10 a.m., Future Group Executive Room.

This meeting room is specially designed by the Future Group to receive high-status guests.

Although now the extraordinary browser of the future group and Microsoft's Internet Explorer are competing for market share, Bill Gates still has to do a good job of reception etiquette when he comes to the future group in person.

Xu Qing greeted Bill Gates and his party at the door of the building, and there were not many people coming, Bill Gates and his 3 secretaries, 4 bodyguards, and 3 Microsoft executives.

Xu Qing looked at Bill Gates's three secretaries, two women and one man, the woman was beautiful and had a good figure, and the man was handsome and in good shape.

I wondered if it was time for me to expand my secretarial team.

With the rapid development of Xu Qing's company, Xu Qing has more and more things to deal with.

As a secretary is an important part of Xu Qing's work tasks, the pressure on Eben is increasing.

There is also a need for some female secretaries, because when it comes to handling some things, female secretaries are more suitable than male secretaries.

Xu Qing greeted Bill Gates and his party with a smile on his face, but he was thinking about messy things in his heart.

If Bill Gates could know Xu Qing's thoughts at this time, I am afraid that he would be angry to death.

After a hypocritical politeness, the two sides came to the conference room and sat down separately, while the staff of the Future Group served coffee and purified water.

After taking a sip of coffee, Bill Gates praised: "Mr. Xu, first of all, I'm glad that you agreed to meet me, now the browser competition between the two sides is very fierce, and Mr. Xu can still agree to meet me, which shows that he is very broad-minded." ”

Xu Qing almost rolled her eyes, is this really praising me?!

It was a natural choice to agree to meet you, and although there are some contradictions between the two sides now, they have not yet reached the point of not meeting each other.

In fact, it is very difficult to reach the level of not seeing each other in the mall.

Just as there are no eternal enemies between nations, the same is true in the marketplace.

Xu Qing was vigilant in his heart, and from Bill Gates's opening remarks, it can be seen that he has asked Xu Qing today, or he doesn't want to be in a strong position.

What does Bill Gates ask of Xu Qing?

Stop the competition between Extraordinary Browser and IE?

Doubts rose in Xu Qing's heart, and he said: "It's my honor to meet Mr. Gates, Microsoft is the world's No. 1 Internet company, Mr. Gates is the richest man in the world, and I can't see any amount I want to meet." ”

The sedan chair is carried by everyone, since Bill Gates said good things, Xu Qing's good words will be the same as not asking for money, and they will come out casually.

"Hahaha, Mr. Xu is really ridiculous. Bill Gates laughed and said, "Although Microsoft is indeed the world's No. 1 Internet company, its position is not secure.

I think Future Group is likely to become the new world's No. 1 Internet company, and minemine's position as the richest man in the world is even less secure.

I founded Microsoft in 1975, and it's been exactly 20 years now, and it took me 20 years to become the richest man in the world.

And Mr. Xu only took a few years, and his net worth was almost half of mine.

And Mr. Xu's companies have great development potential, such as FF instant messaging software and Future Community, if they can be listed, Mr. Xu's net worth will immediately surpass me.

Compared to Mr. Xu, I am far behind. ”

Bill Gates sighed at the end.

The doubts in Xu Qing's heart are getting worse and worse, what happened to Bill Gates today, and he came to the Future Group to praise him?

In Xu Qing's understanding, Bill Gates is a relatively strong person and rarely praises others.

As soon as Bill Gates came up today, he praised Xu Qing again and again.

When things go wrong, there must be demons, and Bill Gates is too abnormal today.

Xu Qing hurriedly waved his hand and said modestly: "I am far from Mr. Gates, Microsoft will be the world's No. 1 Internet company in the future, and Mr. Gates will also be the richest man in the world." ”

Bill Gates looked at Xu Qing, who was not praised flutteringly, and a painful look flashed on his face.

The reason why he praised Xu Qing as soon as he came up today was to lay a good foundation for the negotiations later.

Bill Gates usually has two ways to negotiate with others, one is to be strong, and the other is to curry favor.

In the early days of Microsoft, he negotiated with others more to curry favor, and Microsoft was too weak at that time, so he could only do this.

As Microsoft grows stronger, so does his negotiating with others.

There is little need for negotiations that he pleases.

Today's negotiation with Xu Qing can barely be regarded as a flattery, although the degree of flattery is very low, but it is also flattering, he feels a little aggrieved, but he has to do it.

Microsoft is undoubtedly stronger than the Future Group, but only to a limited extent.

According to estimates by professional institutions, the valuation of Future Group is now at least $30 billion, while Microsoft's current market value is only more than $40 billion, and the gap between the two sides is not very large.

If Microsoft wants to use its strength to bring the Future Group to its knees, and then agree to his conditions, there is no possibility!

More importantly, Xu Qing's net worth and character.

Almost all of the Future Group belongs to Xu Qing, and in terms of net worth, Xu Qing has more net worth than him.

Xu Qing's net worth is not only these, but the combined valuation of Sunlight Group and Glory Group is also tens of billions of dollars.

Xu Qing's current net worth is $40 billion?! When Bill Gates casually calculated Xu Qing's net worth, he actually came up with this data.

And his net worth is not yet 20 billion US dollars, and Xu Qing's net worth has exploded him.

In terms of personality, Xu Qing is very tough, and it can be seen from Nintendo's ban order that Xu Qing has a very tough attitude when threatened by other companies.

Now Nintendo is under the siege of the Honor Group, Sony, and Sega 3 companies, and life is very difficult, and the ban order has become a joke.

What's more, Microsoft doesn't have the strength to block the Future Group.

For a variety of reasons, Bill Gates did not choose to be as strong as he has always been in today's negotiations, but slightly curried favor.

The two played a business blow to each other again, and finally got to the point.

"Mr. Xu, the purpose of my meeting with you today is to invest in Extraordinary Company. Bill Gates smiled.

Investing in an extraordinary company? was a bit unexpected by Xu Qing, but it was not too unexpected.

Xu Qing thought about the purpose of Bill Gates asking him to meet, including acquiring or investing in Extraordinary Company.

Bill Gates is a well-known acquisition maniac, but it is clear that Microsoft does not have the strength to acquire Extraordinary Company, and Xu Qing will not agree, so investing in shares has become another option.

But how could Xu Qing agree to Microsoft's stake in Extraordinary Company, with the consistent style of Microsoft and Bill Gates, it is impossible to say who belongs to Extraordinary Company in the future.

So Xu Qing rejected Bill Gates' request for shares without thinking about it.

When Bill Gates heard Xu Qing's refusal, he did not show any angry reaction, but said with a smile:

"Mr. Xu, don't you want to hear about Microsoft's conditions? I don't think it's too late for you to refuse after listening to the conditions. ”

"I don't want to. Xu Qing simply refused.