20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2618 Jim and the Dragon Slayer

Today, many people are pessimistic about the Internet winter in front of them, and the huge losses of Nortel Networks have brought down the entire Toronto stock market, and also knocked BlackBerry out of breath.

That's why Jim, a proud, stubborn, domineering and authoritarian person, chose to lower his head and invite Zhao Changan to come over to discuss cooperation. Doug had already told him privately that if RIM's stock price rose to more than 3 US dollars, he might sell part of his shares.

After all, they have established a scientific research institute, and someone needs to provide at least tens of millions of dollars in expenses every year.

However, Mike has been persuading Doug to wait a moment, at least until Zhao Changan comes over before making a decision.

Because in the past two months, Mike's email exchanges with Zhao Changan always made him feel like he had started RIM when he started his business, and when he decided to invest all his wealth, use real estate as collateral, and go all-in on pagers. Industry, on the eve of manufacturing RIM 900, I had the kind of passion and impulse, the impulse and passionate power to rush forward regardless of all odds, through mountains of fire and sea of ​​fire!

So for this Internet winter, many people regard it as a fatal winter, but Mike feels the breath of spring with palpitations in his heart.

It seems like a huge test and danger, but within it lies a new and greater future and opportunities!

As a technical genius, Mike vaguely knew that in his communication with Zhao Changan, he vaguely touched a new and disruptive field of technological innovation. However, this feeling of seeing things in the fog made him restless. Crazy, can't sleep at all.

However, he also knew that Zhao Changan traveled a long distance and needed to be jet-lagged, so he could only endure this anxious and trapped animal feeling in his heart and force himself to calm down.

"Boom, boom, boom."

At this time, his door rang, and a voice like a fairy voice sounded outside the door: "Mike, I am Zhao Changan."

The irritability and impatience all over Mike's body disappeared immediately, and he almost jumped up, shouting excitedly: "Here we come!" With springs on his feet, he rushed to the door in a few steps and opened the door.

He was pleasantly surprised to see Zhao Changan holding a bottle of red wine in one hand and a large bag of food in the other. He smiled and said to himself: "Long nights without a heart to sleep, -"

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The next morning, Mike woke up at almost 11 am. After washing, his eyes still felt dry and the mirror was full of bloodshot eyes.

"This Zhao Changan, he really might as well have gone to find the enthusiastic girls last night! But now he has left the problem to me."

Mike, who was facing the mirror, couldn't help but smile bitterly and complain to his own reflection in the mirror. He talked with Zhao Changan very late last night, but the discussion was still not about the technological innovation of the future mobile phone and PAD industry, as well as the development direction and trends that he wanted to talk about.

What they were talking about was Jim's real intention in inviting Zhao Changan over this time.

However, Mike didn't believe that Jim had no intention of successfully negotiating the deal. His goal was actually the same as last time, which was to use One Nano as a commercial advertisement for RIM and stop the fatal downward trend of the stock price.

"I don't deny Jim's talent in business. However, Mike, there is an old saying in our hometown, the dragon slayer will eventually become the evil dragon! When Jim thought that his business methods were superb and sophisticated, he used his skills within the company. While exerting domineering authority, they completely ignored one of the most fatal issues, which is that whether it is RIM or other high-tech companies, the first driving force for survival is not the superb business methods, but the most fundamental product itself! ——Quality, function, cost-effectiveness are the attributes given above.

All business activities are separated from the core product of the enterprise itself. No matter how good the business methods and skills are, they are just water without a source, a sand fortress built on the beach!

If Jim's business talent has become a business that puts the cart before the horse, and that business methods and design capabilities are higher than or even stifle the technological progress and innovation of core products, he hopes that RIM's products will be consistent with supporting his business, rather than that his business should be ancillary. and the technical core of supporting enterprises.

So this company, Mike, do you think it still has a real tomorrow and a real future? When these become business constraints that hinder your technological dreams, then when you created RIM and Research In Motion, the essential core has been lost. Then is this company still Research In Motion? Then this company has become a zombie. RIM, does it still have a meaning?

The reason why I don’t want to discuss the factors and judgments of the future development direction of smartphones with you too deeply is because if it is destined to be a useless behavior, then why should we have these useless fantasies and passions! "

For this reason, Mike has been arguing for Jim, saying that Zhao Changan does not understand Jim. He is a very good entrepreneur and has never been an old stubborn who is stuck in his ways and does not seek progress.

And now Jim's shares are 10%, Doug 5%, and Fairfax Financial 8%.

Mike holds only 13% of the shares.

When Fairfax Financial chose to side with Jim, it must have believed in Jim, who had more business capabilities. So the shares held by Fairfax Financial and Jim were 18%, which was the same as Michael Gadg's 18%.

Moreover, Doug already had the idea of ​​selling some stocks, but he was unwilling to sell them at such a low price. He wanted to wait until BlackBerry's stock price returned to $3 before selling.

Including other small shareholders who hold about 1% of the shares if a shareholders' meeting is held, it is obvious that these people will choose to believe more in Jim who brought RIM to its former glory.

So even if Zhao Changan could convince him of Mike and Doug, it would still be impossible to remove Jim from the position of head of RIM operations. Besides, he had always trusted Jim, so there was no need to do so.

At the end of the argument, the honest man Mike and Zhao Changan made a bet, that is, the peace talks signed a letter of intent for cooperation that was beneficial to both parties. If Jim did not object, or just made some necessary suggested changes, then the two parties would start to cooperate, and Zhao Changan He also has to admit that he misjudged and misunderstood Jim.

If this letter of intent is completely overturned when it reaches Jim, it will confirm Zhao Changan's saying, "The dragon slayer will eventually become the evil dragon." Up until this point, Jim had never wanted to pursue this mutually beneficial and win-win business model choice with Yinan. He just tricked Zhao Changan into giving RIM a marketing and influence platform.

Mike remembered that he was a little angry last night and absolutely believed that he could not lose. As a fair and just person, Mike asked Zhao Changan what he would have to pay if he lost the bet.

However, Zhao Changan just smiled and said: "At that time, it is the time when we can truly talk openly and honestly about everything. And at that time, Mike, you have two choices, either you have to lose, or You will get the world of your future dreams, a truly future AI intelligent world.”