"By the way, there's one more thing you need to help me do. Lin Cheng sat on the office chair, leaned forward, looked at his most powerful right-hand man with a faint gaze, and said in a deep voice: "I want you to help me register a fund company, which is called Jaguar Investment Company." As soon as the company is registered, you assemble an acquisition team and take advantage of the NASDAQ stock market crash to buy Apple.

The acquisition capital is within $10 billion, and it can be acquired. The specific acquisition team members are selected by you, and Meidi is a global business center, with the largest concentration of financial and legal talents in the world, which should not be difficult for you. ”

"No problem, leave it to me!" Liang Botao immediately said excitedly.

Apple, although now in the context of the global technology company stock surge, the market value of the company of only $5 billion is not at all.

However, Apple's reputation is not good, and Liang Botao also has a very deep understanding of Apple, after all, it is Apple's outstanding contribution that has made personal computers popular in the world, and has made indelible contributions to the scientific and technological process of human society.

In 1983, Apple introduced a new computer, the Apple Lisa, named after the daughter of CEO Steve Jobs, which was the world's first personal computer to combine a graphical user interface with a mouse.

Lisa is an epoch-making computer, and Apple is widely recognized as a great company because of this product.

Although Xerox developed the world's first personal computer, Xerox Otto, but at that time, Xerox was not interested in producing general-purpose computer models, and was overtaken by Apple with its creativity, which finally made Xerox regret it.

On January 24, 1984, the Apple Macintosh was released, which was equipped with a new and revolutionary operating system, which became a milestone in the history of the computer industry.

But compared to the blue giant IBM, Apple is still too weak, when IBM also began to enter the field of personal computers, Apple quickly lost in the face of the powerful IBM, Jobs was also ousted from the board of directors of Apple, Apple has since entered a period of decline for more than ten years.

It wasn't until 1997 that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and in 1998 released an all-in-one Apple iMac computer for the consumer and education markets, that Apple began to recover from the decline and came out of bankruptcy, and its market value rose from $3.4 billion before Jobs' return to $5 billion today.

Of course, the rise in Apple's market value is inseparable from the background of the soaring Nasdaq stock market, but after the Internet bubble was burst, Apple's stock price did not decline significantly, which shows that Apple is different from those technology bubble companies that are artificially overvalued outside, Apple is a company with a deep heritage, and its brand value and brand reputation are very high.

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"Bill, you watched the press conference broadcast live on Fox TV yesterday, things are developing in your favor, Lin Cheng really owns 50% of today's capital, his personal wealth has reached 102 billion, and your current wealth is only 98.2 billion, it seems that you can't catch up with him.

If there is no accident, Lin Cheng will replace you on the Forbes Global Rich List released on March 20 and become the richest man in the world this year. Steve Forbes said bluntly to Bill Gates.

"Steve, can your Forbes magazine postpone the release of the world's richest list? Now the Nasdaq stock market is skyrocketing, and Microsoft's market capitalization has exceeded the 600 billion mark.

Give me a month, maybe Microsoft's market capitalization has exceeded the 700 billion mark, and it is not without precedent for Forbes to postpone the release of the world's richest list, last year for Lin Cheng, didn't you "Forbes" postpone the release time to April, this time, you can also take care of me. ”

Bill Gates is still not giving up, he hopes that Forbes magazine will give him a month, after all, the Nasdaq market is very good, and the market response after the release of INDOS2000 is very enthusiastic, Microsoft's stock price is very strong.

With the current momentum of Microsoft's stock price skyrocketing, Bill Gates believes that by April, Microsoft's market value is likely to exceed the $700 billion mark, and his net worth will exceed $1,100 at that time without pressure, and the world's richest man still belongs to him, and Lin Cheng can't take it.

Steve Forbes frowned slightly and said: "Bill, your competitive spirit is too strong, you have been the richest man in the world for five years, even if you are taken away by Lin Cheng once this year, it will not damage your prestige in the hearts of people all over the world." ”

Bill Gates shook his head and said: "No, no, no, Steve, you don't understand, I'm used to standing at the top of the world and looking down on everyone, if one day I am asked to stand below and look up at others, especially Lin Cheng, who I don't like, I will be stuck in my throat and extremely uncomfortable." ”

Bill Gates doesn't know what it means to be "cold in a high place", he only knows that he is very comfortable standing on the highest place, and if he is kicked down by Lin Cheng, he will feel "deep cold" and the malice of the whole world.

Steve Forbes suddenly said: "It seems that you really value the honor of being the richest man in the world, and you really hate Lin Cheng, a Chinese." Uh, could it be that Lin Cheng held a banquet last night, and you blocked it?"

Bill Gates shamelessly admitted, "That's right, I really hate Lin Cheng, and all the rich people who received Lin Cheng's invitations, I called someone to tell them that it was best not to participate." But there are still people who don't listen to me, such as Steve Jobs, a stubborn guy. ”

"Jobs?" Steve Forbes thought of that stubborn and arrogant guy, and couldn't help but have a headache: "That guy has always given no face to anyone, and he likes to go against you the most, he won't listen to you." ”

"Huh. Bill Gates smiled: "His stinky temper is really hateful, even if he went to Lin Cheng's banquet, didn't he turn his face with Lin Cheng in the end, this guy is so annoying." How's that, Steve? Give me another month, a month is enough. ”

Steve Forbes and Bill Gates have had a friendship for decades, and his old friend actually valued his Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people so much, which undoubtedly made his face shine.

And the old friend has already said this, Steve Forbes naturally can't hurt the heart of the old friend, so he nodded and said: "Okay, I will ask the magazine to issue a statement, saying that the stock market has fluctuated too much recently, and the wealth of many rich people is difficult to count, and the release of the global rich list has been postponed to April." ”