Merrill pays for this? Dean was startled, then burst into laughter.
"OK, I have no problem with that." He knew the little tricks Jobs had up his sleeve.
It was simply because he worried that one day in the future, Dean might indirectly control Apple.
After all, with a net worth of nearly 40 billion US dollars, that was more than enough to buy over ten apples of today's scale.
If he were to forcefully overbid for the shares of other stockholders, then Jobs might indeed have no way to stop him.
Since he had been away for too long, his influence on Apple was at an all-time low.
But if it were Merrill holding the shares instead, that would be different—it would be beneficial for cooperation between the two companies in the field of application software.
Although Dean was the major shareholder of Merrill, he still couldn't dictate the company's policies alone.
