Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 277 The Fate of Microsoft

The new plan that Jinas said almost instantly reminded Carter of the hot dog machine in his previous life!

It’s just useless to think about it. After the idea is clear, how to design this machine; what kind of machine is the most suitable; how much temperature should be used to ensure the best combination of taste and time, which can only be left to Jinus They are experimenting slowly.
"Other than these, about advertising"

Genus picked up a report on the table and handed it to Carter:

"This is the frequency of Taco Bell's advertisements. Even if the frequency is reduced, the cumulative number of people who have watched their advertisements over the years should not be less than 8000 million. This number is not small, and this is why the number of their franchise stores is increasing There are more and more reasons. The brand influence has spread!"

"Compared with the fast food brands under PepsiCo, our investment promotion is very different from them. Just like our products, we also adopt a low-threshold and low-limit model for investment promotion."

"Joining them, including McDonald's, requires the franchisee to pay a large one-time fee, but they also almost completely obtain the operation and income rights of the store. We have a low investment threshold, but because 20% of the shares require Owned by HT, some F&B operators would hardly consider representing our brand.”

"To be precise, it should not be so easy to make this decision. For institutional operators, once they join, the number of stores will be double digits at least, and some large operating companies can even act as agents at one time. Hundreds of stores. Our model is unfavorable in centralized and mass business expansion.”

"It's okay, I admit that what you said makes sense. We are not favored by institutional operators, but in the eyes of the capital market, our model is more stable, especially in terms of value-added and risk control. By the way, The labor contracts of store employees are transferred to the store, is this done well?"

The transfer of labor-management relations was a long-established policy.In the early days, that is, the employees were still in the intensive training period in Pilsen, the labor relationship was with HT Company, and the main body of salary payment was also the company.

The seemingly large number of employees is actually meaningless.In case something goes wrong, the responsibility of so many people to deal with the aftermath is not a trivial matter.But if you move employee relations to the store, it's different
Even if the employees are dismissed, the severance pay must be borne by the store owner. HT is at most a minority shareholder, and at most only bears 20% of the joint and several secondary liabilities.

"It has been completed, and now the contracts of all employees in the store have been re-signed with the store. At first, many people were unwilling, worrying that there would be no guarantee after something happened. In order to encourage employees to take the initiative to transfer labor relations, the company spent more than ten years here. million, as a bonus to reward those who take the initiative to transfer labor relations”

"It's okay, the money should be spent! Spend a hundred thousand now, maybe it will save us several million in the future. There is no problem with this, you are doing the right thing!"

Carter nodded, very sure of Jinas's approach.No toughness, no coercion, just lure, guide employees to voluntarily and actively transfer labor relations, and smoothly complete risk transfer.

"Haha, of course. I want to say that because of this, we want to expand quickly and attract more individual franchisees to join our territory, in terms of advertising."

"I understand, you just go ahead and do it. Just vote for the TV commercials that should be cast. I can understand the necessary expenses and trust you!"

If you increase advertising, then the cash income that ht can directly bring to yourself will be less.But this step is the only way to earn more
Apart from sighing that the money was not spent, Carter had nothing to do.

After staying in Memphis for two days, visiting the factory, and experiencing the so-called "people's sentiments", Carter returned to Douglas.After spending another day in the three places, the days returned to normal.
The time soon came to the day before the start of school, that is, the end of August.paul called
"What? No agreement?"

"Yes, Gary didn't seem to listen to Bill's words at all. No one else was present at the meeting with IBM. Mr. Sams and the others were received by his wife Dorothy McEwan."

good guy? !

Carter was shocked. There is actually a boss of a small software company these days who doesn't even care about IBM?

It feels like a small game studio in the future suddenly received an order from Goose Factory or Steam.As a result, when negotiating, the right owner didn't come, and he didn't pay attention to Goose Factory or Steam's game announcement and distribution channels.

"What's the matter with this Gary? Is it so inflated?!"

After subconsciously exclaiming, Carter only heard Paul continue:

"I don't know. Later, Bill called and asked. He said that he had something to do that day, and he was on a business trip by plane. Anyway, in the end, Mr. Sams was very angry, and the cooperation did not come to fruition. Mr. Sams told us that DRI was not Accepting the development of a 16-bit operating system within one year, I feel that this time limit is too tight. I guess Gary wants to use this as an excuse to catch up with IBM's urgent need for an operating system and increase the quotation, and then Mr. Sams does not accept it. "

"Gary said that his wife was unwilling to sign the unilateral non-disclosure agreement we signed before. Anyway, the order for the operating system will most likely come back to us! I am surprised, so surprised, do you know?"

"Man, your vision is too vicious! If you hadn't insisted on supporting Nixi to establish the operating system development project team, we would be in a hurry now. How do you know this result? That is, the task of developing the operating system will fall to us superior?!"

Meow meow meow? ?

I don’t know what the result is, I just know that Microsoft’s flagship product in the future will be Windows
"Well, this result is really not what I expected. I just think that the operating system is... well, more intuitive and easier to roll out! So what, let's not talk about this, is there any difficulty in development?"

Knowing that he couldn't explain this fate-like situation, Carter quickly changed the subject.

This is Microsoft!The things that are clearly no longer needed will still fall on them after going around in circles. I really don't believe in fate!

"In terms of development, the difficulty is not bad. There is no technical difficulty. We are also designing a language for the 8086 chip, but it is an order from another company, and we have a certain technical reserve."

"However, language development and operating system development are carried out at the same time, and there is still pressure. I feel a little guilty, because we are not very familiar with the 8086 chip language. At this time, we use an unfamiliar language to develop a product that we have never designed before. Operating system. I can't say what the final result will be."

It's different from Carter's sexual ecstasy, plus feeling that fate is different.Suddenly there was an additional order task, and Paul seemed a little worried.After all, receiving an order and making an order are always two different things.
"So, are you seeking my advice now?"

(End of this chapter)