Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Boss Tang is not arrogant, he is really rich now, not the paper wealth like bubbles blown out by stocks.

With the help of Tang Huan, the adjustment of Christina's family capital structure has achieved initial results, and she is trying to build a new consortium center in Paris.

As for the San Francisco-Los Angeles, Silicon Valley-Hollywood, technology-entertainment industry structure that Tang Huan operates in California, it has already taken shape and is beginning to emerge.

This is the macro aspect, and the changes in the micro aspect are even more different every day.

Let’s take Tang Huan’s personal income as an example. In addition to dividends from shares, salary from positions, and copyrights of works, etc., Tang Huan is even more and more afraid of the scale of profits from speculative operations in the capital market. .

As this profit-making model gradually formed a system, the information collected by his subordinates was compared with the memories of hundreds of elites in Tang Huan's mind, coupled with professional capital operations, the result of every speculation was a big profit.

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Tang Huan didn't want to attract attention, so he had to control the scale of speculation, and spread out this part of assets, throwing them into money-losing departments such as football teams and TV stations, or traditional industries managed by his own women.

With such confidence, Tang Huan is now a well-known venture capitalist and angel investor in Silicon Valley.

Now that he has taken a fancy to the prototype of Jamina's multimedia platform, Atari will not be allowed to make trouble, and throwing money is the most powerful way to fight back.

According to Tang Huan's idea, the Jamina team should be circled and cultivated first, and when the sensitive time limit for peer competition avoidance is almost over, they will be pulled over and assimilated.

Compared to eliminating a future market competitor. It can also strengthen the results of its own technical strength. It's nothing to waste some money in front of you.

After all. Recasa, who belongs to Atari, is just a wage earner for Warner and its owner, Steve Ross. If he really wants to become rich, how can he be as confident as a big boss like Tang Huan, and he is destined to be Use the big to bully the small to retreat in despair.

In fact, although Atari was taken away by Tang Huan's EA as the leader, its second place in the market position still allowed it to make a lot of money. Won the favor and value of Warner.

This is due to Tang Huan's out-of-the-box intervention, not relying entirely on plundering to squeeze Atari's space, but expanding the space of the entire video game industry.

For example, more than half a month after was released,

Its electronic game derivative 007 was also officially released by ea, and the response from dealers and users was very enthusiastic. And up.

After Raiders of the Lost Ark took the No. 1 box office in its first weekend, Superman 2 and took the spotlight in the middle. By the fourth weekend of July 5, Raiders of the Lost Ark took the No. 1 spot at the box office again. And it's still a jaw-dropping $10 million.

What this phenomenon means, even a layman can figure it out. The commercial performance of Raiders of the Lost Ark is going to be a mess, and it will continue to be released in movie theaters until it squeezes out all the value.

With EA's successful example of operating the 007 video game, and the Raiders of the Lost Ark being so beautiful, Atari began to talk about licensing.

Paramount, the issuer of the identity, did not have the advantage of being close to the water, and benefited Sega in this respect, but handed it over to Atari.

It has to be said that Paramount's boss, Charles Bludorn, did not manage to integrate the company's resources under his own name to take advantage of the advantage of one plus one greater than two. In the face of this rare video game market, Many opportunities were missed.

With the leadership of industry leaders EA and Atari, everyone seems to see the infinitely bright prospects for the combined development of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, entertainment and technology, and the restlessness of capital is becoming more and more irresistible.

Regarding this kind of madness, Tang Huan could only smile wryly. Strictly speaking, he also played a role in fueling the flames.

This is the general trend, and the individual is extremely insignificant in front of it.

But Atari, which is also the top existence in the industry, either followed ea's buttocks, or jumped in front of ea and robbed the house. Its performance really disappointed Tang Huan.

Don't you realize that the market develops in a disorderly way, without a check and balance mechanism, everyone will die together, and it still looks so dead.

If EA falls into a trough, I still have the mature and stable Zheru and Fangyuan Computer, and you are just a bargaining chip at Atari, just relying on burning money to open factories and R\u0026D centers in Silicon Valley, and the little qualifications you have set foot in the field of personal computers. Unable to continue standing.

In Tang Huan's view, Atari and ea are fighting back in the market, and they also have to cooperate tacitly to crack down on speculators who break into this industry, and upgrading the existing hardware platform is one of them, so that more customers can get A better gaming experience, thus dislike those crudely made things.

But what Atari is doing now does not have the awareness of the industry leader at all. Like other followers, it is expanding wildly while staring at EA and wondering how to get money.

In order to improve the ability to resist risks against the future industry depression, Tang Huan ordered ea to increase resources to develop the personal computer platform in addition to home consoles, arcade machines, and handheld platforms. In fact, it only includes Apple computers and Fangyuan computers. Some projects were outsourced to software developers for both hardware platforms.

The biggest beneficiary of this initiative is undoubtedly Apple Computer, because the basic model of the second-generation Fangyuan computer with a memory capacity of 64kb has basically no room to continue after the price is reduced to about 3,000 US dollars.

We can only continue to approach the low-end market after the authorization of compatible machines is released and the cost of common parts comes down.

Obviously, no one will spend $3,000 to buy a second-generation Fangyuan computer that focuses on commercial use to play games. Apps are currently the most suitable hardware platform.

Thanks to so much help from Tang Huan, Apple has now become the focus of IBM's fire, and the two are fighting to the death.

In particular, Jobs opened up his ridicule skills. Pull the hatred firmly. Often stimulates Don Estridge to pinch him in the air.

Now is the time for the media to report on the dynamics of the PC industry. Photos of Jobs and Don Estridge are often listed together, as if these two are the absolute protagonists of this personal computer war.

