Li Mu got the transfer agreement from Apple shareholders and the non-competition agreement from Jobs, which made him truly relieved.
Next, as long as Makino Technology pays 90% of the acquisition price to Apple shareholders of US$4.15, these agreements will officially take effect. In addition, more than 90% of Apple employees will sign new labor agreements with Makino Technology. By that time By that time, Apple will be completely digested by Makino Technology.
After digesting Apple, Li Mu’s next strategic goal in the mobile Internet era is mobile microprocessors. Whether it is ARM, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, or TSMC, Makino Technology will have to develop a microprocessor chip for itself in the future. Breakthrough: In the PC era, it has been difficult for Chinese companies to catch up, but in the mobile Internet era, it is an excellent opportunity for Li Mu to catch up.
After a busy day, when Li Mu returned to the hotel, it was already ten o'clock in the evening. Su Yingxue opened the door for Li Mu. Seeing that he looked slightly tired, she hurriedly asked him with concern: "I have been busy until now. It's time for dinner." ?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "After lunch, how about you? What did you do today?"
Su Yingxue said with a smile: "I didn't go out today. I read for a while after breakfast, basked in the sun and swam for a while after lunch. I also read before and after dinner."
After speaking, Su Yingxue asked Li Mu: "You must be exhausted today, right?"
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "Although I am tired, I am very happy."
Su Yingxue said: "That must have accomplished something remarkable. Do you want to tell me about it?"
Li Mu pulled her to sit down on the sofa and said with excitement: "Apple's senior management just signed an agreement with me. Now I own more than 80% of Apple's shares. In the near future, this amount will be expanded to 100%.”
Su Yingxue said in surprise: "That's really great. Your most important goal in Silicon Valley this time has basically been achieved."
Li Mu said: "This goal has been achieved, but there is still another goal, the progress of which has not been confirmed yet, which is Makino Technology's investment in Google. When the Apple matter comes to an end, I will follow up on this matter. I probably won't What is the problem."
Su Yingxue smiled and said: "Will Silicon Valley usher in a new wave of investment or acquisitions from Makino Technology?"
Li Mu nodded and said seriously: "This is very possible. There are too many start-ups in Silicon Valley. They need money and resources to accelerate the development of projects. Capital parties can only give money, but what I can give is money and resources. , Makino Technology’s strong user base around the world will become an entrepreneurial resource that countless start-ups are flocking to. Maybe in the near future, I will become the largest angel investor in Silicon Valley, and Makino Technology will also become Silicon Valley, and even the entire Internet. As an enterprise with the widest industry coverage, our subsidiaries and the various companies we invest in may be able to do so in the future."
Su Yingxue held her chin and listened very immersedly to Li Mu's plan for the future of the company. After Li Mu finished speaking confidently, she couldn't help but sigh to Li Mu: "You know, I have been thinking about a question for a long time, but until I don’t have an answer yet.”
Li Mu asked her: "What's the problem?"
Su Yingxue said: "I'm thinking about what made you undergo such earth-shaking changes. Many times when I think of you, it's as if one second you were still the introverted boy in the class who didn't like to talk much and wasn't very focused on studying. In the next second, you suddenly turned into a genius entrepreneur who attracted the attention of the whole world. The contrast between before and after is really too great. Most people will not be able to achieve such a huge contrast in their lifetime, but it only took you such a short time to achieve it. Yes, but how did you do it?"
Li Mu guessed that Su Yingxue would ask such a question. He smiled slightly and said calmly: "There is a story about Archimedes. If you are studying economics, you must have heard of it. This story is about Archimedes and The king played chess and lost. He asked Archimedes, what kind of reward do you want? Archimedes said, I just need to put one grain of wheat on the first square of the chessboard and two grains of wheat on the second square. Put four grains in the third grid and eight grains in the fourth grid. The number of wheat grains in the latter grid is always twice that of the previous grid. The king thought it was easy at first, but after asking someone to calculate it, he discovered that even if It’s far from enough to include all the wheat in the country.”
Su Yingxue nodded and said: "This story is mainly to promote mathematics in another way, but the version I know is slightly different from yours. In the version I saw, Archimedes asked the king for It’s grains of rice, not wheat.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "Let's not explore the authenticity of the story. Simply analyzing it from the history of ancient Greece, rice is also inappropriate. The staple food of ancient Greece should be wheat."
"Okay..." Su Yingxue stuck out her tongue, observed Li Mu with her big eyes, and asked with a smile: "Does this story contain your answer?"
Li Mu nodded and said: "Yes, of course there is. If you imagine each square on the chessboard as a person moving forward, each step is a mathematical problem. It may be multiplication, division, or addition. It’s more likely to be subtraction. If you choose to start a business, you’re choosing to do multiplication and division in the future. If you choose a stable job, you’re choosing to do addition and subtraction in the future.”
