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American History 1988

``` Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom. At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt. As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward. College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft. To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot. ```

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Chapter 138 Let's Do It Ourselves

By the 80s, the market value of American Union Network was only around 20 million US dollars. At that time, Block Corporation outright acquired it as a subsidiary for a premium of 25 million dollars.

It was also during that year that American Union Network initiated its online content service provision, though it only had about a thousand users.

Later, with continuous capital injection and cooperation with local telephone companies in Ohio, American Union Network had managed to achieve its current scale after a decade of development.

Its market value had risen from 20 million dollars to 300 million dollars today. An increase by more than tenfold, and now Dean had become one of its major shareholders.

That's right, as an individual shareholder, a 1.3% stake was already enough to make it onto the list of shareholder representatives.

"Robert, and Mr. Wilkins." Having signed the contract, Dean also began preparing to implement his own plan.