Chapter 109: Ballmer Comes to Shanghai I

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Shanghai - Xujiahui

Mega Global Building, a 28-storey metal-and-glass office building, has been causing a lot of gunsmoke recently, and the source of this smoke all points to the legendary browser, the most powerful browser in history, the 360 browser.

About 360, a world-class browser, China's success in reaching the top of the news is dominating the front page of N multi-browser headlines for N days.

Subtly, by the four world's top universities jointly promoted notarization, the news that China's 360 browser has reached the top of the world is well known. The world knows that there is a great browser in China's Internet, and under the rendering of the main theme of society, the 360 browser made in China has become a great Chinese achievement, and as the creator of this achievement, this handsome boss of many other stars is ashamed - Chen Shu is also a big limelight, and he has made a super handsome Ma Yun + Luo Yonghao + Zhou Hongyi combination in the 2000 era.

This achievement is huge, and it is also very bright, not to mention anything else, let's just say that the staff inside the 28-story metal glass curtain pure office building - Mega Global Building, looking at Chen Shu are all looking up, like seeing Fa Ge, which makes Chen Shu very happy in this dark house, brother is not just a legend!

For this reason, Chen Shu's face was full of smiles all day long, and even the words of the Internet code were in high spirits, and he had written a little half of "Popular Garden" under Chen Shu's "super excitement"! "Pop Garden" published in the domestic "Sprout" and Taiwan's "Crown" is not a script form of the TV drama version, the book version of "Pop Garden" Chen Shu defined her as simple and warm to be very sadistic, "Pop Garden" to inherit the simple, warm and pure love of "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me", and there must be unforgettable abuse! Abuse the protagonist, abuse the supporting role, abuse the cannon fodder, abuse all, of course Chen Shu in the new era knows that this kind of romance work must be more and more "healthy"!

The background map and characters of "Meteor Garden" are much more complex and changeable than "There Will Be Angels for Me", so about Male No. 1, Female No. 2, Male No. 2, Female No. 1 and even Male and Female No. 3 and No. 4, there are many opportunities to fill in a lot of abuse scenes, "Meteor Garden" is not the same as the pure love style of "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me", "Meteor Garden" takes the scene to win, the picture wins, the sadistic heart wins, the more abusive the healthier?

Now "Meteor Garden" has reached the top of "Sprout", "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me" in "Sprout" is about to end, and in Taiwan, "Meteor Garden" and "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me" have both topped "Crown", according to the letters sent by the editors of "Sprout" and "Crown", "Meteor Garden" and "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me" The response seems to be very good, especially the novel "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me", although the structure seems to be a bit cheesy, But the charm of Ming Xiaoxi's text can be great, the story can always capture people's hearts, Xiaomi's persistence is moving, Pei Yi's spoiling makes people jealous, Yin Tangshuo's forbearance is also very attractive, the plot of "There Will Be Angels to Love You for Me" is getting better and better, and it is becoming more and more eye-catching, and "Meteor Garden" is also, as the struggle between F4 and Shancai becomes more and more complicated, it is becoming more and more eye-catching.

Chen Shu sat in his office and typed on the computer, but instead of continuing to write the story of F4 and Shancai, and keeping some records related to Microsoft, he was about to fight Steve Ballmer, how could he not prepare more, and Chen Shu still had a ten-year bound edition of "See the World" in his mind, how could he not make good use of it?

Steve Ballmer made mistakes during his tenure as Microsoft's global vice president, but Steve Ballmer is a great leader in the overall situation, starting from 2000 as Microsoft's CEO, all of his efforts are taken in January 1, 2000, during the Internet bubble, Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft's CEO, when Microsoft's stock price began to decline from its peak on December 23, 1999. At that time, Microsoft's stock price was $58.719, while its market capitalization was $616.3 billion. As of the close of the U.S. stock market this week, Microsoft's stock price was $33.27 and its market capitalization was $277.14 billion, down 55% from that time, which looks like a disaster if other historical factors are not taken into account.

