"Little brat, looking at the way you fooled people just now, you seem to know a little bit about computers and networks, so let me ask you, have you ever heard of Cisco?"

"Cisco?" Liu Xun was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that they seemed to have mentioned just now that Xue Juewu worked at Cisco, but as far as the Cisco in Liu Xun's memory is concerned, it seems that what is needed should be a network engineer rather than an electronic engineer.

"Sister Wu, is the Cisco you are talking about, is it the Cisco that is helmed by Chambers and produces routers?" Liu Xun asked tentatively to confirm his guess.

"Huh? I didn't expect you little kid to know a lot, but you really know Cisco? ”

Xue Juewu was a little incredible, originally she just asked casually, she didn't expect Liu Xun to really know Cisco, after all, in her opinion, Cisco is still just a small company with a small name, of course, in fact, the current Cisco is indeed just a little-known company, compared with other companies in Silicon Valley where high-tech companies gather, it is not conspicuous at all, and it is not famous in the United States, let alone in China, Liu Xun has no experience of studying in the United States, and he is just a high school student. For a person with such an identity, knowing a professional technology company in the United States, I have to say that this is a rather amazing thing, at least in Xue Juewu's opinion, it should be like this.

Of course, she still pointed out the mistakes in Liu Xun's words, "Little boy, Cisco is currently in charge of Mr. Morgridg, and Mr. Chambers is only the vice president, not the helmsman, by the way, you know Mr. Chambers?" ”

"Well, if Mr. Chambers is a West Virginia Charleston graduate and an MBA from Indiana University, and Chambers was in charge of sales in Asia after '83 and joined Cisco last year, obviously, I know him." After Liu Xun finished speaking, he looked at Xue Juewu with a surprised face.

"Wow, you really know Mr. Chambers, little brat, my sister is getting more and more curious about you now, Mr. Chambers doesn't seem to be so famous now, right? Wang An's company is also not well-known in China, hurry up, tell my sister, how did you know about him? Do you know Mr. Chambers? Impossible, Mr. Chambers has very limited Chinese friends, he has never been to China, how can he know you, a little brat? ”

Not only Xue Xuewu looked surprised, but Zhou Peiwan was also surprised, I don't know why Liu Xun knew about Cisco and Chambers, she was sure that she hadn't mentioned it to Liu Xun before, and she wanted to ask Liu Xun's opinion on Cisco, but it was just a subconscious decision, she had this undoubted talent in the capital market, and she was decisive, but in other investments, she subconsciously wanted to ask Liu Xun's opinion, she hadn't even considered it before, did Liu Xun know what Cisco was doing, But he didn't want to, Liu Xun not only knew Cisco, but also knew Chambers.

Liu Xun pursed his lips secretly, and secretly sighed in his heart, Chambers is indeed not famous now, like most professional managers, inconspicuous, but a few years later, as the president of Cisco, he will let the world know his name.

As a leading provider of global Internet solutions, Cisco's market value once reached more than $500 billion in 1999, becoming the world's largest technology company surpassing Microsoft.

With such a behemoth at the helm, Chambers couldn't think of being famous. Although after the bursting of the Internet bubble, Cisco's market value was once evaporated by more than half, but this did not affect its position in the Internet solutions market, under the leadership of Chambers, it quickly recovered, Liu Xun remembers that by 2007, Cisco's annual profit reached 7.3 billion US dollars, ranking third among high-tech companies in the United States, second only to Microsoft and IBM. In 2011, Cisco's annual sales revenue reached $43.2 billion, which is a well-deserved behemoth.

However, what did they do when they mentioned Chambers and Cisco? Although Cisco will become famous in the Internet industry in the future, it seems that Cisco is still just a company with a market value of more than $600 million, and its annual sales revenue in 1990 was only $67 million.

However, after Xue Xuewu's narration, Liu Xun's heart was suddenly excited.

It turns out that a series of things have happened in Cisco recently, and there are faint signs of internal division.

In fact, as far as Xue Juewu said, since Cisco went public in 1990, there has been a huge disagreement between its original founders Lerna and his wife and CEO Morggerich, and the differences have become more and more intense, and they have reached the point of incompatibility, Lerna and his wife think that Morggerich and Valentine are just a pair of businessmen, just want to make money through Cisco, and the concept of the couple is to hope to develop better network technology and provide users with more advanced network products, the two sides do not agree with each other. As a result, the two parties have been unable to cooperate, and at present, Lena and his wife have decided to quit Cisco and sell their shares.

