When he heard about the billion US dollars, Yu Liye's hair stood on end, and Gan Lizheng had a shocked expression on his face. Businessmen are more sensitive to numbers. Unlike what many people say, "a certain number of money is meaningless". In fact, in modern society, money can always be used to describe it.
US$100 million is the standard for Forbes China list (No. 00); US$400 million is the standard for Forbes US list; US$1 billion can just enter the Forbes world list. A little more, 0 billion US dollars is the most basic requirement to enter a consortium, and 5 billion US dollars can safely control a large group, such as Zhang Xinyi's Sifang Group.
A little more, 10 billion U.S. dollars is the most basic standard for controlling a consortium. In the United States, this standard should be raised to 0 billion U.S. dollars. Ellison owns 4% of Oracle's equity, worth more than 5 billion U.S. dollars. In China, theoretically It should be at the level of the richest man.
If personal assets exceed 0 billion US dollars, their fluctuation range will be very fast. At this time, personal consumption will basically not affect the total asset value, because normal changes in assets will be greater than expenses. For example, if the U.S. dollar or stocks depreciate by 1%, Ellison's assets may shrink by US$50 million. In fact, this should be what ordinary people call "digital wealth." However, no one in China has been able to achieve it at present. If it relies on the hidden assets of corruption, Lai Changxing will not be considered successful, but I don't know if there will be anyone who will succeed him. There are no more than five people in Russia who meet such standards.
A personal asset of more than 50 billion US dollars means that it is possible to control a global conglomerate, such as First Citigroup, Boston Consortium or California Consortium. By the way, many people are wondering why the Kennedy family assets It only has more than 100 million US dollars, but it is called the American royal family - Americans are always reluctant to talk about this issue, because the Kennedy family is actually a part of the Boston consortium. They and Lowell, who made their fortune from the slave trade, The Lawrence, Adams, and Lodge families joined together and eventually formed an alliance with the Rockefeller Consortium (a consortium, not a family), successfully bringing J.F. Kennedy into the White House, and in return they received large orders from the Pentagon—which eventually led to the emergence of the Morgan Consortium. strong dissatisfaction. After Kennedy's assassination, the Boston consortium suffered a huge blow and its status continued to decline.
Bill Gates, who is familiar to the world, had assets of over 100 billion in his heyday, which is basically the limit of personal assets. For comparison, it is equivalent to the annual income of the largest private company in the United States (Koch Industries, 90 billion US dollars). , can obtain the right to speak of one or several consortiums - usually the controlling stake of a consortium is difficult to confirm, because a consortium is often composed of several groups, such as the California consortium in California where Huang Xuan currently works, including Bank of America, Security Pacific Company, Lockheed Aircraft Company, Litton Industries and many other financial and industrial companies, but usually, such consortiums are always controlled by one or several families.
The richest person in human history is Rockefeller, with a GDP of US$0.5 billion. He independently controlled the world's largest trust, controlled the entire world's oil, and accounted for 1/65 of the GDP at that time.
It is also meaningful to have personal assets exceeding 100 billion U.S. dollars. If not combined with others, this amount of money is enough to control the financial order of a certain region, but it does not include Wall Street and London. Only at this time can individuals confront the consortium.
So in terms of market value, theoretically, $0 billion can buy General Electric, but if you compare assets, if you want to have more assets than any other company in the world, you need trillions of dollars.
The people of China work for one year, and the GDP created is .8 trillion (in 2006). The normal annual military expenditure of Americans is 400 billion US dollars - so in theory, if you want to maintain an army that can defeat the United States at any time, you need at least 400 billion US dollars per year, but in fact, this does not include the value of existing equipment.
The total value of global wealth is 97.9 trillion, almost 100 trillion. In other words, if someone claims that his money can buy 100 Morgan syndicates, he is basically lying, because humans have not accumulated so much so far. much wealth.
