Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

The next day, Xiangjiang's funds were sent to the United States.

Lin Baicheng hired a lawyer to sign a financing contract with Goldman Sachs that day. Even if the cooperation partner is an internationally renowned investment bank like Goldman Sachs, he must be careful. The contract must be read carefully with the assistance of a lawyer. In other words, in business cooperation, no matter when dealing with any company, you should still be cautious.

After the contract was signed, a total of US$600 million in funds from both parties was transferred into an account.

Both parties to this account have passwords, but only a few executives know the password at Goldman Sachs. However, Goldman Sachs will send staff to monitor the cost price and current price of futures bought in the account. Once the position line is close, it will be reported upward, and Goldman Sachs will Lin Baicheng will be notified to replenish the margin. Otherwise, if the liquidation line is reached, Goldman Sachs will directly liquidate the position to avoid losses to Goldman Sachs' funds.

After receiving the funds, Lin Baicheng asked Anyuan and others to buy gold futures. He had already asked Goldman Sachs to send a trader to guide Anyuan and others on how to operate. This matter is very simple. Lin Baicheng's request is to buy gold at the current price. There is no need to wait for the price of gold to fall before buying. Therefore, all Anyuan and others have to do is buy, buy, buy.

If Lin Baicheng didn't trust the people at Goldman Sachs and didn't want to spend an extra fee, he could just leave this matter to Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs could easily complete the work.

Another day passed, and Lin Baicheng received good news from Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs and Apple's shareholders had reached an agreement. Apple was valued at US$6 million. Lin Baicheng obtained 30% of Apple's shares for US$1.8 million. Half of the money was used to buy the shares held by Mike Markkula, and the other half was invested in the company normally. The funds were not given to individuals. , the shares of other shareholders are diluted in equal proportions.

Goldman Sachs' commission was just over one million US dollars. In total, Lin Baicheng paid less than 3 million US dollars to obtain 30% of Apple's shares. This price is definitely too high now, and it is quite high. Outrageous.

But Lin Baicheng knows very well that Apple was listed in 1980 and created several billionaires at that time. It can be seen that the market value on the day of listing is very likely to exceed US$1 billion.

Lin Baicheng currently holds 30% of Apple's shares. Even if the shares need to be reduced proportionally when going public, the remaining 20% ​​should be no problem. And 20% of the shares, based on a market value of US$1 billion, is also US$200 million.

In an investment time of more than two to three years, nearly US$5 million has turned into US$200 million. The return rate is at least 40 times, which is quite high.

What's more, Lin Baicheng will definitely not sell the stock on the day Apple goes public. He will at least hold it until Steve Jobs leaves Apple, and then he will judge whether to sell the stock based on changes in the stock market.

Lin Baicheng followed Wade Thomas to Apple with his lawyer, and signed a share transfer contract with Mike Markkula, Steve Jobs and others. After signing the contract, the money was transferred, and then reported to the official. Lin Baicheng officially became the major shareholder of Apple. .

Jobs and others knew that Goldman Sachs bought shares in Apple on behalf of others, but they did not expect that it would be a person from Xiangjiang from the East. They did not know how the other party knew about their company and was willing to spend such a high price to buy shares in the company.

However, no one would have trouble with money, so Jobs and others were confused, but they still welcomed Lin Baicheng, the new shareholder.

Steve Jobs, the founder of smartphones and an important figure in the era of mobile intelligence, Lin Baicheng had only seen the other person's photos on TV news before. At first, he didn't recognize him when he saw his young appearance. He didn't know until he introduced himself. This is the famous Steve Jobs.

Lin Baicheng was somewhat excited, but only a little bit, so he shook hands with Jobs calmly.

In communicating with Apple executives such as Steve Jobs, Lin Baicheng showed a little bit of his familiarity with computers to avoid being regarded as a layman. However, in order to avoid revealing some information about future technology, he said very little, for fear that some technological developments that were accidentally disclosed would be learned.

With the capabilities of Jobs and others, if Lin Baicheng accidentally reveals something, there is a high chance that it will be done in advance.

Although Lin Baicheng is now the major shareholder of Apple, this does not mean that his interests will be consistent with those of Jobs and others in the future. Maybe they will become rivals in a few years, so we should still be careful.

"Mr. Lin, let me introduce to you our company's latest product."

Apple's latest product is the Apple 2. Jobs and others introduced the product to Lin Baicheng, the major shareholder, and how it was excellent, epoch-making, and bound to be successful, etc., so as to give Lin Baicheng a big picture.

The Apple 2 looks like a combination of a black and white TV and a keyboard. It is three-dimensional. The monitor, host computer, keyboard, etc. are all superimposed on each other. It is quite big. But just like that, it is still a small personal computer. Compared with IBM computers, it can be said to be exquisite and compact.

"Huh?"

Lin Baicheng, who was using the computer after being introduced by Jobs and others, found that the current Apple 2 did not even have office software. When he was about to ask, he immediately responded and put his doubts in his heart.

After leaving Apple, Lin Baicheng asked Eric Davis to investigate the market and found that although computers had been around for many years, and IBM computers had been used in the office field, office software was still in its infancy. , there is no real office software on the market.

In other words, as long as Lin Baicheng develops a real office software, with the rise of personal computers, office software will definitely sell well, and he will make a lot of money by following the trend.

Although Lin Baicheng was mainly engaged in game development in the past, the technology was the same, not to mention that developing office software did not require advanced technology. Of course, this is compared to a few decades later. For now, it does require quite sophisticated technology, as well as the concept of developing office software.

Now that he has discovered this market, Lin Baicheng will not turn a blind eye. However, developing office software is not something he can do alone. It will take too long and he needs help.

More importantly, after the software is developed, it will definitely need maintenance manpower in the later stage, as well as personnel to develop more advanced versions on the first-generation version, so talents must be recruited.

Lin Baicheng handed over the recruitment matter to Eric, and also asked him to recruit more financial personnel and find suitable bodyguards.

Now that Lin Baicheng has become the major shareholder of Apple, and after becoming the major shareholder of Microsoft, although Lin Baicheng is not going to intervene in the operations of these two companies, he will definitely send financial personnel to these two companies to supervise the finances to avoid his His interests were damaged without his knowledge.

As for the bodyguards, it's not that Lin Baicheng doesn't trust the bodyguards in Xiangjiang, but because they are Chinese and are inconvenient in the United States. There are some occasions where they are not suitable to enter. It would be different if they were replaced by white and black bodyguards.

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