It's true to be smart, but it's not God.

Ye Dongqing's energy is limited, which determines that he cannot personally make every decision in the company, and directly manages and participates in dozens of companies under his hands, which are controlled by Freshwater Investment Group and hedge fund departments.

Fortunately, there are some professional managers in every company to help, and some founders or shareholders are also supervising, so that he only needs to occasionally take time to give advice on the development strategy as he does now, and if you want the iPhone to develop from the beginning, you must first cultivate the market through this iTouch, and cultivate users who are used to the IOS operating system and use wireless network devices to connect to the Internet, and his advice is not wrong, and Jobs and Mr. Cook agree with this view.

After all, the 3G mobile data transmission network has just begun to be built, and even California has not been fully covered, and it is better to count on it than to count on the already more mature wireless network, and the cost must also be taken into account, the current 3G traffic fee is not generally expensive, because the cost of infrastructure construction is too high, and the communication operators have joined forces to set a high price.

This is understandable, no one is forcing anyone to buy a gun, those telecom operators have spent a lot of money to invest real money, are private enterprises, can not expect them to do charity, if they can't make money, who will work hard to invest a lot of money in research and development, construction?

It's not just a matter of tinkering with things in the R&D lab, and the market environment must also be taken into account.

If you use iTouch, which is responsible for cultivating customer groups, to influence a group of users who like to try it out, and wait until the new products that they value the most are born in the next one or two years, it will definitely be easier to promote.

As for whether the peaches will be picked by others...... There will certainly be companies that will benefit from this, but with Apple's current patent pool and its favorable advantages in device development, the gap with other potential competitors will certainly remain more than a year and a half, because unless Microsoft is desperately throwing money at the market, it will hardly find any competitors in the operating system field in the short term.

As for Microsoft, for the time being, Ye Dongqing has not heard of any R&D projects related to the intelligent terminal operating system, nor has he heard the familiar name - Android.

Maybe it's a name change, maybe it's more likely, with the arrival of Ye Dongqing, the founders of Android in the previous life didn't develop this program in their lives, and when you have time, you can ask someone to investigate, the industry he is most concerned about at present is smart phones, Nokia's semi-foolish chicken rib product Symbian that will inevitably be eliminated, is not qualified to stand in the way at all.

Drinking tea and chatting, time flies quite quickly.

After a brief exchange and unification of the next development ideas, Jobs talked about a small company that had just been established, and he asked Ye Dongqing: "Has anyone pulled you to invest recently? A company called Blood Hope, it seems that someone is developing a rapid test strip product for identifying diseases through blood tests, and I heard that there has been some progress."

My neighbor Larry Ellison is very interested in this startup, and he mentioned it to me at a party the other day, and now a lot of companies are showing interest, so maybe you can try it too. ”

Because he knew that Ye Dongqing had money in his hands and had set up a hedge fund company, Jobs mentioned it in passing, if it wasn't for a good relationship, he wouldn't bother to care about this kind of nosy.

Quickly screen for a variety of diseases through blood test paper, if there is really this technology, the market value can easily exceed 10 billion US dollars, don't look at the huge research and development costs of pharmaceutical companies in the United States, but in the case of long-term patent protection, it is not difficult to recover the cost, as long as you can develop a best-selling product, the price is raised, such as Viagra, which is crooked, and the global sales are amazingly high.

However, the birth of "Viagra" is only a special case after all, some pharmaceutical companies make money, and more go bankrupt with the failure of research and development, and the new drug project is either successful or failed, and there is no third way to go.

Ye Dongqing almost squirted out the water when he heard it.

If he didn't know Jobs's character, he would even think that Elizabeth Holmes's strange woman had pulled Jobs down and ganged up to pit herself.

In Silicon Valley, where venture capital and rich people are gathering to promote medical concepts, I have to say that the woman's little abacus is clanging, and the pit is these guys who know nothing and still have money in their hands.

On the night just a few days ago, if Ye Dongqing opened the door, maybe he would have a "little story" with Holmes, but unfortunately that crazy woman was not his dish at all, the two of the Hilton family were crazy enough, but compared to Elizabeth Holmes, at least they didn't joke with other people's lives, and it was the lives of the patients, delaying the treatment of patients was tantamount to indirect murder.

