After Gu Biao and Ye Kun officially saw them off, they left Watsengton by plane in the early morning of the next day. His final destination was San Francisco, but he had to stop in Chicago for a day or two on the way.

Well, the "alone" here of course means that there is only one "person" Gu Biao, and the bodyguards are not counted.

Gu Biao now has to bring bodyguards on other occasions except for private meetings with women. His current energy has reached the point where even Senior Robert Gates has chatted with him several times and drank tea, can he do it without bodyguards?

The reason why he had to go to Chicago for two days before going to Silicon Valley was because Gu Biao needed to visit Motorola's Galvin family first.

The deal with Bill also involved Motorola, and he had to give Motorola time to prepare, so this kind of greeting was the highest priority.

"Chris, can you help me contact Ling Zun and have a face-to-face interview. Before Gu Biao got on the plane, he called his son-in-law and Chris Galvin, who was good friends with the IEC Electromagnetic Compatibility Society last year, to make an appointment. These deals are not suitable for talking over the phone.

Chris was very cheerful, when Gu Biao landed at Chicago Airport, Motorola had already arranged to pick him up, and directly pulled Gu Biao to the company's headquarters and met Chris's father, Motorola boss, Bob Galvin.

"Mr. Galvin, it is an honor to meet you. When Gu Biao saw Bob, he greeted him very earnestly with the courtesy of his nephews.

Although he is already a big business, compared with Motorola, the world's No. 1 communication giant, he still can't be proud for the time being, and he has to develop for a few more years.

"Gu, you are the youngest and most promising entrepreneur I have ever seen in my life, you are welcome, just say anything. Bob Galvin spoke a little weakly, very easy-going, and half-jokingly said, "I still count on you to help Chris in the future." ”

His expression didn't seem to be fake.

Bob Galvin is already a seventy-year-old man, and his son is not yet 30 years old, which means that he gave birth to a son in his 40s, which can be regarded as a middle-aged child.

Gu Biao observed a little, and he could see that Bob Galvin was obviously a little lacking in energy and was dying. He didn't know that the old man in history could still be at the helm of Motorola for three years because of his physical discomfort. By the time he was 86 years old, he was so exhausted and his health deteriorated that he had to lose the company to George Fisher, a professional manager.

Then, Motorola made mistakes in the development of wireless communication in terms of decision-making, and there were mistakes in the iteration of N-G intergenerational technology again and again. In the 2G era, it was caught up by Nokia, and the 3G era is far behind Qualcomm, and the former hegemony of the wireless communication world has fallen step by step.

The history of Chris taking over Bob is strikingly similar to Wang An's second-generation eyes Wang Lie's defeat of his father Wang An-

In the field of word processing computers, Wang An, who once ruled the world, also reached the peak of the company around 86, but he himself was unable to take power in person when his health deteriorated, and he did not teach a good son, and he could not control the intergenerational iteration of technology, and he still preferred to uphold the family business, and the entire country was reduced to ashes in the last 5 years.

Motorola and Wang An's broken affair Gu Biao didn't have the heart to sigh much for the time being, he collected his mind and said the main intention of today.

"Governor Beale of Alberta is my senior in Georgetown. He will be vying for a seat on the Southern States' Economic Development Policy Committee in the middle of this year. I helped him think of a bill that needed to be responded to by some of the biggest companies in the tech industry, specifically like this......"

GU BIAO BLABLA TOLD THE DETAILS OF THE ARRANGEMENT.

At the end, he followed up with a few words of spoils: "I believe that this matter is beneficial to Motorola, and you are going to roll out the cellular mobile phone network this year, and you should have ensured that you have set up your own after-sales offices in each state and expanded local employment."

All you have to do before you do this is to take a stand and appear to have been called upon by Governor Beale to take credit for the jobs you have created in the southern states...... Then, you can win the friendship of the Southern States Economic Development Policy Council, and as long as he is in the seat, he can always be convenient for you. ”

Bob calculated a little and asked Gu Biao to wait first.

Then he called the executives of finance and operations, asked about Motorola's original arrangement and rhythm in this regard, and finally gave Gu Biao a more superior answer.

"Yes, give us a schedule, we can accept it. And, as long as the friendship is deep enough, we can do more. Bob clapped.

"Oh, how can you do more?" Gu Biao was curious.

Bob smiled cunningly: "When we build the infrastructure of network base stations, it is impossible to hire a construction team in Illinois. Instead, it is necessary to go to the states and recruit the relevant personnel nearby.

However, if each state recruits a group of people, there will be the problem of high upfront training costs. Therefore, taking a degree, such as two or three neighboring states, sharing a group of base station construction personnel, is the lowest comprehensive cost.

