giants of the era

Chapter 64 Ming Xiu Plank Road, Darkness Chen Cang

Bill Gates' grandfather, Maxwell, is a shareholder and executive director of First Intercontinental Bank's corporate headquarters.

At noon the next day, Li Zetian arrived at the bank's headquarters as scheduled.

"Hi, Mr. Maxwell, nice to meet you!"

Li Zetian was very humble and polite.

"Hehe, hello, Chronos, I've heard about you from Gates! Oh, you're a great young man!!!" Maxwell smiled.

"Thank you, Mr. Maxwell, for your compliment."

"Sit down, please! What do you want to drink? Coffee? Tea? I heard that Chinese people like to drink tea," Maxwell asked.

"Thank you, a glass of water will do."

"Well," Maxwell beckoned to the secretary, beckoning her to pour a glass of water, then turned to look at Li Zetian, and said, "Your purpose, Gates has already told me that Apple wants a loan of 1000 million US dollars ..."

"Yes, Mr. Maxwell." Li Zetian nodded.

"1000 million US dollars is not a small amount. If Apple wants a loan, it must pledge its shares!" , Coupled with part of the inside information that Bill Gates revealed to Maxwell, Maxwell believed that this loan was a very profitable business!

"Mr. Maxwell, how many shares do you think you need to mortgage?"

"50% of Apple stock!"

Li Zetian thought for a while and agreed, "That's okay."

Maxwell nodded and continued: "How many years does Apple plan to borrow?"

"Short-term loans, two years!"

"Okay, then according to the regulations of First Intercontinental Bank Corporation, the annual interest rate is 5.80%, that is, the annual interest is 58 US dollars, do you agree?"

"agree!!!"

Li Zetian readily agreed that as long as Apple-ll becomes popular, the interest of $58 is nothing.In addition, Li Zetian already knew about US bank loans before coming here.

In 1973, the annual interest rate was as high as 8.74%;

In 1974, the annual interest rate was as high as 10.51%;

This year, it dropped sharply, 5.61%-6.24%.

Li Zetian founded Apple in 1974. The bank loan interest rate was so high that he never thought of taking out a loan.Li Zetian can barely accept the drop in interest rates this year!

"Well, let's start the loan process..." Maxwell said.

Next, Li Zetian continued to stay in the bank for more than half an hour. When he left here, there was an extra 1000 million US dollars in the company's account.

If you have money, you can speed up the company's development, so as to shorten the gap with IBM!
According to relevant statistics, as of 1975, IBM produced four times as many computers as all other companies in the world combined! ! !
This data is simply too scary!
The current Apple company is simply insignificant in front of IBM.Don't look at Apple's current success in the field of personal computers. That's because IBM doesn't pay much attention to personal computers. Once IBM wakes up and focuses on the development of personal computers, Apple's situation will be difficult!

As soon as IBM's industry tycoon made a move, most computer companies and software development companies kneeled~~licked, either making their own hardware compatible with it, or developing software for it.In contrast to Apple, not many companies are willing to develop software for Apple.This led to the rapid decline of Apple, and finally almost went bankrupt. If Jobs hadn't returned to turn the tide, Apple would probably disappear in the long river of history.

Right now, Apple, Microsoft, and Sunbird are all very small in scale and have a serious shortage of talent pools. When other companies have attached themselves to IBM, Li Zetian must ensure that he has enough talents to develop third-party software for Apple, and to compete with IBM. Stand against each other!Otherwise, even if Apple's computer is easy to use, if there is no rich software support, it will only fail in the end.For example, in 1983, Apple launched the Apple-Lisa computer named after Jobs' daughter. This is the world's first personal computer that combines a graphical user interface and a mouse. It has a 16-bit CPU, a mouse, a hard disk, supports a graphical user interface and multiple The operating system of the task, may I ask, is such a computer awesome?But so what, due to the lack of support from software developers, the computer could not be sold, and the rest of the goods ended up buried in a Utah landfill!

Apple in this generation is likely to encounter this situation, such as the Mac computer currently under development, which is also the world's first personal computer that combines a graphical user interface with a mouse.Li Zetian estimated that when the Mac computer was developed, IBM must have entered the personal computer industry.

Therefore, Li Zetian has to plan ahead, vigorously produce and promote Apple-ll, sell Apple-ll even more popular than in his previous life, earn more money, and then take advantage of this aura like a rainbow, directly domineeringly go public! ! !After listing and financing, the company can have more money, recruit more talents, and rapidly expand the company's scale, catching IBM by surprise!At worst, it will not be like the Apple company in the previous life, which is about to go bankrupt...

For the sake of business development, Li Zetian had to go on a business trip again in the afternoon. His daily schedule was full and he had almost no time for leisure and entertainment.

Wang Jianlin, CEO of Wanda, has a full schedule?Li Zetian laughed after reading it...

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At around 4:[-] p.m., Li Zetian and Tian Shuai flew to San Antonio, Texas, where the headquarters of AT&T is located.

At 10:15 p.m., the plane arrived at San Antonio Airport.

As for dinner on the plane, it's okay.

After getting off the plane, I hailed a taxi and headed to the hotel.

The two of them were exhausted by boat and car. After arriving at the hotel, they took a shower and then went to bed and rested.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai went to AT&T headquarters.

Apple is also well known in the industry.

AT&T invited Li Zetian and Tian Shuai to the reception room in a very friendly and polite manner.

"Welcome, both of you. I'm AT&T CEO Carey Occam!" A man about 50 years old, wearing a suit and leather shoes, and wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked into the reception room. He adjusted his glasses Box introduced himself.

"Hi, Mr. Occam, I'm Apple CEO Tian Shuai, and this is our company's chief engineer—Chronos Li." Tian Shuai smiled and stepped forward to shake hands with him, and Li Zetian followed him. Sexually shook hands with Occam.

Carey Occam said: "Please sit down, I wonder what kind of cooperation Apple is going to talk about with AT&T?"

On the phone, Tian Shuai did not tell AT&T that Apple would buy a permanent license for the Unix operating system.Obviously, if you tell the other party, it would be too stupid, but remind the other party of the importance of Unix!
Tian Shuai said: "It's like this, Mr. Occam, maybe you have heard that Apple is developing the next day Apple-ll personal computer. This time, I want to promote Apple-ll to AT& T company uses it, and Apple-ll will be more powerful than Apple-l, which can help enterprises to work and improve work efficiency! The second is to hope that Apple-ll personal computers can be sold in AT&T stores!"

Founded in 1877, AT&T has monopolized the long-distance and local telephone market in the United States for a long time, and has established thousands of business offices across the United States. If Apple-ll can get the cooperation with AT&T, it will really hug the thigh!
Before coming, Li Zetian and Tian Shuai had already discussed it. They would build plank roads openly and keep open positions in the dark. It would be great if they could negotiate these two things well. Copyright will not make the other party have too much suspicion.

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