401. Chapter 401: Dismissal
The 2010 Apple headquarters building has not yet moved to the world-famous $5 billion spaceship building, but even so, the spacious porch, sprawling corporate headquarters retail store, fitness facility, internal meeting rooms, wireless equipment rooms, and greenery throughout the building make the Apple building dizzying.
"Hey, man, are you kidding?"
In the wide glass corridor, the American sun shines down from the sky, sprinkling spots of light all over the place.
A middle-aged man with a beer belly followed a group of negotiators led by Orientals with an exaggerated face, constantly asking questions.
"Woz, you think I'm kidding?" Zhang Heng's rapid pace paused slightly, and he looked at him calmly.
As Zhang Heng stopped, a group of twenty or thirty people composed of Caucasian and yellow people behind him stopped in unison, and everyone looked at the man with a fine beard in front of him.
"No, no, no!" The huge pressure made Woz hurriedly open his arms, raised them high, and said cautiously: "I'll ask one last more question, Mr. Zhang, are you really a shareholder of the company?" ”
"Guess." Zhang Heng blinked, then turned around and left the corridor with a group of people, driving straight into the interior of the apple, leaving Woz in the same place, puzzled.
Woz, whose full name is Stephen Wads, is one of the three founders of Apple, the other two being the famous Steven Jobs and the lesser-known Ronald Gerald Wayne.
But Wayne quit 12 days after Apple created Apple, sold his 10 shares to Steve Jobs for $500, and is now a well-known writer.
Although Jobs is one of the founders of Apple, he holds the most shares, but from the creation of Apple in the 70s of the last century to 2010, Apple has gone through hardships, as the founder of Jobs has also gone through several ups and downs, to now, Jobs only holds only one percent of the shares, although he is the current CEO of Apple, although he revived the once stormy Apple to glory, but in terms of personal net worth, he is actually not even comparable to the idle Wads.
Although Woz, like Steve Jobs, sold Apple's shares at less than $1,000 in a fit of anger because of disagreements at Apple's board of directors, but since returning to Apple, Woltz has more or less acquired some shares, totaling 7, although not as much as the previous 10, but not far behind, and now Apple's stock market has risen sharply and has become a billionaire.
Jobs, on the other hand, because of his own principles, did not repurchase Apple shares after selling them 20 years ago, although his own value on the board of directors is not the lowest, but it is also relatively low, and as the CEO, he is indeed dedicated to the company, which is very obvious from the perspective of his self-discipline requirement of only $1 per year.
Now if you want to buy back Apple shares, at the current price of more than $300 per share, it is obvious that there will be a lot of bleeding, and no one can afford to buy it.
Therefore, Woz, who controls 7 Apple's shares, as one of the few major shareholders of the company, although Zhang Heng announced that he was here to join the board of directors when he first came to the Apple building, he was still a little strange, because he did not see Zhang Heng's savings at the board meeting in previous years.
As one of the fans of science and technology, Zhang Heng's "Avatar", its special effects can't be too good, Watts admires director Zhang Heng's work very much, and he also hopes that one day the world's technology is really as developed as in "Avatar"! But in terms of net worth, Zhang Heng is one of the top ten richest people in the world, and although Wads is also a billionaire, he is still incomparable with Zhang Heng, so although he knows each other, he does not have the courage to call for security to stop him.
Don't think about it anymore, Wads looked at the time, the shareholders' meeting has begun for ten minutes, in previous years he would be half an hour late, because he was not interested in the cramming report of the shareholders' meeting, but as one of the major shareholders, if he didn't come, the shareholders would inevitably criticize, so Woz sighed, sorted out his clothes casually, hurriedly followed Zhang Heng's team, and went to the company's internal conference room.
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"Cook, you need to know what you're talking about!" Fifty-five-year-old, slightly slender Jobs, with mixed black and white hair, stared wide-eyed at Tim Cook standing in the conference room.
Cook is the vice president of Apple, in charge of the PC department, and is Jobs's right-hand man, but now Cook is full of nervousness, and he is being scolded by Jobs.
"Some of the company's shareholders' shares have indeed been sold off, and since a few years ago, they have been flowing to the market at a price of between $100 and $300 per share, and according to the intelligence department's investigation, these shares have been pooled and trapped by people with intentions......" Cook looked at Jobs and reminded: "Stephen, there may be something unusual in this shareholder meeting." ”
Jobs's head was bruised and surprisingly angry, and then he looked at the fat-headed and big-eared board members on the board!
At first, because of the personal interests of these people, he was forced to leave the company he had founded, and then, because of Apple's decline, these people begged to let him return to the helm of Apple.
It was probably because he was reluctant to raise the children on his own that he agreed to regain the helm and forced the guys to sign a decentralization contract for a dollar a year, and during his tenure as CEO, these people were not allowed to interfere with his every move on the company's side.
