Chapter 1905 Gambling Agreement

The young man naturally understood what Bill Gates was thinking.

Some people, even if you look at them with kind-faced features or are honest and honest, you will subconsciously think that they are good people.

Actually not at all.

For example, Wang xx, who assassinated the prince of the Qing Dynasty, was handsome and handsome, but wasn't he also attracted by the Japanese and became a shameful sinner of the nation?

Of course Bill Gates would not compare himself to Wang XX, but Yin Jun was well aware of his decisiveness in business.

No one or company that reaches the top can do so smoothly and only by legitimate means.

Even people like Yin Jun, who come back from time travel, sometimes use some means to ensure that their goals are achieved.

This is especially true for Bill Gates.

Microsoft's dominance in the computer industry is due to the accumulation of corpses of many small and medium-sized companies.

There have been quite a few fights between them and Apple. Gang leader Qiao has shouted more than once, "I will use all my efforts to destroy them! The things stolen should be destroyed!"

But why didn’t Boss Qiao mention this matter again after he took charge of Apple for the second time and brought Apple to a peak that even Microsoft had not reached?

Very simple.

When Apple was in the most critical situation, Bill Gates lent a large sum of money to Boss Qiao without saying a word to help him tide over the difficulties.

If you take someone else's favor, you can't turn your back on them, right?

So Gang Leader Qiao could only do it angrily.

From here you can also see Bill Gates’ methods.

He was such a stubborn enemy of life and death that he could not make up his mind to get angry. This was not something ordinary people could do.

In today's environment, Bill Gates is safeguarding the overall interests of Microsoft, so he must be careful and will not let Yin Jun get a cheap deal.

Even though he clearly knows that the value of Office is definitely far more than 300 million US dollars, he still relies on Microsoft's Windows operating system, which is the best platform for Office, to keep the price down.

In fact, Bill Gates is a bit stern and stern now.

He doesn't know how Microsoft's operating system will be in an invincible state in the future. Otherwise, he would have directly set a price of 100 million US dollars. If you want to sell it, you can sell it. If not, I will find someone to develop it myself. alright.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that Yin Jun is the largest shareholder of Microsoft, and also because Yin Jun controls the world's second largest computer company. Otherwise, maybe Bill Gates will really act like this when he sees such huge benefits. This is what he would do in the future, to imitate office software.

The current Windows system has caused great repercussions around the world, but because its functions have not yet entered the era of win95, and there are not so many computer users in the world, even Bill Gates cannot be sure. How far can it go.

What he has to do now is to do everything possible to let the Windows system occupy as much market share as possible and promote computers as much as possible.

If you want to promote computers, can you avoid Kirin Computer?

If Yin Jun is offended, he will directly cooperate with Apple and use Apple's operating system to install it. This will be a huge blow to Microsoft!

The above points are the reasons why Bill Gates could tolerate it and offered 8% of Microsoft shares.

Only by further tying Yin Jun to Microsoft's battleship can Microsoft continue to move forward until it succeeds.

But adding 2% of the shares, Yin Jun alone would have to own 55% of the shares, which is a very scary shareholding.

If possible, he would of course refuse such a shareholding situation to occur, even if he knew that when the shares were diluted by the listing, it would be Yin Jun who took out the shares, and then Yin Jun's shares would naturally become much smaller.

Yin Jun naturally understands Bill Gates's concerns and thoughts.

So after a few minutes of silence, he asked harmoniously: "If it were Bill and you came to make a bet, what conditions would you put forward?"

"It can't be calculated based on 20 million units, it must be calculated based on sales." Bill Gates mused, "10 billion US dollars, in a year and a half!"

"Mr. Gates, you are a bit harsh." After listening for a long time, Colauti couldn't help but interjected, "As far as I know, the best-selling version of Office is the most common basic version priced at 99 US dollars. The ones priced at US$399 and US$599 account for less than 10% of the market share, and looking at this situation, it is impossible for the standard and professional versions to sell well.

Now there are only 19 months until the end of 2086. How can the sales target of 10 billion US dollars be achieved? Moreover, if it can be sold for 10 billion U.S. dollars, the profit of Office will be much higher than 300 million U.S. dollars, which is also higher than Microsoft's 10% shareholding. Why does Jun Shao need to sell this software to Microsoft again? "

Such sharp words are really not suitable for Yin Jun to say.

Bill Gates didn't blush when he heard this, and nodded, "Because Microsoft is also a good company, and the best platform for Office is our Windows system! And after selling it to us, the money that Office made was not as good as that of Good One." A large part? 54% of the shares can pay a lot of dividends!"

