Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 673 The Current Situation of Microsoft and Shiwei (Two in One)

The next morning, Lin Baicheng went to Microsoft.

In fact, Shiwei Software Company and Microsoft Corporation share a building for office. The property right of the building is Lin Baicheng, and Lin Baicheng rents the building to Microsoft and Shiwei Software at a price of 1 US dollar.

In today's Silicon Valley, the prices of land and real estate are very cheap, so many of Lin Baicheng's tax-deductible consumption is used here to buy real estate such as villas and buildings.

Lin Baicheng does not do real estate development, so what he buys are already developed real estate, not the land itself.

Anyway, it is tax-deductible consumption. If you don’t use it, you will send it directly to the IRS. Therefore, you must use the tax-deductible consumption. If you buy real estate in Silicon Valley, it can not only meet the needs of individuals and companies, but also wait for it to rise for a long time. , It's an investment in disguise.

For the same consumption, real estate is better than cars and other consumer goods. For products such as cars, except for a few collectible models that can be sold at high prices after decades, most cars are used for a few years. It can only be sold as a second-hand car, let alone value-added, or value-preservation.

Of course, there are rigid regulations on the consumption of tax credits, and some consumer goods such as cars must be purchased to get tax credits, so not all of them can be used to invest in real estate.

How to arrange it, Lin Baicheng has a professional team to serve him, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

Lin Baicheng went to Microsoft first.

Now Microsoft is already a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lin Baicheng, but the founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen left Microsoft and took away the operating system technology. Although the patents are shared by the two companies, Microsoft It is completely different from Microsoft decades before Lin Baicheng was reborn.

It can be said with certainty that the Microsoft company in Lin Baicheng's hands today will never develop into a world giant. Even if Microsoft has a patent for the operating system, even if Lin Baicheng knows the general trend, it is useless.

Microsoft has become Lin Baicheng's sole proprietorship, and there is an additional competitor, Blue Software Company founded by Bill Gates and others. It has inherently lost the possibility of becoming a monopolistic world giant.

However, although Microsoft has lost the possibility of becoming a world giant, since this company has become Lin Baicheng's wholly-owned subsidiary, Lin Baicheng can't leave it alone. Letting the company develop is not a bad thing.

At present, apart from the original BASIC interpreter, Microsoft's business has been split off and the operating system has been split off to form a joint venture with New Century Software, which is Shiwei Software. The company's current business is to develop computer tools.

Of course, the computer tools here do not refer to hardware, but to software tools. The purpose of developing these tools is to facilitate the use of computers and add more functions to computers. The company develops them and sells them.

There are actually many software tools in this category, such as clocks, calculators, calendars, text documents, and so on.

Such computer tools will be necessary for every computer decades later, but of course it will be different in the early days, not all functions are available. Before the advent of the Internet era, many small companies relied Class gadgets survive.

Of course, such small tools are not very profitable, but the annual profit of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars is enough for most small companies to survive.

After all, this time has just entered the 80s, and various expenses such as employee salaries are not as scary as later.

Microsoft is also currently developing these gadgets. After the acquisition of Microsoft, Lin Baicheng provided a general idea, and then let Microsoft develop it by itself.After all, this is a trivial matter for him, and it is impossible for him to put too much energy on it.

The total number of Microsoft employees is only about [-] people. The company has only a few departments, and there are no other production bases. After entering the company, it can be said that it is almost clear at a glance. The employees said a few words to encourage them, and went to the manager's office with the company manager.

Regardless of whether it is Microsoft or Shiwei Software, these two companies are very small now. Lin Baicheng has not set up offices in these two companies, let alone left a secretary.

Only when Microsoft or Shiwei software develops to a certain level, and the valuation will reach tens of millions of dollars, Lin Baicheng will set up an office in the relevant company and leave a secretary to assist him in handling the company's affairs.

Not all companies can get Lin Baicheng's attention. Either the company's valuation is high enough, or the company has a large number of employees and great influence, otherwise it is difficult to get into Lin Baicheng's eyes.

