Chapter 312 (1/2)

A restaurant on Venice Beach.

Bill Gates got off the plane from Los Angeles International Airport and arrived here directly. Near 12 o'clock, there were many guests in this famous restaurant, but Simon had not arrived yet.

Bill Gates is thinking about what to do next when he is led by the waiter to sit down at the predetermined position. He notices a couple coming in quietly laughing and talking. Looking up, he immediately recognized Hollywood star Richard Kiel and his supermodel girlfriend Cindy Crawford.

Richard Kiel has passed these years, but his girlfriend is as beautiful as in TV and newspaper.

Bill Gates can't help glancing at Cindy Crawford. Women are always sensitive to some gaze. Cindy Crawford feels Gates's gaze and turns to look at it. She notices that it's a man with black glasses who seems familiar, but she doesn't mean it. She just takes back her gaze.

Realizing that he was almost ignored, Bill Gates angrily withdrew his eyes and pretended to look around. No one in the restaurant seemed to care about a billion dollar tycoon sitting here.

Just as I was thinking about it, there was a commotion at the door of the restaurant.

Looking back, it turned out that Simon westero was coming. His bodyguard was blocking the reporter who wanted to come forward. The waiter noticed the movement and took the initiative to help the young man open the glass door.

Simon westero came in, and everyone in the restaurant was immediately attracted. Some of the guests obviously got up and seemed to want to say hello, but they just stayed where they were.

Bill Gates hesitated and took the initiative to stand up and take the first two steps.

Simon approached, warmly extended his hand to Bill Gates and said, ”Hi, bill, good afternoon.”

Bill Gates finally felt a little more gaze on his body, and his mood was a bit complicated. However, his face was smiling, he shook hands with Simon and said, ”nice to see you again, Simon.”

As they were about to sit down, Richard Kiel and Cindy Crawford, who had just entered the restaurant, came over and said hello to Simon with obvious ingratitude, which was quite different from the natural estranged star style when they entered the restaurant before.

”I seem to have read the outline of paramount's ia Archives Cindy, your performance in Gucci mark is really good. Maybe you can try to develop to Hollywood Oh, well, I'm kidding. Don't rely on me

After a few words of banter, Richard and Kiel returned to their seats.

Simon and gates also took their seats, watching the beautiful waitress put down her reserve and asked for her signature after Simon ordered. It was also obvious that she left a card. When gates remembered that he had borrowed his Boeing 767 from Westeros this time, he could not help accumulating more envy in his heart.

He has always been the focus of attention in the IT circle, but in front of this young man, in this city of fame and wealth, he can't get any attention at all.

Thinking about the situation that he wanted to visit the front cabin on the plane, but was refused by the stewardess because it was the private space of Westeros, gates secretly decided that he would have a car not inferior to this young man in the future.

Finally, after dinner, Bill Gates thought about it and said, ”Simon, I saw igritte's World Wide Web Technology in San Francisco. I have to say that the development potential of this technology is really great.”

Igritte's World Wide Web technology has closely linked Cisco, AOL, sun and other companies held by Westeros.

However, Simon doesn't have the idea of making igrit's graphical interface browser a built-in browser for Windows system for the time being. He plans to keep a low profile and let this technology develop for another year or two, fully mature and become a unique standard in the industry, and then carry out large-scale promotion.

Instead of taking Gates' topic, Simon just said with a smile, ”I've tried the beta version of windows 3.0. Compared with previous versions, Microsoft's products have made great progress this time, and will definitely be further recognized by the market after its release next year.”

Now that Simon brought the subject to this, Gates said, ”so you're going to continue to buy shares in Microsoft?”

”Yes, you know, bill, I have a lot of money recently. Since I have a promising company, I must invest it as soon as possible.”

Bill Gates can't help thinking of many reports during this period.

The young man in front of us may not be the richest man on the Forbes list, but he is probably the one with the most cash among all the world's billionaires. It's just that cersei capital, which has been shrouded in clouds, is said to have reached $8 billion in cash, half of which seems to belong to this young man.

Only the $4 billion in cash exceeds the wealth of most of the world's super rich.

With that in mind, Bill Gates said, ”but Simon, I don't think you should keep buying. Westero company holds more than 10% of the shares of Microsoft. Because of the purchase of westero company, many institutions have begun to grasp the shares of Microsoft, and there are fewer and fewer scattered circulating shares in the market. As you know, the decrease of circulating shares will definitely have a strong inhibitory effect on the rise of stock price. I think Westeros has enough shares in Microsoft. You can consider buying shares in other companies. ”Simon had previously roughly guessed that gates should be such an idea.

The decrease of the proportion of circulating shares in the secondary market and the decrease of trading activity of a company will indeed restrain the rise of the share price.

”However, I still want to buy more Microsoft shares,” Simon said. He seemed to think about it, and then said, ”bill, otherwise, I have made such a suggestion before. How about selling your Microsoft shares to me? I can buy them at 10% of the market price. You now have 45% of the shares, sold me 10%, you are still the largest shareholder of Microsoft. Moreover, I'm not interested in the control of Microsoft at all. As long as you can sell me some shares, I can also authorize you the voting right of Westeros holding Microsoft shares. Westeros is only a pure shareholder. ”

Bill Gates couldn't help thinking of the Boeing 767 he was on when he came to Los Angeles.

Although he quickly entered the Forbes rich list after Microsoft's listing, he also ranked the top of Forbes North American rich list this year with a fortune of US $1.5 billion. However, because his assets are basically Microsoft stocks, his living standard is not as high as that of a billion level billionaire.

For example, he doesn't even have a private plane right now.

Compared with the young people in front of us, it's even worse.

In fact, when we first met, the young man proposed to him to buy Microsoft shares directly from him. Because he thought that there was still a lot of room for the share price of Microsoft to rise, he did not hesitate to refuse.

Now, it seems good to sell some stocks and improve your life.

If you sell a share by yourself, you can get the voting rights of all the shares held by Westeros company. In this way, you will not lose the control of the company, and may even realize the absolute control of the company.

However, selling 10% at one time is definitely not feasible.