Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 829 IBM Shareholders

   As a software company, Microsoft has always hoped to reach further cooperation with IBM.

  Although as early as 1980, IBM had selected Microsoft to write key operating system software for its new PC.

However, because the operating system provided by Microsoft at that time was not compiled by them, at that time, due to the lack of time and the complexity of the program, Microsoft purchased a program from a programmer in Seattle for $50,000. The right to use the operating system QDOS was provided to IBM after a partial rewrite.

  Although this wave of operations was licensed by IBM, it was not Microsoft's own thing, so IBM did not carry out further cooperation with Microsoft in the future.

  In the early days of Microsoft's establishment, it mainly sold BASIC interpreters, so Microsoft especially hopes to reach a cooperation with IBM in this regard.

  IBM is the largest personal computer company in the United States today. Once IBM can adopt Microsoft's BASIC interpreter, Microsoft can take the opportunity to quickly occupy the American market in terms of translators.

   However, Microsoft is not the only manufacturer that can produce BASIC interpreters. To get IBM's orders, this requires a consensus between Microsoft and IBM's executives.

  Although the two companies have cooperated before, that cooperation did not make IBM pay too much attention to Microsoft, at most it was a little optimistic.

  Based on this, Microsoft accepted Yang Chen's investment, and it was not without the fact that Yang Chen was in the limelight and raised himself up so as to attract IBM to cooperate with him further.

   Before Huo Jianxuan left, Shen Xu was in charge of helping Yang Chen manage U.S. investments. IBN was one of the most promising companies in Yang Chen's investment sequence.

   Therefore, after Shen Xu learned about this, he successively acquired more than 5% of IBM's shares from the stock market.

   With his 5% stake in IBM, Shen Xu also won a seat on IBM's board of directors and was able to participate in IBM's high-level resolutions.

  As a director of IBM, Bill Gates, who has a mine at home, made great concessions in order to make his company develop better.

   However, when he became a shareholder, Bill Gates specifically asked to sign a letter of commitment, asking Shen Xu to guarantee that after Microsoft's listing, Yang Chen's investment company would not sell his shares to cash out within one year.

Obviously, Bill Gates is very important to the company he founded. If it wasn't for Paul's illness and the need for money to treat the disease, coupled with Microsoft's next development needs, he would be eager to get orders from IBM, maybe He will not accept investment from a foreign company.

   Even though Shen Xu had promised not to interfere in Microsoft's internal operations at the beginning of his investment, Bill Gates, as a second-generation mining company, did not believe in the face of the capitalists these days.

   He values ​​black and white words more than what he says.

   Of course, with that kind of black and white, Shen Xu definitely can't be the master. He can't really say that he won't intervene, and Microsoft has not yet reached the point where he can compromise.

   Being able to sign a copy of Microsoft's listing and leave without cashing out within a year is already the greatest tolerance Shen Xu has given after calling Huo Jianxuan and asking Yang Chen for instructions through Huo Jianxuan.

   After learning about the actual situation of Microsoft, Yang Chen asked, "Shen Xu, according to your opinion, do we still have a chance to further increase the shares of Microsoft?"

   Shen Xu shook his head in embarrassment and said, "Boss, I'm afraid this is impossible. In order to maintain his control over Microsoft, Mr. Gates will not sell his shares."

"And that Mr. Paul, he has now sold 20% of his shares. Although he still has 25% of his shares, in order to keep his position as the second largest shareholder, Mr. Paul obviously It is also unlikely to continue to sell the company's holdings before the company goes public."

   "Okay, then, try to help Microsoft as much as possible, so that they can successfully win the order from IBM and reach a cooperation between the two parties."

   There is no way to increase the shares of Microsoft for the time being, Yang Chen doesn't care, Microsoft will go public in a few years, and Bill Gates and Paul will definitely sell some shares to improve their lives.

   At that time, he only needed to continue to acquire a part of the stock in the market, making his shares second only to Gates, so that he could enjoy the future dividends of Microsoft.

The period when Microsoft really took off was not when the company went public a few years later. Although Microsoft went public in 1986, Microsoft’s market value exceeded $500 million in one fell swoop, making both Bill Gates and Paul billionaires. It keeps rising day by day.

   However, it is still quite a long time before Microsoft really rises.

The emergence of   Windows95 computer operating system is the mark of Microsoft's real rise.

   and the Android system dominate the global mobile phone operating system, Microsoft's Windows95 operating system, and later generations rule the entire computer operating system field.

  Yang Chen remembered that in 1999, one year before entering the 21st century, Microsoft, relying on its achievements in the field of operating systems, set a record of the highest market value of a listed company in human history of US$600 billion.

  600 billion US dollars, although it is not as high as the trillion-dollar market value of future generations, but according to the current market value of Microsoft, the gap is several thousand times, and it has doubled thousands of times in more than ten years. This is a very terrifying figure.

  Compared with IBM, which is currently being troubled by the US government, Yang Chen values ​​Microsoft's future more, and it is necessary for Shen Xu to help Microsoft grow.

   As for Gates' second-generation mine, Yang Chen also wants to help Microsoft grow and deepen the relationship between them, so that Microsoft can grow more rapidly than in the previous life.

  After the first Internet impact, Microsoft's market value dropped from 600 billion to 100 billion, with several times the price difference in the middle, one in and one out, at least ten times the profit.

   For the green dollar, don't say force, even if you want him to bleed, he is willing.

   "Sir, lunch is ready."

   "Okay, Aunt Xu, we'll be here."

   "By the way, Aunt Xu, prepare a few more pairs of tableware today, and all three of them will stay for dinner later."

   "Okay, sir"

   "Okay, let's talk about it here first, we'll talk about things later after dinner."

  Yang Chen: "Kelly, I forgot that you are coming here. I don't know if you can get used to Chinese food."

  Kelly "As long as it's not too spicy, I can accept it. Too spicy will cause acne."

  Yang Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, the dishes in Xiangjiang are generally not that spicy."

   "That's ok then" Kelly swallowed, obviously she likes Chinese food too.

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   (end of this chapter)