I was born again with 100 million

Chapter 312 There is Suo Ni in the front and Apple in the back!

A few days after the product was released, Lin Xiao and Yang Guanbin stayed in the United States.

The main reason is that the entire operation of the domestic Eternal Technology Company is relatively mature. Although it is a new product launch, Lin Xiao and Yang Guanbin have made very detailed arrangements before coming, and there are also relevant people to connect in terms of production and marketing.

As for the United States, the subsidiary has not been established for a long time, and the overall personnel operation is not very good, so Lin Xiao and Yang Guanbin decided to sit in town for a few days. When the situation stabilizes, one of Lin Xiao or Yang Guanbin will go back to China first. .

Eternal Technology's subsidiary in Silicon Valley has been busy these days. Best Buy and Amazon's sales are very good. In addition, advertising, as well as the connection of goods produced in China, need someone to take care of them.

Because the sales data of Best Buy and Amazon can't achieve the timely statistical feedback of Eternal Technology in China, so Lin Xiao and others can't know the sales situation every day.

If you want to know the sales of Gpod in the United States, the main thing is to count the company's shipments every month.

Before and after the release of new products, Lin Xiao came to the company on time every day, which also showed that he attached great importance to the newly established subsidiary.

However, Lin Xiao also plans to stay here for a few more days, and if the entire company is running stably, he is ready to leave.

Before returning to China, Lin Xiao wanted to go to New York again. Since he came to the United States, he still wanted to check the situation of Lan Yumo. Calculating the time, the NASDAQ began to collapse, which was just a few days later.

In the past two days, Lin Xiao paid special attention in the United States. He found that there have been more voices worrying about Nasdaq recently, and the reason for all this is the magazine he is currently holding in his hand.

The well-known financial magazine "Barron's Weekly" just published the cover article "Burning Out" two days ago. This article lists an astonishing statistic:

The reporter investigated 207 Internet companies and found that 71% of the companies had negative profits, 51 companies would run out of cash within 12 months, and the founders and early investors of many Internet companies were trying their best to cash out.

At the same time, the article pointed out that the funds flowing from the old economic system to the new economic system have basically been exhausted, and Internet companies with no money to burn and no money to earn are about to fall from the altar.

Lin Xiao knew that this article in the financial magazine "Barron's Weekly" eventually became the trigger, truly and completely stripping Nasdaq of the new clothes of the emperor of the Internet industry.

As more and more doubts emerge, it will eventually lead to the collapse of Nasdaq.

"Maybe I should call Larry Page and ask about Google's situation." Lin Xiao thought secretly.

Some time ago, Larry Page had a phone call with him and told him that venture capital was in contact with Google recently, and that Google was indeed preparing for a new round of financing.

Lin Xiao did not directly express his position at the time, because he realized that with his intervention, Google had actually deviated from its previous development track.

In the previous life, Google completed a financing of 99 million yuan in the second half of 2500, which allowed them to survive the Internet winter in the second half of 2000.

But in this life, because Google received a bonus of their own last summer, they are not so eager to raise funds, but put the financing plan until this year.

It wasn't until the end of March that Google started to officially launch this project. In Lin Xiao's opinion, with the imminent collapse of NASDAQ, Google may not be able to successfully complete the financing.

After thinking about it, Lin Xiao decided not to make this call for the time being. It seemed more meaningful to make this call by himself after the Nasdaq bubble officially burst.

Just when Lin Xiao was thinking this way, the door of the office was knocked open suddenly.

Falder walked into the office with a strange expression on his face, but a little excitement in his tone.

"Boss, a person from Apple has come to see you."

Apple?

Lin Xiao was a little surprised when he heard the news, and then he began to think quickly about why Apple came to him.

Lin Xiao recalled the development of Apple at this stage in the previous life. At this time, Jobs should have just become interested in the digital music market, but he had not actually launched the iTunes software.

The actual release of iTunes was in January 2001, and the official launch of the project seems to be in July 1.

Yes, perhaps Jobs has been thinking about the digital music market recently, and may have had the idea of ​​launching a piece of software.

Lin Xiao immediately sorted out the whole thing. If this is the case, then Apple came to the door, nine out of ten because of Gplayer, or maybe they paid attention to Gpod.

So this time, with what attitude does Apple come and want to cooperate?Or any other ideas?
Lin Xiao was suddenly very interested in knowing why Apple came, so he said to Fadell: "Call Mr. Yang, and we will meet together."

"Okay." Fadell responded immediately, and then said to Lin Xiao a little excitedly:

"Hey, BOSS, do you think Apple wants to cooperate with us, our Gplayer and Gpod don't support the Mac system."

"Are you looking forward to Apple's cooperation with us?" Lin Xiao asked.

"Of course!" Fadell nodded immediately, "That's Steve Jobs. I've met him before and heard many stories about him. Although many people commented on him as barbaric and unreasonable, his stories are very inspirational, and Apple's products It’s really great too.”

