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Chapter 843 Fly is listed

At 7 a.m. Eastern Time, before dawn, the doorstep of the New York Stock Exchange was crowded with people in line, including investors and media from around the world, including more than 80 media from China alone.

Today is the day of Fly's listing. In order to welcome Fly's listing, the New York Stock Exchange has launched the highest standard welcome method, and the entire New York Stock Exchange has changed its clothes on Fly on a large scale. The three large LCD screens on the bell ringing stage of the New York Stock Exchange have been replaced with Fly's blue bird logo. The promotional screens inside and outside the New York Stock Exchange trading hall will play Fly's related advertisements all day; even the trading stations in the New York Stock Exchange hall are pasted with Fly's blue bird. This treatment will only be given occasionally by the New York Stock Exchange when major iPos are in progress.

Today, the entire New York Stock Exchange has become the stage for fly.

The opening time of the New York Stock Exchange is at half past 9:30. One hour before the opening of the New York Stock Exchange, fly's three founders Zhang Ran, Bai Yunfei and Mike Solomon, as well as company senior executives, appeared on the streets of the New York Stock Exchange.

Zhang Ran is still an iconic black suit, wearing a white shirt inside, wearing a simple but elegant dress, with a strong aura but more humble attitude, and his every move is full of the style of a successful person; while Zhang Jingchu is wearing an elegant white sleeveless dress, wearing a black coat, handbag, shoes and bracelet, and chooses a bright gold color, which looks rich and elegant.

After Zhang Ran and the others appeared, reporters flocked to ask questions and asked for photos, and all kinds of voices were heard. Zhang Ran always had a smile on his face, answering everyone's questions very politely, and almost everyone asked for photos.

After a round of movies, Zhang Ran and Bai Yunfei came to the door of the New York Stock Exchange. He looked up at the New York Stock Exchange, reached his hand in front of Bai Yunfei, imitated the reporter's appearance and asked, "Mr. Bai Yunfei, fly is about to go public. How do you feel now!"

Bai Yunfei touched his chin and smiled and said, "I don't know how to describe it. I feel like I'm going to be a father. Now I'm like waiting for a newborn to be born. That feeling cannot be described in words. I can only say that because of fly, I have no regrets in my life!" Speaking of this, he looked at Zhang Ran and said seriously: "Zhang Ran, do you know? For me, the most important moment in my life is not the launch of fly, but meeting you on the plane. If I hadn't met you and your genius creativity, I might be a very ordinary programmer! It would be great to meet you!"

Zhang Ran quickly rubbed his arms and exaggeratedly: "Why does this sound so ambiguous? I feel goosebumps are about to get up. If you want to confess your love, don't look for such a person. You should find a place where there is no one, otherwise I will be under great pressure!"

Zhang Jingchu put her hands on her hips, looked at Bai Yunfei and smiled, "What, are you going to compete with me for a man?"

Bai Yunfei laughed and scolded: "Get out! You two!"

According to the listing practice, every company invites many guests to help when it goes public. This time, fly's listing is no exception, and bigwigs from all walks of life are invited to watch the ceremony and help.

The domestic ones include NetEase's Ding Lei, Sohu's Zhang Chaoyang, Lenovo's Yang Yuanqing, etc.; there are more foreign ones, including Google's Larry Page, Facebook's Xiaozha, Salberg, Condé Nast Group's president, News Group's Murdoch and Wendy Deng, etc., which are star-studded.

Shortly after Zhang Ran and the others arrived, the bell ringer who went public on the fly came. In Chinese traditional culture, nine has special significance, representing the ultimate number, indicating the meaning of honor and the ultimate, and has a long-term meaning. Therefore, the bell ringer chose nine, hoping that the company can last for a long time.

However, this time the bell ringer is different from the bell ringer who goes public in general companies. He is not the company executives, but the nine Fly users, including superstars like Rihanna and Cheng Long. They have more than 10 million fans and are senior users of Fly; there are world-class internet celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Faragne; there are also randomly selected ordinary users, including college students, workers, and farmers. They are grassroots, and they are even the most ordinary people around us.

At first, Bai Yunfei and the others hoped that the company's executives would ring the bell like an ordinary company. But Zhang Ran believed that this day not only belongs to us, but also to every user of fly. It is the user who achieved fly. How could they be missing this day? Leave the honor of ringing the bell to them! After hearing this, Bai Yunfei and the others thought it was a special reason, so they selected nine bell ringers from fly's users in different categories.

After the media learned that the bell ringer was the nine fly users, they were shocked, thinking that this was the most special among all listed companies, and they dedicated the most important time to their users.

The New York Times even commented: "Let every ordinary person who contributes to the times enjoy glory, let every sunken voice be salvaged, and let every name get the place it deserves. This is the progress of the times and it also requires all parties to spend a lot of effort. Fly has really done this!"

