Fight to the third generation

As Jobs and Su Yehao cooperated to try to get involved in the field of mobile terminal operating systems, they transferred a large number of people from the software development department, which has affected other research and development plans of the company, which caused opposition from a few board members.

Su Yehao seldom intervenes in the specific management of the company. Part of the reason is that there are so many trivial worries. As the current largest shareholder of Apple, he can't tolerate a bunch of wage earners jumping around in front of his eyes.

So a few days ago, Jobs sent an email to tell him about the re-election of the board of directors, and the two sides hit it off.

Decided to unite with several other major shareholders to temporarily increase Su Yehao's right to speak to more than 33%, becoming a force that prevents the board of directors from saying "NO", cleaning up two or three directors who have affected the development of Apple, and voting to invalidate their nominations .

Large companies usually suffer from corporate disease.

The right to nominate Apple's board of directors is in the hands of the directors, which also involves considerable benefits, which makes Apple's power transfer no longer pure.

It was supposed to select talents and talents, but now it has turned into supporting its own people. This has led to the fact that although Apple is not influenced by major shareholders, it will be intervened by directors.

Jobs was a little worried that no one would be able to influence the board of directors when the company became bigger in the future, so he privately agreed to give Su Yehao another seat, and also give the company's second shareholder a seat.

In this way, the structure of Apple's board of directors becomes Apple's CEO, five independent directors, and three shareholder representatives.

If the CEO of Apple wants to do something, he only needs to win the support of shareholder representatives, and he can draw a tie with the external independent directors and avoid being completely influenced by independent directors.

Jobs was confident in his control and arranged these things in advance because he was diagnosed with cancer and was about to resign and receive treatment...

Chapter 964

Su Yehao came to Apple's headquarters.

When he appeared in front of him, he immediately attracted crowds of onlookers, and some whispered and communicated, wondering why he came here.

Although he is the largest shareholder, Su Yehao really doesn't have much presence within Apple.

Apple's computer and office software business has been half-dead for many years, and its subsidiary, Apple Smart, has been segregated separately. This makes the importance of Apple itself drop two or three levels in Su Yehao's eyes, and he is too lazy to intervene on weekdays.

It can be said that the era of mobile terminals that really brought about Apple's rise has been replaced by Su Yehao's methods, turning Apple from a leader to a vassal.

Now Apple is only responsible for helping to develop the operating system. The majority stake and decision-making power of the subsidiary Apple Smart are held by Su Yehao.

After all, he was the first to put forward the idea of ​​building a smart phone, and it is reasonable to become the leading party. Even Jobs, who is sophisticated and calculating, didn't notice the problem, and thought he was smart enough to take the ride decisively.

But I didn't expect that this car should be Apple's own car...

Having been to Apple headquarters before, Su Yehao still doesn't remember how to get there.

I found a blond white girl dressed as a secretary, asked her to lead the way, and took the elevator upstairs.

When he knocked on the door and entered the office, he found that Jobs was still doing yoga, sitting cross-legged, basking in the sun and meditating with his eyes closed.

Compared with the last time we met, this boss from the previous life was significantly thinner, his beard and hair were graying, and his spirit was a bit haggard.

After pancreatic cancer was detected last year, Jobs kept it secret, and even Su Yehao only found out later.

now.

Su Yehao was serious, and said:

"No matter how powerful the spirit is, it will be dragged down by the body. Therefore, Buddhism pays attention to going to the Western Paradise after death. God's heaven can only be accessed after death. I mean that even meditation is useless. If you are sick, you still need to treat it quickly That's right, in fact, if everyone had a regular physical examination every year, many diseases would become less dangerous, you certainly didn't participate in the company's free physical examination, right?"

Jobs opened his eyes.

Although the two were allies and partners, Jobs did not want to discuss these private matters with Su Yehao.

In fact, his pancreatic cancer had a very high possibility of being cured in the early stage, but he was dragged away by Jobs after he was discovered last year, and he never had surgery to remove it. In Su Yehao's view, this behavior seemed particularly inexplicable.

It was detected at the end of last year, and it has been delayed for five or six months. I heard that not only did not listen to the doctor's advice, but also went to India to seek folk remedies from psychics.

If this thing works, the average life expectancy in India will not be much lower than that in developed regions.

Go to sleep when you are sleepy, eat when you are hungry, and treat when you are sick... These should be common sense, but Jobs did not take the usual path.

Even out of love for talents, Su Yehao didn't want the person in front of him to leave too early.

Seeing that he didn't get an answer, he added again: "I'm only in my twenties, and I've already taken care of my body. Steve, you should go for surgery as soon as possible. Cancer is not a cold. It's not good for you if you continue to delay." No."

pity.

If it was so easy to be persuaded, Jobs would not be the tyrant in the eyes of others.

Annoyed by Su Yehao's long-winded words.