"If you seek stability from the beginning, like our fathers, who just want to add things safely all their lives, then after going through hundreds or thousands of grids, you may be able to change from 1 to 1000, but given that you use There are so many grids, so no one is surprised by this trajectory;"
"If you want to make a big move from the beginning, you may be like many entrepreneurs and do multiplication and division from the beginning. Maybe after ten grids, you will go from 1 to 100 million or more. , but maybe when you multiply by 0 at the eleventh grid, you will have nothing. No matter which way it is, the huge contrast before and after is surprising, so you can become rich overnight, or start a business that returns to zero overnight. Storytelling is always one of the most popular among the people."
"If you choose to start a business, and your vision is accurate, and you happen to be lucky, then every step you take will be like Archimedes' chessboard, constantly multiplying, one step, ten steps, dozens of steps, even if on average each step One step is just multiplied by two, and by the fortieth step, it will have accumulated to more than 500 billion; if it is multiplied by three, by the forty step, the unit is already quadrillion, and every one we see Successful rich people are all engaged in such rapid capital growth, and I am no exception."
Having said this, Li Mu paused and then said: "In the summer after I graduated from high school, I tentatively took the first step in starting my own business, which is equivalent to stepping onto the first square of the chessboard of life. Very soon Fortunately, my first choice was relatively successful. It gave me the courage and confidence to move forward, and also gave me the capital to move forward. Therefore, from that time on, every step I took was do multiplication;
Even more fortunately, among the many squares I took, every step was considered a success. I just walked forward with my head down one square after another. After walking through dozens of such squares, I looked back. , only to realize that I have accumulated so many gains along the way, just like Archimedes' chessboard. When you start from the first square, no one cares about the grain of wheat, but when you succeed When you go all the way to the dozens of grids, others will be surprised to find that you have opened a huge distance from the first grid. You are surprised, and you are also surprised by this distance, but look carefully at me Do the multiplication on each grid, and you will find that there are actually traces of all this. "
Su Yingxue was silent for a long time. After a long time, she nodded slightly and said, "I understand, it's not some kind of change that brought you all the way to where you are today, but it's that things are constantly happening on your way to where you are today. Variety."
"Yes." Li Mu smiled faintly and said: "I can't believe that I can get to where I am today. If I failed in the first step, everything that followed might not happen again. We might still be in the National People's Congress today. If you live an ordinary university life on campus, there will be no 3321, let alone Makino Technology and Taobao."
Su Yingxue asked Li Mu: "If that happens, what do you think will happen to us now?"
Li Mu thought for a while and said with a smile: "We should be an enviable campus couple in the National People's Congress, and then we decided to take the relationship further. I will work hard to earn some money during the summer vacation after my sophomore year, and then I will After returning from junior year, rent a house or a small house near Renmin University, and then live together like other college couples."
What Li Mu said is not nonsense. Most campus couples will consider living together in the middle and later stages of college. On the one hand, it is due to emotional and physical needs, and on the other hand, it is also due to economic cost-effectiveness considerations. The cost of renting a room is greater than renting a house. From time to time, many young people begin to consider renting a house involuntarily.
After Su Yingxue's two years of college career, she also knew that such things were almost normal, including some couples from the National People's Congress who had rented a cheap small house outside during their sophomore year and quietly lived together.
Therefore, Su Yingxue rarely felt ashamed, but couldn't help but sigh: "That kind of life seems quite interesting, but with your current situation, you can never go back to that state."
Li Mu said smoothly: "Actually, we had a chance earlier. Do you remember Yucheng Garden? The house I rented next to the National People's Congress."
Su Yingxue pursed her lips and nodded slightly.
How could she not remember that place? She and Li Mu had several opportunities to go further, and they all happened there, but they went in the wrong direction by mistake, just like Li Mu's chessboard theory, suddenly on the multiplication grid. Here, multiply by 1 is selected...
Thinking of this, Su Yingxue secretly made a decision in her heart, and then she asked Li Mu: "You have been tired for a day, do you want to take a bath and rest early?"
Li Mu thought that Su Yingxue was unwilling to discuss this topic. In order to avoid unnecessary embarrassment, he nodded and said, "I am really tired today, so I will take a shower first."
Su Yingxue said: "Go ahead, I'm going back to rest too."
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Li Mu took a hot bath. The hot water soothed his spirit a lot, but it also made him feel more tired, so he lay on the bed and fell asleep in almost five minutes.
I don't know how long he slept, but Li Mu suddenly felt something strange. When he opened his eyes, Su Yingxue was already lying in his arms. What made Li Mu not come back to his senses was that there was no barrier between the two, and they could clearly see each other. He felt that her body was obviously much hotter than his own.
Li Mu was confused and thought she was sick, so he asked her quickly: "Yingxue, do you have a fever?"
In the darkness, Su Yingxue's big eyes shone with a different look. She leaned into Li Mu's arms and said, "It would be great if the two of us were in Yucheng Garden now..."
Li Mu hugged her tightly and said softly: "If you want to go, I will take you there to see it after you return to China."
Su Yingxue asked him: "Have you not returned the house yet?"
Li Mu said: "I bought it."
Su Yingxue nodded, hesitated for a moment, looked up at Li Mu, and said, "But I don't want to wait any longer."
At this moment, Li Mucai suddenly understood Su Yingxue's intention...
(End of chapter)