Chapter 190: The Internet era is getting closer
In the morning, Fan Wubing logged on to the American Online through his company's network to read the news, and found that there was a message on it, which was a case handled by the New York Police Department not long ago.
In March, people from the New York Police Department examined a body and concluded that the deceased died of a gunshot in the head.
The deceased's name is Ronald Ops, and he learned from the suicide note he left behind that he wanted to jump off the top of a ten-story building to commit suicide.
However, when he jumped off the building and passed by the ninth floor, a bullet shot out of the window and killed him on the spot.
After investigation, the police found that neither the deceased nor the person who shot the gun knew about the same situation. The eighth floor was under construction at that time, and workers had just installed a safety net there, which means that if Ronald Ops had not been killed by the gun, his suicide plan would not have been fulfilled.
According to US law, generally speaking, if a person commits a planned suicide and eventually dies, even if the suicide process changes and fails to be as the suicide wishes, then the person should be determined to commit suicide according to law.
However, when the police investigated the bullets fired from the ninth floor, the nature of the case changed again.
At that time, an old couple on the ninth floor had an argument and were arguing. The old man took out a gun to intimidate the old lady, and then pulled the trigger. However, the bullet did not hit the old lady, but flew out of the window and hit Ronald Ops in the head.
According to US law, if a person wants to kill A but mistakenly kills B, then the person should still be convicted of murder against B. Therefore, this case should be a murder case.
But when the old man faced the charge of murder, the old man and the old woman agreed that both of them thought there were no bullets in the gun at that time. The old man explained that using a gun without a bullet was a practice he had always had when quarreling with his wife for many years. He had no intention of killing his wife. If the old couple was true, then this was a case of manslaughter.
The key to the question is, under what circumstances did the bullets be loaded by whom? During the investigation, the police found a witness who proved that he had seen the old couple's son loading bullets into the gun six weeks before the incident.
The police learned from a more in-depth investigation that because the old lady decided to stop financial support for her adult son, the son held a grudge and had a murderous intention. He knew that his father had the habit of intimidating the old lady with a gun, so he filled the gun with bullets, hoping to kill his mother with his father's hand.
Since this son knows what the consequences will be for loading a gun, even if he does not pull the trigger himself, he should be charged with murder.
Therefore, the case became the crime of murder of Ronald Ops by the old couple's son.
However, after a turn of changes, the police found that the son of the old couple was actually the deceased Ronald Ops himself.
Because he was cut off from his source of income, his long-planned murder plan was not successful. He felt depressed. Finally, on this day, he decided to jump from the top of a ten-story building to commit suicide, but was killed by a bullet shot from the window on the ninth floor.
In other words, Ronald Ops killed himself, so the case was finally considered a suicide case.
After Fan Wubing saw this, he felt that the case was really incredible, but he even more suspected that it was a fake news, otherwise how could such a coincidence happen in the world?
However, Fan Wubing also noticed one thing: the Internet era is already beginning to exert its huge influence. Although American Online is now just an Internet company that has just been established for ten years, its growth is already very good. Since its company went public in 1992, it has raised 66 million US dollars in one fell swoop. Now the company's market value has doubled several times, and the 10 million US dollars that Fan Wubing invested casually at the time has exceeded hundreds of millions of US dollars.
The core of AOL's strategy is the inspiration from the early work experience of founder Case and fast food restaurants. He believes that no matter how good any technology is, if it is not practical, it will still be eliminated by the market, and people like convenient and simple things, and technology is no exception. Therefore, he believes that AOL should provide people with convenient and fast network services, which makes AOL significantly different from most high-tech companies.
According to this principle, Ai Online does not sell complex software, complex computers, or does other businesses secretly. They only sell convenience and network services to consumers, who are tired of their work and study, hate complex software, but are willing to communicate with American Online users, friends or strangers to their daily lives with popular topics, favorite music, or even business practices.
The strategy of facing ordinary consumers by AOL is simply crazy to the Silicon Valley technology elites. However, this simple consumer-oriented thinking has brought rich benefits to his company in the Wall Street stock market. As Steve Case, the founder of AOL, said, AOL is not about technology, but about becoming a mass media and becoming a part of the daily lives of ordinary customers.
