Chapter 979 Stock speculation becomes a major shareholder, we are all the same!
Lin Cheng has become a shareholder by speculating in stocks, and he is even about to become a banker.
Apple is a publicly traded company, and its shareholders are very diverse, even Apple's largest shareholder, Vanguard Fund, holds only 6.7% of Apple's shares.
And Lin Cheng's 5.6% stake actually made Lin Cheng the second largest shareholder of Apple, only behind Apple's largest shareholder, the American Imperial Pioneer Fund, which is really a big surprise to Lin Cheng.
Of course, Lin Cheng's shares are non-voting shares and do not have much power on Apple's board of directors.
However, if Lin Cheng successfully ascends to the top of the world's richest man, then Apple can make a big fuss about Lin Cheng, after all, even the world's richest man is optimistic about the stocks, which will naturally be very popular with investors, and the sharp rise in Apple shares is completely expected.
At that time, perhaps Apple will take the initiative to invite Lin Cheng to join the company's board of directors, and convert the non-voting shares held by Lin Cheng into voting shares, making Lin Cheng one of Apple's deserved major shareholders.
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Jobs was a very arrogant and arrogant person, and was even called an arrogant devil by his peers and the media.
Lin Cheng dared to choke Bill Gates, and said in public that he wanted to take away Bill Gates's position as the richest man in the world, and he was already dissed by the global media as young and frivolous.
But compared with Jobs, Lin Cheng's arrogance can only be regarded as a small thing.
In 1997, when Steve Jobs was on the streets, he met his old rival Bill Gates, and he said to Gates: "The two of us control 100% of the computer operating system. ”
Gates is silent — yes, except that Microsoft has 97 percent and Apple has only 3 percent.
Still on the streets, someone asked Mike Dell, the chairman of Dell, what should be done to solve Apple's financial crisis. Dell's answer was, "What am I going to do? I'm going to close this company and give the money back to the shareholders." ”
Nine years later, when Apple surpassed Dell in market value, Mr. Jobs sent an email to all employees that read, "It turns out that Dell is not good at predicting the future." Stocks can go up and down, and it's hard to predict, but I think what happens today is certainly a reflection of what the future holds. ”
Steve Jobs remained arrogant even when he was on the downside, and when he reached the top, his arrogance was even more infuriating, especially against old rival Microsoft and new rival Google.
He said in 2003, "Apple's products are two to three years ahead of Microsoft, and Microsoft is actually copying our products." Of course, it's also interesting that we've all become cheap R&D centers for Microsoft. ”
As for the treatment of Google, the new rival of the rise of the speed of light, Jobs still does not change his poisonous nature: "We did not enter the search market, but Google entered the mobile phone market." There is no doubt that they want to extinguish the iPhone. ”
As for the rule of "the customer is God" that is generally accepted in the European and American worlds, it is a complete fart when it comes to Jobs.
After the release of the iPhone 4, Apple's vaunted bezel antenna design proved to be fatally flawed, and when the user held the iPhone 4 in his hand, the signal of the mobile network would completely decay to a level where it was impossible to talk in a matter of minutes.
Usually such a major mistake, Jobs should apologize to the majority of users, but Jobs said: "Users should hold the iPhone 4 in a different way." ”
Then Jobs dragged other mobile phone manufacturers into the water, saying that "bad signal is a common problem", and even conspirated the outside world's accusations: "Maybe this is human nature, I know, there are always people who want to bring down successful companies." ”
When a user wrote a letter protesting the postponement of the iPad release, he would have apologized for his untrustworthy company if he had changed to another company, but Jobs responded, "Are you an idiot? We've done our best, and we have to make sure that the sales channel is going to be a perfect launch." ”
It stands to reason that Lin Cheng and Jobs are both arrogant, and Lin Cheng is so optimistic about Apple that he has become a shareholder by speculating in stocks, so the two should cherish each other.
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After the two shook hands, Jobs unceremoniously accused Lin Cheng of coming from the country, and he said arrogantly: "I think China's electronics industry is completely unpromising, just take Lin's OPPO mobile phone as an example, in addition to the appearance design is still meritorious, technically it is completely plagiarized and pirated."
I'm not talking big, that is, we Apple don't make mobile phones, once we Apple develops a new generation of mobile phones, there will be absolutely no survival soil for your Chinese mobile phones. ”
Although Lin Cheng wanted to refute Jobs, the history of later generations proved that Jobs's words were right, before the release of iPhones, Chinese copycats and foreign brand machines were two parts of the world, and the total sales of copycat machines were even higher than Nokia and Motorola.
But after the birth of the iPhone, the copycat machine immediately lost the soil for survival, coupled with the rise of domestic mobile phones such as Xiaomi and Huawei, Huaqiangbei, the once extremely prosperous base camp of the copycat machine, gradually declined.
Seeing that Lin Cheng did not speak, as if he was acquiescing, Jobs did not soften his sympathy, but became even more aggressive: "Our European and American companies have invested countless manpower and material resources to develop and produce products, but they have been despicably stolen by you Chinese pirates, and Chinese companies are shameless thieves."
Once China joins TO, with more and more attention to intellectual property rights, your Chinese enterprises will all be eliminated, and there will never be any hope of rising!"
I have to say that although Jobs's words are heavy, there is still truth.
It's just that Jobs underestimated the viability of the Chinese, and the rise of Huawei shows that Chinese companies are not useless.
What's more, before Jobs accused Chinese companies, did he ask himself if he wiped the shit off his buttocks?
In the face of the aggressive Jobs, Lin Cheng didn't need to hold back any longer, he said honestly and unceremoniously: "Mr. Jobs, I remember one day in November 1979, someone visited Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and shouted excitedly, 'Why don't we do something with this?'
Then, two of the world's greatest thieves were born, one took Xerox's graphical interface, and then launched the Microsoft DOS operating system, and later released the indos system that made Microsoft the world's number one enterprise.
Another thief took Xerox's mouse application and used it on his own personal computer, shamelessly claiming to the world that this was an epoch-making invention!"
As soon as the words fell, Jobs was immediately speechless, and the other VIPs looked at each other, it turned out that Microsoft, which is now in full swing, and Apple, which is still considered a great enterprise in the period of hitting the streets, actually have such a black history!