Bill Gates' grandfather, Maxwell, is a shareholder and executive director of First Intercontinental Bank's corporate headquarters.
At noon the next day, Li Zetian arrived at the bank's headquarters as scheduled.
"Hello, Mr. Maxwell, nice to meet you!"
Li Zetian was very humble and polite.
"Hehe, hello Chronos, I've learned about you from Gates! Oh, you're a wonderful young man!!!" Maxwell smiled.
"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Maxwell."
"Sit down, please! What do you need? Coffee? Tea? I hear Chinese people like tea," Maxwell asked.
"Thank you, a glass of water will do."
"Well," Maxwell beckoned to the secretary, motioned her to pour a glass of water, then turned to look at Li Zetian, and said, "Your intention, Gates has already told me that Apple wants to loan 10 million US dollars. …”
"Yes, Mr. Maxwell." Li Zetian nodded.
"Ten million dollars is not a small amount. If Apple wants to take a loan, it must take stock pledges!" Apple itself has performed well, and many people around the world are looking forward to the release of the Apple-ll personal computer. Poor, coupled with some of the inside information that Bill Gates gave Maxwell, Maxwell thought the loan was a very profitable business!
"Mr. Maxwell, how many shares do you need to pledge?"
"50% of Apple Inc.!"
Li Zetian thought about it for a while, then agreed, "That's fine."
Maxwell nodded and continued, "How many years is Apple going to take out the loan for?"
"Short-term loan, two years!"
"Okay, then according to the regulations of First Intercontinental Bank Corporation, the annual interest rate is 5.80%, that is, the annual interest is 580,000 US dollars, do you agree?"
"agree!!!"
Li Zetian readily agreed that as long as Apple-ll became popular, the interest of $580,000 was nothing. In addition, Li Zetian had already had some understanding of US bank loans before he came.
In 1973, the annual interest rate was as high as 8.74%;
In 1974, the annual interest rate was as high as 10.51%;
This year, it has dropped sharply, 5.61%-6.24%.
Apple, founded by Li Zetian in 1974, has such a high interest rate on bank loans that he never thought about taking a loan. Interest rates have fallen this year, but Li Zetian can barely accept it!
"Well, let's start the loan process..." Maxwell said.
Next, Li Zetian continued to stay in the bank for more than half an hour. When he left here, there was an extra $10 million in the company account.
Having money can speed up the growth of the company in order to close the gap with IBM!
According to relevant statistics, as of 1975, IBM produced four times as many computers as all other companies in the world combined! ! !
This data is simply too scary!
In front of IBM, the current Apple is simply insignificant. Don't look at the fact that Apple is playing a lot in the field of personal computers. That's because IBM doesn't pay attention to personal computers. Once IBM wakes up and focuses on developing personal computers, Apple's situation will be difficult!
As soon as IBM's industry boss shot, the vast majority of computer companies and software development companies knelt down and licked, either to make their own hardware compatible with it, or to develop software for it. In contrast to Apple, not many companies are willing to develop software for Apple. This led to the rapid decline of Apple, and it almost went bankrupt in the end. If the king Steve Jobs did not come back and turn the tide, Apple would probably disappear into the long river of history.
At present, Apple, Microsoft, and Sunbird are all very small in scale, and their talent pool is seriously insufficient. When other companies are relying on IBM, Li Zetian must ensure that he has enough talents to develop third-party software for Apple, and to work with IBM. Court fight! Otherwise, even if Apple's computer is easy to use, if there is no rich software support, it can only fail in the end. For example, in 1983, Apple launched the Apple-Lisa computer named after Jobs' daughter. This is the world's first personal computer that combines a graphical user interface and a mouse. It has a 16-bit CPU, a mouse, a hard disk, supports a graphical user interface and multiple The operating system of the task, let me ask, is such a computer awesome? But what about Niubi, due to the lack of support from software developers, the computer could not be sold, and the surplus was eventually buried in a landfill in Utah!
This is likely to happen to Apple in this lifetime, as is the case with the Mac currently in development, which is also the world's first personal computer to combine a graphical user interface and a mouse. Li Zetian estimated that when the Mac computer was developed, IBM must have entered the personal computer industry.
Therefore, Li Zetian should take precautions, vigorously produce and promote Apple-ll, sell Apple-ll more popular than in the previous life, make more money, and then take advantage of this arrogant momentum to go public directly! ! ! After the listing and financing, the company can have more money, recruit more talents, rapidly expand the company scale, and take IBM by surprise! The worst will not be like the Apple company in the previous life was made to go bankrupt...
For the development of the company, Li Zetian has to go on a business trip in the afternoon. His daily schedule is full, and there is almost no time for leisure and entertainment.
Wanda CEO Wang Jianlin's schedule is full? Li Zetian laughed after reading it...
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At about 4:30 in the afternoon, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai flew to San Antonio, Texas, where AT&T headquarters is located.
The plane arrived at San Antonio Airport at 10:15 p.m.
As for dinner on the plane, it's okay.
After getting off the plane, I called a taxi and headed to the hotel.
The two were exhausted by boat and car, and after arriving at the hotel, they took a bath and then went to bed and rested.
Early the next morning, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai had breakfast and immediately went to AT&T headquarters.
Apple is well known in the industry.
AT&T invited Li Zetian and Tian Shuai to the reception room very kindly and politely.
"Welcome to the two of you, I'm AT&T CEO Carey Occam!" A man in his 50s, in a suit and leather shoes, with gold-frame glasses, walked into the reception room at this time, and he helped himself to the frame of his glasses. introduced.
"Hello, Mr. Occam, I'm Tian Shuai, CEO of Apple, and this is our company's chief engineer, Chronos Li." Tian Shuai smiled and shook hands with him, and Li Zetian followed, politely. and shook hands with Occam.
Carey Occam said: "Please sit down, I wonder what cooperation Apple is going to discuss with AT&T?"
On the phone, Tian Shuai did not tell AT&T that Apple wanted to buy a permanent license for the Unix operating system. Obviously, it would be foolish to tell the other party, and instead remind the other party of the importance of Unix!
Tian Shuai said: "That's right, Mr. Occam, maybe you've heard that Apple is developing the second-day Apple-ll personal computer. The first reason I came here is to promote Apple-ll to AT&T. Using, Apple-ll will be more powerful than Apple-l, can help enterprises to work and improve work efficiency! Second, I hope Apple-ll personal computers can be sold in AT&T stores!”
Founded in 1877, AT&T has monopolized the long-distance and local telephone markets in the United States for a long time, and has established thousands of business offices in the United States. If Apple-ll can get the cooperation with AT&T, it will really hold the thigh!
Before they came, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai had already negotiated that the plank road was built brightly and Chencang was darkened. It would be great to be able to negotiate these two matters. Copyright, and will not make the other party have too much suspicion.
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