Microsoft is arguably one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the operating system developed by Microsoft has occupied half of the market, and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, is richer.
In 2002, Kai-Fu Lee suggested that Microsoft buy an Internet company founded by several college students and just started to develop. Gates sent someone to negotiate with the company, but what he didn't expect was that the newly developed internet company actually asked for $2 billion.
"The company has not yet made a profit, but it charges 2 billion. These children are crazy! " So Bill Gates rejected Kai-fu Lee's proposal.
But you know what? The company rejected by Bill Gates is called Google, which is now a giant in the Internet field and the only company that can compete with Microsoft.
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Twitter can be said to be the hottest platform in Weibo. There are both ordinary white-collar workers and heads of state on Twitter, and its popularity far exceeds people's imagination. According to statistics, the total number of registered accounts of Twitter has exceeded 200 million, and The New York Times said that the current market value of Twitter is 3.7 billion dollars.
But you know what? When Twitter was just emerging, it was suggested that a company buy Twitter at a price of only $65,438 +0, but the company refused, on the grounds that a website like Twitter had no investment value.
Just a few years after the company refused, it was reported that the company planned to acquire Twitter for $654.38 billion. Do you know the name of this company? Maybe you will never guess. Its name is Google. Yes, it is the internet giant that turned down such a profitable business.
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He is a Chinese from a securities company in new york, USA. At that time, the economy was depressed and the Internet was just emerging. He is keenly aware that websites on the Internet can rate web pages through hyperlinks, which is the core technology of search engines. He thought that his discovery could make his boss change the direction of the company's development, but unexpectedly, his boss dismissed his research findings.
After much consideration, he decided to return to China. After returning home, he borrowed money everywhere to start his own company. After ten years of development, this company is now one of the largest Internet companies in China. Its name is Baidu, and the company he used to work for was Dow Jones.
Every time the boss of Dow Jones mentioned it, he called it the worst decision he had ever made. Perhaps in the beginning, you can become an internet giant by taking out one tenth or one percent of the company's investment.
Missed opportunity: A good opportunity was missed due to mistakes. Missed: Wrong input.
Pinyin: Cu-sh-Liáng j
Meaning: missed, wrongly lost. Missed a good opportunity.
Example: Some people look around and miss opportunities again and again. -Lesson 16 "The Biggest Ear of Wheat", the sixth grade, Jiangsu Education Press.