Reborn as a Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 158 Jobs Visits

Lin Baicheng does not have many industries in the United States now, and he does not need to manage them himself from time to time. Therefore, he mainly develops office software at New Century Software Company, and then spares some time every day to go to the office where the game "Tank War" was developed.

Starlight Company is managed by Eric Davis, and Isabella often asks questions. Lin Baicheng only needs to spare some time to understand the company's current situation every once in a while.

Starlight Company is the original branch of Xinghe Games. Its main job is to set up channels and manage each store.Because these stores will sell not only Xinghe game consoles, but also toys and other peripheral products in the future, it is not appropriate to always call Xinghe game branch, so Lin Baicheng officially registered as a company.

Starlight Company was directly spun off from Xinghe Games and belonged to an offshore company, mainly for the convenience of tax avoidance in the future.In terms of level, Starlight Company is at the same level as Galaxy Games.

Lin Baicheng is also the major shareholder of Apple and Microsoft, but he did not participate in the management. He just asked Isabella to visit these two companies from time to time to play a supervisory role.

Then there is the investment in gold futures. Recently, the price of gold has generally gone down and has fallen below 190 US dollars per ounce. For the time being, Lin Baicheng is not ready to do anything, so he only needs to pay attention to the price every day.

Recently, Starlight Company is promoting the toy Rubik's Cube, mainly in California, because most of Starlight Company's stores are in California, and the promotion in this state can achieve greater publicity effect with less funds.

Although the Rubik's Cube is novel, it is not a black technology, and the toy itself needs a certain period of time to ferment among children and parents, so the sales volume at the beginning was not very high, and it did not become a big hit immediately.

However, because a lot of money was spent on advertising on TV stations and newspapers, the effect is still there, and the sales volume is not bad. After a period of fermentation, I believe there will be better results.

In addition to continuing to expand the size of the store, Eric is now doing the promotion of the Rubik's Cube.

In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed since Lin Baicheng came to Los Angeles.

On this day, Isabella reported to Lin Baicheng that Steve Jobs, the chairman of Apple, was going to visit him in Los Angeles, the major shareholder of the company, and had something to discuss with him.

Although Lin Baicheng was a little puzzled about what Jobs wanted to discuss with him, he still agreed to meet.

In the afternoon, Jobs came directly to New Century Software to visit.

"Jobs, welcome!"

Jobs, who was born in 55, is only 23 years old this year, not a few years older than Lin Baicheng. Because the two are similar in age, they can still talk. After Lin Baicheng came to the United States, he and Jobs had occasional contact.Also occasionally linked are Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

"Alan, long time no see!"

The two shook hands, and Lin Baicheng took Jobs to the office.

Isabella brought in the brewed coffee, and sat aside without going out.

"Jobs, Isabella said you have something to talk to me about, what is it?"

Lin Baicheng asked aloud, he knew it was definitely not a trivial matter, otherwise Jobs could have contacted him by phone.

Jobs said: "Alan, Apple is developing well, you know that."

Lin Baicheng nodded.

Jobs continued: "After all, Apple is a small company. The reason why personal computers are selling well is because we proposed the concept of personal computers. Our company was the first to make personal computers. Today, we are still in the development stage of this market. , so there is no competitor yet.”

"However, once a giant like IBM pays attention to the PC market, then Apple will inevitably usher in the most powerful competitor, and Apple may not be able to compete with IBM. Therefore, we must do so when no giant or other company notices. In the case of the personal computer market, develop at the fastest speed and develop the company into a large company as soon as possible. In this way, even if we face challenges, we can face them with a stronger attitude and defeat any opponents.”

"I probably know what you're going to say."

Lin Baicheng nodded after hearing this. Today's Apple computers are indeed very weak. If they compete with IBM, they will definitely be beaten to the ground by the giant IBM. There is no chance of any luck.

"Jobs, do you want to raise money for Apple? In principle, I have no problem."

“Financing is the last option.”

Jobs shook his head when he heard the words, and said his intention: "Alan, I want you to help contact Goldman Sachs, and get a loan from Goldman Sachs for Apple."

"A loan? That's right."

Lin Baicheng nodded when he heard the words. With confidence in the company's future, the first thing he thought of when he was short of money was loans, not financing to dilute his own shares.

"Jobs, since you came to me, it means that the amount you want to borrow is not small, otherwise you can go to another bank by yourself, am I right?"

Jobs nodded, and said in a deep voice: "500 million dollars, I hope to get a loan of 500 million dollars, so I need your help, Allen."

"With the current size of Apple, this is indeed a lot of money."

Apple is currently developing well. Lin Baicheng obtained 600% of the shares at a valuation of 30 million US dollars at the beginning, but Apple’s real valuation at that time was only 300 million US dollars, and the current valuation is still less than 1000 million US dollars.

The valuation is less than 1000 million U.S. dollars, but a loan of 500 million U.S. dollars is required. Apple does not have heavy assets. Unless all shareholders take part of their shares to bank loans, there is no way to get a 500 million U.S. dollar loan.

Jobs said: "Alan, you are the major shareholder of the company. We hope you can help the company if you are able."

"This is my duty as a major shareholder. Tonight, I will take Jobs to meet Wade Thomas. He is an executive of Goldman Sachs. Jobs, you have met him."

Lin Baicheng nodded in response, expressing his willingness to help.If he doesn't help with this matter, and Apple's management chooses to raise funds, his shares will also be diluted, and Apple's shares will be very valuable in the future. Of course, Lin Baicheng does not want to see the shares being diluted.

Although Lin Baicheng can avoid the dilution of his shares by spending money when raising funds, but Jobs and other shareholders have been diluted, but his shares have not been diluted. As a last resort, Lin Baicheng didn't want to do this.

Seeing Lin Baicheng's promise, Jobs was very happy. As long as there is this loan, Apple will usher in a period of rapid development.

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