Reboot 2003

Chapter 203 111: Catfish Effect (Three in One)

Going upstairs, Sun Xiaomei, the boss of Galaxy Software, is very generous. Not only is she willing to let the three bosses visit her secret development area, but she also introduces the project under development to them——

The employees of the project team looked a little unhappy, and they didn't have a good look at the three bosses.

However, the three bosses also knew that the opportunity was rare, and looked left and right. Although they didn't know what this opportunity would be useful to them, the opportunity to learn about the secret R&D department of a peer company was precious anyway.

And then...they saw it.

The development project is indeed a mobile phone. The trademark of a mobile phone is 'Guazi'. It is a large-screen mobile phone. The prototype has not yet been released. What I showed them is a test machine for debugging. A lot of parts are glued together with tape. There is only one button, not sure if the keyboard is missing or not connected.

There is also a brand that uses Galaxy's own trademark. I don't know the specific model. From the look of the phone being debugged, it seems to be a straight phone with a keyboard.

Considering that it was just a visit, of course we couldn’t tell them all the detailed parameters, nor could we show them a demonstration of the real machine.

It’s normal to think about it. After all, the current mobile phone industry may indeed have a bright future, but judging from the current situation, the competition is still too fierce. Compared with mobile phones, it is worth paying more attention to other departments of Galaxy Software when I visited it just now. .

The three of them communicated in private, and it seems that they almost all think so.

However, before the end of the visit, the three of them seemed to have a little bit of their own jijiu.

Ma Yun chatted with an employee, and tentatively asked him which department you are in, the software department or the music department?
Yang Zhiyuan talked with Sun Xiaomei about the market of smartphones, and asked that you have invested a lot in this product, are you afraid of losing money?By the way, this is a smartphone, right?

Li Kaifu, a dignified old man in Silicon Valley, is like an idle street stalker, touching here and there, and the staff told him not to move around, but he didn't seem to listen at all, and he didn't want to move his feet when he walked next to the melon seed phone.

It's a pity that the visit was only for a while, and Sun Xiaomei invited them to the office for a chat, and the three happily went downstairs.

Afterwards, they chatted seriously and talked about the management issues of Galaxy Software recently. The three of them remembered why they came here. Of course, there is no need to say more about helping to optimize management. After all, after mergers and acquisitions, enterprise integration has always been a big problem. It is very meaningful to establish a good relationship in advance and participate in the other party's management system.

Even Yang Zhiyuan talked about the "misunderstanding" between the two sides about Kuaikan Media some time ago, saying that Kuaikan is already preparing to go public, and it is very pleasant for everyone to start a business together, let the past go!

But the Goldman Sachs executive also joined the conversation, and his focus was more straightforward.

During the conversation, he unabashedly tested the interest of the two 'consultants' in this company, and even after the end, he sent the three consultants downstairs, looked down at the three heavenly men with his tall stature, and smiled He asked, "Gentlemen, how do you feel?"

Yang and Li nodded quickly: "Very good, Mr. Sun is very friendly."

But the big bald head asked directly: "I mean, are you willing to buy it?"

Yang Zhiyuan froze for a moment, exchanged glances with Li Kaifu, and then replied to the bald man, "Of course, as long as you are willing to buy it."

"That's good, this deal will be completed sooner or later, you can rest assured; and Goldman Sachs' asset custody team will ensure that the company can operate normally during this period and will not be affected by the financial market. You can just wait for the good news. Bar."

The big bald head left after finishing his speech. His confidence seemed to give hope to the three consultants. Except for Ma Yun, who couldn't help but feel a little headache when he thought that Yahoo Tianzhao would have another colleague in the future, the other two laughed and talked with each other on the way back. Looks like he's in a good mood.

"By the way, I've booked a drink at the Wildin Hotel tonight. Many local friends in Shanghai want to meet the next two, both of whom are insiders in our Internet field, such as Mr. Tang from Shanda..."

Ma Yun was very winking. He originally thought that Galaxy Software might have arrangements tonight, but Galaxy Software has probably been affected by the turmoil recently, and there is no plan to entertain friends and businessmen, so Ma Yun planned to arrange things first.

However, both of them hesitated—"It's better not to, I have other business tonight, so I really can't go." Li Kaifu refused without thinking.

Yang Zhiyuan glanced at him seemingly indistinctly, and said, "Let's forget it, I have to fight jet lag, I'm too tired today."

