Chapter 1420 To Avoid Night Dreams

The acquisition of Apple was the single biggest deal Li Mu had planned since his rebirth. Li Mu looked calm on the surface, but he was already excited.

However, where the billions of dollars are going is really a big problem for Li Mu.

Li Mu didn't want to dilute his shares to repay the money at this juncture, but whether he tried to find a way to take out a loan from China or engage in private placement, all he got was RMB. In order to prevent the Western economy from having an impact on the country and to ensure the exchange rate of RMB, the country has strict rules on foreign exchange. It is not difficult to get tens of billions of RMB, but it is as difficult to get billions of dollars.

However, this problem did not cause much trouble to Li Mu. For him, the most important thing at the moment is to negotiate the acquisition-related matters with Apple first. As long as Apple's shareholders are willing to take action, he will then think about the money issue. solve.

A few hours after Apple's stock price plummeted to $4.53, at 9:00 a.m. Yanjing time, Li Mu asked Li Ziwei to inform the core layer of Muye Technology, as well as Lei Jun and Liu Yingdong from Taobao Technology to Muye Technology for a meeting at 10:00 to prepare for a formal meeting. Create a temporary division dedicated to the acquisition of Apple.

At 9:10, Louis Martin came to Li Mu's office and expressed his stance to Li Mu very enthusiastically: "Mr. Li, I have already greeted the headquarters. From today until you leave for the United States, I will be there. Stay in Huaxia at your command."

Li Mu nodded: "Then it's hard for you, Louis. At ten o'clock, I will hold a high-level meeting to announce the acquisition plan and the establishment of the business department. You can join us at that time, and I will introduce you to everyone."

Louis Martin hurriedly said, "That's great."

Li Mu said: "Louis, the acquisition of Apple is very important to me personally. Although you are not from Muye Technology, I still hope that you can give more advice on this matter and try to help us facilitate this acquisition."

Louis Martin said firmly: "Mr. Li, don't worry, I will do my best."

After that, Louis Martin added: "By the way, Mr. Li, our chairman asked me to tell you yesterday that Sequoia is willing to lend Muye Technology a $3.6 billion interest-free loan to help Muye Technology complete the capital operation of acquiring Apple. And the money is not in a hurry to repay, you can wait for Muye Technology to successfully IPO before repaying it.”

Li Mu smiled slightly and asked him, "What about the conditions?"

Louis Martin said with a smile: "Mr. Li, the conditions are actually very generous. We don't force Muye Technology to refinance. We just hope to be able to re-enter 3% of the shares of Muye Technology at a valuation of 80 billion US dollars."

Having said that,

Afraid of Li Mu's immediate rejection, Louis Martin hurriedly added: "Don't worry, if you don't want to dilute your shares, we won't force it, but we hope to communicate privately with other shareholders of Muye Technology, if any shareholders want to cash out, We can deal privately with him without any impact on your shares."

Li Mu said: "Take three points for the valuation of 80 billion, and then lend me 3.6 billion US dollars, a total of 6 billion, are you okay?"

Louis Martin smiled and said nothing.

Li Mu said: "All shareholders of Muye Technology, except you Sequoia, have signed a concerted action agreement with me. Without my permission, none of them can resell their shares."

Louis Martin said: "We know this very well, so I hope you will allow it."

Li Mu added: "If you buy three points directly from the shareholders, then the 2.4 billion won't reach Muye Technology's pocket. If I take your 3.6 billion loan, I still have to find other funds. Besides, Muye Technology's current development momentum So good, do you think there will be shareholders willing to cash out at this time?"

"This..." Louis Martin sneered and asked: "Then can you consider diluting 3% of the existing shares of all shareholders? This ratio is actually very small..."

Li Mu looked at Louis Martin without speaking, and suddenly asked him after a while, "Louis, are you a professional manager?"

Louis Martin nodded and asked in surprise, "What's wrong with Mr. Li?"

Li Mu said, "The money you earn from Sequoia a year may not be ten million dollars, right?"

Louis Martin shrugged and said, "It's about the same before taxes, but it's a lot worse after taxes."

The vast majority of professional managers are not the actual shareholders of the company. Most of them hold a high salary, and then successively get a small number of options from the board of directors. The options are like a chain on a dog. Yes, but not if you take it off. Tim Cook has worked hard for Apple for so many years, creating such a high profit, and his final worth is only a few hundred million US dollars. He has worked so hard for so many years, not to mention a Louis Martin.

