A person with an extremely strong inner entrepreneurial belief will never be interested in any form of part-time work. Li Mu has met many such people. They may not all have strong abilities, but they all have strong beliefs and do not hit the wall. The type that doesn’t look back.
Li Mu didn't understand Andy Rubin's character, but he knew that Andy Rubin's entrepreneurial belief was not strong, otherwise he would not have sold Android, which was founded less than two years ago, to Google in his previous life.
There are only two possible reasons for selling the pigs before they have grown strong. Either they don’t want to raise them anymore, or they can’t afford to raise them. No matter which one Andy Rubin is, it proves that his entrepreneurial belief is not strong.
Since the belief is not strong enough, there is a natural possibility of wavering.
Andy Rubin faced Li Mu's personal invitation. Although he seemed silent on the surface, he was extremely excited in his heart.
No matter what, for Andy Rubin, being personally invited by Li Mu to join Makino Technology was a big step forward in his status in Silicon Valley in an instant.
The world's richest man and the founder of a top Internet company personally invited himself to join his company. Isn't this bragging enough? At least I can blow it for another half of my life.
Li Mu's invitation, to Andy Rubin, is like a frustrated Chinese actor suddenly receiving a personal invitation from Spielberg or James Cameron, hoping that he can be in his movie Playing an important role, as soon as Spielberg opens his mouth, the actor's net worth will skyrocket.
While Andy Rubin was excited, his entrepreneurial thoughts deep in his heart began to change dramatically under the influence of Li Mu.
Andy Rubin's will was shaken when he thought that he might not be suitable to be a CEO or manage a company.
At this time, Li Mu, who was as cunning as a fox, began to pour poisonous chicken soup into him again, sighing: "Andy, starting a business is not easy, and there are too few successful people. For many entrepreneurs, starting a business is like a big gamble. The bet is not only all one's belongings, but also one's own future. Some people can easily earn millions of dollars a year, but they insist on giving up this opportunity to start a business. In the end, the business fails. Not only do they lose millions a year, Your income has gone down the drain, and you have burned millions of dollars in property. Finally, you went to find a job, only to find that your worth in the eyes of your boss was greatly reduced because of your failed entrepreneurial experience. You said, this is Isn’t it worth the loss?”
Andy Rubin nodded slightly involuntarily.
Li Mu added: "So, I suggest that entrepreneurs, or people who are preparing to start a business, ask themselves a few questions before starting a business:
Is my project really good? Do I really insist on starting a business? If I start a business, how much savings can I invest? How to set my stop loss line? Should you lose all your cash savings and then stop, or should you lose all your cash savings and then lose all your real estate? Or, after losing all his assets, will he owe a loan several times his own assets? What should I do if my business fails? What if I have nothing left? What if I have nothing and am ridiculed by those around me? What if I never get over again? "
Li Mu's series of questions were like countless cannonballs, constantly bombarding Andy Rubin's psychological defense line. Each one exploded and collapsed his psychological wall. They were also like the powerful weeds in the water. , together weaved into an underwater net of huge resistance, one after another constantly entangled in the propeller of Andy Rubin's boat, constantly slowing down its speed and reducing its power, until a certain Instantly, the propeller could no longer turn.
Suddenly, at such a moment, Andy Rubin's heart suddenly became enlightened, as if the sun had cleared through the clouds!
He asked himself a question in his mind: Why should I worry about this? As long as I accept Li Mu's invitation, I will become a top talent in Silicon Valley, and at the same time I will be able to get a top salary in Silicon Valley, and I will be doing something top-notch in a top company. Such a good opportunity is in front of me. , why don't you agree, why do you still have to worry about those illusory things? !
After thinking about this, Andy Rubin said to Li Mu without hesitation: "Mr. Li, I am willing to accept your invitation to join Makino Technology!"
Li Mu looked at the almost bald Andy Rubin with a little evil smile on his lips. In front of him, Andy Rubin was like a soldier who was not determined during the war. He always had a beautiful vision in his heart of throwing his head and blood, but In the face of sugar-coated bullets, he lost his position.
Then, Li Mu extended his hand to Andy Rubin, smiled slightly, and said, "Welcome to join Makino Technology."
Andy Rubin was now full of enthusiasm to work hard and prove himself at Makino Technology, so he immediately asked Li Mu: "Mr. Li, when will I join the company?"
Li Mu smiled and said, "If you are willing, I can arrange for someone to join you now."
Andy Rubin asked again: "What is my job?"
Li Mu said: "It is claimed that he is the deputy general manager and technical director of the Mango business unit, responsible for the development of Mango's software and hardware technology."
After that, Li Mu added: "This is just an external statement. In fact, what you have to do is to secretly set up a mobile operating system division to be responsible for the development of Makino Technology's first mobile operating system. This operating system is temporarily Named MOS, the full name is Mango-Operating-System. For MOS, you must technically adopt the Linux architecture, and at the same time design and develop it with a completely new mobile product thinking. The most important thing is that you must abandon Palm and plug-ins. Class and Windows-Mobile’s so-called mobile operating system foundation, they are not the industry benchmark, we will be in the future!”
Li Mu's words completely penetrated Andy Rubin's heart. Andy Rubin originally wanted to create a disruptive mobile operating system, and what he wanted was to adopt the Linux architecture. These key points are consistent with Li Mu's. Coincidentally.
This also made Andy Rubin feel scared and happy. He was worried because if he was really determined to start a business, it would be more difficult for him to succeed with Li Mu here. Fortunately, because Li Mu became his boss, and he was completely gave up starting a business.