So they went back to the hotel like this, the two got out of the car and exchanged a few words, then went back to their hotel room.Ma Yun felt a little disappointed, but he also went back to his residence. Since these two people still have things to do, he can leave the reception work here to his subordinates, and he himself has to go back to Lin'an, but thinking about what he experienced during the day today , he also remembered an important event, so he went back and called his close associates: "Toshiba, how are the sales of mobile phones recently?"

"I'm not at work, I'll check it out for you right away, but why are you asking?"

"I just want to ask about the general market, and I don't know why."

"We don't buy many mobile phones on Taobao, but Ali's mobile phone-related business is very hot, mainly white-brand mobile phones are exported."

"So it's mainly foreign trade?"

"Yes, most of the white-brand mobile phones in the world are made in our country. Didn't you say that in the last meeting? White-brand mobile phones account for 30.00% of the global mobile phone market."

Ma Yun thought for a while and asked, "Then you said if we start making mobile phones, where do we need to start?"

The subordinate on the other side of the phone was taken aback: "We want to make a mobile phone?"

"No." Ma Yun replied, "However, I heard a strange news today. I would like to substitute the situation and think about how we should choose."

Fang Fang replied: "It's probably mobile value-added services. After all, value-added services have always been good, and they are relatively close to our own business."

Ma Yun nodded, but asked again: "But the value-added services are also declining, and now they are all 3G. If the mobile value-added services do not make money or no one uses them, what should we do then?"

The other party smiled and said: "It's not easy. Now the mobile phone channel needs online shopping services, not we need the mobile phone channel. Even if no one uses the value-added business, there will naturally be places that need our services at that time. Let's adapt to the situation." ah."

But the more Ma Yun thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong: "Then what if our competitors build their own mobile phones and then don't allow us to use them?"

……

Ma Yun’s worries are of course unfounded. The shopping network has a certain scale effect. At least in a short period of time, Taobao’s advantages are unmatched. If you fall behind, you will be overturned at once.

But this is a new way of thinking—Ma Yun was thinking about it, Li and Yang returned to their room, and quickly turned on the computer to start reporting today's gains to colleagues. heart to them
Another busy night is about to begin, and the prosperous business is making the world more and more lively. In Los Angeles, Gu Wenjie, who just took over the Edward Fund, has not been back to China for a month.

And even Longshan, a small town on the [-]th line of the Celestial Dynasty, recently opened a Wanda Film City, and the business is booming.

When Warner withdrew from China in 04, it lost a lot of domestic assets to its partner Wanda. Wanda was a little caught off guard because they had no idea how movie theaters work.

However, after a period of tossing after taking over, Wanda found that this thing seemed to be really profitable, so it followed Warner's old plan and began to continue to expand, gradually expanding its business to third-tier and midwestern cities.

It's the end of the summer vacation. The star of this year's summer vacation is Pixar's "Cars." It tells the story of a racing driver who missed the No. 1 spot in a racing competition because he was too lazy. As a result, he fell into a small mountain village where experts gathered before the rematch.

Aqiang got rid of the problem of being too lazy in the small mountain village and got to know the sports car Azhen, and made up his mind to live a mediocre life incognito in the small mountain village. But at this moment, Aqiang's identity was exposed, and countless media appeared and invited Aqiang returned from the God of War, so Aqiang finally returned to the semi-finals...

Of course, the quality of Pixar’s animated films is needless to say, but after all, as a person who has passed the age of watching animated films, sitting in the cinema will inevitably have some other ideas. Under the dark screen, Chen Qin looks at the screen and is talking about love. Love Dodge and Porsche, wondering how much this ad cost.

But it's normal to think about it—"Cars" is Pixar's first work after it was acquired by Disney. Judging from its commercial value, it is enough to hand over a perfect answer to this acquisition.Of course, there is no problem with its quality... Although the story is a bit clichéd, it is just a light comedy mixed with chicken soup, but considering that in the next ten years, there will be few screenwriters in the world who can write such clichéd stories. There is nothing to be too demanding, not to mention that this is a cartoon, whether others like it or not, it is enough for children to like it——

"Hey, it's Mater, Mater is here too!"

Xu Lingling was talking happily at the side, Chen Qin felt that the little girl was making too much fuss, and was about to turn around and laugh at her, but Xu Lingling was not talking to him at all, but was pointing to Lou Xuemei on the other side. picture -

Cinemas are not new to today’s China, but because they have only been in commercial operation for a short time, they are not a very serious place in the public mind. Of course, it is not possible for the two children to watch movies by themselves, so their mother Lou Xuemei also came with them. .

