Chapter 71 The olive branch from Google

Author: Banlou Yaofeng

Chapter 71 The olive branch from Google

If you already have 90 million U.S. dollars in hand, how can you make 1 billion U.S. dollars in one year? Find the answer online, if you are the one. The best answer is to dream, let alone 90 million principal, 1 billion principal is just a small case.

But for Qu Li, this is really a small case. The reason is very simple. The complex options and futures are simplified. International crude oil is now 55 US dollars a barrel. If he buys a long option of 60 US dollars, he can use one-tenth of the price.

This batch of crude oil was purchased at the price.

For example, Qu Li can buy 830,000 barrels of crude oil for US$50 million. After purchasing options, he can buy at least 8.3 million barrels. A year later, the price of crude oil rises to around US$100. Even if the settlement price is US$95 per 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 US dollars can buy more than 20 million barrels.

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

Big surprise.

Qu Li took the documents prepared for him by Peterson and others, looked left and right, and calculated secretly in his mind. He couldn't remember the specific rise and fall of international oil prices. He only knew that in mid-2008, international oil prices rose to 150 US dollars, and by the end of this year, they rose to 150 US dollars.

The probability of reaching US$100 is more than 50%, so will the probability of rising to US$80 be greater than 80%? On the contrary, if the international crude oil price is lower than US$60 by then, this option investment will basically be in vain.

"Just buy this batch. My request is not to leave tax and legal risks in the United States. I can sell at any time, and the other party cannot terminate the contract. I would rather have a little trouble now than get into trouble later." Qu Li, as always, said

He maintains a cautious style, and the things he can do are very risky.

"Okay, no problem." Both the lawyer and the accountant agreed. I won't go into details about various service fees, commissions, and insurance premiums, just ignore them.

"Help me find a few short real estate funds with detailed information. If there are good choices, I will invest." Qu Li threw out the bait. If he really wanted to invest, the commission would belong to HSBC America.

"We will prepare the information." Peterson agreed.

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

After the matter was explained, Zhou Shaoning also arrived. Qu Li did not 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 particularly different.

When they arrived at Google headquarters, a dedicated person was responsible for the reception and took the three of them to a small conference room. The three giants of Google were waiting for them here at the same time, which made Zhou Shaoning flattered.

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

"I'm Qu Li. I'm very happy to meet two legends of Silicon Valley. This is my girlfriend Zhang Yiwen. She has been helping me deal with various fund-related matters." Qu Li introduced the three of them, but Zhou Shaoning

Although he is the president of Greater China, the Google duo does not seem to be too impressed by him.

"We want to hear your vision for the mobile Internet." Schmidt got straight to the point.

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

"If user experience is not taken into consideration, all the tasks that consumers can complete on PCs will be possible on mobile phones in the future. This is equivalent to having a laptop that can be stuffed into your pocket at any time, can be put on standby for a long time, and can be opened in one second.

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"Why does it have to be a touch screen instead of a full keyboard?" Page asked, because Android was originally developed for QWERTY full keyboard phones, imitating BlackBerry phones.

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

"The core advantage?"

"The iPhone has many shortcomings. The short battery life is inevitable and may even be a fatal shortcoming. If there is no advantage that is enough to counteract this shortcoming, then what reason do consumers have to convince themselves to change their usage habits?"

"What is the advantage of this?"

"Big screen, multiple software, multiple uses!" Qu Li's words were concise and concise. Google must have seen that the impact of IOS was very big, so it approached Qu Li, an outsider, because he had proposed the idea of ​​IPhone half a year ago, and it didn't seem like a big deal at the time.

Unexpectedly, there is an amazing coincidence with Apple.

Qu Li was responsible for bragging and talked a lot about Google. For example, the smartphone company he and Zhou Shaoning planned to establish would be able to cooperate with Google.

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

"Of course, Google search will be built into the mobile operating system and then charged based on usage. I believe Apple's iPhone will also charge for it in the future."

"But it seems like your operating system hasn't been developed yet?"

"In fact, we haven't even formed a team, but it is impossible for Apple to occupy all the markets. We are fully committed when big companies are still hesitating. We believe that even if we lag behind Apple's iPhone in terms of 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, selling mobile phones to accumulate experience, and developing an operating system at the same time, it will take about two to three years to create a qualified operating system."

"But at that time, Apple's IPhone will have a huge advantage, and I'm afraid it will have a greater monopoly advantage than Microsoft and Intel."

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

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

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

"You've said so much, why don't you talk about Google?" Schmidt

"Google shouldn't have had a similar plan before, otherwise Apple wouldn't want to cooperate with you." Qu Li said deliberately.

"Just because it didn't exist before doesn't mean it doesn't exist now." Schmidt naturally didn't know that Qu Li had known about Google's acquisition of Android.

"The most critical question is how high your priority is for this operating system and how much support you have?" The project priorities of large companies are not high, which means there are not many resources. It is not known whether it will take a long time to develop a mobile operating system.

The year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

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

"Perhaps our biggest advantage is that both parties have reached an agreement. On the premise that both parties agree on the development direction of the iPhone, they can devote all their energy to this new operating system, such as ensuring that the initial investment is not less than 10 million US dollars..."
Chapter completed!