Hong Kong's new giants

In less than two months, ICQ has already reached 30 users, which undoubtedly refreshed Lin Zuhui's mind.Since the United States currently does not discriminate against foreign-funded Internet companies, why not raise the value of ICQ even higher!

Of course, it is still better to sell at a high price. For a businessman, making money is the last word. He will not foolishly think that he can build a "Penguin Group" in the United States.

The first is that American capital will frantically invest in the same products to defeat him, and the second is that the US government may also have control over Lin Zuhui's social dissatisfaction among Americans and introduce various targeted policies.

In short, the risk factor is too high, unless he emigrates, the US government is very happy.

At this time, ICQ in the United States has more than 50 programmers, and all of them are software elites.Obviously, Lin Zuhui will have a task to explain.

After visiting the company, Lin Zuhui, Liu Songcheng, President of Netflix, and Brown, President of ICQ (USA), came to the office.

Lin Zuhui gave Liu Songcheng a look, after all, he cannot be the omnipotent boss.

Liu Songcheng said: "President Brown, ICQ has developed much faster than Xiangjiang. It seems that the Internet in the United States is really changing with each passing day and developing too fast."

Brown nodded and said, "Now the entire United States is discussing the Internet. In this regard, it is indeed in a leading position in the world."

Liu Songcheng nodded and said, "Well, since this is the case, ICQ should be upgraded as soon as possible, so that imitators will never be able to catch up."

Brown said: "Yes, the company has invested a lot of money and recruited so many software talents. We can definitely make ICQ ahead of plagiarists."

Confidence is good, but it's not enough.There is no shortage of skilled people in this world, but what is lacking is people with brains.

Liu Songcheng said: "It is like this. We hope that the US ICQ will add some new functions. I hope you will lead the team to complete it as soon as possible."

When Brown heard this, he didn't dare to underestimate the strength of Xiangjiang Company. After all, ICQ originated from Xiangjiang.

"Ok!"

Liu Songcheng took out a document and started to connect with Brown.

In fact, these are some functions developed by Lin Zuhui based on QQ.Of course, the layout of ICQ should be kept concise, which is the reason why chat software such as MSN defeated ICQ in the previous life.

"Look here, we plan to add a free mailbox function, add 'icq.com' to the ICQ digital account suffix..."

Brown asks: "Free email?"

No wonder he was surprised, ICQ has neither advertising revenue nor paid software, and now even mailboxes are free.

Lin Zuhui said from the side: "Owned the market, are you still worried that there is no way to make a profit?"

When Brown heard it, he nodded half-understood, mainly out of admiration for Lin Zuhui, who is an Internet investment boss with a very vicious vision.

But Lin Zuhui knew that a free HOTMAIL mailbox was bought by Microsoft for 4 million US dollars.

If ICQ has a built-in free mailbox, it is simply the best software for those who use computers to work.

There is ICQ developed by Netflix Software Company. The initial version has emoticons, avatars and other functions, which are quite interesting. Although Lin Zuhui knows many QQ functions, he did not take them out all at once.

The reason is very simple. The layout of the initial ICQ must be concise, and any new functions must be added step by step, so that users have a process.

For example, functions such as chat rooms and ICQ groups are not yet available, but Lin Zuhui has explained to Liu Songcheng privately that he will add these functions while investigating the market.

There is only one premise, that is, it is all free, and he can stick to it with his funds.

At that time, once the number of users reaches tens of millions, the value of ICQ will increase greatly.

Thinking of this, after Liu Songcheng finished speaking, Lin Zuhui added: "ICQ America continues to recruit people, this software has endless prospects!"

Brown was shocked, and quickly said: "No problem, BOSS!"

The more you invest, the greater the return in the future. Besides, you can't spend a lot of money. The key is to grab users.

In fact, Lin Zuhui's investment in Internet and technology companies in the United States is all at the expense of capital, without considering short-term returns.For example, Blizzard Entertainment has already made a lot of money, but Lin Zuhui didn't take any money, so he directly let Mike Morhaimi and Alan Adham and others decide.Therefore, the benefits of Blizzard Entertainment are very good, and management such as Mike Morhaimi and Alan Adham have also reserved a lot of research and development funds.

