Bill Gates' grandfather, Maxwell, was a shareholder and executive director of First Intercontinental Bank's corporate headquarters. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At noon the next day, Li Zetian came to the bank's headquarters as scheduled.

"Hello, Mr. Maxwell, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

Li Zetian was very humble and polite.

"Hehe, hello, Chronos, I've learned about you from Gates!Oh, you're a great young man!!" Maxwell smiled.

"Thank you, Mr. Maxwell, for the compliment. ”

"Please sit down, what do you need to drink?coffee?tea??I heard that Chinese like tea," Maxwell asked.

"Thanks, a glass of water will do. ”

"Well," Maxwell beckoned to the secretary and motioned for her to pour a glass of water, then turned his head to look at Li Zetian and said, "Your intention, Gates has already told me, Apple wants to borrow $10 million......"

"Yes, Mr. Maxwell. Li Zetian nodded.

"Ten million dollars is not a small amount, if Apple wants to take out a loan, it must pledge its shares!" "Apple itself has an excellent performance, and many people around the world are looking forward to the release of Apple-ll personal computers, presumably the sales will not be bad, plus Bill Gates revealed some inside information to Maxwell, Maxwell believes that this loan is completely a very profitable business!

"Mr. Maxwell, how many shares do you think you need to pledge?"

"50% Apple shares!"

Li Zetian thought for a moment and agreed: "This is no problem. ”

Maxwell nodded and continued, "Apple plans to borrow for a few years?"

"Short-term loan, two years!"

"Okay, so according to the regulations of First Intercontinental Bank, the annual interest rate is 5.80%, which is $580,000 for a year, do you agree?"

"Agree !!"

Li Zetian happily agreed, as long as Apple-ll is popular, the interest of $580,000 is nothing. In addition, Li Zetian already knew something about U.S. bank loans before he came.

In 1973, the annual interest rate was as high as 8.74%;

In 1974, the annual interest rate was as high as 10.51%;

This year, it plummeted, 5.61%-6.24%.

At Apple, which Li Zetian founded in 1974, the bank loan interest rate was so high that he never thought of taking out a loan. Interest rates have fallen this year, but Li Zetian can barely accept it!

"Well, let's get the loan process going...... Maxwell said.

Next, Li Zetian continued to stay at the bank for more than half an hour, and when he left here, there were more than 10 million dollars in the company's account.

If you have money, you can speed up the development of the company in order to shorten the gap with IBM!

According to relevant statistics, as of 1975, IBM produced four times as many computers as all other companies in the world combined!!

This statistic is simply terrifying!

The current Apple company is nothing in front of IBM. Don't look at Apple's current play in the field of personal computers, that's because IBM doesn't pay attention to personal computers, once IBM wakes up and focuses on the development of personal computers, Apple will be in a difficult situation!

As soon as the IBM industry bigwigs made a move, most computer companies and software development companies knelt down~~ licking, either to make their own hardware compatible with it, or to develop software for it. On the other hand, not many companies are willing to develop software for Apple. This led to Apple's rapid decline, and finally almost bankruptcy, if it were not for the return of Steve Jobs to turn the tide, Apple may have disappeared into the long river of history.

At present, the scale of Apple, Microsoft, and Sunbird is very small, and the talent pool is seriously insufficient; when other companies are attached to IBM, Li Zetian must ensure that he has enough talent to develop third-party software for Apple and compete with IBM! Otherwise, no matter how easy Apple's computers are, if they do not have rich software support, they can only fail in the end. For example, in 1983, Apple launched the Apple-Lisa computer named after Jobs's daughter, which was the world's first personal computer that combined a graphical user interface with a mouse, with a 16-bit CPU, mouse, hard disk, and an operating system that supports graphical user interface and multitasking.

This is likely to happen to Apple in this lifetime, such as the Mac computer currently under development, which is also the world's first personal computer to combine a graphical user interface and a mouse. Li Zetian estimated that by the time the Mac computer was developed, IBM must have entered the personal computer industry.

Therefore, Li Zetian must take precautions, vigorously produce and promote Apple-ll, sell Apple-ll more popular than in his previous life, make more money, and then take advantage of this momentum like a rainbow to directly go public!! after listing and financing, the company will be able to have more money, recruit more talents, rapidly expand the scale of the company, and catch IBM by surprise......

For the development of the enterprise, Li Zetian has to go on a business trip in the afternoon, and his daily schedule is full, and there is almost no time for leisure and entertainment.

Wanda boss Wang Jianlin's schedule is very full? Li Zetian smiled after reading it......

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At around 4:30 p.m., Li Zetian and Tian Shuai took a plane to San Antonio, Texas, where AT&T headquarters is located.

At 10:15 p.m., the plane arrived at San Antonio Airport.

As for dinner being eaten on the plane, it was okay.

After getting off the plane, I called a taxi and went to the hotel.

The two of them were tired of traveling, and after arriving at the hotel, they took a shower and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai finished breakfast and immediately went to AT&T's headquarters.

Apple is also well-known in the industry.

AT&T was very friendly and politely invited Li Zetian and Tian Shuai to the reception room.

"Welcome, I'm Carrie Occam, CEO of AT&T!" A man in a suit and leather shoes and gold-rimmed glasses, about 50 years old, walked into the reception room and introduced himself by holding the frame of his glasses.

"Hello, Mr. Occam, I'm Tian Shuai, CEO of Apple, and this is Chronos Li, the chief engineer of our company. Tian Shuai smiled and stepped forward to shake hands with him, and Li Zetian also walked over and shook hands with Occam politely.

Kyrie Occam said, "You two may be seated, I wonder what Apple is going to talk about with AT&T?"

On the phone, Tian Shuai did not tell AT&T that Apple wanted to buy a perpetual license for the Unix operating system. Obviously, it would be stupid to tell the other party, but instead remind the other party of the importance of Unix!

Tian Shuai said: "That's right, Mr. Occam, maybe you should have heard that Apple is developing the next day Apple-ll personal computer. This time, I want to promote Apple-ll to AT&T companies, Apple-ll will be more powerful than Apple-l, and can help enterprises work and improve work efficiency! Second, I hope that Apple-ll personal computers can be sold in AT&T stores!"

Founded in 1877, AT&T has long monopolized the long-distance and local telephone markets in the United States, establishing thousands of offices across the United States. If Apple-ll can get a partnership with AT&T, it will really be a thigh!

Before coming, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai had already discussed, Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang, can talk about these two things, it is naturally excellent, if it can't be negotiated, and finally inadvertently propose to buy the permanent copyright of the Unix operating system, it will not make the other party have too much suspicion.

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