Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 604 Two Alliances (Two in One)

The communication between Fang Zhuo and Stringer about the Android company was only a distance in the car, and during the afternoon tea time, although Fang Zhuo didn't want to hear it, the new head of Sony still talked about the changes in the group and his decisions .

Stringer is going to do something big.

This is a fire that he ignited externally after he took office. He wanted to communicate with Microsoft's Gates as the head of Sony, and made Sony's Blu-ray DVD the standard format of the next-generation DVD.

Microsoft, on the other hand, disagrees.

According to Stringer, Gates said he doesn't see a place for Microsoft in Sony's blueprint and will give more consideration to Toshiba's HD-DVD format.

The two haven't officially met yet, but the wooing behind the scenes has intensified. Sony is facing not only Microsoft, but also Intel, which together with Microsoft conceived the future home entertainment scene.

"The standard dispute deserves attention." Fang Zhuo is not interested in Sony's efforts on this, but it does not hinder his statement, "If necessary, Yike will also speak out in support of Sony's Blu-ray."

Yike's main business is hardly used in the DVD format. However, Yike is also a shareholder of Sony Bertelsmann, so there is no problem with unified recognition.

Stringer was quite satisfied, and Mr. Fang showed his friendship again without hesitation.

In view of this, he kindly reminded: "The competition in the mobile phone market is fierce. Fang, I can understand Yike's unwillingness to stick to his business ambitions, but you have to face many challenges."

"Step by step, if there is no problem with Sony's assessment tomorrow, Yike is willing to take an important step with Sony. I think this is an important opportunity in the mobile era." Fang Zhuo said solemnly.

Stringer was a bit disapproving: "The development of the company can't be too radical. It's true to invest in a future possibility, but you seem to be a bit too bet on it. I think you still have a lot of room for development in music."

Fang Zhuo smiled slightly: "Yike is no better than Sony, sometimes we have to make a bet."

Seeing that Fang always insisted, Stringer did not continue, and instead began to talk about PS3 with great interest, which is a game console that will be equipped with Blu-ray DVD.

The afternoon tea was generally pleasant, and the friendship between the two was consolidated again.

Although the Yike + Sony joint investment in Android that Fang Zhuo wants has not yet been implemented, he doesn't think he will receive any bad news tomorrow.

Everything is true, Samsung and Android were close to reaching an agreement at one point, Google has talked with Android twice, HTC and Android's Rubin expressed their willingness to carry the new system...

And, Yi Ke who showed great interest.

Not to mention other venture capital institutions.

So companies are interested in the Android system, why do you disagree with the assessment of the Sony team?
What's more, this investment does not require Sony to cash out.

Whether a foreign chairman pays more attention to the current report performance or the long-term interests of the company does not seem to have much room for choice. In addition, Sony Ericsson's mobile phone patent package is only authorized to a company that has never done it. Mobile phone company...

"This should not be regarded as Sony Ericsson's cultivation of competitors."

"The patent this time can be prepared in case there are problems in the future."

In the evening of the next day, when Fang Zhuo received a personal call from Stringer in the company and received a message that the answer was "yes", he gave an evaluation of Sony Ericsson's mobile phone patent licensing.

"Is the price of 1500 million yuan a bit high?" Xu Keden had a little doubt.

At present, the initial condition of Yike and Sony in this regard is that Yike will invest 3000 million US dollars in Android, half of which will be counted as the licensing fee for Sony Ericsson mobile phone patents in the next six years.

"250 a year is pretty good." Fang Zhuo thought it would be a good deal to split this number.

Regarding the reserve moat of mobile phone patents, even if Sony disagrees this time, he still has to think about finding other companies, for example, another broken company settled in Motorola.

As the former king of the mobile phone field, Motorola has quite a lot of mobile phone patents.

It is not too early for Yike to plan ahead in terms of patents.

If Fang Zhuo remembers correctly, HTC also made a small fortune with the Android system, and then missed the best development opportunity because of Apple's lawsuit against mobile phone patent infringement.

Now with the authorization from Sony Ericsson, if Apple makes similar moves in the future, Yike will not be incapable of fighting.

"Is this really pulling Sony into the gang?" Yu Hong was also a little surprised. Although logically there is nothing wrong with pulling Sony, but from her own intuition and the other party's general understanding, she thinks it will not be that simple.

