Zhou Xin quickly realized that the other party was talking about Li Jiacheng.

Just in March this year, when Bill Gates went to Xiangjiang for inspection, Li Jiacheng's son Li Zekai personally went to the airport to pick up the plane, and also invited Li Zekai to write a preface for his new Chinese book "Embracing the Future".

Zhou Xin thought to himself that Bill Gates in 1999 would definitely not know that he had become the largest farmer in Ameriken more than 20 years later.

Zhou Xin didn't know what made the other party's investment concept change so much.

Bill Gates' family investment company, Waterfall Investment, has been buying farmland since 1995, but this is not what Bill Gates meant, but the idea of the actual owner, Mike Larson.

It wasn't until 2006 that Bill Gates began to buy land, and after 2017, he increased his purchase of land.

Zhou Xin couldn't laugh and cry, he explained: "I don't have such a plan, to be honest, do you think that if it is made of the scale of Ameriken Bank, the federal government will allow the actual controller behind NewPay to be a Chinese?" ”

"The federal government allows me to be one of the shareholders of NewPay at most, not a shareholder with too many voting rights."

Bill Gates, as a Jewish elite, quickly understood what Zhou Xin meant: "Yes, the bigger NewPay is, the less likely you are to master it."

Now it's because people don't pay attention to NewPay, and it's hard for you to continue to have control of NewPay after you pay attention to it. ”

Zhou Xin: "So Ling's Internet asset theory is not valid for me, it is an asset that I can't control.

If I really think about it, aren't quora and Riot Games similar Internet properties?

Riot Games is the largest online game distribution channel, and Quora is the originator of new media.

From this point of view, both are better than NewPay.

Because I can't tell you too much when it comes to trade secrets, in my opinion, there are a lot of interesting things that NewPay can do. ”

At the celebration dinner, Zhou Xin spent most of his time with Bill Gates.

There were too many dressed girls at the banquet, and Zhou Xin vaguely felt that he was the target of hunting.

"Newman, what do you think of my outfit?" While Bill Gates went to chat with Henry Paulson, Aimo walked up to Zhou Xin and asked.

She wore a dark blue dress that dragged long to the floor, the color of the skirt matching her skin tone, making Aimo look radiant.

Even though the women at the dinner party had been carefully dressed, Zhou Xin still thought that Aimo could at least rank in the top three after a cursory look: "Very good." ”

Aimo approached Zhou Xin and asked, "Newman, should we go out for a spin?" ”

Zhou Xin shook his head: "I'm a little sleepy now, I don't really want to go out, I plan to go back and rest after the dinner."

Today from morning to evening, I have been full of all kinds of schedules, you are my secretary, you know how tight my schedule is today. ”

Aimo's cramped smile turned into a determined expression: "What if I don't just want to be a secretary?" ”

Zhou Xin said: "I'm sorry, I understand what you mean, I don't have this plan for the time being." ”

"I can feel the appreciation in your eyes, why can't we try to go on a date?" ”

She turned around in place, and the beautiful lines do have the capital to make a man's heart move.

Zhou Xin took a step back, looked directly at the other party and said, "You crossed the line, Aimo, you have always hinted at me something similar before."

I can act as if nothing happened.

Appreciative gaze because you are beautiful.

But that doesn't mean that I have to act on beautiful girls, I don't have any emotional needs at the moment.

You crossed the line this time and I think I need to change your position, and when I go back to Silicon Valley, I will look for a secretary again, and I will transfer you to a more suitable position. ”

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, he turned around and left without hesitation, just as Bill Gates and Henry had finished talking, and he continued to talk to Henry:

"Henry, Riot Games can be listed with Goldman Sachs to provide us with service and support, including underwriting, consulting, roadshow and a series of support.

It was Goldman Sachs that made Riot Games' IPO process so smooth. ”

Henry waved his hand: "It's an honor to be able to serve Newman, whether it's Time Warner's acquisition of quora or the listing of Riot Games, Goldman Sachs has only played a small role in the middle.

The most important point is that Quora and Riot Games are good enough to be recognized by many investors in the market.

If a company can't do it, even if Goldman Sachs underwrites it for them, no investor will be willing to pay for it.

Looking back now, we should still have run Quora to go public instead of being acquired by Time Warner.

If Quora were an independent company to go public, it would be valued even higher. Time Warner's poor performance in the past has dragged down the combined company's market value further to a certain extent. ”

Goldman Sachs was one of the top five shareholders of Time Warner, both before and after Time Warner's acquisition of Quora.

Media editors were also present at the celebratory dinner on the day of Riot's launch, and MSN media directly put a photo of Zhou Xin and Bill Gates standing side by side in suits and goblets on the front page of MSN's news section that night.

