Chapter 237: Convincing Bill Gates
Paul and Satya were also thundered by the dialogue between Lee Ji-ho and Lee Yeon-hyun, two boys and girls, how ignorant you have to be about Huaxia to ask such a strange question!
It seems that they are not young anymore, but they don't know anything about the neighboring country around them, and they really don't know how their father Lee Jae-yong and grandfather Lee Kun-hee taught them. Samsung Group is a family business, Li Zhihao has a good chance to become the top decision-maker of the next generation of Samsung Group, and Huaxia is the largest market of Samsung Group, if you underestimate the Huaxia market too much, then the entire Samsung Group will face a great crisis.
But fortunately, they are not very old, and they still have a lot of time to get to know Huaxia, I hope they don't make such jokes.
Li Haoyu said: "I am an authentic Chinese, and my ancestors have always been Chinese!" Also, when you have time, I hope you will go to Huaxia to have a look, Huaxia's current economic development will not be lower than that of South Korea! Considering that Li Zhihao and Li Yanxian are both teenagers, and Li Haoyu is not easy to have seizures, he tried to say it as tactfully as possible.
Li Yanxian obviously didn't believe it: "Chairman Li, what you said is not true, right?" How is it completely different from what I've heard? ”
Although Li Zhihao didn't say it, he also had a look of disbelief on his face.
Li Haoyu smiled bitterly, and didn't want to be serious about these two little children who were not yet adults, so he had to say: "You just need to know that what I said is true, if you don't believe it, you can ask Satya and Mr. Paul." ”
Li Yanxian looked at Satya and asked, "Uncle Satya, is what Chairman Li said true?" ”
Satya's face was strange, and after a while, he nodded and said, "What Chairman Li said should be true, but I don't know the inside story either." ”
"So that's the case, then someone must have made a mistake, and I have to ask when I go back to China." Lee Yeon-hyun pouted, her smart eyes full of question marks.
Paul said at this time: "Satya, do you know President Lee Jae-yong of Samsung Group?" ”
Satya smiled: "It's very familiar, he helped me a lot when I was young, and I hugged these two little guys when they were young!" It was only later that I came to the United States to develop, and my contact with their family decreased, but I will never forget President Li's kindness to me. ”
Li Haoyu's heart jumped, it turned out that Satya still had this reason for helping Samsung Group like this, that is, I don't know what decision the current Microsoft board of directors will make. Let's hope Paul still has enough influence on Microsoft's board of directors to convince those directors.
"Satya, no wonder you are so familiar with these two little guys, it turns out that you and President Lee Jae-yong are actually good friends."
Paul had a hint of sarcasm in his tone, this Indian did not object before, but it is estimated that at that time, Samsung Group had not made up its mind to acquire the Xbox business, but now that Samsung has made up its mind, Satya will try his best to help Samsung out of his previous kindness and old friend's friendship, not to mention that Samsung does have this qualification, and he is not doing it to harm the public and private interests.
Satya remained silent and said, "My friend needs help with something, of course I will do my best to help him." ”
Li Zhihao said at this time: "Mr. Paul, Chairman Li, Uncle Satya, it's not too early, I heard that there is an authentic Korean restaurant in Raymond City, I will be the host today, how about you taste the delicious Korean food?" ”
Satya said: "Zhihao, you should keep your pocket money for yourself, this meal Uncle Satya can come to invite, I haven't eaten authentic Korean food for a long time." Mr. Paul, Chairman Li, you shouldn't have anything to do today, right? ”
Li Zhihao said stubbornly: "Uncle Satya, I can invite you, my father has transferred 0.1% of the shares of Samsung Electronics to me on my birthday last month as a birthday gift, and it is no problem to invite you to a meal." ”
Samsung Electronics' 0.1% stake is also a large amount, ordinary people have this stake is enough for him to live comfortably for the rest of his life, it seems that the current Samsung President Lee Jae-yong has high hopes for his son.
Li Haoyu said: "In that case, let's go and try authentic Korean food, shall we?" In Korean dramas, there are often things like "Korean kimchi is the best", and Lee Ho-woo also wants to taste what is so special about this Korean cuisine.
Paul smiled, a few wrinkles on his face stretched, and said, "Then let's go there and try Korean food." "He has been eating Xie Mingshan's food supplement recipe every day for the past few days, and the taste is really bad, which makes it difficult for him, who has always been picky about food, to swallow. If it weren't for the fact that this had an effect on his condition, he would have stopped eating this for a long time, and it would be good to be able to eat Korean food adjacent to Huaxia today.
