Chapter 830: The Richest Man in the World (Complete Book)
Time flies like an arrow.
Smartphones have set off a craze for mobile Internet. In the surging waves, new giants have risen and old giants have fallen.
In 2012, Nokia gradually fell from its pedestal, its market share was surpassed by Samsung, and it fell from the position of global leader. Its dynasty began to collapse, ending its 14-year status as the dominant mobile phone brand. It has never recovered since then.
On April 25, 2014, Nokia had no choice but to sell its mobile phone business to Microsoft and withdraw from the mobile phone market.
After all, Nokia was once the leader in the mobile phone market, and it is really sad to see it end up like this.
At the Maomao Mobile headquarters, Lu Yiming is being interviewed by his sister-in-law Li Zixian.
"Mr. Lu, Panda phones now dominate the entire mobile phone market and are the only king of smartphones. As the person who created the smartphone, what do you think of Nokia's entry into the mobile phone market?"
Maomao Mobile's Panda phones are updated at the rate of one series per year. The market is getting bigger and bigger, and the shipments are soaring like a rocket. When people talk about smartphones, they only think of Panda phones. However, the smartphone moat built around the Hongmeng system, Hongmeng App Store, and QQ Mobile Edition makes the later Android and IOS pale in comparison, and they are always a .
If Google and Apple were not both very capable, and if the world's market were not large enough for one company to take over the entire market, I'm afraid that when people talk about smartphones, they would only think of Panda phones, and talking about Panda phones would be tantamount to tacitly accepting smartphones.
That is really too terrifying.
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "I'll just sit and watch. What else can I do? People come and go in this world all the time. No one will be the eternal king, and no one will be the eternal loser. Nokia back then was just like the Panda phone now. The phone is equal to Nokia, and Nokia represents the phone. This era is spiraling upward, and the wheel of history is rolling and no one can stop it. I am at the forefront today, and someone will definitely replace me tomorrow. It's nothing."
Li Zixian exclaimed: "Is this Mr. Lu's sense of crisis? No wonder you have been able to rise rapidly in just over a decade and build your own business and technology empire. Some people say that in today's Xia Country, from birth to death, one will inevitably need to use the products you invested in. Born in the hospital you invested in, studying in the school you built, using the computer produced by your company, returning home to live in the house built by your company, using the mobile phone produced by your company, watching the TV produced by your company, opening your company's food delivery software, and ordering a fast food of your fast food brand on it, the food delivery man drives the car produced by the car factory you invested in to deliver the food..."
Lu Yiming quickly said: "That's an exaggeration. I just provide everyone with a convenient and fast life."
In the Hongmeng App Store, companies invested by Lu Yiming, such as Quwen Tianxia, Qiandu, as well as Taobao, Alipay, Luming Mall, etc. have all released APPs, building a complete online and offline ecological chain covering food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Compared with the Hongmeng system, the IOS system is simply a rough draft.
Although the price is not cheap, Panda phones have still become a symbol of high-end. Everyone is proud to own a Panda phone. The annual new phone launch conference and developer conference are called the Spring Festival Gala of the technology circle.
In just a few years, Maomao Mobile has become the world's number one mobile phone brand in terms of shipments, reaping more than 90% of the profits in the entire mobile phone market.
This is the result of Lu Yiming's control over the profit margin, otherwise it would not be as simple as "I take nine buckets alone, and the whole world shares one bucket."
Li Zixian then asked, "Mr. Lu, this is already the sixth year that you have been crowned the world's richest man. In this year's Forbes rankings, you still top the list with a net worth of 140 billion US dollars, more than twice that of Mr. Bill Gates, who ranks second. What do you think?"
Lu Yiming said calmly, "I don't have any feelings. I'm used to it. Besides, I really don't care about this ranking. You know, when you have a certain amount of money, you have no idea. You know clearly what you can buy with 100 yuan, and you know clearly what you can buy with 1 million yuan, but you can never tell the difference between 10 billion and 100 billion - it's really just a difference of one word, that's all."
