January 22, the day after Atari stock was suspended on the Nasdaq, was also a Saturday.

It's the coldest time of the year.

On the other side of the ocean in China, in a week's time, students will have their summer vacation, and 20 days later will be the Spring Festival.

Watsonton's side was also shrouded in a vast snowfall. Because it is the best place, there are municipal snow plows on the roads of the city to ensure that citizens can still travel normally.

However, the airport is inevitably limited in its use hours, and is only open for 8 hours a day during the day, so as not to affect the safety of navigation when the wind and snow are too heavy.

"That's all for today, go back and sort out the report summary in the next few days. ”

In a class at Georgetown University, Wales School of Foreign Service, Professor Kissinger took off his glasses, rubbed the bridge of his nose and waved his students away. The weather was too bad, and he didn't want to schedule too many things for the back-to-school season in January.

Other professors also have to do some freshman adjustment work in January every year, after all, January, May, and September are the months when the new semester begins. However, Kissinger will retire in a year, and he will not recruit new students, so these three months will be empty than normal professors, and there is nothing to herd sheep for everyone.

"Goodbye, Professor. ”

The graduate students simply quit, and they didn't want to be too busy on a snowy day, and they didn't even plan to do any social activities after school — unless they went to clubs where they could spend the night.

Watsengton has a number of clubs and clubs at top universities, the most famous of which is the Georgetown Alumni Club, which is similar to the Harvard Elite Club described in the movie "The Social Network" about Zuckerberg's life.

Sure enough, as soon as Gu Biao walked out of the classroom, a junior came over mysteriously and encouraged: "Gu, do you want to go to the club? Today, Sarah-senpai is not here, so I'm in for a treat. ”

Gu Biao didn't have to look back, just listening to the voice, he knew that it was Jordanian Crown Prince Abdullah. Because he was from a Middle Eastern country and did not have a good personal relationship with Sarah Sandberg of Judah, Abdullah rarely had the arrogance to entertain all of them for more than a year.

Now, when Sarah is about to graduate, Abdullah is shaking.

"Don't you drink openly? Gu Biao struck.

"How can a private party with classmates be called public? Don't worry, we've all argued it, and besides, I'm good to drink. Crown Prince Abdullah was slightly embarrassed and quickly adjusted.

Gu Biao couldn't shirk it, and was about to be dragged to hi, but just after walking out of the teaching building, he was blocked by a group of people.

Gu Biao was stunned, because the people who came included Schulhoff, Professor Erickson, as well as Shi Yuzhu, Li Kaifu and Yang Hao, a total of nearly ten people.

There were also one or two people I didn't know who didn't know why they appeared in the crowd.

This group of people didn't want to stay in San Francisco, and they all went to Watson to travel and report to work?

Schulhoff was the first to speak: "Boss, Atari is suspended, don't you know?"

"You know, didn't trading stop yesterday? Gu Biao was very calm.

Schulhoff was still shocked: "Then why are you not surprised at all, and you have nothing to explain to us?

Gu Biao smiled: "What you say is strange, I have told Atari that 'there is a limit to the patience of American consumers, don't say it is unpredictable', and now they are finished, doesn't this mean that it is in my expectation? Why should I be surprised." ”

A beautiful Yanma woman in the crowd next to her who didn't know stepped out of the crowd and stretched out a microphone to Gu Ao's mouth: "Gu, I'm a reporter from CNN TV, my name is Isabel, and this is my ID." It was Mr. Ted Turner who sent me personally.

He noticed that five days ago, Howard, a former Atari programmer, went to Larry King's scene and disclosed some relevant facts, which caused Atari's stock price to fall by more than half of its market value in four trading days, leading to the final suspension. Excuse me, did you arrange all this? We note that you predicted early on that the Atari model would not be sustainable. ”

Gu Biao shrugged helplessly, turned back to his junior brother and said, "Abdullah, it seems that I have some business to deal with, so I can't go to the club with you." ”

"Gu, don't worry, we can go to the clubhouse to talk, it's very private. Even if you have to be interviewed, it's better than if you go home and be interviewed. Crown Prince Abdullah stammered kindly.

Gu Biao thought for a while: "Miss Isabel, you see, I have an appointment today, so it's inconvenient." If you insist on interviewing, you can stay in Watson for a few days until I'm free. If you insist on going with you today, then please do not bring any camera equipment. Interior photography is not allowed in top private clubs. You can only listen first. ”

Female journalists can only be soft.

In a short time, the convoy took the group to a tall, unassuming stone building on Pennsylvania Avenue that was the alumni hall of Georgetown University's Wales School of Foreign Service.

Gu Biao is a regular customer here, and no one will ask much about him and Abdullah when they enter the venue. It's just that today he brought a lot of outsiders, so it caused a little dispute. But after explaining, the other party was still forced to let him go.