Li Mu said: "Well, Louis, you will help me collect Apple with all your heart during this period of time, give full play to your ingenuity, and your understanding of Apple and the US capital market. If my acquisition is successful, after Muye Technology goes public, I'm outside of the United States, helping you to implement $5 million in after-tax income, and you can rest assured that I will handle this money very cleanly. If you can play a very important role in this acquisition, I will I will give you an additional five million. As for persuading me to dilute some of the shares to exchange money from Sequoia, you don’t have to say it in the future. If Sequoia asks, you can tell them directly, no matter how hard you try, I will not accepted."

Louis Martin's expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly said after a moment: "Mr. Li, you don't have to be so polite. As an investment object and partner of Sequoia, I have an absolute obligation to help Muye Technology, so don't worry, I will definitely do it. Do your best to help."

Li Mu smiled lightly and said, "You don't have to worry about my integrity, let alone my contract spirit. What I told you just now is only known to you and I, so if you don't really want to refuse 100%, then everything is fine. Needless to say, when things are done, everything I said will naturally be fulfilled as promised."

Louis Martin hesitated for a while, then nodded lightly and said to Li Mu, "Don't worry, Mr. Li, I will do my best."

For Louis Martin, he already understood that Li Mu could not let Sequoia take more shares of Muye Technology at this time, and no matter what his attitude towards Sequoia was, in order to maintain the cooperative relationship with him, he had to Stay and help Li Mu complete the acquisition. Instead of this, why not agree to Li Mu's offer? If it was an ordinary person who made such a promise, I'm afraid he would still be worried that he would leak this kind of gray transaction in the future, but the other party was Li Mu. With his identity, status, and behavior, he didn't have to worry about such a risk at all.

A good thing to make a steady profit, why not do it?

...

At ten o'clock, in the meeting room of Muye Technology, all the core layers were already there.

Leader Lei and Senior Brother Liu also came to attend the meeting. Although they didn't know what Li Mu was going to do, every time Li Mu called the core layers of the two companies together for a meeting, there must be a major event to announce.

Louis Martin also followed Li Mu to the conference room. In the conference room, Li Mu introduced Louis Martin to everyone. When they heard that he was the VP of Sequoia headquarters, everyone was surprised. The representative of the capital would appear here. Could it be that Li Mu is going to do a new capital operation?

After introducing Louis Martin, Li Mu's first sentence to everyone was straight to the point:

"Comrades, today I solemnly announce a decision to you: Makino Technology plans to launch the acquisition of Apple in the United States, and will complete Apple's privatization and delisting from Nasdaq after the acquisition, ultimately turning Apple into Makino. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Technology!"

Everyone was stunned.

Li Mu observed everyone's expressions, two people were extremely excited, and the others were basically blank and puzzled.

The excited ones were Fang Xudong and Lei Jun.

Li Mu asked Fang Xudong: "Xudong, tell everyone why you are so excited?"

Fang Xudong said excitedly: "Apple's technical reserves are very strong, and now the stock price has collapsed and the market value has plummeted. If the company can eat Apple, I believe this is definitely a very good deal."

Li Mu asked Lei Jun, "Mr. Lei, what do you think?"

Leader Lei smiled and said: "Apple's strength in operating system, software and hardware is still very strong. Although our Mango-ME2 is much stronger than iPod3, this is the result of our sudden attack. If Apple has sufficient financial resources, If we directly develop the products of the high half or even high generation to counter the suppression of Mango-ME2, it will be very difficult for us to catch up.”

As if he had found a friend, Fang Xudong nodded again and again: "Mr. Lei is so right! Our Mango-ME2 is like an aircraft in the era of propellers that won by performance enhancement and cost reduction. It caught Apple by surprise, but As long as Apple can stand up, with their technical reserves, they can directly start the jet aircraft project and then overtake us. In that case, the generation gap will be formed, and it will be too difficult for us to catch up with this generation gap.”

Commercial Director Ding Jian asked: "Mr. Fang, I don't know much about technology. There is one thing I don't quite understand."

Fang Xudong hurriedly said, "Mr. Ding, please speak."

Ding Jiandao: "What I don't understand is, if the iPod and the Mango-ME2 are both propeller-era aircraft, and we have caught up with Apple, why can Apple start the jet project and we can't?"

