Chapter 250: The Fall of the Giants

The little girl is fair-skinned and cute-looking, which reminds Su Mu of his cousin Qiqi when he was a child, and his eyes moved to the small gallery, which is only more than ten square meters, and there are some classical landscape paintings hanging on the wall.

There are many painters in Greenwich Village, there are many people on the street who help tourists draw character sketches, musicians play on the streets, if they think it sounds good, they throw some change into the box in front of them, there are many graffiti paintings on the streets, both new and old, because there are quite a lot of tourists, as long as the craftsmanship is good enough, it is not a problem to make a living.

This time I came to New York, mainly to acquire those Intel shares, and now the agreement signed with Merrill Lynch is in the handbag of Allen's assistant, and there is also a meeting with the executives of the Empire State Building United Company, with the arrival of Mr. Morkin has also been completed, he can represent the opinions of the vast majority of the company's shareholders, originally worried that there will be a conflict, but the current situation is fine.

With Su Mu becoming the majority shareholder of the Empire State Building United Company, the other shareholders have recognized the reality that as long as they do not try to seize power and take over the management of this company inch by inch, they will probably not have too much trouble getting along.

Then there wasn't much going on, so Su Mu walked into the store and bought an oil painting to hang in his room, the green hills, the lake reflected the snow-capped mountains, and you could see the birch trees and herds of cattle and sheep by the lake, the scene looked very comfortable.

The shopkeeper is a single mother who is not very old, and after receiving the money, she carefully helped Su Mu pack the oil paintings, and the little girl smiled very happily, because her mother said that as long as the oil paintings were sold, they would take her to ride the Ferris wheel.

The little girl with a very beautiful appearance can be liked at a glance, she didn't speak, she seemed to be a little scared, she just laughed vigorously, so Su Mu couldn't help but look at it a few more times, thinking that it would be good if she could have such a beautiful little girl as her daughter in the future.

After giving birth to such a thought, I was immediately frightened, and then I had the idea that I was really old, I never thought that being a father was a happy thing before, and I always felt that I was still young.

Su Mu's achievements have made many people forget that he is only a 21-year-old student at Yale University, and he is definitely a young man.

An oil painting only sells for more than 1,400 US dollars, the price is not high, and after the packaging is completed, Su Mu continues to shop, and buys some other works of art that he likes, planning to take them back to decorate his new home......

"I was able to get about 7,000 computer screens from Hewlett-Packard, which are products of the Panasonic Group, and they use different technologies from Sharp, so the clarity is not much different. ”

Blake called Su Mu again, the connections accumulated in Silicon Valley over the years were used, 7,000 screens could solve the urgent need, and those Sharp screens in the warehouse were unusable, and they all had to be returned.

"Well, ask the technical department if it's available, and if it will have an impact, forget it. Su Mu was in the car back to the Empire State Building, and Mr. Morkin had just called him and invited him to visit the Empire State Building Corporation.

Blake continued: "I have asked, there will be no problems, I am informing users who have just bought our computers in recent months, telling them that if there is a problem with the screen, they can send it to our company for a free replacement, there are indeed some problems, but the vast majority of users' computers, almost a decoration, because the use of it is not long enough, so there is no problem for the time being."

I am going to keep 1,000 pieces for spare, and the rest of the screens will be used on the new computer, Sharp Company may not be able to solve the technical problems in the short term, just called Panasonic headquarters in the United States, and the other party promised to supply us with a batch of goods urgently, about 20,000 screens, but at least it will take about half a month. ”

"Let's deal with it like this first, I didn't expect users to buy computers and not use them, but it became a good thing for us, and the production was delayed for half a month...... We can only transform the ready-made goods first, produce a batch of semi-finished products when we have time, and wait for the screen to supply to us, and hurry up to work. ”

With a way to deal with it, Blake was no longer as nervous as before, this beautiful woman was now at the best age of her life, more mature and sensual than the younger girls, and she had not yet appeared wrinkles, and her beauty was still the same.

Su Mu said on the phone: "I think the same way, just finished talking to the agents on the phone, as compensation, I promised Dream2 to reduce the purchase price on the original basis of ten dollars, and provide price reduction promotions for the old model, the last time the planning department came up with the trade-in activity, how do you think about it?"

The speed of computer replacement is too fast, the new performance is several times higher than the old model, the first two years of the color screen is not standard, the user needs to add money to replace, now almost all computers use color screen, so Penguin company planning department came up with such a sales method - trade-in.

Cars, TVs, refrigerators, etc., many products can be used in the way of trade-in, in Su Mu's view, the old computers recycled have little economic value, the purpose of trade-in is mainly to eliminate the sales barriers formed by old goods, to prevent consumers from being reluctant to discard the old computers that can still be used, and not to buy new computers.

"That's the right idea, but it seems to be too advanced, no one wants to change it if the price is low, and we suffer if it's high, so it's better to wait a few more years until the first batch of computers we sell are completely obsolete, and then implement the trade-in promotion program......"

It's ridiculous to say.

Nowadays, people buy computers, except for a little more trendy and the occasional work on documents and the like, they are of little use, at least for the vast majority of Internet users.

In 1984, Du Zhong's family bought an Apple computer, and then kept it, sometimes for months without thinking of using it, this phenomenon is not an exception, many people are similar to Du Zhong's family, impulsively bought a computer, and then did not use it.

The reason why computer sales have not been able to go up is because computers are useless, and this situation did not begin to improve until the birth of hypertext link technology, because the content on the Internet suddenly became richer, and really made the Internet accessible, and the emergence of Bee chat software also made computers work.

It wasn't until this year that talent in Silicon Valley finally realized that the PC could not be truly promoted by office alone, and that it could have many other experiences, such as information sharing, which was initially valued but later overlooked by most people due to technical limitations.

CNC browser is information sharing, and so is Bee chat software, with the emergence of these two technologies, it really made Sumu into the sight of most people in Silicon Valley.

It happened to be a good time for the sales of personal computers to skyrocket, but Penguin's company encountered a bad problem with product quality, Su Mu was not angry, but his attention quickly shifted with a news, at this moment Blake said to him: "By the way, do you know the news of the bankruptcy of Wang An Computer Company? Just this morning, they held a media conference. ”

"Bankrupt?!"

Frightened by this shocking news, Su Mu's tone was a few points higher.

In 1983, the turnover of Wang An's company was as high as 1.5 billion US dollars, and Wang An's personal assets once reached as much as 2 billion US dollars, ranking as the richest Chinese in the world.

Just the year before last, the company had a net income of about $300 million and a market capitalization of about $2.6 billion, down half from its peak of $5.6 billion, but it is also a large company.

It just so happened that Mr. Wang An was seriously ill, and in 1987, despite the opposition of other shareholders, he handed over the company to his son, Su Mu knew that Wang An Computer Company made a series of major misjudgments at that time, resulting in a sharp decline in market value, but it is still a large company.

I don't have a good impression of his grandson at all, but for Mr. Wang An himself, it is he who makes the Chinese community get attention, usually does not do less charity, and always helps the Chinese speak in the face of the public, Su Mu has no ill will towards him, his grandson is arrogant and domineering, which does not mean that he is also a grandfather.

I don't know whether to be happy or disappointed, after all, another Chinese billionaire who has just broken into the hall has declined, and looking at it, Su Mu has become the richest Chinese in the Chinese circle in the United States......