Top of the Great Era

Zhou Buqi didn't condone the unhealthy tendencies in the office, especially Li Shuruo, who recommended himself, and planned to send her out to do social research.

Others followed suit.

It is now 2011, and the domestic real estate market has been booming all the way. The Internet industry has not yet fully exploded and is in the stage of accumulating energy.

The era of mobile Internet is the stage of full-scale explosion.

First send some people out to find out the bottom line and get a more comprehensive grasp of the current status of the industry.

As for the quota for this business trip...

Zhou Buqi's heart is still relatively gentle, "Who is the one with the lowest education?"

"Ah?" Ning Lu was slightly taken aback, "Mai Feixue, she graduated from the Fashion Institute this year and has a second degree. Everyone else has a first degree, and several of them are from key universities."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Then arrange her and give her some confidence, so as not to be unbalanced because of her low education. Education is very important, but it's not that important."

"Okay."

Ning Lu pursed her lips and smiled. Her personality was delicate and soft, and she was also kind. When she learned that Boss Zhou was the reason, she was very happy.

After seeing Mai Feixue.

Zhou Buqi was slightly stunned.

It was her!

It is said that when I saw these beautiful little secretaries for the first time, because each one was too beautiful, I didn't leave a deep impression on the whole, only two girls were very impressive.

One is a petite and cute girl with a loli temperament with two double ponytails; the other is a girl with a proud career line, majestic and majestic, most likely an E-cup girl.

Mai Feixue is the latter!
When the group got on the plane and set off for England, Zhou Buqi was still confused and wanted to ask Sun Guanran and Ning Lu.

What were their previous recruitment criteria?
This Mai Feixue has such a low education, the reason why she was selected to work as a director...is this the reason?Her educational background is very low, but her proud career capital is really too strong, and it is probably for this reason that she was selected.

However, before he had time to ask, Zhou Buqi received a call from Zhou Shaoning.

Very important.

Motorola's plan has already started, and the next step is to see the reactions of all parties.

Zhou Buqi asked, "How about the United States?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "It's not clear at the moment, but I have communicated with Google. They are willing to divest these low-end businesses, mainly because of Motorola's management. Merging into Google and Asda will be a little bit emotional. ups and downs."

Zhou Buqi said: "You have brought down the company, how proud are you?"

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "Google agreed to help negotiate a peace, but they put forward a small condition."

"What conditions?"

"They wanted Asda to take over all the low-end manufacturing."

"Set-top box?"

Zhou Buqi immediately thought of it.

Motorola's manufacturing business is mainly divided into three parts, one is cutting-edge technology new products, one is mobile phones, and the other is set-top boxes.

Mobile phones and set-top boxes are low-end businesses.

Originally, Motorola's mobile phone business included semiconductors. If this part is included, it must be a high-end business.

However, the technology level of the semiconductor industry is too high, the changes are too fast, and the competition is too strong. Even a giant like Motorola cannot keep up with the world's top research and development, and has suffered serious losses.

Later, Motorola spun off the semiconductor business and sold it.

Among them, a well-known one in China is that Motorola sold its semiconductor manufacturing plant in Jinmen, which suffered serious losses, to SMIC in exchange for a 10% stake in SMIC.

In short, the current Motorola mobile phone business is very low-end, with little technological content, it is purely for assembly, so the sale of this business will easily pass the supervision.

In contrast, the set-top box business is even more low-end.

Zhou Shaoning said: "Motorola's set-top box business is mainly for some developing countries. In the early years, China wanted to promote digital TV signals, but lacked relevant technologies, so it introduced Motorola in exchange for technology. Motorola once dominated domestic digital TV, The set-top box market. It’s been so many years, and the domestic industry’s technical level has already developed.”

"Is there still a market for their set-top box business?"

"There are some, mainly local stations in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. State-owned enterprises have developed long ago. Now most of the TV stations cooperate with state-owned enterprises, and state-owned enterprises provide this part of technical services."

Zhou Buqi then asked: "Is there any profit?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "There will be some, but the business share is getting smaller and smaller."

Zhou Buqi pondered and said: "This is really a troublesome matter."

Zhou Shaoning said: "Google definitely doesn't like the set-top box business. If Google completes the acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the first thing to do is to cut this business."

"Sell it?"

"Can't you sell it?"

"Not necessarily."

Zhou Buqi's mind opened up at once.

"what?"

Zhou Shaoning was slightly taken aback.

Although the set-top box business still has a net profit of several million, the staff size is too large. There is a research and development center and a huge sales team. The number of employees in China has reached more than 600.

