The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

At present, Edison has not launched any model, and car manufacturing is still in the laboratory research and development stage. It is difficult for ordinary companies to obtain financing at this stage.

China's new energy car companies can raise funds because after the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, carbon emission control and new energy have become a global consensus. Tesla has launched the classic Model X, and everyone just needs to feel the stones. River, so they can get financing with PPT.

At this point in time, there are no successful electric vehicles on the market. Electric vehicles are more of a concept. It is rare enough to get financing from Zhou Xin. Now there are actually investment institutions queuing up to send money to his door. , Musk feels that he is so lucky.

“We need to seize the current opportunity and launch our first batch of samples as soon as possible. Our plan is to complete the delivery of the first batch of electric vehicles next year.

Now that Newman has become our shareholder and will be our first car owner, the media is very enthusiastic about reporting this matter. We need to take advantage of this opportunity to deliver as early as possible and further expand Edison's reputation. "

Musk originally believed that electric vehicles could be developed, but now he is even more confident about this.

When Zhou Xin was chatting with Musk, he also mentioned that he had many electric car brand names and asked him if he wanted to change the name of Edison, such as Faraday:

"Elon, compared to Edison, I think Faraday Future is a better name. Do you want to change it to this name?

If you have this wish, I can make the decision to give you this name. "

Zhou Xin is very curious, if Tesla uses Faraday Future, what name will Boss Jia use?

Musk immediately said: "Faraday Future is a good name. I think our first mass-produced model can be called this name."

Because of Zhou Xin's casual remark, Edison's first car was actually called Faraday Future. Edison also promoted Zhou Xin's name when launching this car.

Many Silicon Valley upstarts were curious about this car because of its Zhou Xin name, and ended up paying for it.

Later, after the new energy boom, some domestic new energy plants, after receiving emerging investments, asked if Zhou Xin could help them name the names, and they were willing to pay a high service fee to show their appreciation.

Back in Silicon Valley, after Zhou Xin participated in talk shows, met with Musk to set investment intentions, and set priorities for acquiring companies with Warren Johnson, the last thing he did was to meet with Bill Gates and invite him to join him. Return to China.

"Bill, long time no see. We haven't seen each other for about two years. The last time we met was in 2005, when I came to Yanjing to attend an event."

Zhou Xin originally just wanted to shake hands with the other party, but Bill Gates gave him a hug directly.

Bill Gates can be regarded as his mentor and helpful friend on his way to fortune, and has provided him with a lot of help. We are direct competitors in many fields, but they do not hinder personal relationships.

"Newman, lucky boy, you made the best decision in your life by not cooperating with Madoff.

Once NewPay cooperates with Madoff, maybe Washington will not deal with you like it did Robin because of your reputation, but NewPay will definitely not escape the fate of being split up.

You were lucky enough to escape, while your competitors all fell into the Madoff trap, and NewPay actually monopolized the electronic payment field.

Another electronic payment company, WeChat Pay, is just an accessory of WeChat. It hardly poses a threat to NewPay, and it is also a company owned by you.

You avoided tens of billions of dollars in losses. "

What this last sentence means is that when NewPay is broken up, there is a huge difference in valuation between a monopoly and a competitor.

Zhou Xin replied: "Bill, didn't you tell me to be careful about Madoff?"

Bill Gates laughed: "I have warned many people to be careful about Madoff, including your schoolmate Robin. When we attended the Donkey Party's fundraising party, I vaguely reminded him to be careful about Madoff.

What I told him at the time was that Baidu gave Madoff too much cash that did not belong to it to manage. You may need to do a good job in supervision. Internet finance is a new thing. While Internet companies enjoy huge dividends, they also have corresponding consequences. A huge responsibility.

At that time, the cooperation between Madoff and Baidu seemed to have only entered its second year, and the scale had exceeded 100 billion US dollars. Various financial magazines were full of news about this. I remember clearly that the Wall Street Journal also criticized NewPay for its use in Internet finance. The strategy is too conservative and will soon be surpassed by Baidu Pay.

So I thought of reminding him, but Robin didn't seem to take my words into his heart.

