Chapter 62: The Media Response
It's the Christmas holidays, but there are many industries that don't have holidays, such as the news media industry. Although the tape recorder has been invented for many years, now I see that the Black Cloud Company can make the Walkman so exquisite, so convenient, and so creative at once. The main thing is that in 8 hours, a total of 400,000 units were sold worldwide. The sales amounted to $61.8 million, which is somewhat scary. After all, the dollar is quite strong in this era, and sales have reached HSBC's profit for more than half a year.
The media is all crazy about it, and the Boston Post can get first-hand information with home advantage. A lot of the data is reported through them.
The Boston Post's headline is MIT's Genius Boy Creating Glory, and it reports in detail the entire process from the establishment of the project to the production of the black cloud. Especially in this regard, Heiyun spent more than 50 million US dollars in R&D funds, entrusted two laboratories of MIT to jointly tackle key problems, and under the creativity of Bao Zixuan, he had this brilliance. This is an example of mutually beneficial cooperation between companies and universities, and only MIT has such a strong research prowess.
Black clouds have earned dollars, and MIT has not only made money, but also fame. This month's survey alone shows that MIT is home to the largest number of students who are applying or preparing to apply to MIT, leaving Harvard far behind.
The Wall Street Journal is even more optimistic about the valuation of the black cloud company, when they launched the black cloud software alone, they valued the black cloud company at 200 million US dollars, and with the completion of the first phase of the Xiangjiang factory, after the great success of the Walkman, Wall Street's valuation of the black cloud company reached 1 billion US dollars.
After all, a company that has been in business for less than half a year has surpassed many century-old enterprises, and Bao Zixuan has also become a model and model for young people all over the world.
In fact, as early as after the launch of Heiyun software, many venture capital companies had the idea of investing in Heiyun, but all of them refused on the grounds that Bao Zixuan had studied at MIT for the past two years, and was afraid that the venture capital company would be robbed of the company's management rights after entering. Everyone can also understand, after all, Bao Zixuan is still a big boy, and he is afraid that others will rob him of his big toys.
But this time, there are still a lot of limelight companies that want to invest in Heiyun Company, Bao Zixuan said to the company this time, in the future, the venture capital people will come, and all the students will be received. Then, if you don't consider a venture capital company for two years, but when you devote yourself to the company's operation after graduation, you will inspect the limelight company as soon as possible and discuss the company's valuation at the same time. Bao Zixuan can only choose to drag the word now, otherwise the energy of these people is too great, if they offend everyone, then they don't have to do it in the future, and they will be controlled everywhere.
The Los Angeles Daily interviewed John Chambers, who was on a business trip to California, after all, Hollywood is in Los Angeles. And as a pervasive media, he knew about the Walkman titanium alloy No. 002 model that Brooke Ace first got, so he asked: "What was the reason for Brooke Shields to endorse at that time, after all, there are more Hollywood stars than him!"
In fact, before this, Brooke's agent had already begun to convey how to meet on the plane, how to be optimistic about Brooke, in short, to hype up her artists, and the actor still had to increase his attention and exposure. However, this is a bitter thing for Bao Zixuan, and when he takes a plane in the future, the ground staff will reveal his seat number and sell it for money.
There was nothing in the first place, and the two of them just met on the plane, and they haven't seen each other since. But after the reporter asked this question at this time, John Chambers could only answer truthfully, after all, it is not a secret.
"It was indeed Miss Brooke who was recommended by the boss, and they did meet and met by chance on the plane from Boston to Los Angeles. It was I who suggested to the company that I should find a young and beautiful girl to shoot the advertisement. The boss only knows such a star in the United States, which is also a kind of fate! And all the requirements are indeed suitable. As for the relationship you mentioned, I don't know very well, but they haven't seen each other since that time they separated from the airport. ”
Reporter: "Then why do you give Brooke Hope such a high advertising fee? Is it that the boss of the bag is showing love to Brooke Silk?" ”
Chambers: "It's not about showing affection, it's just a simple advertising endorsement. And compared to the little money given to Miss Xiaosi, the company makes more. Miss Silly did the job well, and he deserved it!"
"Okay, don't talk about the boss's gossip, otherwise I won't have good fruit to eat when I go back to the company. ”
John Chambers's words have been misinterpreted by many Hollywood tabloids, what tech predators have to tell the story of Hollywood beauty stars, what genius teenagers date girl stars and so on, after all, they also live on these.
RB media generally believe that the launch of the Walkman by Heiyun is worthy of reflection by RB enterprises, and the rise of Heiyun in the field of small electronics will make the sales of RB brands such as Sony and Panasonic decline, which is what RB companies must reflect. At the same time, it is also necessary to increase scientific research funding, and enterprises should cooperate with universities to achieve a win-win situation. Seeing this, Bao Zixuan couldn't help but sigh, there is a long way to go, he just launched a product, RB media has a sense of crisis, remind enterprises to pay attention, it seems that RB companies are indeed difficult to deal with!
The focus of the British Times report is that after laying a good foundation in Oxford, a Xiangjiang teenager is now taking off, and has established his own factory in Xiangjiang, how much profit can be created every day, and how happy the life of Xiangjiang people is.
But the Hong Kong media is the most excited this time. After all, the success of the last black cloud software was far away from them, and the Xiangjiang company rarely used computers, but this time the Walkman had personally experienced his convenience and sense of technology. This thing is produced in Xiangjiang, when did we Xiangjiang have this ability, and we saw that there are trucks to deliver products to the airport and docks every day. Many media also went to visit the inside of Heiyun Company, although the core workshop did not enter, but saw the working environment of the Heiyun factory, the accommodation, asked about the wages of the workers, and the most important thing was to see the food in the canteen of Heiyun Company, in contrast, they ate pig food every day.
Especially when the interviewing workers knew that Heiyun's daily meals were similar to these, everyone began to feel that they were really happy to work in Heiyun.
The title of Ming Pao is used, and Xiangjiang is the most conscientious enterprise. Not only did Black Cloud introduce high wages and high benefits. It also detailed that the eating and living conditions of Heiyun Company are the best in Xiangjiang, and it will throw off the second several streets.
As a direct result of this reporting, the slightly larger factories in Xiangjiang are raising their accommodation standards and food costs. The cost of the enterprise has risen, but the labor efficiency has improved a lot, so that there are more and more imitators, and in the future, the food of the entire Xiangjiang factory can be ranked among the top in the world.
Oriental Daily reported that according to this development rate, the richest man in Xiangjiang should be replaced next year, but it doesn't matter, both of them are surnamed Bao.
The company now produces about 20,000 walkmans and about 2,000 game consoles every day. I don't know the profit of the Walkman, but it can be seen from the raw materials that the profit of each Walkman should be around $50, which is about $1 million. The profit of each game console is about $1,000, and the profit of this piece is about $2 million. Now the factory is completely owned, and the daily expenditure of workers' wages and other expenses should be about 80~1 million US dollars, and the daily income of Heiyun is about 2 million US dollars. Bao Zixuan's income is $60 million a month and $700 million a year. What a terrifying statistic, he should become the richest man in Hong Kong by the middle of next year.