20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2837 Qi Xidong's Disappointment

Since Yinnano took control of BlackBerry, Zhao Changan has been emphasizing the topic of major adjustments to the company's direction in the company's senior management and R&D department.

For this reason, Jim, who refused to cooperate, was kicked out of BlackBerry and replaced by Qi Xidong, who shared more of Zhao Changan's ideas.

This time, Jim used all of his BlackBerry shares as collateral to repay Zhao Changan.

A few days ago, he officially resigned from Yinamei North America and went to a high-tech mobile phone company in South Africa, leaving BlackBerry completely.

Zhao Changan poached Qiao Hang's team and recruited people from North America to complete the incomplete team structure, and divided the work with Mike's R&D center team.

In addition, we drew on the teams of both sides and recruited people from North America to form a third R&D project team responsible for the appearance of the mobile phone.

Mike and his original company's R&D team focused on efficient, high-quality communication and data security in wireless paging, Push Mail, and server cloud services.

Qiao Hang's team focuses on the stacking and splicing of mobile phone module functions, as well as the addition and iteration of new technologies and new functions in the mobile phone industry.

At present, through the continuous efforts of the R&D center, Mike's team has solved the technical problem of RIM6230 wireless paging dual-channel compatible switching and seamless connection and wake-up.

Qiao Hang's team also found a way to free up 6230 cubic centimeters of space inside the RIM0.5 to provide a location for Mike's second email channel module.

The third technical team is not currently involved in the RIM6230 research and development project, but has been following the appearance design of the next-generation model BlackBerry6710.

Mike's team has completed the internal module assembly of BlackBerry6710 and has conducted actual communication tests for more than two months. They are just waiting for the third technical team to produce a satisfactory new appearance that maintains the QWERTY full keyboard design before they can start formal prototype manufacturing.

It can be said that before Zhao Changan announced the call for all RIM6230 phones sold, Qi Xidong and others went from not understanding it to seeing that BlackBerry's stock price had risen from US$22.8 to the current US$34, and they chose to reluctantly agree with Zhao Changan's decision.

Although doing so will cause the company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars next year and may even become insolvent, as long as the BlackBerry 6710 and the company's PAD products can sell well, even if the number of the company's paying members does not increase and the cost of the cloud server group increases dramatically, it is still unknown whether the company will be profitable by the end of next year and how much profit it will make.

Give first and take later. You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child. They are all adults and they understand this principle.

However, what Zhao Changan meant by these words now was that he obviously still did not agree with the transformation efforts they had been making in recent times, so the expressions of several people changed slightly.

Qi Xidong is better off because he has seen too many capital wolves in the European and American markets over the years.

They control a company that is actually of little value, and then use all kinds of high-sounding packaging and hype to drive up the stock price, cash out and leave, leaving behind a mess and blood.

In this regard, the BlackBerry in front of us fully possesses this hype attribute.

Moreover, it is a very rare, hard-to-find diamond-level hype tool.

First, Qi Xidong and Qiao Hang had discussed BlackBerry phones privately and they thought they were really bad, far inferior to Alcatel's series of phones in terms of price-performance ratio.

Not to mention the series of mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, and other leading mobile phone brands.

To date, even with the hype in September, RIM's total mobile phone sales have not exceeded 1.5 million US dollars, and its mobile phone shipments are less than 0.002 million units.

Adding PAD sales and server membership fees, the total barely exceeds $2 million.

Nokia's global revenue last year was $270 billion, and it sold 1.28 million mobile phones. This despairing data gap alone shows the huge gap between the two.

However, in the mobile phone field, RIM is even more popular than Nokia, and its stock price has risen from the lowest of US$3 in mid-September to the current US$34.

Even though Zhao Changan recently acquired 36.6% of Jim's shares at a high premium of 4m, overall, from the time Zhao Changan started holding shares in BlackBerry to today, in just a few months, he has still made astonishing profits.

And it is conceivable that since Zhao Changan said so, his ambition to hype BlackBerry's stock price will definitely not stop at the current mere US$34!

Qi Xidong can only say that he is a little disappointed and regretful about this. He is already 45 years old this year. It can be said that the next ten years will be the peak of his career ability and energy.

BlackBerry has now become a phenomenal global mobile phone manufacturer. The only thing it lacks is a truly first-class mobile phone product with outstanding cost-effectiveness.

Then make this product a world-class hit.

Like the Nokia 99 in 3210, its current global shipments are 1.6 million units.

It's just this number. When Qi Xidong was still a senior executive at the Alcatel-One Nano mobile phone factory, he didn't even dare to take a look at this astronomical figure.

Because just looking at it can make him feel desperate and suffocated!

However, after coming to BlackBerry, especially after what happened in September, Qi Xidong was so excited that he wanted to sing loudly and fly, knowing that this dream that he had never dared to touch before might really come true in his career one day.

Especially after Zhao Changan made the recall decision, BlackBerry's stock price rose against the market trend, and RIM6230 was regarded as a rare commodity in the market and was hyped up.

Qi Xidong also changed from a waverer to a firm supporter of Zhao Changan.

  However, Zhao Changan's true intentions seemed to be revealed now, which made Qi Xidong disappointed and shocked to find that this extremely young boy with a bright and sunny smile on his face was just as cruel and brutal as those wolves and tigers on Wall Street who devoured people without leaving any bones!

Perhaps from the first day when he started to accumulate shares of BlackBerry, just like the previous times when he used various means to shake the BlackBerry stock price, it has fully explained his purpose for BlackBerry. From then on, he never had any mobile phone dream.

  It is just a bloody and brutal scythe and looting of capital that often happens on Wall Street!

This thought spread in Qi Xidong's mind, making him feel bored.

I thought we were on the same path, but it turned out that I was just a tool for him.

  I really don’t know how Liu Qihua could teach such a student!

"In the new Internet economy era, we must abandon an outdated concept that the purpose of a business is to make a profit and that the survival of a business depends on profits."

Hearing this, Qi Xidong couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

Of course, you, Zhao Changan, don't care about profits and profits, because before that time comes, you will leave with billions or even tens of billions of dollars and go hunting for new targets.

Qi Xidong was a very cunning man. Even though he was sneering in his heart, he still pretended to be listening attentively, with a blank expression on his weather-beaten face.

Zhao Changan didn't expect that just a few words from him could cause such a big storm in Qi Xidong's heart.

He continued, "I am not trying to oppose this view, nor am I saying that we should inflate the company through unprofitable overdrafts, drive up the stock price, and then cash out and leave. What I am saying is that neither the current RIM6230 nor the BlackBerry6710 can match the huge reputation of BlackBerry and the hoarding and scramble for RIM6230 in the market!"

(End of this chapter)