Not only Baidu, I also have some friends around me. I have also reminded them that Madoff's hedge fund has risks, and it is best to invest only a small amount to test the waters.

As a result, they all lost at least 10 million US dollars, and the most lost tens of millions.

To them it's just pennies. But you are the only one who really listened to my reminder. "

Zhou Xin responded with a smile: "Bill, so it's not that I'm lucky, but that I'm cautious enough."

Bill Gates said: “Being cautious is also a blessing.

But you can surpass me and become the richest man in the world, and you can sit in this position for so long. You can't do it only with ability. Caution is also very important.

Newman, are you short of money? Consider selling me all your remaining shares in Riot Games? "

When Riot Games went public, its market value was approximately US$20 billion. Later, as the Nasdaq bubble burst, its market value dropped to less than US$10 billion. Later, as the capital market prospered and Riot Games became the main sales channel for video games, Its valuation keeps rising.

At its peak, it once exceeded 40 billion U.S. dollars. However, with the financial crisis, U.S. stocks plummeted, and Riot Games' market value returned to the level of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars.

The market value is still very high, but it is nearly halved compared to the peak market value.

Zhou Xin said: "Bill, you know, I am not short of money. Riot Games is the first listed company I founded."

Zhou Xin’s words did not have any subtext that could be sold at a higher price. He really didn’t want to sell Riot Games.

Bill Gates said: “When I say I want to buy it, I don’t mean to buy it now, but after the financial crisis passes and the stock market becomes active again, I want to use Microsoft stock to buy Riot Games.

Microsoft merges Riot Games. After the merger, the market will definitely give a positive signal. It is equivalent to making a profit from the transaction, and you can make another profit from the increase in Microsoft's market value. "

Riot Games is very profitable as an independent entity because it is a platform business, and the nature of pure commissions determines that their profits are very high and their costs are very low.

At the same time, as a platform, a large amount of data can be obtained for analysis, which can better judge which games will be popular, and you can make a fortune by investing in games.

But if Riot Games is acquired by Microsoft, because Microsoft has the Xbox business, it will be more imaginative. It is equivalent to Microsoft expanding its territory in the game industry, focusing on hardware and software.

Zhou Xin said: "Then we can wait until the financial crisis has passed before we talk. To be honest, I have no idea of ​​selling my fist now.

Do you want Matrix? "

Bill Gates was overjoyed: "How much? I'm willing to buy it even if I grit my teeth."

The threat Matrix poses to Microsoft is too great. The MOS operating system launched after the merger of Matrix and Apple has already occupied 10% of the desktop operating system.

Compared with Apple's previous MacOS market share of less than 2%, this number is now able to threaten Microsoft.

In addition, MOS has a market share of more than 30% in the field of mobile operating systems. With the development of Matrix, MOS's advantages will be further highlighted.

Zhou Xin said: "Microsoft can't afford it."

Bill Gates said: "I can find several Wall Street financial institutions to come in and join forces to acquire it. You don't have to worry about money. Even if it is 100 billion US dollars, I think it will be fine."

Microsoft's valuation at this time is approximately more than 200 billion U.S. dollars. Because of its stable cash flow and monopolistic business model, Microsoft's market value was not greatly affected by the financial crisis.

Zhou Xin thought to himself, Apple alone will have a market value of two trillion US dollars in the future, how can the combination of Matrix and Apple be sold to you for US$100 billion now.

“I’m just kidding, Riot games are not for sale, Matrix is ​​even more not for sale.

I believe you also know the value of Matrix. To be honest, compared with MOS, Microsoft's operating system or Windows Phone jointly launched by Microsoft and Nokia are not competitive at all.

Bill, I'm not looking down on Microsoft, but it's true. "

Bill has not interfered with Microsoft's operations for a long time and has also stepped down from the position of chairman of the board of directors, but this does not mean that he has no influence on Microsoft.

As the founder of Microsoft, he still maintains a strong influence on Microsoft at this point in time.

He is very aware of Microsoft's decline in the mobile Internet. Compared with MOS, Microsoft does not have the level of cooperation that both software and hardware are built by itself.

Microsoft itself has developed hardware, but after they developed the hardware, they found that their performance was not very good. At the same time, it would also discourage other manufacturers on the market from using the mobile version of Windows.

