Chapter 86: Friend or foe
Perhaps in those days, if you picked a university student at random, they would almost certainly have no idea who Zhang Chaoyang or Li Yanhong were. Games like Legend were all the rage, but not everyone necessarily knew Chen Overpass. Gome, the future leader of the home appliance industry, was making its push during this period, formally breaking free of its role as an agent and distributor, overturning the traditional domestic appliance marketing model, and shedding its burdens to take flight. Yet nobody knew its founder.
Many dazzling names, even ones far more famous than Su Can's, went unnoticed and unknown, and Su Can was naturally no exception. The reason he had become a subject of discussion at Nanjing University was nothing more than the recent publicity surrounding Facebook. Most people probably had no idea what potential Facebook possessed. Even in the future, when the network swept through the United States and ushered in the age of online social networking, very few people in China knew what Facebook was.
What drew attention was undoubtedly the financing deal between Facebook and WPO over the previous spring break. The equity exchanged in the WPO deal immediately sent Facebook's valuation soaring, giving rise to the notion that Su Can and Zack were billionaires.
Only two years had passed since the millennium, and the imprint of the nineties had not yet been completely erased. Millionaire and multimillionaire were both terms that could describe someone whose wealth left ordinary people awestruck, whereas billionaires often occupied a realm apart. Many people had no clear sense of what that meant and could only relate it to a household name like Li Ka-shing.
They felt that all billionaires could be placed on Li Ka-shing's level. There were merely differences in standing within the