"Chairman, why are you helping Jobs this time? This man is really hateful!" In Boss Jia's room, Harry Potter gritted his teeth and said, "I think it's better to let our own people control Apple."
Jobs' character was really terrible to be hated by someone with such a good character like Harry Potter.
"Other than myself, no one else can bring Apple back to life!" Boss Jia shook his head, which made Harry Potter feel very helpless. He didn't expect Jia Yapeng to value Jobs so much.
"Listen, you just have to be a clay Bodhisattva for Apple. You let Steve Jobs do whatever he wants? Whatever he wants to do, just let him do it. Don't stop him from doing anything! "Boss Jia said faintly.
"Yes!" Harry Potter nodded. The companies controlled by their foundation had always done this, which also made the America First Foundation receive a lot of praise in the industry. Which company boss didn't like such an investor?
"But there's one thing. You have to send someone to record Apple's every move honestly. Then, you have to organize the information and send it to me every day. You can't waste a single day!" Boss Jia added.
"Yes!" Harry Potter said, but there was a surge of curiosity in his heart. Boss Jia didn't make such strict monitoring requirements for the previous investment companies. Even Qualcomm didn't have such an order.
However, the requirement of an excellent subordinate was to not only carry out the orders of the boss, but also to not ask any unnecessary questions.
There's no other way. Jobs is too strong. I want such an opponent, but I'm also afraid that such an opponent will defeat me! Boss Jia sighed in his heart. In fact, Boss Jia had thought about allowing Jobs to regain his position for a long time.
Although it took less than two days for Woolard's report to be submitted to the board of directors to be approved. In fact, Boss Jia had been thinking about this problem as early as a year ago.
As a transmigrator, Boss Jia knew that Qiao Yifan had returned to Apple in 1996 and led the company from its lowest point to its peak.
In that case, Boss Jia had to consider whether he should let the Apple of this world repeat this period of history. After all, at that time, the America First Foundation already held 40% of Apple's shares. Unless all the directors could unite, Boss Jia would have the final say on whether Jobs could return or not.
And now, the foundation already owned 70% of the shares. It was the absolute controlling stake.
Jobs could never have imagined that his fate was in the hands of Jia Yapeng. If he had known, he would have died rather than become CEO of Apple.
After thinking about it for more than half a year, Boss Jia finally understood the matter and decided not to stop it. Instead, he took the initiative to support Jobs.
The reason was simple. First of all, if Jobs did not rejoin Apple, then Apple would probably be doomed. Boss Jia had invested nearly one billion dollars in Apple. If all the one billion dollars went down the drain, he would be very distressed.
Then there was the problem of Jobs. Jobs was definitely a person who did not want to fail. Even if he did not return to Apple, wouldn't he gather a group of people to do what Apple did in the future?
Therefore, it was better for Boss Jia to hold Apple's shares in his hands rather than let Jobs build a new company. Therefore, Boss Jia first asked Harry Potter to buy a large number of shares of Apple's shareholders.
Because Apple was already a rotten ship at this time, when the America First Foundation offered to buy Apple's shares at a premium of 10%, the other shareholders were naturally very happy.
In history, these shareholders had searched all over the United States and could not find a buyer who was willing to buy Apple's shares. Because everyone knew that Apple was now a mess that was destined to go bankrupt. Whoever took over would be a fool.
Therefore, the America First Foundation owned 70% of Apple's shares. In this way, Jobs was equivalent to working for Boss Jia. Would Boss Jia still want to stop such a wonderful thing?
What's more, if Boss Jia really took over the smartphone market in the future and defeated Apple, his competitor, and monopolized the global market, would that really be a good thing?
Don't forget how Huawei would be targeted in the future. If the Daqian had no competitors, then this shameless targeting would probably come sooner. Therefore, the Daqian still needed a competitor in the smartphone market.
Anyway, most of the money earned by this competitor would fall into Boss Jia's hands.
But in fact, Boss Jia knew that in addition to the above reasons, there was another important reason. That was, Boss Jia really wanted to fight with Jobs. Otherwise, if Jobs died, then there would really be no competitors. A good competitor was really hard to find!
"By the way, chairman, when I came to see you, another person came to see me. He …"
"Don't say it. Let me guess. This person is Stan Lee, right?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.
"Chairman, how did you know?!" Harry Potter was shocked. Stan Lee came to see him only half an hour ago. Because today was Sunday, there were not many people in the company. In total, only three people knew that Stan Lee came to see him.
The other two people were all Harry Potter's confidants in the company. They did not know who the boss of the company was, let alone who Jia Yapeng was. It was impossible for them to report this news to Jia Yapeng.
Then who leaked the news? Could it be …
Harry Potter was sweating profusely. Boss Jia smiled and patted him on the shoulder, then said, "Well, don't think too much. I trust you very much. I'm just guessing that Stan Lee probably can't hold back his movie ambitions anymore!"
"Chairman, you are really amazing. You even guessed the purpose of Stan Lee coming to see me!" Harry Potter was completely convinced.
Yes, the reason Stan Lee came to see Harry Potter was because of Marvel's movie. He also proposed that he hoped the America First Foundation would invest funds and let Marvel invest in a movie.
However, in history, Stan Lee realized that superhero movies were the root of Marvel's rise in 2005. So Stan Lee went all out and invested all the company's funds into the shooting of the Iron Man movie. Finally, it became a hit and gradually achieved the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Before that, Marvel was used to licensing the IP of the movie and giving it to other film companies to shoot. Marvel only charged some copyright fees.
Originally, Marvel did not have such ambitions, but after seeing the ferocious box office of Titanic, Stan Lee was not surprised to be moved.
"Do you have a way to dispel Stan Lee's idea?" Boss Jia rubbed his temples with a headache. For the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Boss Jia did not want it to appear so soon.
Moreover, Boss Jia did not want Marvel to shoot these movies. It was better for Marvel to be a comic book producer.
But once Stan Lee's idea came up, it would be difficult to handle.
"I'm afraid it's difficult. Stan Lee's attitude is very firm. He slammed the table with me!" Harry Potter smiled bitterly.
"Which movie does he want to shoot?" Boss Jia asked again.
"He proposed two ideas. One is Spiderman, and the other is Iron Man!" Harry Potter replied.
"Neither of these will work!" Boss Jia shook his head. "You go and tell Stan Lee that the foundation can agree to invest a sum of money in the company to shoot a superhero movie in the name of Marvel. But it can't be Spiderman or Iron Man, but it should be the most popular Fantastic Four in the entire Marvel. Only this is the safest! "
"In addition, you have to tell him that the company will only give him this opportunity. The box office of this movie must be profitable. If it can't be profitable, then he should just go back to drawing comics. The company will hand over the movie IP to other professional film and television companies!"
"Understood!" Harry Potter nodded. He actually vaguely understood Boss Jia's idea, which was to transfer Marvel's IP to the Daqian movie. But as the spiritual leader of Marvel, it would be extremely difficult to persuade Stan Lee.
So, if he let Stan Lee fail once, then Stan Lee would have nothing to say if he made such a decision again.
But the problem was, why did Boss Jia reject Spiderman and Iron Man? These two were not the most famous characters in comics. Instead, he took out Marvel's most popular Fantastic Four to shoot. This was really incomprehensible!
Of course, if Stan Lee couldn't even shoot the Fantastic Four, Marvel's biggest IP, then Stan Lee would no longer have the confidence to challenge the foundation.
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