Chapter 429: Dale
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The vast majority of people just scoffed at this, and the few who knew the inside story were also careless, and the core personnel also threw that little worry to the San Fernando Valley after some analysis of the U.S. stock market.
Almost everyone who has heard it has scoffed at this rumor. What are Chinese you kidding, does this fool still have a pigtail-like braid tied to the back of his head?
Anyone who thinks this way is a fool who can't figure out what's going on. The performance and data of the U.S. stock market, the good can simply prosper forever.
A thriving economy is in no way threatened in any way.
As an American, that's how confident you are!
Let the Chinese who lived in the Middle Ages let the horse come, and the Wall Street old men will kick him in the ass with their feet!
Many Wall Street financial brokers and pundits seem to relish it, although the rumored identity of the Chinese is somewhat looming. But well-informed people, or simply gut guesses, easily targeted Hu Wenhai at the source of the rumors.
There is no way, if the most well-known Chinese in the United States today is definitely the undoubted Bruce Lee. But to say that the well-known Chinese on Wall Street may need to add a Hu Wenhai.
The vaguely rumored title of the world's richest man to fall on the head of a Chinese is too much to stimulate Americans' sensitive self-esteem.
Even with Hu Wenhai, these people really don't have a good impression.
Unlike the figures on the list of the richest people in the world who inflated violently like a balloon in the 90s, Hu Wenhai, who is conservatively estimated to have a net worth of at least 25 billion yuan, is indeed very likely to achieve this crown.
This figure is only a simple addition and subtraction calculation - the $10 billion paid by DuPont, the $3 billion in IGCT Europe, and the future expectations of the Xiangjiang fab, plus the patent valuation of the little blue pill, have not yet counted Hu Wenhai's assets in China, because these Americans really can't get it.
It seems that Hu Wenhai does pose a big threat to the world's richest man.
However, Americans are not "Xiamen University", and Buffett's personal assets are at least more than $10 billion, which is quite a conclusive capital figure. But Hu Wenhai's worth is mostly composed of uncertain investment, technology and patent valuation. Whether the hat of the world's richest man can be put on his head is still a matter of opinion.
With these two "rumors", Hu Wenhai's name has gained a lot of popularity on Wall Street.
However, for the eye of the storm of rumors, Hu Wenhai himself did not meet the imagination of Americans for the villain.
He wasn't hiding in some deep basement, secretly plotting how to create a plot to attack the mighty and glorious U.S. stock market - yes, no.
After a call to Zhao Xicheng, he lived quietly in a private villa by the sea on Long Island. It's as if he's not coming to the United States to stir up trouble, but to spend a leisurely vacation.
If you don't need to think much about money, then the quality of life alone is indeed much better than that of China.
In China, Hu Wenhai did not dare to think of such a thing at all -- a beach covered with fine sand imported from the Seychelles, with vast blue waters and water and sky, such a bay and beach actually belonged to only one person! Its left and right sides stretched out to the peninsula in the sea, isolating the strong wind from the huge waves, and making the waves in the bay gentle as if they were being touched by a lover.
Behind the lush forest, the breeze blows, and the wooden American-style country house is tethered to a jetty tethered to a top Italian-made yacht. Of course, the most satisfying are the bikini girls who laugh in the sand and water.
"This is really imperialist extravagance!"
Although it is not the first time that he has carried out a defense mission, even Pear Baisheng, who has been working in the United States for more than a year, has never seen such a formation.
Just look at the formation around the beach chairs under the huge parasols on the beach. Under the September sun of New York, four bodyguards in full white suits, black sunglasses, and a fierce atmosphere stood around. On a beach chair lies a young man in Hawaiian beach pants, holding a delicate, colorful cocktail in his hand, and his straw can't stop him from waving and laughing with the bikini girls coming and going on the beach.
If this scene is put into the movie, it will be an image of the second ancestor of the evil poisonous country. Playing the villain role does not require a pre-plot, and it can directly push the audience's disgust to the climax. Knocking down such a character is guaranteed to be exchanged for applause from a movie theater.
Needless to say, this winner in life is "now charged", and it is naturally Hu Wenhai, the eye of the typhoon on Wall Street at this time.
"I'm sorry Miss, if you don't have a pass, then you can't go over. β
Encouraged by Hu Wenhai's smile, the little bikini beauty walked with catwalks, shook a wheat-colored tight ****, and twisted her waist like a green snake that had just come out of the water. fantasized about being able to please this local tyrant who is of unknown origin, but is clearly a rich second-generation tyrant, even if he is a pendant on his legs, he should be able to live a good life comfortably for a few years.
However, before she could get within ten meters of the parasol, she was stopped by the four white-suited "bodyguards" who were on duty around her.