"Mr. and Mrs. Lerna want to sell their shares in Cisco, of course, the principle is that when looking for a buyer, they also need to seek Mr. Morgridge's opinion, and it happens that Xiaowan is very familiar with Mr. Morgridge, Mr. Chambers, and Mr. Valentine of Sequoia Capital, who are related to Cisco, so Zhou Peiwan's XP fund has come into their field of vision, and people, including Valentine, seem to be interested in letting Zhou Peiwan take over the shares in the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Lerna.

In fact, the reason why I found Pei Wan last week, in addition to the acquaintance between several people, is also her XP fund, under the development of this time, the rapid development of the XP fund currently has more than 80 million US dollars in assets.

Moreover, due to the eye-catching performance of XP in the capital market, fund investors have increased their confidence in XP.

In fact, the current Zhou Peiwan, the capital she can directly manipulate has exceeded 500 million US dollars, most of which are privately placed in the Chinese business circle, and the current XP can be regarded as having some hedge fund atmosphere, and it can barely be put into the hands of Wall Street, so Morgeridge and Chambers will set their sights on Zhou Peiwan, and Xue Juewu is the person specifically responsible for contacting.

"Uh, what, Sister Wu, shouldn't you be an engineer in charge of technology?" Liu Xun seemed to be a little puzzled, such a thing, it seems that a genius like Xue Juewu should not be allowed to come out, although this engineer seems to be ...... Xue Juewu pursed her lips disdainfully, looking like Liu Xun was very uninformed, "Sister, I'm an electronic engineer, not a network engineer, my sister used to be in charge of technology development in Scoober, my sister specializes in digital compression, digital encoding, decoding and other digital technologies, not network technology, my sister went to Cisco just to cheer Chambers on, and I will leave after a while, hum, the reason why I contacted Xiaowan this time is only because I am more familiar with Xiaowan." ”

Xue Juewu didn't know that Liu Xun's nonsense here was actually the excitement in his heart.

In his previous life, he didn't study Cisco very much, but for this company that is extremely conspicuous in the world, he naturally knows a little bit, at least he knows that in less than ten years, Cisco's market value will swell to more than 500 billion US dollars, which is a terrifying figure, or ten years, Cisco will establish itself as the king in the field of Internet hardware supply.

In Liu Xun's memory, in another time and space, Cisco in the early nineties, he knew that the original founder did part ways and quit Cisco after the listing, but the specific time and internal situation are not very clear, only remember that the original price seems to be 170 million US dollars, of course, maybe even the price is wrong, after all, in his previous life, he was not engaged in the Internet industry, but in that era of information explosion, he was able to understand some interesting things.

"Sister Dance, how many shares do Lena and his wife have in Cisco? At what price are you ready to get rid of? Thinking of the $500 billion behemoth a few years later, Liu Xun's heart was a little irrepressibly excited, is this a pie falling from the sky about to fall on his head?

"What? Kid, are you really interested in getting into Cisco? I don't understand, such a big decision, why Xiaowan wants to ask for your opinion. ”

Xue Juewu said and subconsciously straightened his chest, I don't know if it was a demonstration for Liu Xun or what to do, "Cisco was listed on the NASDAQ last year, and the current market value is between 650 million and 680 million US dollars, Lena and his wife, as the founders, hold a total of 35% of the shares in their hands, of course, they don't want to sell all the shares in their hands, they only want to sell 24%, which is about two-thirds of the total shares of their husband and wife, and the specific opening price is about 180 million." ”

According to the market capitalization, the part of the shares in the hands of the Lerna couple is worth nearly $240 million, and two-thirds of the shares are about $160 million.

However, even if you can only get 10% of Cisco's shares for a billion dollars, it is worth it, and in a few years, Cisco's market value will soar to a sky-high price of $500 billion, and now you can get about 24% of the shares for less than 200 million dollars, which is really a good deal.

Promise, you must promise, Liu Xun's heart has begun to shout irrepressibly, this kind of great opportunity to fall from the sky, if you don't know how to cherish it, it will be damned, if it weren't for the people from Cisco coming to the door, Liu Xun almost forgot about this opportunity to make a windfall!