Of course, Lin Zuhui doesn't look at tens of millions of dollars. Even if Blizzard Entertainment's capital is hundreds of millions of dollars, Lin Zuhui won't take too much away. What he sees is 100 billion dollars.

And he also occasionally cares about whether Blizzard Entertainment is going the same way as in his previous life, and the result is very satisfying. "Diablo" will be released this year, and "StarCraft" and Battle.net are also in the bud.

The company culture of Blizzard Entertainment also makes Lin Zuhui very happy. Mike Morhaimi and Alan Adhan and others are true love of game career.

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Accompanied by executives from Jingwei Capital, Lin Zuhui came to the headquarters of Apple in California and was received by Michael Spindler, the president of Apple.

In January of this year, the US Sun Corporation planned to acquire Apple for US$38 billion. At that time, Lin Zuhui read the news and became active.

If you want to make money in the United States, contacts are essential. People like Buffett and Bezos are good friends of Lin Zuhui; Bill Gates, Telangpu and others also have good contacts.Of course, Telangpu may have to be excluded, because he may be a little 'revenge', and it is said that he is the person who likes to litigate the most.

Therefore, in the last real estate project, New Era Group was only a shareholder, and the specific person in charge was Luo Jiarui.It is not a good thing to get involved in a lawsuit in the United States. It is mainly a waste of time, but there is no need to consider being framed.

Everyone came to the meeting room, and both sides sat down.

Michael Spindler and other Apple executives led Lin Zuhui and his party to visit the internal working environment of Apple.In the eyes of one kind of Apple executive, it is a very good omen if Lin Zuhui can be favored.

The reason is very simple. Lin Zuhui's investment in the United States in the past few years has been talked about and dubbed the "God of Investment".Netscape and YAHOO have been listed one after another, and their market value has soared; Kingston's performance has more than doubled, and its annual turnover has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars... So many impressive performances are naturally taken seriously by Wall Street.

Since the 90s, Apple has been in a slump, and since last year, it has been seeking to "sell itself" everywhere. IBM and Sun have come to contact it, but the negotiations have not been smooth.

Therefore, when Jingwei Capital proposed to invest in Apple, Michael Spindler and others thought it was a good idea.

After visiting the working environment, everyone came to the conference room.

Lin Zuhui said straight to the point: "Apple's current market value is 30 billion US dollars, and I am willing to invest 5 million US dollars to issue new shares. I have no other conditions, only 2, I hope the company will consider it!"

In fact, assuming that he buys Apple shares through the secondary market, he can also hold about 3% and still make money quietly.Of course, he hopes to establish a close relationship with Jobs and Apple, which will become his "power" in the United States in the future.

With an investment of US$5 million, you can probably get a 14% stake and become a major shareholder of Apple in one fell swoop.Even if it is diluted in the later stage, it will still be the largest shareholder.

President Michael Spindler immediately asked, "On what terms?"

A group of Apple executives also focused their attention, for fear that Lin Zuhui would make excessive demands, although there were only two.

Of course, everyone is still very eager to get this fund and the advertisement of Lin Zuhui, the richest man in the world.

"I hope Apple buys Jobs' NeXT company and invites him back to Apple."

"Secondly, I hope to enter the board of directors and get a seat!"

Unlike other companies, Lin Zuhui hopes to join Apple's board of directors, which can increase his social status.Like Bezos' Amazon, he will also be a member of the board of directors in the future.

As for Netscape, Yahoo, etc., such companies that would sell their stocks before the bubble crisis, he is not interested at all.

For a while, none of Apple's top executives thought that Lin Zuhui would make this request.

Michael Spindler thought for a while and said: "The two conditions proposed by Mr. Lin need to be discussed and decided by Apple's board of directors. We will definitely convey your request."

"no problem!"

Even without Lin Zuhui's lobbying, Jobs would return to Apple, but if Lin Zuhui became a shareholder of Apple and urged Jobs to return, then this relationship will continue.

Since he has no way to fight against American technology companies, it is also a very good idea to become a major shareholder of American technology companies.In the future, when Apple makes a lot of money in mainland China, Lin Zuhui still holds more than 5% of Apple's shares. How cool it is.

Chapter 587 [This man is a god! 】

In March, Pengcheng Xiaomi Technology Park.

Lin Zuhui sat in the office, listened to Zou Kaixuan's work report, and made comments.

