large.

Then there is soft publicity. Microsoft's listing was affected, which naturally made many people pay attention to network security issues. Against this background, of course, countless people are looking forward to the vigorous development of Cisco. When the initial IPO was valued, this soft and hard power added value to it.

"Thinking about it this way..." There was an extremely noisy discussion among employees behind him, but Bosac couldn't help but think more, his eyes wandered over Alice: "At the beginning..."

"Today, everyone has a day off!" With a sudden voice, Alice disrupted Bosac's thoughts, and made the long-term staff happy and quiet: "I know you must not be in the mood to work today, and you have a day off. Do whatever you like!"

When it was over, Alice looked back and grinned at Bosac after hearing the big guy's laughter that overturned the ceiling even more: "Are you right?"

It will be updated tomorrow afternoon, the above