The 1996 Hong Kong Film Awards had just been announced, and Xia Zuhui took the crew of "The Legend of White Snake" to Suzhou and Hangzhou. Most of the scenes of this drama had to be shot on location in the mainland.
Due to the butterfly effect brought by Kang Jianfei, many film and television works of the original time and space have not appeared. For example, Ang Lee's "Father Trilogy", such as Pan Yingzi's "A Generation of Queens", "A Generation of Princesses", Zhao Yazhi's "New White"
Lady", "Joking about Qianlong", etc.
In another time and space, "The Legend of the White Snake" was originally a script tailor-made for Zhao Yazhi by the TV station after "The Story of Qianlong" became a hit. Now that she has not gone to Taiwan to develop, this work has naturally disappeared.
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What makes Kang Jianfei happy is that after many years of being an assistant director and director (all commercial films), Ang Lee finally showed his power this year. After the Spring Festival, he came up with a script he wrote by himself, called "Horse Racing", and the male protagonist is a man who just won a movie.
Certified Apprentice Jockey.
On the surface, this movie is about Hong Kong horse racing, with some kung fu and comedy elements mixed in, but at its core it is about the relationship between people, people and animals, and people and the city.
Art comes from life. In the original time and space, Ang Lee was able to shoot the "Father Trilogy" because he was depressed for a long time and was willing to be a househusband. He was born in Taiwan and lives in the United States. Therefore, his works tend to show the collision of Eastern and Western cultures.
With Fusion, he has a very deep and keen observation of families.
But things are different now. Ang Lee has been living in Hong Kong for ten years, and his focus has completely changed. He has an alienated colonial thinking mode. Kang Jianfei is very much looking forward to this work of his.
In the United States, the listing of Oriental Network Technology Company has also reached the final stage.
On January, the company submitted an IPO prospectus to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, intending to raise US$100 million, and also disclosed its shareholder structure and partial shareholding proportions.
On March 18, the list of multiple partners and their employment status were disclosed for the first time. The list of eight board members of future listed companies was also announced, and the total revenue for the 1995 fiscal year was also updated.
On March 11, with capital injections from several major consortiums and companies, the valuation of EITC increased again, the stock price rose from US$1 per share to US$18, and the number of board members increased to 11.
On April 16, the company was listed on the NASDAQ exchange in the United States with the stock trading code "EITC".
On April 18, revenue for the first quarter of 1996 was announced.
On April 7, the IPO pricing range was announced for the first time to be between 0 and 575 million U.S. dollars. Based on this, the company’s market valuation was calculated to be 500 million to 575 million.
On May 10, Oriental Network Technology Co., Ltd. was listed on Nasdaq. After a 5-minute inquiry, EITC opened at $7 and closed at $6. The stock price rose by 1% on the first day.
By the end of the first week of trading on May 14, Oriental Network Technology's share price had risen to US$54, and the company's market value had soared to US$150 million.
The whole world was shocked because this was the first Internet technology stock in history. Its astonishing stock rise not only stimulated countless people to devote themselves to Internet entrepreneurship, but also made wealthy people keen to invest in Internet companies.
The Internet bubble was born from this, and it continued to grow bigger every year, until a few years later... it burst with a "bang", and people were everywhere.
Due to the multi-faceted advantages of browsers, portals and search engines, Oriental Network Technology Company is far more successful than Yahoo in history, attracting more investors at least during the private placement stage.
So far, the top ten shareholders of Oriental Network Technology Company are as follows: Dream Fund (1%, a venture capital institution temporarily established by Kang Jianfei), Oriental Media (6.%), Vanguard Group (5.8%), Paramount (4.9%)
%), Fidelity Group (4.%), State Street Group (4.1%), Blackstone Group (.5%), Thomas Jr. (.8%), Northern Trust (.6%), GCM (.5%)
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As for the 10% shares that Kang Jianfei gave to Little Fatty Jim, after two rounds of private placements, they have been diluted to only 0.6%. Even so, he still has a net worth of more than 8 million US dollars, based on the current stock price rise
, it only takes a few days to become a multi-millionaire.
EITC has become another technology startup myth after Microsoft and Apple. The company's CEO Jiang Qinghua was on the cover of the third issue of "Time" in May, and the boss behind the scenes Kang Jianfei was also exposed immediately.
According to statistics from Fortune magazine, Kang Jianfei's net worth skyrocketed by US$500 million within one week of EITC's listing on Nasdaq.
This was US$50 million in 1996!
The most frightening thing is the rise in the share price of Oriental Network Technology Company, which fully proves what is called an Internet bubble. By the end of June, the issue price has soared from the US dollar issue price to an incredible US$81, which is almost the same as Microsoft's stock price.
The market value of EITC has grown to US$0 billion, quadrupling in just one and a half months.
Don’t you think it’s outrageous?
There are even more outrageous things. In the original time and space, Yahoo's stock was issued at a lower price, but it soared to $475 in four years, an increase of nearly 0 times.
After "Time" magazine interviewed Jiang Qinghua, it seemed that it still had more to say, so it flew to Hong Kong to interview Kang Jianfei. On the cover of that issue, Kang Jianfei's photo was juxtaposed with that of Bill Gates, and they were given a
A very middle-class title - Technology Sweetheart.
As for Steve Jobs, hehe, Apple just happened to be in trouble this year, and he resigned ten years ago. Jobs is now doing animation, and he invested in Pixar, and last year's "Toy Story" was very good at the box office.
Nowadays, whenever people mention technology entrepreneurship, they will think of Bill Gates and Kang Jianfei. And in the Internet boom, Kang Jianfei has always been a benchmark figure.
Hong Kong's stock market closely follows the pace of the United States, and the astonishing performance of EITC on Nasdaq has been noticed by Hong Kong's wealthy people, stockholders and traders. Especially after Kang Jianfei was exposed as the boss behind the scenes, public opinion in Hong Kong was also uproar.
Turned upside down.
Soon, the headquarters of Oriental Technology Company announced that Hong Kong's Oriental Charm Network was merged into EITC. This traditional Chinese website mainly serves Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. At the same time, EITC set up a branch in Zhongguancun, the capital, and opened a simplified Chinese version of Oriental Charm Network.
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Continuous good news came out, and EITC's stock price broke through the $90 mark.
Jin Yong has given up a large number of shares in Ming Pao Group at the beginning of the year, completely relinquished his actual position, and only held the fictitious post of president. Now Oriental Media has become the largest shareholder of Ming Pao Group, and perhaps in two or three years, it will be able to completely acquire Ming Pao Group.
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After the news of EITC reached Hong Kong, Jin Yong wrote a praising article: "...the first generation of Hong Kong's richest people were engaged in freight transportation, and the four major shipping kings were a sign of success at that time. The second generation of Hong Kong's richest people were engaged in real estate, and today Hong Kong
More than half of the top ten families in China started their fortunes in real estate. It seems that Hong Kong's development has nothing to do with technology... Kang Jianfei is an exception. He was born in the cultural and entertainment industry, but now he has become a wealth superstar on the other side of the ocean through the Internet.
This may be an inspiration to the young people in Hong Kong. They should not be limited to the small Hong Kong Island, but should cast their sights around the world and get in touch with the latest and most cutting-edge technology, so as to gain more opportunities..."(