"Boss, I thought you were going to spend your life on Jurassic Island with those dinosaurs."

Wen Ming, who had just returned to Apple, saw Tom Ding who wanted to hug him.

The security personnel next to him mercilessly stopped in front of Wen Ming, making Wen Ming and Tom Ding look very embarrassed. Of course, the most embarrassing thing is Tomding.

"Relax, it's in our own company."

Wen Ming's words made the security personnel retreat, but their eyes were still staring at Tomding, which made Tomding put away the idea of hugging his boss with some fear, and just held his boss's hand tightly with both hands.

"How's it going, what's the status of the Games division lately?"

Wen Ming asked with a smile on his face, in fact, this question was just a greeting, because every day Lilith would summarize a bunch of Apple reports to him, which naturally included the development information of Apple's game division.

Tom Ding said excitedly: "Boss, I helped you earn 500 million US dollars, 500 million US dollars in cash." ”

Wen Ming pursed his lips and said, "Say it again, did you earn it for me, or did I earn it myself?" ”

Thomding's expression became very embarrassed again, and he said: "Of course, the boss earned it yourself, because those four games are all planning books made by the boss himself." However, we also have a lot of credit, you see, we need to write code, do art design, operation, sales ......"

Wen Ming smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Okay, okay, I know that you have merit, and the company will not treat you badly." ”

Tom Ding nodded happily and said, "Of course I know that you won't treat us badly, boss, in fact, we have more salary levels and equity incentive benefits than any game company." ”

Wen Ming smiled: "That's because we are not just a game company, but a quasi-Fortune 500 company. ”

Tom Ding corrected the mistake in Wen Ming's words and said: "Boss, not only is it a quasi-Fortune 500 company, but also one of the Fortune 50 companies in the quasi-world. ”

Forbes counts the top 2000 companies every year, and the reason why there is a separate list of the world's top 500 companies is simply because there are too many numbers in 2000.

If you want to be listed in the Forbes Global 2000 companies, it is very simple, there are four basic factors: revenue of $4.9 billion, profit of $247 million, assets of $8.72 billion, and market value of $4.92 billion.

These four values are not set in stone and depend on the global economic environment, but they do not change much. As long as one of them is satisfied, it will be able to become one of the world's 2000 enterprises.

And the world's top 500 is naturally the top 500 among the top 2,000. And the first determining factor in the way they rank is the amount of profit. Although it is not absolute, there are also less profits but higher rankings, because there are fixed assets and investment projects of the year, and the money earned is invested, which naturally cannot be counted as pure profits, but the investment projects will increase the value.

Wenming's Apple made a profit of more than $3 billion in the last quarter, although the release of the second generation of the iPhone this year will definitely not be until the second half of the year or even the end of the year, but Apple still has an iPad, and a game division with almost zero cost.

"Boss, I've just seen the Wall Street report." After Thomding corrected his boss's mistake, he naturally had to give a reason, saying: "They think our company's profit in 2010 should be about $14 billion. And by that amount, we're definitely in the top 50. ”

Apple's profit ratio is amazing, and its sales are amazing, but which of the world's top 500 is a fuel-efficient lamp?

Among the world's top 500 companies announced in 2009, even Google, with sales of $66 billion and a net profit of $13.7 billion, only ranked 39th. Microsoft, with sales of $93.3 billion and a net profit of $20.7 billion, only ranked 25th.

Of course, Wen Ming is willing that his employees will have a sense of pride because of this kind of thing, because it can increase the cohesion of an enterprise.

"Okay, when the list of the world's top 500 companies comes out, we will know how many of us are. Maybe it's more than the top 50. ”

Apple's development has not stopped, Wenming will launch iMac and Macbook in 2010, these two products, will definitely allow Apple to go further.

Tom Ding said with a smile: "Boss, I'm not sure how many of the company's top 500 companies can rank, but I can be sure of one thing, that is, as long as the company is listed, you can become the new richest man in the world." Moreover, he is the first richest man in the world to exceed $100 billion. ”

Tom Ding is not wrong about this, no matter how Apple ranks, Wen Ming can become the richest man in the world. Because none of the companies ahead of Apple can own more than 20% of the shares. Wen Ming now owns 100% of Apple's shares, even if Teresa Roy and Bill Gates complete the shares, Wen Ming definitely owns more than 95.

Because Bill Gates can't take out $5 billion to invest in Apple like Theresa Roy. Although Wenming has set up an equity incentive system, the ownership of those employees always belongs to Wenming when they only have the right to dividends and when they do not make enough contributions to Apple.

Wen Ming laughed very happily when he heard Tomding's praise.

But it was impossible for Tomding to praise Wen Ming for no reason, even if Wen Ming was his boss, so, while Wen Ming was happy, he put forward his own appeal.

"Boss, you know, my dream is to make a big game that takes the world by storm, or, to be the screenwriter of a movie that is a global blockbuster."

Tomding's expression suddenly became very shy, and he said, "So, I want your support to develop a big game, or ...... Expanding the company's presence in Hollywood? ”

Wen Ming said helplessly: "It turns out that your purpose is this." ”

Tom Ding said with an aggrieved face: "Boss, now the whole world knows that "Talking Tom" is based on me, and you gave it the same name as me, should you compensate me." ”

This threat left Wen Ming speechless, he really didn't think about the relationship between Tom and Tom Ding at the time, just because the game in the other world was called "Talking Tom".

After thinking about it, Wen Ming said: "In this way, 10% of the profit of your game division from now on is the amount of research and development funds that your game division applies for the development of games." ”

Thomding almost jumped up with excitement, don't underestimate the 10%, in just one and a half quarters, their game division has earned $500 million. In this way, in one year, they can get almost $200 million in R&D funds.

What kind of game needs so much R&D funding?

No!

Even the first version of World of Warcraft, which was popular all over the world, cost only $40 million to develop, and the next few expansions increased it to about $100 million.

Of course, it is impossible for Tomding to directly spend $200 million to make a game, because Wen Ming is talking about the amount of research grants, not so much money for them. If you want to get the money, you have to come up with a feasible plan for approval.

"As for Hollywood."

Wen Ming frowned, he really didn't look down on Hollywood now, but since Tomding had this demand, he didn't mind providing funds for Tomding to help him make money.

"If you have a relationship and the right script, then I don't mind investing."

Tomding smirked and said, "Boss, I really have a good script, which is about your Jurassic Island, and the name of the script I have determined now is "Jurassic Park". ”8)