Jobs got up slowly and told:

"Didn't anyone tell you that due to the flight delay, the three directors who went out for the meeting had no time to return to the company, and the meeting has been postponed for two hours? I know my body well, and it is not a big problem for the time being, and the company It's been pretty busy lately."

"The company can work normally without you. Just like me, with so many companies under my control, I still give myself a vacation all day long."

As soon as Su Yehao finished speaking, Jobs actually rolled his eyes and replied:

"If I remember correctly, some media said that the scale of your family office has exceeded 1000 people, which is several times larger than other family offices."

"What's the use of a large scale? People will only say that Buffett hires a dozen or twenty people and earns as much as he can. Is it so difficult to admit that I am excellent?"

Su Yehao was not polite.

Sitting on Jobs' sofa by himself, he picked up today's newspaper.

Jobs knew his temper. If this kind of lazy rich man had been under his control, he would have been kicked out of the company long ago. However, Su Yehao is so leisurely, and the investment projects he chooses can always bring extremely considerable returns.

Success once or twice may be described as luck, but it is obviously not the case now.

Seeing that Su Yehao was clearly not planning to leave his office, Jobs was a little helpless. He made a pot of black tea and brought it over, saying:

"I'm already preparing. If something happens to me, Cook will be a very good CEO. You know, I once had the experience of being kicked out of the company I created by investors, and it is inevitable that I will be a little worried about shareholders. In the case of excessive power, if the worst happens, I hope you can assure me that the balance of the company's board of directors will not be disrupted by then."

Su Yehao only smiled and said:

"Have you ever thought that maybe Apple will be better under my hands? There is no bad corporate management system, only bad decision-makers. Steve, you took a few years to bring Apple from the brink of bankruptcy. Salvage it back, make the company financially healthy, and then it's time to flex its muscles."

"Maybe, I don't want to take risks. Come with me to the R&D lab later, and you will know how good the next Apple products are. This company is not your Yanmoji group, and there are no countless fanatical investors Pursue, the funds on the books are only enough to fail two or three times at most, and I don’t want it to sink again.”

Jobs was quite unlucky. In his early years, he was often overturned by the media and compared with Bill Gates.

Nowadays, those journalists don't even bother to compare. The gap between the two sides is too great, no matter in terms of the scale of the companies they manage or in terms of personal worth.

If it weren't for Su Yehao's heavy holding of Apple stocks, Wall Street investors would have almost forgotten the existence of Apple, leaving only a small minority of investors who would pay attention to Apple's latest trends.

Overall.

The Jobs sitting in front of him seemed to be completely different from the "Godfather of Technology" in Su Yehao's impression.

Think about it actually.

The computer market has long been divided up by many brands, and the market share left to Apple is only about 3%. Even if you want to be aggressive, there is no good way. It is not bad to be able to hold on to the basic market.

Su Yehao said with a smile at this moment:

"No, I don't intend to listen to you. Once you have an accident, I will buy the shares in the hands of other shareholders at a premium until I get more than 33% of the shares and become Apple's controlling shareholder. If you don't want this to happen, Then go to receive treatment from a top doctor, it’s like cheating and copying the test papers during the exam, you let the students who got all A+ in their homework not copy, but you just learn the homework of Indian students, don’t you find something wrong?”

It could be guessed that he was persuading him to get treatment as soon as possible. Jobs didn't answer, and said stubbornly: "You are discriminatory. As far as I know, Indian students' homework scores are very good, second only to your Chinese."

"Who said that? I'm Chinese, but my grades are terrible."

Su Yehao didn't give a good tone, and added: "I'm just giving an example. The top doctors and pharmaceutical companies are all in the United States. They should have a way to cure you..."

Chapter 965 Is It Really So Unattractive?

After the board starts.

There was no face-slapping scene, Su Yehao and representatives of the second shareholder BlackRock Group were present together.

With the authorization agreement issued by several other major shareholders, the right to speak was piled up to about 36%, and the nominations submitted by the three shareholders were directly and forcibly removed, and the three of them were allowed to leave immediately.

Fortunately, Apple has performed well in the past two years. It has made a lot of money selling iPods, and Su Yehao has followed suit from brokers and institutions, investing in Apple with an attitude of giving it a try. As a result, the number of shares held by major shareholders is higher than that of previous years. .

otherwise.

It is simply impossible to get more than 33% of the voting rights from a group of retail investors and small shareholders.

This is probably also the reason why the previous three shareholders acted a bit erratically.

It is estimated that until today's meeting, they did not expect that Su Yehao would actually make a move in person. He contacted other major shareholders of Apple through his relationship, and was caught off guard.

The re-installed three board members are from KOKO Venture Capital and BlackRock Group, and the remaining one is handed over to Tim Kecu, who is in charge of supervising operations and sales.

After Su Yehao finished the list of candidates, he voted first.

After raising your hand, ask someone to record it, and pass it immediately without even asking anyone else.