There is a little regret in my heart, but if the same situation appears in front of Ye Dongqing again, Ye Dongqing will still not hook up with her, unless the two of them are on a desert island, and she is such a opposite sex by her side, then you can consider it.

Jobs saw that Ye Dongqing was stunned, a little curious, and added: "What are you thinking?"

"It's okay, that woman is a liar, there is no product she said at all, the experimental data is all obtained through fraud, whoever likes to vote, I won't vote anyway, I know you have a good relationship with Mr. Ellison, and persuade him to give up, I have been in contact with that woman named Elizabeth Holmes twice, and she is simply a madman. ”

"That's ......" Jobs nodded, and said in his mouth: "I'll call him later, and tell him what you said, although you have money, you can't waste it everywhere, with what I know about Larry, if he is deceived, he will be very angry, that guy is more proud." ”

It was on this occasion that I said that in fact, the two of them, who were also stinky and grumpy, really looked at each other, and Jobs often asked each other to go out for a run when he was not sick.

Mr. Cook, who was listening to them at the moment, said: "Silicon Valley has always been like that, many good projects have been buried, and people who are really dedicated to work are not concerned, but some projects with bright spots and no future at a glance are more likely to attract the attention of investors.

There are a lot of people doing this kind of thing, almost no cost, but the profit is very high, the Internet bubble crisis has just ended, I think the market is overheating again, there is no problem with listed companies, mainly small and medium-sized start-up companies, more than half a month ago I went to a meeting, all said that their company is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and when I spoke, I almost couldn't help laughing, there is a guy who actually created a home to sell hot dogs online, is there no hot dog stand on the street?

"Whoever makes venture capital profits amazing, everyone wants to meet the next Microsoft, Oracle, or my Facebook, Amazon, these things, hundreds or thousands of times the profits, enough to make people take risks. ”

It's just small talk, I don't have anything to do, and I've made an appointment to go to dinner together later.

Ye Dongqing specializes in these, so he naturally knows how big the profit is, and such a high profit is enough to blind some people and make them ignore the risks in the investment process.

He is different, he has experience, than to invest in small companies that have just started, he is more willing to invest in listed companies that have made some achievements, although the price-earnings ratio is high, and the development potential is also great.

Sometimes I feel complacent, the reason is that in fact, people invest according to the current industry of Tamsui Investment Group, and they can eat and drink without worrying in this life, but I can see that many people have to rush into the quagmire and roll......

Now that you're in Silicon Valley, there's no reason to make more new friends.

The next morning.

After Ye Dongqing woke up naturally, he called Jobs and asked him to take Mr. Ellison and Mr. Gates to play tennis together.

A group of rich people can always squeeze out leisure time, and occasionally make an appointment to get together, which can be regarded as his initiative to move closer to the small circle.

The relationship between the three people is more complicated, there is a competitive relationship and some sympathy for each other, halfway through Ye Dongqing from Mr. Jobs's mouth, saying that in fact, the relationship with Gates is not as bad as people imagined, because of the competition for the market to cause some contradictions, and they have been in touch in private.

Speaking of which, Jobs and Gates are no longer at the same level, judging from the current situation, it is true, Gates's personal wealth and achievements have crushed him in all aspects, even in terms of reputation, speaking of the eighties, he was obviously a little embarrassed, when he was much richer than Gates.

It's not desperate, with the appearance of Ye Dongqing, Apple is currently developing a "secret weapon", when he was in the car, the middle-aged man who had just recovered from a serious illness, and jokingly asked Ye Dongqing that Apple must surpass Microsoft in the future.

What can Ye Dongqing say? In his opinion, this is inevitable, he laughed casually, took out the newly bought tennis racket and unpacked it.

Tennis, in the United States, is no less popular than golf, and it is difficult to say whether the latter can be called a sport, and there is no strenuous exercise throughout the whole process, unless the weather is too hot, otherwise there is almost no sweat.

Tennis is different, Ye Dongqing occasionally asks the bodyguards to accompany him to practice, the skills are okay, and the physical strength can definitely keep up.

It was already more than half an hour after arriving at the beautiful tennis court, and seeing the mountain peaks, lakes and thick trees in the distance, he didn't want to play ball, but wanted to eat some barbecue, lie down and bask in the sun.

When he saw the luxury building, he was full of resentment, why was Larry Ellison not scolded for building a mansion, and when he came to himself, he became "the soul is corrupted by money"?

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