Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3077 Be wise and protect yourself

Zhou Buqi had to prepare in advance and do some things for a rainy day.

In recent years, the biggest creative officer of Ziweixing and Ziweixing International is actually Zhou Buqi himself.

His creativity in business models, product design, marketing and even new technologies has contributed to the great success of the two companies in the past few years. In fact, he still has some creative ideas, but not many.

Almost all that should be used has been used.

He is almost "exhausted" and the role of foresight is becoming less and less important.

It is time to find future sources of creativity for the two companies from an institutional perspective.

From the current perspective, Kurian is a good choice.

In the past few years, Zhou Buqi has not been involved in Ziweiyun's business. He wanted to participate but couldn't. He basically didn't understand anything and couldn't provide any creative ideas. But under such circumstances, Kurian led Ziweiyun and achieved exciting results.

This was a pleasant surprise and was enough to verify Kurian's ability.

In fact, the innovation ability of Indians is even weaker than that of Chinese.

The reason why Kurian is better than Luqi in structural creativity, and can be comparable to Luqi in business operation and stable development, and can continuously achieve results in creativity and constantly innovate for Ziwei Cloud, is not because of his personal strong creative ability.

Instead, he has a very strong ability, which is mergers and acquisitions and business integration.

For example, Ziwei Cloud recently launched another merger and acquisition, spending US$2.2 million to acquire a cloud computing-related startup company, a platform company for B-side data computing.

The business is that a company hangs its server on Ziwei Cloud, which can generate massive amounts of data. However, if they don’t know how to process this data, they can spend money to purchase this data analysis service, and the cloud computing platform will do intelligent analysis.

This is a system.

Ziweiyun actually has its own system of this kind, which was launched two years ago.

But it's not very good.

Then don’t worry about it.

It is better to look for and acquire a related company that is recognized by the market decisively to make up for one's own shortcomings.

This is what mergers and acquisitions are all about.

  From the perspective of cost, continuous mergers and acquisitions will definitely cost a lot of money, so it is better to develop your own products at a lower cost. However, the risk of developing your own products is too great. What if your own products fail? What if your own products are changed again and again and still cannot be recognized by the market?

If the changes are made repeatedly and time is wasted, it may even affect users' evaluation of the entire Ziwei Cloud platform.

Instead of this, it is better to cut the Gordian knot.

Quickly give up self-research and turn to acquisitions.

Buy a company that provides this service well, then integrate it to make up for your own shortcomings and strengthen your own strength.

Compared to spending more money, failure is a greater loss.

Moreover, Kurian is of Indian descent with dark skin and no psychological burden. Unlike many white executives in Silicon Valley, they all have their own dignity and moral integrity, and are hesitant and a little embarrassed when plagiarizing.

  Kurian is different. He plagiarizes when he should plagiarize and copies when he should copy. There is no hesitation!

How can you do business without being thick-skinned?

He is from the lowest caste in India. He climbed up from the bottom of Indian society to the United States, and step by step became an elite in Silicon Valley. It can be said that he suffered a lot of hardships and torture... This experience made him more pragmatic than anyone else, which is also the biggest advantage of low-caste Indian executives.

The experience of suffering is a wealth, and Indians have much more of this wealth than these white elites in the United States, and even more than Chinese.

Kurian is only seven or eight years younger than Lu Qi, which means he is not young anymore.

He personally has no creative ability.

But he can put aside his pride and plagiarize without hesitation, and he also has a unique vision and is good at mergers and acquisitions, which is enough to make up for this deficiency. This is where he is better than Lu Qi. Tang Binchen has almost no ability in mergers and acquisitions, which is his biggest disadvantage.

After a small discussion, Zhou Buqi kept Tang Binchen and went to comfort him. "I have thought about this for a long time, and Kurian is more suitable."

"As it should be, he is strong in all aspects." Tang Binchen said calmly, "The outside world also unanimously believes that Ziwei Cloud is the business with the most potential and long-term value in the company. Moreover, he is almost 20 years older than us, so there is no need to rush."

Zhou Buqi said quickly: "This is what I want to say! It's not because of business choices!" "Huh?"