The current manager of Microsoft is called Carter Perot, a man in his early thirties, and even a mulatto.

The so-called mulatto refers to the descendants of blacks and whites. His skin color is not as dark as blacks, but a kind of light black, and he does not have thick lips like blacks. He has thin lips, a high nose bridge, and his hair is not very curly.

Black people in this era have not yet become popular, and have not yet become politically correct in the United States, so let alone the upper class, there are not many black people in the elite class.

Of course, not too much, not too much, but it does not mean that there is no.

Although Carter Perot did not graduate from a college like the Ivy League, he also graduated from a university, and he studied business management, so he was able to find a not bad job.

Before Bill Gates and others left Microsoft, Carter Perot was a deputy director of Microsoft's personnel department. Later, Bill Gates and others left Microsoft and took some people away. At that time, Carter Perot stayed , and stabilized the remaining employees before Lin Baicheng's people took over.

In view of this, Lin Baicheng gave Carter Perot a chance to serve as the manager of Microsoft temporarily after learning about it.Originally, the meaning of the transition was to let him manage it for a while, and then replace him after finding a suitable candidate. After all, he was just a deputy director of the personnel department before.

However, Lin Baicheng later learned from the secretariat’s report that Carter Perot had done a good job, that Microsoft was not in trouble under his management, and that the research and development of software tools had produced results, so Lin Baicheng simply let Carter Perot continue. as a manager at Microsoft.

Since Carter Perot is capable, Lin Baicheng naturally wants to give the opponent a chance, and at the same time give himself a chance. What if Carter Perot is that kind of super capable talent?
Although the possibility is very small, it is not impossible, and Lin Baicheng is just giving Carter Perot the reward he deserves.

"Manager Perot, I have read the report given by the secretariat on the company's current situation. You have done a good job. I hope you will continue to maintain it and don't let me down."

Lin Baicheng looked at Carter Perot and said, in fact, Carter Perot also has an innate advantage, that is his skin color, as long as Carter Perot is capable enough, Lin Baicheng will definitely promote him.

In the United States, racial discrimination is a situation that must be taken care of absolutely. It is best to have black people in the management of companies under Lin Baicheng's name, so as to avoid being attacked by people with intentions in the future.

"Chairman, don't worry, I will not let you down!"

Carter Perot knew that his position was very unstable. It wasn't that the big boss Lin Baicheng thought of him and felt that he was not capable enough, etc., but that the subordinates coveted his position.Even though they were superficially respectful and cooperative at work, he knew that they would kick him down whenever there was a chance.

Some people create opportunities even when they don't exist.

Therefore, Carter Perot must make the big boss very satisfied with him, so that he has the energy to prevent the people below.

Regardless of the small size of Microsoft, the company has more than 20 people, and its annual revenue is only three or four million US dollars. The profit is only less than one million US dollars. It is not a big company, but it is not a small company either. Its manager position still has no small weight.

For most people, being the highest-ranking manager of a company is already pretty good, not to mention reaching the pinnacle of life, the income can definitely be regarded as the middle class.

Furthermore, there are many companies under the name of the big boss, and the manager of a small company is a starting point for upward promotion and an opportunity.

"hope so!"

Lin Baicheng nodded and stopped talking, but said: "As for the development of the company, in addition to the research and development of those tools, the research and development of software in the future can move closer to the direction of graphics and sound. Let me give you a simple example, just Like a color photo, I hope that I can draw exactly the same color picture on the computer through software.”

"I'm just giving an example. How to develop depends on what the engineers in the R&D department say. I expect the company to produce results."

"As long as the company does well, my support for the company will be greater, and the income of our employees will naturally be higher."

Lin Baicheng knows the direction of computer development in the future, but he himself does not have that much time. He has so many companies to manage, and he will spend part of his time on Changsheng Pharmaceutical and Biological Company in the future. He will definitely not be able to research and develop computer software. intervene.

Lin Baicheng is willing to fight three poles, giving some suggestions to companies such as Microsoft and New Century Software. It is best for the company to develop, and he has no loss if it fails to develop.