"Hey, I said Lao Bai, what kind of threat can a beautiful girl pose to my safety?"
The special intelligence security guard codenamed Bai Yutang did not look back, and said to Hu Wenhai in Chinese: "No. 1, do you need me to demonstrate, how it seems that a harmless woman can make your life worse than death 28 ways?"
As he spoke, a murderous aura like a substance burst out from Bai Baiyu's body, and his eyes almost shot through his sunglasses to the little bikini beauty, and he said without the slightest emotion: "Please, goaway." β
"Ahh
The poor little bikini beauty, screaming like a groundhog, spread her paws and waved her arms wildly towards Hu Wenhai's opposite direction, the sea. There is no doubt that the beauties in the sea area in front of Hu Wenhai are more than normal in the dense, and they all come here this way.
"Damn, Bai Yutang, what about you-" Hu Wenhai stretched out his hand and watched pitifully as another beautiful woman left him.
"No. 1, your security regulations are formulated by the Third Department of the General Staff, and if you have any comments, you can contact the country. Bai Yutang returned to his upright posture, keeping enough vigilance for any movement around him.
"You, you're jealous!" Hu Wenhai was helpless, lay back on the beach chair, and continued to drink his cocktail boredly.
After all, not everyone can't get close to him. When a white young man in the sea returned from riding the waves, he stuck his surfboard on the beach and walked towards Hu Wenhai. The special security guards around him did not stop him.
"Hi, my dear boss, how is the beach holiday?
"Mike!" Seeing Michael Dale with a sunny smile on his face and the beautiful girls with starry eyes behind him, Hu Wenhai felt particularly unhappy for some reason.
"I know boss, aren't you very good at pleasing girls? Although I know some people who are less picky, the quality is not very satisfying. β
Michael Dale innocently loosened his shoulders and smiled mysteriously: "Or do you prefer a partner who can study philosophy together?" Hey, the gym where I often go to the gym has some similar hobbies......
"Mike!" Hu Wenhai had to shout louder, holding his forehead, glaring at him and saying: "If you still want to be the general manager of Dell Computer Company, instead of Dell Chatter Computer Company or Dell Stinky Computer Company, I think you should restrain your ability to stimulate your boss." β
"OK, OK, I surrender!" Michael Dale pulled out a can of beer from the travel fridge and simply sat down on the beach next to Hu Wenhai: "Dear Hu, you are the boss, you are the truth of everything." At least, if you had to change the name, would you be able to call it Dale Ambrera Computer Corporation? Ambrella's name is so cool! I think that name alone could make a novel. β
"I really don't know, it turns out that Michael Dale is still a chatter...... Hu Wenhai feels that he is still too young and naΓ―ve, and he still needs more life comprehension!
Michael Dell, the founder of the famous Dell computer company, and now the general manager of Dell, is not much more menopausal than Hu Wenhai. At the age of twenty-two, he has already made Dell one of the top 10 PC sales companies in the United States.
As a member of the "former anti-IBM alliance" and now the "server alliance", Dell is also well-known in the IT industry. Don't look at it, it is said that Michael Dell is a garage business, but if it is really that easy, how can there be a Dell company in the United States on this one garage? Is it that the feng shui of Michael Dell's garage is particularly good?
Dell was acquired by Hu Wenhai in 1985, and it was Hu Wenhai who wanted to score a nail of his own in the server alliance after selling Cisco. In terms of the size of the other members of the alliance at that time, Dell did not have any advantages.
But after two years, Dell's performance has shocked many people in the league.
Dell, which was originally unknown, is now an extremely hot prince below IBMPC. Based on PC sales in 1986, Dell's shipments reached the all-time high of 20 million units in August.
This achievement seems unbelievable to Chinese, the computer in the 80s can sell 20 million units? In fact, just like making the post-zero Chinese young understand the text MUD, what is the fun of online games without 3D graphics?
Americans popularized home computers at least a generation or two earlier than China. In the 80s, PCs were really sold to individuals in the United States, and there was a huge market. Word processing, tables, databases, computer games, and even, if not stingy with phone bills, East Coast Americans in the '80s could play a game of ModeWar computer games at home with West Coasters.
The introduction of PCs into individual homes was nothing new in the United States in the eighties.
But even so, 20 million units is enough for Michael Dell to be put in the spotlight. By the end of 1986, Dell's earnings had reached a staggering $200 million. Not the distribution, but the profit reached 200 million dollars!
The direct sales model created by Michael Dell, led by Dell, has become a strong threat to the markets of Compaq and IBM. On the other hand, in the server alliance, Dell is also making a name for itself and achieving a position that matches him.
Michael Dell, who is ambitious, is already considering opening branches in Canada, the United Kingdom and West Germany.