Since you are making smartphones yourself, will the service you provide me be worse than the service you use yourself?

Google’s reason is that their own Pixel series is not doing well. If Pixel does well, a large number of mobile phone manufacturers will also come out and try to rebel.

Whether it is Huawei or Xiaomi, there are external factors as well as internal factors in launching their own operating systems.

In this era of competition among heroes, this situation will be even more obvious.

When it comes to cooperating with other manufacturers, Windows cannot compare to Android. The original Android manufacturer's development capabilities are not as good as Microsoft's, but Android is free and a purely free open source operating system. This alone makes Windows uncomfortable.

Because Windows cannot be open source, and they have to charge 300 yuan from the mobile phone manufacturer for each mobile phone operating system after the price reduction.

There is no way it can compete with Android in the mid- to low-end market.

The development strength of the original Android manufacturers also has the strength to compete with Microsoft under open source.

Therefore, there was MOS in the past and Android in the later. The differentiated competition between their two mobile operating systems has made mobile windows passive, and there is no chance of winning.

Historically, when Microsoft competed with Apple's operating systems, they knew exactly where their winning points were. No matter how popular Apple's products were, Microsoft did not panic at all.

In the field of mobile operating systems, Microsoft doesn't know how to win.

Bill Gates is well aware of Microsoft's current situation in the mobile Internet field. He smiled bitterly and said: "Newman, we all know this is a fact.

But I don't want to hear that fact.

It is because Windows cannot do well on smartphones that I want to acquire Matrix.

Mphone3 is really perfect. I can think of how to surpass MOS in terms of software, but I really don’t know how to surpass Mphone3 in terms of hardware.

Nokia has no confidence in you. Their senior vice president was still confident when he attended Microsoft's developer conference, believing that their products this year could give Matrix a devastating blow.

After the launch of Mphone 3, Ballmer asked him again, and he refused to talk about it. Even the flagship conference originally planned to be held in September this year had to be postponed.

We estimate that the original flagship model will become a mid-range model, and a new flagship model will be launched in the middle of next year to compete differentiatedly with the Mphone3.

After experiencing the fingerprint unlocking of Mphone3, I never want to go back to the era of entering passwords. "

Zhou Xin said: "Even if I am willing to let Matrix merge with Microsoft, Steve can't accept it."

Bill Gates reacted quickly: "As long as I can convince Steve, are you willing to sell the Matrix to me?"

Zhou Xin shook his head: "I'm just talking casually, I definitely won't sell it.

The fist may still be able to negotiate, but the Matrix is ​​really impossible.

Although Matrix is ​​impossible, I'm still curious, how do you want to convince Steve? "

Bill Gates said: "Wouldn't it be great to spin off Apple's business and establish a separate company? Microsoft can even sell the new Apple. Apple is completely worthless compared to Matrix itself."

Having personally led Microsoft's victory over Apple, Bill Gates has the confidence to look down on Apple.

Bill Gates thought for a while and then said: "Matrix cannot be sold to Microsoft, but is it possible for Matrix to cooperate with Microsoft?

Matrix launches a smartphone equipped with Windows operating system?

This will be an unprecedented stunt. "

Zhou Xin said helplessly: "Bill, there is a competitive relationship between Matrix and Microsoft. MOS is already very complete. There is no reason for us to help Microsoft defeat MOS."

Bill Gates said: “This is a new choice for users.

What if Microsoft is willing to pay for every Mphone3 equipped with Windows? Microsoft will give you $50 for each one. "

Zhou Xin thought to himself, holy shit, is the sun coming out in the west? You must know that each smartphone equipped with Windows will give Microsoft about 300 RMB. This is the price after the price reduction. Before the price reduction, it would have been US$100.

It is not a problem to sell 10 million units of Mphone3 equipped with Windows. This is a revenue of 500 million US dollars. To be honest, it is a bit exciting.

"To be honest, I'm very excited, but I really can't promise you.

Bill, we are not competitors, but Microsoft and Matrix are competitors.

Windows is our biggest competitor. Matrix is ​​not short of money. There is no need for us to cultivate our competitors for this money. "