Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

Knowing that you have $90 million in your hands, how do you make $1 billion in one year? Online solution, if you are the one. The best answer is to dream, let alone a principal of 90 million, a principal of 1 billion is a small case.

But for Qu Li, who is hanging on the wall, it is really a small case. The reason is very simple. The complex option futures are simplified. Now that the international crude oil is $55 a barrel, he buys a bullish option of $60, and he can buy this batch of crude oil at one-tenth of the price.

For example, Qu Li can buy 830,000 barrels of crude oil with 50 million U.S. dollars. After buying options, he can buy at least 8.3 million barrels. One year later, the price of crude oil will rise to around 100 U.S. dollars. Even if the settlement price is 95 U.S. dollars a barrel, he will After the year, you can get 8.3 million* (95-55) million, which is 330 million US dollars. In fact, the option fee can be understood as a deposit, and $50 million can buy more than 20 million barrels.

"If you buy options at $60 a barrel, you can buy 20 million barrels for 50 million. As long as the oil price really exceeds $62.5 within a year, you can make money." Peterson came to Quli's hotel the next morning and gave him more Big surprise.

Qu Li took the document that Peterson and the others prepared for him, looked left and right, and secretly calculated in his heart. He couldn't remember the specific rise and fall of international oil prices. He only knew that international oil prices rose to 150 US dollars in mid-2008, and rose to The probability of $100 is more than 50%, so will the probability of rising to $80 be greater than 80%? On the contrary, if the international crude oil price is lower than 60 US dollars at that time, this option investment is basically in vain.

"Just buy this batch. My request is not to leave tax and legal risks in the United States. I can sell it at any time, and the other party cannot terminate the contract. I would rather be in trouble now than in the future." Qu Li, as always He maintains a cautious style, and the things he can do are very gambled.

"Okay, no problem." Both the lawyer and the accountant agreed, and the various service fees, commissions, and insurance premiums will not be detailed, and they will be ignored

"Help me find a few more short-selling real estate funds, and provide detailed information. If there are good choices, I will invest." Qu Li threw out the bait. If you really want to invest, the commission will belong to HSBC America.

"We will prepare the materials." Peterson promised

"It's best to be a fund that has been shorting housing prices since last year." Qu Li emphasized again that although there may be many funds shorting housing prices in the United States, only that one is the most famous, and his purpose is to find that person.

After the matter was explained, Zhou Shaoning also arrived, but Qu Li didn't explain his investment project to him. The three of them went to Google together and called in advance to make an appointment.

Zhou Shaoning came to Google headquarters more than once, but this time his identity was different, and his mood was very different.

When they came to the Google headquarters, a special person was in charge of reception, and brought the three of them to a small conference room. Zhou Shaoning was flattered that the three giants of Google were waiting for them here at the same time.

"Hi, Qu Li, hello, I'm Larry Page!" Page and Brin introduced themselves successively

"I'm Qu Li. I'm very happy to meet two legends in Silicon Valley. This is my girlfriend Zhang Yiwen, who has been helping me with various financial matters." Qu Li introduced the three of them, but Zhou Shaoning Although he is the president of Greater China, the Google duo doesn't seem to have a deep impression on him.

"We want to hear your vision for the mobile Internet." Schmidt cut to the chase

"First of all, we must affirm the development direction of Apple, which is also the development direction I am looking forward to; secondly, we should refer to the possible future network speed of 3G/4G, which can reach the speed of 100M optical fiber at most, which means that it is not much different from PC Internet."

"If you don't consider the user experience, the tasks that consumers can complete on PCs can all be realized on mobile phones in the future, which is equivalent to having a laptop that can be stuffed into a pocket at any time, and can be turned on in a second when it is on standby for a long time. "

"Why must it be a touch screen instead of a full keyboard?" Page asked, because Android was originally developed for a QWERTY full keyboard phone, imitating the BlackBerry.

"Because what I want is an Internet mobile phone, the screen is too small and it is not suitable for long-term use, and the core advantages will not be able to play a role."

"The core advantage?"

"IPhone has many disadvantages. Short battery life is inevitable, and may even be a fatal disadvantage. If there is no advantage enough to counteract this disadvantage, then what reason do consumers have to persuade themselves to change their usage habits?"

"What is this advantage?"

"Big screen with multiple software and multiple uses!" Qu Li said succinctly. Google saw that the impact of IOS must be very large, so it came to Qu Li, a layman, because he proposed the idea of ​​​​IPhone half a year ago, and it seemed nothing special at the time. Unexpectedly, there is an amazing coincidence with Apple.

Qu Li was in charge of bragging, and he said a lot at Google, for example, that the smartphone company he and Zhou Shaoning planned to establish could cooperate with Google at that time.

"Cooperation, how to cooperate?" Schmidt asked with a smile

"Of course it is to put Google search into the mobile phone operating system, and then charge according to the usage. I believe that Apple's IPhone will also charge in the future."

"But your operating system doesn't seem to be developed yet?"

"In fact, even the team has not been formed, but Apple cannot occupy all the markets. When big companies are still hesitating, we are fully committed. I believe that even if we lag behind Apple's iPhone in smartphones, we will not lag behind Nokia."

"Then your investment will be huge, and developing an operating system is not easy."

"Using the Linux kernel, making a simplified version without a touch screen, while selling mobile phones to accumulate experience, while developing an operating system, a qualified operating system can be created in about two to three years."

"However, at that time, Apple's IPhone will have a very large advantage, and I am afraid that it will gain a monopoly advantage even greater than that of Microsoft and Intel."

"You don't intend to use an operating system provided by a third party?"

"We have also done research on this aspect. Symbian led by Nokia is obviously not suitable, otherwise other cooperative companies will not give up cooperation one after another. The operating systems of iPhone's iOS and BlackBerry are not open source, Plam OS was acquired, and it does not support multi-threading..."

"In addition to self-research, we seem to have no better way, unless Microsoft Windows Mobile supports full screen, but how long it will take them to achieve is unknown."

"You said so much, why didn't you say Google?" Schmidt

"Google probably didn't have a similar plan before, otherwise Apple wouldn't have asked you to cooperate." Qu Li deliberately said nonsense

"Not before, doesn't mean it doesn't exist now." Schmidt naturally didn't know that Qu Li knew that Google had acquired Android long ago.

"The most critical question is how high is your priority for this operating system and how much support is there?" The project priority of large companies is not high, which means that there are not many resources, and the development of mobile operating systems has not yet been completed. The year of the monkey is the month of the horse.

"Higher than you think, but why should we choose to cooperate with you?"

"Our biggest advantage may be that the two sides have reached an agreement. On the premise that both agree with the development direction of the iPhone, we can devote all our energy to this new operating system, such as ensuring that the initial investment is not less than 10 million US dollars..."