Fight to the third generation

He was wondering, scratching his head and said:

"It's weird, maybe I parked at the wrong place? No, besides the passenger terminal, there seems to be only this cruise terminal on the Kai Tak Cyberport side."

Helping Vice President Xie carry his bag, the male assistant who came with him said at this moment:

"Could it be that we came early? Since Mr. Su told you to come back in an hour and a half, it should mean that it will take some time on the way. Otherwise, I'll ask someone?"

"I don't need it for the time being. I guess it's really early. Maybe the boss just happened to be on a boat tonight and went for a drive somewhere."

Vice President Xie just finished speaking.

His assistant looked envious and said with a smile: "Boss Su's super yacht is worth billions of dollars. I don't know if I can be lucky enough to visit it. If I can take a photo, I can blow it up until next year's New Year. Envy me."

"That big ship in the newspaper...not to mention you, I have never been on it. I have only been in the company for half a year, and I haven't even had a chance to meet the big boss. Mr. Wang arranged for me to come here this time. On the one hand, he was afraid of being scolded. On the one hand, he also wants me to take the opportunity to communicate with the big boss, as expected, he is a stepmother who will remember me when encountering hard work."

Vice President Xie was half-joking and half-serious, paused for a few seconds, and then added: "It's amazing when you think about it, our company is not small, and the big boss rarely asks him personally, and he hasn't seen him in the company for half a year. He is really trusting of us."

Two big men stood on the empty pier, what else could they do without talking.

His assistant thought for a moment, and spoke the truth:

"The scale of Black Diamond Mobile is not bad, but Mr. Su has a lot of business. To be honest, can our company rank among the top five in all the industries he is involved in?"

This is a good question.

It is a well-known fact that there are emoji and Google in the United States, and it is often used by the mainland media to catch people's attention.

There are also real estate and 5S asset management in the mainland, etc., not to mention Qianxin International, which has spent a lot of money, and even the performance of the company's next-door Yellow Diamond Computer is a bit higher than that of Black Diamond Mobile.

From this point of view, Vice President Xie immediately came to a conclusion - he really didn't make the top five.

This is not to say that the black diamond mobile phone is not good. Last year, the total sales reached more than 100 billion, and the performance in the mainland market was quite good. The overseas business scale also exceeded 20 billion yuan. The main reason is that the business of the Su family is too exaggerated.

Although Su Yehao's business is relatively fragmented, it is not managed as a group parent company like other enterprises.

However, executives like Vice President Xie know that Su Yehao has a family office under him, and hundreds of people upload and issue, and the efficiency is much higher than that of a group enterprise.

Not being asked by Su Yehao personally seems to be a good thing. This shows that the company's development is fine and there is no need to intervene...

Vice President Xie and the others were blowing the sea breeze and admiring the night view on both sides of Victoria Harbour. Time passed very quickly.

This is only 2004.

Even if you stand on the viewing platform beside the Huangpu River, you can't see the bustling urban landscape like Hong Kong City. Therefore, mainland tourists often feel very shocked after visiting.

It’s true that the night view of Victoria Harbor is beautiful, but compared with the shock brought by the super yacht SU·(ω·)丿” approaching, even the high-rise buildings on both sides of the strait are inferior.

High-rise buildings are regarded as assets, which can make money and increase in value.

A super yacht over 100 meters is a proper consumer product, and the two are different things.

There are a lot of rich people and enterprises with high-rise buildings under their banners, and there are not many big toys like SU·(ω·)丿” in the world.

Even the thought of Su Yehao throwing billions of RMB out just for the usual comfort and enjoyment made Vice President Xie and his secretary sigh from the bottom of their hearts, and they didn't even have too many thoughts of envy and jealousy. The gap is too great.

When the yacht slowly docked, Su Yehao got off the boat directly.

After asking, he found out that the person in front of him was Vice President Xie, he greeted and said with a smile: "Come on, go to the shopping mall and have a cup of milk tea, let's forget about coffee or something. At this point in time, I have dinner with my family."

Of course, Vice President Xie had no objection, with a bright smile on his face, he replied, "No problem, I will follow your arrangement."