"At the beginning of the year, we have signed a cooperation plan of 'PHS technology' with Yuhang Telecom Bureau of Zhejiang Province. In the second half of next year, we will definitely be able to launch 'PHS' mobile phones."

Lin Zuhui nodded happily. This is a plan he proposed last year.

The PHS technology of the "poor man's cell" is a patent from Japan. However, at the peak of the Japanese economy last year, the per capita GDP of Japan was as high as 4.35 US dollars, ranking third in the world and 1.7 times that of the United States.Such technology is naturally not suitable for Japan.

Therefore, Lin Zuhui asked Zou Kaixuan to send someone to investigate, and spent 2000 million US dollars to buy this technology.It is not enough to have technology, but also to cooperate with telecom operators. This year, China Mobile and Telecom separated, and Xiaomi Technology came to the door.

At this time, China Telecom only had fixed-line telephone licenses and no mobile communication licenses, so the future was bleak. After the introduction of Xiaomi Technology, the leaders of Yuhang Telecom Bureau in Zhejiang Province were immediately shocked, and then they were very optimistic about this project.

To put it bluntly, this is playing side-by-side, but if it can be played, with China's large population, there may be tens of millions of users.

The two hit it off and decided to cooperate.

"What did Huawei say?" Lin Zuhui asked calmly.

"Mr. Ren has agreed to send a technical team to join us. But it can be seen that he is not interested in PHS technology. He said that Huawei is doing his best to research 3G technology. If it wasn't for the boss, you take him out of the mainland and develop business overseas. It's because he is reluctant to send those technical talents." Zou Kaixuan was a little 'unhappy' with Mr. Ren, and dared to be suspicious of his man's vision.

Lin Zuhui was not surprised. In his previous life, the Yuhang Telecom Bureau did approach Huawei and ZTE, but they all rejected the research and development of the "PHS" communication; It was officially born in the Mainland.

At its peak, Starcom had a market value of 300 billion US dollars. With PHS as its main business, it had 8000 million mainland customers, and 1 million customers in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South Korea, and Japan.

Therefore, Lin Zuhui thought at the time that Xiaomi Technology's acquisition of this technology will bring huge profits, and if the money is invested in technology, then Xiaomi Technology's future will be limitless.

As for what Lin Zuhui earns, of course it is cashing out around 2015, as well as the dividends in the later period.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Actually, without Hua Wei, we can also successfully handle the PHS technology. But since Xiao Ren has something to ask of me, let's do a good job. Of course, our PHS technology must also be strengthened." After all, Huawei's team is just consultants."

Telecom providers, telecommunications providers, and mobile phone manufacturers currently belong to three camps.Lin Zuhui owns a telecommunications company, Times Communications, which operates telecommunications businesses in Hong Kong and London.

Lin Zuhui is the local snake in Xiangjiang, Huawei wants to develop overseas, so naturally he will consider Xiangjiang first.

So last year, Lin Zuhui received a call.

"Hello, Mr. Lin? I'm Xiaoren from Pengcheng, that's it. We want to start business in Xiangjiang, can you take care of me!"

Lin Zuhui said at the time: "Okay, we just won a license recently, you can send a team to Xiangjiang! But what's the matter first, the time is tight, and the Hong Kong government has to pass the acceptance."

"No problem, I will definitely send the best team to Xiangjiang."

In this way, the two sides cooperated for the first time.

At that time, Hua Wei had just gained a foothold in the mainland and urgently needed overseas business, so Mr. Ren was naturally very grateful to Lin Zuhui.What's more, Lin Zuhui's identity is the richest man in the world.

Zou Kaixuan said: "Well, our net profit last year was 6.6 million US dollars, and we have become a global technology company. With so much cash flow, we mainly invest in mobile phones and semiconductor businesses, and invest in other industries, which are relatively small."

Xiaomi Technology is not a VCD business, and decoding chips are also its business (C-CUBE sold 95 million sets of decoding chips in 500, earning 2.09 million U.S. dollars. Based on Xiaomi’s 8% shareholding, it can share 1.6 million U.S. dollars) , although it is in the United States; in addition, businesses such as DVDs, landline phones, mobile phones, primary semiconductors, and pagers are doing well.

Lin Zuhui immediately asked, "Will the profit drop this year?"

With the mass production of counterfeit VCD factories, Xiaomi VCD will definitely be affected.