It was in this situation that the media unintentionally missed out that the monthly shipment of the second-generation Fangyuan computer exceeded 10,000 units at an astonishing rate.

At present, the front desks of many hotels in North America are equipped with second-generation Fangyuan computers, printers, card readers, digital fax machines and other equipment. This is the most representative application field of Fangyuan computers.

The second-generation Fangyuan computers connected together through Ethernet have further aroused the interest of large companies and institutions.

After a period of time, after the Yipeng r workstation and server are launched, the second-generation Fangyuan computer will have its own backend server, and its application field will undoubtedly expand further.

As the saying goes, plant a sycamore tree. Attracting the golden phoenix, it is getting easier for Tang Huan to scout senior talents now.

For example, Louis Vincent Gerstner, the president of IBM in the 1990s who created the miracle of making elephants dance, defected here.

Born in 1942, Gerstner has a remarkable professional resume. After obtaining an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1965, he directly entered McKinsey Management Consulting Company.

This company is very famous, and the companies under Tang Huan's name have hired their consultants to provide services.

Gerstner stayed at McKinsey for 13 years and became the youngest partner at McKinsey at the age of 28. At the age of 33, he became the youngest director of McKinsey.

By 1978, Gerstner was hired by McKinsey's client, American Express. Please go to serve as executive vice president.

The current president and CEO of American Express is James Robinson III. This person often made a promise to his subordinates that you take my seat. As a result, he himself worked from 1977 to 1993 in the original time and space.

In the 1980s, American Express's credit card business developed very successfully, and it was also actively expanding its investment banking business.

Just this year, American Express spent US$9.3 billion to buy Hillson LeBrodis, the second largest securities firm in the United States after Merrill Lynch.

The president of this company, Sanford Will, also got the promise of passing on the throne from James Robinson III, but in the original time and space, after the man found that he had no such hope, he patted his ass and left in 1983 up.

In fact, this is the tricks and transactions played in the mall, and it is impossible to talk about who is right and who is wrong.

Anyway, during the tenure of James Robinson III, American Express had a good momentum of development. Otherwise, Tang Huan would not have purchased shares of American Express through Shennong Fund, cutting off the stock god Buffett.

After Gerstner found out that Sanfordville had also received the transition promise from James Robinson III, one can imagine the loss in his heart.

In the original time and space, this workaholic endured until the end of the 1980s. Although the position has been improved, it has reached the ceiling.

In this time and space, through the Shennong Foundation, Tang Huan could naturally understand the big move of American Express, so he asked the headhunting company he cooperated with to try to contact him, so he hooked up the other party.

Needless to say, Tang Huan likes to appoint celebrities from the original time and space, and the bigger the better, because it is easy to do so, and the other party's temperament, temper, ability, integrity, etc. are obviously traceable.

For example, Simeone, Chambers, and Hawkins recruited by Tang Huan to Silicon Valley are now multimillionaires on paper, but the three are still working hard like old scalpers, and Gerstner also belongs to this group. This type of good subordinate.

Another point to mention is that Hawkins, who is in charge of EA's daily affairs, is a relatively late follower of Tang Huan, but the wealth he obtained has surpassed the former two.

Regarding this kind of unfairness, Tang Huan directly spoke up, Don't worry about the temporary allocation, the next target for listing is Fangyuan Computer, and everyone can share the fruit again by then.

And the next situation was what Tang Huan hoped to see. These people didn't have any grievances, and they still cooperated seamlessly, which is really commendable.

Tang Huan has always liked Gerstner because he came from a poor background with a simple background, and his tough work style is what Tang Huan's senior team needs.

In other words, with the increasing expansion of the Silicon Valley industry, Tang Huan increasingly needs a black-faced iron-blooded prime minister who can deal with some jobs that he is concerned about the image of a leader with a strong hand, and it is not easy to directly give instructions.

In addition, in terms of business division, the arrival of Gerstner can be called a timely rain.

With the gradual increase of various information management systems developed around the database ebase, Zheru has penetrated deeper and deeper into the field of erp applications, and the business knowledge required for it in finance, management, etc. is also separated from Zheru's technology Old business.

In particular, the scale of this department has expanded too fast, to the extent that it cannot be ignored. Tang Huan has even intentionally set up an ERP company similar to Germany's SAP.

Gerstner, who has 13 years of working experience in McKinsey and 3 years in American Express, just meets the standard in Tang Huan's mind.

Of course, Tang Huan also has a bad taste that cannot be announced. If he can follow the historical development track and export Gerstner to IBM in the future, he will definitely have a lot of fun.

Based on these reasons, Tang Huan showed great enthusiasm for Gerstner's arrival. He took Gerstner to visit, hold meetings, watch games, and even play golf for several days in order to actively interact with him on different occasions and deepen mutual friendship. understanding.

After the communication came to an end, Tang Huan asked Gerstner to serve as the vice president, temporarily managing the erp department and being responsible for the discipline supervision of the entire consortium.

It goes without saying that Tang Huan will look at Gerstner's specific work performance before deciding how to add more responsibilities to him.

During this period, Jodie Foster took the initiative to come to the door.

Seeing the other party wearing big sunglasses and walking cautiously, Tang Huan couldn't help laughing, You have dropped out of school, and now there are still paparazzi chasing you?

If only I could get rid of these troubles so easily, I can't be quiet at home. Jodie Foster sighed melancholy, I heard that you are in San Francisco, so I came here to borrow you, Mr. Boss light, take a break.

Didn't you work in France before? Why don't you go to Europe to avoid the limelight? Tang Huan asked sympathetically. (to be continued...)

Chapter 0328 Gerstner's magic:

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