Chapter 1095: The Mountain on the Head of the Lid
Microsoft is going public, this is a matter of time, and Gaizi has already been angry with Wu Chengcheng. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is yes, he has long been prepared for its listing and his own withdrawal in the future.
However, unlike Apple, although Microsoft is very optimistic about Wu Cheng, its assets are not as large as Apple's. One is to make computer hardware, the other is to make computer software, no matter when, the former's tangible assets, the investment is naturally larger, is its assets are naturally larger, but also more reassuring.
After all, software is intangible and insubstantial, it is just a piece of data, and it is difficult for outsiders to believe that such a piece of data will be of any use. Only those who have used it will have confidence in it.
During this period, computers were not as widespread as later generations, and mobile phones had just shifted from landlines to mobile phones, and it was still far from the era of smartphones.
In this period, the world's confidence in software was still very low.
However, Apple is different, it is a computer company, tangible and qualitative, something that people can see and touch.
Therefore, Apple has been listed for a few years, and its market value can easily increase several times, from hundreds of millions before to two or three billion today...... If it weren't for Wu Cheng's withdrawal halfway, which caused his stock price to plummet during that period, it is estimated that this market value might be more than a billion more.
Even so, Apple is still one of the few computer giants in North America. At this time, Apple had not yet entered the field of mobile communications.
In fact, Jobs hated someone Wu a lot, because after this guy withdrew from the company, he also poached some of the company's talents to Meizu Technology.
After Apple withdrew from his shares, the market value fell and the brain drain were all painful in Jobs's heart. However, he did not regret letting Wu Cheng withdraw from the company.
Because he felt that Wu Cheng was like a big mountain, a big mountain that had been pressing on his head.
For people like him who don't like to be a little brother to others, there is a big brother above who has been holding him down, where might he be comfortable. Therefore, he is very willing to take this big brother away and spend a little price, even if the price may be painful for him.
Of course, he is willing to be willing, but Wu's behavior still makes him want to scold his mother.
This time Microsoft went public, Jobs estimated that Gaizi would also be like him and let Wu Cheng withdraw from Microsoft. Thinking about Meizu's software R&D center, Jobs has reason to suspect that Wu Cheng will still treat Microsoft the same way he did Apple.
However, Jobs did not remind the lid classmate that he was not so kind, and it was better for one person to suffer...... No, 'it's better to be alone than to be happy'!
In fact, the cooperation between Apple and Microsoft is also quite pleasant, after all, both of them have Wu someone's shares before, and when the two sides cooperate, everyone will give up a step, and it is easier to say anything. Now that this relationship has been settled, there is naturally no reason to die halfway...... But to put it bluntly, both sides are just taking what they need.
So Jobs is actually very willing to have one more difficult brother to huddle together to keep warm.
However, Jobs didn't say it, and Gaizi himself could also see it, especially when he saw Wu Cheng's secretary team captain Amy chatting with those engineers when he had something to do, which made Gaizi more vigilant. It's just that he also knows that his legs grow on others, and if the benefits he gives are insufficient, he can't help it if people want to leave.
This kind of means is not a conspiracy, it is a conspiracy, and the final determining factor, but each depends on strength.
So, for Amy's actions, he just turned a blind eye.
Microsoft is a software company, and its total assets are not as large as Apple's, so when it went public, its stock price was much lower than Apple's.
Of course, except for Wu Cheng, no one will know how far the stock price of this software company will grow in the future. It's just that it's all twenty or thirty years later.
When Microsoft went public, its stock price was said to be only $0.08, or eight cents, but thirty years later, its stock price is fifty or sixty dollars.
In other words, if you buy 10,000 shares of Microsoft stock now and put it there and sell it in 30 years, then it will only cost 800 dollars, and in 30 years it will be 5 or 600 thousand dollars.
The investment-to-return ratio is six or seven hundred times.
However, in this time and space, Microsoft has developed much better than the original time and space, and with the existence of Wu Cheng as a shareholder, Microsoft's opening stock price is not so low.
It went public at 50 cents a share, and it rose 10 percent on the same day, and by the time the market closed, it was up 10 percent.
Compared with Apple's listing, Microsoft's stock price is indeed quite low.
But this rally is very gratifying.
In just one day, Microsoft's market capitalization increased by one or two million. Compared with Microsoft at this time in the original time and space, the Microsoft company in this time and space is more than a hundred times stronger.
