Chapter 344: Advance
The first time to launch a huge acquisition of the same scale, the market value of the other party is almost the same as Penguin, it stands to reason that Apple's market share is higher than that of Penguin Computer, and the profit margin is also higher, plus there are a variety of technology patents, the market value should not be low like this.
But in the eyes of investors, Penguin is a new company with strong development potential and high growth space in the future, and is willing to spend more money to bet on its future development better, Su Mu did not disappoint them, from the listing to the present, the market value has successfully doubled, and the latest price has exceeded 1.8 billion US dollars.
Looking at Apple again, stimulated by the huge good news, Apple's stock price did not advance but retreated some time ago, until the news of a possible merger came, it increased by 4.0 percentage points, the reason is that since the early eighties, Apple's market share has been declining, turnover and profits have also declined, people are not optimistic about its development prospects, if it is not relying on the patent library to eat the old capital, last year also launched a laptop, the fall will definitely be even worse.
For Steve Jobs, judging from the news I heard about him on the radio, this guy is mostly mythologized because of the success of the enterprise, and the development of the enterprise is never a one-person business, especially product development, team strength is much more important than the individual. Since Mr. Jobs, the current loser, can do it, Su Mu feels that he should be able to do it too.
Now he values Apple's ecosystem and scientific researchers, as long as it merges this company, it can start tinkering with its own operating system, and use sales channels to expand the market scale, becoming a large company with a market share second only to IBM.
He planned to personally take charge of the merger, and went upstairs directly to Blake's office, and as soon as Su Mu sat down, he heard Blake say in a very unhappy tone: "The board of directors will be held in the afternoon, and some investors are dissatisfied with your unauthorized contact with Apple, they are worried that Apple will drag down our development, you know, few people will like the MAC-OS operating system these days."
We use Microsoft's indos, which can provide users with a wealth of office programs, as well as games and entertainment programs, and it has nothing and is destined to be obsolete. ”
"Who says no, Apple has a lot of office programs, and there is also an independent operating system, and programs that can be used on indos can be ported to it.
It's just that this company lacks a leader with a long-term vision, and it doesn't take advantage of its advantages, and when I merge this company, the first thing is to improve the MAC-OS operating system, preferably better than Microsoft, and a closed system also has the benefit of being closed. ”
Su Mu changed the topic: "It's useless for them to say, who gives me the right to speak, believe me, Apple's market value is there, it's not as unbearable as you imagined, as long as it can develop well, it has very great potential in the future, take a step back, Penguin is still developing, isn't it?"
Its business is not going to be affected by the Apple merger, you are still the CEO, and I continue to have the say in the company, and everything is done under this premise, otherwise I would rather give it up. The enthusiasm of investors today is also reflected in the optimism about our acquisition of Apple, which has more than 2,000 patents, some of which are useful to us, although the vast majority of them are junk. ”
"You keep these words for other shareholders to say, I believe in you, Li (Ping'an) also believes in you, but I hope that this company will suffer losses because of feelings, you can't be lucky forever." ”
Blake touched his stomach and continued: "The CEO position will allow you to serve for a year or two, you are the most suitable person, and I will give birth to this child and take care of her for a while, it is possible that I will not come back to continue to preside over the work in the future, investors believe in you." ”
Su Mu couldn't tell her that he knew that Apple would use a perfect R&D system to make it the richest company in the world a few years later, while Penguin was only responsible for production, and did not have a laboratory department and too many patents, so he might suffer in the future competition.
I understand that there will definitely be many shareholders who will be unhappy because of this merger, which may affect long-term interests, but there is no problem at the moment, after all, the stock price has risen today, as long as Apple does not lag behind in the future, it will have little impact on Penguin, and it is good news.
"So long? After you really have a child, you will feel happy in the first two or three months, and then most of you will be tortured by the little guy to want to come to work, anyway, your husband's income is not as high as yours, let him take care of the children at home, or hire two confinement sisters, why not want to be a full-time mother." ”
Su Mu, who had a deep understanding of this, couldn't help but doze off and continued:
"You get busy first, I'll contact Apple and go in person. Form a group to discuss the details of the merger, I'll call Mr. Senna later, this is his specialty, management must be in my hands, who knows what Apple's incapable gang will do now, especially their CEO and product director, it is better to give a sum of money to get them out.
But with a little ability, it will not make Apple's market share decline so quickly, I still remember when I first came to Silicon Valley, Apple was simply a giant existence, and I needed to look up. Now, some people think that it will be a burden, and it is estimated that those institutions that hold Apple shares are also willing to merge with us, as long as they support us, even if we are more demanding, most of them will be accepted by that side......"
Apple's headquarters is also in Silicon Valley, a bit far away, close to the town of Santa Clara and San Jose, so Su Mu took a helicopter to go there, bringing some employees with experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions, as well as employees of KPMG and Deloitte, two world-famous accounting firms.
As early as yesterday, the plan for in-depth conversations between the two sides was determined, and today Mr. John Scully, the current CEO of Apple, received a call from Su Mu, decisively put down his work, and rushed to the roof to receive him in person, at this moment his hair was blown by the wind blowing by the spirals, and he still had a smile on his face.
He is the CEO, and Su Mu is one of the richest super-rich people in Silicon Valley, the status gap between the two sides is clear at a glance, not to mention the star company Galaxy, even if it is Penguin, the momentum of prosperity is not something that Apple can compete with, it has been eating the old book for several years, and even has given up the Mac operating system and adopted the years of indos, but it is too harmful to do so, which is equivalent to giving up the company's biggest advantage, and also abandoning those users who originally bought the product, which was not adopted......