July 4, Independence Day of the United States.

The episode of Larry King's live talk show that Gu participated in just finished the last round last night.

At 8 o'clock tonight, Larry King will officially invite the second group of guests to CNN headquarters in Atlanta for a talk show interview, and officially turn the show "Larry King Live" into a regular show.

In the previous three days of rebroadcasts, every time the feature film ended, CNN TV station would follow a 30-second commercial after the end of the program, reminding viewers that the program was about to become a long-term program, and they were welcome to continue to pay attention on the National Day.

The guests had already been chosen, but they were destined to be interrupted by a change.

Early in the morning, Ted Turner woke Larry King up from bed with a direct phone call: "Kim, postpone today's National Day special guests by one day, and I will have someone arrange for them to play in Atlanta for one more day, and CNN will bear all the expenses!"

The Galvin family came, so did Akio Morita, and Mattel's Handler family also came. Let them be on the show with Gu Biao tonight, there may be something important to announce. ”

Larry King looked confused, but since he had signed with CNN, he could only completely obey the boss's arrangement: "Okay, I'll prepare a little." ”

The Galvin family in Ted Turner's mouth is the founding family of Motorola. Motorola's early history is similar to Sony's, and it also started as a radio a few decades ago.

However, Motorola seems to have been destined to pay special attention to "mobile" performance in its genes, so the company invented the world's first car radio 50 years ago. Later, this kind of "reinventing the existing fixed equipment in the mobile era" tasted the sweetness, and it was out of control. A few years ago, Motorola invented the world's first car phone, and now it's finally time to get its hands on it.

Because it has been serving car manufacturers for many years and providing in-vehicle communication electronic equipment, Motorola's headquarters and R&D and production base have been located in Chicago, the Great Lakes region, and it is a rare American electronics giant that does not belong to Silicon Valley (in order to serve the three major automakers in Detroit more conveniently)

The current chairman of Motorola is Robert Bob Galvin in his sixties, and his father died 20 years ago.

However, Bob Galvin is already in a very high position, and it is impossible to accompany a young man like Gu Wei to make friends with his peers. So today, Motorola's negotiators, the chairman's son, 27-year-old Chris Galvin, and George Fisher, a 40-year-old executive and COO, are here to advise and assist the prince so that he doesn't say the wrong thing.

As for Mattel, the other representative mentioned by Ted Turner, the Chinese may not be familiar with it, because your company's electronic toy industry was only awesome in the 80s, and then declined - this company started as an ordinary toy and invented Barbie. Since the beginning of 75 years, the concept of "handheld game console" has been created for the first time, but it is not the GAMEBOY type of the later generations that Gu Biao made, but the kind of screenless game machine that uses LED light beads to display in dot matrix.

If you have no concept, you can take a look at the game console played by the little monster next to Star-Lord in "Guardians of the Galaxy", or go to Station B to watch the archaeological video of Director Ao's "Mattel Electronic Basketball/Rugby/Electronic Racing".

But in any case, people are also going to do "mobile portable electronic toys", for young customers, if they are accused by peers of "electronic toys radiation exceedance, no social responsibility, endangering the health of teenagers", then the big hat must not be able to bear, so it is still obedient to be soft, come to Gu Biao here to pose and accept a name, "participate in the grand event" well.

In addition to these business people, giants such as Motorola have also brought in some highly respected scholars from academia and the Industrial Technology Standards Association to help put pressure on them to ensure that the cooperation is achieved.

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"How can we be in Xia, we Tiankun Entertainment are just one step ahead, and we have occasional gains, how dare we be the initiator, just be an ordinary governing unit. ”

In the large conference room on the top floor of the Oneie Hotel, seven or eight giants gathered around Gu Biao to discuss the distribution of spoils.

And Gu Biao was still there to be humble first, to show that the appearance of today's situation was completely unexpected and temporary.

In order to pull less aggro points.

Looking out of the hotel conference hall window, you can see downstairs in Atlanta City Park, where the Independence Day celebration is taking place.

The governor of Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta both spoke in the park, and the vast majority of citizens also took the National Day holiday today, so the number of onlookers watching the celebration can be said to be overwhelming.

This park will be even more famous in future generations, because in another 14 years, it will be the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the '96 Olympic Games.

In the park downstairs, the American people are celebrating on vacation, and so many entrepreneurs upstairs who are in charge of their businesses with a market value of more than a billion dollars are busy working overtime to share the spoils, this contrast is really indescribable.

"Gu, you can barely make it difficult in this matter, since you are the first to initiate research in this field, even if it is just a layer of window paper and a reminder to everyone, then you should also receive this honor. Just like you ancient Chinese, you think that a word master is also a teacher, so don't shirk it. Otherwise, it will be difficult for any other company to take the lead. ”

Just after Gu Aowan refused twice, his old friend Akio Morita opened his mouth to help mediate.

Akio Morita's meaning is obvious: Sony and Motorola must be dissatisfied with each other.

Just as when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu pushed the "Martial Arts Alliance Leader", they must get a puppet Emperor Yi to come out, and it is impossible to convince each other.

Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang will not compromise with each other, so they can only put another "Xiao Ming King" on the throne first.

Gu Biao has the most positive reputation and the weakest temporary strength among all the participants, and everyone is not afraid of it, so he will be a puppet obediently.

"Then I will not give up, I suggest that we jointly set up a branch under the IEC, in the future, dedicated to the global electronics industry electromagnetic compatibility and radiation control issues, the development of relevant industry technical standards. We, Tiankun Entertainment, will temporarily be the initiating governing unit.

However, because in the field of communication radiation, none of our other companies are involved, so the executive director unit of radiation control is served by Motorola on a daily basis, Mr. Galvin, do you have no opinion?"

Gu Biao said, turning to Chris Galvin in a consultative tone.

It was as if King Chu Huai said to Xiang Yu: "What's the matter?" The general will let Song Yi hang his name first, and Ziyu will be a deputy general for the time being. ”

is as strong as Xiang Yu, so let's accept this share of spoils for the time being.

"No problem, but on tonight's show, I hope you will clarify for us as soon as possible and announce this decision - I don't want to have any adverse impact on Motorola's goodwill. After all, Chris Galvin is only 27 years old, and the city government is not very deep, and when it comes to the issues he is most concerned about, he is still a little uneasy.

Gu Biao smiled harmlessly and generously: "Of course this is no problem, everyone is a friend, and we should help each other to clarify." Your company's mobile phone should not be available until next year, right? Moreover, I have made all the research results of Professor Erikson's side public, and you can transfer the relevant design ideas and concepts at will, and I do not charge royalties. ”

Because Eriksen's little bit of fur is not technically difficult at all, and it is not valuable, it is nothing more than taking an advantage. It's better to be generous and buy a general favor in the industry.

Sure enough, as soon as Gu Biao's words came out, other participating companies felt that Tiankun Entertainment was righteous and open-minded.

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On the night of Independence Day, the second episode of CNN's prime-time "Larry King Live" was released as scheduled.

Viewership remains at a fairly exaggerated peak, with nearly 20 million Americans seeing the show on television.

"Why is this Asian face again?" When Gu Biao appeared, all the audience were a little surprised, and there was also some rebellion caused by aesthetic fatigue.

However, the situation was quickly reversed, as they saw the emergence of the Galvin family who was at the helm of Motorola, as well as the second-generation of Mattel and Hans Handler, who were well-known for making Barbie dolls.

and an American executive of Sony, Akio Morita, also played a cautious eye here, and did not appear on TV in person, in case American consumers found out that buying SONY products was actually making money for him.

However, Gu Biao also dealt with it accordingly. There are two guests on Tiankun Entertainment tonight, in addition to Gu Biao, there is also Schulhoff.

And Gu Biao planned to just say a few words to foreshadow the scene, and then give the opportunity to Shulhoff, pretending that Schulhoff was the company's talker. This can also take care of the American consumer's sense of national attention.

The half-hour Larry King scene quickly became a press conference for the industry. In front of the entire American people, the major giants announced the decisions they had negotiated during the day, vowing to protect the health of American consumers and manage the problems of excessive radiation and electromagnetic interference.

As soon as the show ended, Motorola's brand reputation rebounded slightly, and later, according to a poll by a relevant business survey company, it was shown that the brand recovery effect of this episode of the show was very obvious.

And Gu Biao, of course, did not suffer a loss.

Most of the peers have chosen to follow up and state that their products will pay attention to radiation and electromagnetic compatibility issues.

Although they may not necessarily come together to get a seat on the board of directors of the IEC chapter, they can't afford it. But those medium-sized competitors can at least choose to wait for the giants to formulate industry technical standards and rectify them according to this standard.

It's just a little bit passive.

Of the opponents that Gu Ao cared about, only one chose to fight to the end - and that was his number one enemy in the video game console industry, Atari Inc.

Mr. Dardanelle, the CEO of Atari, publicly announced on an inconspicuous occasion that Atari believed that the so-called radiation and interference compatibility problem of household electronic devices was purely an exaggerated and nonsense artificially defined.

Moreover, Atari does not produce movable portable electronic devices, but their home game consoles and arcade machines should be defined as fixed electronic devices such as televisions. Therefore, the electromagnetic atmosphere in the environment where the product is used should be handled in the engineering design stage, and the electromagnetic compatibility of the product does not need to be considered.

This reasoning is very strong, but it also makes sense, and it has gained some understanding from fans.

From Atari's standpoint, this choice is understandable: they have always been the bosses of the game console industry, how can they be led by the nose by the second moth?

However, this stance also brought a fatal wound - Atari emphasized that its products are not "portable" and do not need to consider "interference and radiation compatibility in multiple environments", which means that they have abandoned the "handheld" market of the future.

They can only build desktops.

If it exceeds the range of the stage, it will hit Gu Biao's muzzle.

The road was getting narrower and narrower by Atari, although for the time being they didn't see any specific harm in narrowing.