Even though Li Yiwen now has a net worth of tens of billions and Li Zixian is a veritable top wealthy lady, Lu Yiming's words still made her feel intimidated.
But after reaching her level, she was actually very clear that what Lu Yiming said was the truth.
When you have a certain amount of money, you really will have no idea what it means.
The essence of money is a general equivalent, and its value is determined by reference, that is, what can be bought with the money, thereby forming values.
But when money has become enough to buy everything, the property of money as a measure of value is lost, and in fact, there is really no concept of it anymore.
However, although Lu Yiming said it so lightly, in fact, it was fraught with danger.
Since the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, when Future Capital went to America to make a lot of money, he has become the world's richest man with his undisputed personal wealth. The price he paid was that he no longer dared to go abroad, for fear that he would be shot in the back and commit suicide.
Even in China, he always has at least 20 bodyguards whenever he travels. If he didn't have his own security company, he would probably spend a lot of money hiring bodyguards.
In recent years, with the skyrocketing market value of companies such as Google, Amazon, Alibaba and Yixun, and the all-day hot sales of Panda mobile phones, Lu Yiming's personal wealth has become unimaginable.
in the country, he is known as the "trillionaire"!
Many people even speculated that Lu Yiming's actual personal assets should have exceeded 3 trillion, and the 140 billion US dollars were just on the table.
In fact, their guess was very close to the truth.
Lu Yiming is well aware that wealth should not be shown to the public. In recent years, he has continuously diluted his wealth through cross-holdings, barely keeping it below the red line of around 1 trillion yuan.
But even so, he still felt a little nervous.
In fact, on the Internet, speculation about Lu Yiming's wealth has never stopped. Just like in the world before Lu Yiming's rebirth, people never tire of discussing how rich Bill Gates, the world's richest man, is.
There have even been many classic questions - for example, if Bill Gates drops a hundred-dollar bill, it takes him one second to bend down to pick it up, but he can earn hundreds of dollars in this second, so will he still bend down to pick it up?
The statement that Lu Yiming had seen before was that Bill Gates said he would pick it up because that second of bending down did not prevent him from making money.
Obviously this is nonsense, because there is a high probability that Bill Gates himself does not know the answer to this question, let alone answer it.
What made Lu Yiming feel that this question was even more ridiculous was that, in reality, it was unlikely that he would carry any cash with him.
He definitely didn't go out alone, and no matter what he bought, it was impossible for him to buy it in person.
On the forum.
What made Lu Yiming laugh and cry was that the story of bending down to pick up money appeared again, and the protagonist of the story had changed from Bill Gates to him.
Lu Yiming logged into the forum and answered this question seriously.
Lu Yiming's appearance directly set off the forum, and the number of posts below increased by thousands in an instant.
"Mr. Lu has replied to me!"
"So that's how it is! It turns out that the world of the rich is something that ordinary people can't even imagine."
"That's right. How could Mr. Lu buy things for himself when he goes out? He wouldn't carry cash with him. This assumption is not valid."
"Mr. Lu is still as awesome as ever."
The number of replies on the forum increased rapidly, and the topic of discussion shifted from Lu Yiming picking up money to how much money Lu Yiming actually had.
Someone broke the news: "Dian Guang Automobile is going public. The founder of this company, Lu Ding, is the biological father of the richest man Lu, and the company is also invested by the richest man Lu. The capital market is very optimistic about Dian Guang Automobile. It is estimated that the market value will be at least more than 100 billion after listing. The richest man Lu will earn tens of billions again."
Some people still don’t know the relationship between Dianguang Automobile and Lu Yiming. After learning this revelation, they were shocked again: “Can this be a father-son team?”
"The most important thing is that my son paid for his father's business, which is really amazing."
"How great it would be if I had a son like Mr. Lu, the richest man in the world."
"Your number upstairs is gone."
"The one upstairs, you better shut down your computer and run away. You're taking advantage of Mr. Lu."
"No, that's not what I meant..."
"Oh, it's not just Dian Guang Automobile. CATL is also owned by Mr. Lu. I heard he owns more than 40% of the shares. I just checked. CATL has a total market value of 1 trillion yuan, and Mr. Lu owns 400 billion of it alone."
