Chapter 1674

Felix himself has a great opinion on the invitation of Li Mu to the cover of the American edition of time. He thinks that Li Mu is not worthy to be on the cover of the American edition of time anyway.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Mu didn't seem to be interested in the cover, and even made a series of bizarre requests.

So far, Time magazine has used children as the cover, but those children are the representatives of extraordinary significance at that time, such as the snapshot of poor children in Africa, the close-up of war refugee children, in addition to this, they have never used the children's photos of an adult as the cover.

What's more, they were all invited by time to be cover characters, but the parties even refused to give the interview face, which is a bit too much.

The most unacceptable thing for Felix is that Li Mu refused to mention God in the report of time magazine!

Although the United States is known as the largest immigrant country in the world, its essence is actually a Puritan country. The traditional Americans believe in God, and at the same time, they praise Felix and argue: "we are a Puritan country. This is our faith and tradition!"

Time Warner's executives asked him, "so what? Is it because we have our beliefs and traditions that we should use this to ask others? I ask you, if you are the manager of a McDonald's restaurant, is there anything wrong with a guest just asking him not to put ketchup in his order of fries? Is it because all the chips you serve in your restaurant have ketchup that he has to eat as well? "

Felix was speechless.

He didn't expect that this normally reticent senior executive could be so talkative when he started a debate. A few words blocked his way.

At this time, the other party cleared his throat and said: "Felix, we all know what you are, but I have to remind you that it doesn't matter if you discriminate in your mind. Everyone has something ugly in their mind, but you'd better lock your personal opinions in your mind. If you dare to bring them to work, I will immediately put them to the board of directors Replace you! Even if you leak out in your daily life and get caught, I will tell the board of directors and earnestly ask the board to take you off! "

Felix was shocked by the harsh tone of the other side. He quickly changed his tone and said respectfully: "don't worry, I will remember your explanation and never cause trouble to the company and individuals..."

The other side said, "you really know what's best. Li Mu is the cover character. You have to give me all your strength. Now Wall Street generally believes that with Li Mu's development speed, his value is likely to exceed 500 billion dollars in the next five years. Do you know what this concept is? If you offend him and miss the chance, you can also clean up and prepare to leave! "

Felix was taken aback by the figure, more than $500 billion in five years? Is that a terrible number? Is it possible?

Felix, on the one hand, promised to come down, and on the other hand, he looked for an opportunity to contact his friends on Wall Street, and privately asked him about the possibility of the news.

His friend, who was also a high-tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the early years, came to Wall Street to be a financial analyst because of the family industry. It can be said that he knows more about the Internet than ordinary wall street people.

what Felix knows is that Li Mu's theory has already reached 100 billion dollars, but because he just experienced the Internet bubble, he didn't think that this billion dollar was great. Before and after 2000, many Internet Co had a surge in market value, but the bubble was coming fast. Today, Li Mu is still the God's favored one. Maybe tomorrow's bubble will happen again. When it breaks, he becomes a billionaire.

What Felix didn't expect was that after he asked the friend in YY, the other party immediately replied to him: "in five years, it's only the superficial judgment of the Wall Street guys. I think with the current layout of Li Mu, it's possible in three years."

"Three years? Are you crazy? What can Li Mu do? "

Felix also wanted to get some opinions that looked down on Li Mu. Unexpectedly, his friend's praise for Li Mu was higher than the general recognition of Wall Street.

And his friend explained: "Li Mu has several business lines with great potential. For example, he bought apple a few days ago and didn't open any of its employees. However, apple hasn't made any new moves. This contrast shows that Apple should be doing large-scale R & D work, and Li Mu is likely to be doing something What a move. "

"Li Mu's Taobao is very good, and the supporting small package high-efficiency logistics has reached the leading level in the whole industry. With the rapid development of the Internet, the market share of e-commerce is also growing. Li Mu's Taobao can be made into Unicorn only by relying on the Chinese market. If Li Mu decides to let Taobao go abroad, this business line is likely to become a new one Wal Mart online. "

Felix asked doubtfully, "online Wal Mart? Does that taobao net have such a God as you say

The other side sent a smile and said: "everyone's starting point is different, and the angle is even more different. But I personally think that if Li Mu takes out Taobao in the future and does global operation, it will definitely be a huge business opportunity."As he said, the other side said: "besides, Li Mu has long been engaged in data processing centers around the world. At present, no Internet company can compare with Muye technology in data processing capacity. Now, Muye technology's data processing center can not only fully meet Muye technology's own needs, but also start tob business. They open their redundant data Processing power is given to other Internet enterprises, and the future prospect of this business line is very broad, even to develop to a trillion dollar market in the next 10 years. Therefore, if Li Mu's business lines are developing smoothly, the value of these business lines is 500 billion dollars in three years, I don't think it's anything at all. "

Felix couldn't help but ask, "is there such a big market for data processing?"

The other side said: "it seems very frightening, but a little calculation shows that Wal Mart has a market value of nearly US $300 billion just because it covers less than one billion people online and offline. Half of the top ten people in the world's rich list are the children of the founder's family of Wal Mart. Li Mu covers nearly one billion internet users around the world. In the future, Wal Mart has a market value of nearly US $300 billion The Internet services used by these netizens are probably supported by the data processing center of Makino technology. How much profit space do you think there is in this? "

Speaking of this, he added: "and most importantly, the growth rate of Internet users in the world is much faster than the number of customers covered by Wal Mart. In a few years, the number of Internet users in the world is likely to exceed 2 billion and 3 billion. If there is a day, the data processing business of Muye technology will surely earn more."

Felix was shocked and asked, "since this part of the business is so profitable, why haven't other enterprises started?"

The other side replied: "it's too expensive and the threshold is too high. To do such a thing is to invest in building a large number of hub airports around the world and purchase a large number of airplanes for transportation between hubs. Few companies can afford to play. What's more, the super player of Makino technology is here. I think with the current development speed of Makino technology, at least 50% of the global Internet will be built in the future The data processing business is in their hands, and by that time it will be really profitable. "

At this stage, only those who really understand the Internet can see the future of cloud computing. Felix naturally knows nothing about it. However, through the analysis of his friends, his whole person has been stunned.

The other side concluded: "in fact, Li Mu's current ability, as long as you don't choose the wrong direction, can basically succeed in anything you do. As you see, the influence of your time magazine seems to be great, but in fact, the recommendation and delivery ability of your cover person is more than one order of magnitude lower than the saturated delivery of YY net or twitter. I think Li Mu can do whatever he wants You can replace Murdoch to become a new media tycoon. When the media like your time, what's left is only the symbolic meaning of years of operation. Do you understand the symbolic meaning I said? It's that people don't pay attention to what's written in time. They only pay attention to who's published in this issue. "

Felix marveled at his friend's conclusion. Now there are a lot of data to show this. The sales volume of time magazine has been declining all the time, and the cover characters of each issue will be reported by other media. To be honest, most of the people who pay attention to time magazine now just want to see its cover.

At this time, the friend suddenly asked, "by the way, did you try to invite Li Mu? If Li Mu is willing to be on your cover, you are really lucky! "