(Originally I didn’t expect it to be so long, but considering that Huang Xuan will definitely encounter the problem of wealth value in the future, I will explain it in this chapter, so as not to be dry and unclear about how much money is used. )
So back to the issue of billions of dollars. For Ellison, he was definitely able to pay the money, but no one present except Huang Xuan thought that a database software was worth so much money.
If Huang Xuan had not applied for a patent, it would not be worth so much money. But if you think about Oracle's annual R&D investment of more than 2 billion US dollars and its profits of over 100 billion in the next few years or even ten years, US$0 billion is just a small number.
But Ellison was not sure that the software Huang Xuan had was really better than the company's 10G, so he just smiled politely and said, "Mr. Huang, can we try your software?"
"No problem." Huang Xuan's answer once again surprised everyone. He handed the software to Oracle and it was not broken into bones.
At this time, Yu Liye was a little worried about whether the Oracle employee had recorded a copy. Thinking of the billion US dollars, he couldn't help but interjected: "Mr. Ellison, maybe you can send someone to our company to view this software."
Among the people here, Yu Liye was the one who was most familiar with Huang Xuan. Looking at Huang Xuan's appearance, he also believed that it was on purpose, so he became serious.
The translator said it truthfully, but Ellison did not answer. Instead, he smiled and talked to others.
Yu Liye blushed, Huang Xuan patted his shoulder gently, and then said: "Mr. Ellison, I have two suggestions that you can consider when you examine this software."
"oh?"
"The first is that I sell the software to Oracle and authorize Oracle to use these patents until the patents expire. The price is 0 billion US dollars. The second is that Oracle and I will fund the establishment of an independent subsidiary to specialize in selling this software. The third is that "Well," he looked at Yu Liye and said, "I can put this software under the name of Xinye Company. If Oracle wants it, we can discuss the merger plan."
Hearing Huang Xuan's thoughtful consideration, Ellison couldn't help but fell silent, but soon he smiled and said: "Mr. Huang, please allow me to submit it to the board of directors for consideration." As he said this, he symbolically handed over the disk When he handed it over to Nussbaum, he noticed that Huang Xuan had no special reaction, but felt uneasy.
How did he know that the algorithm known as Cipher No. 3 can last for a million years with the current violent decryption method, and if violent decryption is not used - if there is really a one in ten thousand chance, Oracle will have a unique person. Wizards, Lorraine will also ensure his defeat.
It was completely impossible for Ellison to find anything on this disk that Huang Xuan didn't want him to see.
Speaking of which, this would also waste some energy, but compared to the revenue of 0 billion US dollars, Huang Xuan also felt that it was a good deal.
The two of them had their own thoughts, but Ellison smiled and shook hands with Huang Xuan first and said goodbye, "Mr. Huang, I heard that you also like horse racing? Five days later, there will be a small race at the Carlton Racecourse in Florida. Both Li Racecourse and Coolmore Racecourse will participate, would you be interested?”
"I originally thought it was just Mr. Rubin who was interested in this." Huang Xuan put the coffee in his hand on the table and said with a smile, "Mr. Ellison also raises a racehorse?"
"The son of 'Slip Away', I named him 'Green Light', it only takes 10 seconds to run one furlong." Ellison was quite proud of this.
Although it has been impacted by the four major ball sports such as basketball and football, horse racing is still a mainstream sport in the United States so far: more than 10,000 horse racing events are held in the United States every year, with 80 million viewers and ticket revenue of approximately US$1 billion. Jordan, Spielberg, and previous U.S. presidents are all frequent visitors to the Kentucky Derby. The Queen visited the United States for the first time in 16 years. However, before meeting with Bush, the first stop the Queen and her husband made was to attend the Kentucky Derby. The Kentucky Derby is the most important race in the United States. Some media joked that the Queen seemed to think that watching the horse racing was better than meeting Bush. more important.
Huang Xuan, a horse fan, lowered his voice and asked Lorraine: "What is 1 furlong?"
"0 yards, yards per second, much faster than a human running."
