Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2865 Meeting of Hundreds

For BlackBerry now, the mobile phone business can be said to be a hot potato, with no way to advance and no way to retreat.

How to do?

The best thing to do is to sell.

However, the mobile phone business is the soul of BlackBerry. Without great courage, who would dare to attack the soul?

After selling the soul business, you really need to reshape a new soul.

Zhou Buqi didn't know Cheng Suizong before, but he dared to take action on BlackBerry's mobile phone business as soon as he came up, which shows that he has extraordinary courage and unique business vision. The mobile phone business has now become a huge burden for BlackBerry. Without getting rid of this ambition and breaking the illusion, it is impossible to revive morale, let alone revive the business.

"Do you know anything about this man?"

"Cheng Suizong?"

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Zhou Shaoning said: "I have dealt with him several times. He is very capable and charming. Do you know a famous Chinese organization called the Committee of 100?"

"Meeting of 100 people?" Zhou Buqi had a vague impression and thought for a moment, "Oh, it seems that they even sent me an invitation and wanted me to join. They wanted me to be given the title of honorary president."

Zhou Shaoning smiled and said: "Yes, this committee has a huge influence among the Chinese community. It contains some famous Chinese people with huge social influence, including entrepreneurs, economists, scientists, writers, doctors, and musicians. , and a Nobel Prize winner. This Cheng Suizong is the current president of the Committee of 100, and has led this committee to visit the country many times. "

"Yes, that's why I refused." Zhou Buqi is wary of these overseas NGOs. In other words, it's not that he is wary, it's that the domestic authorities are very wary of such foreign organizations, like The first thing Zhu Yuanzhang did after becoming emperor was to ban such folk superstitious activities. He said, "I haven't changed my nationality. This association is not suitable for me."

Zhou Shaoning said: "Cheng Suizong's resume is very extraordinary. In the past twenty years, he has joined many technology companies as a fire-fighting captain. It is true that he has not made any big and world-renowned achievements, but he has indeed turned the tide and successfully put out fires." He has successfully led companies in crisis through crises and successfully transformed. This is probably why BlackBerry asked him to serve as CEO this time.”

Zhou Buqi said "hmm", "So he wants to completely give up BlackBerry's mobile phone business?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "That seems to be the case. We have to wait until we meet to discuss the details. Let's see if he wants to completely divest the mobile phone business, or only give up part of it. There are many valuable assets in BlackBerry's mobile phone business."

"What assets do you have?"

"For example, BlackBerry's mobile phone brand, although this brand is a bit niche, it still has great influence."

"Brand?" Zhou Buqi couldn't help but laugh. "What are you doing? Are you interested in the BlackBerry brand? Have you not yet discovered the brand value of Motorola? Can BlackBerry compare to Motorola?"

The Motorola brand is now owned by Asda.

However, compared with its glory days, the value of Motorola's brand has shrunk significantly, and many people no longer recognize it. It is also based on this factor that when Asda was carrying out strategic planning, it downgraded "Motorola" and only made some mid-to-low-end machines, transforming into the king of cost performance.

BlackBerry's mobile phones are very expensive, and they are at war with the iPhone head-on.

The pricing is also in line with the iPhone.

The BlackBerry brand does not bring much benefit to Asda. After all, Asta's high-end phone brand Aster is very popular in the market. Sales in the past year reached 2200 million units, which is basically the same as Samsung's Galaxy S series.

However, both Aster and Galaxy S are high-end phones, and together they are not as good as the iPhone.

BlackBerry is also making an impact on high-end phones, which makes this even more impossible. Zhou Shaoning said: "The BlackBerry brand does not have much value to us, but BlackBerry still has many excellent assets, such as BlackBerry's mobile operating system, BlackBerry's excellent designers and engineers, and BlackBerry's Those valuable intellectual property rights, especially intellectual property rights, are particularly important. In the patent competition of product design, everyone has to avoid the iPhone, except for BlackBerry. The iPhone has to avoid BlackBerry because the iPhone has copied many of BlackBerry’s designs and has been sued a lot for it.”

Zhou Buqi paid attention to this, "Well, that's very important!"

Zhou Shaoning said: "If BlackBerry really wants to give up the mobile phone business, then I think that as long as conditions permit, we should take advantage of these assets as much as possible. The BlackBerry brand is of little use to us for the time being, but many other assets can Make up for some strategic and business deficiencies of Asda.”

"Okay, then I'll know him!"

Zhou Buqi also wanted to see who Cheng Suizong was. After all, there were too few Chinese business elites who could reach the level of CEO in the United States.

……

BlackBerry is a Canadian company.

So Cheng Suizong was flying over from Canada. After landing, Zhou Buqi invited him to have lunch with him. He did not avoid the outside world and went directly to a restaurant on the back street of Stanford University. With people coming and going, it is estimated that the news of the meeting between the two parties will spread quickly, and then it will be reported quickly.

Cheng Suizong is not young, almost sixty years old, but he makes a good impression on others.

His ancestral home is Liangxi. Later, due to some special reasons, his family fled to Hong Kong Island, where he was born and raised. When I was eighteen years old, I went to the United States to study at university, and then entered the technology industry. I was out of control and gained a huge reputation in the industry, serving as chairman and CEO of many large companies.

As soon as they met, both parties spoke Chinese.

Very enthusiastic.

It's a pity that Cheng Suizong's Mandarin is not very good, and he cannot speak many complex sentences and words. He was fluent in Cantonese, but Zhou Buqi didn't understand Cantonese. In the end, the two parties could only communicate in English.

The two sides were not in a hurry to talk about BlackBerry. Cheng Suizong first sent out an invitation, hoping to attract Zhou Buqi to join the Chinese Committee of 100. The purpose of establishing this committee was to promote the friendship between China and the United States and resolve the cultural differences between the two sides. and value differences, acting as a bridge.

Zhou Buqi declined, "I didn't change my nationality. I got a Chinese passport."

Cheng Suizong hesitated for a moment and said kindly: "Science knows no borders. Changing your identity can allow you to enjoy great conveniences in many aspects, whether it is investment or life overseas."

"So fine."

Zhou Buqi smiled slightly, but was too embarrassed to speak directly.

For most people, even those at the level of Cheng Suizong, this is true for them. Many things are very convenient for them if they change their identity in the United States or Canada. When people from European and American countries go abroad, they take their passports and leave. Domestic people have to work hard to apply for a visa when going abroad. Every time I go through customs, I see foreigners holding their passport cards and stamping them, which is smooth and convenient. However, Chinese people need to check their visas slowly, which makes people very uncomfortable, as if they are being discriminated against. Some small countries even have to put a few U.S. dollars under the visa, otherwise they will find fault and refuse to let you go.

However, there is always something special.

Zhou Buqi is the special one.

If he was flying between countries in Europe and the United States, he wouldn't even have to go through customs. After the plane landed, he would just get in the car and leave the airport. An electronic notice would be enough, and he wouldn't even have to go through security check for his luggage.

If you are flying from some non-visa-free countries to Europe and the United States, the most you can do is ask the secretary to check your passport and luggage and go through security inspection. He himself will get in the car and leave the airport directly, and will not waste time on such inspections.

The so-called inspection is actually distrust.

Boss Zhou has incredible credibility, and mainstream countries will give him the green light to travel.