"There is no need to be polite. You are the seniors. I still have a lot to learn."

Su Yehao said modestly, and asked him directly: "Are you here to report to work today? I haven't heard of any problems with Black Diamond Mobile. Could it be that a subsidiary established in cooperation with Apple in the United States has trouble?"

"No, no, Mr. Su misunderstood. The cooperation with Apple has just started. It is mainly the work in the laboratory, and the progress is relatively smooth. The reason why I came here is because the first quarter performance did not meet the standard, and the promotional discount of PHS The number of users has exceeded 600 million, covering more than 31 cities in 300 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions across the country, and even first-tier cities have fallen.”

Vice President Xie sighed, with a melancholy expression, and continued:

"PHS's technology is very unreliable. Even if you drive a little faster, it will affect the quality of the call, let alone live in the suburbs or in the countryside. But he can't stand it. It's cheap, one by one, the main purpose is to benefit, say that the radiation is small, cheating It’s just to deceive people who don’t understand these things, and the radiation from mobile phones is not high.”

heard.

Su Yehao suddenly realized.

The so-called PHS is a high-power cordless phone that looks like a mobile phone, but uses the same line as a landline.

He couldn't help laughing, and told:

"I thought it was inconvenient to mention it on the phone when I was in trouble. It turned out to be just because of this. Since around 2000, I have been following the development of PHS. This thing is relatively backward in technology and continues to burn money to expand , When this gust of wind passes, it will be swept into the trash can soon, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.”

Unexpectedly, Su Yehao was so calm, Vice President Xie immediately put his heart back into his stomach, and said:

"Forging iron requires hard work. PHS does not have much technology. It just has identified the market positioning and attracted a large number of customers who do not have strong spending power. As long as they have used PHS and our Black Diamond mobile phones, most of them said that Our product is better."

"Well, compared with PHS, it's just a waste of time to focus on it. You just need to get rid of competitors from Japan, South Korea and the United States, and seize the time to accumulate experience and launch better products."

Su Yehao himself is also using the Black Diamond mobile phone, and he feels that there is not much problem.

Regardless of Nokia starting to launch some fancy functions, such as surfing the Internet, sending and receiving emails, etc., when Apple Smart’s new products are launched and have the effect of dimensionality reduction, Nokia should also be thrown directly into the trash like PHS.

This has led to the current competition for mobile phone brands. In Su Yehao's eyes, it feels like children fighting. It is really boring, which prompted him to reduce his attention to the Black Diamond mobile phone.

I heard Vice President Xie mention PHS.

Su Yehao suddenly remembered that it had already been listed on Nasdaq in the United States, and Masayoshi Son of Softbank of Japan was one of its major shareholders.

PHS is able to have the current market size, mainly relying on telecommunications to spend a lot of money to invest in infrastructure, and at the same time enjoy subsidies, which is equivalent to eating dividends, and successfully stood on the cusp of the times.

Now that the wind is about to stop, 3G technology is beginning to mature, and mobile phone bills are beginning to decline. As people's income increases, mobile phones are no longer considered a luxury, and the growth rate of PHS is expected to slow down.

Su Yehao secretly stamped this matter.

I want to take some time to find out, and see if I can earn some pocket money to subsidize the research and development expenses of the Black Diamond mobile phone through short selling...

Chapter 945

As a competitor, Su Yehao of course needs to understand PHS.

This thing, to put it bluntly, is a landline phone without a cord. The difference is nothing more than a phone line or a cellular base station.

In addition to poor signal and small coverage, the only advantage is probably that the phone bill is cheap and the cost of entry is relatively low.

But its technology itself has many flaws. Even if it is standing indoors, through a thin layer of glass, it will obviously affect the quality of the call. Technology, the disadvantages are too obvious.

Therefore, the outside world also made up a lot of jingles.

For example, "holding a PHS, standing in the wind and rain, switching left hand to right hand, just can't get through", "wrong grass" and so on.

The so-called crooked grass.

It refers to "crooked? Crooked? Grass!", easy to understand, penetrating three points.

