Wall Street Legend

Chapter 250 Chores (34)

Since Freshwater Fund’s investment, Amazon’s share price has been rising pretty well. This does not mean that everything is smooth sailing. As the scale expands, many problems have begun to surface.

Funding is only one of them. Amazon is burdened with a lot of debt, and those debts need to be paid back with interest. Currently, there is no need to worry about the security of the capital chain. What really needs to be paid attention to is how to grow as the number of users increases. In more and more cases, we provide them with better services and further expand the market, winning the markets of certain countries in Europe and Asia, including Canada, Australia and other countries.

Looking back, in July 1995, "Bookstore Amazon" was officially launched. It is known as the largest bookstore on the earth, with a total of nearly one million books sold. However, there were only nine Amazon employees at the time, including Jeff Bezos and his wife. That year coincided with the first wave of the Internet bubble in the United States. Even though the online bookstore showed some bright prospects, investors were Be careful and don't want to invest too much in him.

It’s funny. At that time, although Amazon displayed nearly a million books on its website, it actually had zero inventory. After users placed an order, Bezos and his employees went to the publisher to buy the books and then sent them out. It’s hard to imagine that such a company has grown to such a huge scale now.

By 1999, Amazon successfully raised nearly US$2.2 billion, expanded its business scope, and began selling toys and electronic products. Later, it also established seven logistics centers in the United States and Europe, and launched recharge cards to facilitate online shopping. .

However, when the Internet bubble burst and Amazon was in trouble, Bezos had to stop some online product warehouses and distribution centers under construction to get a chance to breathe. The market value was cut by about four-fifths. Until now, it has not Rejuvenate.

Jeff Bezos once worked on Wall Street, and he has a strong "brand" of Wall Street, such as decisiveness, sociability, clear thinking, etc. Especially when it comes to the pursuit of money, only if you like money first can you succeed. Will spend more time thinking about how to make money. Ye Dongqing has to admit that in the period after his investment, Amazon has made quite a few changes and has been continuously optimizing under the leadership of Mr. Bezos. .

At this time in 2004, Amazon's business scale was still not large, and the products it sold were mainly concentrated in a few areas. Major categories such as household products, baby products, beauty products, food, etc. were being launched one after another. The scale of logistics and warehousing was increasing. , the cost will also increase. This is why Mr. Bezos complained to Ye Dongqing just now.

Amazon is no longer a small company. It provides services to more than 20 million users, and the scale of orders every day is not small. This makes Amazon's executives a little at a loss. The logistics layout planning matter that was discontinued back then has recently been put on the agenda. , and construction has begun. This is why Amazon urgently needs itself in the near future. The company's profits are far from being able to make up for the loopholes.

Ye Dongqing did not tell the truth. He did not know much about the online mall industry, but he knew much more than the current Mr. Jeff Bezos. In his opinion, if he wanted to stimulate the company's profit increase, he should also consider open source while reducing expenditures. , and he happens to know a few good solutions, such as cloud service programs that match users with various products. These can already be tried and developed. The extensive use of transport robots in logistics warehouses is also a good way to save money. And he won't be lazy.

We have a solution, so don’t worry too much for the time being. Amazon is facing less competition now. It doesn’t matter if it’s a little late, otherwise it will make Amazon’s cash flow even tighter. Ye Dongqing wants Mr. Bezos to realize that he is a useful partner. This way he can avoid being marginalized in future development, and it is more in his personal interest to come up with good ideas from time to time.

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Laura went to London and went back to school. Because she participated in the Victoria's Secret catwalk, she was already quite famous in school, which led to many men coming to pursue her without knowing their ability. , to be honest, Laura was a little annoyed by this.

In her heart, Ye Dongqing may not be handsome enough, but he is also very playful, but that kind of mature and confident temperament is definitely something that these young people in school can't learn. It has a feeling that it was once difficult to make water in the sea, at least until now. So far, Laura has not known any of her peers in their twenties who are more successful than Ye Dongqing. Even in their thirties, there are not many who can reach that level.

In the past, she would still be angry because of Ye Dongqing's flirtatiousness, but now she is better. Laura thought that she had become the kind of girl with a chaotic private life, and she deeply blamed herself for this. She was annoyed that she shouldn't have drank too much that night, and added The Long Island ice tea cocktail with lots of cola and some green apple juice tasted pretty good. I didn’t expect it to be so strong. The alcohol was covered up by the sweet taste. If Laura drinks often, she must know this. .

She didn't know who the man was that night, and she even guessed at Leonardo DiCaprio. This thought made her slightly better, after all, at least he wasn't an old man who was bald. , has been struggling with whether to call her colleague Gisele Bundchen in recent days. Laura clearly remembers that she was the girl who slept in the same bed with her that day.

I thought about talking to Ye Dongqing, but in the end I decided to hide it. I regretted it and blamed myself many times. Yes, from her point of view, hiding it was indeed the best move at the moment. She was very worried about being photographed that night. What.

Ye Dongqing also didn't expect that after he left her that day, he would put Laura into such a difficult predicament. Men, who are more open-minded about such things, would never take the initiative to mention it to Laura.

So, Laura found a lame excuse to call Gisele Bundchen, pretending to be concerned about her relationship, and asked in a roundabout way what happened after their quarrel that night. She also said that she had drunk too much and was with her. The room I went to, etc., otherwise there would be no way to continue asking.

Miss Bündchen didn’t remember much, or she had no memory of what happened after her breakup. Thinking of her breakup, she burst into tears and complained to Laura on the phone, saying that they would never get back together again. A scumbag and so on.

Laura rolled her eyes in anger. She didn't care at all about Bundchen's emotional entanglement, but she was too embarrassed to hang up the phone. She listened for more than half an hour before she was relieved...