Rebirth of the Tech Madman

"The reason why we invite you all to gather here this time is because we need to have a joint battle." Tang Huan scanned everyone, "In other words, come up with your most proud products for the Fangyuan computer platform, and let our entire system The value of it is becoming more and more prominent."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan specifically named the leading software products of subsidiaries such as pothoshop, autocad, and the like. "In the final analysis, we have to use the most powerful functions to defeat all competitors and ultimately win the battle for personal computer standards. victory."

In the warm applause, Tang Huan finished his speech, and the specific work was arranged by John Chambers, Charles Simeone and others.

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Tang Huan returned to the office. As soon as he took a breath, Jobs pushed his assistant and murmured in, "Tang, are you hiding from me? It's not easy to see each other."

"Do I have to hide from you?" Tang Huan shrugged, "Everyone can see how busy I am."

"Then you should know why I am looking for you?" Jobs sat down with a sword, or the kind of arrogant style that the world revolves around him.

Tang Huan laughed dumbly, "I really don't know."

In fact, he was pretending to be confused.

Jobs is currently looking for venture capital for Next, and he has frequently harassed the office of Philosopher and Confucianism, making everyone stay away from him. This is the reason why the other party complains about being avoided as soon as he speaks.

In just over a year, Jobs, who was kicked out of Apple, created the next company, which has burned out 7 million US dollars, and the results of the work are just what it looks like on the desk, which is far from the commercialization of the market. The degree is still far away.

This result is not surprising at all. In the absence of any operating income, Steve Jobs let his thoughts go, and tossed waywardly in the next company. The research and development progress has not been reset how many times.

Moreover, in addition to the luxurious office environment, Jobs also took his carefully selected R&D team from time to time to go out for brainstorming meetings and brainstorming. The most recent time he played a lap at Tang Huan's Pebble Beach Golf Course.

No matter how much capital you have, you can't afford to spend so much!

In this case, the shrewd Jobs did not want to continue to pay out of his own pocket, but used his brains for financing-based on his wishful thinking, he valued next at 30 million US dollars.

It is conceivable that venture capitalists will certainly not buy it, and Tang Huan’s San Francisco office assistant is also afraid to avoid it. Until now, Jobs has not fooled him for a penny.

Sure enough, Jobs began to talk about investing in next, and trumpeted the advanced aspects of next.

The highlight of Jobs's previous proud work, mac, is the graphical user interface; now the highlight of next is the object-oriented operating system.

After listening patiently to Jobs's nagging for a long time, Tang Huan then asked: "Then how much do you plan to raise money from me?"

Jobs pulled out a document and handed it over, "This is the prospectus. You can buy 10% of Next Company's shares for only 3 million U.S. dollars."

Tang Huan took the prospectus, but didn't read it, put it aside, and then filled out a check for 3 million U.S. dollars and pushed it along the smooth table to Steve Jobs.

"Only $3 million!" Jobs glanced at him, and he was dumbfounded.

"Is there any problem?" Tang Huan asked, "Didn't you just say that you can buy 10% of Next Company's shares for only 3 million US dollars."

"I mean, the amount of the pledged shares starts from 3 million U.S. dollars. With your financial resources, it is not easy to invest 10 million at will!" Jobs showed dissatisfaction, "but now, aren't you sending a beggar? ..."

"Just because I became a shareholder of Next Company, the advertising effect played was more than the $30 million value of Next Company." After Tang Huan said lightly, he stretched out his hand to get the check back.

"It's a little bit if you raise it." Depressed Jobs, muttering in his mouth, but he collected the check very quickly in his hand.

"Don't forget, I bought 10% of Next Company's shares." Seeing that Jobs took the money and left, Tang Huan reminded a few words, "Besides, don't try to break into my R&D center anymore. If you are fooling around, be careful that I turn you into the most common minority shareholder in philosophers."

Jobs strode out of the office unheard of, only to meet the oncoming Gates before he walked far, and he suddenly became more upset.

However, even though there were a lot of lumps in his heart, Jobs, who was begging for others, still endured it and asked nonchalantly: "How are you thinking about developing proprietary software for the next computer?"

"You'd better get out the prototype as soon as possible, and discuss other things." Gates replied casually, with a daze in his tone.

This time I encountered Jobs’s sore spots. He immediately settled the accounts in a weird manner: “Don’t forget, the spreadsheet software excel, which helped Microsoft make a lot of money, relies on the big tree of mac.”

"My cooperation with Apple is now recognized by both parties. Besides, does it have anything to do with you?" Gates argued unceremoniously.

The two security personnel who were called by the impatient assistant politely approached and persuaded, "Two gentlemen, please don't make a lot of noise on this floor."

Jobs and Gates hummed each other, turned their heads, and walked in opposite directions.

A short and capable man in his fifties noticed this scene not far away. After thinking for a while, he strode in the direction of Jobs and caught up with the opponent in the parking lot, hitting him from a distance. He said hello, "Hey, Jobs."

"Do we know each other?" Jobs asked angrily.

"You don't know me, but I know you." The person introduced himself confidently: "Perhaps, my name, you have heard of it before. My name is rossperot-Ross Perot, and now I am the only company in PeopleSoft. The second largest individual shareholder after Tang Huan. He previously ran a computer service company called Electronic Data Systems, but it was sold to General Motors the year before."

Although Steve Jobs is often muddled, it depends on others. For those of value, he tends to be very restrained. The very enthusiastic Rose Perot in front of him is within this range.

