Back To 1995

  Chapter 985 Cup Bow Snake Shadow

  For executives and ordinary employees, life goals are different, what they value is different, and what they get in the end is naturally different.

Ordinary employees of Alcatel, including engineers and those clerical staff, even if they are optimistic about Alcatel mobile phones, they will not just say, make up their minds, and they will not move their nests in this life. There is no reason not to leave, so the most important thing is the bonus they get now, the insurance, benefits, pensions and so on that Alcatel mobile phone bought for them.

Option stuff can really make you rich overnight, but Alcatel mobile phones now add up to tens of thousands of people. Even if they get a share, their option amount will not be too high. How many years have I been waiting.

But the executives are different. They have already received high salaries, and what they are waiting for now is the opportunity to completely realize the freedom of wealth. They can even gamble on sports cars, villas, private jets, etc. Naturally, they want to get options for Alcatel mobile phones. If you win, you may turn your bicycle into a sports car!

  For Alcatel mobile phones, is it a loss to provide such a high bonus and option reward? Ertian looked at the P4 sales report in his hand and felt that it was not a loss!

  Song Yang is not the kind of stingy, Grandet-style vampire who has to rely on giving staff salaries and bonuses to make more money.

Alcatel P4's hot sale is not just the phone, but Bluetooth headsets that are out of stock all over the world, as well as touch pens, universal chargers, USB data cables, spare batteries, mobile phone film, etc. These accessories are actually more profitable than selling mobile phones Also earn more!

  If it weren’t for the fact that Alcatel’s mobile phones are not evil, unlike some mobile phone manufacturers who can’t make a lot of money selling mobile phones, they will come up with all kinds of crooked means to cut leeks, and make money exclusively by selling accessories.

Deliberately making the mobile phone screen, battery, charging cable, plug, etc. not durable, it will break after a short time, forcing users to replace them with new ones, and they still have to buy high-priced accessories from the original factory. Cut countless leeks.

   Putting down the report in his hand, Elthian emailed the first batch of P4 sales and bonuses to Song Yang, and then started busy again. He will also attend the Alcatel Mobile Global Developers Conference in the next few days.

   This is also the practice of Alcatel mobile phones. Every year after the flagship phone is released, a developer conference will be held.

In the first year, I didn’t feel that this developer conference was very useful. But now, as the Symbian system becomes more and more powerful and supports more and more applications and functions, the demand for software is constantly increasing. increased.

  In the first two years, Alcatel spent money on mobile phones to support companies that develop software for Symbian, but now, this business that originally lost money has gradually started to make money.

Not only the US knife, but more importantly, with these companies that develop software for Symbian, the Symbian system supports more and more software, such as Microsoft WP and other mobile phone systems, if you want to compete with Symbian, then not only It is only a matter of developing a system, and it needs to spend a lot of money to develop software on the WP system platform. It is still unknown how many users will pay the bill in the end.

  Now Ertian no longer expects the companies at the developer conference to make much money for Alcatel mobile phones, but instead pins his hopes on Alcatel mobile phones to develop smartphones!

In the era of smartphones, Ertian feels that the Symbian app store may bring him a surprise. After all, this is what Song Yang has been paying attention to. Since the first generation of Alcatel P1, Song Yang has let the software department To launch the Symbian application store.

In a car leading to the North Shore Manor of Long Island in Songyang, in less than two years, Jerry Levin, the president of AOL Time Warner, who looked like a teenager and his hair was completely white, looked at his hand with a tired face. newspaper on.

   When in the technology sector, seeing that the first batch of P4s, with millions of units, had all been sold out, Jerry Levin inevitably showed envy in his eyes.

Millions of phones were sold out just a few days before they went on sale, which directly allowed Alcatel to withdraw billions of dollars. The initial research and development expenses, advertising expenses, etc., were basically earned back in a wave. The machines sold in the end are basically profitable!

If AOL Time Warner had the ability to absorb money like this, Jerry Levine wouldn’t have to worry so much, let alone making so much money, he would be thankful for being able to make less losses. Every Sunday, he would take the whole family to Go to church and be a devout believer.

Thinking of the situation of AOL Time Warner, Jerry Levine was in no mood to read the newspaper anymore. Although he kicked Case out of AOL Time Warner, it did not change the situation of Time Warner at all. Now Jerry Levine wants to Throw away the AOL brand, I feel bad when I see the word AOL!

  Last year, AOL Time Warner suffered a huge loss of 98.7 billion US dollars. Of course, most of it was caused by goodwill and stock price, but if it can lose so much in a year, it still can't wipe out the entire Wall Street.

   You know, it is not so easy to lose so much. Even if you lose money, it has to go through a process.

But AOL Time Warner has achieved this. Fortunately, AOL’s finances were not reviewed by Arthur Andersen. Otherwise, today, Jerry Levin doubted whether he would accompany the former president of WorldCom, Bernard Ebbes went to step on the sewing machine.

  Affected by Enron and WorldCom, Arthur Andersen has declared bankruptcy and closed down, and several executives have been sent to federal prisons. The world's top five accounting firms have now become the top four...

Compared with Arthur Andersen, Enron, WorldCom, etc., AOL Time Warner is considered lucky, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot escape. Now AOL is also in a financial fraud lawsuit, so there is no need to worry about bankruptcy. Those who lack good things, although they do not make money, will still lose money year-round, but there is no need to worry about bankruptcy.

Being unable to go bankrupt does not mean not losing money. If a settlement can be reached in the end for this financial fraud, AOL Time Warner will have to spend at least more than three billion US dollars. Gotta go to a federal prison to experience life!

Time Warner, which was already losing money and making a lot of money, will probably be out of breath in a short period of time after losing the cash. Jerry Levine also knows that if nothing happens, this is the last time he will be blamed in Time Warner. After the financial fraud lawsuit is over, he will be kicked out of the house with his infamy on his back.

Today, Jerry Levine came here at the invitation of Song Yang. He didn't know what Song Yang was going to do when he invited him this time. To be honest, now that Jerry Levine sees people playing on the Internet, his heart is terrified. It was the scumbag of AOL founder Keith, who hurt him too deeply.

It was in vain for Jerry Levin to trust Case so much and take all his bragging as truth. In the end, what the **** did he do with the finances and cheat him before leaving? , Withdrew from AOL Time Warner Associates, Jerry Levine must let him know his methods, let him see, how many eyes does Prince Ma have!

   As for Song Yang, who is going to meet today, although he is much younger than Keith, Jerry Levin feels that Song Yang's morality is probably much deeper than that of Keith.

As for rejecting Song Yang's invitation, Jerry Levin hadn't thought about it yet. He refused. Did AOL Time Warner refuse? up!

In the manor on the North Shore of Long Island, when Ted Sarando entered, he saw that there were already many people sitting inside. ICQ President Irene, America Telecom President Iger, Greck, Marcus and others were all there. He is Song Yang's absolute confidant.

   Seeing these people present, Ted Sarando had a clear understanding of his position on Song Yang's side. Obviously Song Yang really regarded him as "one of his own".

  Seeing Ted Sarando, Song Yang waved to him casually, told him to sit down, and continued to talk with Greg and Irene.

   And the first sentence Ted Sarando heard made him startled.

   "Paulson released the news that the Federal Bankruptcy Court is going to restructure WorldCom. This is an opportunity for American Telecom..."

   Sorry, the update is a bit out of time these two days, I adjusted it, sorry everyone ()

  (end of this chapter)