Chapter 29 Planting the seeds of the Internet

Zeta-Jones and the other three are not very famous now.

The most famous is Julie Delpy.

The film she starred in earlier this year won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

It doesn't matter, it's a director award.

It has nothing to do with her.

She is just a third-tier female star now.

A little better than Zeta-Jones, who is a fourth-tier player, and much better than Blanchett, who is an N-tier player.

But to put it bluntly, they are still unknown in Hollywood.

The most famous one is Milo, who is still a frequent guest in major American news media.

But he is famous for his gospels and novels.

When those media reported on him, they rarely included his photos and images.

The only few photos were of him as a child.

Either they were from his past, and neither was very clear.

It is precisely because of this that Milo feels confident and bold enough to take the women out for a stroll.

Of course, necessary measures are still there.

For example, wearing large sunglasses or something, but it is always better than hiding.

All in all, he had a very pleasant evening last night.

This is very rare.

Although there have been many people going there before, and even more than ten people going there at some outrageous times.

But that was the predecessor, and the quality was obviously not as high as last night.

Interestingly, Jolie and Blanchett were hesitant at first.

Because Zeta-Jones was around at the time.

But then looking at her was like being blind.

Watching Julie being forced over by Milo, it started at the edge of the swimming pool.

Blanchett was also relieved.

So with the connivance and even instigation of Zeta-Jones.

Everything that followed went smoothly.

noon.

Hollywood, Beverly Hills.

It’s the same Spago Beverly Hills restaurant as last time.

Blanchett, who was ordering food with her two sisters.

While looking ahead curiously with them.

In front, Milo was leading a few guys in suits.

Wendy, who was also familiar to them, was talking and negotiating with many people.

“…The next batch!”

After sending the two people away, Milo turned to look at Wendy beside him, "How many more batches are there?"

"We have talked to seven groups of people, and there are eleven groups left." Wendy flipped through the document and took a look, then said.

Milo nodded and couldn't help but said, "Don't be so exaggerated. Like the group just now, fuck, they just came up and said they wanted to do Internet 2.0... What is Internet 2.0, do they know? The Internet is just becoming popular now!"

"Forehead……"

Wendy shrugged. "That's what you said. It makes sense logically, so it doesn't matter if it's technically difficult or not."

"I did say that. But you can't be like NASA, which didn't even try an unmanned moon landing, and then went straight to a manned moon landing and succeeded, right?"

“It can be difficult to achieve technically, but the logic should work, and it can’t be too outrageous or too fake at first glance.”

"Only in this way can we deceive... no, only in this way can we make investors invest their money!"

More than three months have passed since Netscape successfully went public.

The tornado of the Internet is crawling out of Silicon Valley and rolling towards the whole world.

Netscape's market value has now exceeded 12 billion US dollars! Investors have spent less than 50 million US dollars on it in the past three years.

Fifty million US dollars turned into twelve billion in three years.

Everyone can do the math on this.

Whether it's Wall Street, the City of London, or Tokyo's Chuo Ward.

Everyone was like a great white shark that smelled blood in the sea.

They are rushing towards Silicon Valley.

In parallel time and space,

From 1995 to 1997, the Internet and IT accounted for the total US GDP.

At the beginning, the Internet and IT accounted for only 0.08% of the US GDP.

However, just two years later, this figure increased to 11.8%.

How crazy this is, definitely more outrageous than the burst bubble in Tokyo.

The bubble of Japan is, after all, only the power of Japan itself.

And this bubble in Nasdaq...

That was led by Washington, with efforts from Wall Street and support from all the capital in the world.

Such a super feast.

Being in the middle of it, Milo certainly wanted to dance along.

He participated in investing in companies such as Netscape and Yahoo that impressed him or had vaguely heard of.

The latest novel is published first on Liu9shuba!

What he is doing today is another way to join in this craze.

"Your idea is very good, a personal blog on the Internet, showing personal..."

The tenth batch of “entrepreneurs” found by Wendy.

The business plan they submitted showed that they were working on an Internet company.

In this plan, Milo saw the prototype of the blog that had not yet appeared.

Later, there were popular Twitter, Moments, INS, Weibo, or the early QQ Space Moods, etc.

They all developed on the basis of blogs.

"This can be done." Milo turned to Wendy and said.

Wendy nodded and said, "Okay, I'll write it down, next one."

It was not until after 3:00 p.m. that Milo finally met with all the "entrepreneurs".

Why are they in quotation marks? Because they are not real entrepreneurs.

Many of them were found by Wendy.

Some of them used to be salesmen, and some of them had been to jail for fraud.

Some people are just good at talking.

One or two such entrepreneurs, together with two or three programmers, can form a micro-startup company.

With a few months of preparation, a bunch of Internet companies will pop up in Silicon Valley soon.

Most of them may not be able to go public, but they can bring hundreds or thousands of times of returns to the earliest investors.

If several of them can become listed companies, the profits will often be calculated in tens of thousands of times.

If you are lucky enough, you may create a company on the level of Google, Yahoo, or Twitter in the future.

That rate of return is even more exaggerated than winning the lottery.

The initial investment is only a few million dollars anyway.

It doesn't matter even if it's just a waste of money.

Milo also provides them with some "gimmick" support, which allows them to stand out among their peers.

When the last few people leave.

It's already four o'clock in the afternoon.

He came here at noon and didn't leave after lunch.

The three women who had been accompanying him were already extremely bored.

I saw him finally finish his work and come over.

Julie Delpy was so bored that she was about to fall asleep, but she couldn't help but smile: "Oh my God, you finally got it done?"

"Um."

“That’s great!”

Jolie stood up happily and looked at Blanchett and Zeta-Jones who were also smiling beside her. "What do you think?"

"That's right!" Zeta-Jones commented.

Blanchett, as always, just smiles.

Continue to play the role of the 25-year-old little sister who stood like a minion.

"You can't blame me for this." Milo smiled, "I didn't expect it to take so long, and I told you guys to go shopping first, but you guys insisted on waiting for me."

"But it's not too late now~"

(End of this chapter)