Chapter 180: Social Mania and Techno Nover

After giving Ma Feng's milk full of blood and self-confidence BUFF, Gu Biao waved his hand, did not take a trace of clouds, and flew to the United States.

The ticket is still Akio Morita's hospitality, and he is in the first class of JAL (JA), and he helped him complete all the formalities in advance, and the flight can fly directly to Washington.

After all, Akio Morita still has a follow-up request for Gu Biao, and he needs him to introduce and introduce VIPs.

"President Morita is too polite. When boarding the plane, Gu Biao politely thanked him.

"It's nothing, just don't dislike the service for a while. Akio Morita shrugged with a Western humor.

This is already a 60-year-old man, and it is not easy to perform desperately to disguise his style of acting and pretend to be very Westernized.

However, as soon as he got on the plane, Gu Biao realized that Akio Morita was really not polite.

JA's service is really bad, and even the sofa skin in the cabin looks very old, but it's clean and clean.

And the safety requirements are very cumbersome, and the flight attendants will explain a lot of unnecessary and inhumane constraints. As a transoceanic flight, the first-class customer asks for a blanket, and the flight attendant can look for it for a long time.

Akio Morita looked at Gu Xiao's reaction and said wittily: "To tell the truth, if your country's airlines start flights to the United States from Hujiang via Tokyo this year, I would rather take a Chinese plane - at least you can smoke on it." ”

"No smoking should be, but the other services do ...... It's a bit like the treatment of first class, you say that I won't do such a bad service, right?" Gu Biao was also a little curious, he always felt that Xiao Yue was still very meticulous and extreme, and the service industry should not be so bad.

"It's not a stupid monopoly – if you take a domestic flight and buy an ANA ticket, you can experience the real service. Akio Morita said confidently and emotionally, "Unfortunately, until now, the government has only allowed JA to operate international flights. ”

In the 80s, the best airline was of course ANA All Nippon Airways, but the government's monopoly concession was not released until 1986, so before that, I could only tolerate the "state-owned enterprise" JA of spicy chicken, so that before 86, rich people would rather take Chinese planes as long as they could take the planes of the Civil Aviation of China.

At that time, China's manpower was not valuable, and the service industry could put down its dignity, and the treatment of local tyrants was simply the treatment of emperors, who did not want to enjoy it.

Therefore, the harm of "state-owned enterprises" is actually the same in China, Japan and the United States.

After complaining together for a while, Gu Biao found that Akio Morita is really a "social maniac" character, and he is very good at disguising and acting his true thoughts.

It's no wonder that Sony's internationalization process has been so rapid since the mid-70s, when he took over the presidency from another co-founder, Hiroshi Inobuka.

Because he is also a reserved and introverted East Asian, Akio Morita very eagerly introduced his private club in the United States to Gu Biao, and politely invited Gu Biao to go to play with him when he has free time.

Gu Biao took the confidential VIP card and glanced at it, and found that the name of the club was "Amphibious Club", and he couldn't help but be a little curious.

"Why the name?"

In response, Akio Morita looked out the window and muttered, "If we and other East Asian businessmen want to succeed internationally, we must learn to survive both in the water and on land. In the water, it is our restrained East Asian culture, and on land, it is the naked and straightforward Western culture.

Even if you can't fully accept it, imitate and learn from it, pretend to be presentable – oh yes, don't introduce this 'amphibious club' to your mentor, it's a little secret among our Asian businessmen in the United States. Otherwise, it's not good for you and me. ”

Gu Biao could see that Akio Morita was entrapping him.

It is indeed rare for a 60-year-old man to be so cautious with an 18-year-old young man.

Gu Biao was a little emotional, he suddenly found that many successful media and technology giants, when they started, were often this combination of "a technical freak and a social freak".

For example, Sony's Hiroshi Inuka and Akio Morita. During his 20 years at Sony's leadership, the company's motto was "work is rewarded" – that is, no high salaries or stock options were used to envelop the R&D team, and the idealism of "creating products that go down in history and changing humanity" was used to unite people.

However, in the 50s and 60s, I still believed in overwork and death, and I was eaten by the wonderful management of Jing Shenda.

In the 70s, after the president was replaced by Morita, Sony immediately turned from a technical freak to a social freak, desperately creating fashion trends, so that in the 80s and 90s, Sony's fashion sense in the West was far better than that of Apple later.

Microsoft's Gates and Paul Allen are also in this combination - Gates is a tech nerd who wants to change the world, and Allen is a playboy who buys a yacht and a team of women.

Even the pony and Zhang Zhidong of Tengyun in later generations are also social maniacs and technical nerds.

"Is Ma Feng a social freak? It doesn't look like it at the moment, his self-confidence has just been built, and his interpersonal talent is to connect the team internally.

Am I a tech nerd? I don't think so, just a little bit of technical knowledge, plus foresight. ”

Gu Biao couldn't help but reflect on his talent layout from others to himself.

Thinking about it, I didn't come to a conclusion for the time being, so I fell into a deep sleep.