But today, Apple's stock has risen sharply and become one of the world's top technology companies, but these guys, regardless of their own principles, have sold their shares for the sake of immediate and visible interests, causing a large number of scattered stocks to flow to the market and being caught in the ......
Jobs hate! Hate iron doesn't make steel!
He has only one percent of his own shares, and if the new major shareholder does not let him return to power, or if the other party is a profit-seeking person, he may be kicked out of Apple again, after all, the other party has not signed a decentralization contract.
Dozens of people in the entire board of directors sat in the conference room, watching Jobs's angry ears smoke, and no one stepped forward to comfort him, which shows that Jobs, as a genius, has a strange temper that is difficult for others to accept.
"Hey, Stephen, look who's coming!"
At this moment, the glass door of the conference room was pushed open, and Woz's excited voice rang out.
Everyone looked to the door.
The dozens of men and women who appeared in dense clusters dazzled everyone, and when one of the men in a silver-gray shirt appeared in front of everyone, it caused a commotion.
"This is the one who, that one ...... He? ”
"Mr. Zhang?"
"The director known as the Miracle Hand?"
Shocked, confused, puzzled, excited, strange......
The expressions on the faces of the people varied.
Combined with what Cook said before, everyone subconsciously guessed something, and suddenly their faces were shocked.
How many people in the world can buy Apple stock in large quantities?
If you are not worth tens of billions of dollars, you will not be able to mix in this money game.
And Zhang Heng's appearance here, coupled with the value of Zhang Heng just announced by Forbes, everyone knows that the person who trapped a large number of Apple stocks behind the scenes is probably Zhang Heng.
Jobs obviously understood this, only Wads was still stupid and couldn't tell the difference, looking at the suddenly silent conference room, some monks were confused.
"It seems that you all already understand, so I don't need to talk nonsense anymore."
Zhang Heng glanced at the sluggish expressions of everyone in the conference room, smiled with satisfaction, and then looked at Jobs with a surprised face and waved his hand behind him.
The next moment, a white man came out of the line, opened the suitcase he said, and a contract appeared in front of everyone.
In addition to the dazzling contract matters, under the magnification of the multimedia settings, everyone can see the numbers written on this share transfer contract.
Then, the exclamations came and went.
He, he actually owned 19 shares......
Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief.
These shares, sold to the market, are worth more than $40 billion in absolute terms!
"As Apple's largest shareholder, I propose to the Board of Directors to remove Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple and appoint Tim Cook as CEO of Trust......"
What the?
Everyone almost choked on their own saliva.
Recall!
Jobs was deposed!
All of them opened their mouths in disbelief.
Eyes swirled between Jobs and Cook, suspicious......
Catty!
It's definitely greasy!
Cook's expression was very rich, and happiness came so suddenly that he didn't react.
Jobs stood up suddenly, his face was full of anger, and just as he wanted to say something, he was hugged by Zhang Heng, who suddenly stepped forward, and whispered a few words in his ear.
Then, Zhang Heng stepped back and looked at him with a smile.
He knew that no one would refuse the hope of life!
In his previous life, Jobs, who was only 56 years old, died on October 5, 2011 due to malignant brain tumor pancreatic cancer, and Zhang Heng, who knew the trajectory of historical development, wanted to impress the other party.
But in fact, he was not sure to cure Jobs, who had fallen into terminal cancer, what he could do was to let Jobs find a good doctor in a limited time, live a little longer, and let this great man of the century live a little longer!
Of course, these are too high-sounding, and the deeper reasons, in a word, Zhang Heng wants to absolutely control Apple, even if he can't, he must control nearly half of Apple's stocks!
Man dies for money, and birds die for food.
In order to increase his capital in negotiations with the royal family, Zhang Heng had to do this.
After listening to Zhang Heng's words, Jobs felt like he was hit by a thunderbolt, and no one else knew about his cancer except his family, in order to stabilize Apple's stock price.
You know, Apple's rapid rise also relies on the deified Jobs, who claims to change the world, if Jobs, who is known as the soul of Apple, is suddenly exposed to brain cancer, then what awaits Apple will be a sharp shrinkage of the stock market, and tens of billions of dollars will evaporate in an instant!
Regardless of whether the other party can cure his cancer or not, but since he can grasp his own symptoms and accurately say the name of pancreatic cancer, these things add up to directly hit Jobs's soft underbelly.
He has dedicated his life to Apple, which is like a child he has brought up, and no one wants someone else to hurt their own child.
Jobs sat weakly on the conference chair, looking at Zhang Heng's gaze, full of complexity.
Eventually, he smiled wryly, and without waiting for the board members to mention anything, he sighed: "I agree with Mr. Zhang's suggestion that from now on, Cook will be the CEO of Apple." ”
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