Life at the Top

Time ticked by and it was now only three more minutes until the market opened and Sena went public. Jasper had been invited onto the temporarily built stage.

The stage was right under the largest main screen in Nasdaq Exchange Center, which was at the center of the room.

Under everyone’s attentive gaze, Jasper and Jack got on stage.

In the middle of the stage was a large bell.

Since Nasdaq Exchange’s founding, every business that went public would have its legal personality ring this bell.

It was a tradition as much as it was a symbol.

The electronic screen continued to display worlds of welcome like ‘Nasdaq welcomes Sena’ while hundreds of traders had already gotten into position. There were a few dozen reporters holding their cameras, waiting to take a picture of this historical moment.

Jasper accepted a wooden hammer from a manager in the exchange center and was just about to invite Jack to ring the bell with him when he saw the other shake his head with a smile.

“You should ring the bell yourself, Mr. Laine,” Jack spoke.

Although he was stunned, Jasper saw the shine in Jack’s eyes and did not insist. “Alright then.”

Everyone looked up and focused on the electronic screen that covered the entire wall. It displayed both Nasdaq’s and Sena’s logo, as well as an analog clock.

The second hand of the clock ticked continuously until it was almost racing to 9:30 a.m.

“5…

“4…

“3…

“2…

“1…”

Hundreds of people counted down at the same time in the exchange Center.

in the United States, and Jasper knocked

Ring!

sound of the bell rang throughout the entire

flashed maddeningly as they tried to

for the first internet enterprise from Somerland had moved on from the bursting of the dot-com bubble and registered

Its ticker—SENA!

and the group got down from the stage after they rang the bell. They began to pay attention to the changes in share

senior executive sucked in a deep breath and

relaxed as he smiled and said, “The share market in the United States has different rules compared to the markets back home. New shares here normally pay more attention to

investors tended to buy shares of new

25 US dollars with 96 million US dollars worth of shares

shares bought by investors through pre-IPO, the

10% rise limit when it came to

meant if Sena was formidable enough, its prices could

difficult would

Impossibly hard.

share market was no longer as crazy as it used to be before the burst of the dot-com

world’s economic development slowed, trade also decreased in large exchange centers like Nasdaq, the Dow Jones Index,

proved that investors were getting less enthusiastic and there was also less hot money in the

rational and no longer rushed to one sector

calm facade

exchange center, Jasper watched the scene

were still thinking of ways to interview Sena’s senior executives, and traders had already begun receiving phone calls while

the scent of money

to the pressure

US dollars had to grow at least five times to

would dare to make such

face?” Celine

laughed. “And here I am, worried about whether the share price will meet the requirements when you’re acting like it has

Celine pinched Jasper’s shoulder and beamed at him. “Don’t worry about it. So what if it doesn’t hit the target we set? The point of Sena going public was to help contribute to your cash flow. From the hype