Felix himself had a big opinion on inviting Li Mu to appear on the cover of the American edition of Time Magazine, believing that Li Mu was not worthy of appearing on the cover of the American edition of Time Magazine no matter what.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Mu didn't seem interested in being on this cover, and even made a series of unbelievable requests.

To date, Time magazine has used children as covers, but those children are representatives of extraordinary significance at the time, such as the capture of poor children in Africa, the close-up of children refugee from the war, and they have never used a childhood photo of an adult as a cover.

Moreover, they were all invited by Time magazine to be the cover character, but the parties didn't even give face to be interviewed, which is really a bit too much.

What Felix couldn't accept the most was that Li Mu refused to mention God in the report of Time Magazine!

Although the United States claims to be the largest immigration country in the world, it is actually a puritanical country at its core, with traditional Americans believing in God and at the same time advocating the Second Amendment, so to speak, with one hand for the Bible and the other for a rifle.

It is a country that once imposed draconian alcohol bans, made abortion a crime, and had presidents take oaths with their hands on the Bible, which shows how deeply rooted their religious reverence is.

However, Li Mu didn't like this feeling.

He respected every faith in the world, but as an atheist, he was also reluctant to associate himself with any one religion.

Felix angrily relayed Li Mu's words to Time Warner's top management, protesting: "Li Mu didn't let us mention God in the report about him, this is an insult to our faith! We must not allow such a person to be on the cover of our magazine." ”

The senior management of Time Warner said very indifferently: "Li Mu is not an American, nor is he a Puritan, he just doesn't want you to mention God in the report about him, and he doesn't interfere with your freedom in other articles, is there anything wrong with that?"

Felix argued, "We are a Puritan nation, this is our faith and tradition!"

A Time Warner executive asked him, "So what? Is it because we have our beliefs and traditions that we have to ask other people to use this? I ask you, if you're the manager of a McDonald's restaurant and a customer just asks him not to put ketchup in the fries, is there anything wrong with that? Is it because the fries in your restaurant have ketchup, just because the fries you serve in the restaurant have ketchup, you have to eat them too?"

Felix was speechless for a moment.

He didn't expect that this usually quiet high-level would be so talkative when he started a debate, and he blocked himself with no way out in a few words.

At this time, the other party cleared his throat and said: "Felix, we all know what kind of person you are, but I have to remind you that it doesn't matter if you engage in discrimination in your heart, everyone has something unsavory in their hearts, but you'd better lock your personal opinions in your heart, and if you dare to bring them to work, I will immediately propose to the board of directors to replace you! Even if you leak it out in your daily life and are caught, I will definitely inform the board of directors and solemnly implore the board of directors to remove you!"

Felix was frightened by the other party's stern tone, hurriedly changed his tone, and said respectfully: "Don't worry, I will keep your explanation in mind and never cause trouble to the company and individuals......"

The other party snorted and said: "It's best if you really know in your heart, Li Mu is the cover character, you have to go all out for me, now Wall Street generally believes that with Li Mu's development speed, his worth is likely to exceed 500 billion US dollars in the next five years, do you know what this concept is? If you offend him and miss this opportunity, you can also pack up and prepare to leave!"

Felix was taken aback by the figure, which was over $500 billion in five years? That's a terrible number, isn't it? Is it possible?

Felix reluctantly agreed, but at the same time found an opportunity to contact his friends on Wall Street and ask him privately about the possibility of the news.

This friend of his, who was also a high-tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the early years, but later came to Wall Street as a financial analyst because of the family business, and it can be said that he understands the Internet better than ordinary Wall Street people.

In fact, Felix also knows that Li Mu's current theoretical worth has already reached 100 billion US dollars, but, because he has just experienced the Internet bubble, he doesn't think that this 100 billion US dollars is a big deal, around 2000, the market value of many Internet companies has skyrocketed, but this kind of bubble money comes and goes quickly, today Li Mu is still the pride of the sky, maybe tomorrow the bubble bursts again, and he will become a billionaire.

What Felix didn't expect was that after he asked this friend on YY, the other party immediately replied to him: "Breaking through $500 billion in five years is just a superficial judgment of these guys on Wall Street, I think with Li Mu's current layout, it will be possible within three years." ”

"Three years, are you crazy, aren't you? How can Li Mu do it?!"

