The next day.
While the movie "The Purge" was launching various publicity campaigns, Kyle took some time out of his busy schedule to visit Silicon Valley.
LinkedIn, a company that Kyle established after ICQ started its Series A financing, is now also housed in the Page Building.
As soon as he joined LinkedIn, Kyle went directly to LinkedIn President Jeff Weiner.
"Jeff, I'm here today to inform you that ICQ will be moving out of the Page Building within a week. Of course, the address will still be in Silicon Valley."
Kyle spoke.
Icq moves out of the Page Building?
This news is good news for Jeff Weiner.
You should know that the Page Building, which Kyle bought for $6 million, is no longer unknown in Silicon Valley.
Icq company in the instant messaging field;
Waterworld Animation Studios, which created the SpongeBob SquarePants animated series;
and the recently formed LinkedIn company;
The three companies mentioned above are all clustered on the eighth floor of the Page Building. Except for LinkedIn, all three are now prominent figures in the American market. ICQ, in particular, has expanded rapidly, with its workforce surging, occupying almost all of the units above the sixth floor of the Page Building, resulting in a very crowded building.
Therefore, ICQ chose to move its headquarters out of the Page Building.
Not only that, the wealthy ICQ company directly bought a 12-story building unit not far away as the new headquarters of the ICQ Group.
"After ICQ buys the new headquarters building and the money raised previously is used up, it will probably start its B round of financing soon." Kyle had an idea.
At the moment, Kyle didn't think too much about it.
Anyway, the decision to buy the Page Building was a profitable one!
Real estate and properties in the United States are indeed not very good at preserving value or making money, and there is even the possibility of losing money.
But there are often exceptions.
That was Silicon Valley in the 90s!
With the advent of the Internet wave, Internet companies completed their listings on the Nasdaq one after another, creating miracles, attracting investors to participate, and land prices in Silicon Valley continued to soar.
Fifteen months ago, Kyle spent $6 million to buy the Page Building, which has now appreciated a lot in value. Now, Kyle will not negotiate unless the price is $10 million.
"Jeff, notifying you about ICQ's relocation isn't my primary purpose. I'm here to make a final confirmation on LinkedIn's official website."
Kyle said in a deep voice.
Upon hearing this, Jeff Weiner immediately became serious and a little excited.
LinkedIn was indeed founded by Kyle, but it also took a lot of effort from Jeff Weiner.
Online recruitment!
What an epoch-making website!
He can't wait for LinkedIn to officially go public!
After LinkedIn was founded, Kyle almost completely handed over the reins to Jeff Weiner, letting him do whatever he wanted. Of course, Weiner did not disappoint Kyle.
LinkedIn's creativity was remarkable, and building the website was simple. However, the challenge lay in collecting data from various companies, including signing online recruitment agreements with large, medium, and small companies.
You have to know that in the 1990s, there were no big data analysis centres, and data collection was entirely done manually.
This work is difficult and extremely tedious.
To this end, Jeff Weiner and his team worked almost day and night and finally got rewarded.
"Boss, we've been ready for a long time!"
"Whether it's the construction of the website or the arrangement of various promotion teams, we can ensure the stability of LinkedIn after it goes online."
"As of yesterday, my team and I have already visited major first-tier cities in the United States, including Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Washington, and Chicago.
We have negotiated deals with 850 large, medium and small enterprises, including Walmart, Ford, Microsoft, HP and other Fortune 500 companies."
"I believe that once LinkedIn is launched, it will be able to capture a significant share of the online recruitment market in the United States in the shortest possible time."
Jeff Weiner's words were full of confidence and enthusiasm.
Kyle couldn't help but nod in agreement.
Kyle believes in Jeff Weiner's abilities.
In the original time and space, it was after Jeff Weiner became the CEO of LinkedIn that he truly developed and expanded LinkedIn and made it one of the Fortune 500 companies.
In 2016, Microsoft spent a whopping $26.2 billion to acquire LinkedIn. Are you kidding?
Moreover, the price of US$26.2 billion is far lower than the market's expectations for LinkedIn.
The market a few years later showed that Microsoft made a lot of money by acquiring LinkedIn!
"June 13th!"
"Jeff, you heard me right. It's June 13th. It's not only the premiere date of Page Films' The Purge, but also the official launch date of LinkedIn."
Kyle said solemnly, "At this time tomorrow, I will arrange for someone to deposit $5 million into LinkedIn's account. Your job is to spend the entire $5 million in less than ten days. Can you do it?"
"No problem!" Jeff nodded heavily.
Making money is hard, spending money is even harder!
Of course, the difficulty in spending money here does not mean that you can do it casually, but that you need to spend 5 million US dollars in a planned way to achieve the maximum effect of publicity and promotion.
LinkedIn is finally going to be revealed to the world!
Kyle was also slightly excited at the moment.
After all, it is an Internet company that truly belongs to Kyle, not a company like ICQ.
...
June 4th.
The broadcast of the new episode of "America's Got Talent" naturally triggered a viewing frenzy across the country.
Following the first episode, the previous episode hit a new high in ratings, averaging 5.3%. Moreover, if UPN hadn't been limited to cable TV, rather than public television, its ratings would have increased by another 2 percentage points.
However, the current ratings have already shocked the entire America!
This episode is naturally exciting, but new items have been added to the spoken advertising segment.
"'The Purge,' produced by Page Films, will officially hit theatres in North America on June 13th. Are you ready?"
"To relieve social pressure, the federal government in the film has established a designated killing day where people can kill freely, regardless of law or morality. On this night, the entire society will be filled with killing and blood. Are you ready?"
...
June 6th.
UPN TV Network Entertainment Channel's flagship talk show "I'm a Celebrity" airs on time.
Zack Snyder, the director of "The Purge", and the main actors of the film are the guests of this episode.
Director Zack Snyder said on the show: "Do you feel the same about the conflicts caused by employment, unemployment, high crime rates, and uneven distribution of social wealth?"
"Do you envy your neighbour's wealth?"
"Are you resentful of the success of some of your less-than-favourable friends?"
"You're furious when you see other people's families living happily while you're alone, suffering from poverty and hunger?"
"You work very hard, but you're often bullied by your boss and colleagues?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"You can say no to all of this in The Purge!"
"In my film, The Purge, the government institutes a 12-hour killing holiday, which is the perfect outlet for your inner frustration!"
"On June 13th, the killing is coming. Are you ready?!"
...
June 7th/8th/9th.
For three consecutive days.
The topic of "free killing" created by the water army of Page Films has set off a huge wave on the Internet and triggered discussions among countless netizens.
Offline media and newspapers, whether paid or not, have also hyped up the topic of "The Purge" in pursuit of popularity!
For a time, even the popularity of the recently released "Jurassic Park 2" was overshadowed by the topic of "free killing".