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"Boss, I thought you were going to spend the rest of your life with those dinosaurs on Jurassic Island."

Just returning to Apple Inc.'s Wenming, I saw Tom Ding who wanted to hug himself.

The security personnel nearby stopped mercilessly in front of Wen Ming, making both Wen Ming and Tom Ding look awkward. Of course, the most embarrassing thing was Tom Ding.

"Relax, this is in our own company."

Wen Ming's words made the security personnel back away, but their eyes were still staring at Tom Ding, which made Tom Ding a little afraid to put away the idea of ​​hugging his boss, just holding his boss tightly with both hands. hand.

"How's it going? What's the status of the recent gaming division?"

Wen Ming asked with a smile on her face. In fact, this question was just a shudder, because Lilith would sum up a bunch of reports from Apple every day for him, which naturally included the development information of Apple's game division.

Tom Ding said with excitement: "Boss, I helped you make 500 million US dollars, 500 million US dollars in cash."

Wen Ming poked her lips and said, "You say it again, did you help me earn it, or did I earn it myself?"

Tom Ding's expression became very embarrassing again, saying, "Of course, the boss you earn yourself, because the four games are all planning books made by the boss. But we also have credit for it. Need to write code, do art design, operation, sales ... "

Wen Ming waved her hand with a smile, and said, "Okay, okay, I know you are credited, and the company will not treat you badly."

Tom Ding nodded gleefully, saying, "Of course I know the boss will not treat us badly. In fact, we are more than any game company in terms of salary level and equity incentive benefits."

Wenming laughed: "That's because we are not just a gaming company, but a quasi-world 500 company."

Tom Ding corrected the error in Wenming's discourse and said, "Boss, not only the quasi-world 500, but also one of the quasi-world 50 companies."

Forbes counts the top 2000 companies every year. The reason why there is a separate list of the world's top 500 is because the number of 2000 is too many.

It is simple to want to be a Forbes Global 2000 company. There are four basic factors: revenue of US $ 4.9 billion, profit of US $ 247 million, assets of US $ 8.72 billion, and market value of US $ 4.92 billion.

These four values ​​are not set in stone, depending on the global economic environment, but will not change much. As long as one of them is satisfied, it can become one of the global companies in 2000.

The top 500 of the world is naturally among the top 500 of the 2000. The first determinant of the ranking method among them is the amount of profit. Although it is not absolute, there are also lower profits but higher rankings, because there are fixed assets and investment projects that year, and the money earned is invested. Naturally, it cannot be counted as net profit, but the investment projects will add value.

Wenming's Apple Corps had a profit of more than 3 billion U.S. dollars in the last quarter. Although the release of the second generation of the iPhone this year will surely be until the second half of the year or even the end of the year. Ministry.

"Boss, I've only read the Wall Street report." After Tom Ding corrected his boss's mistake, he naturally gave reasons, saying, "They think our company's profit in 2010 should be around $ 14 billion. And according to Judging by this amount, we can definitely enter the top 50. "

Apple's profit ratio is amazing, and its sales are also amazing, but which one of the world's top 500 is a fuel-efficient lamp?

Among the world's top 500 companies announced in 2009, even Google, with sales of US $ 66 billion and net profit of US $ 13.7 billion, ranked only 39th. Microsoft, with sales of 93.3 billion U.S. dollars and a net profit of 20.7 billion U.S. dollars, only ranked 25th.

Wen Ming is of course willing that his employees will have pride in this kind of thing, because it can increase the cohesion of an enterprise.

"Well, when the world's top 500 list comes out, we will know how many people we are in. Maybe more than the top 50."

Apple's development has not stopped. Wenming will launch iMac and Macbook in 2010. These two products will definitely allow Apple to go further.

Tom Ding said with a smile: "Boss, how many companies can rank in the top 500 in the world, I'm not sure, but I can confirm that as long as the company goes public, you can become the new richest man in the world. And, first The world's richest person, worth over $ 100 billion. "

This point Tom Ding is not wrong, no matter where Apple ranks, Wenming can become the world's richest man. Because of the companies that rank ahead of Apple, no shareholder can own more than 20% of the shares. Wenming now owns 100% of Apple. Even if Teresa Roy and Bill Gates have completed their shareholdings, Wenming definitely owns more than 95.

Because Bill Gates cannot, like Teresa Roy, invest $ 5 billion in Apple. Although Wenming has set up an equity incentive system, when those employees only have the right to dividends and they do not make enough contributions for Apple, the ownership of those shares always belongs to Wenming.

Wenming heard Tom Ting's touting, and smiled very happily.

But Tom Ding could not tout Wenming for no reason, even if Wenming was his boss, so while Wenming was happy, he made his own claim.

"Boss, you know, my dream is to make a big game that is popular all over the world, or to be a screenwriter for a movie that has become a blockbuster globally."

Tomdin's expression suddenly became very shy and said: "So, I want to get your support and develop a large game ~ www.novelmtl.com ~ or ... expand the company's business in Hollywood?"

Wen Ming said helplessly, "It turns out your purpose is this."

Tom Ding said aggrievedly: "Boss, now the whole world knows that" Talking Tom Cat "is based on me. You gave it the same name as me, should you compensate me?"

This threat left Wenming speechless. He didn't really think of the relationship between Tom Cat and Tom Ding at that time, just because the game in another world was called "Talking Tom Cat".

After thinking about it, Wen Ming said, "So, 10% of your game business unit's profit from now on will be the amount of R & D funding that your game business unit applies to develop games."

Tom Ding almost jumped up in excitement. Don't underestimate the 10%. Just one and a half quarters, their gaming division has already made 500 million US dollars. In this way, in a year, they can almost get 200 million US dollars in research and development funds.

What kind of game requires so much R & D funding?

No!

Even if the world of Warcraft is all the rage, the development cost of the first version is only 40 million U.S. dollars, and it will be increased to about 100 million U.S. dollars in subsequent expansions.

Of course, it is impossible for Tom Ting to directly spend 200 million US dollars to make games, because Wen Ming said that he is applying for research funding instead of giving them so much money. To get money, you must first come up with a feasible plan for approval.

"As for Hollywood."

Wen Ming frowned. He really doesn't look down on Hollywood now, but since Tom Ding has this request, he doesn't mind providing funds for Tom Ding to help him make money.

"If you have a relationship with the right script, then I don't mind investing.") !!