"Venture capital's valuation of Android company is around 4000 million, and the investment of 3000 million US dollars is a bit too high. Rubin made it clear to me that he doesn't want to sell himself to Yike." Fang Zhuo's words gave a negative Answer.

Yu Hong thought of the previous communication with Mr. Fang, which also meant giving the Android company a high valuation. Moreover, even if Google no longer insists on a wholly-owned acquisition, it may still need an absolute holding. By then... the current two Will one of the leagues leave the field?
She didn't continue to ask, but only glanced at Mr. Fang's eyes, and felt that there was a raging flame inside.

Now that Sony has given the news, the preparations for going to San Francisco to meet with the Android company are basically completed.

Not to mention the internal planning of Yike and Sony, what Android sees will be the joint efforts of the two hardware manufacturers.

On April 4, Fang Zhuo and Xu Corden took the team to San Francisco, where there will be an agreed game between the Rockets and the Warriors.

However, even if Yike paid attention to the number of people, Rubin from Android company asked about the progress of Quora, a question-and-answer community, and he still couldn't forget his imagination.

"I met Sony's Stringer the day before yesterday, and I talked to him about it, and there is no problem." Fang Zhuo was a little helpless, "Oh yes, I also invited him to answer about the development plan for Sony after we opened the site. "

Rubin thinks that the rich are the rich, and the circle level is really different.

He smiled and asked: "Can you invite Gates to answer Microsoft's questions?"

"This..." Fang Zhuo really thought about it, and replied, "I haven't met Gates, but I can try it. There will be a Sun Valley meeting in July, and Gates seems to be coming. I can chat with him. chat."

"Do you have any good questions?" he asked.

Rubin suddenly became serious: "I have a good question about robots."

Fang Zhuo: "..."

He was silent for a few seconds, and said: "There will be many well-known people in the industry at the Sun Valley Conference. In this way, I can invite them all at that time. There is nothing more professional than this group of people."

Before this, a group of bigwigs was nothing more than forums or summits to discuss issues.

Now even if there are only a few remaining on the site, occasionally taking time out to answer a question, that will give Quora a layer of gold.

Now that it is done, Fang Zhuo is still willing to make it more interesting.

Rubin has now completely believed that the young president had plans for Quora earlier, otherwise, how could it burn as soon as it was ignited?

Still watching the game from the front row, this time Rubin was actually much more serious than last time.

Then, when he heard the investment budget from Mr. Fang, he was stunned.

3000 million dollars!
Is this an investment or an acquisition?

Speaking of investment, it’s a bit much. Android companies are now looking for funds in the range of 1000-1500 million.

Speaking of acquisitions, almost, the $4000 million in venture capital made Rubin feel a little undervalued.

With the one-sided posture on the court, both Fang Zhuo and Rubin lost interest in the game early.

When seeing Carter’s heavy buck again, Fang Zhuo also talked to Rubin about his valuation of Android: “I think the value of Android at $6000 million is very reasonable.”

Rubin was stunned again, this is definitely a valuation price beyond psychological expectations.

Since the Android company started looking for funding sources, all venture capital valuations have not exceeded 5000 million!The highest was 4500 million quoted by an east coast agency!That one has a lot of strings attached!
"The value of the company needs to be discussed with our management." Lu Bin was not knocked down by the price, and he still insisted after lamenting the lavishness of the rich in the East, "Mr. Fang, we need more than just funds..."

Fang Zhuo interrupted: "It is still a like-minded partner, a fellow who can provide future development resources, I don't think Yike is not satisfied with this."

For the sake of money, Lu Bin did not immediately refute, but still reserved his opinion and planned to raise it in the conference room.

He personally can accept Yike's valuation of Android, but he cannot accept such a huge investment by Yike.

Perhaps, as long as Yike's 1000 million US dollars and 6000 million valuations are very appropriate.

When the game was over, Rubin was more or less overwhelmed by the rich man's behavior, and hurriedly brought Yi Ke and his team to the Android company.

The office of Android Company is not big, and the layout of the conference room is a bit messy.

A total of seven people attended the meeting on the Android side, including the founder and the programmer.

Fang Zhuo talked about Yi Ke's optimism towards Android, but the group of people were indifferent.

