IBM is not satisfied with that, it is certain, after all, Li Zetian has poached so many people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Seagate Technology now has 65 people, all engineers, which is a very large scale for a new company that has just been established, which shows Li Zetian's determination to enter the field of disks. For now, Seagate Technology is temporarily living in Apple's headquarters building, and will move out when it grows larger.

In fact, in addition to floppy disks and hard disks, Li Zetian also plans to let Seagate Technology enter the field of CD, VCD, DVD. The CD standard was to be launched in 1980, and now it is 1975, Li Zetian naturally wants to cut off Hu, cut off Sony's Hu!

At this moment, a meeting is being held in the Seagate Technology conference room. Li Zetian sat in the first place, Tian Shuai, Zhang Yan and Wozniak sat on the left hand side, and Alain Shugart and several Seagate Technology executives sat on the right hand side.

"There are three things Seagate Technology needs to do right now,"

Li Zetian said in a deep voice: "

First, the establishment of the floppy drive department, IBM's 5.25-inch floppy drive is about to be developed, we don't do 5.25 inches, go straight to the 3.5-inch floppy drive, and strive to launch the 3.5-inch floppy drive before other companies!

Second, set up a hard disk department, develop smaller and larger capacity hard drives, and preferably be the first to develop a 5.25-inch desktop computer hard disk, when the desktop computer is equipped with a hard disk, it is bound to promote the transformation of the entire PC industry, and at the same time bring huge returns to Seagate!

Third, the establishment of a disc division to develop CD laser records that can hold digital audio! As far as I know, in 1972, researchers at Philips in the Netherlands began to use laser beams to record and replay information. In addition, in August of this year, Sony's Nakajima working group invented the "PCM Information Processor" that can record digital signals on tape. Philips was a pioneer in laser video recordings, while Sony pioneered the development of digital audio signaling technology. If these two companies join forces, they will be able to develop an epoch-making recording medium -- what I call CD laser records! I dare even predict that CD laser records will replace the most popular LP vinyl records of the moment!"

Except for Tian Shuai, everyone else present was an engineer, so they naturally understood what Li Zetian was talking about. Tian Shuai has been in Apple for so long, even if he is not proficient in professional things, he still understands what this thing is all about.

Alan Shugart frowned and said: "Mr. Li, the first two points are easy to say, but the disc department in the back is not easy to develop, we are already far behind Philips and Sony, and I don't know if we can catch up?"

"Well, that's a problem. Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "Philips' laser storage technology, we are afraid that it is difficult for us to catch up, but Sony's digital audio signal technology, we still have a chance to catch up! No matter how bad it is, Seagate can also become one of the CD standard setters and establish a CD patent pool with Philips and Sony!"

Hearing this, Alain Shugart couldn't help but nod his head secretly, CD standard setters license each other, forming a monopoly patent pool, if CD laser records can replace LP vinyl records, then Seagate Technology will benefit greatly!

Li Zetian looked at everyone at this time and asked in a deep voice, "Do you have any questions you don't understand?" or do you have any good suggestions?"

The crowd shook their heads.

Li Zetian announced: "Okay, since everyone has no problem, then the early development strategy of Seagate Technology will follow the three points I said!"

"Yes!!" everyone replied in unison.

Since then, Seagate has embarked on a huge amount of research, and I am afraid that it will burn money in the first few years! However, it is worth the money.

Storage technology is one of the core technologies of future technology, from floppy drives, hard disks, CDs, and DVDs in the early stage, to cloud computing, cloud data, and artificial intelligence in the later stage, all walks of life must use storage technology.

Seagate in hand, store I have!