Hu Wenhai was overjoyed by the development of Dell, and simply waved his pen and rewarded the company's management with 80 million US dollars as a bonus, including Michael Dell. Michael Dell, the "poor boy" who couldn't even get a thousand dollars out in 1984, became a multimillionaire overnight, and it seems that billionaires are not far away.
In a Texas lace magazine, Michael Dale has been rated as the youngest and most attractive bachelor. No, dear Mr. Michael Dyer, just a little bit of a mouthful, to find a few girls by the sea to "have fun", the beautiful girls who came almost filled the beach.
"Alright Mike, we've got to get down to business. Hu Wenhai got up seriously, sat up on the beach chair, and asked, "OK, Dell's current achievements, I think you should know very well the advantages?"
"Direct sales, which crosses agents and intermediaries, reduces costs and allows us to sell at least a fifth cheaper than IBM and Compaq. β
"Yes, the cost. Hu Wenhai nodded: "IBM's technology is indeed very powerful, but its problem is obvious, that is, the bureaucracy caused by the large size, the advantages of the early stage will soon be caught up by the latecomers, among which Compaq is the best." So at present, the biggest threat to Dell in the PC market is not the seemingly powerful IBM, but Compaq, which is steadily expanding its own channels. Dell wants to challenge Compaq, and it may not be enough to rely on the current advantages. What are your thoughts on this?"
Michael Dale sat cross-legged on the beach, his hands on his knees, frowning in contemplation.
"It's not something I want to do, and competing with Compaq in the U.S. doesn't fit Dell's current positioning. Michael Dale shook his head and said: "Dell has no advantage in technology, but Compaq is much stronger than us in terms of capital." Rather than spending a lot of money competing in the U.S., it would be better to expand internationally and replicate Dell's success in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Once we have accumulated enough advantages abroad, we will come back and decide who is the winner with Compaq. β
"That's a good idea. β
Hu Wenhai exhaled, smacked his lips and said: "But in this way, Dell is afraid that it will miss the best opportunity to overtake in the corners brought about by the expansion of the PC market." Direct sales cannot completely replace the existence of dealer channels, and Compaq will also gain strong nutrients. β
"There's no way around it, I'm afraid it's going to be a long process for us to compete. Michael Dale said discouragedly.
"No, you forgot. Hu Wenhai smiled and said: "Dell is not fighting by itself, Dell is behind the Xinke Group." Compaq is indeed powerful, but I haven't put it in my eyes yet. β
"Oh!" Dale seemed to remember that the Chinese boss in front of him, who was younger than him, was a veritable "thigh"!
"What's the boss, do you want to inject capital into Dell?" Michael Dell cheered up and his eyes widened: "This is really good news, quick, let's act quickly! If Dell can expand rapidly, I am confident that Compaq will be trampled under his feet in a year or two!"
Hu Wenhai nodded, more confident in Michael Dyer's words than he was in himself. Looking at the darling of the PC market in the 80s, Apple lost Steve Jobs and ushered in its most difficult days, and since then Apple has not been able to re-emerge in the PC market. IBMPC fell off the throne because it refused to use the 386 CPU with a 32-bit architecture, and finally had to be bought by the American conscience. Compaq seems to be thriving, but the distributor model in the PC industry will eventually come to an end, and eventually the former market hegemon will be acquired by HP.
But Dell, only Dell computers survived to the end, and it seems to be able to live better with its unique business model. History has long proven that Michael Dell has the ability to lead the company forward.
"So, boss, you're really going to inject capital into Dell! Oh my God! That's the best news I've heard this year!"
"Don't worry, it's not that easy for me to inject money. Hu Wenhai nodded first, and then shook his head: "At present, the price of Dell's computers is about 20% lower than the market price, and if the cost can be reduced by another 10%, I will agree to inject capital." β
βwhat......β
Michael Dale jumped up from the beach and shook his head into a rattle: "This is impossible, the current 20% is already the limit of our cost reduction." If we reduce the number of people or reduce the quality of our products, it will have an impact on our brand!"
"Brand, boss, do you understand? Our Dell brand is priceless, and we can't ignore the brand image just because we want to reduce costs. If we did, Rod Kenyon would have woken up laughing from his dreams. β
Rodde Kenyon is the general manager of Compaq, and Michael Dale is said to have a boxing punching bag with his face on it β so it's hard for the two companies to look at each other.
"Don't worry, reducing costs doesn't have to reduce product quality. Hu Wenhai shook his head: "Believe me, I understand the meaning of the brand better than you." If you can reduce the price of Dell computers to 70% of the market price without compromising quality, do you have the confidence to capture the current PC market?"
"Of course, but it's impossible. Michael Dale shook his head.
"Impossible? Nothing in this world is impossible. Hu Wenhai smiled. (To be continued.) )