giants of the era

Chapter 52 Killer software!

Li Zetian shook his head and said, "Apple is not short of funds right now!" In fact, Apple is very short of funds, but right now is not the best time to raise funds. In addition, the other party wants to occupy 50% of the shares, and Li Zetian will definitely not yes.

Thomas Rockefeller sighed slightly. He was very optimistic about this young man, so he decided to invest in Apple. However, since the other party rejected it, then forget it. There are many businesses in the world, and there are plenty of places to invest.

"Okay, then I won't force others to be difficult!" Thomas Rockefeller smiled like a gentleman, and then bid farewell to Li Zetian.

The people around were all sighing, this young man didn't agree to such a good condition, did he lose his mind?or what?

But no matter what, people are now looking at Li Zetian with admiration.

However, I still label Li Zetian as arrogant and ignorant in my heart!

Li Zetian didn't care what other people thought. He took Yu Jingqiu's hand, called Yu Jingshan, and left the auction together.

On the way, Yu Jingshan felt sorry for Li Zetian. He said, "Zetian, the Rockefeller family has great influence in the United States. If they invest in Apple, they will definitely help Apple develop rapidly!"

"Yes, Uncle, I understand the influence of the Rockefeller family, but I can't accept their investment at the moment, which will make me lose control of Apple! I don't want to be swept away by others one day!!!" In the previous life, the fact that Jobs was kicked out by Apple's board of directors left a deep impression on Li Zetian. In the future, even if he does not have absolute control, he must have more than 51% of the voting rights in his hands, so that he can firmly control the company ! ! !

At present, Apple is developing rapidly, and it really needs huge funds to support this small boat!

Including the factory employees, there are more than 150 employees in Apple. Assuming that the average monthly salary of each person is 1400 US dollars, it is 21 US dollars a month. Excluding staff expenses, there are also rent, electricity, and water bills. Development needs Various electronic components, including processors, memory, floppy disks (hard disks were too large at the time and were only used in large or small computers), power supplies, monitors, etc. were very expensive. More than 30.

However, how much money does Apple make with Apple-l?
It is said that the hardware cost does not exceed US$500, and the selling price of US$2000 can earn US$1500, but the BASIC language copyright licensing fee must be paid to Microsoft, and distributors and retailers must also share the money.On top of that, you have to pay taxes.After all the calculations, the net profit of an Apple-l is less than $1000.In this way, Apple sold more than 3000 machines, and only earned 300 million US dollars.

However, after Apple-l is sold, the distributors and retailers will not pay the payment to Apple immediately, and many distributors even deliberately default on the payment.

In fact, Apple does not even have $100 million in funds on its books, but its expenses are so large. If there is no income, it will be spent dryly for a few months, and the capital chain will be easily broken. At that time, Apple will face bankruptcy. danger!Fortunately, Apple-l is still on sale, and has already begun to enter overseas markets. The possibility of Apple's bankruptcy is still very small.

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Since Li Zetian came to New York for the first time, Yu Jingqiu took him here for two days.

During Christmas, New York is extremely lively, with Christmas trees and lanterns everywhere. In addition to New York locals, there are also tourists from all over the world. In some famous attractions, such as Wall Street, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, etc. The place is almost full.What impresses Li Zetian the most is standing on the top floor of the Empire State Building overlooking the whole New York. Although it is winter and the wind is cold, Li Zetian's heart is ignited with flames, as if he is standing at the pinnacle of the entire era, and the whole world is on fire. Surrender at his feet! ! !

On December 12, Li Zetian flew back to San Jose, Silicon Valley. Yu Jingqiu stayed in New York with her father to relieve boredom. After all, the bankruptcy of the company is a heavy blow to anyone.

Li Zetian rushed back in such a hurry because Bill Gates and Paul Allen had already arrived in San Jose, waiting for Li Zetian's official appointment and introducing them to other employees of the company.

The next morning, Li Zetian brought Bill Gates and Paul Allen to the company.

"Everyone come here, I will introduce these two to you now," Li Zetian waved his hand, then pointed to Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and said, "This is Bill Gates, who will be the CEO of the company in the future. This is Paul Allen, the CTO of the company!"

As soon as the words fell, the employees of Microsoft began to discuss.

If two experienced people were dug from other companies to become the boss of Microsoft, they would naturally have no objection, but Bill Gates and Paul Allen were younger than them, especially Bill Gates and Li Zetian. They also have a baby face, and their age looks like a high school student. How can everyone be convinced?
At this time, an employee inside yelled in surprise: "Oh, I suddenly remembered that the two of them are well-known computer geniuses at Lakeside Middle School in Seattle! They were high school students at the time and they solved the problem that even the engineers of the Seattle Electric Power Company could not crack. The technical problem! Many computer science students who are studying at the university heard about their fame and came to challenge the two of them, but very few people are their opponents!"

"That's right, that's why I invited the two of them over!"

Li Zetian smiled and said: "I believe that in the next few days, you will gradually understand the abilities of Bill Gates and Paul Allen! Now everyone, get ready and have a meeting right away. I will announce a major research and development project!"

"Yes!"

Three minutes later, all Microsoft employees gathered in the conference room.

Li Zetian said in a deep voice: "Apple is developing Apple's second-generation Apple-ll personal computer. This will be a very commercially successful product, and the sales volume will be much higher than that of Apple-l! In addition to continuing to improve the BASIC interpretation In addition to the computer, I plan to develop a spreadsheet office software - Excel on the Apple-ll personal computer, please see the picture demonstration of Excel on the slide below!"

Then, the slideshow began to play a very simple spreadsheet designed by Li Zetian in combination with the hardware conditions of this era.

The abscissa is the number of English words such as ABCDEFG, and the vertical coordinate is 1, 2, 3, 4 and other Arabic numerals.

Rows and columns form cells, and data and data-related formulas are stored in cells.And there is a line in the upper left corner that is the command output line. Press "Esc+Q" to jump to this place for input. Type in special characters to select the formula you need for the cell. For example, SUM is an addition operation, and IMSUB is a subtraction operation. ...

After the slideshow, everyone was amazed!

Bill Gates couldn't help saying: "Chronos, this Excel spreadsheet software is definitely a killer software, it will take the world by storm!!!"

PS: Today is the third watch again

　PS: Today is the third watch again

　　
　
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