Chen Qin got bored, thinking that she hadn’t seen her so enthusiastically when watching pirated versions on the computer before. Speaking of which, this little girl is getting more and more dramatic. It was just an ordinary plot, and she seemed very happy. In fact, I just want to please the adults... Chen Qin sat beside him in dismay, but luckily the movie was about to end.

The ending has come. After winning the championship, Aqiang returned to the small mountain village and reunited with Azhen at the entrance of the village. He said the lines before "living a happy life from now on". At this time, Banya, who had always dreamed of being a helicopter, appeared.

He has also realized his dream, but as a little follower who took advantage of Aqiang's success, he is still working tirelessly to make a light bulb, which looks quite embarrassing.

Chen Qin turned his head and saw Xu Lingling hugging Lou Xuemei's arm and was about to jump up for joy: "Hey, Mater, he's out too—"

The light on the screen flickered on and off, her fair skin and long eyelashes outlined her focused side profile, and she could vaguely see that her eye sockets were a little red, and her big focused eyes were staring expectantly at the screen in front of her.

Such a cute little girl, because the touching scene was interrupted by a funny plot, she was so excited that she blew out a snot bubble. She quickly took out a tissue from her pocket, and then saw Chen Qin looking at her.

"What to watch, not a movie..."

She fidgeted awkwardly, and Chen Qin handed her a napkin.Fortunately, the movie was over, and the production schedule started to play. Parents stretched and got up to leave. The children watched the subtitles unsatisfactorily. Lou Xuemei turned her head and saw Xu Lingling blushing and wiping her nose:
"I don't know what happened to that big villain Bawang, shall we go?"

"Wait a little longer, leave when there are fewer people."

As Chen Qin said this, when the movie was over, he stared at the screen and looked at the strings of foreign names.

After watching it like this for a long time, the audience left the stage one after another, Lou Xuemei urged: "We should go too!"

Chen Qin nodded, without moving his eyes away from the screen, and walked out of the seating area, then walked down the stairs. Before going out, he saw the rumored fixed program behind the credits——

'Special thanks, to Steve Jobs'.

Jobs and Gates are of the same generation, or they are friends. They were good buddies who went on a blind date to find a partner, but because of some wrong decisions, Apple lost to Microsoft in the competition in the software industry. When Microsoft was in full swing in the 90s, Jobs Nest at Pixar for animation.

Later, after Jobs returned to Apple, he was still the CEO of Pixar until Jobs sold Pixar to Disney at the beginning of this year... This seems to be an ordinary business merger, but from the perspective of future people, it may be a signal—in short Jobs didn't have a good few years to live.

Some street stalls said that this is to find a good home for Pixar, and Jobs knew that his cancer had relapsed, so he had to seize the time to get Microsoft down, so he entrusted Pixar to Disney, and he turned the world in the technology industry. The world's most valuable technology company avenged its past and passed away contentedly.

Of course, the truth is probably not so romantic. After all, Pixar had almost reached the ceiling of an animation studio at that time. Considering the ability to resist risks, it was time to either continue to expand upstream or downstream, or find a big company to marry.

But at this moment, when Chen Qin looked at the line and went out of the movie theater, he also felt emotional in his heart-what level does an entrepreneur need to achieve to be successful everywhere?Of course Jobs was not a god, but he didn’t understand animation production at all, and he was able to bring this animation company to such a success just by relying on some commercial operations, and made Pixar add a special sentence at the end of each animation before and after. Thanks, there should be some special reasons in it.

After leaving the movie theater, the weather was very hot, Lou Xuemei asked the two children if they wanted to play somewhere else?Chen Qin was not in a hurry at first, but Xu Lingling said that school would start tomorrow and she had to go home to prepare things.

"I'm graduating next year..."

Xu Lingling lowered her head, and Chen Qin looked into the distance; the two children didn't answer the conversation, and waited for a while for the bus to arrive...then it was time to go home.

The last elementary school summer vacation is over.

After watching the movie and returning home, Xu Lingling also came back together - when Chen Qin turned on his laptop, Xu Lingling also started to pack up his things. After a summer vacation, Chen Qin’s desk had left their homework books on the bed. Loose the monopoly who played during the day and didn't have time to pack, and the schoolbags of the two are at Xu Lingling's house... In short, although there was a little accident in the middle, the primary school career is still coming to an end.

Several documents came in the mailbox, which were sent by the company, saying that Goldman Sachs is very enthusiastic about asset management. The optimization plan of the previous two days has been mentioned in Sun Xiaomei's hands. Today, people from Google and Yahoo were invited to help out with ideas , seems to be just an ordinary consultant, but in fact it looks more like he is contacting the next person to take over...

