Ye Dongqing expressed his attitude, with his current shares in Apple, Mr. Jobs had to pay attention to his thoughts, for fear that this matter would eventually be so troubled that it would not be able to end, and he would have to make a life and death in the power entanglement.

On the whole, most of the independent directors will be the losing side, after all, Ye Dongqing's shareholding is so high, it is likely to get a controlling stake at the shareholders' meeting, and then remove the vast majority of the directors who oppose him.

Steve Jobs, after all, is no longer the Steve Jobs of the 80s, the years and setbacks have worn out the edges and corners of his body, and he can't be as free and easy as he was when he was younger, managing a large company, and there are too many things to think about the consequences.

Although he has also suffered a lot on the board of directors, but Jobs does not want to see Ye Dongqing win the controlling stake, in his opinion, there should be opposition within a company to contain major shareholders and avoid going their own way, if it is a good ending, it is naturally good, but he does not think that anyone can always be smart, maybe one day suddenly make a mistake, he can once again pull the Apple company he worked so hard to create into the quagmire that is difficult to turn over.

He felt that he might not be able to survive this disease this time, so he suffered even more gains and losses, and devoted half of his life to Apple, still hoping that after he left, there would still be someone who could contain Ye Dongqing, the only thing that could do this was the current board decision-making system, Freshwater Investment Group currently only holds two seats out of eight places, and Jobs feels that it is good now.

The balance of power is quite delicate at the moment, almost in a state of equilibrium, seeing that Ye Dongqing may break this balance, it is strange that Jobs is not in a hurry, so he decisively spoke out to comfort Ye Dongqing, trying to stabilize him and avoid acting impulsively......

Tim Cook is in the game, but like an outsider, he has no consciousness of being used by Ye Dongqing as a bargaining chip against the board of directors, and he is most concerned about whether he can become an interim CEO, for a professional manager, everyone hopes to be in charge of a large company with a market value of more than $7 billion before the age of 50.

More than ten minutes later, when he accompanied Ye Dongqing to leave from Jobs's office, he even wanted to invite him to dinner to thank him for supporting him so much, but he was politely refused, Ye Dongqing wanted to keep in close contact with him, but he couldn't raise the interest of having dinner together, so he left downstairs alone, and left as he came.

In his office, Mr. Jobs, with a headache, picked up the phone and called his old friend, Mr. Bill Campbell, to ask him to meet now and talk about something in person.

Just before, the focus of his chats with Ye Dongqing was mainly focused on Mr. Cook, the chief operating officer, and he already knew Ye Dongqing's determination to support Cook, in Jobs's opinion, there was no need to be more entangled in this kind of thing, even he himself was more optimistic about Cook as interim CEO, and the last thing before leaving was mainly to convince the board of directors that it was best not to provoke this young Chinese guy.

Young people are motivated, and at the same time easy to be impulsive, Jobs is very worried that after he leaves, the two sides will fall into the flames of war, judging from Jobs's understanding of Ye Dongqing, he will definitely not be the one who admits defeat, he is in charge of so much wealth at a young age, God knows what he will do if he is ruthless.

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Mr. Bill Campbell met at a cigar club about one o'clock in the afternoon, and it seemed to be empty with only the two of them.

As a recognized practitioner in all Silicon Valley, Mr. Campbell gave Jobs a lot of help during the fall of Jobs, and was half a friend.

With a cigar between his fingers, Steve Jobs told Campbell, "I guess why you objected to Cook taking over my job because he was closer to Leo Yeh, right? ”

"So what? That little guy came to you crying?"

The old man Campbell didn't have much contact with Ye Dongqing, in his opinion, he was just a lucky little guy, he had met once before, and he didn't leave too much impression in his heart, so he naturally relied on the old and sold the old.

This is not arrogant, he is indeed very prestigious in the eyes of other board members, including Jobs, but the tacit atmosphere was broken with Ye Dongqing's intervention, and his two spokespersons always like to put forward some ideas that the old Campbell can't accept, such as getting involved in LCD panel technology, or spending so much money to cooperate with Qualcomm to develop microprocessors, the old man feels that Ye Dongqing is spending money indiscriminately.

Without waiting for Jobs to answer, Campbell Sr. continued to laugh and say, "I'm not targeting Cook, but he's also been brainwashed by you and Leo Ye lately, Ron is a very capable young man, and I hope you can give him more opportunities to support him as much as I do." Leo's ideas are really peculiar, but you also know how much money it will cost, you can't put all the company's money on a project that no one is optimistic about, it's irresponsible to other shareholders, you should pay more attention to the field of computer development, and get back on track. ”

The older generation, there will always be a generation gap between their ideas and the younger ones, they are stubborn and arrogant, they like to naively think that the world is still the world they were when they were young, the last time Ye Dongqing and the head of Rolex met, the other party was the same.

"If it's because of my departure, then I'd rather not go to the hospital, my body I know, there will be no problems in the short term, and the doctors say the same. Jobs actually didn't agree with the old Campbell's idea, but he didn't mean to say it, the other party was one of the people he respected the most, and the personal relationship had been maintained for more than ten years, and he felt that the other party had some sense.

Unlike Ye Dongqing, they couldn't guess what the world would be like in more than ten years, Jobs continued: "Just now, Leo wanted to convene a shareholder meeting to re-elect the board of directors, and amend the company's management articles of association to let shareholders have more say, you should know that this kind of thing is very likely to happen, and most of them will meet his wishes, only a little bit of shares, his decision-making power is higher than anyone else."

That's why I hope you don't mess with him, Leo has identified Cook, and I'm inclined to support Cook, Ron is a reckless man, and there is absolutely no way to lead Apple on, for the sake of the company, for your own sake, please believe me, Leo is definitely an extremely difficult little guy, you are likely to lose. ”

There is no smoke of war in the business world, but it is just as fierce, old Campbell's movements paused, and many things instantly thought of in his mind, and after weighing it, he found that this was indeed the case, they could not gather all the shares that could compete with Ye Dongqing, and the atmosphere cooled down for a while......