"We will talk about the listing soon. Jun Shao is lucky to be able to retain 30% of the shares." Colauti is worthy of being an elite at Goldman Sachs, and he immediately seized on another weakness.

When someone caught him telling lies with his eyes open, Bill Gates didn't even change his expression.

He nodded and said, "But even so, Jun is also the largest shareholder of Microsoft. Many of our interests belong to him, and he will not suffer any loss."

Seeing Bill Gates being a bit messy, Yin Jun was also a little amused, "Bill, sales of 10 billion US dollars are definitely asking for a lot of money. Let's be sincere! You know I am not a stingy person, nor am I suitable for bargaining." , I will give you my psychological price... sales of 5 billion US dollars. If you agree, we will make a bet, otherwise we will put this acquisition on hold for the time being!"

"make a deal!"

Bill Gates agreed without thinking.

Not only Yin Jun, but even Colauti was dumbfounded.

This guy is really good!

Not only is he so thick-skinned, but he can still be so mellow in the face of embarrassment and sky-high prices. How can he look like a young man in his twenties?

In the hands of such people, Microsoft will really flourish!

Colauti couldn't help but give Bill Gates a lot more points, and he was more attentive to his cooperation with Microsoft.

Sales of US$5 billion, spread over 19 months, would be approximately US$250 million per month.

Based on the current sales situation of Office, it is almost 800,000 copies a month, which is only about 90 million US dollars, not even 100 million US dollars.

It is really difficult to complete this gambling condition!

But Colauti can't control that much. After all, he is not a professional technician or a marketer. Of course, he doesn't know how to achieve the sales target.

But at the same time, Colauti also believed that Yin Jun had a way to achieve his goal, because this genius never fought an uncertain battle.

After passing through his thoughts, Colauti said to Bill Gates again, "Mr. Gates, let me confirm, are you sure that Mr. Paul Allen will agree to this gambling plan?"

"He has given me full authority to handle this matter, no problem." Bill Gates nodded and replied.

"Then the 10% of the shares will be transferred to Mr. Jun when the agreement is signed?" Colauti continued to ask, "If the bet fails, he will return the shares to Jun before January 1987." Do I mean that the three shareholders, including himself, have meaningful differences?”

"It's very clear, the specific gambling agreement is written like this." Bill Gates said cheerfully.

"good!"

Colauti nodded and said, "I will make a gambling agreement in the next few days for you to sign... Mr. Paul Allen, does he have an official and fair entrustment?"

Bill Gates also nodded, "Including this listing, I will handle it."

It can be seen that Paul Allen really trusts his good friend and entrusts him with all the shares.

But it seemed to be the same in the past life.

When Microsoft went public, Paul Allen was still fighting the disease. How could he have the energy to pay attention to such a complicated listing process?

So he simply entrusted everything to Bill Gates.

And Bill Gates lived up to his trust, did things beautifully, and then created two super rich people with a net worth of more than 30 billion US dollars.

But neither of them must have known at the time that Microsoft's shares would be so valuable, right?

But Yin Jun also understands that although Bill Gates is very ruthless when dealing with business competitors, he is still very good to his friends.

Even if he knew that Microsoft shares would be extremely valuable in the future, he would not be able to do such a shameless thing as swallowing up his friend's shares.

Otherwise, Buffett, a wise old fox all his life, would not have become good friends with Bill Gates.

Whether you can become a good friend or not is very important.

Buffett is very good at judging people.

Yin Jun suddenly remembered a funny thing at this time.

Bill Gates continued to reduce his holdings of Microsoft stocks over 30 years after Microsoft went public.

In the end, he only had 1% of the shares left, but he was also Microsoft's largest individual shareholder.

The money he gained from reducing his holdings was given to his confidants for investment. As a result, he finally had assets close to 100 billion U.S. dollars. He was the richest man in the world for many years in a row and never dropped outside the top three.

But the fun lies in another place.

If Bill Gates had not reduced his holdings of Microsoft stock, based on the 45% stake he owned when Microsoft went public, Microsoft would have reached a market value of US$800 billion in 2018, which is US$360 billion!

Look!

If he didn't bother and just stayed with Microsoft, Bill Gates would have more than 260 billion US dollars in assets than he does now.

Basically, as long as he is still here, the richest man in the world will always be his!

After all this hard work, his assets have become less. I wonder if Bill Gates felt a little unhappy when he came back from his dream at midnight?

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