Back To 1995

   Chapter 183

   Hearing that the Telephone and Telegraph Group and the Enron Corporation are both starting to compete for the equity of America Telecom, Chris Jain and Eric could not help but feel nervous.

   The more equity that these two companies get, there is no doubt that the equity in Comerica Bank, Caremeyer behind Jain, and Eric's American Telecom will be diluted more and more.

  Eric in particular, his worth is definitely not worth mentioning compared to Enron Corporation and the Telephone and Telegraph Group. In the future, his stake in America Telecom will definitely continue to shrink.

   Regarding Best's death and asking for 28% of the shares of America Telecom, Song Yang and Greck looked at each other, and the latter nodded towards Song Yang.

  In the telecommunications industry in America, America Telecom needs the support of a giant. Whether it is technically or in the market, the Telephone and Telegraph Group is the most suitable one.

   However, Song Yang will not let the Telephone and Telegraph Group easily take away this 28% stake, and the wild goose will pluck the beast and leave the skin. This time, is it worthy of America Telecom if he does not pull a few wool from the Telephone and Telegraph Group? !

   "President Best, if the reorganization of America Telecom and Telephone and Telegraph Group is completed, I hope that Telephone and Telegraph Group can open the market and users to America Telecom. In the future, wherever there is Telephone and Telegraph Group, there will be America Telecom!"

When Best heard Song Yang's words, the corners of her mouth twitched. She suddenly realized that in the Telephone and Telegram Group, the person she didn't like the most except Carly Fiorina, who had a big mouth, might be blacklisted again now. Add one more person.

   The current queen of the future technology industry has not yet been enthroned in Hewlett-Packard Computer.

However, Fiorina is not at all restless. Best, who just returned to the Telegraph Group last year, was squatted in the grass by Fiorina as soon as she came back, and Fiorina directly dominated Lucent. Split from the Telegraph Group.

  Whether it was voluntary or not, how Lucent performed after the split, but the split of Lucent from the Telephone and Telegraph Group took place during Best’s tenure, and this will go down in history.

   By taking the lead in the split of Lucent, Fiorina is on the rise, from the sales director of the Telephone and Telegraph Group to the executive director of the split Lucent Group, but Best has no good feelings for Fiorina.

What I didn't expect was that in the second year of her tenure, Best would actually sell a part of the Telegraph Group by herself. Song Yang was not at all softer than Fiorina, and she wanted to hollow out the Telegraph Group. stance.

Best does not know how the outside world will comment on her career in the Telephone and Telegraph Group in the future. She is a little worried now that the Telephone and Telegraph Group will be sold short in her hands, and even someday, the telephone and Telegraph Group will be a brand of this century. , was also sold...

   "Once the cooperation is reached, the Telephone and Telegraph Group will support America Telecom!" No matter what he felt in his heart, Best had to say that, once the America Telecom was finished, the investment of the Telephone and Telegraph Group would really be lost.

   "In addition to these, there is another thing, I would like to ask President Best to agree!" Song Yang didn't have any intention of restraining, and began to pick wool again.

  Best began to look towards Song Yang a little unkindly, but still groaned from between his teeth, "Speak!"

"I hope that the Telephone and Telegraph Group can allow me to cooperate with Bell Labs, not only America Telecom, but other companies I hope to invest in, such as Double-click, ICQ and others, can also cooperate with Bell Labs. For this, I am here. Bian is willing to pay for the project cost of cooperating with Bell Labs!" Song Yang made a request that surprised Best.

To say, what Song Yang is most envious of about Telephone and Telegraph is not how profitable Telephone and Telegraph is. At its peak, Telephone and Telegraph Group can indeed make money. Thirteen years ago, before being split up, Telephone and Telegraph’s annual camp It is equivalent to the sum of the three companies of Exxon Oil, Mobil Oil, and General Electric. It is simply too much. Then a group of opponents went to Capitol Hill to cry, and together with the American Department of Justice, they fiddled with it. to split it up.

   But apart from making money, what moved Song Yang the most was Bell Labs, the strongest scientific research institution on the Earth's surface within this century!

  This laboratory, since its establishment, has cultivated 11 Nobel Prize winners in physics, 5 winners of the "Turing Award" in the computer field, and 16 America's highest national technology award.

As for other radio astronomy, modern communication theory, cosmic microwave background radiation, UNIX system, C language, the world's first transistor, the first laser beam, the first solar cell, the first communication satellite, the core of a scanning printer Photosensitive components such as CDD, etc., and more than 30,000 patents. Computers, mobile phones, TVs, cameras, etc. of modern electronic products are all related to this laboratory. If technology changes the world and technology changes human life, Bell definitely has that. Strength.

