Reborn Russia as an oligarch

Chapter 331 Don't be ignorant
America, San Francisco Bay Area, California, here is the famous Silicon Valley.

Between the southern part of the Bay Area and the western part of Santa Clara County, there is a small town called Cupertino. Perhaps most people have never heard of this place.

But here is the headquarters of several world-class companies, the most famous of which is naturally Apple!
But in 2001, Apple was not a big company, let alone world famous.

You know, this company, which went public in 1980, had a market value of only US$2001 billion in 50, and was even on the verge of bankruptcy...

Apple's headquarters, this will be called "Infinite Loop", a ring-shaped building complex composed of six office buildings. As for "APPLE PARK", of course, even the drawings have not yet appeared.

In Building [-] of the Infinite Loop Park, this building is the core of Apple, the office address of the management and marketing departments.

In a conference room on the fourth floor, Gang Leader Qiao and several Apple executives were negotiating with Waite, a representative sent by Gateway Company, and others.

Waite raised his head and said in an arrogant tone without even looking at Gang Leader Qiao:

"Our company can value Apple at 50 billion dollars, and issue additional shares for mergers and acquisitions. Of course, if your shareholders want to get cash, that is also negotiable. But the valuation cannot reach 50 billion dollars. Well, as we all know, Apple is about to go bankrupt now. The MP3 player you made, it seems that no one bought it after it went on the market, and the company has laid off half of its employees..."

Obviously, the Gateway company represented by Waite wanted to take advantage of the fire and buy Apple.

Jobs stared at Waite with sharp eyes, pursed his lips and said nothing.

Apple was founded by him alone, supporting the biggest dream of his life!

Now being belittled to be almost worthless, he is naturally furious, that is to say, rationality has controlled his emotions, otherwise he is afraid that he will curse someone when he opens his mouth.

The current situation of Apple is indeed not ideal. After returning to the company last year, the performance of the IPOD player that he single-handedly promoted was not very satisfactory after it was launched. Half a year later, the total sales volume is less than [-] units...

Coupled with the impact of the bursting of the global Internet bubble, all investment companies now believe that they are insurmountable, and they have begun to carefully control the scale of investment.

In short, it is a sentence, everyone has no money in their hands...

In order to save money, Apple had no choice but to carry out large-scale layoffs, and the current infinite loop park has become very deserted.

Of the six office buildings, almost half of the office spaces are vacant. They are extremely depressed, and it seems that they are indeed a bit overwhelming.

Even a person as powerful as Gang Leader Qiao had to bow his head to face the reality, and only then did this acquisition negotiation take place.

In the past, a person like Waite, or a company like Gateway, would not have been qualified to meet him, let alone make an acquisition. It would be a shame to him, Jobs, and Apple!
Of course, this is also the angry words of Gang Leader Qiao, after all, the Gateway company is not small.

The Chinese name of this company is "Jiewei". It used to be able to compete with giants like Hewlett-Packard in the field of personal PCs, and it was also one of the earliest companies in the personal computer business.

But even so, Gateway is not qualified to buy Apple!
Although Apple's market value is not high, only US$50 billion, Gateway's market value is not as high as Apple's, only less than 20 billion.

What do you say about issuing additional shares for mergers and acquisitions? In the final analysis, you just want to be a white wolf with empty hands and stage a farce of snakes swallowing elephants...

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Seeing the solemn scene in the conference room, Cook next to him quickly smiled and eased the atmosphere: "Water, your offer is not sincere enough. You should know that Apple is indeed facing difficulties and urgently needs funds. That's why I agreed to negotiate with you. In fact, we have no plans to sell the company as a whole, and prefer to reach cooperation through equity expansion and financing."

Although Cook only joined Apple this year, he has already become the right-hand man of Chief Joe. After all, Chief Joe has just staged "The Return of the King", and he doesn't have many confidantes in the company. Now he is rebuilding himself When he was a member of the team, Cook was recruited by him through an interview in person, and he was also a subordinate he trusted very much.

Waite didn't appreciate Cook's kindness.

He smiled lightly, still with the same haughty expression, and said: "Cook, you also know what our company does, we are not an investment company! In the past two years, have there been any investment companies in our country? It's all dead, haha..."

Although his attitude still makes people uncomfortable, but I have to say, what he said is quite realistic.

Everyone knows that because investment companies are optimistic about the Internet industry, they have been called "heavy casualties" in the past two years.

Every day, Wall Street does not know how many investment companies will go bankrupt!
At this stage, I really can't find the kind of investment company that waved checks and threw money everywhere...

At this moment, Chief Joe couldn't bear it any longer. He said coldly, "White, which one do you think is more valuable, Apple or Gateway?"

Waite was taken aback for a moment. He really wanted to answer that the Gateway company was more valuable.

But the problem is that both companies are listed companies, and they are still the same type of company. Apple’s current market value is $50 billion, while Gateway’s is only less than $20 billion...

This is the reality, even if you want to lie, you can't fool others.

So he could only honestly say: "For the time being, Apple must be worth more, but..."

Before he could say "but", he was interrupted by Chief Qiao.

"Either come here with a cash check, or get out of the meeting room, and don't play tricks of financial cheats in front of me!" Qiao Gangzhu said unceremoniously.

After hearing this, the haughty expression on Waite's face could no longer be maintained.

He was a little out of breath, stood up suddenly, pressed his hands on the conference table, leaned over to look at Gangzhu Qiao, and said viciously: "Okay! Jobs, I really want to see how much your Apple company can support." Long time! If you agree to be acquired by our Gateway company, I can still give you a position in the merged company, I advise you not to be ignorant!"

But Leader Qiao didn't seem to listen to him at all, stood up, turned around and walked out of the meeting room, leaving the rest of the people looking at each other in blank dismay.

Cook could only help him with the aftermath, smoothing things over by saying that Apple's board of directors still needs to discuss the Gateway company's offer...

(End of this chapter)