Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 248 Difficult little guy (14)

  Ye Dongqing stated his position. With the shares he currently holds in Apple, Mr. Jobs had to pay attention to his ideas. He was afraid that this matter would end up being unresolved, and he would have to decide between life and death in the power dispute.

Taken together, the independent directors will most likely be the loser. After all, Ye Dongqing's shareholding is so high, it is very likely that he will get a controlling stake at the shareholders' meeting, and then remove most of the directors who opposed him. .

Steve Jobs, after all, is no longer the Steve Jobs in the 1980s. Years and setbacks have worn away the edges and corners of his body, and he cannot be as free and easy as he was when he was young. Running a large company, there are too many things that need to take into account the consequences.

Although he has also experienced a lot of hardships on the board of directors, Jobs does not want to see Ye Dongqing take the controlling stake. In his opinion, there should be opposition voices within a company to restrain major shareholders and avoid If he insists on his own way, it would be nice if it had a good ending, but he doesn’t think that someone can be smart all the time, maybe one day he will suddenly become confused, and he will be able to drag the Apple company he has worked so hard into once again. among.

He felt that he might not be able to survive this disease this time, so he was even more concerned about gains and losses. He had devoted half his life to Apple, and still hoped that after he left, there would be someone who could hold Ye Dongqing back. The only way to do this was The most important thing is the current decision-making system of the board of directors. The Danshui Investment Group currently only holds two seats out of the eight seats. Jobs thinks that it is quite good now.

  The balance of power is quite delicate at the moment, and it is almost in a state of balance. Seeing that Ye Dongqing might break this balance, Jobs is surprised that he is not in a hurry, so he decisively comforts Ye Dongqing, trying to stabilize him and avoid acting impulsively...

Tim Cook is in the middle of the game, but he looks like an outsider. He has no awareness of Ye Dongqing as a bargaining chip against the board of directors. At present, he is most concerned about whether he can be a temporary CEO. For a professional As far as managers are concerned, everyone hopes to be in charge of a large company with a market value of more than 7 billion US dollars before the age of 50.

More than ten minutes later, when he accompanied Ye Dongqing out of Jobs' office, he even wanted to invite him to dinner to thank him for his support, but was declined. Ye Dongqing wanted to keep in close contact with him, but But he couldn't bring up the interest of having dinner together, so he left and went downstairs alone, leaving as he came.

  In the office, Jobs picked up the phone with a headache, called his old friend Mr. Bill Campbell, and asked him to meet now and talk about some things in person.

Just before, he and Ye Dongqing mainly focused on Mr. Cook, the chief operating officer. He already knew Ye Dongqing's determination to support Cook. He himself is more optimistic about Cook taking the position of interim CEO. The last thing before leaving is to convince the board of directors that it is best not to provoke this young Chinese guy.

Young people are energetic and impulsive at the same time. Jobs was very worried that after he left, the two sides would fall into a war. Judging from what Jobs knew about Ye Dongqing, he would definitely not be the one to admit defeat. He was in charge at a young age. With so much wealth, God knows what he will do if he is determined.

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   The meeting place with Mr. Bill Campbell was at a cigar club, and it was only after one o'clock in the afternoon. It was empty and seemed to be the only two guests.

As a recognized practitioner in Silicon Valley, Mr. Campbell gave Jobs a lot of help when he was in decline. He was regarded as a half friend. After the two met, they first talked about their family members, and then the topic was brought to the recent events. .

With a cigar between his fingers, Steve Jobs told Campbell: "I probably guessed why you were opposed to letting Cook take over my job, because he was closer to Leo Yeh, right? Unfortunately, you are wrong." One thing, Leo is different from ordinary young people. He is not the kind of young man who can be frightened into weak legs by waving a big stick and yelling. I can only say that you have made a very, very bad decision. You managed to **** him off, and you **** off the big shareholder who owns the most shares and is still growing."

   "So what? That little guy found you crying?"

  The old man Campbell didn't have much contact with Ye Dongqing. In his opinion, he was just a lucky little guy. He had met him once before, and he didn't leave a deep impression on him. It was a matter of course that he relied on the old to sell the old.

This is not arrogance, he is indeed very prestigious in the eyes of other board members, including Jobs, but the tacit atmosphere was broken with Ye Dongqing's intervention, and his two spokesmen always liked to point out some things that the old Campbell could not accept. The old man felt that Ye Dongqing was spending money recklessly.

Without waiting for Jobs to answer, the old Campbell continued to smile and said: "I am not targeting Cook, but he has also been brainwashed by you and Leo Ye recently. Ron is a very capable young man. I hope you can give He has more opportunities, support him like I do. Leo's ideas are indeed strange, but you also know how much money it will cost, you can't put all the company's funds on a project that no one is optimistic about, This is irresponsible to other shareholders, you should pay more attention to the field of computer development and get back on track."

There is always a generation gap between the older generation’s thinking and the younger generation’s. They are stubborn and arrogant, and like to naively think that the world is still the world they were young. The last time Ye Dongqing met with the head of Rolex, the other party was the same .

"If it's because of my resignation, then I would rather not go to the hospital. I know my body will not go wrong in a short time, and the doctors said so." Jobs actually didn't agree with the old Campbell's idea, but he also He didn't mean to tell the truth, the other party was one of the people he respected the most, and his personal relationship had been maintained for more than ten years, so he felt that what the other party said made some sense.

Unlike Ye Dongqing, none of them could guess what the world would look like in more than ten years. Jobs continued, "Just now, Leo wanted to hold a shareholder meeting to re-elect the board of directors, and to amend the company's management charter so that Shareholders have more right to speak. You should know that this kind of thing is very likely to happen, and most of them will meet his wishes. With only a few shares, his decision-making power is higher than anyone else.

This is why I hope you don't provoke him. Leo has identified Cook, and I tend to support Cook. Ron is a reckless man, and there is absolutely no way to lead Apple to continue. For the company and for yourselves, Please believe me, Leo is definitely a very difficult little guy, you will probably lose. "

There is no gunpowder in the business world, but it is equally fierce. Old Campbell paused, thinking of many things in his mind. After weighing it, he found that it was true. They couldn't gather shares that could compete with Ye Dongqing. Time to cool down...

  (end of this chapter)