Reborn Russia As An Oligarch

By this year, that is, in 2006, as Apple launched the music store and the IPOD continued to sell well, the company's stock price has risen a lot...

At the beginning, Wang Ye bought all the 160 million additional shares issued by Apple at $5 per share. His share in Apple accounted for 16% and he was also the largest shareholder!

Up to now, Apple's stock price has risen to more than one hundred and sixty dollars!

With this investment alone, Wang Ye has already made more than 25 billion US dollars!

Of course, with so many shares, it is also very difficult to cash out and leave the market. If Wang Ye really throws so many Apple shares to the market, Apple's stock price will also "fall a thousand miles" and depreciate significantly.

After all, he is the largest shareholder of Apple, and even if the largest shareholder wants to cash out, other investors must also feel precarious and scramble to cash out and leave the market.

But only Wang Ye knows, this is where it is!

After the launch of IPHONE and IPAD in the future, Apple's market value will continue to soar, and the company's market value will even exceed US$3 trillion at its peak!

At that time, the 16% of the shares he holds will be worth nearly 500 billion U.S. dollars...

Moreover, in addition to the soaring stock price, in a few years, when the cash in Apple's account is too much to run out, the company will start a large dividend. In the most outrageous year, it directly paid dividends to shareholders four times!

Highlights a deep pocket.

Therefore, Wang Ye didn't think about cashing out these shares at all, at least he would hold them in his hands for more than ten years, and wait until Apple's market value was close to the peak, and then slowly cash out part of it.

Anyway, now I don't have any place where I need a lot of money, so why kill the chicken to get the eggs.

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"Mr. Mikhail, I don't know if you have time to visit Apple's headquarters recently. Our epoch-making product has been successfully developed!"

On the phone, Chief Qiao's voice sounded a little trembling, obviously a little emotional.

Of course, Wang Ye understands what the "epoch-making product" mentioned by Gang Leader Qiao refers to, it must be the IPHONE!

Moreover, when this project was first established, many shareholders on the board of directors objected, because many directors believed that mobile phones were unnecessary. There are a lot of mobile phone brands such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, and Blackberry. The competition has already entered a fierce battle. This is a Red Sea market!

But Wang Ye firmly stood on the side of Chief Qiao and supported his opinion.

That is to say, with the support of Wang Ye, the major shareholder, Qiao Gangzhu was able to officially approve the mobile phone project. Under the strict confidentiality system, the entire project team has been developing for more than three years. Satisfied with the product to come.

Gang Leader Qiao also hoped that Wang Ye could take a look at this product in person and give some opinions. After all, it was his first time making a mobile phone product, so he was a bit uncertain.

Although Wang Ye is not an industry insider, at the beginning of the project, he told himself some very critical and important suggestions about the product, such as this new mobile phone must be different from all mobile phones on the market, cancel all mobile phone keyboards , adopt a full touch screen design, make the mobile phone in the direction of a microcomputer, develop its own mobile phone operating system, etc...

It has to be said that some of these suggestions coincide with the thoughts of Gang Leader Qiao himself!

Therefore, he thinks that Wang Ye, a young man, is very discerning and has a strong sensitivity to the future development of the mobile phone industry. His opinions are worth reference...

As for Wang Ye's current status, it's not that Gang Leader Qiao doesn't know about it, but he doesn't care about it at all. No matter how powerful Wang Ye is, it has nothing to do with him.

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Hearing what Qiao Gangzhu said, Wang Ye was also delighted.

Even though he already knew that Apple's product that was about to change the world would come out in early 2007, but when things really happened, his mood was different.

Why don't you go to America...

This royal industry has to be considered.

On the one hand, the experience of going to the United States last time left very bad memories for Wang Ye.

On the other hand, for his series of actions in Eastern Europe and Africa in the past few years, if he said that he did not offend Lao Mei, he would be deceiving himself.

Wang Ye was really worried, after he went there, don't accidentally have any "accidents"!