Since we want to pay attention to a favor this time, we Motorola can try not to recruit engineers in the states north of the north-south dividing line, and the neighboring states south of the dividing line will train engineering teams, and then go to the northern states for construction. The amount of infrastructure required to build a wireless communications network is huge, so that at least thousands of jobs could be created in each of the neighboring states in the south, and the neighboring states in the north would be siphoned off. ”

As we all know, the so-called north-south dividing line in the United States has historically been defined by law at the federal level, that is, the dimensional line between Virginia and North Carolina.

That's why when you look at the map of the United States, you often see that the states on the East Coast that are supposed to demarcate their borders according to natural topography are very standard on a certain north-south dividing line.

In addition to Virginia and North Carolina, the same is true between Kentucky and Tennessee, and between Missouri and Arkansas.

Bob's hand is equivalent to ceding the jobs that were supposed to be created for Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri to North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas.

Missouri is expected to be the worst victim - who let its blood have to be pumped to Governor Bill's lair, Azouli.

Of course, Bob made this extra decision without spending money, and he would not let Gu Biao take credit, he declared: "However, I will personally talk to Governor Bill about this matter." I hope you don't take the merits of heaven for yourself, whose friendship should be whose friendship is whose friendship. ”

Of course, Gu Biao would not be greedy for this kind of calculation, he said generously: "Of course, I am just playing the role of a broker to help Governor Bill bring his needs." As for the better conditions you make, these are all friendships that you should win extra. I believe that if one day Bill can follow suit, Motorola will get more. ”

Originally, Motorola's credit and favor in this matter must be inferior to Gu Wei. After all, Gu Biao is the initiator and accounts for the "first righteousness", and Motorola is just the responder.

But Bob exerted his subjective initiative and completed the task on a scale higher than expected, and the intensity was so great, it is estimated that in the future, the face of Senior Bill will be able to be equal to Gu Biao.

The two sides negotiated the details of the timing again.

Finally, it was finalized: Tiankun, Sony and Motorola, before the end of February, will be piloted in Alberta.

Then, at the beginning of March, Senior Bill raised his arms and put forward a proposal at the Southern Economic Development Policy Committee in the name of summarizing Alberta's advanced job creation experience, and the three major companies were the first to officially respond and roll out the above activities in 14 other southern states in March.

In this way, the second quarter will almost be able to ferment the curative effect, and in the middle of the year, I will help Senior Bill get the position.

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After talking about business in Chicago, Gu Biao didn't stay overnight, so he directly caught a late flight and went straight to San Francisco. Fortunately, San Francisco is his old nest, and he was picked up when he landed in the middle of the night and sent directly back to the villa.

That's how hard life is rushed.

It's already January 20th, and this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is February 1st, and if Gu Wei wants to go home for the New Year, he must hurry up to deal with business in San Francisco.

At 10 a.m. on Saturday on the 21st, Gu Biao convened Schulhoff and other senior executives, as well as the main backbone of the product and R&D teams, to work overtime for a meeting at the headquarters of Tiankun Entertainment in Silicon Valley.

Americans don't like to work overtime on Saturdays, and their labor security is too good. Therefore, Gu Biao pays overtime in strict accordance with the law, and invites everyone to eat and drink well at a meeting, and there are two cocktail party-style buffets at noon and evening.

He hadn't been to Silicon Valley for a few months, and there were some business things that he had to take care of himself.

Gu Biao first inspected the recent work of the R&D department, especially the improvement of the core components such as the power supply, floppy drive, and register of the PLAY-BOX game console after the rectification with Sony's technical team.

"This is the latest version of the PLAY-BOX game console?Has the cassette and floppy disk read stress test passed?" Gu Biao put down the test report he had just read cursoly, picked up a sample, and asked bluntly.

"It has passed, all the technical flaws that have been exposed have been overcome, and the total cost of production is 6 US dollars more per machine. Dr. Erikson, a former senior professor in the Department of Electronics at Stanford, replied with confidence.

He is no longer a part-time professor at Stanford, and has officially moved to Tiankun full-time.

The first batch of graduate students sent to Stanford by Gu Biao, namely Yang Hao and Lu Yunda, also graduated last year and got a master's degree from Stanford, and now they can devote 100% of their energy to the research and development of Tiankun.

Gu Biao nodded and asked, "How is the stress test done?"

Lu Yunda was in high spirits, took the question and answered the teacher: "We specially got an automatic tester, destructive hot swap and fluctuating voltage drop access, we have tried it, accelerated aging, can be equivalent to 1 year of normal use of depreciation, this is no problem." ”