Tang Binchen raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Buqi said: "I am now the CEO of Ziweixing International, but as you know, I am basically just a figurehead and do not participate in the daily management of the company. By next summer, I plan to take over directly and let Kurian be the CEO. I will return to the board of directors."

"Oh, okay."

Tang Binchen nodded, not feeling that there was any difference.

Zhou Buqi said: "What I mean is that our group of people should slowly retreat behind the scenes. This is America, don't make too much noise."

"what?"

Tang Binchen was surprised.

Zhou Buqi said, "Let Kurian be the CEO, and I will step back and be the chairman. He has such dark skin, so he is suitable to be in the spotlight and do things for the company. You and I, including Lu Qi, Yang Zhiyuan, and Zheng Xiaoli, should be cautious in this regard. This year, after Russia annexed Crimea, although the EU and the United States chose appeasement and did not participate militarily, they took action economically. Now it can be clearly felt that geopolitics has started again, and the friction between the East and the West has begun again."

Tang Binchen became serious.

He thought that Boss Zhou asked Kurian to go up just as a transition.

After all, he is still young.

Kurian is 47 years old this year.

  After ten years, Kurian should retire. By then, Tang Binchen will be more mature and experienced in all aspects, and he can naturally become the new CEO smoothly. But from what Boss Zhou said, this is not a business consideration at all!

Zhou Buqi said, "It's not convenient for me, and it's not convenient for you either. Apart from anything else, if you become a CEO, you will inevitably have to attend various forums and activities, and you may even have to participate in presidential banquets, parliamentary discussions, etc. If someone asks you what you think about XX incident, what will you say? Is it good or bad? Do you support or oppose it? I can't handle this matter, and neither can you."

"It really is."

Tang Binchen took a deep breath.

Zhou Buqi said, "It was okay in the past few years. During the global economic crisis, the main goal of all countries was to ease the economy and get out of the economic difficulties. Now it's different. The US economy has recovered. We have to have some strategies to protect ourselves. For the position of CEO, let alone you and I have not changed our nationality, even if we both changed to American nationality, or even if we are Chinese who grew up overseas, it would be useless! If you show this face to others, people will instinctively have a psychological effect."

This was a sincere statement from the bottom of his heart, and Tang Binchen could naturally feel it. "So we have to hide behind the scenes. We need an agent to stand in the front."

Zhou Buqi said: "Kurian is suitable in every aspect. You can be a senior vice president and hide among the senior executives. I think this arrangement is the best. What do you think?"

Tang Binchen smiled and said, "I'll listen to you!"

"Don't listen to me. This is my company and your company as well." Zhou Buqi knew that such an arrangement would make him feel a little aggrieved. "It depends on you. If you are really not afraid of trouble, let Kurian be the CEO and you be the president."

"No, forget it!" Tang Binchen waved his hands repeatedly, "Even you have backed off, how dare I force myself on you? My relatives and friends are all in China, and the company is rooted in the United States. It must be uncomfortable to be caught in the middle. Let's keep it like this, it's good like this. If it really doesn't work out, I'll take a step back and be in charge of the European business."

Zhou Buqi said, "Don't be in a hurry about this matter. Just wait and see. If things get really tense in the future, you might actually withdraw from this American business and let the Americans take care of it. Then you can go back to Europe and protect yourself."

"Ah."

"But I don't think so. You are a vice president, not a president or a CEO. The outside world may not know who you are. They may just think you are a manager who helps out, and they probably won't pay much attention to you."

"That's best."

Tang Binchen is also an ordinary person, and he cannot afford to get involved in possible disputes among major powers.

Zhou Buqi said: "After Lu Qi retreats, let's see if we can build three carriages."

Tang Binchen asked: "Zheng Xiaoli?"

"It's not her. Don't push her to the forefront. I was cautious about letting her be the CEO of Yahoo. It's better to let Thompson be the CEO and she be the president." Zhou Buqi wanted to take good care of his own direct line. "How about Sam Ultraman? If he succeeds in artificial intelligence, the company can form a troika of Kurian, you and Ultraman. Then, with the three of you as the center... of course, I will be included, to build a power center with enough people, preferably 20 to 30 people, to share the responsibility, just like Disney's strategic planning department."

The power center of Disney is the Strategic Planning Department.

There are more than thirty people.

This is both a form of democratic collective leadership and a way to evade responsibility.