Super Tycoon

Arrogance! Paul Allen slapped the table hard.

Although he left Microsoft's board of directors, he still serves as a senior consultant. He will participate in Microsoft's important decisions. After all, he is still one of the major shareholders and must protect his own interests.

Originally, he was not in a good mood this year. The basketball team he invested in was getting worse and worse. He lost money and the value of the team dropped. The football team we invested in managed to enter the Super Bowl this year, but it failed.

A girlfriend we talked about last year also broke up. Some of the companies he invested in have also been on the decline in the past two years, which made him very distressed.

In fact, Paul Allen attaches great importance to technology, and even thinks that a company's technology is more important than management, so he doesn't think much of Ballmer, thinking that this guy's technology is not good.

Even as the founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen has never been friends with Ballmer.

When I was called here today, I thought there was something good about it, but it turned out to be such bad news. What did Ballmer do to eat? He was pushed back by a young man.

Paul, don't be too angry. Bill Gates persuaded, We should think about why he dared to raise such a condition.

It is undeniable that Zhiduoxing Group is a company that has grown rapidly in recent years, and the company's sales and profits have increased year after year, and they are all under the leadership of Zhang.

At his age, with such achievements, it's normal to be proud. You say he is arrogant, but he has the capital of arrogance. As you can see from the ranking published by Forbes magazine, he has good assets and sufficient cash reserves. It’s also on the rise.”

Such a person should be the one you admire the most. I thought you could be friends.

Paul Allen snorted coldly, he wouldn't make friends with a child.

But we are Microsoft, the world's number one software company, and the world's top company. We actively ask for cooperation, and are even willing to share the equity with the other party and hand it over to the other party for management. He still wants to control the stake?!

Bill, when did Microsoft become like this? He is proud, but where is your pride?

Bill Gates is actually unhappy, but getting angry can't solve the problem. Moreover, Microsoft's mobile phone operating system has never made money, and the development cost remains high, but not many manufacturers use it, and its reputation is average, even worse than that of BlackBerry.

He also wants Microsoft's mobile phone operating system to reach the status of the C operating system,

Or the status of the server operating system, which has not improved in the past two years.

Paul, do you know that our mobile operating system is going downhill? Our instant messaging software is also going downhill. All this is because of Zhiduoxing.

In North America, ICQ was defeated by us, but there was an additional chat software called Minions. It was very smoothly promoted among young people, and it is eroding our market share.

This company belongs to Huaxia, and Zhi Duoxing is the major shareholder of that company.

Zhi Duoxing's mobile phone operating system has formed a mobile phone alliance to disclose part of the source code, so that more hardware manufacturers can make some unique changes on their platforms, thus attracting many hardware manufacturers.

They have also developed some mobile phone applications, which are very popular and have also increased the sales of Zhiduoxing's smartphones. As far as I know, Saipan also invited Zhiduoxing to take a stake in it before, but Zhiduoxing rejected it.

They developed their own system and attracted a larger camp, but now our camp is shrinking. Even our main customer, Lian Xiang, has joined the Zhiduoxing mobile phone alliance, and will launch the first mobile phone this year. A smart phone of the Zhiduoxing system.

Motorola may not want to continue to support our mobile phone operating system because of the contract restrictions with Symbian. We are fighting to give Motorola the profit.

Once the situation gets worse, then in the smart phone market, we will only have one Dopod that can be recognized as a cooperative brand. Do you know what this means?

Why do you take the initiative to cooperate with Zhiduoxing? It is because their share in the smartphone system market is gradually declining. It is easier to succeed if you cooperate with Zhiduoxing.

In fact, they also contacted BlackBerry, but they were directly rejected by the other party, without even mentioning the conditions. They also contacted Saipan, which also refused.

It just so happens that both Zhiduoxing's system and Microsoft's mobile phone operating system are at a disadvantage, and it should be easier to combine the two. Even Ballmer took the initiative to have an interview with Zhang Yang, but the result disappointed them.

Bill, even so, are our engineers not as good as Zhi Duoxing's? Our American engineers are not as good as Chinese engineers?

Zhi Duoxing's system has been developed up to now, and it must be losing money. They can afford to lose, but we can't afford it? I remember when I invested in Sega Bandai, I also objected, but you said that you don't lose money for three years. In fact We have indeed turned losses into profits, and Sega Bandai’s stock price has begun to rise, so the original investment is not a loss.”

Why are you in a hurry when you get to the smartphone operating system now? Let alone three years, so what if you lose money for five years? When we started the C operating system, we succeeded very quickly, but that was because we The system is the best. Instead of cooperating with Zhiduoxing, we should find ways to improve our system.”

As long as our system is the best, do we still have to worry about those mobile phone manufacturers not taking the initiative to come to our door? At the end of last year, the smartphone market began to grow rapidly, especially high-end smartphones, and the growth is even stronger this year.

When the industry is booming, we don't have the confidence to gain a firm foothold and expand our share? If we can bring in Motorola, we can also bring in Samsung and LG. Don't forget, they still have c. We can definitely be in those Local profit sharing, in order to promote our mobile phone system.

After consumers are accustomed to using our system, we can adjust the selling price, and we will naturally earn back. I think this is the best way for us to develop, instead of cooperating with Zhiduoxing and being ridiculed by others!

When Paul Allen said this, he gave Ballmer a blank look, and he took the initiative to come to the door and was rejected. Isn't it embarrassing for Microsoft.

Our mobile phone system is losing money, so is Zhiduoxing not losing money? They have made the source code public, and the profits they can get in the future will be even lower. This is digging their own grave!

It seems that this is the only way to go. Paul, I remember that you are friends with the CEO of Motorola, can you persuade them to only support us Microsoft and give up Symbian? If Motorola wants to surpass Nokia, it must be different from Nokia!

A light flashed in Paul Allen's eyes: I can try and ask him to have dinner with him tomorrow. This is the Bill I know, and we will never fail!

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