Ed Woolrad touched his chin: "His Pixar is developing very fast now, Steve may not be willing to accept it, after all, he said that he doesn't want to take an actual position at Apple." ”

Fred Anderson was adamant: "Only Steve can reintegrate the scattered Apple now, and only he can keep Apple supporters looking forward to us." Fred Anderson paused, "Also, Steve has a deep affection for Apple, and I don't believe he's going to sit idly by at a time like this." ”

Ed Woolrad thought for a moment, "But now more than half of the directors on the board have had an unhappy relationship with Steve back then, and if Steve comes back, maybe the board will be split." ”

Fred Anderson smiled: "Eddie, let's put it this way, if Apple's current financial situation is not improved, if it can't find an acquirer, it will support it until the first quarter of next year at most, and will there be a board of directors at that time?"

Ed Woolrad groaned for a long time, he was too old to gamble, and the prevailing view on the board was that he was seeking to be acquired.

A few days ago, Apple made an offer to Dell, the hottest PC manufacturer at the moment, with four billion dollars.

But Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of Dell Computer, didn't even look at it, and simply threw the offer aside, accusing Apple of being a scam now, and the board of directors should now immediately dissolve Apple Computer and return the money to the investors immediately.

Michael Dell is now in full swing, the richest person under the age of 40 in the United States, and because of Dell's success in the field of Internet direct sales in the past two years, it has vaguely become the largest Internet company, and even most people believe that Dell's model is the best Internet operation model.

As a result, Dell has also won a huge reputation and trust, after Dell's words came out, no taker dared to accept Apple's mess, four billion dollars is not a small amount, and no company or investment institution can let this money go down the drain.

Therefore, Fred Anderson has two paths in front of Ed Woolrad: sit back and watch Apple go bankrupt and all shareholders lose their money, or, desperately, replace Amelio and persuade Jobs to take over Apple.

Ed Woolrad nodded, "Okay, I'll get in touch with Steve and hear his opinion." ”

Fred Anderson smiled, "Okay, Eddie, I'm sure you'll make a wise choice. ”

When Shen Mingjie got home, she collapsed on the sofa and didn't want to move, and called Tao Zhiwen weakly: "Husband, pour me a glass of water~"

Tao Zhiwen wore an apron and washed his hands around the kitchen island, poured a cup of hot water for Shen Mingjie, shook his head and said: "I told you not to change jobs a long time ago, now I make a little more money than before, but I am busy every day, what is the picture?"

Shen Mingjie took the glass and poured a glass of water into her throat: "But I'm tired to death, what do you eat at night?"

Tao Zhiwen said angrily: "Eat dumplings, I have to go back to Zhang Chen and say, how can you use people so much." ”

Shen Mingjie waved his hand: "Just a few days, look at your cautious look." ”

Tao Zhiwen said angrily: "A few days, look at how many days you can eat at home in the past few months? Yaoyao also asked me in the morning, didn't my mother agree to go to Disney with her? I can't explain it to my children." ”

Shen Mingjie showed a guilty expression: "I've been really busy lately, I just straightened out the public relations department of Tinder, and caught up with the publicity and promotion of Matrix, it will be fine after May, and I will accompany you more at home at that time." ”

Tao Zhiwen was quite helpless, "Okay, okay, I don't know what you can do when you're so busy every day, and I haven't seen what your iCom looks like until now." ”

Shen Mingjie waved his hand: "This is a publicity strategy, and no one will know the specific design and performance parameters of the product before the official release, but from next week, our internal media public relations will officially begin, and ten days before the release, we will focus on a wave of publicity, and it may be a little busier at that time." ”

Tao Zhiwen pouted: "Don't be busy for a long time, the bamboo basket is empty, you have entered the consumer market, and the speculative business he did before is not in line, in case it doesn't work, you have to think of a way out." ”

Shen Mingjie shook his head confidently: "Impossible, this product can't fail." Let me tell you, Zhang Chen is a genius, if you look at our advertising plan, you will understand that this is destined to be a classic product and a classic advertising and marketing case. ”

Tao Zhiwen was curious: "What advertising plan?"