"I think it's pretty cool that we can get Apple to come to our product within a few days of launching, and it's even cooler if we can develop a Mac version."

After rebirth, it was the first time Lin Xiao exchanged the name Jobs with others. Although he also knew that many people in Silicon Valley highly respected Jobs, Lin Xiao really did not expect that Jobs' name was so famous.

Even Fadell, who has always been rebellious, admired Jobs so much.

"If Apple allows us to develop a Mac version, our customer base will be further expanded." Fadell is still talking, revealing expectations in his words.

Lin Xiao didn't answer, but he felt that it was not that simple. With Jobs' character, the other party would not let outsiders use Apple's customer base to make money casually.

A few minutes later, Lin Xiao came to the reception room together with Yang Guanbin and Fadell, and met the people from Apple.

The person who came was Andre Fehr who had received Jobs' order. He did some homework before coming, and he even read all of Lin Xiao's introduction at the Gpod product launch conference.

So as soon as a few people appeared, Andre Feier immediately approached the owner, Lin Xiao, and stretched out his hand and said:

"Hello, Mr. Lin! I'm Andre Fell from Apple."

"Hello, Mr. Andre, welcome to Eternal Technology." Lin Xiao shook hands with Andre Phil.

Then, Lin Xiao introduced Yang Guanbin to the other party.

A few people sat down, and Andre Fell said first: "Mr. Lin, I have heard a lot of discussions about your company recently. The products of Eternal Technology have become a hot topic. I have experienced Gpod and Gplayer. That's true. Excellent!"

"Thank you!" Andre Feier said good things as soon as he came up, and Lin Xiao replied very politely. He was waiting for the other party to say the official intention of coming.

"Mr. Lin, I think if you know about Apple, you should know that Apple is a very great company, and we have a group of very loyal users." Andre Phil continued at this time, and then looked at Lin Xiao .

Lin Xiao nodded, this time, he didn't speak again.

Andre Feier had no choice but to continue to say: "I am here this time, entrusted by the president Steve Jobs, to talk to Mr. Lin about some things. The president is very interested in the products of Eternal Technology. Originally, he was I wanted to come in person, but for some reason, he couldn't come."

"Mr. Andre!" Fadell, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help interjecting at this moment: "Is Jobs really interested in Gpod?"

"Yes, Gpod and Gplayer!" Andre Fehr said with a smile on the side.

"This is really good news!" Fadell said happily immediately after hearing this, "So, does Mr. Andre want to cooperate with us this time?"

"Yes, you can think of it that way." Andre Feier said, and then looked at Lin Xiao.

"Mr. Lin, Apple is willing to acquire Eternal Technology, what do you think?"

As soon as Andre Feier said this, the expressions of Lin Xiao and the three of them suddenly changed.

Fadell's originally happy expression turned into a stunned one. The sudden news made him hard to digest, but there seemed to be something else in his eyes.

Yang Guanbin looked at Lin Xiao immediately, with a smile in his eyes.

He is really convinced!
I still remember that when Evergu Technology first made a USB flash drive, it attracted Soni to buy it. Now it has launched a new product, Gpod, which is even better. It not only directly compares Soni, but also attracted Apple to buy it.

All this shows that the company and the products developed by Eternal Technology have great market potential!
At this time, Lin Xiao's mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't help laughing.

These big companies seem to like to come here. When they see something good, the first thing they don’t seek cooperation with is to directly buy it for themselves.

There is mud in the front and apples in the back, both of which are virtues.

I used to think that Apple was looking for cooperation, but it seems that I was too naive.

Seeing Lin Xiao's smile, Andre Feier felt secretly happy. The other party looked very happy, and maybe this business was smoother than he imagined.

But at this moment, Lin Xiao's voice came over.

"Okay, 100 billion yuan!"

When Yang Guanbin heard this number, he immediately laughed too. He was familiar with this number. When Suo Ni came to buy it, Lin Xiaokai also bought it with this number.

It's been a year, and Mr. Lin hasn't raised the price yet, which is really kind.

At this time, Andre Phil was directly stunned, 100 billion yuan?What a joke!
After being stunned for a few seconds, Andre Feier smiled softly, "Mr. Lin really likes to joke."

"Don't Mr. Andre also like to joke?" Lin Xiao asked with a smile at this time.

The smile on Andre Feuer's face shrank slightly, and he finally realized that what he thought just now seemed too simple. Obviously, today's trip was not as smooth as he just thought.

"No, no, Mr. Lin, I'm not joking, we at Apple are very sincere." Andre Fehr said very sincerely.

"Is there sincerity? Then why didn't Jobs come?" Lin Xiao asked directly.

"Jobs brought 100 billion yuan to talk about the acquisition, maybe I will believe that you are sincere."

After saying this, Lin Xiao stood up straight away, "Sorry, Mr. Andre, I have other things to do, so I'm sorry!"

In fact, even if Apple came to discuss cooperation, Lin Xiao still had to think about it, not to mention that the other party wanted to buy it.

How could I have the time to listen to his nonsense!

(End of this chapter)