Standing beside Su Yehao, even the super yacht seemed to be eclipsed in an instant.

Because such a big toy, with Su Yehao's total net worth, can already buy more than 100, and the cost of mass production is relatively low, maybe [-] can be assembled.

Vice President Xie only felt a sense of oppression. Although he looked like a young and handsome guy on the surface, his immediate boss possessed amazing resources.

You must know that last year Pengcheng's GDP was only about 3000 billion yuan, which was almost only [-]% to [-]% of Su Yehao's net worth.

Ordinary people may watch the fun and have fun, and a few words of ridicule will pass.

However, the more you are a businessman, the more you can feel the horror of Su Yehao. The world is full of legends about him, making him seem unattainable and extravagant.

No matter from which point of view, Su Yehao has almost reached the extreme that a businessman can achieve. He even bought one-third of the Three Gorges Dam. Son", he can earn money even for food and water.

This is indeed the case.

Nongfu Sanquan, which sells water, has a particularly good sales volume. It has begun to develop into other beverage industries, acquiring several companies one after another, and many capitals are scrambling to inject capital into it.

Since the beginning of this year, there have even been rumors that Su Yehao wants to use it to swallow the elephant and eat the Baodao Want Want Group. This company had a total revenue of 30 billion yuan last year and has been listed on the Singapore Exchange. The total market value is about 70 billion Hong Kong dollars.

He did not personally intervene in this acquisition.

In February of this year, someone in the assistant office submitted a document proposing to acquire Want Want Holdings. Su Yehao only expressed his approval and asked Linda Yun to go out and buy some snow cakes, senbei, and Wangzai milk. Suddenly he was a little greedy.

If he does everything by himself, his private life time will be squeezed out.

Occasionally look at the documents, just keep a close eye on them. The family office has been developing for several years, and whether it is the management department, decision-making department or supervision department, it has been relatively complete.

His business is mainly based on new companies, and he does not have the corporate disease of so many big companies for the time being.

Coupled with two or three times a year, the almost normalized investigation and rectification work, coupled with a sound internal risk control and reporting system, has already sent many middle and high-level managers who have gone too far into jail. It is difficult to completely avoid this kind of thing... …

Continue at Kai Tak Cruise Terminal and walk towards Kai Tak Cosmopolitan Shopping Center.

At this moment, Su Yehao put his hands behind his back and said in his mouth:

"I remember that a few years ago, China Mobile and China Telecom separated. China Mobile got the mobile communication business and developed very well. However, China Telecom could only do nothing in the fixed-line field, so it was forced to find a way to develop PHS, bypassing the Restrictions on wireless communication license."

"Currently, Telecom also has a license, but in PHS infrastructure, so much money has already been invested, and the construction is basically completed. So I guess they will take advantage of the opportunity to make money for another year or two, and recover the investment with interest, and then they will take advantage of the transition. to normal 2G and 3G communication services."

"PHS users are mainly those who have never used a mobile phone. When they gradually discover the obvious disadvantages and their income continues to increase, it will be a matter of time before they choose to buy a mobile phone. This is tantamount to helping us cultivate potential consumption Or, the Black Diamond phone can continue to try to fight the price war, it is necessary to ensure the product quality..."

Vice President Xie dared to interrupt when the big boss was talking.

It wasn't until Su Yehao finished speaking that Vice President Xie tentatively asked:

"Should we continue to push down the price? In this way, our company will really have no profit. We can only launch contract phones through cooperation with communication operators. The R&D investment is so high that it is likely to lose money on the books."

Su Yehao shook his head and said:

"I mean launching a low-end mobile phone that doesn't need fancy full keyboards, sliders, and clamshells. It's durable and can make calls and send messages, which further lowers the threshold. Other brands try to ensure high income, and I have no plans to make money through black diamond mobile phones for the time being, just like you think that PHS is a transitional product, and in my opinion, the current mobile phones are the same, and will be thrown into the trash bin sooner or later in a few years."

Vice President Xie graduated from the University of London Business School.

