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"Boss, I thought you were going to spend your whole life with those dinosaurs on Jurassic Island."

Wen Ming, who had just returned to Apple, saw Tomdin who wanted to hug him.

The security personnel next to him stopped Wen Ming mercilessly, making both Wen Ming and Tom Ding look very embarrassed. Of course, the most embarrassing thing is Tomdin.

"Relax, this is in our own company."

Wen Ming's words made the security personnel back away, but their eyes were still staring at Tomding, which made Tomding put away the idea of ​​hugging his boss in fear, and just held his boss's chest tightly with both hands. hand.

"How is it? What's the status of the game business department recently?"

Wen Ming asked with a smile on his face. In fact, this question was just a small talk, because every day Lilith would summarize a bunch of Apple's reports for him to read, which naturally included the development information of Apple's game business department.

Tomdin said excitedly: "Boss, I have helped you earn 500 million US dollars, 500 million US dollars in cash."

Wen Ming curled his lips and said, "Say it again, did you earn it for me, or did I earn it myself?"

Tomdin's expression became embarrassing again, and he said, "Of course you earned it yourself, boss, because the four games are all plans written by you yourself, boss. However, we also have credit for it. Look, we You need to write code, do art design, operate, sell..."

Wen Ming waved his hands with a smile, and said, "Okay, I know you have made contributions, and the company will not treat you badly."

Tom Ding nodded cheerfully, and said, "Of course I know, boss, you won't treat us badly. In fact, our salary level and equity incentive benefits are more than any other game company."

Wen Ming said with a smile: "That's because we are not just a game company, but a quasi-Fortune 500 company."

Tomdin corrected the mistakes in Wen Ming's words and said, "Boss, not only is he a quasi-world top 500 company, but also one of the quasi-world's top 50 companies."

Forbes counts the top 2,000 companies every year. The reason why there is a separate list of the world's top 500 is because the number 2,000 is too much.

It is very simple to become one of the Forbes Global 2000 companies. There are four basic factors: revenue of 4.9 billion US dollars, profit of 247 million US dollars, assets of 8.72 billion US dollars, and market value of 4.92 billion US dollars.

These four values ​​are not static, depending on the global economic environment, but will not change too much. As long as one of them is satisfied, it can become one of the global 2000 enterprises.

The world's top 500 are naturally the top 500 of the 2,000. And the way of ranking among them, the first determinant is the amount of profit. Although it is not absolute, there are also companies with lower profits but higher rankings, because there are still fixed assets and investment projects of the year, and the money earned is invested, so naturally it cannot be counted as net profit, but the invested projects will increase in value.

Wen Ming's Apple company made a profit of more than 3 billion U.S. dollars in the last quarter. Although the release of the second-generation iPhone this year will definitely not be until the second half of the year or even the end of the year, Apple still has iPads and a nearly zero-cost game business. department.

"Boss, I just read the Wall Street report." After correcting his boss' mistake, Tomdin naturally wanted to give a reason, and said, "They think our company's profit in 2010 should be around 14 billion US dollars. According to Judging from this amount, we can definitely enter the top 50."

Apple's profit ratio is astonishing, and its sales are also astonishing, but which of the world's top 500 is fuel-efficient?

Among the world's top 500 companies announced in 2009, even Google, with sales of 66 billion U.S. dollars and net profit of 13.7 billion U.S. dollars,

Both ranked only 39th. And Microsoft, with sales of 93.3 billion U.S. dollars and net profit of 20.7 billion U.S. dollars, only ranked 25th.

Of course, Wen Ming would like his employees to feel proud of this kind of thing, because it can increase the cohesion of an enterprise.

"Okay, when the list of the world's top 500 comes out, we will know how many we are in. Maybe it's not just the top 50."

The development of Apple has not stopped. Wen Ming will launch iMac and Macbook in 2010. These two products will definitely make Apple go further.

Tom Ding said with a smile: "Boss, I'm not sure how much the company can rank in the world's top 500, but I can be sure of one thing, that is, as long as the company goes public, you can become the new richest man in the world. Moreover, it is the first The richest man in the world with a net worth exceeding 100 billion U.S. dollars."

Tomdin is right about this point, no matter where Apple ranks, Wen Ming can become the richest man in the world. Because of those companies that rank ahead of Apple, no single shareholder can own more than 20% of the shares. However, Wen Ming now owns 100% of Apple's shares. Even if Teresa Roy and Bill Gates have completed the shareholding, Wen Ming definitely owns more than 95%.

Because it is impossible for Bill Gates to invest $5 billion in Apple like Teresa Roy. Although Wen Ming has set up an equity incentive system, those employees only have the right to dividends, and when they have not made enough contributions to Apple, the ownership of those equity always belongs to Wen Ming.

Wen Ming laughed very happily when he heard Tomdin's flattery.

But it was impossible for Tomdin to praise Wen Ming for no reason, even if Wen Ming was his boss, so, taking advantage of Wen Ming's pleasure, he put forward his own appeal.

"Boss, you know, my dream is to make a large-scale game that is popular all over the world, or to become the screenwriter of a movie that sells well all over the world."

Tomdin's expression suddenly became very shy, and he said, "So, I want to get your support to develop a large-scale game, or...to expand the company's business in Hollywood?"

Wen Ming said helplessly: "So your purpose is this."

Tomdin said with an aggrieved face: "Boss, now the whole world knows that "Talking Tom Cat" is based on me. You gave it the same name as me. Should you compensate me?"

This kind of threat made Wen Ming speechless. At that time, he really didn't think about the relationship between Tom Cat and Tom Ding, just because the game in another world was called "Talking Tom Cat".

After thinking about it, Wen Ming said: "Let's do this, 10% of your game business department's profit from now on will be the amount of R\u0026D funds that your game business department applies to develop games."

Tomdin almost jumped up excitedly. Don't underestimate the 10%. In just one and a half quarters, their game business department has already earned 500 million US dollars. From this point of view, in one year, they can almost get 200 million US dollars in research and development funds.

What kind of game needs so much research and development funds?

No!

Even for World of Warcraft, which is popular all over the world, the research and development cost of the first version was only 40 million U.S. dollars, and the following expansion packs increased it to about 100 million U.S. dollars.

Of course, it is impossible for Tomdin to directly spend 200 million US dollars on the game, because what Wen Ming said was the amount of research funding applied for, not giving them so much money. If you want to get money, you have to come up with a feasible plan and seek approval.

"As for the Hollywood thing."

Wen Ming frowned. He really doesn't like Hollywood now, but since Tomdin has this appeal, he doesn't mind providing funds for Tomdin to help him earn money.

"If you have the connections, and the right script, well, I don't mind the investment.")!!