"If you really want to calculate it this way, then the Zhenxiang fast food that went public last year was founded by Mr. Lu and his college roommates. Mr. Lu holds a 50% stake, which is worth 45 billion."
The numbers one by one simply exceeded everyone's imagination. For ordinary people, one million is already an astronomical figure, and ten thousand yuan is not money that can be easily taken out. As a result, tens of billions or hundreds of billions are just numbers to Lu Yiming, and it is just one of the numbers.
"These are just visible wealth. Panda Mobile is the most popular digital entertainment platform in the world. Do you know how many software studios that make apps are supported by it? Every year, Panda Mobile makes $20 billion just by collecting Panda taxes."
"And don't forget that Mr. Lu also holds a large stake in Mingyuan Technology, the largest foundry in China. Mr. Lu also invested in Dawn Optical Instruments, the only company in China that can produce extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. And because they are not listed, their financial reports do not need to be disclosed to the public. Only Mr. Lu knows how much money they make."
One revelation after another has made netizens numb.
“Why is Mr. Lu so rich, but we are so poor?”
"The one above, I have no problem with you saying this to others, but I will be angry with you if you say Mr. Lu, the richest man."
"Yeah, other capitalists are fine, but I really can't hate Mr. Lu for making money."
Someone asked: "Don't capitalists make money by exploiting us? Mr. Lu is also a capitalist, so why are you still using double standards?"
An irritable man who defended Lu Yiming said, "Double standards. Who in China doesn't know that the salary of Mr. Lu's company is higher than that of multinational corporations? Mr. Lu didn't get rich by cutting the leeks in China. When Mr. Lu laid out the semiconductor industry chain, weren't there a lot of people who were pessimistic and said that it would definitely lose money? Mr. Lu has invested hundreds of billions of funds, and now he is finally making money. What is there to question?"
"Yes, if other capitalists were willing to invest like Mr. Lu, I would definitely not scold them."
"It really deserves that Mr. Lu, the richest man, makes money."
"Mr. Lu is married, right?"
"Fuck, your real-name authentication is for a man, why are you asking this?"
"Nothing, I just want to ask if Mr. Lu still needs a son."
“…”
In the Lu family garden, Lu Yiming, who was nearly 40 years old, was lying under the grape trellis, while several children were playing in the yard.
Although she has given birth to several children, Shi Qingxue still maintains a good figure, and exudes the charming charm of a middle-aged beauty.
Shi Qingxue said to Lu Yiming, who was lying on a recliner playing with his phone, "Now among the netizens in China, the female ones all want to give birth to your children, and the male ones all want to call you daddy."
Lu Yiming turned his eyes away from the phone and looked at Shi Qingxue, saying expectantly, "When will you call me dad?"
"Go away, you're going to die."
Shi Qingxue waved at Lu Yiming with a look of disgust.
At this moment, Lu Yiming's cell phone rang. Lu Yiming looked at the caller ID and found that it was Li Quanwang calling, so he pressed the answer button.
"What's the matter? Wangzai."
Li Quanwang said on the phone: "I remember that Lin Yuzhen has never been married?"
Lu Yiming thought for a moment and said, "It seems so . She said she didn't want to get married. Why are you asking this suddenly? What's the matter? Do you have any idea? You have been married to Gu Zhiruo for so many years. Aren't you afraid that Gu Zhiruo will kill you?"
Li Quanwang said: "No, I met her on the street today. She was shopping with a little boy. I chatted with her and she said that was her son."
Lu Yiming said, "That might mean she got married, but we didn't know about it. It's normal for a top star like her to get married secretly. Isn't it to avoid upsetting her fans? But if she didn't even tell us, it really doesn't make sense."
Li Quanwang said very seriously: "This is not the point!"
Lu Yiming asked curiously: "What's the point?"
Li Quanwang said: "The point is, that child looks exactly like you when you were a child."
Lu Yiming: “???!!!”
【End of the book】