Song Yang is very envious of Bell Labs. If he can get the support of this laboratory, Song Yang's R&D strength is almost equivalent to entering a state of "exploding", not to mention the entire Silicon Valley scientific research laboratory. , it is still no problem to single out half of the scientific research departments of Silicon Valley companies.

  Best really didn't expect that Song Yang would make such a request. If Song Yang hadn't mentioned it, Best wouldn't have remembered that there is such a laboratory under the Telephone and Telegraph Group.

Since the split of Lucent last year, Bell Labs, which has been split several times in a row, is also seriously damaged. Before that, it has been the telephone and telegraph group that has not been split up. It has an annual profit of 3% as Bell Labs. Funding, which makes Bell Labs has always been a good money.

But after the separation from Lucent, Bell Labs was split again. Lucent took away some Bell Labs personnel, and the Telegraph Group's funding for Bell Labs was reduced again. Since last year, In Bell Labs, which is simple in clothes and food, the technicians have been scraped and the experimental funds have plummeted, so they can't produce any technical results.

  Best did not expect that Song Yang, an outsider, wanted to cooperate with Bell Labs.

   "No problem," Best said happily, "Bell Labs under the Telephone and Telegraph Group can jointly develop with Song Yang and your company, but you must bear the cost!"

  Television and Telegraph Group, in order to pursue profits and increase its stock price, now has the idea of ​​getting rid of Bell Labs, which is about to become a burden. This can be seen from the continuous reduction of funds to Bell Labs.

  Since Song Yang is willing to take over, Best will satisfy Song Yang's proposal. Bell Labs is a real gold-sucking beast, which makes the Telephone and Telegraph Group feel the pressure, and one can imagine how much money it burns.

  Song Yang is willing to support Bell Labs for the Telephone and Telegraph Group, so Best is naturally willing to let go and spend Song Yang's money to cultivate talents for the Telephone and Telegraph Group. Isn't this fragrant, why didn't Best agree?

   But Best, is not so easy to deal with. Song Yang is picking up the wool of the telephone and telegram, and she will also pick up the wool of Song Yang.

   "Song, the Telephone and Telegraph Group, you can let Bell Labs cooperate with you, but in addition to the research and development expenses that you need to bear, the Telephone and Telegraph Group requests to keep some of the research and development results, patents, technologies, etc.!"

   Song Yang and Best looked at each other as soon as he heard this. As the head of the Telephone and Telegram Group, Best had never seen anyone before, so Song Yang couldn't scare her.

   "President Best, we are collaborators. This is not the attitude you should have towards collaborators."

  Best sneered, "Song, do you know how much the Telephone and Telegraph Group invested in Bell Labs?

Those R&D equipment were purchased by the Telephone and Telegraph Group, and those R&D personnel were also cultivated by the Telephone and Telegraph Group. They are the best scientific researchers in the world. For any senior researcher, the investment of the Telephone and Telegraph Group in them will exceed more than For millions of dollars, or more, if it weren't for your current collaborator in the Telephone and Telegraph Group, Bell Labs would never have opened to you! "

   "10%, if the cooperative R&D projects have achievements, technologies, patents, etc., the Telephone and Telegraph Group can get 10% of the income."

Song Yang can't do anything about it. Asking people is just like that. He has no strength to refuse. A pearl, taken from the crown of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, together with those patents, not a single R&D staff is left to the Telephone and Telegraph Group!

   "20%!"

   "15%, President Best, all the expenses can be borne by me!" Song Yang said dissatisfiedly.

   Seeing that the bottom line of Song Yang's heart was really reached, Best didn't insist, and agreed to let the Telephone and Telegraph Group directly take 15% of the research and development results.

  When Song Yang and Best reached an agreement, it marked the official start of this cooperation. America Telecom, which had just been divided, officially merged and reorganized with the broadband division of the Telephone and Telegraph Group.

After the    reorganization, the shareholdings of all the shareholders of America Telecom have changed, and the Telephone and Telegraph Group has become the second largest shareholder of America Telecom with 28% of the shares.

  Enron made additional investment and continued to hold 5%. As for the stake in Comerica Bank, it was reduced to 5%. The combined stake in American Telecom held by Kenneth and Jeff Skilling was also reduced to about 5%.

   The equity in the hands of Eric and Kerimaiya has also shrunk to less than 3%. Although the equity has shrunk, it is more valuable. This time it is the real value!

   As for Song Yang, the American Global Investment Fund in Song Yang's hands has also been divided into part of the American Telecom equity, but it is still the absolute majority shareholder with more than 51% of the shares!

   (end of this chapter)