If you can do some things by yourself, then of course others can do them too, maybe even others are more experienced than you in doing them...

After pondering for a while, Wang Ye replied with a smile:

"Recently, I have been too busy here, and I have to visit many countries, so I may not be able to spare time to go to the United States.

But don't worry, I probably know what the new product looks like.

Although this product is a new starting point for Apple, it will inevitably change many things, but you have to know that many things cannot be rushed.

Like I told you before, go slow and iterate fast.

In my opinion, this first product is amazing, but it is far from changing the global mobile phone industry. I am looking forward to new products next year and the year after.

I predict that it will take the third or even fourth generation of products to truly change the world, and the sales of this first generation of products may only be one or two million units..."

For Apple's upcoming mobile phone products, Wang Ye's suggestion is to launch only one new model every year, and concentrate all the resources and technologies of the company so that each new model has a major breakthrough and enough selling points !

As for the sales volume he predicted, of course it is not a wild guess, but the real historical sales volume of Apple mobile phones in Wang Ye's previous life...

Contrary to what many people imagine, the Apple mobile phone is not popular all over the world as soon as it is launched.

The first-generation iPhone is only sold in North America, and the supply chain has not yet been fully established, and the self-developed mobile phone system has not yet been officially launched, so the sales volume is not high, only about 1.3 million units.

It is completely incomparable with those big mobile phone brands of the same period, such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson!

However, the second-generation iPhone 3G was officially equipped with Apple's own mobile phone operating system IOS 1, and began to be sold in more countries, so the sales volume began to skyrocket, and the annual sales volume reached more than 11 million units.

By the third generation, that is, the iPhone 3GS, the sales volume had doubled from the previous year, to just over 20 million.

The fourth generation, the classic iPhone 4, is equipped with Apple's self-developed A-series processor for the first time, the first model with Retina retina screen, the first time to add FaceTime video calling function, and the first time to introduce front and rear double tempered glass into the mobile phone shell iPhone 4 is also the most classic iPhone product in the era of Joe Gangzhu, and it is this iPhone 4 that opened the door to the Chinese market!

Sales doubled again, reaching 40 million!

The fifth generation, the swan song of Joe Gang, iPhone 4S, sold more than 70 million.

The sixth generation, the first new device of the Cook era, the iPhone 5, sold 120 million units!

In the future, 150 million, 200 million...

The mobile phone has also become the core business of Apple. Because of the global best-selling iPhone, the company's market value has skyrocketed year after year. It is the first giant company with a market value of one trillion US dollars, the first company with a market value of two trillion or three trillion dollars...

At its peak, Apple was able to account for more than 100% of the profits of the global mobile phone industry!

It sounds outrageous and absurd, but it is only because other mobile phone manufacturers are too aggressive. Many brands not only fail to make money, but also generate huge losses. Therefore, the combined profits of the entire industry are actually lower than the profits of Apple alone. ...

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Hearing that Wang Ye couldn't come to the company's headquarters, Gang Leader Qiao felt a little regretful, but he could understand.

He smiled and replied: "Well, this product will be mass-produced soon, but because the time is relatively short, it is only planned to be sold in North America for the time being, and the product launch is tentatively scheduled for early November. If it arrives If you have time, you can come to the press conference, after all, that day is also a historic day for Apple."

It would be a little bad if he evaded it again. After all, Gang Leader Qiao also sincerely invited him, hoping that he could also witness history together.

Wang Ye smiled and agreed. At worst, he would fly directly to the conference site that day, and then fly back directly after the conference...

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Wang Ye's trip to Jifu has caused a lot of repercussions around the world.

Not to mention the neighboring countries, the members of the Economic Mutual Aid Organization and CHEP originally wanted to embrace the big brother, but now they see the so-called integration agreement signed by the big Mao and the Ermao, and everyone's thoughts are alive.

In this case, do I have to sign the same agreement with Da Mao?

Everything has its two sides, and if there is a good side, there will naturally be a bad side, and this integration agreement is no exception.