"These are my guests. Gu Biao just said that.

"Senior Gu is Professor Kissinger's most proud protégé! He also has a friendship with Secretary of State Haig!" Crown Prince Abdullah added two sentences in a pretending manner.

People have friendships with several secretaries of state, so of course it's okay to go sideways.

Rao is a well-informed female reporter on CNN, and Isabel still can't help but be secretly speechless when she sees this scene, and can't help but throw the microphone outside, lest anything that will make her become Lo will reveal her identity.

Crown Prince Abdullah first asked for three private rooms, two of which were for the classmates and Gu Biao's subordinates/reporters, and one to talk about business.

Gu Biao was not polite, first put the junior and the reporter aside, and gathered the horses together.

……

As soon as the door was closed, Schulhoff took the initiative to ask: "Boss, I really didn't expect it, your expectations were so accurate, I was completely convinced." I THINK THAT THE ATARI COLLAPSE IS SO FAST, AND WE SHOULD ALSO SPEED UP THE FOLLOW-UP! I HAVE DISCUSSED WITH THE TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT, IF WE START TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT IN THREE SHIFTS NOW, WE CAN DO THE MASS PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY-COMPUTER IN MARCH! IMMEDIATELY FILL THE GAP IN THE MARKET AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF ATARI!"

Professor Erikson, who is in charge of the R&D department, also said: "The president has discussed it with me, and I think this R&D progress can be done, as long as we add people." Atari announced yesterday that it would lay off 1,700 employees. There are more than 1,000 people in the marketing team, three or four hundred people in the technical team, and the rest are management and logistics personnel.

Now these people are very slow to digest in the circle, if we make a move, we can pick a lot of people who take advantage of it, and we can keep up with the progress of the project in half a month, so that we will be able to finalize our home machine in March. ”

Everyone looked at Gu Biao eagerly and in awe.

Last year, when Gu asked for all the company's internal meetings to be videotaped and posted as evidence, they didn't think it was of any value. Now that Atari has really fallen, they look at Gu Wei more than a god stick.

Gu Biao did not rely on supernatural abilities, but on god-like acumen and foresight.

And Gu Biao's attitude is still so light-hearted: "What's the hurry, the original plan was to say mass production in May, then mass production in May, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, I want something good." ”

"But so far, only we in the industry are developing a new generation of home machines, and other potential competitors have felt that home machines have no future because of the existence of Atari, so they only build arcade machines.

Now that we see Atari falling, they will rapidly transform and establish research and development, and as long as it takes more than half a year, they will also launch home machines to seize the blank market! We will be put into production in March, and we will be able to get a five-month window period to dominate the market, and if we put it into production again in May, there may only be a three-month window period!"

This opinion was expressed by Shi Yuzhu, who is in charge of the marketing department.

"I repeat, hold your breath!" Gu Biao retorted steadily, and then he stood up, holding champagne, and looked around the audience, "DO YOU KNOW WHY I NAMED MY HOME CONSOLE PLAY-COMPUTER IN THE FIRST PLACE?"

Everyone didn't react, so Gu Biao asked himself: "My original intention was to call it PLAY-STATION, because that abbreviation is not easy to be confused with PC, and it can better play the long-term concept of 'home living room entertainment integrated platform'."

However, I really felt that Atari would not last long, and its fall would even make the concept of "game console" stink in the United States and destroy the entire industry. Therefore, I hope that our products will be suffix COMPUTER to dilute the image of game consoles.

You simply don't understand how much the collapse of Atari has hurt the reputation of the American console market, this is not a company's problem, in this case, the close follower is too close, it will only make American consumers disgusted us. They don't want to just be scammed by a game console and immediately try to see if they will be scammed by another - they don't even want to try. ”

Schulhoff was the first to comprehend it, and turned to favor Gu Biao, and also gave up the idea of leading a group to fly from San Francisco to force him this time.

The boss really expected everything and had his own rhythm.

Shi Yuzhu doesn't have this overall view, and he can't understand it for a while, but he can't help it.

Other R&D personnel feel that it is a good time to put their enthusiasm.

Gu Biao took in everyone's reactions.

"Of course, don't be discouraged, what I said is waiting, not doing nothing. How long U.S. consumers will spit on home consoles depends on our efforts.

If nothing is done, maybe the industry will be depressed for half a year, or even a year. It is also possible to do something and shorten it to three or five months. Those who have been laid off at Atari have technical elite business backbones, and they should be dug or dug up. We need to invest two or three times more than we used to make the plan better. ”

These words made everyone's eyes shine, after all, Gu Biao predicted the end of Atari, and in the eyes of his subordinates, he is now a god-like existence.

"Boss, what do you say?"

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