Vol 6 Chapter 253: pressure

The meaning of Lawrence's words could not be clearer. He was obviously saying that Jobs was unwilling to have a head-on conflict with Feng Yiping because of his personal relationship with Feng Yiping.

When Jobs heard this, he was already exploded. Once he was bitten by a snake, he was afraid of the rope for ten years. Lawrence's words made him feel that these guys had some intentions to target himself.

From the day he returned, no, from the day he was ousted from Apple by John Sculley, he swears that such a thing would never happen to him again.

But Lawrence's words immediately reminded him of the humiliating past that he didn't want to think of.

"You stupid parasite, insatiable asshole..."

Lawrence Fink, who faced the angry Jobs for the first time, couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

He has been a celebrity for many years, and he has never been so insulted.

He sat there with the microphone in his hand, feeling that the employees coming and going outside the door, the tall buildings lined with windows, were suddenly as funny and unreal as Chaplin's silent films.

I don’t know how long it took before he came back to his senses. At this time, Jobs hadn’t said yet, "...you are these despicable thieves, the chief culprit of harming the economy,"

"...Have you ever produced even one product that can be compared to our computer, iPod, and iPhone packaging boxes?"

Jobs’s sharp voice continued to spread, and Lawrence’s forehead was bursting with pain. As a gangster on Wall Street, he had the ability to curse people. He was not without him, but he was in front of Jobs, who was at the eighth level and opened fire first. He really has nothing to fight back.

For a long time, Jobs has always been swearing tirelessly, and Lawrence has been so used to big-tailed wolves recently that he has gradually become unfamiliar and gradually forgotten about this ability. In such short-term battles, let alone fight back, even parry. No.

This damn, shameless, mean-mouthed hippie, the adopted son of an obscene fruit grower... Lawrence scowled in his heart and couldn't help thinking, but I just insinuated one sentence, how did things go to now? This point?

But Jobs is still endless, "...it is ridiculous that you have no standard in taking social wealth, and you have done so many years of work, you all seem to be screwed up,"

"Not only has millions of people been displaced, but your own jobs are almost impossible to keep,"

"It seems that when it comes to acting in comedy, you are really much better than those in Hollywood. You are playing comedy with your future and your life..."

Lawrence:...

You Steve Jobs is a corporate leader who has been famous for many years. How can you say it, so indecent, so bitter?

You've been famous for so many years, don't you even understand the basic principles of doing things or not people? ——Jobs is too lazy to understand.

But as a member of Wall Street, facing the current situation, although Lawrence was extremely angry with Jobs at this time, it is really hard to refute.

At present, it seems that this is the case. Many people on Wall Street will indeed smash themselves to death.

But Jobs is still endless. He cursed people like this, "Oh, this is not strange, right, decades ago, you screwed up in this area once,"

The words added by Jobs suddenly made Lawrence's temples bulge. He couldn't help it anymore, and he immediately stood up. "Yes, you are Jobs. Therefore, you can also be better than us in grabbing social wealth. We are creative,"

"I heard that the fund you and that Mr. Feng set up together seems to have very good returns?"

Hearing this, Jobston was stunned.

"These millions of people have been displaced, and it looks like they will bring you billions of dollars in return. Steve, you are really professional and noble. You really are our role model!"

Lawrence, who felt that he had the upper hand, was finally relieved when there was no sound over there, "Then Steve, we can talk now,"

But, "Hang," the phone was hung up roughly.

Holding a microphone with a beeping sound, Lawrence trembled with anger, this uncultivated barbarian!

He didn't hold back and smashed the microphone heavily on the ground.

Listening to such unusual movement in his office, facing his cold gaze, the people outside suddenly lowered their steps.

"Mr. Lawrence," the secretary knocked softly on the door.

"Give me a glass of ice water," Lawrence loosened the tie that his wife had tied him in the morning a few times, breathing hard in his mouth.

But a large glass of ice water failed to calm him down.

Through the glass curtain wall, he looked at the busy Manhattan outside. This is what he usually likes to do, but at this time, he feels very irritable looking at these.

He simply closed his eyes, and then remembered the question again, how did the matter get to this point?

Did i say something? I didn't say anything. The most important thing is almost never mentioned, hasn't it?

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Cupertino, Jobs will be equally uneasy.