But in reality, the timing of this CEO transition and the series of events that followed also played a big role. When Ballmer became Microsoft's CEO, the dot-com bubble was still blowing bigger. Microsoft reported quarterly revenue of $6.11 billion, net income of $2.44 billion and diluted earnings per share of $0.44. By the end of Ballmer's first year as Microsoft's CEO, the dot-com bubble began to burst, sweeping through the tech industry. By the end of 2000, Microsoft's stock price had fallen to $21.688. In the years that followed, even if Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo failed in 2009, its stock price did not hit a new low, and during Ballmer's tenure as Microsoft's CEO, Microsoft's annual profit rose from about $25 billion to about $70 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 16.4%. Ballmer has achieved this achievement over many well-known CEOs, such as General Electric's Jack Welch and IBM's Gerstner, but still below Steve Jobs's record, which grew 33-fold from $786 million to $25.922 billion in annual profits during Jobs' tenure as Apple's CEO. Chen Shu couldn't help but sigh at this point, this apple that God took a bite of is really a cow.

In general, during his tenure at Microsoft, Ballmer handled the dot-com bubble of 2000 and the global financial crisis of 2008. Strong revenues and diversified product offerings enabled Microsoft to secure enough cash during the financial crisis, when credit was extremely tight. In the last reported quarter, Microsoft reported revenue of $17.41 billion, net income of $5.11 billion, and diluted earnings per share of $0.66. It's all real data, Ballmer's financial performance: the performance is actually really good!

But in terms of his or her own numbers, Ballmer is a big challenge.

"Wow, hmmโ€”" While Chen Shu was thinking, there was a knock on the door.

"Please come inโ€”" Chen Shuwei frowned and stopped thinking.

"Boss, Sequoia Capital has just sent an investment direction, and I hope to cooperate with us!" As soon as he entered the door, Jin Mochao said, looking very excited.

As the world's largest VC-venture capitalist, Sequoia Capital has invested in a number of famous technology companies such as Apple Computer, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, Google, PayPal, etc., which once created the Sequoia phenomenon established by many famous enterprises in the United States around Sequoia Capital for more than 30 years. In later generations, the total market capitalization of the companies he invested in exceeded 10% of the total market value of the NASDAQ. Chen Shu recalled that in the ten-year bound edition of "Seeing the World", Sequoia Capital - and Jin Mochao was so excited, Sequoia Capital - venture capital in the network is a very promising existence, a network company was favored by Sequoia Capital, it is like a maxima in Bole Xiang is worth twice as much, Sequoia Capital almost a small part of the Chinese Internet, like the later Sequoia China's portfolio includes **.com, Alibaba Group, Jingdong Mall, Vipshop, Douban, Noah Fortune, AutoNavi Software, Lebee.com, Qihoo 360, and that are all Sequoia Capital injecting capital later, and now in 2000, Sequoia China has not yet been established, and the Sequoia investment in California is even more golden! No wonder Jin Mochao was excited, Chen Shu blushed slightly, and said to Jin Mochao, "Arrange it and contact Sequoia Investment"

"Yes, boss" Jin Mochao recorded with a notebook, and his assistant became more and more competent.

"By the way, boss, Ballmer, global vice president of Microsoft, came to Shanghai this afternoon, do you think we need to pick up the plane?" Jin Mochao reminded with a notepad.

"Pick up, why don't you pick up! I'll pick it up myself! Chen Shu smiled, and then said, "And disclose this matter to the media "friends", let them pick it up together!" Hehe" Chen Shu let out a few faint fox laughs.

"Ahh Ah, yes, good boss! Jin Mochao deserved to be an old man, and immediately realized that he also showed a weasel-like smile to Chen Shu.

Chen Shu and Jin Mochao smiled at each other, Jin Mochao's eyes suddenly thought of something, and he said again: "Boss, do you think we still want to reveal the news that Sequoia Capital is going to invest in the company, hoping to cooperate with us?" After saying that, he showed a weasel smile.

"Hahahaha-not bad, not bad" Chen Shu smiled deeper when he heard Jin Mochao's fox smile, "Not bad, yes, send Sequoia Capital to the direction of investment enterprises, I hope to cooperate with us, and the news of Ballmer's coming to Shanghai will be passed on together, and put a heavy pressure on that foreigner Ballmer, hehehehe!" Chen Shufox's smile became deeper and deeper...