Shen Mingjie smiled mysteriously: "You knew when it was released, this advertisement will be broadcast on major TV stations in the United States after it is released, you can't even think about it." ”

Tao Zhiwen muttered: "Do you still have a sense of mystery? Hurry up and wash your hands, I'll make dumplings, you stay with Yaoyao for a while, you are too ruthless." ”

Shen Mingjie hugged Tao Zhiwen's neck and said coquettishly: "I know my husband, my husband is the best and supports me the most." ”

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"Peter, what happened to my $500,000?" quipped Peter Tier, who was sitting across from him.

Peter Thiel pulled out his chair and sat down unceremoniously, "It's okay, there are still four hundred and fifty thousand left." ”

Zhang Chen laughed and said: "Not bad, yes, only lost 50,000 yuan, can you tell me how you achieved a -10% return on investment?"

Peter Thiel shrugged: "I'm working on another startup project right now, the Thiel Foundation is temporarily closed, and you can choose to withdraw your money, and I'm sorry, the recent economic turmoil in Southeast Asia has affected several of the funds I have purchased." But if you don't withdraw, you can also choose to put the money into my startup, and I can give you a 20% stake at a discount of $600,000. By the way, to introduce, this is Max, my new partner in the company. ”

Next to Peter Tiel was a young man in his early twenties, with a typical Slavic face and a delicate face.

Max said hello to Zhang Chen and sat down quietly beside Peter Tiel.

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "What you just said sounds good, but don't you really consider coming to Tindersource to work? I can guarantee that you can at least get a senior investment manager position, and besides, we don't have a partner yet, you can consider it." ”

Peter Thiel shook his head: "Continuing to start a business is my choice, and I am confident that this business plan will be successful." ”

Zhang Chen was curious: "Oh? ”

Peter Thiel took out a proposal, "This is the proposal I made, you see, Max and I just set up a company called Linkfield and are looking for investment. ”

Zhang Chen opened the plan, his pupils shrank: "Do online payment channels?"

Peter Thiel nodded: "That's right, we have carefully analyzed, the current bottleneck that restricts the development of e-commerce is the payment problem, credit card fraud emerges in an endless stream, bringing a lot of losses to merchants (credit card fraud in the United States, the card issuer generally makes the merchant responsible) and the payment method is not fast enough, most merchants are not able to achieve e-commerce in the real sense, so my partner and I have the idea of doing payment channels." ”

Zhang Chen looked at the plan, "At present, there are only two of you as shareholders, and you and Max each have 50% of the shares?"

The two looked at each other, Peter Thiel nodded and said: "Yes, in fact, this idea is Max's, he bought something on ebay and found that the payment was very troublesome, so he had this idea, I am the initial funder of this project, invested 200,000 US dollars, and now the company has just been registered, the project has not been officially launched, if you are willing to invest, you can invest another 400,000, I will calculate the total investment amount of 1 million for you, 20% of the shares." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "Peter, you just invested 200,000 yuan to account for 50%, and now I need to invest a total of 1 million US dollars, but I can only have 20%?"

Peter Thiel raised his head: "I'm the founder, and I'm the CEO of this company, you can't manage this company yourself, and the ideas are mine and Max, and the ideas are priceless." ”

Zhang Chen laughed twice and pulled out a document from the drawer, "Look at this." ”

Peter Thiel took the document and flipped through it carelessly, the first two pages were all kinds of data analysis, and just turned to the third page, Peter Til's eyes were glazed.

Maxslav looked curiously at the document in Peter Thiel's hand, "The entrance to Internet payment - PayPal?"

Dell's Internet model is very simple, that is, to build an official website, and then sell computers on the official website, and use the direct sales channels that have been built up across the country to supply offline.

At first, Dell did not even provide door-to-door delivery services, but customers went to the store to pick up the goods, and it was not until after 98 years that it began to provide value-added services such as door-to-door installation, and moreover, it had to collect money.

(End of chapter)