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After eating the Korean food invited by Lee Ji-ho, Paul and Lee Hao-woo did not go home, but went straight to Bill Gates's house. Paul's home and Bill Gates' home are both in Seattle, not too far away, less than an hour's drive away.
When they came, Bill Gates had just returned from a charity event, and the three of them came to the living room of Bill's house with whale sharks, and after the maid served tea and drinks to the three of them, Paul asked directly: "Bill, for the Xbox business, do you prefer to sell to Samsung or Mythical Group?" ”
Bill Gates is more than two years younger than Paul, they founded Microsoft together, and they are naturally very good in their relationship, and Bill Gates often visited Paul when he was seriously ill. Hearing Paul's words at this moment, Bill Gates couldn't help frowning slightly, and said: "Paul, I have now withdrawn from Microsoft's management, and Microsoft's operation is naturally decided by Mr. Satya, and I will not interfere with their decisions." ”
Paul said: "Bill, don't tell me these fictitious things, Xbox is going to be sold, and whoever it sells to must be approved by the board of directors before it can be counted." If we can join forces, I don't think the other directors will follow us. ”
Bill Gates looked at Li Haoyu on the side, I really don't know how this young man let his old friend, who has never cared much about Microsoft's affairs, help so actively, and said: "Paul, we are the directors of Microsoft, but we must also be considered by Microsoft, so that this sale of Xbox can get the maximum benefit." ”
"I am confident that the conditions offered by the mythical group will definitely not be weaker than that of the Samsung Group, and as for the price, it is even easier to say, Mr. Bill, you also know that I am the largest individual shareholder of IBM, with 15.3% of IBM's shares in my hands. Even if I don't have enough money, I can always ask IBM in advance for this year's dividends, and I believe that Ms. Romante will not refuse my request. Li Haoyu paused and continued: "If possible, I am also very happy to acquire Microsoft's Microsoft Game Studios together. ”
Bill Gates groaned, his own opinion does think that the Mythical Group is more suitable than Samsung, otherwise he would not have proposed the sale of Xbox to the Mythical Group with Paul last time, and said: "Li, I can only propose this matter to the board of directors, but just the words of Paul and I may not be able to make more than half of the directors agree with our opinion, I can introduce you to directors who are more familiar with me, as for whether you can impress them, you have to convince them yourself." ”
Last time, the mythical group was indeed one of the best contenders, and Bill was just a favor. Now that Satya wants to protect Samsung's acquisition of Xbox, he immediately stopped participating in it.
Bill Gates is not afraid of Satya, but Bill Gates does not want to cause internal rifts in Microsoft, which he worked so hard to create, because of himself. Now after careful consideration, he found that selling Xbox to Mythical Group can indeed make Microsoft gain greater benefits than selling to Samsung, plus this can make Li Haoyu owe him a favor, why not do such a thing?
The biggest advantage of the mythical group over the Samsung group is that he has a home advantage, the huge Chinese market makes all the multinational companies in the world red, although the piracy of Huaxia has been repeatedly banned, but with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there are more and more users who buy genuine copies. Now that we have made friends with such a local snake as the Mythical Group, it is also very useful for Microsoft to fully enter the Chinese market.
Li Haoyu heard Bill Gates's words, and a big stone in his heart finally fell, as long as he and Paul jointly proposed to the Microsoft board of directors to sell Xbox to Mythical Group, then it will be beneficial to some of the directors, plus the influence of the two of them, great things can be expected!
Paul smiled: "Bill, with you in the background, this matter can basically be settled." ”
Bill Gates asked: "Paul, I heard that Li found a very skilled doctor from Huaxia to stabilize your condition, and it should be true that you look like now." When you have time, please refer me to this doctor as well, I have been suffering from insomnia for a while now, and unless I take sleeping pills, I can't do any exercise or pills, it's really painful. ”
Bill Gates was able to agree to Paul's request so painfully, which is also a very important reason.
Paul said, "Well, that old gentleman is currently living in my house, and you can come to my house one day when you have time, this old gentleman is very skilled in medicine, and he must be able to cure your insomnia." ”
Li Haoyu followed: "Mr. Bill, this old gentleman uses our old Chinese medicine tradition, which has a history of more than two or three thousand years, and has a long history, and your insomnia must be cured by medicine!" ”
Bill Gates rejoiced: "That's great, let's go visit this old gentleman now." ”
"No problem, stop by my house and come back after dinner." Paul said with a smile.