Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 71 The olive branch from Google

How can you make $9000 billion in one year if you already have $10 million?Ask for help online, if you are the one.The best answer is to dream. Let alone 9000 million principal, 10 billion principal is a small case.

But for Qu Li, a wall-hanger, this is really a small case.The reason is simple. The complex options and futures are simplified. International crude oil is currently priced at US$55 per barrel. If he buys a long option at US$60, he can buy this batch of crude oil at one-tenth of the price.

For example, Qu Li can buy 5000 barrels of crude oil for US$83 million. After buying options, he can buy at least 830 million barrels. A year later, the price of crude oil rises to around US$100. Even if the settlement price is US$95 per barrel, he will After the year, you can get 830 million* (95-55) million, which is 3.3 million US dollars.In fact, the option premium can be understood as a deposit, and US$5000 million can buy more than 2000 million barrels.

"If you buy a barrel option of 60 US dollars, 5000 million can buy 2000 million barrels. As long as the oil price really exceeds 62.5 US dollars within a year, you can make money." Peterson came to Qu Li's hotel the next morning and gave him more information. Big surprise.

Qu Li took the documents prepared for him by Peterson and the others, looked left and right, and calculated secretly in his mind. He couldn't remember the specific rise and fall of international oil prices. He only knew that in mid-2008, international oil prices rose to 150 US dollars, and by the end of this year, they rose to 100 US dollars. The probability of reaching $50 is more than 80%, so will the probability of rising to $80 be greater than 60%?On the contrary, if the international crude oil price is lower than [-] US dollars by then, this option investment will basically be in vain.

"Just buy this batch. My request is not to leave tax and legal risks in the United States. I can sell at any time, and the other party cannot terminate the contract. I would rather have a little trouble now than get into trouble later." Qu Li, as always He maintains a cautious style, and the things he can do are very risky.

"Okay, no problem." Both the lawyer and the accountant agreed. I won't go into details about various service fees, commissions, and insurance premiums, just ignore them.

"Help me find a few short real estate funds with detailed information. If there are good options, I will invest." Qu Li threw out the bait. If he really wanted to invest, the commission would belong to HSBC America.

"We will prepare the information." Peterson agreed.

"It is best to be the kind of fund that has been shorting house prices since last year." Qu Li emphasized again that although there may be many funds in the United States that are shorting house prices, there is only one that is the most famous, and his purpose is to find that person.

After the matter was explained, Zhou Shaoning also arrived. Qu Li did not explain his investment project to him. The three of them went to Google together and called in advance to make an appointment.

Zhou Shaoning came to Google headquarters more than once, but this time his identity was different and his mood was particularly different.

When they arrived at Google headquarters, a dedicated person was responsible for the reception and took the three of them to a small conference room. The three giants of Google were waiting for them here at the same time, which made Zhou Shaoning flattered.

"Hi, Qu Li, hello, I'm Larry Page!" Page and Brin introduced themselves one after another

"I'm Qu Li. I'm very happy to meet two legends of Silicon Valley. This is my girlfriend Zhang Yiwen. She has been helping me deal with various fund-related matters." Qu Li introduced the three of them, but Zhou Shaoning Although he is the president of Greater China, the Google duo does not seem to be too impressed by him.

"We want to hear your vision for the mobile Internet." Schmidt got straight to the point.

"First of all, we must affirm the development direction of Apple, which is also the development direction that I yearn for; secondly, refer to the possible future network speed of 3G/4G, which can reach the speed of [-]M optical fiber, which is not much different from the PC Internet."

“If user experience is not taken into consideration, all the tasks that consumers can complete on PCs will be possible on mobile phones in the future. This is equivalent to having a laptop that can be stuffed into your pocket at any time, can be put on standby for a long time, and can be opened in one second. "

"Why does it have to be a touch screen instead of a full keyboard?" Page asked, because Android was originally developed for QWERTY full keyboard phones, imitating BlackBerry phones.

"Because what I want is an Internet phone. If the screen is too small, it is not suitable for long-term use, and the core advantages will be difficult to play."

"The core advantage?"

"The iPhone has many shortcomings. The short battery life is inevitable, and may even be a fatal shortcoming. If there is no advantage that is strong enough to counteract this shortcoming, then what reason do consumers have to convince themselves to change their usage habits?"

"What is this advantage?"

"Big screen, multiple software, multiple uses!" Qu Li said concisely and concisely. Google must have seen that the impact of IOS was very big, so it approached Qu Li, an outsider, because he had proposed the idea of ​​IPhone half a year ago. At the time, it didn't seem like much. Unexpectedly, there is an amazing coincidence with Apple.

Qu Li was responsible for bragging and talked a lot about Google. For example, the smartphone company he and Zhou Shaoning planned to establish would be able to cooperate with Google.

"Cooperation, how to cooperate?" Schmidt asked with a smile.

"Of course, Google search will be built into the mobile operating system and then charged based on usage. I believe Apple's iPhone will also charge for it in the future."

"But it seems like your operating system hasn't been developed yet?"

"In fact, we haven't even formed a team, but Apple can't occupy all the markets. We are fully committed when big companies are still hesitating. We believe that even if we lag behind Apple's iPhone in smartphones, we will not lag behind Nokia."

"Then your investment will be huge, and developing an operating system is not easy."

"Using the Linux kernel and making a simplified version without a touch screen, while selling mobile phones to accumulate experience, while developing the operating system, it will take about two to three years to create a qualified operating system."

"But at that time, Apple's IPhone will have a huge advantage, and I'm afraid it will have a greater monopoly advantage than Microsoft and Intel."

"You don't plan to use an operating system provided by a third party?"

"We have also done research in this area. Symbian led by Nokia is obviously not suitable, otherwise other cooperative companies will not give up cooperation one after another. The iOS of iPhone and the operating system of BlackBerry are not open source, PlamOS was acquired, and do not support multi-threading..."

"Other than self-research, we seem to have no better way, unless Microsoft Windows Mobile supports full screen, but how long it will take them to implement it is unknown."

"You've said so much, why don't you say Google?" Schmidt

"Google shouldn't have had a similar plan before, otherwise Apple wouldn't want to cooperate with you." Qu Li said deliberately.

"Just because it didn't exist before doesn't mean it doesn't exist now." Schmidt naturally didn't know that Qu Li had known about Google's acquisition of Android.

"The most critical question is how high your priority is for this operating system and how much support you have?" The project priority of large companies is not high, which means that there are not many resources. It is not known how long it will take to develop a mobile operating system. The Year of the Monkey and the Month of the Horse.

"Higher than you think, but why should we choose to work with you?"

"Perhaps our biggest advantage is that both parties have reached an agreement. On the premise that both parties agree on the development direction of the iPhone, they can devote all their energy to this new operating system, such as ensuring that the initial investment is not less than 1000 million US dollars..."