The Great Power of Times

Chapter 52: Killer software!

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Li Zetian shook his head and said, "Apple is not short of funds at the moment!" In fact, Apple is very short of money, but now is not the best time to raise funds. In addition, the other party will take 50% of the shares when he opens his mouth. 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, then forget it. There are many businesses in the world, and there are places to invest.

"Okay, then I won't be hard on others!" Thomas Rockefeller smiled like a gentleman, and then said goodbye to Li Zetian.

The people around were all sighing, such a good condition, this young man did not agree, his brain was flooded? Or what

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

However, in my heart, I still put a label of arrogance and ignorance on Li Zetian!

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

On the way, Yu Jingshan felt 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 to develop rapidly!"

"Yes, uncle, I understand the influence of the Rockefeller family, but I can't accept their investment at the moment, which will make me lose control of Apple! I don't want to be kicked out by someone else!!!" In the previous life, Jobs was expelled by the Apple board of directors, which left a deep impression on Li Zetian. In the future, even if he is not absolutely controlling, he must have more than 51% of the voting rights of his shares, so that he can firmly control the company. ! ! !

At present, Apple is developing rapidly, and indeed needs huge funds to support this small boat!

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

However, how much money does Apple make with the Apple-l

It is said that the hardware cost is not more than 500 US dollars, and the price of 2,000 US dollars can make 1,500 US dollars, but the BASIC language copyright license fee is to be paid to Microsoft, and the distributors and retailers have to share the money. In addition to that, there are taxes to pay. After all, the net profit of an Apple-l is less than $1,000. In this way, Apple sold more than 3,000 machines and only made three million dollars.

However, after the sale of Apple-l, the distributors and retailers will not pay for the goods immediately to Apple, and many distributors even deliberately default on the payment.

In fact, Apple doesn't even have a million dollars on its books, but the expenses are so large that if there is no income, it will take a few months and the capital chain will easily break. At that time, Apple will face The 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.

Since Li Zetian came to New York for the first time, Yu Jingqiu took him here for two days.

During Christmas, New York is extraordinarily lively, with Christmas trees and lights everywhere. In addition to New York locals, there are also people traveling from all over the world at some famous attractions, such as Wall Street, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, etc. The place is almost overcrowded. The most impressive place for Li Zetian is to stand on the top floor of the Empire State Building and look down on the whole of New York. Although it is winter and the wind is cold, Li Zetian has a flame in his heart, as if he is standing at the peak of the entire era, and the whole world is Surrender at his feet! ! !

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

Li Zetian came back in such a hurry because Bill Gates and Paul Allen had come to San Jose, waiting for Li Zetian's official appointment and introduced them to other employees of the company.

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

"Everyone, come here, I'll introduce these two to you now," Li Zetian beckoned, then pointed to Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and said, "This is Bill Gates, who will serve as the company's CEO in the future. This is Paul Allen, the company's CTO!"

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

If two experienced people were hired from other companies to be the bosses of Microsoft, they would have no problem, 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 in age. How can everyone be convinced

At this time, one of the employees inside shouted in surprise: "Oh, I suddenly remembered, the two of them are famous computer geniuses at Seattle Lakeside Middle School! They were still high school students at the time and they solved the problem that even the engineers of the Seattle Power Company couldn't crack it. The technical difficulties! Many computer science students in college heard their fame and came to challenge the two of them, but very few were their opponents!"

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

Li Zetian said with a smile: "I believe that in the days to come, you will gradually understand the capabilities of Bill Gates and Paul Allen! Now everyone get ready, the meeting will be held soon, and I will announce a major R&D project!"

"Yes!"

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

Li Zetian said solemnly: "Apple is developing Apple's second-generation Apple-ll personal computer, which 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 the computer, I plan to develop a spreadsheet office software-Excel on the Apple-ll personal computer, please see the picture demonstration of Excel on the slide below!"

Then, the slideshow began to play a very simple spreadsheet designed by Li Zetian in combination with the hardware conditions of this era.

The horizontal coordinate is the number of English words such as ABCDEFG, and the vertical coordinate is Arabic numerals such as 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Rows and columns make up cells, and data and formulas related to the data are stored in cells. And there is a line in the upper left corner is the command output line, press "Esc+Q" to jump to here for input, type special characters to select the formula the user needs for the cell, such as SUM is addition operation, IMSUB is subtraction operation …

After the slideshow, everyone was amazed!

Bill Gates couldn't help but say: "Chronos, this Excel spreadsheet software is absolutely killer software, it will take the world by storm!!!"

PS: Today is the third shift