AOL is one of the few companies that can make computers easier and more fun.
Of course, the important reason why AOL is profitable is online advertising. When other companies have no idea about online advertising, AOL has already begun to implement its own advertising strategy. An unknown long-distance telephone company signed a $1 million business with AOL, because online advertising is much cheaper than doing it in TV and newspapers, and checking out with AOL users through the Internet can also save a lot of extra expenses.
However, Fan Wubing also knew that the climax of online companies was still coming. When the Internet bubble arrived, he could return at least tens of billions of dollars from the original investment arbitrage of 10 million US dollars. This investment is quite cost-effective.
Fan Wubing invests in many famous American companies in the same amount, generally not more than 10% of their equity ratio. Such an equity ratio can make you profitable without worrying about being rejected by other shareholders of the company or being stopped by the US government on the grounds of threatening national security.
The most important point is that Fan Wubing will not interfere with the business strategies of companies with good growth potential, so as not to affect their development direction and thus produce immeasurable changes.
Basically, these companies are like animals raised by Fan Wubing, and can be slaughtered when it is time to harvest.
In fact, such a business strategy is also pursued by most professional investors, but it is worth noting that the time to harvest is the time to harvest. If you harvest too early, you cannot maximize your investment profits. If you harvest too late, you may be trapped.
Regarding this domestic ISP business, Fan Wubing's men have begun to consult with the provincial capital cities and cities in various provinces and those with relatively developed and economic conditions, and have begun to lay the main optical cables in the urban area. This is a relatively large system project. It must not only consider whether the distribution meets the current usage needs, but also consider the construction intention of municipal projects, leaving room for future upgrades, which can be said to be very complicated.
Of course, the central government has also given great support to Fan's Internet Service Company. The State Council held a special meeting and brought the top leaders of various provinces and cities over to talk about the central government's support for network expressways. It also stated that Fan's Internet Service Company enjoys the same development space as the General Administration of Telecommunications in the mainland Chinese administrative region. The difference is that Fan's needs to pay some fees to the local government.
Because of interest demands, Fan's Internet Service Company seemed to be at ease in negotiations with various places. After all, the local government saw the money and the benefits that might arise in the infrastructure of the Internet Service Company, so it was not very repulsive to this matter. After all, if the State Administration of Telecommunications has laid out the same thing, it would not pay them half a penny.
In this way, the optical cable laying work in most provincial capital cities has gradually begun. It is initially expected that the first batch of work tasks will be completed within half a year, the domestic backbone network of Fan's Network Service Company will be built, and some branches will be appropriately developed.
For example, although some cities are not provincial capitals or very economically developed cities, they have a tourism foundation and the occupancy rate of foreigners is very high. Then, the Internet should not be missing in hotels in such cities. Although the cost may be higher, it is essential.
Moreover, Fan Wubing also thought about what he should do after building the network. He first built his own companies into a model project in the Internet era, deliberately creating an atmosphere where information determines everything, and taking this as the starting point, he promoted other companies vigorously and encouraged them to use their own set of technologies to become customers of their own companies.
For most emerging nouveau riche companies in China, Fan's Investment Group is like a mountain that must be looked up to. In front of this commercial giant, the top 20 private companies are beyond the reach, let alone fighting alone. With this demonstration effect, Fan Wubing doesn't need to worry that they will miss this learning opportunity.
Moreover, Fan Wubing also has a killer weapon, which is to use the resources in his hands to build a bridge of connection between Chinese companies and the West. At that time, business volume will continue to double, so they will not worry that they will not get on their own ship if they taste the sweetness.
Although the number of corporate users is not large, it is an important user group that can be developed at this stage. What is certain is that Fan Wubing is different from other Internet pioneers who are exploring and are equally confused about the future. He is very clear about the profit model of Internet companies, at least he will not take so many detours.
The information expressway in the United States will be paved next year. Fan Wubing hopes that the domestic optical cable trunk line can be completed within this year. In this way, at least the start time of the first batch of China's network service companies will not be too late.
Chapter completed!