Chapter 358: Paul
In the best position in the audience, playboy Paul Allen and his new girlfriend came to watch the game. Paul Allen, www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion, will appear at the scene, completely to cheer and cheer for his friend Long Zheng.
Heroes cherish heroes, Paul Allen has an IQ of 170, and Long Zheng's IQ is not low. Both major shareholders of Microsoft, Long Zheng and Paul Allen met at the company's board of directors and quickly became friends.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen are both founders of Microsoft. But unlike Bill Gates, who loves to work, Paul Allen is a complete playboy. He has hosted masquerade balls in Venice, Italy's water capital, chartered luxury cruise ships to Alaska for galas, and owned luxury vacation villas in the south of France.
Long Zheng's idea of buying a private jet was brought by him, but Paul Allen was talking about a private yacht, and Long Zheng felt that a private yacht was useless, but owning a private jet was a lot of benefits.
Looking at the wanton play of Long Zheng on the field, Paul Allen's eyes flashed from time to time.
Who would have thought that Long Zheng, who had been in the laboratory for a few months, would come to the arena and be different.
As a child, Paul Allen was allergic to grass, so he rarely played sports, which left him as a spectator. In a country like the United States, where sports are celebrated, Paul Allen's upbringing was not without its fair share of shocks. For Long Zheng, Paul Allen is both envious and admired.
As a native American, Paul Allen has a strong plot of personal heroism and focuses on the realization of personal values. For a man like Long Zheng, Paul Allen instinctively wanted to make friends.
At present, Bill Gates holds 26% of Microsoft stock, Paul Allen holds 17% of Microsoft stock, Oda Hatsunori holds 16% of Microsoft stock, Long Zheng holds 10% of Microsoft stock, and other investors jointly hold 31% of Microsoft stock. Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Hatsufan Oda, and Ryu Masa, four of them have an absolute stake in Microsoft.
At the end of last year, because Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer temporarily left Microsoft and personally sat in Panshi Internet Company, Long Zheng relied on 26% of the shares to obtain the management of Microsoft, and persuaded the major shareholders at the board of directors of Microsoft to unanimously approve a development plan for Microsoft for the next five years.
Just a few months can sort out the intricacies within Microsoft, and can distinguish priorities, remove the turnips, and find a broad road for Microsoft's steady development.
For Long Zheng, Paul Allen admired the five-body throw, coupled with the fact that Long Zheng's family accumulated huge wealth in less than ten years and became the new richest man in the world, Paul Allen inexplicably had a kind of rush to follow Long Zheng and eat meat.
Therefore, before Long Zheng knew it, he had Paul Allen, an older brother. In this case, just like Long Zhengguo, who didn't arrive at Wako Kuni for a few days, accepted the head teacher, Mr. Maruo, as his younger brother.
Since becoming Ryuzheng's younger brother, Paul Allen's self-familiar nature has been exposed, and it's okay to have something, oh no, it's Paul Allen who saw that Ryuzheng was okay and came to Ryuzheng. Compared with Long Zheng, Paul Allen, who is a freelance investor, has time and energy.
With the idea of "following Long Zheng to have meat to eat", at the beginning of 94, Paul Allen wanted to take Long Zheng to acquire an Internet service provider in the United States, the American Online Service Company.
Paul Allen deserves the titles of "the failed investor who does what he wants" and "the worst manager", and Long Zheng is powerless to complain about his investment vision.
American Online Services, Inc. is an online information services company based in Vienna, Virginia, that provides e-mail, newsgroup, educational, and entertainment services to users, as well as Internet access.
To put it simply, an American online services company is a company that specializes in websites.
Before deciding to buy AOS, Paul Allen didn't want to think about how strong Rock Internet is in the Internet services space.
After its successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange on November 30, 1993, under the leadership of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Rock Internet Company quickly expanded its business scope to the entire Internet service field with the support of four core Internet businesses: website construction and maintenance, Internet browser, web portal, and FTP search engine, and became a trust giant among Internet service providers and a veritable monopoly.
One thing that is clear is that before the U.S. government implemented antitrust on Panshi Internet Company, the U.S. Internet Service Providers were opening one and dying.
Unless they have a decisive core technology like a search engine, or have a forward-looking vision and strong financial resources to lay out a yet-to-emerge Internet service field like e-commerce.
Only in this way can the new ISPs break the monopoly of Panshi Internet and lead a new field of Internet services.
It's a pity that this kind of thing is now only done by Long Zheng in the world, and other investors or Internet service companies are slow and slow, and they are destined to fail to develop.
Moreover, even if the U.S. government imposes an anti-monopoly on Panshi Internet Company, other Internet service providers in the United States will also not be able to develop, and they can only survive under the suppression of Panshi Internet Company.
In the field of cracking antitrust, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have a wealth of practical experience. Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest computer software provider, has been subject to anti-monopoly investigations by the US Government year after year, and has been doing the same thing, and its business achievements have been rising year by year.
Without hesitation, Long Zheng scolded Paul Allen and criticized him to the point where he was indecent.
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"Chief, I'll be behind you."
was reprimanded by Long Zheng, and Paul Allen didn't care.
"The head eats meat, and I drink soup." Paul Allen is stubborn and stubborn.
In 1983, Paul Allen left Microsoft due to illness, and then his fortune grew rapidly with the help of the rise of Microsoft's stock.
Using this wealth, Paul Allen embarked on his investment career. Corresponding to Paul Allen's high IQ is his poor investment vision.
Invest a loss, and the history of Paul Allen's investment is a history of blood and tears.
Now, when he encounters such a unique vision as Long Zheng, how can Paul Allen not seize the opportunity.
In order to qualify to follow Long Zheng, Paul Allen sold all his assets except for 17% of Microsoft stock, raising a total of $7 billion in cash. Although seven billion dollars is a lot, it is only a fraction of the cash in Long Zheng's hands, so Paul Allen's posture is very correct, and everything is only Long Zheng's first sight.
Because of Paul Allen, Long Zheng also had the idea of expanding the scope of investment. After all, keeping money in a bank is really not as good as investment returns. (To be continued.) )