When the Internet age comes, Lin Baicheng doesn't even need to do it himself, he only needs to invest in Yahoo, Google, Facebook and other companies.Even if his arrival changes the future, it is enough to invest in similar companies, and cast a wide net to catch more fish, and they will always hit the target.

Relatively speaking, Lin Baicheng is more willing to focus on Changsheng Biopharmaceutical Company.Not to mention the research and development of longevity drugs, if you can develop some drugs to treat patients and prolong your life in disguise, then you will make a lot of money.

Furthermore, if it is possible to develop drugs to treat serious diseases, the profit of medicine will definitely not be lower than that of the Internet, and medicine can be said to be a necessary consumer product. As long as it is effective, there is no need to worry about sales.

People don't have to go online, but they have to take medicine when they are sick, unless they don't want to live longer and don't want to die.

At Microsoft, Lin Baicheng only stayed for more than an hour, and then he passed away at Microsoft.

The scale of Shiwei Software is about the same as that of Microsoft Corporation. The company has only one task at present, which is to develop the computer operating system and then upgrade the computer operating system.

The computer operating system developed by Shiwei Software is based on Microsoft's patents. Because the research and development results were taken away by Bill Gates and the others, the research and development process needs to be done by ourselves. Fortunately, there is a final product to reverse, so this matter is not Disaster.

However, even if it is developed, it is just the same as the current products of Bluesoft, so the developed operating system must be updated.

Bluesoft's computer operating system is supported by IBM, and IBM directly uses this software, but Shiweisoft needs to launch the market by itself, so it must have better technology than Bluesoft, otherwise it will be difficult to compete with Bluesoft operating system.

After Lin Baicheng passed away to Microsoft, he inquired about the development process of the operating system. He learned that the progress was very fast, and the product would be completely reversed in a month or so. By then, this product would be no different from the one he developed.

After the product is reversed, what Shiwei Software has to do is to sell the product, and at the same time upgrade and update the product.

Regarding this, Lin Baicheng had nothing to say, and left after staying for less than an hour.

Here in Silicon Valley, Lin Baicheng currently has three and a half companies, and Sun Electronics Communications can only be counted as half.

At present, although Sun Electronics Communication Company is not an empty shell, the company is building a research and development base, but Lin Baicheng has no need to go there at all, and the progress of the project can only be supervised by the secretariat.

In this way, the only thing left in Silicon Valley that hasn't gone yet is Yinhe Semiconductor, and Lin Baicheng has already scheduled to go there in the afternoon.

At Galaxy Semiconductor, Lin Baicheng not only had to talk to the management, but also to visit the factory, and even chat with the engineers in the R&D department to hear some of their R&D ideas and reports on R&D progress, etc.

Therefore, Galaxy Semiconductor will definitely take longer. Lin Baicheng is not sure if he can get it done in an afternoon.

That afternoon, Lin Baicheng went to Galaxy Semiconductor. He first had a brief chat with the management, and then went to the R&D department. He attached great importance to the R&D department.

During the period when Lin Baicheng did not come to Yinhe Semiconductor, Yinhe Semiconductor recruited many engineers. Lin Baicheng must have a good chat with them to show that he, a big boss, attaches great importance to the R&D department and them themselves.

These engineers, in addition to the company's own work, which requires them to develop chips, they have some ideas themselves, and the big guys even realized the ideas into projects.

Whether it is an idea or a project, some wild ideas sound like whimsical ideas, but Lin Baicheng came from decades later. If he hears an idea or project that sounds familiar to him, although he is not sure whether the other party can develop it, but More attention will be paid to this idea or project, because this idea or project has a future and can be developed.

Although the same project, A can be developed, but BCD and others may not be able to develop it, but with the support of sufficient funds, BCD and others should be able to develop some related patents.

Accumulate more patents, even if you don’t use them now, it doesn’t mean you won’t use them in the future. There is no harm in having more patents.

(End of this chapter)