Don't think that Rose Perrault took the initiative to come over, and therefore underestimate others, he is a veritable big man, full of legends.

Rose Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas, USA. His father was a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts. Whether he participated in the Scout as a teenager, or joined the army and entered Annapolis as a teenager The performance of the Naval Academy is outstanding. When I was a salesperson at ibm, it was even more so. It took only two weeks to complete the sales task for the whole year.

To a certain extent, Rose Perot has a bright personality, which is a bit similar to Jobs at this stage, or it is more appropriate to describe it as a Texas cowboy.

For this reason, in the bureaucratic ibm, Ross Perot's future is to be a top employee.

By 1962, Ross Perot decided to fly solo and created an electronic data system company to provide services to IBM mainframe customers.

Dare to grab business with the Big Blue, Rose Perrault certainly did not have a good fruit to eat. At first, he was in a difficult situation. After being rejected seventy-seven times, the Electronic Data System Company won the first contract.

Fortunately, he has gradually improved since then. Rose Perrot won a large number of contracts from the government and made huge profits.

When Electronic Data Systems went public in 1968, the stock price soared from US$16 to US$160 within one day. As a result, Ross Perrault was put on the cover of Fortune magazine and named "the fastest and richest man."

It is undeniable that the rise of the electronic data system company and the wealth of Ross Perot are closely related to the success of ibm's system/360 and the prosperous mainframe.

Take General Motors as an example. By the 1980s, it already had hundreds of ibm mainframes, and the annual expenditure for internal data processing and office automation alone was as high as US$2 billion. If you cooperate with an electronic data system company, the contract value is about 3 billion to 5 billion US dollars.

The management of General Motors pondered that instead of this, it might as well directly buy Electronic Data Systems.

In this way, in 1984, Ross Perrault sold Electronic Data Systems to General Motors for $2.4 billion. In this transaction, in addition to a large amount of cash, he also got a lot of money. Less shares of General Motors, entered the other party’s board of directors. .

Undoubtedly, this business was done very savvyly-General Motors saved costs and added another source of financial resources, and the development situation of the ibm mainframe was deteriorating. Rose Perrot, who saw this, felt that he was also right The battlefield has been shifted.

In the process of PeopleSoft's ipo this year, the billionaire actively subscribed and became the second largest individual shareholder. He has moved from the mainframe field to the microcomputer field.

However, this is not enough to make up for the regret hidden in Rose Perot's heart.

It turns out that as early as 1979, Gates had visited Rose Perot in Texas, but he didn't take it seriously. After Microsoft was listed on the Nasdaq this year, its market value quickly swelled to $1 billion.

Seeing this scene, Ross Perot, don't mention the regret in his heart-I had known today, I had bought Microsoft at the beginning, and I missed an opportunity to send it to the door.

As for the IPOs of Tang Huan's several companies, Rose Perrault also caught up with PeopleSoft by accident.

Regrettably, it is regrettable. Because of this, Ross Perrault realized the bright prospects of the development of microcomputers led by personal computers, so he chased up in this investment direction. Now Jobs came into his field of vision.

To be honest, this it star, who was swept out by the company he founded, has a bad impression on Wall Street, and venture capital does not wait to see him.

But Ross Perrault is different. He admired Jobs, felt that he was congenial with the other party, and was willing to become its angel investor, and thus showed great kindness.

Here, he has realized that the guy who suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, what a powerful local tyrant Jobs, has also begun to show his most attractive attributes, and start dealing with it.

However, when I heard Rose Perot bluntly preached: "I heard that your next company is looking for investment. If you need it, just ask, I will help you, and your team, complete the idea."

Jobs was not as eager as he showed in Tang Huan. Instead, he stood up quietly and answered, "Thank you. I just got an investment from Tang for the next company."

Obviously, Jobs really needs money now, and he needs money very much. Otherwise, he would not complain that Tang Huan had only given 3 million US dollars like a beggar. But at this time, his reservedness to Rose Perot reflected his cunning and cleverness. Place.

Sure enough, Rose Perrault was stunned by Jobs, who was holding the banner of Tang Huan. He was very cautious when seeing the other party~www.wuxiahere.com~ and said generously: "It turns out that Tang is also optimistic about your company. Anyway, You can call me anytime if you need it."

In this way, Jobs took the initiative to contact the Texas billionaire after drying Rose Perot for a week, "Hey, Rose, are you interested in coming to Redwood City and visiting my next?" ℃ ≡ miào ℃ ≡bi℃≡ge℃≡

Thinking that he might have to lose another chance, Rose Perot immediately accepted the invitation and brought his analysts to the next company headquarters for evaluation.

Compared with the $30 million value of next company that was previously advocated to uninterested venture capital firms, Jobs is even darker this time and directly tripled the conditions.

The final result was that Jobs paid his own money and injected another US$5 million into Next Company, while Ross Perot used US$20 million to obtain 16% of Next Company’s shares.

In other words, after a week of work, Jobs has blown the next company without any revenue from 30 million US dollars to 125 million US dollars.

For this reason, Jobs went to Las Vegas and said to Tang Huan, who was busy with ibm on comdex, and said: "Hey, Tang, my next company is now worth 125 million US dollars. Your 3 million US dollars. , Can no longer occupy 10% of the shares. If you want to maintain this position, you need to pay another 10 million US dollars."

Tang Huan, who was very busy, immediately stretched out his hand impatiently, "Since you have successfully raised the fund, then return the $3 million to me."

Jobston was choked, and after a long time, he said angrily: "If you are ruthless, ten percent is ten percent."