Fang Xudong said: "Let's put it this way, whether it's an iPod or a Mango-ME2, it's just a few things when you take it apart: memory modules, digital signal processing chips, microprocessors, signal controllers, and LCD screens. There is no technical content, just like the aircraft in the propeller era, which is basically the engine, propeller, landing gear and hydraulic control system. The technical content is not high. If Apple can make it, we can also make it;

However, if you want to develop a jet aircraft, it requires the entire industrial system to rise by at least one generation. First, the technical research and development strength must be strong enough to develop a series of components required for jet aircraft; secondly, the basic materials must be strong enough to create Only the jet engine can withstand high temperature, high speed and high power output, and the fuselage can carry the higher flight speed of the aircraft; again, the requirements of the manufacturing process will also increase exponentially, we do not have these strengths, but Apple have. "

Speaking of this, Fang Xudong sighed: "Mr. Lei sees it too thoroughly. Fortunately, Apple's financial resources are not strong enough, a bit like Germany at the end of World War II. Otherwise, if we really let him continue to develop, it won't take long for them to turn defeat into victory. The hardware gap is only going to get bigger."

Li Mu looked at Lei Jun and knew that he was a technical maniac, but he didn't expect him to have such a vision in this era, and Fang Xudong, both of whom are technical talents, naturally look at this kind of problem more deeply than the average person. , but Fang Xudong is 100% all-biased technology, Lei Jun is 100% technology in the early stage, and gradually transitions to products and marketing in the later stage, so Fang Xudong can do his job as the chief technology officer of Muye Technology in the future, which is the greatest value, and Lei Jun, He can be the same as Liu Yingdong, who can handle a 100 billion-dollar industry chain by himself.

With Lei Jun, Liu Rongdong, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, the four super giants, the trillion-dollar market value of Muye Technology and other products in the future is just around the corner.

Excited, Li Mu tentatively asked Lei Jun: "Mr. Lei, as you can see, assuming Apple has enough financial support, they want to develop a product that is half a generation or a generation ahead of us in the player, what will it take? direction?"

Lei Jun said: "According to my personal opinion, if it is a high-end generation, then at least color screen display should be realized, and the overall firmware should be upgraded to add modules based on the IEEE802.11 standard; if it is a high-generation generation, then it must be in the On this basis, we will be intelligent and develop an operating system for handheld devices like the iPod, just like the Palm operating system for commercial PDAs on the market.”

After a pause, Lei Jun continued: "Once this high-generation thing is taken out, Apple will immediately open up the generation gap with us. As Xu Dong said, we are stacking hard drives, decoding chips, and microprocessors. Apple can do things like iPods, Sennheiser headphones, and price wars, but if Apple just makes the iPod smart, we'll have nothing to lose."

Li Mu's eyes lit up.

PDA, a mobile smart device in its primary stage, has actually become popular among Western business elites as early as the 1990s. However, in today's China, this device, which is often more expensive than a computer, has a very high penetration rate. Low, in fact, this thing has not caused any real waves until it disappeared in the end. It can be said to be high-end in life and silent in death.

Later, the resurgence of PDAs was already the post-Android era. At that time, smartphones were everywhere, and smart PDAs became an indispensable mobile order processing tool for SF Express and JD.com couriers. SF Express’s PDA even added thermal paper printing functions. , let the courier directly use it to print the express receipt.

From the death of PDA to the resurgence of PDA in the commercial field, PDA missed the golden period of the flourishing development of the entire smart phone. This kind of product consciousness and form is very close to the existence of smart phones. It is a pity that the manufacturer has positioned it. The PDA is too tall, and has never thought about pushing it to ordinary users, and no one develops software that ordinary people may use around the PDA's operating system. Otherwise, PDAs can directly lead the era of smart phones.

Hearing Lei Jun talk about PDAs and mobile operating systems, Li Mu was very impressed. It turns out that people who are proficient in technology and have a clear vision in this era actually already have a very accurate vision in their minds. Lei Jun can see the iPod. The next-generation product is a mobile product with a color screen, functions, and an independent operating system, which means that he has seen the iTouch directly from the iPod, and the iTouch and the iPhone are only separated by a layer of window paper!

Thinking of this level, Li Mu suddenly felt a little frightened. Lei Jun can see the development direction of the next generation of iPod, and Apple can also think about it.

In the past life, Apple’s upgrade routine on the iPod was to squeeze toothpaste constantly, and I never thought about making the iPod intelligent. It was not until 2007 that the IOS system and the first generation iPhone were launched, and iOS was used on the iPod along the way. , made an iTouch;

However, now that Apple has been violently destroyed by itself for a while, it might be hard to grit its teeth in an emergency and decide in advance to make a product like iTouch out. That would be a real dog. ...

Thinking that Apple may have a lot of cash on hand, and that there may be a lot of money from distributors and foundries in the iPod business, Li Mu is even more worried that Apple will be forced to take it to the end...

It seems that the practical rhythm of acquiring Apple must be faster than what I expected, so as not to have too many dreams...

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