Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 657: Online socket

At the end of May 2007, according to incomplete statistics, the VR industry attracted thousands of companies to join. Banks are also more optimistic about this industry, with total loans of no less than US$50 billion. But in Henry's view, the threshold of VR is actually very high. It involves many technologies. Enterprises want to create a high-quality experience to pay high costs, and they also need to master huge resources, such as user resources, movies, games and other content resources. These are not ordinary small companies can not afford to play. Furthermore, there is fierce competition from Atari, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Samsung and other high-tech companies. It is not difficult to imagine that most VR companies will eventually become cannon fodder! ! !

Also, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has already broken out. It is not a good time to enter the VR industry at this moment! At this time, the bank is also unable to protect the mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and lending to other companies is tantamount to accelerating his own death! The outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States was caused by the design flaws of the subprime loan product system and the imperfect government supervision system. It is an inevitable event!

Beginning in February 2007, HSBC announced that it had suffered huge losses in its mortgage business in North America, writing down $10.8 billion in related assets, and the subprime mortgage crisis kicked off. In April 2007, New Century Financial Corporation, the second-largest subprime mortgage company in the United States, filed for bankruptcy protection due to its inability to repay its debts and laid off more than 50% of its employees. Of course, at this time, people are still unaware of the coming of the subprime mortgage crisis, just thinking that some companies are doing poorly. The popularity of VR has attracted the attention of the media and the public, making the subprime mortgage crisis not arousing people's attention.

Henry had already allowed the company under his name to make targeted adjustments in order to tide over the financial crisis!

Willett is in charge of the Williams Royal Investment Company and has already spent a huge sum of US$1 trillion, madly shorting the U.S. stock market and real estate market. In addition, it also set aside 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars to start shorting the finance of more than 100 countries and regions including Canada, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Europe.

At this time, in fact, Henry was not the only one who did this. There was a fund manager named John Paulson in the United States who was also frantically shorting the U.S. stock market and real estate. Now, he is just a junior on Wall Street. His company Paulsonamp; Co. has 60 employees and manages a $1 billion hedge fund. In his previous life, he made $3.7 billion in 2007 alone, becoming the best fund manager of the year! ! !

Since then, the name "John Paulson" has been regarded as a **** on Wall Street, and titles such as "God of Making Money" and "The First Man in Hedge Fund" have been hung on him; financial crocodile Soros invited him to dinner; Even because of his existence, even the Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson had to be called "the other Paulson" to show the difference! ! !

John Paulson was only in charge of a $1 billion fund, and he was revered as a god. If the Wall Street in the previous life knew that Henry had shorted the US stock market and real estate with $1 trillion, how would he call him? !

King of Gods? !

Henry dare not let people know that he is shorting the US financial market, which is tantamount to spreading salt on the wounds of Americans, and the economic situation in the United States will be more dire than in previous lives.

The Williams Royal Investment Company secretly controls many fund institutions, and all of them are shorting the US market in the name of these funds. It is not easy to be suspected of themselves. And even if the United States knows that Williams Royal Investment Company is shorting the US market, it will not be able to understand the specific situation.

In order to paralyze the United States and make the subprime mortgage crisis worse, Henry began to make gimmicks again.

On June 1, Williams Super Energy held a product launch conference and released the graphene LED bulb!

This conference really stirred up waves with one stone.

Graphene LED bulbs can save energy by 40%-50% than incandescent lamps and 10%-20% more energy than traditional LEDs. The maximum lifetime is 10 years! But the price is only 15 Weiyuan! This price is not expensive at all. Who can't afford 15 Weiyuan things now?

Williams Super Energy spokesperson Marcy Kelvin said: "Dear friends from the media and viewers watching the live broadcast of the press conference, do you know how much electricity can be saved in a year if graphene LED bulbs are replaced worldwide? ?"

Everyone whispered.

Marcy Kelvin said loudly: "According to our statistics, at least 100 billion kilowatt-hours can be saved, which is equivalent to all the electricity used on the earth in two days!!! If calculated according to the international standard coal power generation, it can be reduced by one thousand. More than two million tons of coal burned!! Not only saves coal resources, but also greatly reduces environmental pollution! Therefore, both in terms of economic benefits and environmental protection, graphene LED bulbs are the best choice! Besides..."

Marcy Kelvin paused and pressed the controller in his hand. At this time, another thing appeared on the LCD screen of the press conference-a socket.

Everyone can't help feeling stunned, uh, isn't this just a socket? Is it possible that Williams Super Energy has even set foot in sockets?

That's right, that's it.

Marcy Kelvin smiled and introduced to everyone: "This is a socket, but it is not an ordinary socket. This is a smart switch socket specially developed by our company-the Online socket, a three-hole socket with a switch! Everyone! It is also known that many homes already have the robot Eve. Although Eve can control the smart home devices in the home, the user does not have a smart home at home. However, now that is good, after having an online socket, it can be connected to Eve. When You don’t need to get out of bed to turn off the light when you are lying in bed and ready to go to bed~lightnovelpub.net~ Just give Eve an order. In addition, we have also developed the corresponding mobile app software, which can be connected using a smart phone. Online socket!!!"

After listening to everyone, they sincerely felt that the Online socket was really a good idea! Technically speaking, the task of an online socket is to control "on" and "off", which is not difficult. Online is installed at home, and many electrical appliances have become smart appliances, which is not only convenient, but also looks cool!

The reporter couldn't help asking: "Mr. Marcy Kelvin, how much is an online socket?"

"It's not very expensive, it only costs 90 Weiyuan!" Marcy Kelvin replied with a smile, "However, we will launch a combination package. There is a switch and a three-hole socket on the online socket, so an online socket can control both Home appliances, one can be a light bulb, the other can be an air conditioner, etc. Therefore, our combination package is 1 graphene LED light bulb + 1 online socket, a total of only 100 MW, a discount of 5 MW!"

Although it is a bit more expensive to buy sockets and light bulbs for 100 watts, there are two "smart homes" in the house instantly, which is quite cost-effective!

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