Although he was very cool just now, but Lawrence Fink's last words still made him feel uneasy.

Things seem to be more complicated than he thought.

Although he believes that if he acts on his own, he must be able to withstand the scrutiny of directors.

He believes that several directors of the board of directors, including the members of the Audit Committee and the independent directors of the company management committee, will stand on his side at this time.

Because in the "option backlog" incident that broke out in 2006, the board members finally chose to stand on his side.

The so-called option backlog refers to the fact that listed companies usually grant stock options to executives as an incentive mechanism to improve company performance and stock price. However, many listed company managements, by manipulating the stock option lookback date, deliberately select low-level stock options as options Grant day, an act to expand profitability.

The spread profit brought about by option backhandling is usually tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars. (In 2006, according to the accusations of the US SEC, Jobs received more than 20 million US dollars in additional income.)

What's more, I just launched the iPhone this year, and while it is very popular, Apple's stock price has once again returned to a high of $100.

At present, through the sale of iPhone and iPod, as well as iTunes and other services, the company's daily net profit is close to 10 million US dollars.

He is not Steve Jobs, who has brought huge losses to shareholders in the past eight years, but Steve Jobs, who has brought high returns to shareholders every day. Coupled with his prestige today, he is convinced that no one can shake his position at Apple. status.

Even if he and Feng Yiping did have a good personal relationship, they did establish a fund with him that seemed to get high returns.

However, Jobs is still uneasy.

He once again remembered the purpose of Lawrence Fink. He wanted to invest in Feng Yiping's company, so he hoped that he could cooperate with his actions.

Feng Yiping’s company... Although Steve Jobs still doesn’t know how Apple can target Feng Yiping’s company and how they can invest in Feng Yiping’s company, he knows that if it can successfully invest, it will definitely give Lawrence to Come high returns.

With their nature, they can never give up easily, so they will definitely have a back-up, that is, they will definitely have actions aimed at themselves.

He did not expect that it was just because Feng Yiping's company launched an operating system, but it was just how Apple faced the competition, which would bring such a complicated series of problems.

He looked out, and dark clouds rolled in the sky. At this moment, his mood was as gloomy as the sky outside the window.

The phone on the desk rang again, and Jobs looked back, "Steve, Mr. Edward Johnson is online," the secretary said.

Sure enough, it came, "Come here," he said.

"Steve, my old friend," said hello to Jobs by Edward Johnson, who rarely showed up and was very old.

Edward Johnson, the youngest son of the founder of the well-known American Fidelity Fund, is also the soul of the world's largest asset management institution.

Under his leadership, Fidelity and Pioneer Group have long been among the top two asset management institutions in the world.

For Apple, Pioneer Group is currently the first of the top ten institutional shareholders, Black Rock is second, and Fidelity is fifth.

"Hello Edward~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Jobs already knew his intentions at this time, and proactively said, "If I remember correctly, Black Rock is a Fidelity competitor, right? "

His words, although not very polite, were much gentler than the previous conversations with Lawrence.

Lawrence Fink was still young, Edward Johnson was not too young, and Jobs was worried that he would be angry with him.

Although he didn't know much about finance, Jobs knew his company's major shareholders well.

So he knew that after successfully merging Merrill Lynch’s asset management business, Black Rock, which was originally ranked behind, had indeed become Fidelity and Pioneer’s strongest competitor.

"Oh Steve," Johnson laughed, "you know, in front of interests, there are only friends."

"You have to understand that people like Lawrence who don't have much background and are impulsive in doing things are actually not very good at communicating with people."-I just said that they and Heiyan are friends in front of their interests, but they immediately said bad things about their friends. , Their friend’s gold content may be lower than the gold content of the currency of the most inflationary country in the world at this time.

When Jobs heard this, he was not at all relaxed. The head of the Fidelity Fund made it clear that on this matter, they and Black Rock had the same position.

Apple’s institutional shareholders are more than the two and pioneers. The well-known State Street Fund, Buffett’s Berkshire Saville, is also among the top institutional shareholders of Apple.

In normal times, this is undoubtedly an affirmation of Apple and a manifestation of Apple's success. After all, for these top-ranked and well-known companies in the world, not all companies are worthy of their joint investment.

But at this time, Jobs only felt pressure, unprecedented pressure...