This matter seems quite dangerous. After all, although the so-called loan is sometimes necessary, most of the time, of course, it is better to have one less thing than one thing more. However, it is still too difficult to make everything run in the way you imagined. Yes—all plans in the market cannot avoid risks and accidents. Seeing the messy problems piled up at hand and the hidden dangers still brewing and expanding under the water, Chen Qin was thinking at that time, if he was Jobs that would be nice.

All marketing can be just right, and all management can be scientific and efficient. If you randomly recruit a few people around you, you take care of the market and others take care of technology, and this simple arrangement can make everything in order, then he only needs to concentrate on making products. If you had money, it would be great if you could just sit and count the money by pointing in the general direction.

However, this matter is not simple, let alone he is only a primary school student.

It is indeed a way to find a third-party agency to supervise, and it is also a way to start from the grassroots level to customize the system and select personnel one by one, but this is still too troublesome.But now he actually has no partners, and no one does it for him. Hiring people to do things is just a plan.How can this be done?It's better to owe a debt and let the creditor do it for him.

Of course the creditor will do this - it is said that the one who owes the debt is the uncle, and if he owes Goldman Sachs a debt, Goldman Sachs will of course be worried that he will use a "golden parachute" during the mortgage period, or use the method of profit transfer to steal the mortgage company. In exchange, in the process of asset management, Goldman Sachs can of course use their experience to help optimize the company structure. After all, for such a large multinational company, this is as simple as breathing.

Considering that the company has reached a stable period, now is an excellent opportunity for rectification. There is actually nothing hidden in the company. When Goldman Sachs reorganization is completed next year, he should also be in junior high school.

With this plan in mind, he entered into this mortgage transaction.Everything was executed smoothly - of course, he had to find a way to plug the hole in the loan. This was the most important thing he faced during this period, but Goldman Sachs was also really awesome. Not only did they investigate There have been a lot of corruption problems in the company that he didn't expect, and the company's efficiency has improved a lot recently——

I think it is also a part of the "catfish effect" - the so-called catfish effect is to put a catfish on the car for transporting aquatic products, but it can make the small fish move and increase the survival rate. It is often used in various chicken soup jokes to motivate employees .

But this principle itself has some truth, not to mention anything else, this time Goldman Sachs' "hate" seems to have brought a lot of substantive project progress, and the two mobile phone project teams don't know because of their accumulation, but because they are afraid The project team messed up Goldman Sachs, and even entered the testing stage ahead of schedule. It seems that the development conference will be available next month.

However, Goldman Sachs has made a big move recently. After obtaining the authorization from Shanghai to Xiangjiang, all the personnel structures of Galaxy Software have been washed inside and out. At first, Chen Qin only wanted them to help improve the organizational structure, but in the end it was still A bunch of corruption problems were dug out, which made everyone a little bit embarrassed.

Chen Qin started to have a headache when he opened the mailbox, and he didn’t know what Goldman Sachs would do today. After opening it for a while, the first few emails seemed to be quite normal. Yahoo and Google have been coveting his company for several days. This is not a strange thing, as for the mobile phone... It was not allowed to show them, but it just so happened that the mobile phone patent operation has reached a critical point recently, and it is time to introduce some external attention.

However, I soon found an email from the investment department. I thought it was related to a recent investment project, but it turned out to be about overseas business.

"The things of the acquired Manjun Group have almost been processed, but the locals provided some information, saying that the recently famous model in Xiangjiang seems to have an affair with our company's senior management. This is the relevant reporting address..."

Primary school student Chen Qin scratched his head and opened the link. It was a scene where a local supermodel interacted intimately with an overseas businessman and was secretly photographed by the paparazzi.

What did Chen Qin think this had to do with me?Finally, click to see if this person looks familiar.

Quickly opened the chat window and sent the message to Lao Xu who was working in Meilijian.

"How is this going?"

Old Xu just happened to be there, so he quickly made an Internet call. Chen Qin frantically pulled out the earphones. Looking back, Xu Lingling was arranging things on the bed, flipping through Monopoly's manual, and didn't pay attention to this side.

The call got through, and Lao Xu's awkward voice came over: "Actually, it's nothing. Just a while ago, Zuckerberg and the others had a party. I didn't feel a bit out of place if I didn't go. I wanted to say hello to the company, but they said There's no need to make a fuss about this kind of thing..."

(End of this chapter)