This man eats horse chews, which is a huge expense.

If the business keeps growing, that's fine.

But now the technology in the field of set-top boxes has been fully understood by the country. State-owned enterprises are close to the water, and they have snatched orders from TV stations. Not to mention that foreign companies cannot get orders, even private companies cannot do it.

It is conceivable that with the popularization of domestic digital TV, Motorola's set-top box business will soon fall into a loss.

Then, there will be layoffs.

For foreign companies, this layoff fee is too high, and it cannot be offset by the millions of profits.If you want to lay off all these 600 people, you need at least 3000 million.

It's a money-losing business, and it's a huge burden.

Zhou Buqi said: "If you let Google sell, you will definitely not be able to sell it. This is a big burden. You can only lay off employees. The cost of layoffs is nothing to Google. The trouble is the industry that the layoffs will face. The pressure and the pressure of public opinion may cause the employees to go on strike again."

Zhou Shaoning also thought this way, "Well, so they want to throw this burden on us as soon as possible, and they don't want to do things like mass layoffs that damage the brand."

This is normal in business.

Just like LV.

At that time, LV had a textile factory with tens of thousands of employees. With the change of the times, the textile factory has already started to be fully automatic, and there is no need for so many textile workers.

How to do?
Are these tens of thousands of people laid off?
This is impossible, LV is a luxury product, and it is synonymous with "beautiful" and "elegant" in the imagination. How can it be involved in such things as violent layoffs?
Later, LV started.

They didn't lay off staff.

Instead, the textile factory was sold to a third-party company. After the transaction was completed, the ruthless side of the capitalist was revealed.

When the third-party company came up, it began to lay off a large number of employees. No one was left, everyone was laid off, and then the machines were also sold, and the land for the factory was reserved for real estate.

Capitalists and capitalists teamed up and made a very beautiful business.

Those who suffer are those textile workers who have lost their jobs.

This is also impossible, as productivity improvements will inevitably lead to unemployment.Especially in the domestic industrial upgrading in recent years, this is very dangerous.

The industry has been upgraded, and those traditional workers are no longer needed and have no jobs.

Fortunately, the Internet is here.

It is the express delivery and takeaway industries that maintain social stability.However, the e-commerce behind the express delivery industry has made it more and more difficult for many physical stores to do business.

Zhou Buqi said: "Google is not willing to do mass layoffs, and Estar can't do it either."

"Oh!" Zhou Shaoning suddenly realized, "You mean after we take over, we will resell it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "In fact, it is not only the set-top box business. I read the business report of Motorola China that you sent me. It is very bad. The industry is too backward and too low-end. In addition to the set-top box business, a large part Functional machine business."

Zhou Shaoning said: "Yes, it's the era of smartphones now, but Motorola's main source of revenue is still feature phones. This is probably the reason why such a great company was dismembered. Their business is too backward. Fortunately, it is The global channels are good enough, and the brand value is high enough."

"I seem to remember that you said that the sales of mobile phones in the domestic market this year can reach 2.4 million..."

"Yes, about 2.4 million units, of which 3000 million are smartphones."

"Then act quickly." Zhou Buqi made a conclusion, "The reason why smart phones are sold so little in China is not because consumers don't like smart phones, but because smart phones are too expensive. But now times have changed, Xiaomi appeared."

Zhou Shaoning didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "Xiaomi is very popular, but it's out of stock..."

"This is the catfish effect, and Xiaomi will definitely change the entire industry."

Zhou Buqi continued to output his views, which he had to accept.

At their level of discussion, the details are not important, and the two of them may not understand.The main thing is to choose a direction. If you want to choose a good direction, you must first make the most accurate judgment on the future situation.

This is what Boss Zhou is best at.

So many years of brilliant achievements have also given him the prestige of keeping his word.

Zhou Shaoning believed it right away, following this line of thought, it was easier to make a choice, and said in a deep voice: "If Xiaomi can change the entire industry, then Astar must be faster. Taking advantage of the current Motorola There is still value in the feature phone business, so we must hurry up and sell this burden.”

Motorola is a behemoth, and now it is constantly dismembered, dismembered, and dismembered.

Google picked the best first.

For the rest, Asda will pick the best ones, and then throw the rest to the receivers on the next floor.

Zhou Buqi said: "In a word, it's not too late to act quickly. Finalize the deal with Google and Motorola as soon as possible, and then spin off the set-top box business and the feature phone business as soon as possible. After all this is done, the smartphone industry will also As soon as Xiaomi has been impacted, Asda can use the 'Motorola' brand to set sail in the low-cost phone market."