When Fang Zhuo talked about the budget that Yike was willing to invest, this group of people just had some small discussions, giving people the feeling that it was money for the company anyway, so what does it have to do with me?
Fang Zhuo talked about Yike's mobile phone project, and talked about the products that will be equipped with the Android system. This group of people is still quite lazy.

But when the PPT of the designed full touch screen mobile phone was shown, the seven people seemed to come alive, eagerly discussing the capacitive full touch screen mobile phone.

"Full touch screen? Interesting, can it be realized?"

"Oops, no keyboard?"

"Capacitive screen? How many layers are needed to realize this? A shielding layer must be placed inside."

"This design is quite bold!"

"Full touch-screen mobile phones are interesting, and sensors are indispensable."

The seven people from the Android company enthusiastically made gestures about the touch implementation of the capacitive screen, referring to the coupling capacitance and signal processing of the mobile phone and the screen.

Although Rubin heard Fang Zhuo mention Sharp's capacitive screen last time, he was still impressed by the thin and light design this time.

They discussed for a while on their own, and then Rubin gave his opinion.

"Your design is too radical." Rubin said, "I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed."

Fang Zhuo was surprised, and several counterarguments emerged in his mind.

However, Rubin went on to say: "But it's okay if it doesn't succeed. This phone looks good. It looks like a product of the Android system. We appreciate the design of your Yike company."

Just as he was about to say the investment figures the company could accept, he chatted sideways with the two senior executives, and casually changed his previous thoughts.

It is not possible for Yike to invest 1000 million U.S. dollars. For this capacitive full touch screen mobile phone design, Yike can allow Yike to invest 1500 million U.S. dollars.

According to the valuation of 6000 million US dollars, that is, 25% of the shares.

Rubin stated the terms that were discussed.

Fang Zhuo thought that this might have to be discussed the next day, but he didn't expect to mention it soon.

He shook his head and said, "No, I can't just vote for 1500 million, or we can't just vote for 1500 million."

Lu Bin said in embarrassment: "The company has to think about the future system ecology, and cannot sell more shares."

"I'm also thinking about the ecology of the Android system." Fang Zhuo didn't mention Sony until then, "Eco can only invest 1500 million US dollars, but I communicated with Sony's Stringer, and he also recognized the future of the Android system. , is also willing to join in, the same is 1500 million, the total of the two of us is 3000 million US dollars."

Rubin and others were taken aback, and Sony?

Fang Zhuo continued: "The business ecology of the system is very important. Sony Ericsson's mobile phone market share can rank third, and it will become a very powerful hardware partner of the Android system."

In fact, Sony Ericsson ranked fourth, not much behind the third, so Fang Zhuo thought that Sony Ericsson could be third at this time.

He added: "Given the ability of Android companies to find partners, I think I can take more responsibility in this regard."

This statement is quite blunt.

Judging from Rubin's building of the Android company, his business and technical capabilities may be a little bit worse.

Therefore, Fang Zhuo is obliged.

"Mr. Fang, are you willing to come to Android to serve as..." Lu Bin thought for a while, and then discussed sideways.

Fang Zhuo now looks at this gesture and the short discussion, and feels that the progress of today's meeting is a bit too fast.

"We can give you the position of vice president." Lubin discussed the result in 30 seconds, "responsible for building a business ecosystem and finding hardware partners."

Fang Zhuo first asked: "That is to say, you agree with Yike and Sony's investment in Android?"

Lu Bin hesitated for a moment and asked, "If the investment fails, can you still be the vice president?"

Fang Zhuo was happy.

"In that case, we'll have another talk."

So dignified Sony can only invite me to be an outside director. Stringer wanted to give up the position of chairman, but I didn't accept it.

Your wishful thinking is quite loud.

At this time, Rubin remembered that the matter was of great importance, and said: "We still need to discuss and discuss. At this time tomorrow, we will continue to chat."

Fang Zhuo nodded first, then shook his head: "Yes, but our product director also wants to talk about full touch-screen phones."

The seven people from the Android company all looked at Xu Keden.

Xu Kedeng had practiced earlier, took over the topic in an orderly manner, and explained his persistence and design of the full touch screen.

The full touch screen is a radical challenge to the industry's aesthetics and user habits, but I must persist and persist.

Rubin listened but was a little distracted, thinking of the previous contact with Google.

(End of this chapter)