Felix originally wanted to get some remarks that looked down on Li Mu, but he didn't expect that his friend's admiration for Li Mu was higher than the general perception on Wall Street.

And his friend explained: "Li Mu has several business lines with great potential, for example, he acquired Apple some time ago, and did not fire any employees of Apple, but Apple has not made any new moves, this great contrast indicates that Apple should be doing large-scale research and development work, Li Mu is likely to be doing something big." ”

"Li Mu's Taobao has done very well, supporting the efficient logistics of small parcels has also achieved the industry-leading level of technical content, the Internet is developing so rapidly, the market share of e-commerce is getting bigger and bigger, Li Mu's Taobao can be made into a unicorn just by relying on the Chinese market, if Li Mu decides to let Taobao go abroad, this business line is likely to become the future of online Wal-Mart. ”

Felix asked suspiciously: "Online Walmart? Is that Taobao really as godly as you say?"

The other party sent a smiling expression and said: "Everyone has a different starting point and a different angle, but I personally think that if Li Mu takes out a set of Taobao things and does global operation in the future, it will definitely be a huge business opportunity." ”

As he spoke, the other party said: " Moreover, Li Mu has long begun to engage in data processing centers around the world, at present, no Internet company can be compared with Makino Technology in terms of data processing capacity, and now the data processing center of Makino Technology can not only fully meet the needs of Makino Technology itself, and even began to do ToB business, they open their redundant data processing capabilities to other Internet companies, the future prospects of this business line are also very broad, and even in the next ten years can develop to a trillion-dollar market, so, if Li Mu's business lines are developing smoothly, three years worth of 500 billion US dollars, I think it is nothing at all。 ”

Felix couldn't help but ask, "Is there such a big market space for the data processing business?"

The other party said: "It looks scary, but a little calculation will know, the world's six billion people, Wal-Mart only covers less than one billion people in offline retail, and already has a market value of nearly 300 billion US dollars, and half of the top ten people in the world's richest list are the children of the Wal-Mart founder family, Li Mu covers nearly one billion Internet users around the world, and in the future, half of the Internet services used by these netizens may rely on the support of the data processing center of Makino Technology, how much profit margin do you say?"

Speaking of this, he added: "And the most important thing is that the growth rate of global Internet users is much faster than the number of customers covered by Wal-Mart, and in a few years, the number of global Internet users may exceed 2 billion or 3 billion. ”

Felix was shocked and couldn't help but ask: "If this part of the business is so profitable, why haven't other businesses started it?"

The other party replied: "It's too expensive, the threshold is too high, doing such a thing is equivalent to investing in the construction of a large number of hub airports around the world, the purchase of a large number of aircraft for transportation between hubs, few companies can afford to play, not to mention the super player of Makino Technology, I think with the current development speed of Makino Technology, at least 50% of the data processing business of the global Internet in the future will be in their hands, and it will really be profitable at that time." ”

The prospect of cloud computing, at this stage, only people who really understand the Internet can see that Felix naturally knows nothing, but through his friend's analysis, he has been stunned.

The other party concluded: " In fact, Li Mu's current ability, as long as you don't choose the wrong direction, basically do anything to succeed, you see that the influence of your Times seems to be very large, but in fact, your recommendation of a cover character, the ability to put compared with the saturated delivery of YY or Weibo Titter, is more than an order of magnitude worse, I think Li Mu as long as he wants, he can replace Murdoch at any time to become a new media tycoon, and when the time comes, media like your Time Magazine, the rest is only the symbolism of years of operation, do you understand the symbolism I saidThat is, people no longer pay attention to what is written in Time magazine, they only pay attention to who is in this issue again. ”

Felix marveled at his friend's conclusion, and now there is a lot of data to show this, Time magazine's sales have been declining, and the cover character of each issue of Time magazine will be reported by other media, to be honest, most of the attention that people pay to Time magazine now just wants to see its cover.

At this time, the friend suddenly asked: "By the way, have you tried to invite Li Mu? If Li Mu is willing to be on your cover, then you are really lucky!"