Giant of the times

Li Zetian shook his head and said: "Apple is not short of funds at the moment!" In fact, Apple is short of money, but now is not the best time to raise funds. In addition, if the other party wants to take 50% of the shares, Li Zetian will definitely not Promised.

Thomas Rockefeller sighed slightly. He was very optimistic about this young man, so he decided to invest in Apple. However, since the other party refused, forget it. There are many businesses in the world, and there are plenty of places to invest.

"Okay, then I won't make things difficult for you!" Thomas Rockefeller smiled like a gentleman, and then said goodbye to Li Zetian.

Everyone around him was sighing. This young man didn't agree to such a good offer. Was he out of his mind? Or what?

But no matter what, people now look at Li Zetian with admiration.

However, I still labeled Li Zetian as arrogant and ignorant!

Li Zetian didn't care what others thought. He took Yu Jingqiu's hand, then called Yu Jingshan up and left the auction house together.

On the way, Yu Jingshan felt a little sorry for Li Zetian. He said: "Zetian, the Rockefeller family has a great influence in the United States. If they invest in Apple, they will definitely help Apple develop rapidly!"

"Yes, uncle, I understand the influence of the Rockefeller family, but I cannot accept their investment at the moment. This will make me lose control of Apple! I don't want to be kicked out by others one day!!!" In his previous life, Steve Jobs was driven out by Apple's board of directors, which left a deep impression on Li Zetian. In the future, even if he does not have absolute control, the voting rights of his shares must account for more than 51%, so that he can firmly control the company. ! ! !

At present, Apple is developing rapidly, and it does need huge funds to support this small ship!

Including factory employees, Apple has more than 150 employees. Assuming that each person's average monthly salary is 1,400 US dollars, that is 210,000 US dollars a month. After excluding employee expenses, there are also rent, electricity bills, water bills, development The various electronic components needed, including processors, memory, floppy disks (hard disks were too big at the time and were only used in large or small computers), power supplies, monitors, etc. were all very expensive. In addition, including advertising costs, one month The cost is at least 300,000 yuan.

However, how much money does Apple make from Apple-l?

It is said that the hardware cost does not exceed US$500, and the selling price of US$2,000 can earn US$1,500. However, the BASIC language copyright licensing fee must be paid to Microsoft, and distributors and retailers must also share the money. In addition, there are taxes to pay. After all the calculations, the net profit of an Apple-l is less than US$1,000. Based on this calculation, Apple sold more than 3,000 machines and only made three million US dollars.

However, after Apple-l is sold, the payment from distributors and retailers will not be handed over to Apple immediately. Many distributors even deliberately default on payment.

In fact, Apple does not even have one million US dollars in funds on its books, but its expenses are so huge. If there is no income and it goes on for several months, the capital chain will easily break. By then, Apple will face Danger of bankruptcy! Fortunately, Apple-l is still on sale and has begun to enter overseas markets. The possibility of Apple going bankrupt is still very small.

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Since it was Li Zetian's first time coming to New York, Yu Jingqiu took him here for two days.

During Christmas, New York is particularly lively, with Christmas trees and lights everywhere. In addition to local New Yorkers, there are also people traveling from all over the world, visiting famous attractions such as Wall Street, the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, etc. The place was almost overcrowded. The most profound impression on Li Zetian was standing on the top floor of the Empire State Building and looking down at the entire New York. Although it was winter and the wind was freezing, Li Zetian's heart was burning with fire, as if he was standing at the pinnacle of the entire era, and the entire world was Surrender at his feet! ! !

On December 28, Li Zetian flew back to San Jose, Silicon Valley. Yu Jingqiu stayed in New York to accompany her father to relieve her boredom. After all, the bankruptcy of a company is a heavy blow to anyone.

Li Zetian rushed back in such a hurry because Bill Gates and Paul Allen had already arrived in San Jose, waiting for Li Zetian's formal appointment and introduction to other employees of the company.

The next morning, Li Zetian brought Bill Gates and Paul Allen to the company.

"Everyone, come here. Let me introduce these two to you now," Li Zetian waved, then pointed at Bill Gates and Paul Allen and said, "This is Bill Gates, who will serve as the CEO of the company in the future. This is Paul Allen as the company’s chief technology officer!”

As soon as the words fell, Microsoft employees began to discuss.

If two experienced people were poached from other companies to become the bosses of Microsoft, they would naturally have no objection, but Bill Gates and Paul Allen are younger than them, especially Bill Gates and Li Zetian He has the same baby face and looks like a high school student. How can everyone be convinced?

At this time, an employee inside shouted in surprise: "Oh, I suddenly remembered that these two are famous computer geniuses at Seattle Lakeside Middle School! When they were still high school students at the time, they solved a problem that even engineers from the Seattle Electric Power Company could not crack. Technical difficulties! Many computer science students in college heard about their reputation and came to challenge them, but very few were their opponents!"

"That's right, that's why I invited the two of them over!"

Li Zetian smiled and said: "I believe that in the coming days, you will gradually understand the capabilities of Bill Gates and Paul Allen! Now everyone, prepare for a meeting soon. I want to announce a major research and development project!"

"yes!"

Three minutes later, all Microsoft employees gathered in the conference room.

Li Zetian said in a deep voice: "Apple is developing Apple's second-generation Apple-ll personal computer. This will be a very commercially successful product and will sell far more than Apple-l! In addition to continuing to improve the BASIC interpretation, Microsoft In addition to computers, I plan to develop a spreadsheet office software--Excel--on Apple-ll personal computers. Please see the picture demonstration of Excel on the slide below!"

Then, the slide began to play a very simple spreadsheet designed by Li Zetian based on the hardware conditions of this era.

The horizontal coordinates are English characters such as ABCDEFG, and the vertical coordinates are Arabic numerals such as 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

Rows and columns form cells, and data and data-related formulas are stored in the cells. There is a line in the upper left corner that is the command output line. Press "Esc+Q" to jump here for input. Type special characters to select the formula that the user needs for the cell. For example, SUM is the addition operation, and IMSUB is the subtraction operation. …

After the slide show, everyone was surprised!

Bill Gates couldn't help but said: "Chronos, this Excel spreadsheet software is definitely a killer software, it will be popular all over the world!!!"

PS: Today is the third update again

PS: Today is the third update again