As a representative, he also discussed with Apple's representative team about the issue of cooperative R&D laboratories.

It's just that Su Yehao's assistant office directly assigned a team to be responsible for the management of the R&D laboratory, which had little to do with Black Diamond.

Considering that the future market will definitely not only have the Apple operating system, Su Yehao deliberately separated the black diamond mobile phone from the Apple Smart Company, so that he would have the opportunity to bet on both sides in the future to avoid hanging on the same tree.

Vice President Xie more or less understood what kind of product Su Yehao wanted.

In his opinion, if a handheld computer with mature functions is really developed, all mobile phones on the market today can indeed be thrown into the trash can, and he echoed with a smile:

"Nokia's Symbian operating system is equivalent to changing the soup without changing the medicine. It is far from President Su's idea...perfect. I heard that the new microprocessor is particularly powerful, and there are also breakthroughs in LCD screens and batteries. An expert in the operating system, if you integrate all these together, you will definitely be able to make an amazing product.”

Su Yehao heard too much rainbow fart, and walked forward and said:

"The current promotion of cost-effective mobile phones is just to let customers understand our products and increase our market share as much as possible. Even if we only retain a part of customers in the future, it will be enough for us to win the opportunity. That is the real good business. Company The money has to be invested in research and development, talents, and assembly and production technology. I need a super factory with strong overall production capacity. Next, I will probably let you cooperate with Yellow Diamond Computer to separate the production link from the R&D management. , when you place an order, the factory will be responsible for overall procurement and centralized production, which will be more efficient.”

In the future, someone will even dare to openly say that he is giving food to the mainland, and his confidence comes from the huge number of jobs he has provided.

I have seen how shameless Lao Mei is in the later generations, violating the rules, overturning the entire table, and doing everything in order to suppress competitors.

This impression has already broken Su Yehao's trust in the global division of labor and cooperation model.

He is more inclined to build the entire industry chain in advance, and at least some of the core links must be firmly in his own hands.

Since there is still time, sufficient funds and resources, you might as well try to smash the job of a certain Shikang, and by the way, ensure the safety of the supply chain and enhance your own influence.

Vice President Xie didn't know what Su Yehao was thinking, he just thought it was to reduce costs, so he asked about the follow-up research and development of the black diamond mobile phone, what should be done.

What else can I do, just change the soup every time without changing the medicine, and let people find that there is progress.

Just a few years after the rise of the fool phone, it quickly became a sunset industry. Black diamond mobile phones have no way to make money through brand premiums that have a wide influence like Nokia and Motorola.

In addition, some of the profits were shared by suppliers such as Qualcomm and Sharp, which prompted Su Yehao to break the can, just to balance the income and expenditure, and try to improve the brand image and market share first, which is tantamount to losing money Earn a shout...

Chapter 946 Supervisory Committee

Come to the mall.

Su Yehao took out the money and invited Vice President Xie to have a cup of stocking milk tea.

Since its opening, the business of Kai Tak Universal Shopping Center has been moderate, and there are more customers who come to eat and shop.

Brands like Hermes, Chanel, Dior, LV, and Gucci are also available in shopping malls.

Sihai International is frantically building high-end chain shopping malls in the Mainland.

None of these brands are stupid, they took the opportunity to hitch a ride into the mainland market, so they gave Father Su a lot of face, even though they thought the market was saturated before, they all agreed to come over to open stores, and it turned out that they came to the right place.

Nowadays, the average amount of money spent by locals in shopping malls has begun to be lower than that of mainland tourists.

Su Yehao indirectly helped his business attract a lot of tourists through Ganghao Tourism Group, and the tax in the port city is low, and the goods are a little cheaper. They buy things as if they don't need money.

For example, Rolex in the watch store has been out of stock for a long time, and there are cosmetic counters such as L'Oreal, Estee Lauder, and SK2. Customers often line up to check out.

I often come here to stroll around when I have nothing to do. Su Yehao is familiar with the road.

In addition, I went to the third floor and found a shop selling egg waffles. I packed two copies as a treat, and prepared to go home for Nangong Tian and Jiang Yu as supper.