Felix himself has a lot of opinions on inviting Li Mu to appear on the cover of Time's American version, believing that Li Mu is not worthy of appearing on the cover of Time's American version.

But what he didn't expect was that Li Mu seemed not interested in the cover and even made a series of incredible requests.

So far, although Time magazine has used children as covers, those children are representative figures of extraordinary significance at the time, such as the capture of poor children in Africa and close-ups of children from war refugees. In addition to this, they have never used a childhood photo of an adult today as cover.

Moreover, they were invited by Time magazine to be the cover characters, but the parties involved did not give them any face when they were interviewed, which was a bit too much.

What Felix couldn't accept the most was that Li Mu actually refused to mention God in the report of Time magazine!

Although the United States claims to be the largest immigrant country in the world, this country is actually a Puritan country in its bones. Traditional Americans believe in God and also advocate the Second Amendment. It can be said that one hand is used to hold the Bible and the other hand is used to hold a rifle.

It is such a country that once implemented strict alcohol bans and marked abortion as illegal. When the president takes office, he has to read the oath in the Bible, which shows how deeply rooted their admiration for religion is.

However, Li Mu didn't like this feeling.

He respects every belief in the world, but as an atheist, he is not willing to connect with any religion.

Felix angrily conveyed Li Mu's words to the senior executives of Time Warner and protested: "Li Mu didn't let us mention God in reports about him. This is an insult to our faith! We must never let such people appear on the cover of our magazine."

The senior executives of Time Warner said indifferently: "Li Mu is not an American or a Puritan. He just doesn't want you to mention God in his reports and not interfere with your freedom in other articles. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Felix argued: "We are a Puritan country, this is our faith and tradition!"

The senior Time Warner executive asked him: "So what? Is it like? Because we have our beliefs and traditions, we should use this to ask others? I ask you, if you are the manager of a McDonald's restaurant and a customer just asks him not to put tomato sauce in the fries he ordered, is there anything wrong with this? Is it because the fries you provide in your restaurant have to eat them too?"

Felix was speechless all of a sudden.

He didn't expect that this taciturn senior official would be so talkative when he started a debate, and he would have no way to go after a few words.

At this time, the other party cleared his throat and said, "Felix, we all know what kind of person you are, but I have to remind you that it doesn't matter if you are discriminating in your heart. Everyone has something shameful in their hearts, but you'd better lock your personal opinions in your heart. If you dare to bring them to work, I immediately ask the board of directors to replace you! Even if you leak out in your daily life and are caught by someone, I will definitely inform the board of directors and solemnly ask the board of directors to take you away!"

Felix was frightened by the other party's stern tone and suddenly changed his tone and said respectfully: "Don't worry, I must keep your explanation in mind and never cause trouble for the company and individuals..."

The other party nodded and said, "It's best if you know it. If you really know it, you must give me all your strength to do when doing the cover character. Now Wall Street generally believes that with Li Mu's development speed, his value is likely to exceed 500 billion US dollars in the next five years. Do you know what this concept is? If you offend him and miss this opportunity, you can also pack up and prepare to leave!"

Felix was shocked by this number. It exceeded 500 billion US dollars in five years? This number is too terrible, right? Is it possible?

While agreeing timidly, Felix found an opportunity to contact his friends on Wall Street and asked him about the possibility of this news in private.

His friend was also a high-tech talent in Silicon Valley in the early years, but later because of the family industry, he came to Wall Street to work as a financial analyst. It can be said that he understands the Internet better than ordinary Wall Street people.

In fact, Felix also knew that Li Mu's current theoretical value had already reached 100 billion US dollars. However, because he had just experienced the Internet bubble, he didn't think that the 100 billion US dollars was anything but great. Around 2,000, the market value of many Internet companies increased sharply, but this bubble of money came and went quickly. Today, Li Mu was still the pride of heaven. Maybe tomorrow the bubble bursts again and he became a billionaire.

What Felix didn't expect was that after he asked this friend on yy, the other party immediately replied to him: "Breaking through 500 billion US dollars in five years is just the superficial judgment of these guys on Wall Street. I think it is possible with Li Mu's current layout within three years."