Zou Kaixuan said seriously: "I don't think so! The mainland business will definitely decrease, but our overseas business is expanding."

Compared with other mainland manufacturers, Xiaomi Technology also has its headquarters in Xiangjiang, so its overseas business has been doing well, especially in the Southeast Asian market.

Including the mobile phone market in Southeast Asia, Xiaomi Technology can take a share. Last year, Xiaomi Technology sold a total of 100 million mobile phones, which greatly increased the morale of the company.

"What's the progress of the USB drive?" Lin Zuhui asked again.

He only understands the prospect of electronic products, but this is the most important thing. Assuming he is an American, he believes that the acquisition of Apple is better than Jobs.After all, it doesn’t matter if Jobs knows technology. In his previous life, he neglected MP3 products for several years, and he didn’t pay much attention to them at the beginning, thinking that it was just a small product.As everyone knows, it was that small product that continued the life of Apple until the appearance of the Apple mobile phone.

To be honest, before 2007, Apple relied on a single product to continue its life, and experienced several times on the verge of bankruptcy.For example, in the past two years, Apple has been on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was the iMac that saved Apple; after the Internet bubble crisis, it was the iPad that saved Apple at the beginning of the millennium.

Zou Kaixuan said: "I have already applied for patents in Europe, America, and the mainland, and it will definitely shine in the eyes of the world. By the way, I have a sample here, and I will demonstrate it to you."

Next, Zou Kaixuan took out a large U disk that was still ugly in appearance, and then demonstrated it to Lin Zuhui.But anyway, this is the U disk.

"How much memory?"

"8M"

Tsk tsk, it's so small, I'm afraid it can only save files, or copy 2 songs!

After some experimentation, Lin Zuhui expressed his satisfaction, it seems that it really worked out.

"Okay, it seems that the money is not in vain! By the way, at the end of this year, Xiaomi Technology will go public, and it is estimated that it will raise at least 60 billion RMB. At that time, all of them will be thrown into the technology industry."

There is no problem with a market value of 300 billion, because with the participation of Lin Zuhui, a major shareholder, it must be able to attract investors.As for the collapse of the financial crisis, that is not what Lin Zuhui is considering. After all, long-term investment is definitely not a loss; besides, everyone should be happy to contribute to the cause of Chinese science and technology.

"Will entering too many fields make the company's business too complicated and affect the company's development?" Zou Kaixuan asked his own question.

Lin Zuhui smiled and said, "What is the prospect of the product I told you?"

Zou Kaixuan immediately said: "It's very good, and we have succeeded. We only invest in semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, and lithium batteries. I feel that the time limit is long, and the technology is also blocked by Europe, America and Japan. The prospects are not easy to be optimistic."

Including Xiangjiang, many equipment and technologies are blocked by Europe, America, Japan and South Korea, so some Xiaomi technologies cannot be bought even if they have money.

Lin Zuhui nodded. What Zou Kaixuan said was the truth, including companies in mainland China. Everyone rushed to buy the product because they wanted to make money. As for technology, you don’t need to invest, you can buy it anyway.

But Lin Zuhui is different. If he wants to make money, does he need to open Xiaomi Technology Company? The US stock market is his cash machine, and there is so much effort there.

As long as he admits that he is Chinese, it is necessary to boost the morale of the Chinese.

VCD and U-disk were invented by the Chinese; later on, the MP3 music player was also invented by the Chinese.

I also feel NB after listening to it!

Lin Zuhui said patiently: "Haven't we made progress in semiconductors? We can't produce high-end products, and low-end products are also money. Moreover, in the future we may not be unable to access the world's top semiconductor technology, the premise is that you must always maintain your original intention - to do A worldwide technology company."

Zou Kaixuan immediately said ashamedly: "I have let you down, but don't worry, I will never doubt Xiaomi Technology Company again!"

Lin Zuhui nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Money is a statistic to me sooner or later! Of course, if Xiaomi Technology develops, it may become a giant like New Times Group in market value. Therefore, there is still a long way to go, and the most important thing is to have firm beliefs." !"

"Hmm." Zou Kaixuan looked at Lin Zuhui tenderly and resolutely.

At this time, Xiaomi Technology Company can be said to beat all domestic technology companies, which also made Zou Kaixuan a guest of the heads of state.