America's Road to Fame

Chapter 348 "Future" completed

Now William Chen's funds, including Tianshu Fund and the Freedom Fund of his Meta investment company, hold more than 10% of Apple's shares.

The performance of Apple's stock during this period was also very strong. When William Chen invested in Apple's stock, its total market value was around 1300 billion US dollars, and by the end of February, Apple's latest market value had exceeded 2500 million. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

After the original Tianshu Fund and Chen William Meta Investment Company’s own funds, a total of 150 billion U.S. dollars to buy Apple stocks, the Kettering Foundation invested 10 billion U.S. dollars in gold futures and used it to various "charitable" projects After the donation, more than half of the remaining more than 60 billion US dollars were bought into Apple's stock.

Therefore, the Apple stock held by William Chen through various methods has exceeded 13%...

Now he holds the shares of Apple, which is actually the largest holding company, but even so, when he was negotiating with Apple’s CEO Cook, he hoped that Siri could get more promotional resources from Apple, but he was still rejected by the other party. .

Yes, Jobs' condition has deteriorated and he has stepped down as Apple's CEO, and Tim Cook has taken over as CEO.

Although Cook is different from Jobs in that he doesn't see Siri's potential as important-this has been since William Chen's previous life. After he took over as Apple's CEO, Siri was not very important in the following generations of iPhones. The improvement of , almost forgotten by Apple, can be seen-but even Cook still did not agree to provide more promotional resources for Siri.

The reason is that Apple can't benefit from Siri's development at all, so it has little incentive to help Siri.However, Tim Cook knew that Jobs was very optimistic about Siri's project at that time, so he proposed that Apple could invest in Siri.

In William Chen's view, Apple's shareholding in Siri is not unacceptable, but the premise is that the price of Siri can be fully reflected.But at this time, Siri still only exists in the form of APP, and has not proved its potential in a wider range. Therefore, even if Apple is allowed to take a stake, now is not the best time.

It is against this background that Siri started the development and development of smart speaker products.

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In the Blom Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, an extremely mighty and majestic superyacht with a battleship style in World War I and full of technological sense in details is ready.

It has been nearly a year since William Chen initially took over the order of this super yacht. This super yacht was originally ordered by the Prince of Brunei and was later taken over by William Chen. The super yacht named "Future" was finally completed. be delivered.

Today, Chen William came to Hamburg, Germany, just to welcome the maiden voyage of his long-awaited super yacht.

Accompanying him were Yang Mi, Tang Yan and Liu Shishi. The three of them came to Germany directly from China to join Chen Weilian.

Seeing the super yacht in front of me, although it was Yang Mi who accompanied William Chen to the shipyard to place an order at the earliest time, but seeing the majestic, elegant and beautiful super yacht after completion again at this time, it was still greatly appreciated. shocked.

As for Tang Yan and Liu Shishi, who saw this kind of big toy that only a few top super rich on the planet have the capital to play with for the first time, their performance was even more exaggerated. The yacht that existed in their impression before was the kind of rich People drive to the sea to fish, the kind that can have a few rooms at most, as a star, it's not that he or she has never seen it.

But at this time, what they saw was the so-called yacht, which was far beyond their imagination. It was a huge monster that could not be compared with the yacht they had imagined going out to sea. To be more precise, it was not just a yacht. It can already be called a huge sea palace.

The personal account manager of the shipyard accompanied William Chen and his group, and introduced the palace on the sea to them in English.

"As I introduced to you before, the exterior and interior of this super yacht were designed by the famous French designer Philippe Starck. His design inspiration for this yacht came from the warships of the First World War. You can see that the overall curve of the yacht is very beautiful and elegant."

"According to your request, the later interior decoration refers to the plan of the designer of Hermès Group. While retaining the original design style, it makes the entire interior more complete and conforms to your elegant taste."

"A large area of ​​the yacht's hull is made of aluminum alloy, which greatly reduces the overall weight. It can cooperate with strong power to make the yacht faster. This future super yacht is 162 meters long and weighs 5500 tons. After updating the power system, the sailing speed is increased to 26 knots."

The customer manager said excitedly: "It is the pride of our shipyard's modern industry. When it sails in the ocean, it looks like a modern giant. Its sharp bow can break through the thick ice of the Arctic Ocean, and the clamshell door at the stern is upward. Open, it can carry two 30-foot speedboats.

"The top of the tail of the yacht has a liftable helipad, which can park two helicopters, and this yacht also has its own small submarine, which can ensure your safety to the greatest extent. The engine system is powerful and can operate at six The yacht can cross the Atlantic Ocean within a day, and there are no railings on both sides of the yacht, and no contemporary Caribbean pirates can sneak onto the ship from both sides."

"The entire top floor is the space of the master bedroom, including the entire top deck with a length of 25 meters. Behind the bedroom, a sightseeing balcony is designed. The master bedroom bed is designed as a revolving floor, and the front is a semicircular floor-to-ceiling window , the bed can be turned to the direction with the best view at any time, the bathroom is marble floor, equipped with a stainless steel tub or marble shower. In the other direction, there is a door leading directly to the stairwell and private elevator, and the radio and radar masts are up the stairs There is a small deck and swimming pool at the back, and the wheelhouse, bridge and gymnasium are one floor down the elevator; the main living space is further down, with a sofa for 10 people and a dining table for 16 people. "

"The next door is designed in a scalloped shape, covered with silver foil, which diffuses the light around the room, such as the sunlight on the water, forming a huge shade, which is the superstructure of the main swimming pool, and another part of the swimming pool is hidden indoors. There is also a third swimming pool at the stern, the bottom is designed with glass, when the place where the speedboat is placed is changed to a disco, dancers can see the scene of the swimming pool by looking up. Below the deck, there are six cabins, up to Accommodating 14 guests or family and friends, the huge colored oval picture window can not only take a panoramic view of the scenery, but also protect the privacy when the yacht is docked on the shore.

"The standard configuration on the yacht is 35 crew members. At the same time, there are 5 cabins for the owner's entourage. In addition, there are fully equipped workshops for office work. In addition, this super yacht is also equipped with satellite TV, central security Surveillance system, electronic alarm device and gas detection device, and in terms of security facilities, it is also equipped with a whole ship alarm system and a missile defense system, and we are equipped with more defense systems, including the laser shield that was configured on the Eclipse , the system can automatically detect the camera of a nearby sneak shooter, and shoot a laser directly at the lens, thereby destroying the imaging function of the other party's photo."

Tomorrow, personnel from the Southern Cross Security Company will arrive in Hamburg on the Eclipse.

Up to now, Abramovich has lent this super yacht to William Chen for more than half a year, and William Chen is very grateful for this.

And it has also made a great contribution to the construction of Atlan Island after the solar eclipse from the beginning to the present. After the solar eclipse arrives at the shipyard, it will carry out an overall maintenance and then return it to Abramovich.

And the Southern Cross security company personnel that came with the ship will soon drive the Future, as William Chen's security personnel, and take Chen and the others on the maiden voyage of this super yacht, the destination is Atlantis Island.

(End of this chapter)