giants of the era

Chapter 127 Technology of the Times
Li Zetian left the office and went to the reception room to meet several guests, one of whom was Thomas Rockefeller.

Apple does not only seek financing from the Rockefeller consortium. Li Zetian wants to win over more consortiums. The declining California consortium is one of his goals.

California is the largest munitions production base in the United States. Therefore, the industrial companies controlled by the California consortium mainly focus on munitions production, such as Lockheed Aircraft Company, Litton Industries and Northrop Corporation.The Bank of America is the financial core of the California consortium. However, its largest voting rights have been controlled by the Morgan consortium and the First Citibank consortium. As a result, the control of these arms-producing companies has gradually fallen into the hands of the eastern consortium. The power status of the consortium has relatively declined.

As a Chinese, Li Zetian does not expect to be able to control a powerful American arms company, but through capital infiltration, he can have a certain say in these companies.

Most consortiums have backgrounds in arms companies. If Li Zetian wanted to establish the Li family consortium, he would naturally need arms companies to rely on, and he also wanted to establish a private security company. If he himself was one of the directors of the arms company, it would be convenient Buy military products.

This is only for Li Zetian personally. For Apple, the two consortiums can bring huge resources to Apple. These resources include advanced technology, extensive contacts, excellent talents, huge orders, economics and policies. Support on and more!

Li Zetian pushed the door open, and there were four people sitting in the reception room, one was Tian Shuai, and the other three were Thomas Rockefeller, representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, Cosmo Warren and Dick Clare, representatives of the California Foundation.

Thomas Rockefeller was 40 years old, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, a black suit, and a purple tie, drinking coffee leisurely.

Cosmo Warren is a short, fat, bushy-eyed, about 45-year-old.

Dick Clare was a tall, thin old man with a white beard and piercing eyes that flickered from time to time.

Li Zetian greeted them with a smile, and then sat on the other side of the negotiating table with Tian Shuai.

Li Zetian said: "Wall Street has valued Apple at $50 billion. What do you think of this?"

Thomas Rockefeller shook his head and said: "Wall Street is obviously too blindly optimistic about Apple. The Walkman is indeed very popular now, but it does not mean that it will continue to be popular. I am afraid that it will not be long before other companies launch similar tape players. At that time, can Apple still monopolize the market?"

The old man Dick Clare echoed: "Just as the Apple-ll personal computer faces many competitors now, Walkman will encounter this situation in the future!"

In this regard, Li Zetian did not deny that Sony may already be developing a tape player.

With the powerful strength of Sony Corporation, it is definitely a rival of Apple Corporation!
Li Zetian pondered for a while and asked, "What's your valuation for Apple?"

Thomas Rockefeller, Dick Claire, and Cosmo Warren all looked at each other, and finally Thomas Rockefeller said, "$40 billion!"

"I think Wall Street's assessment is very accurate. Apple's market capitalization should be worth $50 billion!!!" Li Zetian bargained, "I believe that before other companies launch products, Walkman may have occupied the entire market, and the market will gradually tend to Saturated, users have also become sticky. Moreover, with Walkman’s leading position and popularity, people choose Walkman to buy Walkman. Even if other companies launch similar products, it will be difficult to compete with Walkman unless there are epoch-making innovations and Disruptive technology...but, obviously, neither is likely to happen! Therefore, the Walkman will dominate the market for a long time!!!”

"Mr. Li, the $50 billion valuation you mentioned is based on Walkman's consistent success. What if Walkman is defeated by competitors? You know, we are taking huge risks in investing in Apple!" Zimo Warren said in a deep voice.

Li Zetian laughed suddenly, and he said: "If Walkman can continue to be successful, Apple's market value will be more than 50 billion US dollars. It is precisely because the future is unpredictable that I reluctantly agree that Apple's market value is 50 billion US dollars! In fact, presumably You all know that the Walkman is very popular, and Apple is not too short of funds at present, but the reason why it seeks financing from you is to get the help of the Rockefeller Foundation and the California Foundation, so that Apple’s future development can be smooth sailing! I believe , even with a valuation of 60 billion US dollars, there will be people who are willing to invest!"

Li Zetian's tone was very firm, and the three people on the opposite side were very helpless. Apple's benefits were very good, and countless investors rushed to invest. If they didn't vote, naturally someone would.Now Apple picks investors, not investors pick Apple...

The three looked at each other and nodded, and then Thomas Rockefeller said: "Mr. Li, the valuation is 50 billion U.S. dollars, let's say 50 billion U.S. dollars. The two of us will invest 10 billion U.S. dollars together, and the Rockefeller consortium will invest 6 million U.S. dollars. Post-investment holdings 10%; the California consortium invested US$4 million and held 6.66% of the shares after the investment. In addition, we have a few small requirements.”

"What request?" Li Zetian asked.

"We found out that Apple also owns a Star Wars film company. Apple is a high-tech company. Establishing a film company is not doing business properly, and it invests in sci-fi films that have no market. This will undoubtedly lower the expectations of those on Wall Street. The rating of the company. If the company goes public in the future, this is bad news! I think the Star Wars film company should be split before the movie is released." Thomas Rockefeller said.

Li Zetian didn't answer immediately, he turned his head to look at the other two, "Is this what the California consortium also means?"

The two nodded.

"In this case, then split the Star Wars film company, count it under my personal name, and hold 100% of the shares, and I will make up the $900 million to Apple! In addition, Apple also holds Industrial Light and Magic 50% of the shares, I think it will be transferred to my personal name, of course, I will also take out a sum of money to make corresponding compensation. Do you think it will work?"

"Okay, I will do as you say!" Thomas Rockefeller smiled and nodded.The other two also nodded, no objection.

"What else do you want?" Li Zetian asked.

Thomas Rockefeller stared closely at Li Zetian's eyes and asked: "We want to know what is the relationship between this Umbrella company and you? You established Apple, and Apple's major shareholder is Umbrella; you established Microsoft, and Microsoft The company's major shareholder is Umbrella Corporation. It's hard not to think of your mysterious relationship with this company..."

Li Zetian was not surprised that the other party doubted himself. He is the founder of Apple and Microsoft, but he holds very few shares. This is obviously not a normal situation in the United States.Generally speaking, if seeking venture capital, it is impossible for the founder to give up more than 50% of the shares.

At this moment, Li Zetian was thinking in his heart that he should establish a second offshore company. As the saying goes, "the three caves of the cunning rabbit". Shore subsidiaries, and then use these subsidiaries to control those Internet companies, I don't believe it, you can still suspect me. The Umbrella umbrella company simply admitted that it was founded by itself. Sometimes, people need to show their swords and show their powerful strength to make the other party fear.The umbrella company is the sharp sword in my hand, let's see who dares to bully me! ! !
This other offshore company is called Times Technology, the umbrella company is in the open, and Times Technology is in the dark.

One light and one dark complement each other! ! !

After a while, Li Zetian nodded with a smile: "That's right, the Umbrella umbrella company does have something to do with me, because I founded this company! Of course, it's okay to hide this kind of trick from ordinary people, but it can't be hidden from you guys." A powerful consortium!"

"Sure enough!!!"

(End of this chapter)