"Mr. Steve, how many shares can you give at most?”
"Ye Chen, I can only give you 30% of my authority. Any more and I'll be in a difficult position."
"How about this, Mr. Steve, have you seen our production line?”
"We promise to help your company's supplier transform the production line to increase production efficiency and yield. This way, Steve's vision would not be trapped in the production process and could maximize the reproduction of your design.”
Ye Chen's words moved Steve.
"How about this, Mr. Steve, if you think it's difficult, we can go deeper into the cooperation of high-density lithium batteries.”
Ye Chen's words struck a chord in his heart.
"We can only give you 49% of Apple's shares at most. Any more and we'll have to call off this deal.”
Steve said seriously.
"System, is this Steve's bottom line?”
"Ding…Question successful, experience 5, Chinese dollars 100000.”
'Ding, the answer is.'
"Yes, Mr. Steve. However, I'll make it clear in advance that our cooperation with high-density lithium batteries is limited to the civilian electronics industry and does not include areas such as cars.”
Ye Chen also made it clear in advance, or else they would fall into a tug-of-war again.
"Okay, then we need 40% of the shares.”
"System, how many shares should we pay?”
"Ding…Question successful, experience 5, Chinese dollars 100000.”
"Ding, the answer is 30%.”
"Mr. Steve, we can only give you 25%.”
"Alright, 25% shares, but you have to set up a production base in America.”
"Steve, 30% of the shares. In order to facilitate our management, the production base must be set up in China. In addition, we also need to sign a product confidentiality agreement.”
High-density lithium batteries were far ahead of the world and would touch the cake of many people. Ye Chen did not want to set up a production base in America. That way, his production base would not be confidential. Perhaps the production base would become a museum for the companies of those energy giants.
Perhaps they could really develop something. Under the circumstances that his technology was not much ahead, he would be the only one who would suffer if he had to compete with these world's energy giants.
"Steve, this is our bottom line.”
Ye Chen reiterated.
Steve was lost in thought.
"Alright, Apple can exchange 49% of its shares for these conditions, but we have a request. The total shares of Mr. Ye and his subordinate companies, including the companies under Mr. Ye's immediate family, cannot exceed 50%. We need to write this into the contract."
After a long time, Steve finally looked up and said,"
"How about this? Since we have differences in this aspect, I have another opinion.”
"Please speak."
"With all due respect, Mr. Steve, your health is not good. If one day Mr. Steve steps down as Apple's CEO, then our agreement will automatically end because I have an obligation not to let Apple go bankrupt.”
Ye Chen said that the future Steve jobs would soon resign from his job because of the relapse of his gallbladder cancer and would soon pass away.
In this life, there was no news of Steve's illness, perhaps because of Ye Chen's transmigration.
However, thinking back to the later generations, after Steve jobs resigned, although Apple's market value had been rising steadily, it was obvious that it was not as dynamic as in Steve jobs 'era, especially when the competitiveness of its products was not obvious.
Steve hesitated. He had been cured of his gallbladder cancer in August 2004, so he was still healthy and young. He didn't know how long it had been.
"I'll have to discuss this with the board of directors.”
said Steve.
If he resigned as Apple's CEO, there were only two possibilities. First, his health did not allow him to continue working.
Secondly, his age did not allow him to continue working.
Let's not talk about the first possibility for now, but the second possibility might take a long time. No one knew what would happen after such a long time.
Moreover, he also knew that even if he wrote that clause in the contract, it couldn't avoid anything. There were too many loopholes in this clause. The other party could find a stranger to hold Apple shares and participate in the board of directors to achieve the purpose of controlling the board of directors.
"If that's the case, then I'll add one more condition. Before I resign as the head of the board of directors, the rights of Mr. Ye's shares to be exercised by the board of directors must be fully handed over to me, and it must not be violated. Otherwise, Mr. Zhang will have to pay a penalty of 10 billion US dollars.”
Steve thought about it and added a condition.
"That's not a problem, but I think I have the right to make suggestions, right? Of course, the decision to adopt or not is in your hands or the hands of the board of directors.”
"Of course there's no problem. Since Mr. Ye has agreed, I'll agree on behalf of the board of directors. We can discuss some details now.”
"Happy cooperation."
Steve immediately stood up and extended his hand.
"Happy cooperation."
Ye Chen reached out and shook hands with Steve.
The weight in Steve's heart was finally lifted. The early cooperation with Yechen would only benefit Apple.
The most important thing was that although Apple had paid 49% of the shares, Steve jobs had found another good way for Apple to make money, which was high-density lithium electronics.
"Mr. Steve, we've already discussed the general direction. Leave the rest to Miss Chen Xiaoting.”
"Leave the signing of the contract to our chairman, Su Can.”
"Alright, no problem."
As long as there was a legal effect, there was no problem with whoever signed the contract.
Since the general direction had been discussed, the rest of the details did not need the boss to personally participate. It was enough to leave it to his subordinates.
"Dear boss, now you can visit our Apple company and let you, the biggest leader, inspect it.”
With that, Steve took Ye Chen and the others on a tour of Apple before the negotiations began.
A big company was indeed a big company. Whether it was the environment or the system, it was worth learning from Mingri Technology Company.
(To clarify, investing in Apple was to pave the way for future strength, not to take advantage of foreigners with their own technology.)）
Xin Shu, kneel. Thank you.
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