"You?"

"Doing business?"

Gates asked rhetorically, in the past few years, he was immersed in technology, but now he often deals with businessmen, and Su Mu is the youngest "businessman" he has ever met, and he finds it very interesting.

He shoved the twenty dollar bill back into his pocket and replied, "My company, currently with a market value of about $100 million, was tried to raise money some time ago, according to the market value of $130 million. But I think it's worth at least $200 million, which is what it's worth now, and maybe more next year. ”

"So if I put up two million dollars, I can buy one percent of the shares from you?"

Su Mu asked decisively, walked to the bicycle with Gates, and continued: "I am very optimistic about the prospects of your company, it is very cool, and it is more open, anyone can use your company's operating system, and the market should be large." Apple is different from you, you can only use Apple's operating system if you buy an Apple computer, I used it once, and it was very uncomfortable. ”

Microsoft is still working with IBM and Apple, and the relationship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates is not stiff, and Microsoft is still a small company in Jobs' view.

There has been no scandal of Microsoft copying Apple's operating system, and Gates has applied the methods he learned from Apple to the Windows operating system that is currently under development......

No one wants to hear compliments, especially from a teenager.

As I said before, Gates is not the Gates who has been at the top of the rich list for more than ten years, this era has just begun to become famous, and he is already a little proud to be recognized by Su Mu, and he is even happier to hear the advantages of his company at this moment.

Since last year, Microsoft has been trying to develop the Windows operating system, and the company's prospects are great, but Internet companies spend too much money, and if they don't move forward, they will be eliminated, and they must continue to burn money and develop new products.

So Gates and Allen, another major shareholder, are recently preparing to go public on the NASDAQ stock exchange in New York to raise funds for the company's development.

In this era, no one knows what the future of the Internet industry will be, many famous Internet companies have suddenly collapsed, and recently Gates and co-founder Paul Allen decided to go public, also under the guise of "falling into the pocket".

In fact, Gateburn did just that.

Su Mu thought that he was worth $90 billion with Microsoft Corporation, but the truth is that he continued to sell shares after Microsoft went public, and Microsoft stock later accounted for only a small part of Gates's total wealth.

He created Waterfall, the private investment arm that resembles the Rockefeller family's family office, to help manage his assets, and by the end of the twentieth century, he had long since been a major shareholder in Microsoft......

At this time.

Gates couldn't suppress the smile on his face, and after riding the bicycle and sitting down, he joked to Su Mu, who was acting very naïve:

"Come up, I may be able to sell you one percent of the shares, Microsoft's major shareholder is me, the kind that has an absolute controlling stake, but do you really want to buy it?"

Su Mu took it seriously.

Two million dollars, this amount of money is too much for him, so much that Su Mu can't imagine how he can make so much money in a short period of time.

Putting aside the funds invested in the supermarket for the time being, all the funds in hand are only about 30,000 US dollars, not to mention the family, their parents only have more than 10,000 US dollars in savings at most, most of which are stored in the bank to eat interest, and they think they have earned it despite the continuous depreciation.

In any case, he couldn't come up with two million dollars, even if it was only one million, which made Su Mu feel aggrieved.

Sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, he replied helplessly: "I don't have so much money now, I may try it next year, but I definitely won't be able to do it this year." ”

Gates was just joking and didn't think about selling his shares to Sumu.

In his opinion, there will never be parents in a normal family who agree to let their minor children come up with a huge amount of two million dollars to invest.

Even Gates himself, who decided to drop out of Harvard and start a business, had a very stiff relationship with his parents.

Some people think that Gates relies on his parents to succeed, but there are many people in the world who are more powerful than his parents, and they have not seen their children succeed, there are some family reasons, but it mainly depends on personal ability......

"What's your name? Looks like you know Microsoft very well, do your parents work for a company in Silicon Valley, and they're still middle school students, right?

Gates hadn't ridden for a long time, and when he first rode it, he shook it, and then he grabbed the handlebars and moved forward steadily.

The tone is like chatting with his younger brother, he has not been shrouded by countless halos in this era, he is simply a rich entrepreneur, not much different from ordinary people.

He was interested in Su Muman, not every teenager has a brain, and at a young age, he saw that Microsoft could outperform Apple, which had a closed system, and the debate between "open system" and "closed system" would not come to a conclusion for decades.

From the current point of view, Apple is indeed not doing very well, the main goal of developing the Windows operating system is to adapt to the vast majority of computers on the market, and the sales market is broader.

"Well, in Menlo Park, I just started high school last month. ”

Su Mu sat in the back seat, holding the cushion in his hand, trying not to let himself fall, and then introduced: "My name is Leon Sue, and my family owns a restaurant in Chinatown, Los Angeles, and I am the only one who stays here to study. ”

This made Gates curious, and asked him: "Then what are you talking about doing business and inspecting the market?"

Su Mu replied calmly: "My own business, I recently invested in a supermarket in Los Angeles, and now I still have tens of thousands of dollars, come to Silicon Valley to see if there is a chance to start a business." ”

Knowing that Gates is rich, Su Mu's money is not enough for him to worry about, and it doesn't matter if he confesses.

Probably understanding something, Gates couldn't laugh or cry, tilted his head slightly and said, "Tens of thousands of dollars, it's very good...... I didn't have that much money when I started my business, but did you think about what you were going to do, you knew how to code?"

"I'm learning to code, I'm going to work on a piece of software lately, but I can't tell you that, you know, it's a trade secret, and maybe your company will need it. ”

The feeling of chatting with Gates is completely different from what Su Mu imagined.

There is no domineering like Qiao Wuye, nor is there any arrogance like the young man of the Wang family, and even Li Zhekai, who is so poor that he eats instant noodles all day long, is more like a rich man than Gates.

However, Su Mu felt that the rich man should be like Gates, he didn't know the true character of the other party, in fact, Gates was also quite paranoid, stubborn and arrogant, mainly in terms of work, and there was no contradiction with him today, so he naturally seemed very gentle.

After listening to Su Mu's words, Gates nodded in agreement, and did not ask what the so-called trade secrets were, nor did he think that they would be useful to him.

Unwilling to discourage the young man's self-motivation, he took a business card from the breast pocket of his shirt and handed it to Su Mu, saying to him:

"Well, when you develop that software, remember to call me, and if it works for my company, I'll be happy to buy it......"