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There's still a fight going on inside Apple.
It was originally a battle between the stop-loss faction and the counter-offensive faction.
But now, the stop-loss faction is in doubt, and there is a huge split within the counter-attack faction, and the disputes between the two split sides are getting bigger and bigger.
All these conflicts revolved around "whether to develop a new operating system for the next-generation iPod." When the two sides were in a stalemate, the stop-loss faction received a huge blow when it communicated with Microsoft about the acquisition.
Microsoft has obviously investigated and analyzed Apple's current situation in more detail, and has re-considered its entire logic of acquiring Apple.
First of all, they feel that Apple has a very high chance of killing itself. Because of the complete failure of the iPod business, Apple has not only lost a cash flow business line, but will also be saddled with huge debts and losses. This will continue to drag Apple down and drag it down. Death, regarding this, the avalanche stock price is the best proof;
Secondly, they also began to ask themselves, is it really necessary for Microsoft to acquire Apple
The reason for acquiring Apple is that it hopes to never be sanctioned by antitrust laws, but this requires Microsoft to use very, very careful methods to complete the actual acquisition of Apple through overseas funds and shell companies. This is very troublesome and risky. , maybe one day the Ministry of Commerce gets evidence that Microsoft actually participated in the acquisition of Apple, and it can use unfair competition law and antitrust law to take action against Microsoft.
Instead of doing this, it is better to let Apple fend for itself. If it dies, causing Microsoft Windows to passively dominate the martial arts world, then Microsoft will never be threatened by the "antitrust law" again.
No matter how bad it is, you can also settle down with Apple first, and then wait until Apple's market value drops a little and the desire to cash out and stop losses becomes stronger. Then it is not too late to buy it. At least you can save a lot of money.
As a result, Microsoft's attitude has changed a lot. Before, it had never wanted to be involved in the iPod business, but now it is not interested in acquiring MacOS and complete computers. Just as the stop-loss faction keeps asking Microsoft to pack up When they were shopping for iPods, Microsoft's negotiators suddenly said that Microsoft's purchase price for MacOS and complete computers had been reduced by 25%. As for the reason, Microsoft only said that it was a re-evaluation.
This time the stop-loss faction was greatly humiliated, and their bottom line was touched.
In everything, everyone has their own bottom line. Before the bottom line is touched, they have their own persistence and belief. But once the bottom line is touched, they will immediately make a huge change. For example, for many couples, Cheating is the bottom line for the emotional survival between them. Once one party cheats, the other party will immediately make the decision to leave no matter how much they love the other party, and the same is true for the stop-loss party.
Microsoft's humiliation caused the stop-loss faction to immediately turn into a counterattack faction after the bottom line was touched.
A dramatic situation emerged. The internal contradictions within Apple ranged from the conflict between surrender or resistance to the conflict over how to resist.
After a night of heated debate, Tim Cook still couldn't get most people to accept developing an operating system for the iPod.
The meeting lasted until 7:30 the next morning. Everyone was arguing with red faces and dry mouths, but still no one party gained an absolute advantage.
In the short term, it is quick to laugh, with low costs and small advantages; in the long term, it is slow to bear fruit, with high costs and great advantages. Therefore, the public is right and the mother-in-law is right, and no one gives the other half a cent.
In desperation, Tim Cook called Jobs, who had been recuperating at home for a few days, to come to the company.
Jobs was originally unwilling to appear, but because it was related to Apple's life and death, he finally decided to come to the meeting to support Tim Cook's decision. After all, for Jobs, this was something he would try his best to promote.
Jobs's strong support changed the internal stalemate. Gradually, short-term supporters who opposed the long-term began to be more and more instigated by Jobs and began to decide to support Tim Cook's long-term combat plan.
Subsequently, in a vote that started at nine o'clock, the policy of developing an operating system and comprehensively upgrading the iPod received 77% of the vote.
Tim Cook proudly announced: We are going to build a new operating system for iPod based on the OS system, and comprehensively upgrade this generation of iPod so that it can completely crush Mango-ME2. This is the key to Apple's counterattack.
Because it was a project developed for the iPod, everyone decided to codename the project the IOS Project.
Half an hour later, when Apple was ambitiously preparing to launch the "IOS Project", Makino Technology suddenly issued an announcement:
Well-known IT expert Andy Rubin officially joined Makino Technology as the deputy general manager and technical director of the Mango business unit. He is fully responsible for the software and hardware research and development of Mango series products. Makino Technology believes that with the joining of Andy Rubin, the Mango series The product will surely achieve more significant breakthroughs.
The expressions of these red-eyed guys inside Apple are much uglier than those of sunken dogs...
Half an hour ago, 77% of people within Apple believed that Apple should develop a dedicated operating system for iPod in order to fully upgrade the iPod, so they fully supported the launch of the IOS plan;
Half an hour later, more than 77% of people inside Apple believed that the IOS plan did not need to be launched because they knew Andy Rubin’s abilities well. After all, Andy Rubin had worked at Apple for several years. Li Mu invited Andy · Rubin joined and was put in charge of the Mango business unit. This shows that he has the same idea as Apple and wants to comprehensively upgrade Mango-ME.
In this case, Apple, which is at an absolute disadvantage, has lost its most valuable opportunity.
If even this advantage is gone, what else is there to do with iOS
At 9:40, Apple executives voted again.
Abolition of the IOS plan received a vote rate of 87%.
Tim Cook waved his hands in despair and said to everyone: "Everyone has not slept all night, so go home and wash up and sleep!"
(End of chapter)