The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 130 Difficulties in Crafting
Zhou Xin soon realized that the other party was talking about Li Jiacheng.

Just in March of this year, when Bill Gates went to Xiangjiang for inspection, Li Jiacheng’s son Li Zekai went to the airport to pick him up in person, 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 never know that he would become the largest farmland owner in American 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 Investments has been buying farmland since 1995, but this is not Bill Gates' idea, but the idea of ​​the actual operator Mike Larson.

It was not until 2006 that Bill Gates himself began to buy land, and after 2017, he increased his hand in buying land.

Zhou Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he explained: "I have no such plan, to be honest, do you think the federal government will allow the actual controller behind NewPay to be a Chinese national when it becomes as large as American Bank?"

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

As a Jewish elite, Bill Gates quickly understood what Zhou Xin meant: "Yes, the larger the scale of NewPay, the less likely you are to master it.

Now it's because everyone doesn't pay attention to NewPay. After you pay attention to it, it will be difficult for you to continue to have control over NewPay. "

Zhou Xin: "So Ni's theory of Internet assets is not valid for me, it is an asset that I cannot control.

If I really have this kind of thinking, aren't quora and fist games also similar Internet properties?
Riot Games is the largest online game distribution channel, and Quora is the originator of new media.

From this perspective, both of them are better than NewPay.

Because it involves commercial secrets, I can’t tell you too much. In my opinion, NewPay can do a lot of interesting things. "

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

There were too many well-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?" Aimo asked Zhou Xin while Bill Gates was chatting with Henry Paulson.

She wore a dark blue dress that fell to the floor in length, the color of which matched her complexion and made Aymo look radiant.

Even though the women at the dinner party were well-dressed, Zhou Xin still thought that Aimo could at least be in the top three after a cursory look around: "Very good."

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

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

Today, from morning to night, I have been full of various schedules. You are my secretary, and you know how tight my schedule is today. "

Aymo showed a determined expression after his cramped smile: "What if I don't just want to be a secretary?"

Zhou Xin said: "Sorry, I understand what you mean, I have no such plan for the time being."

Aymo asked, "I can feel the appreciation in your eyes, why can't we try to date?"

She turned around in a circle, and her beautiful lines did have the capital to make a man's heart beat.

After taking a step back, Zhou Xin looked directly at the other party and said: "You have crossed the line, Aimo, you have been hinting at me before.

I can act like nothing happened.

Appreciative eyes are because you are beautiful.

But it doesn't mean that I have to take action on pretty girls. I don't have any emotional needs right now.

You crossed the line this time, I think I have to adjust your position. After returning 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 and left without hesitation, just as Bill Gates and Henry had finished chatting, he then chatted with Henry:

"Henry, the listing of Riot Games can have Goldman Sachs to provide us with services and support, including underwriting, consulting, roadshows and a series of support.

It is Goldman Sachs that can make the listing process of Riot Games so smooth. "

Henry waved his hand: "It is our honor to serve Newman. Whether it is 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 fails, even if Goldman Sachs helps them underwrite, no investors will be willing to pay for it.

Looking back now, we should still operate quora listing instead of being acquired by Time Warner.

If quora was listed as an independent company, its valuation would be even higher.The poor performance of Time Warner in the past has dragged down the market value of the merged company to a certain extent. "

Goldman Sachs is their top five shareholders no matter before Time Warner acquired Quora or after it acquired Quora.

Media editors also participated in the celebratory dinner on the day of Riot Games’ launch. MSN media directly put a photo of Zhou Xin and Bill Gates standing side by side in a suit and holding a goblet on the front page of the MSN news section that night.

"The largest and second largest shareholder of Riot Games"

“拳头游戏（Riot Games）于1999年8月23日在纳斯达克交易所上市。拳头游戏的股票在首次公开募股（IPO）中表现强劲，发行价为每股58.8美元，当天股价上涨约37%，收盘价达到约80美元。这使得拳头游戏的市值突破了200亿美元，成为了又一家市值破200亿的互联网企业。

At the gala dinner that night, Newman, the largest shareholder of Riot Games, and Bill Gates, the second largest shareholder, both attended the dinner. Before the dinner, Newman gave a brief introduction to the development history and future prospects of Riot Games.

Among them, the most market-focused part of Riot Games is that its largest shareholder and second largest shareholder are the world's second-ranked and world-ranked richest people respectively.

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

After the market closed on the day of listing, Zhou Xinyou chatted with the executives of Riot Games, and he was puzzled that the stock price only rose by 37%.

In his opinion, this number is too small.Because during the IPO process, Zhou Xin would have access to a lot of relevant information. He saw that Yahoo's stock price rose by 154% when it was listed.

The reason why Zhou Xin is very concerned about this issue is because he is worried that this may be a harbinger of the Internet bubble that is about to burst.

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

Later, Zhou Xin was a little relieved by the explanations given by the executive team. What they generally meant was that the valuation of Yahoo’s IPO was already low, only about US$20 billion, and they raised US$25 billion just for fundraising.

The larger the base, the harder it is to grow, and 37% is already impressive enough.

"Mr. Bei, I took a general look at the design plan you sent me two days ago. Since another company under my company went public recently, I didn't have time to visit you until today.

I am very satisfied with the overall framework of the design scheme, and there is no major problem, but I hope to discuss some details with you. "

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

After confirming to join the Committee of [-], Zhou Xin asked I.M. Pei to design the style of the Matrix flagship store.

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

It is equivalent to his advice, and IM Pei's studio will complete the specific design.

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

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

Take Apple as an example. The Apple flagship store was designed by British architect Norman Foster. The project he designed is more known to Chinese people as the Shenhai World Financial Center, which is similar to a corkscrew.

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

"No problem, just tell me, you found me at the time and talked to me about the effect you wanted to create, I knew you were a person with your own ideas.

Including when I communicated with my architects, I also clearly told them 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 is of great benefit to him, so he is very interested in this project.

Zhou Xin said: "Mr. Bei, in my opinion, we can discard some functions for the sake of technology.

Our requirements for functionality are not so strong.

For example, take the design of the flagship store in Chicago as an example. A large area of ​​glass curtain walls and simple geometric shapes have been adopted here. Since this is the case, it is better to be more extreme and directly abandon these parts.

Because our products will be very small, we may only release a few models a year.

We don't need much display space.

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

IM Pei understood: "Then we take the postmodernist style as the base and combine it with the Goethe Memorial in Basel and the Hearst Building in New York.

I roughly understand what you mean, and I will ask them to change a version for you as soon as possible. "

After Simo joined Matrix, the whole progress started to speed up.

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

The technical content of the keyboard is low. Even if it is a customized keyboard, there are only a dozen or so components. It is no problem to put the production end in Huaguo.

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

In the process of finding suppliers, Cao Yongluo found that the difficulty lies not in the PCB board, but in the keycaps.

The keycap is an important part of the keyboard, which is related to the texture of the matrix keyboard. They chose the dye-sublimation process.

This process has appeared as early as the 20s, when it was applied in the field of dye printing, and then gradually applied to other fields, such as 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 involving details can also be well reflected.

But the suppliers Cao Yongluo found, the keycaps they manufactured through the sublimation process always have color difference, and the texture is different from their expectations.

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