"Riot's largest shareholder and second largest shareholder"

Riot Games was listed on the NASDAQ exchange on August 23, 1999. Riot Games' stock performed strongly in its initial public offering (IPO) with an offering price of $58.8 per share, and the stock price rose about 37% on the day to close at about $80. This made Riot Games' market value exceed $20 billion, becoming another Internet company with a market value of more than $20 billion.

Newman and Bill Gates, Riot's largest shareholder, were both in attendance at the gala dinner, during which Newman gave a brief introduction to Riot's history and future prospects.

Among them, Riot Games is most concerned about the fact that its largest and second largest shareholders are the world's second and first richest people in the world, respectively.

This has led to an unusually high level of investor confidence in Riot Games."

After the market closed on the day of the listing, Mr. Zhou spoke with Riot executives and was puzzled by the fact that the stock price had risen by only 37 percent.

In his opinion, this number is too little. Because during the IPO process, Zhou Xin would be exposed to a lot of relevant information, and he saw that Yahoo's stock price rose by 154% when it went public.

Zhou Xin is concerned about this issue because he is worried about whether it will be a precursor to the imminent bursting of the dot-com bubble.

The major shareholders are his and Bill Gates' Internet companies, and they are still in the process of making profits, how can they not rise as Yahoo when they went public in 96.

Later, the senior management team's explanation reassured Zhou Xin a little, and they roughly meant that Yahoo's IPO valuation was already low, only about $2 billion, and they raised $2.5 billion just by raising funds.

The larger the base, the more difficult it is to grow, and 37% is impressive enough.

"Mr. Pei, I have taken a general look at the design proposal you sent to me two days ago, and because another company under my umbrella has recently gone public, I have not had time to visit you until today.

I'm very satisfied with the overall framework of the design plan, and there are no big problems, but I would like to discuss some details with you. ”

After the celebratory dinner, Zhou Xin went to visit I.M. Pei.

Previously, after confirming that he had joined the 100 Club, Zhou Xin was looking for I.M. Pei to design the style of the matrix flagship store.

Although I.M. Pei officially retired in 1990, his architecture studio will not retire after retirement, and he will still personally intervene in some particularly important projects.

It is equivalent to him giving advice, and I.M. Pei's studio to complete the specific design.

Matrix is going to take the high-end route, and Zhou Xin is not short of money now, so he plans to set up flagship stores in the big cities of Ameriken first.

This involves decoration, and the effect he wants is difficult to design with ordinary designers.

In the case of Apple, the flagship store was designed by British architect Norman Foster, whose project is better known to Chinese people as the Shenhai World Financial Center, which resembles a corkscrew.

I.M. Pei's design style is concise, geometric, and abstract, which is very suitable for the requirements of high-end consumer electronics brands.

"No problem, just say that you came to me and talked to me about the effect you wanted to create, and I knew that you were a very person with your own ideas.

Even when I communicated with my architects, I also made it clear to them that I wanted to adopt a compromise design style, while taking into account the simple and clear sense of technology and the functionality of the building itself. ”

I.M. Pei hopes to have a good relationship with Zhou Xin, which will be beneficial to him, so he is very interested in this project.

Zhou Xin said: "Mr. Pei, in fact, in my thinking, we can abandon some functions for the sake of technology.

Our requirements for functionality are not that strong.

For example, the Chicago flagship store design has been designed with large glass walls and simple geometric shapes, so it is better to go more extreme and dismiss this part altogether.

Because we will have very few products, we may only release a few models a year.

We don't need much space for display.

What I hope is to give users an impact on design, and bundle our brand with technology, high-end, and scarcity. ”

I.M. Pei understood: "Then we take the style of postmodernism as the base, like the combination of the Goethe Memorial in Basel and the Hearst Building in New York.

I roughly understand what you mean, and I'll ask them to change a version to you as soon as possible. ”

After Seamus joined Matrix, the whole process started to pick up.

In Zhou Xin's expectations, the keyboard will be sold this year and the mobile phone will be released next year.

The keyboard has low technical content, even if it is a customized keyboard, there are only a dozen components, and there is no problem with the production end being completely placed in Huaguo.

Cao Yongluo also helped him find a manufacturer of PCB boards in Huaguo.

In the process of looking for suppliers, Cao Yongluo found that the difficulty was not in the PCB board, but in the keycaps.

Keycaps are an important part of the keyboard, which is related to the texture of the matrix keyboard, and they chose the sublimation process.

This process has appeared as early as the 70s of the 20th century, when it was applied to the field of dye printing, and then gradually applied to other fields, ceramics, plastics, fibers, glass and so on.

The advantage of sublimation keycaps is that the colors are vivid and layered, and the subtle color differences involved in the performance of details can also be well reflected.

But the supplier Cao Yongluo found, the keycaps they made through the sublimation process always had color differences, and the texture was not what they expected.

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