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At the end of October 1975, "Panda Fast Food" opened a branch in San Francisco's Chinatown, but Yu Jingqiu did not come, she went to school, was a senior, and graduated in May and June next year. Li Zetian attended the opening ceremony of the branch, and then reached an investment intention with his father-in-law Yu Jingshan, who invested US$400,000 in Panda Restaurant Group in his personal capacity, holding 30% of the shares. The $400,000 was taken by him from Sunbird, a wholly-owned company under Umbrella, and no one would say anything about the $400,000 that was taken away. Besides, Sunbird is very profitable, and it will release Game-Watch again in December. Li Zetian later checked and filled in the gaps, and instructed the developers to add some easter eggs to each game, which can be beautiful women, interesting sentences, landscape photos and the like, which in turn aroused the curiosity of players and continued to break through the level.

The other two shareholders of Panda Catering Group are Yu Jingshan and Yu Jingqiu, who hold 40% and 30% of the shares respectively.

Obviously, Panda Restaurant Group has developed into a family-owned company, and the shareholders are all family.

"Panda Fast Food" is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panda Restaurant Group, which currently has two branches: New York Chinatown and San Francisco Chinatown.

However, after receiving investment from Li Zetian, Panda Restaurant Group soon opened a branch in Los Angeles' Chinatown. In addition, under Li Zetian's introduction, Yu Jingshan met with Maxwell, the director of First Intercontinental Bank, and borrowed $300 from the bank, preparing to replicate the successful model of "Panda Fast Food" in Chinatowns in Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Boston, Houston, and HSD, establish branches, and quickly occupy the market.

People have to eat every day, and it's okay for fast food restaurants to open faster. Moreover, the location chosen by the Panda Restaurant Group happens to be one of the top ten Chinatowns in the United States, and it is not a blind expansion! With the help of Li Zetian, Yu Jingshan's career has attracted a second spring. This time, he is more motivated than before, waking up early and going to bed late every day, working hard, and it seems that he is determined to open Panda Fast Food all over the United States and even the world.

The people live on food!

Catering is very profitable, just look at Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, KFC and other companies, there is no doubt that Li Zetian, who likes to make money and enjoys it, of course wants to get involved in this industry. In addition, as a shareholder of Panda Restaurant Group, it is my responsibility to promote the rapid development of the company!

Therefore, Li Zetian began to pay attention to the development of the global catering industry in his spare time, and Starbucks Company first attracted his attention. Starbucks was founded in 1971, just four years ago, and has been carefully handling coffee beans, teas and spices on a small scale, with only four branches in total.

Li Zetian was both surprised and delighted.

As long as you scrape together a little money, you can buy Starbucks!

However, when it comes to Starbucks, I have to talk about one person, and he is Howard Schultz.

It was he who led Starbucks to glory and built a coffee empire worth tens of billions of dollars!!

In 1975, after graduating with a bachelor's degree in business, Schultz took a job as a salesman at Xerox's New York branch, a bargain for a student who had to pay off school debt. Soon, however, he moved to a company that imported Swedish kitchenware and became vice president of the company's U.S. division. While selling products, he discovered that a small company called Starbucks in Seattle had bought a lot of coffee brewers from him. Intrigued, he went to Seattle to see for himself. There he saw Starbucks, which specializes in freshly brewed coffee, spices and other condiments made from coffee.

Soon, Schultz realized that he would have to deal with coffee for the rest of his life, and he said to himself: "When I came here, the first thing I smelled was coffee, and it was completely original. I feel like an unfinished diamond, and I have the ability to cut it into brilliant jewelry. ”

In 1982, Schultz resigned from his $75,000 position and joined Starbucks as director of retail operations and marketing for the coffee shop. That year, he communicated with the original founder of Starbucks that he wanted to expand the business to open a café, but he was not accepted. So, in 1986, he chose to quit his job and raise funds to set up his own coffee company. After only a year, he made a lot of money and bought Starbucks in turn. Five years later, Starbucks was successfully listed on the NASDAQ in New York, and since then it has entered the fast lane of development.

Li Zetian couldn't help but think, now as long as he acquires Starbucks, he will be Jiang Taigong fishing, and Howard Schultz will take the bait!

PS: I'm a little tired today, I only wrote out two more, and those who wish to vote don't ask for it