Although he is not usually a controlling shareholder, getting the temporary authorization at this moment is equivalent to holding a sword in hand. If Jobs is not pleasing to the eye, he can even make him pack up and leave again.

It is estimated that it is because of this.

He noticed that Su Yehao had glanced at him several times, which made Jobs feel nervous. He was not worried that he would turn his back on him, but that he would force him to put down his work and go to the hospital for treatment.

It's Jobs' private matter whether he treats it or not, and Su Yehao has nothing to do with it, but he does have the power at this moment to force Jobs to suspend him from his job.

It is rare to have a "controlling shareholder" sitting in the seat, and the meeting proceeded very quickly.

Jobs seized the opportunity to raise issues that he considered necessary but had previously been rejected by the board.

Su Yehao had already discussed with the other party in Jobs' office, and now he was only responsible for raising his hands. The newcomers who were about to take over the positions of independent directors of the board of directors always felt something was wrong after seeing this scene.

After gradually recollecting it, I realized that since Su Yehao was able to get the authorization this time, he might be able to get it next time.

Everyone in Silicon Valley knows how attractive Google is and the group of unicorn companies with a valuation of more than one billion US dollars under the Yanwen Group. As long as Su Yehao says hello, the brokerage institutions may not reject him.

In the land of Silicon Valley, startup bosses who can make investors rich have always been the most popular existence...

……

Su Yehao couldn't persuade Jobs.

After visiting Apple's R&D laboratory, I saw the prototype of the iMac all-in-one machine inside.

There is also an ultra-thin notebook computer, which is planned to adopt a compact aluminum alloy unibody body and adopt a new design style.

In this regard, I can only say that Lao Qiao's aesthetics are as good as ever.

After seeing the prototype of Apple's Macbook Pro, Su Yehao just wanted to throw the notebook produced by Huangzuan Computer directly into the trash can.

It's a pity that the Apple brand has not yet had such a strong appeal. Due to the use of an exclusive closed operating system, it is destined to only attract the attention of a small number of buyers. Microsoft products are generally used for office documents, and there is no relationship between them. Not interoperable, which greatly affects the experience of use.

In a state of severe sleep deprivation, after Su Yehao left the Apple headquarters, he went home and ate some sandwiches, and went back to his room to put on an eye mask to catch up on sleep.

I was sleeping in the dark, and I don't know how long the time has passed.

He suddenly noticed that someone was scratching his nose back and forth with his hair, and couldn't help sneezing, subconsciously thinking that only Vera could be so boring.

So he pulled the opponent over and pressed his palm exactly where it shouldn't be.

In a daze, Su Yehao was still thinking about how to become a big steamed bun, and the next moment he heard a woman's voice, shouting: "Su Yehao! Ahhh! I'll bite you to death!"

As soon as his hand was grabbed, Su Yehao retracted subconsciously.

He hurriedly took off the blindfold, squinted his eyes to adapt to the light, and asked blankly, "Miss Zhao, why did you come to my room... No, this is America, not a port city!"

The person here is not Zhao Yimeng.

She folded her arms before her, and, in shame and irritation, told:

"I haven't heard you mention it. You always say how good the opportunities here are. I really believe your evil. I have been wandering around Silicon Valley for more than a month, and there are tens of thousands of entrepreneurial teams, large and small. How do I know which is good and which is not?"

As soon as Su Yehao moved his fingers, a pillow immediately hit him in the face.

There were bodyguards nearby who heard the movement, and wanted to come in to see if something had happened, but Linda Yun poked his head to read it, with a mysterious expression on his face, which made the bodyguards disperse.

Su Yehao, who suddenly woke up, defended, "I thought it was a dream, or maybe Jiang Yu and the others came to me suddenly. Who knew you would be so boring. It's really not my fault."

Zhao Yimeng knew that this was just an accident, so he ignored it, got up and straightened his clothes and hairstyle, stood there and said:

"Just treat it like being bumped by a pig, it's okay. My lord doesn't remember villains, so it seems that you are a born hooligan, and your first reaction to being tickled is... like this."

"..."

Su Yehao couldn't tell her, he thought it was Miss Vera who came over.

As if nothing happened, he changed the topic and said:

"You came here to find a project by yourself, why not invest your money in my 5S asset management, but meeting me is considered a noble person, do you have any investment intentions, and I will help you as a master consultant?"

Zhao Yimeng nodded and said:

“I’m actually in contact with several teams, and I’ve discovered the difference between me and you, that is, even if I invest money, I can’t find promotion channels like Google and Yanmoji, and advertising will quickly burn out the money. I just heard the news of your coming today, so I came to find you, planning to return to Hong Kong City one day, can I take your plane?"

"...It's not that your family has no money, so go buy one yourself, or rent it. Is my plane more fragrant?"

Su Yehao was a little speechless, he didn't care about the flight itself, but if there were no accidents, Vera would come over in the next two days, and Zhao Yimeng was good friends with her.