In April, a website created by students from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology became the focus of the global Internet community.

micro, a social type website.

It first appeared at the Far East Exhibition at the end of March, and then quickly opened up the global market.

On April 4, 21 days after micro went online, the number of users exceeded , with a daily increase of more than .

The increase in the number of users has made the original seed round funding of 200,000 yuan stretched to the limit. Now it not only has to consider the funds for adding servers, but also the issues of employee salaries and office space.

With such a large number of users, it is obviously unrealistic to rely on just a few founders to maintain it. And the hired employees don't get any shares, so how can they work for you for free?

Fortunately, Micro is not short of capital favor now, and large financial institutions around the world are keeping an eye on this fast-growing company.

When Micro announced its Series A funding at the end of April, prominent investors from all over the world came to the door.

Micro's financing negotiations were quick and consensus was reached in less than a week.

Sequoia, Morgan Stanley, Asia Media and Barclays Bank equally divided the 20% stake.

The Zhaoji team is still planning to go public after completing the B round of financing. Perhaps they also want to take advantage of the current good market conditions to achieve financial freedom as soon as possible.

In fact, they have now achieved financial freedom, having raised $1640 million in funding and a post-investment valuation of $8200 million.

According to Micro's current valuation, the net worth of several of them exceeds one million US dollars, which is close to tens of millions Hong Kong dollars.

The reason why the valuation is so much higher than that of hea is due to the market. Micro is a pure Internet company and can quickly open up the global market, but it is not so easy for hea to open up the global market.

Among the four new shareholders, Sequoia and Morgan Stanley are responsible for supporting Micro in North America, Barclays Bank is responsible for Europe, and Asia Media is a strategic investor.

Asia Media can allow a large number of celebrities around the world to open their own accounts on micro, which is crucial to the development of micro.

The success of micro's Series A round has further fueled the already booming Internet boom in Hong Kong.

The Department of Computer Science at HKUST is world-renowned, so the upcoming enrollment season should be very interesting.

The Internet industry is booming around the world, and various capitals have begun to accelerate their efforts to seize this industry, and there is constant news.

However, in addition to the Internet industry, the world is also paying attention to one major event, that is, Shadamu's war.

It has been two months since the two sides ceased fire, but there has been no progress in the negotiations.

The coalition forces wanted Shadamu to withdraw from the oil kingdom before talking, but Shadamu was unwilling to do so and insisted on sitting down at the negotiation table first.

After almost a month, the United States finally agreed and the two sides sat down at the negotiating table.

But in the end, both sides knew that it was impossible to reach an agreement.

The coalition forces demanded that Shadamu withdraw and be responsible for compensation for the incident.

As for Shadamu, he demanded that the coalition forces withdraw from the Arab world, saying that this was the Arab world's own business and that it should be resolved by itself.

As for the prisoner exchange proposed by the United States, even if they were willing to exchange prisoners in a ratio of one to three, it was rejected by Shadamu. He was not stupid.

Both sides refused to give an inch. The whole world said that the United States was "stuck" in the Middle East battlefield, and the pressure of public opinion was enormous.

Not only do the Suez Canal and the Persian Gulf affect global oil exports and world trade, but the United States is also under pressure from Persia.

Because the longer the time goes, the more world economic aid Persia will receive.

At that time, in order to prevent the other party from interfering, the United States made a big promise and provided Persia with a total of US$20 billion in economic aid in ten installments within a year.

If it weren't for the $20 billion, would you, the United States, want to station troops in the Persian Gulf so easily? No way.

The United States' idea at the time was very simple. Through various calculations, it concluded that the war could be ended in three months at most. By then, it would definitely find an excuse to refuse Persia's aid.

But now the first batch of US$3.8 million and the second batch of US$1.9 million have been paid, and the third batch of US$2.2 million is about to be paid. It is not certain when this battle will end.

Apart from Persia, who would benefit most from a ceasefire? It would definitely be Shadam.

During this period, he not only redeployed the troops, but also broke up many of the troops into small groups and went into hiding in order to fight guerrilla warfare.

I have seen the offensive methods of the United States. You are going to bomb me, right? Go ahead and bomb me. I will hide and not come out. I don't believe that you will not send ground troops in.

And I am not afraid of your bombardment. Instead, I can take the prisoners to a few key cities and bomb them.

For a time, the United States was under great pressure.

In particular, the United States's delay in attacking because of these prisoners has been criticized by media around the world, especially the U.S. media.

There will always be casualties in a war. If the United States compromises for the sake of these one hundred people, will it continue to fight wars in the future?

In fact, there are huge divisions within the upper echelons of the United States. Some want to fight, while some in the military want to protect people, and some even want to send a small team to rescue them.

It was the internal debate among the top leaders that led to the passivity of the coalition forces on the front line.

Both sides are calm now, but this is not what Luo Nianzhong wants, because then Shada Mu won't need him for the time being.

Sunday, May 4th.

Today is a holiday and most people don’t have to go to work and are resting at home. Everyone is attracted by the morning news content of ATV News Channel.

In a villa area in Ho Man Tin, watching the content on TV, Song Zhina asked her husband Zhang Qihao, who had also put down his chopsticks and was staring at the TV, with some disbelief.

"Husband, it took so long and cost so much money just for the son of a general. Isn't this too much?"

"This is not just a general's son, it's a war between elephants and donkeys.

The current figure is still low, and it would be a waste of money if a war breaks out."

"More than one billion dollars a day is still low?" Song Zhina exclaimed, unable to believe it.

How could she know that when the two sides were fighting, the coalition forces would spend 700 to 800 million US dollars a day? Otherwise, why do they say that war is about money?

A few billion dollars a day is nothing now. The cost of flying airplanes every day is $200 million, and there are also various other operating machines.

The biggest expense is food and drink for the Allied forces. American soldiers are very extravagant. During World War II, in order to be able to eat Haagen-Dazs every day, they had to use airplanes to transport it every day.

Restrain yourself? That doesn't work for American soldiers.

I came here to serve my country, not to endure hardships. That’s what they think.

Don't think it's unreasonable to drink air-shipped red wine, look at the map and discuss tactics. This is very reasonable in the US military.

ATV News revealed the inside story of the coalition's ceasefire, and all media around the world reprinted it, causing an uproar among the public.

The American people, in particular, are extremely dissatisfied with the way their country uses taxpayers' money.

Before, they could still use the lives of American soldiers as an excuse, but now that they know it was all for a second-generation kid, they are immediately getting emotional.

At the Luo family mansion on Lantau Island, Luo Nianzhong received a call from Little Cowboy early in the morning about ATV.

"Ro, I need a reason."

"I'm just trying to find excuses for you, aren't I? George, the longer this matter is delayed, the more disadvantageous it will be for your father. I think you should understand that.

Now, with an outsider like me giving you a push, Mr. President will not be in a position where he cannot explain himself."

There was silence on the other end of the phone. After a moment, the cowboy's somewhat dissatisfied voice was heard, "But you should have informed me in advance. Everyone knows the relationship between our two families, and they will have some ideas."

"The idea? The idea is that they are clapping, right?"

Luo Nianzhong's face was full of sarcasm when he said this, "They have wanted to start a war for a long time, but they just don't have a good reason, and they don't want to disappoint the people below.

Now, the ceasefire has lasted for so many days and it is enough. The ceasefire is not a pause button and everything has to start over again. I think both the military industry and the energy interest groups are very happy, right?

George, our goals are different from theirs. Isn't it in our best interest to get the old cowboy re-elected?"

There was silence again on the other end of the phone. After a while, a busy tone came from the phone. Luo Nianzhong knew that the other party accepted his reason.

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