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After hearing what Su Cheng said, Wayne agreed to sign.

Soon, all four contracts were signed by Wayne and stamped with the company's seal.

From this moment on, the contract has legal effect.

In other words, starting from today, Oracle Computer Company under the name of Sioux City officially controls 30% of Apple's shares and becomes Apple's major shareholder.

Before the signing of this contract, Apple's equity structure was very simple. Markkula obtained one-third of Apple's equity with a credit loan of US$25. After private equity financing, Apple's equity structure was Markkula , Jobs and Wozniak each hold 26% of the shares, with the rest reserved to attract future investors.

At that time, Markkula dared to invest $25 in Apple, which was nothing. It can be said that he was very courageous.

Because of this, even Apple CEO Steve Jobs believed that Markkula would never see the $25 again. The money was frozen. He admired Markkula's courage to take risks.

In other words, in addition to the 26% equity of the three people, there is still 22% of the equity, which they have retained.

Now, if they want to give 30% of their equity to Oracle Computers, they will naturally not take all of their equity.

Moreover, they believe that by being close to the towering tree of Oracle Computer, Apple's prospects will only be better. They also made a lot of profits last year, so they will not need external financing at all in a short period of time.

Therefore, in the end, 22% of the 21% equity was directly given to Oracle Computers, while Markkula, Jobs, and Wozniak each contributed 3% of the equity, and together they collected 9%. Adding 21% is just enough for 30% equity.

From this moment on, Oracle Computer Company held 30% of Apple's shares and became Apple's largest shareholder.

Markkula, Jobs, and Wozniak each hold 23% of Apple's shares, ranking as the second largest shareholder.

The remaining 1% equity will continue to be retained.

"Mr. Jobs, from now on, we are our own people." Su Cheng stood up, stretched out his hand to shake Jobs's hand and said with a smile.

"It's my honor!" After signing the contract, Jobs actually breathed a sigh of relief.

Especially with Sioux City’s promise that Apple’s products will have the opportunity to be sold in Oracle brand experience stores in the future, this is even more great news for Apple.

At present, there are nearly 1000 Oracle brand experience store chain stores around the world, and most of them are concentrated in Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and other places.

Among them, Meili Country is the country with the most Oracle brand experience stores, nearly 200.

The number of Oracle brand experience stores in Japan also exceeded 100 as early as the first two months.

Developed countries such as the United Kingdom and France also have dozens of Oracle brand experience stores.

As the base camp of Oracle brand experience stores, Xiangjiang certainly has many, but Xiangjiang is too small, so there are only 12 in the entire Xiangjiang.

Despite this, Xiangjiang already has the highest urban density of Oracle brand experience stores in the world.

There are also many places like Singapore and Wanwan.

However, due to the influence of population and space, it is easy to reach the bottleneck of opening a store.

Small Singapore like Singapore now has 8 Oracle brand experience stores. If there are more, there will be no need.

Initially, the plan was to open 1000 stores within a year, but now we are close to completing the task.

Therefore, the current Oracle brand experience store is a very powerful sales channel. Once the product enters the Oracle brand experience store and the quality is passed, there is no need to worry about sales.

Of course, because Oracle computers already exist in Oracle brand experience stores, even if Apple computers enter Oracle brand experience stores, it is impossible to compete with Oracle computers.

Despite this, Apple's sales and influence can be greatly improved.

After all, Apple, which has been developing for three years, already has its own sales channels. However, because the technology could not keep up, sales were greatly affected.

Once the technology catches up, even if it is still inferior to Oracle Computer's technology, Apple's innovation capabilities and the price they can afford will be enough to capture a market in the mid- to low-end.

For Sioux City, the global computer market is huge.

Even if Apple does not develop due to the influence of Sioux City, the entire computer market cannot be monopolized by Oracle computers, and other governments cannot allow it to be monopolized, especially European and American countries.

Therefore, the competition from another Apple company is not a bad thing in Su Cheng's view. Anyway, he is now the biggest boss of Apple.

Once the contract is signed, everyone is on their own.

Therefore, the conversation that followed was very harmonious.

"Mr. Su, in your opinion, how can we make our products more popular in the market?" Jobs asked humbly.

"Observing the market, we can easily find that successful products must resonate with customers' hearts. Consumers must achieve value recognition through product consumption. The most common way is to provide spiritual pleasure in addition to functions." Su Cheng He said with a calm smile.

Such a small problem can't trouble him.

Of course Sioux City knew that Jobs asked deliberately. In fact, his own understanding of the market was much better than Sioux City.

While chatting with Jobs, Sioux City had already felt the difference between this business wizard and other young people.

It's no wonder that the future Steve Jobs can achieve such great achievements. Such a person, even without Apple, will sooner or later be able to create other new business empires.

Although Jobs was still very young at this time, only 24 years old, he had many ideas about business operations.

Sioux City owns Xiao Ai, and when encountering any problems, he directly asks Xiao Ai to find the most suitable solution. Therefore, even Steve Jobs, a business wizard, was quickly impressed by Sioux City.

People classify Jobs as a wizard of innovation and management. Kai-Fu Lee commented: "Jobs can:

The source of the gap.

Forecast industry trends.

Boldly use state-of-the-art technology.

Create a new business model.

Gather first-class talents.

Look forward to the needs of users that are not yet conscious.

Never-ending self-transcendence.

Design products that are nearly perfect in every detail.

He eloquently convinces users that they can’t help but love his product.

Generally, if you can master two or three of the above points, you may be very successful, but Steve Jobs was able to achieve 8 points. "

It can be seen that Jobs' success is not accidental, but is closely related to himself!

"Mr. Su, if you hadn't just returned from Japan and were afraid of disturbing your rest, I would have loved to chat with you at night. Through chatting with you, I learned a lot." Jobs said with emotion. (End of chapter)