Chapter 434: Ellen, the second thousand-year-old man
Bill Gates walked up to Xu Qing with a smile: "Mr. Xu, I want to invite you to have a few cups of coffee tomorrow morning." ”
Xu Qing looked at Bill Gates's smiling face, nodded and said, "Yes, at 10 o'clock in the morning, at the hotel where I stayed." ”
"Okay, I'll be there on time at 10 o'clock. Bill Gates said.
Then Xu Qing said goodbye to a few guests, Alan did not follow Bill Gates, he stayed in the hall for a while.
Allen asked Xu Qing: "Mr. Xu, Gates asked you to meet tomorrow morning?"
Xu Qing looked at Alan in surprise, when Bill Gates spoke to him just now, Alan was still in the hall, how did he know when he got out of the hall?
Did someone tell him that it was also possible that when he and Bill Gates were talking, there were a few guests around, and their voices were also normal, and they didn't want to hide what the two were talking about.
However, this still surprised Xu Qing that Alan knew so quickly that it should be a guest who heard him talking to Bill Gates, and told Alan in a very timely manner.
This kind of behavior made Xu Qing unhappy, Xu Qing asked Alan with a smile: "What, Mr. Allen also wants to ask me to meet tomorrow morning?"
Alan sensed Xu Qing's unhappiness and immediately explained: "I'm very sorry, I didn't mean to let people eavesdrop on your conversation with Gates, but I have a friend who happened to hear the conversation between the two of you."
Because I asked him to keep an eye on you, he told me about your conversation with Gates. ”
Xu Qing didn't really get angry, just expressed his attitude and made Alan owe him a little favor.
Xu Qing waved his hand: "It's okay, but I'm curious why you're paying attention, I'll meet Bill Gates tomorrow?"
Alan was a little embarrassed and said: "Because Gates has always wanted to invest in Future Group, as far as I know, he asked you to meet this time, and it is likely that he will talk to you about investing in Future Group."
Gates has more shares in Microsoft than I do, and it would be depressing to have more shares in Future Group than I do. ”
Allen is the second millennium in Microsoft, and he has always been pressed by Bill Gates, and Bill Gates's net worth has always been more than Allen.
Over the years, Allen has invested in many companies, one of which is to surpass Bill Gates.
But at present, Allen wants to surpass Bill Gates, and it is far away.
Bill Gates is now worth about $20 billion, and Allen's net worth is more than $4 billion, a big gap.
But what Allen doesn't know is that in the future, not only will he not be able to surpass Bill Gates, but will be surpassed by Ballmer, from Microsoft's second millennium to the third millennium.
Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates and Allen, and Ballmer joined Microsoft five years after it was founded.
At the beginning, Ballmer's stake in Microsoft was not as much as Allen's, but as Allen left Microsoft, Ballmer gradually rose to power, and eventually Ballmer's Microsoft stake surpassed Allen, and his personal net worth also surpassed Allen.
Of course, this has not happened yet, and if nothing else, it will happen in the future.
Allen has been investing in companies frantically over the years, and it has also paid off in the future, and now the companies he invests in will be the source of most of his net worth in the future, and Microsoft will only bring him a fraction of his net worth.
Xu Qing said: "Bill Gates's net worth is more than yours, if he is ruthless to pay more benefits, it is inevitable that the shares in the Future Group will exceed you." ”
Xu Qing's principle of choosing the investors of Future Group is very simple, one is the strength of the other party, the second is the benefits paid by the other party, and the third is the bottom line of the other party.
Although Bill Gates is a business tyrant and likes to buy companies that work for Microsoft, acquisitions do not make a copy, and destroy each other by the way.
But Bill Gates's behavior, in Xu Qing's view, is normal.
Every large company does something similar to Bill Gates' behavior, constantly looking for companies that are useful to their own company, or companies with the same business and high growth potential.
If you find it, you will acquire, and if you buy it, you will not be able to copy and destroy.
The more powerful thing that the original time and space did was Facebook, which has a special monitoring system to monitor startups, small and medium-sized companies in the United States around the clock.
Once you find a company that is useful to Facebook, or a company with the same business and high potential, Facebook will quickly reach out to the other party.
If the contact results are not good, then the other party will be destroyed, Facebook does not know how much is still in the garage start-up company.
Facebook has done almost anything to maintain its supremacy in the social space.
In fact, Facebook's behavior is quite normal, and the real horror is some big families.
If someone resigns from those big family companies and creates the same type of company, then the big family will destroy the other family, and the company will perish with it.
A typical thing is that DuPont blew up the factory that the resignation had created, and the resignation and his family were all in the sky.
So Xu Qing doesn't like Bill Gates, but thinks that he is still a person with a bottom line, and he is also one of the investors that Xu Qing considers.
If Bill Gates really pays more benefits, Xu Qing has no reason to refuse.
Allen's face turned pale when he heard Xu Qing's words, with his understanding of Gates, if Gates is really optimistic about Future Group, then Gates will invest at all costs.
So is Gates very bullish on Future? Allen thinks it's almost a definite answer.
Allen's heart to surpass Bill Gates has not changed, when he founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, he almost single-handedly developed the initial version of the Indos system.
But Allen's status at Microsoft can never be compared with Bill Gates, in the eyes of the public, Bill Gates is synonymous with Microsoft, as for Allen, well, many people don't understand.
Xu Qing doesn't care what Allen's mood is, if Allen pays more benefits to invest in Future Group, he will be happy, and if Bill Gates is the same, he will be even happier.
Xu Qing left the White House, returned to the hotel, and had a supper.
Most drinking parties are not full, and Xu Qing rarely encounters a drinking party where he can eat enough.
This is not to say that the organizers of the reception are stingy, but the participants of the reception have their own identity and rarely eat too much during the reception.
Moreover, the food served at the wine party is basically delicate, and the portions are small, so if you want to eat enough, then you have to eat a lot of food.
Not many of the attendees ate like this during the reception, so the vast majority of the attendees were not able to eat their stomachs at the reception.
If it was Xu Qing before, he could still be willful and let go of his stomach to eat.
Now Xu Qing really can't pull his face, let go of his stomach to eat.
Living in this world, there must be several different masks, especially for a person of Xu Qing's status, there are more masks.
This is also the helplessness of rich people, there are too many masks to bring.
After eating supper and enjoying the night view, Xu Qing hugged the pillow and went to sleep.