Makino Technology’s public relations staff arranged all the dignitaries invited to attend the event to a five-star hotel separately, while other invited guests and reporters were arranged in several other five-star hotels.
According to the fixed routine in the business circle, Li Mu held a small cocktail party in his own name on the day before the signing ceremony in the hotel where the VIPs stayed, which was regarded as a small warm-up before the opening.
Several of Li Mu's in-depth partners were invited. In addition, there were also CEOs of several major Silicon Valley Internet companies and several capital managers on Wall Street.
Before the reception started, Li Ziwei said to Li Mu jokingly: "Mr. Li, the total worth of the entrepreneurs present at today's reception is hundreds of billions of dollars, conservatively estimated to be more than 4 trillion yuan. If word gets out, I'm afraid... It’s about shocking the world.”
"This is nothing." Li Mu said with a smile: "In a few years, when we hold the Makino Technology Developer Conference, the combined worth of the entrepreneurs attending the conference may exceed several trillion US dollars."
Li Ziwei asked him curiously: "Developer Conference? What does it mean?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "In the future, we will build one or even multiple global mobile platforms. This platform will be open to all developers around the world, just like Windows."
"I guess I understand." Li Ziwei said with a smile: "By the way, Mr. Li, there are many people who want to meet and chat with you privately in the evening. Could you please arrange a time window for the meeting?"
Li Mu thought for a while and said, "The time from nine to ten is free, but who are the people who want to meet with me?"
"Many." Li Ziwei said: "The senior executives of Silicon Valley companies such as Cisco, IBM, HP and even Microsoft hope to have a private interview with you. I helped you filter it out. There are two people worth meeting. One is the CEO of Oracle. , founder Larry Ellison, and Steve Johnson of Sequoia.”
Li Mu nodded lightly and analyzed: "Hardware companies don't have much room for in-depth cooperation. If a company like Microsoft comes out to talk to me, it must be some empty stuff. Oracle should regard us as a potential Big customers, not to mention Sequoia, want to cooperate in depth with our cloud computing. They definitely want to talk about our subsequent capital operations... "
Li Ziwei said: "I thought so too, so I rejected the other companies directly. If you are interested in these two companies, I will get back to them later. If you are not interested, I will reject them directly. "
Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Reject Oracle. I will only meet Steve Johnson from Sequoia tonight."
Li Ziwei said hurriedly: "Then I will inform his secretary later that the time will be exactly nine o'clock and the location will be in a business suite we have reserved in this hotel. What do you think? "
"no problem."
For Li Mu, he regards everyone who treats him as a customer as a grandson, because he is the one they are trying to win over. For such people, even he hopes to cooperate with them in depth. The shelf at the beginning must also be fully loaded.
As for Sequoia, after all, they are their partners, and there will be more room for in-depth cooperation in the future. Chatting more with their person in charge is a good thing for both parties.
The reception organized by Li Mu was very simple. It was nothing more than booking out the entire hotel banquet hall, and then tightening the security several times to ensure that no one would disturb or influence the place. Apart from that, there was no deliberate decoration of the interior of the banquet hall. The environment and the services provided by the banquet hall were not specially upgraded. Everything was in accordance with the standards of a normal five-star hotel.
For ordinary people, a reception at a five-star hotel is definitely considered luxurious, but for these big guys with a net worth of over 100 million, attending such a reception is no different than sitting on the roadside eating Malatang.
These big guys from the United States know how to enjoy life better than the rich people in China. Li Mu has long heard that many of these big guys spend tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars to buy ultra-luxury private jets and cruise ships. Usually, Flying Hollywood star models all over the world to attend various high-end parties, the level of luxury in life is even worse than that of the royal family in Dubai.
Li Mu walked into the banquet ten minutes before the reception started. At this time, there were already more than 20 people in the banquet hall holding wine glasses and chatting in groups. Since there were no media reporters present, every guest acted very relaxed and natural. .
Seeing Li Mu come in, one of the guests picked up the goblet with a cocktail in his hand, and then gently tapped the outside of the glass with the edge of the ring on his finger, making a pleasant tinkling sound. After attracting the attention of most people , the man smiled and said: "Everyone, Mr. Li is here."
Everyone else looked at Li Mu who had just entered the banquet hall, so everyone picked up their wine glasses and made crisp knocking sounds in various ways to welcome the host of the reception.
Li Mu didn't expect that everyone would suddenly come out like this. He stopped in a hurry, put his hands together and bowed slightly to thank everyone. After all, these were guests who came from afar to support him.
