Rebirth of the Tech Madman

In fact, Tang Huan did not fool Grove in order to put pressure on Grove. He was indeed in contact with Motorola at the same time, and he also used the foresight of the reborn to contact the third generation of the Galvin family, namely Christopher Galvin. You know, Motorola at this stage is still in the Galvin dynasty.

The earliest history of Motorola can be traced back to Galvin Manufacturing Company, which produced batteries in 1928. After launching the car radio, the founder, Paul Galvin, combined the in and the suffix ola to create Today's brand .

The reason why this suffix was singled out was because it was popular at the time. Some companies that produced gramophones, radios and other audio equipment in the early 20th century liked to use the suffix -ola. The most famous of them was the old gramophone. .

Paul Galvin, who had grown up from various previous business setbacks, basically entered the fast lane of smooth sailing in his career development after founding Motorola. However, in 1942, a robber broke into a house and killed him. His wife's accident still brought great trauma to his personal life.

At this time, Paul Galvin's only son, Bob Galvin, had entered Motorola to work.

Speaking of which, Paul Galvin spent all his efforts on cultivating his successors. Bob Galvin was often brought by his side from an early age in order to get in touch with the environment of business management. Under the influence of ears and eyes. Bob Galvin lived up to expectations, performed well, and was gradually promoted to Motorola's deputy general manager and even general manager.

In 1959, only 64-year-old Paul Galvin died of illness. Bob Galvin successfully took control of Motorola and has continued until now, which is the second generation of the Galvin dynasty.

Under the leadership of Paul Galvin, Motorola's brilliance and performance are countless, and in terms of quality control. Created the famous process improvement system.

According to the development of the historical track, Motorola will shine brightly in the field of communications, but it has also stumbled in aspects such as the Iridium project.

And Paul? Galvin's successor is his son Christopher? Galvin, but because of his opposition to the divestiture of the semiconductor business. Under the pressure of shareholders, he announced his resignation in 2003, and the Galvin dynasty ended in the third generation.

As for Motorola, it has carried out a series of asset restructuring.

First of all, in 1999, it split the semiconductor component department in its semiconductor business and became r, namely ON Semiconductor, and went public in 2000.

In 2003, when Christopher Galvin announced his resignation, Motorola paid $200 million,

Completely spin off the semiconductor business. Integrate into a company called Freescale, and went public in 2004.

In 2011, Motorola split its business. Eventually became s, Motorola Systems and Motorola Mobility, two listed companies.

In fact, the former is considered to have inherited the mantle of the old Motorola, while the latter was spun off because of the heavy losses in the mobile device sector. In 2012, it was acquired by Google at a cost of US$12.5 billion.

Waiting for Google to get his wish and obtain Motorola Mobility's 17,000 patents worldwide. After ensuring that its Android could deal with the patent siege of companies such as Apple with peace of mind, it sold its set-top box business to a cable TV equipment manufacturer group for US$2.35 billion. The remainder of Motorola Mobility was eventually acquired by Lenovo for $2.9 billion.

On the face of it. The final outcome of Motorola seems to be a dismantling, selling and selling, but in fact, Americans are not so stupid, and only some of its departments are separated. The strength of S is still not to be underestimated. Just getting what you need is enough.

In any case, although Paul Galvin passed on his wealth to his descendants, the business empire he built—Motorola—has already fallen to his family.

Fortunately, in this time and space, these changes have not yet occurred. Motorola is in the second generation of the Galvin Dynasty. Tang Huan's information asymmetry advantage is still valid, and he will contact the future third-generation successor Christopher Galvin. , also has an extraordinary meaning as usual.

Although he will be the leader in the future, it is impossible for Christopher Galvin to hold a high position directly. He still has to start from the grassroots step by step and work hard. The training process can be described as very strict.

As early as in college, Christopher Galvin worked part-time at Motorola. After graduation, he started to work full-time at Motorola in 1973, starting as a salesperson at the grassroots level and currently working as a sales and marketing manager.

In the original time and space, Christopher Galvin began to enter Motorola's top management in 1983. As for sitting on the throne of Motorola's chairman and CEO, he would have to wait until 1997.

Tang Huan's method of contacting Christopher Galvin was simple, rude and without technical content. After getting the phone number from the other party's office, he called directly to ask, EA wanted to purchase 50,000 CPUs, how would Motorola quote?

The prince also needs real and reliable performance to establish his prestige, and he just successfully developed it last year, which is in the initial stage of expanding the market. Tang Huan's order is like sending pillows when he is dozing off. Christopher? Immediately, Erwin voluntarily asked for a visit and a detailed interview.

After Christopher Galvin finished his homework and got to know the information of this big client in detail, he couldn't help being pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect to meet a big fish.

Now EA sells more than 400,000 Xiaobawang game consoles in the North American market every month. It is said that at least two game consoles are used in each game console. This kind of CPU is a low-cost processor developed by engineers who left the Motorola project team. device.

It seems that EA is going to launch a new product, abandoning the basic one, and looking at the latest and more powerful one. Christopher Galvin finally came up with this inference.

So, after meeting with Tang Huan, Christopher Galvin tried it out. Although the answer Tang Huan gave was vague, he was even more pleasantly surprised. It is not only the next-generation Xiaobawang game console, but also other games. product.

During the conversation, Tang Huan was also carefully observing Christopher Galvin, who was just 30 years old. He said that three generations of aristocrats, the other party obviously has this inherent advantage, even if the two are bargaining vulgarly, Chris TOEFL? Galvin can also show a strong sense of modern entrepreneurial ethics and classical gentleman-like modesty.

Tang Huan can also show off the elite style, and the conversation between the two has laid the foundation for harmony from the very beginning.

At this time, Motorola did not have large-scale typical application examples such as Apple computers, HP printers, game consoles, etc., and the considerable number of orders from EA undoubtedly sang praises to the future of China.

Tang Huan still has great expectations for Motorola. He hopes that Motorola can make it support the virtual memory feature as soon as possible, so that Zheru can provide multitasking functions at the operating system level.

Although Christopher Galvin didn't understand the obscure technology, it didn't prevent him from carefully recording. The effect of the Galvin family's cultivation of heirs can be seen. Xiangjiang's family inheritance is obviously inferior to others, at least there is no Dandy habits.

Of course, Tang Huan also proposed a request for a second manufacturer. This concept has been proposed for many years by the U.S. Department of Defense, which purchases a large number of high-tech products. Motorola, which has benefited from military orders, is naturally familiar with this mechanism. Christopher Galvin, who was born in sales, was far from knowing that Tang Huan, a high-tech cheater, had the ability to tell the truth from a leaf, so he immediately agreed that he would seriously discuss this issue after returning home.

In the original time and space, with the improvement of the production process, the running speed of the series cpu has been increased again and again. In 1985, it was designed by Hitachi, and Motorola jointly launched it with the technology, and the frequency reached 20mhz.

Therefore, throughout the 1980s, those with excellent performance had a long life, and Apple's sh proved this point.

Therefore, Tang Huan was very sincere in his cooperation. Apart from negotiations, he not only accompanied Christopher Galvin, a well-known elite, to taste red wine and play golf, but also took him to visit Shennong Fund, Zhe Ru and ea even let him take a look at the prototype in the 386 plan, which can be said to have achieved the ultimate in public relations.

With the deepening of understanding, Christopher Galvin became more and more aware of the value of Tang Huan. If he really only made a one-shot deal, he would not be worthy of taking charge of Motorola in the future. They also actively responded to the kindness, and they became a pair of good friends, and Tang Huan also inquired some information about Motorola's communication industry from the other party. (to be continued)

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