Chapter 686 Breaking Through History
The major shareholders of Apple gathered in the conference room, cheering, the huge champagne was already in place, everyone was chatting enthusiastically, their faces filled with joy.
Can you be unhappy? The money in your pocket is soaring.
The company's chairman Atlevinson signaled everyone to be quiet. The shareholders respected this academic manager and stopped chatting.
Atlevinson said: "Apple, as a traditional computer company, has regained its feelings from personal consumer electronics in recent years. Most of these contributions should belong to ipods, which also marks Apple's entry into the consumer electronics industry. Recently, I have heard a voice more and more. Everyone says that Apple's CEO Jobs is a great leader, and his thinking and strategic vision are unique."
Everyone applauded, it was all from the heart.
The greatest thing about Mr. Jobs is his pursuit of innovation. In his opinion, the concept of innovation has never been systematically organized, but is more of inspiration. The concept of innovation may come from a meeting in the corridor, a telephone exchange at 10 o'clock in the evening, or a temporary meeting held to share new ideas. "Atlevinson has always attached great importance to innovation and has always praised Jobs.
"While innovating, we must also know how to say no, so as not to be too late. We always plan to enter a new market, but we must know how to say no, so that we can focus our energy on the most important places. Under the leadership of Mr. Jobs, Apple will surely usher in glory again, and today, this historic moment will usher in."
"Mr. Levinson, Mr. Jobs? Don't you celebrate with us?" said Kay, the Wall Street giant who is the top individual shareholder of Apple and was born in Queens, New York in 1936.
The Jewish innate business acumen and the wealth temptation he had as a native New Yorker gave him the basic qualities of a typical American dream chaser.
In his youth, Kay studied philosophy at the famous Princeton University. In 1957, he followed his mother's advice to New York University to switch to medicine. However, Kay had no interest in medicine and soon dropped out of school and joined the army.
In the military camp, the young soldiers quickly became a well-known playing card master with their unique speculative talents. Six months after joining the army, Kay chose to retire and since then he wandered on Wall Street and became a stockbroker.
Kay's real career began in 1961. It was not until many years later that Kay, who had succeeded, was still sighing when he recalled the first time he entered the New York Stock Exchange.
They are like magicians who turn stones into gold, allowing miracles to happen overnight, and strength, ambition and passion meet in astronomical numbers.
Perhaps it was the first time I entered the world that made the young Kai realize his lack of professional knowledge. He had not graduated from university and began to take time to charge at night school with amazing perseverance, and learn basic courses such as accounting and securities analysis from scratch.
It was not until 1968 that Kay used his savings from working hard for the stock market for several years to buy a seat on the stock exchange and established a small securities company, whose main business was nothing more than risk arbitrage and option trading.
What is the name on Wall Street that has scared the most terrifying CEO on major companies in the past 20 years? The answer is probably Kay.
In 1985, due to a beautiful malicious acquisition of Global Airlines, Kay became the spokesperson of the "corporate raider". Kay's main magic weapon is to maliciously acquire the company he likes, and then promote reforms in company management or strategy, so that the company's stocks can rise rapidly in a short period of time and then cash out.
Levinson hates predators like Kay, but he can't control whoever buys Apple's stock. As a scholar, he has always been very restrained and always maintained politeness and politeness: "You know, Mr. Jobs has always been uninterested in stock prices. His dream is to create surprises for the world."
Kay didn't realize that Levinson was so obscure and smiled: "Then we shareholders are exactly the opposite of Mr. Jobs. We are most interested in the stock price. Haha, there are still 15 seconds to open the market, and there are 8 seconds left. I think I have to take a break."
The conference room specially installed a large screen to show the Apple's stock price. As expected, as time comes, Apple's stock price began to soar, $2, $9, and $4. This number is still rising. The shareholders held their breath and stared at the screen, getting closer and closer to breaking the historical record.
$7, $9, a sudden jump, $1, breaking the highest stock price since Apple IPO. I don’t know who took the lead, and thunderous applause rang out in the conference room.
In the office, Jobs was frowning and looking down at a document. Cook stood quietly, clearly a quiet handsome man, obviously disturbed by the movement. Before he could ask, Cook said: "Today, many shareholders gathered in the conference room to celebrate Apple's stock price breaking record."
"Bored, just a group of profit-oriented businessmen." Jobs said disdainfully, but the inadvertent curve of the corners of his mouth betrayed his mood, which was obviously very good.
Puff..., the huge bottle of champagne spray was everywhere, and shareholders celebrated it with all their hearts, while Apple's stock price was still rising all the way, and it stopped gradually when it approached $26.
Kay smiled and said, "I'm so glad that I bought Apple stock four months ago and I'm even more lucky to be able to share this moment of history with everyone. Apple is a great company. Mr. Jobs is a great CEO. Can you ask Mr. Jobs to celebrate together?"
Levinson said: "No need, Mr. Jobs won't be complacent because his stock price breaks through history. Maybe he is suddenly inspired and plans to launch a greater product."
His words mean something. As the chairman and good friend of Jobs, he naturally knew that the iPhone team was secretly established. In his opinion, this will definitely be a cross-age product that redefines the functions of the mobile phone.
Jobs was indeed thinking about something and suddenly asked: "The latest situation of ipod Chinese sales?"
Cook was prepared and immediately said: "The supply is in short supply, 80,000 units are sold out, and there is a high price reselling. Some online forums have already sold for 3,000 yuan per unit."
Jobs was not at all happy, but instead felt annoying feeling of uneasiness in his heart. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!