Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 187 Undercurrents on Apple's Board of Directors

During the recent period, Tang Huan paid the most attention to Apple's progress in preparing for the stock listing.

Morgan Stanley, who broke up with Apple at the beginning, returned to the desk. After all, everyone's quarrels belong to quarrels, but there is no need to make trouble with money.

Another important reason is that there is a new member of the cooperation - Hambquist Company.

And the two partners of this investment bank, Humber and Quest, also worked very hard. They learned about Apple in detail and did a lot of homework.

Seeing that the food on his plate might be snatched away, Morgan Stanley naturally had to change his attitude, and the work finally started again.

In the original time and space, for Apple’s IPO, a total of 460 million shares were issued. The price set by the bankers was 22 US dollars per share. At the close of the day, the stock price rose to 29 US dollars per share. Got $1.01 million.

But the performance of that version of Apple is obviously far from this time and space.

Driven by Tang Huan's software and function expansion cards, the application scope of Apple's second-generation machines has expanded from personal, family, and education to the commercial field of small and medium-sized companies. The current monthly sales volume is approaching [-] units, which is basically the old version. Apple's market sales levels have dropped after more than a year.

With supply and sales booming, Apple direct sales stores have sprung up across the United States.

Therefore, the current net assets of Apple are not comparable to the old version of Apple.

Hamblequist, which conducted in-depth research, noticed this and believed that Apple still had irregularities in asset management and suggested a re-evaluation. Morgan Stanley also voted in favor.

This also means that Apple's IPO stock issue is likely to be more than 460 million shares.

As soon as they heard that Apple's current wealth was greater than what was on the books, the shareholders were naturally overjoyed. So in the more than a month since Tang Huan left Silicon Valley, they divided their forces into headquarters, factories, direct sales stores, etc. What a busy meal.

The final results also show that Apple, which is in its infancy, has a lot of management problems when its performance has improved rapidly in almost a month, especially in the direct sales stores that are blooming everywhere, and there are many statistical errors.

Shareholders are rejoicing, but they also have a sense of distrust in Apple's current management, such as CEO Scott, and even began to consider whether it should be replaced by a more capable leader.

Of course, these accounts can be settled after autumn, and the stock listing is the top priority at present.

The property has been exhausted, so let’s continue to calculate the shares to see whether to distribute the extra part to the shareholders or sell it directly to the public, but no matter which one is less than a decimal point, it is almost a loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars , Don't be careless.

Everyone has been arguing about this for several days, but the normal operation of Apple has not been affected.

I have to say that the United States is sometimes very strange here, just like the failure of the congressional budget in the previous life, which led to the shutdown of the federal government for a period of time, while the overall operation of the United States is still smooth, there is always a delicate check and balance.

Tang Huan is also a shareholder of Apple. As soon as he returned to the United States, he naturally had to participate in this matter immediately. He couldn't just send a representative, or simply wait for the final result lazily.

After Tang Huan came to Apple, he couldn't help being involved in the open and secret struggle of "talking about money hurts feelings, talking about feelings hurts money", and even found that his shares showed signs of being diluted.

Damn, do you feel that you are full-fledged, so you can ignore my brother's mood? How dare you team up to run on me.

Tang Huan stared at Markkula, who shrugged helplessly and made a wry smile.

Just pretend to be a nice guy, Tang Huan snorted inwardly, and his eyes fell on Jobs again.

This guy was even more unkind, with an obvious expression of gloating on his face, and the meaning in his eyes was clearly, "You should be lucky for yourself. In order to save my own business, I promised not to speak randomly."

As for Woz, the other founder of Apple, he simply didn’t come to the scene.

In the original time and space, the two founders of Cisco, Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner, were eventually kicked out by the board of directors and left the company they founded.

Therefore, Tang Huan did not dare to underestimate the undercurrents on Apple's board of directors, and now Apple doesn't have so many norms to talk about. The final discussion results are often reached through compromise between multiple parties, and no one will pay attention to the frustration of the victims.

Tang Huan was thinking about it, and suddenly felt a gaze secretly looking at him, he looked over suddenly, saw that it was Robert, so he grinned.

Perhaps the gleaming white front teeth were too lethal and frightened the other party's face.

Tang Huan leisurely crossed his legs and began to hum "Farewell My Concubine" in a low voice, "I stand in the fierce wind..."

It turned out that he remembered from Robert the Apple III project that this guy is currently in charge of. It is said that the market response seems to be good, but it is impossible to directly overcome this pit.

Originally, Tang Huan only thought that the doomed failure of Apple's third-generation phones was a meaningful wake-up call to Apple, but now it seems that it may have other effects.

Robert, who felt that he had lost his composure, was a little annoyed. In order to save face, he took the initiative to say: "It's not an option to keep arguing like this, someone has to make concessions. Don, you don't really think that you can enjoy the treatment of a founder Well, don’t be too obsessed with the shareholding ratio, not to mention that Markkula, Jobs, Woz and the others also made sacrifices.”

"My ratio is much smaller than theirs. How many points can I make up for?" Tang Huan unceremoniously pushed back Robert's righteous words.

"Your game console company is making a lot of money. Even the newspapers report it every day and give you free advertisements. Moreover, you have found a treasure under the sea. Why bother so much?" Robert continued to persuade, but his tone was With a kind of cynicism.

"Based on the software I developed specifically for Apple computers, I deserve this treatment." Tang Huan showed a proud expression on his face, "I have explained too much to you, and I think you can't understand it."

Robert snorted, "But Zheru's current software is not exclusive to the Apple platform."

Tang Huan didn't answer the question, and raised his hand to check the time, "I still have other things to do, so I'll take my leave first, you guys continue the discussion, don't worry about my feelings, just let me know the result at the end."

After Tang Huan stood up and walked to the door, he seemed to remember something, and asked Robert, "By the way, how is the sales performance of Apple III?"

"The market has responded well, and we are planning to find a time to hold a celebration banquet." Robert replied proudly.

"Well, when the celebration banquet is held, don't forget to ask me to join in the fun." After Tang Huan said something playful, he walked away.

(End of this chapter)