……

When I woke up, it was Watsonton.

Coming out of the airport, there was no need to bother to solve the traffic problem, because there was already a Sony convoy waiting outside - their president had come to Watsangton in person, and Sony's people were supposed to take over.

Akio Morita politely invited Gu Biao to join the car.

Gu Biao boarded a Cadillac Vellet - this is a 1974 finalized Cadillac luxury car, which belongs to the kind of big car that can't be driven with a C license and a driver's license in China. (After many Maybach models arrive in China, the C license cannot be opened because the length is more than 6 meters)

Although it is a six-year-old model, it is almost the first choice to choose a luxury car from the United States.

Because after the damn 73-year oil crisis, even local luxury car brands like Cadillac began to pursue smaller models, energy saving and fuel saving. The Cadillac models launched after 75 years are not as magnificent as Vile.

Akio Morita was a man who was very eager to show how much he was "beautifying", and without choosing a European car, the Cadillac Vile became almost the only top-of-the-line commercial car in Sony America before 85 years.

Until later, the Americans themselves did not mind driving a Lexus.

"It's a very grand car, isn't it?" Gu Biao politely complimented him after getting into the car.

"If you also want to wash off the stigma of 'foreigner' in the United States as soon as possible, I advise you to get one too. I know you're not bad for money. Akio Morita replied kindly.

Gu Biao shrugged: "I'll forget it, I'm young, I should be a little trendy, and I don't need to bring an entourage." I'd rather get a fat Diack Firebird. ”

Fat Diack Firebird is still relatively famous in the eyes of later Chinese. That's also a sub-brand of Cadillac. Although the sales in the United States are relatively high, an American drama "Thunderbolt Ranger", which was popular in China in the early 90s, pushed the well-known popularity of this car in China to the peak-

That drama was filmed in the United States in about 82 or 83. In a word, it is a car-controlled superhero drama, the plot is quite bloody, about a scrap wood sling silk accidentally got an artificial intelligence sports car of Zenith Star Technology, and then relied on the car invincible pop chivalry, but the prototype of the invincible car used the fat Diack Firebird.

Akio Morita clearly understood that young people were having difficulty and didn't say anything more.

"President, will you go back to your apartment first?" asked Sony's driver respectfully in Japanese.

With Akio Morita's status, of course, there are villas in several major cities in the United States.

"No, send Gu Sang to Georgetown University first. ”

When the driver heard this, he immediately stood in awe of the young man sitting next to the president.

This person looks like he's in his 20s at most, right?

He didn't know that Akio Morita just wanted to take the opportunity to stop by and see if there was a chance to make some important people.

Historically, Akio Morita invited Kissinger to the platform in 1983 - at that time, Kissinger was over 60 years old, so he wanted to step down from his official position as a university professor and start a consulting company instead, the main consulting service object is to train American multinational giants who want to enter the Chinese market, teach them how to avoid the risks of investing in China.

Since he opened a consulting company, of course, he can be hired if he has money, so after a few years in history, Kissinger's coercion is not as high as he thinks now, and whoever gives money will help him. Akio Morita, who is eager to establish Sony's international image, will certainly not let it go.

And the emergence of the butterfly effect of Gu Biao is nothing more than helping Akio Morita advance by two years, and establishing a personal relationship when Kissinger still retains the identity of a professor at Georgetown University.

But I can't stand that outsiders don't know the trick, so I still feel that Gu Biao is awesome.

A convoy of Cadillac luxury cars slowly drove along the Potomac River.

First passed by the Pentagon in the southern suburbs, and then looked at the White House on the north shore. After passing the White House, drive another two miles northwest and turn into Georgetown University.

Gu Biao took off from Yuben on a night flight, and because of the flight time and time difference, it was also late when Watsangton landed. In addition, it took more than half an hour to take the car on the road, and it was close to 7 o'clock at night.

The regular students have all dispersed, and the January report is due, theoretically by the 30th of the end of the month, so many people have not yet come, and the campus is relatively empty.

American students don't have the habit of studying at night, and Georgetown is a university with obvious liberal arts advantages, with few labs on the old campus, and no busy research dogs.

The students here are all about interpersonal relationships as their first priority.

It is much more important to know a few more friends than to read a book.

So as soon as the night fell, they all spread to the assembly halls in Watsington City, and made friends with disguises and snakes.

There are also some respected old professors who will stay late.

Gu Biao asked the Cadillac to park under the building of the Wales Diplomatic Academy, and was just about to open the door by himself, but the entourage who came down in advance from the previous pilot car had already helped him open the door, and the service was very thoughtful.

"May I ask where is His Excellency Kissinger's office?" Gu Biao asked politely, grabbing a school administrator.

"Are you ......" the other party looked at him suspiciously.

Gu Biao showed the invitation letter signed by Kissinger.

The administrator was embarrassed and said, "You should actually go through the registration procedures first......

That being said, the other party apparently also read the wording on the invitation, and secretly wondered that maybe this young man was particularly valued for some mysterious reason......

Therefore, there was no obstruction and helped lead the way.

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