Zhang Ran has been busy with the "Future Apocalypse" recently. He did not participate in the bell ringer's choice, nor did he participate in the fly's listing roadshow, and had never met the nine bell ringers. After the nine bell ringers arrived, Bai Yunfei immediately introduced Zhang Ran.

"Zhang Ran, this is Rihanna. Last month, she just released her new album "Na Scream Loud", in which the single "Who Am I" became the top spot in Billboard in just one week. This is Rihanna's eighth Billboard champion single, which broke the long-term network that Madonna has maintained. Not only was she named a European fashion face by Amazon, she was also hired by Panteng as a global ambassador, and even appeared on the Italian version of Vogue. She has 50,000 fans on Fly, and she is your loyal fan!"

Zhang Ran smiled and shook hands with the nine bell ringers and expressed his gratitude for attending the bell ringing ceremony. The nine bell ringers were very excited. After all, this was a time to witness history. Big stars like Cheng Long and Rihanna were in good condition, so the others were particularly excited, especially a few ordinary people. Being able to participate in the bell ringing ceremony of fly was like a dream for them. They held Zhang Ran's hand and excitedly said that being able to participate in the bell ringing ceremony of fly was the most proud thing they had in their lives.

After the greetings, Zhang Ran and everyone were thinking about the sky, taking photos with them while waiting for the exchange to open.

Just as I was waiting, time soon came to midnight.

New York Stock Exchange staff came to inform Zhang Ran and others that they could enter the New York Stock Exchange to prepare for listing.

Zhang Ran raised his left hand and looked at the time, and smiled and said, "Everyone, the time is almost over, let's go in!"

Entering the exchange building, Zhang Ran and fly management came to the exhibition hall on the first floor; nine bell ringers came to the backstage on the second floor, waiting to ring the bell on the bell stage; and the guests who came to watch the ceremony entered the second floor viewing area, and through the glass, you can see the panoramic view of the trading hall.

At 9 a.m., New York Stock Exchange President Thomas Farey came on stage to deliver a welcome speech. In his speech, he said that fly is a truly innovative Internet company that connects the whole world. Fly's listing on the New York Stock Exchange is the honor of the New York Stock Exchange, and Fly's listing will also become the largest iPo in the Internet company!

In his speech, Thomas Farey revealed that Fly's issuance price is $55 and its financing scale will reach $1.5 billion. Based on this issue price, Faebook's valuation is $9.3 billion, setting the highest listing valuation of a US company.

Thomas Farey tells everyone that within 15 minutes after the opening bell, the opening price can usually be opened for trading. But the bigger the company, the stronger the buyer's demand is, the longer the price issuance process will take. Fly may start trading one or two hours after the opening. Because Morgan Stanley and Barclays need a certain amount of time to process the issuance price.

Immediately afterwards, the three founders of Fly came on stage to speak. Mike Solomon is a technology maniac and doesn't like to speak very much. His speech is very simple, mainly to thank the company's employees and the company's users. Bai Yunfei, as a CEO, is more able to say that he has talked a lot from the establishment of the company to the future development.

When it was Zhang Ran's turn, he smiled at the microphone: "We founded fly to build a platform so that everyone, no matter how poor or rich, no matter what country they come from, no matter what beliefs, no matter what language they speak, no matter what skin color, can have equal dialogue. Fly's ability to reach today is achieved by all users. Here, I want to thank all fly users. This moment belongs to each of you, thank you everyone!"

After the speech, Bai Yunfei exchanged gifts with New York Stock Exchange President Thomas Farey on behalf of Fly. Fly gave a special fly blue bird puppet; while the New York Stock Exchange gave Fly a crystal cup.

At the same time, people began to gather in the trading hall. Because Fly chose Barclays as the market maker for listing this time, the Barclays Bank counter in the trading hall became the focus, with crowds in front of the counter and extremely hot atmosphere.

When Zhang Ran and his party changed into white T-shirts with blue bird patterns and appeared in the exchange hall, the Chinese reporters who flocked to the scene were blocked. So much so that some overseas reporters complained on Fly: "Do you know how crazy the New York Stock Exchange hall is today? Our cameramen and producers have learned a Chinese saying: Please let go!"

At 9:25, Cheng Long, Harlena and other nine bell ringers came to the balcony on the second floor to prepare to ring the bell. The bell ringer on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and Nasdaq, were actually just a place similar to a TV studio. It was relatively large, with relatives and friends, and IPO underwriters staff, etc., and everyone could go up. However, the bell ringer on the New York Stock Exchange was a balcony on the second floor, which was very small, and only a few people could go up, while the other people could only look up in the trading hall downstairs.

At 9:2, music started on the New York Stock Exchange. Cheng Long picked up a small wooden hammer and rang the bell of the opening market. The New York Stock Exchange opened.

At the same time as the opening bell rang, two crisp sounds, fireworks sounded, and red paper slips fell from the sky; applause and cheers sounded in the audience,

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