On the bright side, of course, you can rely on Da Mao's relatively stronger national strength and economy to help your country develop faster, so that countries that have integrated into the integration can communicate with each other like EU countries. Trade exchanges, and even the currency can be unified in the future, and everyone will form a strong whole together!

In this way, when encountering any major risks, there is no need to worry that you will not be able to withstand it because you are backed by so many brother countries.

But the disadvantage is that in this integrated organization, Da Mao is the "big brother who takes the lead". As a younger brother, in many aspects, such as military diplomacy, he must keep the same direction as the "big brother". a lot of autonomy...

Whether or not to promote integration with Da Mao, the ideas of the rulers of each country are naturally different.

Some people eagerly want to join this integration without thinking about it, such as Sanmao...

However, some countries are not too interested in integrating with Damao, or they have too many concerns for the time being. Many details need to be further discussed with Kremlin and Wangye before they can decide whether to enter or not.

Representatives in this regard are naturally several stan countries.

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When it comes to Belarus, which is commonly known as Sanmao, one person has to be mentioned, and that is Lukasko!

This is also a ruthless man. He is only in his early fifties this year, but he has already served as the president of Belarus for two terms. He can be described as a "giant" in Minsk politics!

This year, he had just won the general election and started his third term as president. At the inauguration ceremony, his adoptive father personally went to celebrate him.

Because Lukasko is a very firm "pro-Russian" faction, and has a very close relationship with Da Mao.

Even as early as the 1990s, it was proposed to promote integration with Da Mao, but because the situation on Da Mao's side was still relatively chaotic at that time, things have not been finalized.

As a result, Er Mao took the lead and signed a formal agreement with Da Mao on the promotion of integration.

Then Lukasko couldn't sit still, he called the Kremlin directly, and complained a little in his words, saying that Wang Ye hadn't visited them there in the past few years, did he think they were too small in Belarus? The national power is too weak, so I look down on them or something...

Given his relationship with the Kremlin, it is understandable to say these things, so the adoptive father just smiled and explained a few words for Wang Ye, saying that Wang Ye will visit Minsk immediately after returning from Kifu, and discuss it face-to-face with Lukasko. The integration of the two countries.

The reason why he has not visited Minsk before is because Wang Yegang has not been in charge of diplomatic work for a long time, and he was more engaged in economic work before.

To be honest, it's not that Wang Ye didn't know that San Mao and Da Mao were the closest, but he really didn't put San Mao in a particularly important position.

Because it is too small and does not have any important strategic significance. The land area is 200,000 square kilometers and the population is only 8 million. "ah.

The reason why he is so active in making plans in Ermao is because Ermao has a large size, a large population, rich resources and a good industrial foundation. After being recruited, it will definitely be a big help!

So Wang Ye helped Yanukovych and Yulia to run for election, invested huge sums of money to help Ermao revive, and now he personally promotes the integration process of the two countries.

These will be richly rewarded in the future!

And what can San Mao bring to Wang Ye?

After thinking about it for a while, except for the famous beauties over there, Wang Ye couldn't think of what else was left in Sanmao's side...

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After returning from Kifu, when he went to the Kremlin to report on the visit, the adoptive father mentioned Lukasko’s complaint with a smile, and asked Wang Ye when he planned to go to Minsk to sign the agreement on the integration of the two countries .

Regarding the efficiency of Wang Ye's work, the adoptive father should not be too satisfied.

No matter what kind of thing, as long as it is handed over to Wang Ye, it can be done quickly and well, and sometimes the results are even better than expected!

With such a right-hand assistant, foster father really feels much more relaxed now, and has a lot less troubles.

He put his main energy into the integration of the faction. After all, the Hilavik Group has a lot of miscellaneous things. Although he is the soul of the faction, he dare not say that he can completely control this huge interest group.

Now it happens that Wang Ye can help him share a lot of affairs, so he can "internal" and "clean" his "backyard" well. (end of this chapter)