At this time, someone spoke in English: "Mr. Li, as the host today, shouldn't you say something?"
As soon as the words fell, many people echoed: "Yes, Mr. Li, say something!"
Li Mu looked around and found many familiar faces, not only his partners in the entrepreneurial field, but also Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Anne Hathaway and other "Flying Tigers" stars. "The creative team of "The Movie" are all here. It seems that they have suspended the filming of the movie and rushed here from Yun Province.
Li Mu picked up the wine glass, gestured slightly to the four people, and said with a smile: "Thank you for traveling all the way to support tomorrow's signing ceremony. Your support means a lot to me and to Makino Technology. I hope everyone can have a good time tonight." , and finally, welcome to China! Thank you everyone!"
Everyone applauded politely. Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, smiled and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, I am Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle. When I come to China this time, I would like to find an opportunity to talk to you about the future." Cooperation is possible.”
Li Mu nodded, smiled calmly, and said, "Thank you Larry, after I finish the things at hand, if I have time, I will ask my assistant to contact you."
Larry Ellison raised the wine glass in his hand, nodded and said, "Then I'll wait for your news."
Li Mu responded, then held the wine glass and took turns greeting everyone present.
Since Li Mu didn't know most of the people, he chose to greet the strangers he met for the first time first, and then went to exchange a few words with his acquaintances and partners.
So Li Mu started with the stranger closest to him. The process was very simple. It was nothing more than greeting each other first, then asking where they were from, then exchanging a few words, and finally changing to the next one.
When the fourth person arrived, a man in his forties shook hands with Li Mu and said, "Hello, Mr. Li, I am Peter, the vice president of Microsoft. Although Bill really wants to come over in person, there have been a lot of things lately, so Please entrust me to congratulate you."
Li Mu shook hands with him and said with a smile: "Thank you, and thank Mr. Gates for me too."
Peter nodded and said with a smile: "Bill has always admired Mr. Li very much. He often said that in the near future, Makino Technology will not only become the largest Internet company in the world, but even become the largest enterprise in the world. He believes that Mr. Li’s future is very promising.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "Mr. Gates really thinks highly of me."
Peter said: "Bill also asked me to tell Mr. Li that if Mr. Li goes to the United States next time, he will definitely go to Silicon Valley to meet you."
"Okay." Li Mu smiled and said, "If he has time, I'll welcome him at any time."
After a few words of greeting, Li Mu was about to find a reason to leave temporarily and go to be polite to others. At this time, Peter suddenly asked Li Mu: "By the way, Mr. Li, the entire Silicon Valley has been discussing your Twitter division recently. Can you Can you tell us what exactly this business unit does?"
Li Mu said with a smile: "Regarding Twitter, I can only say that it is our next new product with a very high strategic position, and it is also a very interesting product. As for what kind of product it is, I can't tell you for the time being. It cannot be disclosed yet, but it is expected that Twitter will officially meet global users this fall.”
Peter nodded with some disappointment and said, "Well, we are looking forward to the day when Makino Technology's new products will be released!"
Although the words were polite, Peter felt a little disappointed in his heart.
The reason why he came to this cocktail party and tomorrow's signing ceremony is partly because Bill Gates himself is not willing to attend, and partly because he also hopes to take the opportunity to learn about the situation of Makino Technology, especially since it is now being closely watched. Twitter.
During this period, Microsoft has been feeling tremendous pressure. Most of the pressure comes from Makino Technology. Makino Technology killed MSN and also killed MSN's portal website, causing the MSN website's portal traffic to plummet. If it weren't for Microsoft's IE browsing on some users If the MSN homepage is set as the default page to visit in the server, MSN traffic will continue to plummet.
The decline of MSN and the website completely shattered Microsoft's social dream. Just when Microsoft was preparing to build its own search engine, Li Mu suddenly sold a shell company to Google. Although Google was cheated a lot, Google and Google The alliance between Makino Technology is already a certainty. In this way, Microsoft's search engine dream has already woken up before it even started.
Now, Microsoft is preparing a new project internally. This project is to integrate all of Microsoft's current life software, pages and applications, and package it into a new concept of Windows-Live software package. The so-called Windows-Live, it wants to express It means a kind of "Windows Life". The core is that users only need to have this Windows-Live to get everything they want on the Internet.
This Window-Live software package is a major layout for Microsoft in the next stage. However, due to the extremely powerful halo influence of Makino Technology, Microsoft now lacks sufficient confidence in this project. Coupled with the recent "Twitter topic", it is even more... Microsoft is worried. What they fear most is that their products will collide with Twitter...
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