However, except for Wu Cheng, no one knows this 'fact', even Gaizi's classmates are equally unclear. He only knows that if Wu Cheng hadn't invested in Microsoft at the beginning, he would also have been able to get other people's investment, at most, Microsoft would have developed a little slower.
But even if it's not as good as it is now, it shouldn't be much worse.
To some extent, Gaizi and Steve Jobs are the same kind of people, and they both have a strong self-confidence that others can't match. They admit that Wu Cheng has helped them a lot, both financially and creatively.
However, they never deny their abilities. I never felt that Wu Cheng was helping them out of morality, just based on interests.
While they are working hard for the development of the company, they are also making money for him.
They won't deny it, and no one can deny it!
Therefore, they feel that they have done their best to Wu Cheng, a shareholder.
Therefore, when they proposed that Wu Cheng, the major shareholder, withdraw his shares, they did not feel that there would be any uneasy conscience or self-condemnation.
However, Wu Cheng also knows that the supremacy of interests has always been the norm for many foreigners, so he doesn't care. In fact, when he invested in these two companies, he really just wanted to make a profit, and now this one is naturally profitable.
It's just that no matter how much Microsoft makes money, it can't compare to Apple.
The first is that Microsoft's foundation is not as good as Apple's, and the second is that he withdrew from Apple two years after Apple's listing.
But Microsoft, Wu Cheng estimates, can't wait so long.
Gaizi-san can't wait, and he can't wait either.
Gaizi had long wanted to move the mountain that was pressing on his head, and Wu Cheng also wanted to dig the foot of the wall from Microsoft to enrich his Meizu technology.
In this way, he naturally 'hit it off' to Gaizi's suggestion.
Half a year later, when Wu Cheng withdrew from Microsoft, its market value had grown from about 150 million at the beginning to nearly one billion.
That is, its stock price, after only half a year, has increased six or seven times.
When Wu Cheng withdrew from Microsoft, his share was returned to more than half of the company's classmates. He bought back 30% of the original 40% of the shares to Gaizi, and the remaining 1/20% was handed over to the venture capital company KING.
At this time, few people knew about the relationship between KING, an investment company, and him.
Even the head of the venture capital firm doesn't know who is behind them.
Although some people have speculated that there is some kind of connection between him and the venture capital company KING because of the company Tianyi International Communication, it is just speculation.
As Wu Cheng's company cooperates more and more with the venture capital company KING, everyone has stopped guessing. Because there are only two possibilities, one is that the behind-the-scenes boss of KING's venture capital company is him Wu, and the other is that the behind-the-scenes boss of this company and Wu Cheng are likely to be friends, maybe KING's behind-the-scenes boss is Heixia.
This kind of speculation is not untargeted, but the people who guess like this feel that Black Man definitely has such ability. And Wu Cheng obviously knows Heixia.
This realization may have been much earlier than the appearance of the movie "Black Man".
But this is just speculation, a bit irresponsible. Especially when it comes to taboo characters like Black Hero, everyone actually doesn't dare to talk nonsense.
However, 30% of the shares were returned to the cover classmates, and Wu Cheng still got 300 million US dollars from it.
Although the $300 million is likely to be just borrowed by Gaizi or casually brought in by shareholders, in any case, Gaizi is currently the largest shareholder of Microsoft.
This made him as proud and comfortable as Jobs was at the beginning! Even if Microsoft's stock price still plummeted because of Wu Cheng's withdrawal of shares, the lid didn't care.
Like Apple, he believes that Microsoft's stock price will rise sooner or later.
Wu Cheng's investment in Microsoft has increased from more than 100,000 US dollars at the beginning a few years ago, to another 5 million in order to expand the company's scale.
It can be said that his investment in Microsoft was more than 5 million, and a few years later, he took 300 million dollars from this company, and he still has a half of the shares left. This business is naturally earned. Just thinking about the huge size of Microsoft in later generations, he felt that he had lost.
However, thinking that he would use Meizu Technology and Microsoft and Apple to fight in the ring next, he felt that it didn't matter if he lost at all.
What is the most important thing in the 21st century?
What is the big deal about the loss of Meizu Technology to have more and more cutting-edge talents and make Meizu Technology become the largest giant in the world's technology industry in the future?
Of course, that's all for later.
Two days after Microsoft went public, he was giving Zhong Chuhong advice.