"Nonsense." Huang Xuan raised his slightly lowered head and said with a smile: "OK, I also brought two horses. If you have a chance, you must compete with Mr. Ellison."
When it came to horse racing, Mark suddenly became energetic. He said in a supportive tone: "The total career bonus that has slipped away is 9.6 million US dollars. He also has three Eclipse Awards, but Mr. Ellison's 'Green Light' career I’ve only earned $10,000 in my career, which is less than my ‘Cat Knight’.”
If Mark hadn't said it, Huang Xuan would have almost forgotten that this marketing director's annual income exceeds 10 million US dollars, and he is also a multi-millionaire.
Once it came to horse racing, Mr. Mark almost forgot his position, and Nussbaum quietly slipped away, while Mr. Marketing Director still sang a one-man show and asked Huang Xuandao: "Whose descendant is your horse? Speaking of which, there are a lot of horse racing in Hong Kong.”
Huang Xuan smiled and said: "You will see it later. I think you will be surprised."
Mark became even more curious, Ellison soon rejoined, forgetting all about his speech, and a negotiation quickly devolved into issues of bloodlines and performance of thoroughbreds.
Yu Liye listened with great admiration. He was originally worried that Huang Xuanhui and Ellison would discuss the specific content and time of the negotiation, which would not only make him feel guilty, but also leave little room for maneuver in future negotiations. Now it's completely different. As the top decision-maker, Huang Xuan and Ellison have reached an intention to negotiate. No matter what happens next, the two sides can still maintain contact and will never lose the opportunity completely because of the breakdown of high-level talks. This is also The best option for them.
However, Yu Liye completely forgot that Huang Xuan was even using Xinye Company as a bargaining chip just now. Perhaps he had no intention of considering himself the chairman in the first place.
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In addition to the word count: Let me answer a question by the way. Many readers have doubts. Will there be many Lu Mins, many so-and-so, etc. in similar planes? Or maybe Huang Xuan simply took away 400,000 Qin troops, and other places. Appear. Then wouldn't it be chaos
Dolphin actually described a similar problem, but I also read books at a glance, so let me tell you a lie now: First of all, people in different planes are independent. The reason why they do similar things is that they have received similar education and have similar backgrounds. That is to say, in this situation, such people usually do such things, not necessarily. Just like in a highly scalable game, there are rules for what NPCs will do.
However, everyone's thoughts are independent. They don't know what people in 001 think, but what 010 thinks. At the same time, they don't know what people in other planes think.
Secondly, the buffer zone only considers the results, not the process. When the local similarity is 100%, a certain man A should die at 15:46 on a certain day of a certain month of a certain year. Then as long as he dies at this time, as far as the local similarity is concerned, there is no problem, regardless of Way of death, that is another issue of local similarity.
Third, similarity is a very broad concept. The overall similarity refers to the entire human history. Therefore, what kind of problems will there be under 80% similarity: 1. When a certain boy A was born, his father named him happily. Called Dolphin, in another dimension, my father happened to be overjoyed and named it Sea Lion. There is no problem. It will have no impact on human history and almost no impact on the similarity. Unless this certain man A becomes a king and a saint, many people describe him because the character is lion. I'm tired of making gestures. As of the electronic age, there will be a little similarity effect.
, a certain man B threw rocks at someone when he was a child and broke his face, and in another dimension, a certain man B has an average appearance, slightly better, so as far as he is concerned, it is not a big problem, even if he changes his wife , as long as the educational background is similar, the family will not affect the world, and the impact on the buffer zone will be minimal.
Finally, similarity is a decreasing concept. For example, Dong Zhuo is always going to die. If he died earlier or later, would it have any impact on the first century? No, but for people who lived in the third year of Chuping, the impact is huge. If we use the concept of differential to deal with this concept, we can think that the decrease of time is one by one, with the time period as the unit, each The next second, or the next period of time, is buffering this change until a period of time where it will not have any impact and integrate into this society.
The above is Doug's theory, use it with caution. (To be continued)