"Three years? Are you crazy? Why can Li Mu do it?"

Felix originally wanted to get some remarks that looked down on Li Mu, but he didn't expect that his friend's admiration for Li Mu was even higher than the general perception of Wall Street.

His friend explained: "Li Mu has several business lines with great potential. For example, he acquired Apple some time ago and did not open any of the employees of Apple. However, Apple has not made any new moves. The signs of this huge contrast indicate that Apple should be doing large-scale R&D work, and Li Mu is likely to be doing some big moves."

"Li Mu's Taobao is very good, and the supporting small packages and efficient logistics have also achieved the leading level of technical content in the entire industry. The Internet has developed so rapidly and the market share of e-commerce is getting bigger and bigger. Li Mu's Taobao can become a unicorn with the Chinese market alone. If Li Mu decides to let Taobao go abroad, this business line is likely to become the future online Walmart."

Felix asked in confusion: "Online Walmart? Is that Taobao really as amazing as you said?"

The other party sent a smile and said, "Everyone has a different starting point and a different angle. However, I personally think that if Li Mu takes out this set of Taobao in the future and does a global operation, it will definitely be a huge business opportunity."

As he said, the other party said: "Also, Li Mu has already started to build data processing centers around the world. At present, no Internet company can compare with Makino Technology in data processing capabilities. Now Makino Technology's data processing center can not only fully meet Makino Technology's own needs, but even start to do tob business. They open their redundant data processing capabilities to other Internet companies. The future prospects of this business line are also very broad, and it can even develop into a trillion-dollar market in the next ten years. Therefore, if Li Mu's business lines develop smoothly, I think it's nothing at all."

Felix couldn't help asking: "Is there such a large market space for the data processing business?"

The other party said: "It looks scary, but you can tell if you calculate it a little. There are 6 billion people around the world. Walmart only covers less than one billion people in offline retail, and has a market value of nearly three hundred billion US dollars. Among the top ten people in the global rich rankings, half of them are children of the founder's family of Walmart. Li Mu covers nearly one billion netizens around the world. In the future, half of the Internet services used by these netizens may rely on the support of Muye Technology's data processing center. How much profit is there?"

Speaking of this, he added: "And the most important thing is that the growth rate of global netizens is much faster than the number of customers covered by Wal-Mart. In a few years, the number of global netizens may exceed 2 billion and 3 billion. If that day, Muye Technology's data processing business will definitely make a lot of money."

Felix was shocked and couldn't help asking: "Since this part of the business is so profitable, why didn't other companies start working?"

The other party replied: "It's too expensive and the threshold is too high. Doing such a thing is equivalent to investing in the construction of a large number of hub airports around the world and purchasing a large number of aircraft for transportation between hubs. Few companies can afford it. What's more, there is a super player of Makino Technology. I think with the current development speed of Makino Technology, at least 50% of the global Internet data processing business will be in their hands in the future, and by then it will be a big profit."

At this stage, only those who truly understand the Internet can see that Felix naturally knows nothing, but through his friend's analysis, he was shocked.

The other party concluded: "Actually, Li Mu's current ability is that as long as he doesn't choose the wrong direction, he can basically succeed in anything he does. You see, your Times magazine has a great influence, but in fact, your cover character recommendation and delivery ability are more than one order of magnitude worse than the saturated delivery of yy.com or Weibo Titter. I think Li Mu can replace Murdoch as a new media tycoon at any time as long as he is willing. At that time, media like your Times magazine will be left with the symbolic meaning of years of operation. Do you understand the symbolic meaning I said? That is, everyone no longer pays attention to what exactly they wrote in Times magazine. They only pay attention to who has appeared in Times magazine in this issue."

Felix was amazed at his friend's conclusion. There are already a lot of data showing this. Times' sales have been declining, and the cover characters of each issue of Times will be reported by other media. To be honest, most of the people who are paying attention to Times now just want to see its cover.
Chapter completed!