Chapter 973: Jobs Returns to Apple
Boss Jia's headlines were quickly snatched away by Jobs.
Apple actually announced that it would re-invite former chairman Steve Jobs to return, and after a vote by all shareholders, Jobs successfully became the new chairman of Apple.
In order to reassure Jobs, the board of directors actually announced that it was willing to give 5% of the shares to Jobs, after all, Jobs was angry and sold all the Apple shares in his hands.
It would be ridiculous to ask someone who doesn't own any shares to be Apple's CEO and chairman. And to be honest, Apple's shares are not worth much now, especially since there are rumors in the market that they are about to go out of business, otherwise these directors would not want to slap Jobs back in the face.
And after Jobs's return, the first thing he did was to get all the employees and executives of the company together and give them an exciting speech.
Anyway, according to Jobs, an extremely successful speech greatly inspired the morale of all employees, so that Apple's declining atmosphere and people's hearts began to gradually reverse, anyway, the evaluation of this speech in history is very high.
Only this time, when Jobs finished his speech and returned to his office, he took a breath, and his face turned a little pale from the previous chicken blood.
"It's been a long time since I've heard such an outrageous speech, Joe, you're not old!" An elderly man, sitting across from Jobs, sighed.
His name was Woolard, and he was always Jobs's only friend in the company, and he was the last director to support Jobs that year.
"It's not good, the apple is rotten now, even if it's me, it's hard to save him!" Jobs said with a tired face, "I spent two days and two nights reading all of Apple's financial reports and business conditions, and the situation is much worse than I imagined, I really don't know what you have done in the past few years, why has a good Apple become like this!" ”
"Hey!" Jobs's words left Woolard speechless, just smiled awkwardly and finally said, "If it weren't for that, those old guys wouldn't have pulled down their faces and promised to invite you back!" ”
"Tell me, Joe, what is the situation now? Do you have a way to save the company? Woolard finally couldn't help but ask.
"I can't save it!" Jobs shook his head, Woolard's face changed, and when he was about to say something, Jobs suddenly smiled and said, "Apple hasn't gone out of business yet, how can you let me save him?" I can't kill him first! ”
"You guy......" Woolard breathed a sigh of relief, at this time, since Jobs was still in the mood to joke, there was a way to save Apple.
"And what exactly is your solution?" Woolrald asked.
"Have you ever heard of Chinese medicine?" Jobs asked rhetorically.
"Haven't heard of it? What does this have to do with the doctors in Huaxia? Woolrald asked blankly.
"When I was practicing in India, I came into contact with and learned about some Chinese Chinese medicine practitioners, and their doctors are different from Western doctors, they pay attention to using the five elements of yin and yang to treat diseases...... Well, it doesn't matter! ”
"These TCM practitioners have their own theories when treating a seriously ill patient. That is, in the face of a seriously ill patient, it is necessary to use some mild drugs to fill the patient's hollowed out body, so that their physical condition is slightly better and they have recovered. Then take a dose of fierce medicine, use lightning speed, dry up the root of the disease, and finally use mild medicine to nourish the body again, so that the seriously ill patient will be saved! ”
"Joe, what do you mean?" Woolard felt as if he understood something.
"I mean, now Apple should no longer engage in all kinds of bizarre innovations in computers, nor should it compete with Microsoft for the position of the first operating system, we must admit the failure of competing with Microsoft, and then find a way to make up for our hollowed out body!"
"My suggestion is that in the next 1~2 years, we should focus on stabilizing our original most basic product line, and handle all the business except Apple computers and laptops!"
"If you can sell it, you will sell it to others, and if you can't sell it, you will simply shut it down, in short, we must throw away all kinds of garbage that clings to us and sucks blood. I've checked the detailed sales performance, and our computer sales performance is actually good, and we still have a large number of loyal consumers in China, but those idiot CEOs have made too many kinds of junk products come out, and these things have dragged Apple down! ”
"I see!" Woolrald nodded, then frowned and said, "Joe, what you said is not wrong, but in fact, this idea is not new, the board of directors has already had such an idea before, if you just do this, I think otherwise you can delay the decline of Apple, but in the end, Apple will still die!" Woolard sighed.
With the rise of Microsoft, more than 95% of computers are now installed with Windows, which has led to almost all new software and games on the market being developed around the Windows system, while Apple insists on using Apple's own closed Apple system.
This has led to more and more software vendors and game vendors giving up releasing their own products on the Apple system, so that there are fewer and fewer software and games that can be used on the Apple system, and they are all old things.
"So we need another dose of strong medicine!" Jobs licked his lips.
"What's your potion?" Woolraard was curious.
"I can't tell you yet!" Jobs smiled slightly, which made Woolard's heart ache for a while, this disjointed behavior in the middle of the speech is the most hateful.
"By the way, I have a question for you!" Jobs said suddenly.
"What's the problem?" Woolrald subconsciously asked rhetorically.
"You say, I'm coming back this time, who made a big effort, don't tell me, this is a good thing you did, otherwise I don't know how to thank you!" Jobs said curiously.
"It's me...... But I didn't make much effort! Woolard scratched his head and said, "I thought a few days ago that the company couldn't do this, that only you could save Apple, so I think the board of directors came up with an opinion to invite you back as CEO." ”
"But I didn't expect that the board of directors approved it in less than a day, and took the initiative to say that in order to welcome you back, it was willing to let all shareholders give you 5% of the shares, and at the same time it could also sign a contract with you, and before you took the initiative to quit or die, you will never be ousted from the position of CEO again!"
"To be reasonable, I thought that without ten days and half a month, it would be impossible for the board of directors to agree to such conditions, but I didn't expect that it only took one day, and everything was approved!" Woolard also said incredulously.
"Who is in charge of the board now? Or who has the highest equity? Jobs was stunned for a moment, then asked.
"It's an investment fund called Mi Guo Priority, and they already own more than 70% of the company's shares!" Woolrald Road.