"Google, Apple, Yahoo, Cisco, Oracle, Tesla, and many other top high-tech companies emerged and established themselves, step by step, from Silicon Valley.”
"Their market value has already increased tens of thousands of times, and their growth and incremental space are extremely huge!" 1
"If any stockholder bought Apple’s shares twenty years ago, he would have made a profit of more than three hundred or four hundred times."
"Did you know that your mother invested in Apple with the venture capital fund that she had set up even before you were born?!"
"At that time, Steve Jobs treated her as the most distinguished guest, and when Apple's market value was only worth a few billion dollars back then, she paid up hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange for 10% of Apple’s shares!" 4
"Apple's market value at the moment is currently worth more than two trillion US dollars, and that is equivalent to more than fifteen trillion Oskia dollars!”
"After many rounds of dilution and reduction, there is still about 6% left out of the 10% shares that your
mother had invested in Apple back then!" "How much would that be worth if it were to be converted into Oskia dollars? It is worth almost nine hundred billion dollars!"
"Also, your mother did not only invest in Steve Jobs’ Apple, but she also invested in Larry Page, who was her junior in Stanford University."
“Larry Page is the founder of Google. Google Search, Google Maps, the Android phone system, and the recently famous computer programming robot, AlphaGo, are all products of this company." 2
"The current market value of this company is worth more than one trillion US dollars. Your mother's venture capital funds in this company amount to more than 10% of the company's shares!"
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