Chapter 1487 - The Rapidly Growing Kirin Computer
If someone asks what is the hottest high-tech product in recent years, then surely the computer is the answer that many people will answer.
From the previous single-function computer like a typewriter, it has developed into an operating system with CPU processors and Microsoft Windows software, which can run more and more interesting programs and create more software by itself, in just about 7 years.
Two months ago, one of the world's largest computer companies, Wang An's computer company, had an annual revenue of $1.5 billion last year, and the personal fortune of its founder, Wang An, reached a staggering figure of $2 billion.
As a result, he not only became a figure on the list of the richest people in the United States, but also became the richest Chinese man on the surface.
But everyone knows that in essence, the richest Chinese should be Yin Jun.
Including Mr. Huo and the charter boat king in Xiangjiang, they can't compare to Yin Jun.
Don't look at Yin Jun's current debt of more than $6 billion, but his assets far exceed this figure.
It's just that Yin Jun's companies are all non-listed companies, and he is very low-key, and he is willing to rank third in Xiangjiang instead of first.
Today's statistical agencies are not professional at all, and it will take several years for Forbes magazine to conduct a survey of the "rich list".
Therefore, they are more counted on the assets of the major shareholders of listed companies.
Wang An Computer Company is a listed company, and Wang An's wealth can be seen by everyone, so he is the richest man in China.
$2 billion is still very valuable now, and the total market value of Microsoft, which will be prosperous in the future, will be less than half of Wang An's computer company.
At this time, Dr. Wang An was really beautiful, and was hailed by the outside world as the next man who could create miracles - the last one was Sam Walton, who created a warehouse supermarket hypermarket, which swept the world and became the richest man in the United States and even the world.
But people who really understand the market are dismissive of this kind of boasting.
What is Wang An Computer Company?
What are their main products?
Computer?
No kidding!
Their main product is just a typewriter computer!
Wang An's computer has the biggest role of word processing, but their word processing system has not been updated for a long time, or it has not been updated to the point that users are satisfied.
Such a computer is fundamentally different from the smart computers launched by Apple, IBM, and HP.
Once these intelligent computers have received strong technical support and continue to evolve and develop, single-function typewriter computers will gradually be phased out.
Even the speed of this elimination is faster than everyone imagined.
And looking at the development route of Wang An's computer company, as well as Wang An's own decision-making, etc., it doesn't seem like the kind of forge ahead.
After all, Wang An's age is already so old, and he is focusing on cultivating successors, where will he desperately do the market?
Of course, even if Wang An Computer Company is thriving, as long as Yin Jun is allowed to get through the difficulties of the past few years, no matter how hard others work, it is impossible to shake Yin Jun's position as the richest man in China.
Because although Yin Jun owes a lot of debts, his career is also developing rapidly.
For example, the Kirin computer company, which has grown rapidly in the United States in the past few months, is an excellent example.
The executive operation recruited by the headhunter company for Yin Jun is called Baker Lee, who used to work for Hewlett-Packard Computer Company and was the manager of the sales department there.
The reason why Baker Lee can make Yin Jun take a fancy to him is not only that he has been the No. 1 seller of computers in Hewlett-Packard for three consecutive years, but also because he worked in IBM for six years before going to Hewlett-Packard.
Such a senior executive with deep qualifications and practical experience spent Yin Jun's annual salary of $3 million and promised equity incentives to poach him.
Originally from the sales industry, and was mentioned by Yin Jun a lot of future sales experience, Baker Lee recruited people aggressively, and began to form Kirin Computer Company, and then entered a vigorous development process.
Baker Lee first relied on his previous relationship to obtain IBM's computer dealership, and promised that the annual sales volume would not be less than 200 million US dollars, that is, almost 60,000 computers.
As a result, he not only obtained the distribution rights of IBM, but also received the largest discounts, and received the promise of the highest priority to meet the supply models.
Then he took out the 50 million start-up capital given by Yin Jun and took out 10 million to advertise and do activities at the gates of various colleges and universities in California, and set up huge display tables to show teachers and students the charm of computers and the various functions they have.
IBM's computers are the best computers today, at least in terms of hardware facilities compared to Apple's.
In addition, with Microsoft's Windows system, all the interfaces are opened, so that everyone can make software and publish software on it, which also increases the functionality of the computer.
There is also a free search browser released by Kylin Communications, which has hundreds of pages every day, which has passed the spider search catcher and entered the search field of the Internet, which can be searched and viewed by people.
This last advantage happens to be the biggest killer of computers.
Until the era of the decline of computers, in the era when it was replaced by mobile phones, search engines were still the most used tools by people.
With this weapon, Guge is still among the top three technology companies in the world, and it has never declined.
Search engines represent the exchange and dissemination of knowledge.
Children, including high school students and college students, who have begun to come into contact with society, are very active in their thirst for knowledge and exploration of the unknown.
They don't like middle-aged people, they just need to do a good job.
They are full of curiosity about the world and want to know many things.
It just so happens that computers and search engines give them these conveniences.
Not only can you learn about the latest technology, but you can also view all kinds of information on the computer, including those details that are not written in books.
Yin Jun remembers that when he sat in front of the computer for the first time, he started with a search engine, looked up another knowledge point from one category, and then looked at another ...... This continued on and on, and it didn't move for three hours.
The same is true for young Americans today.
After the staff had introduced and demonstrated how to use the computer, the young people sat down and forgot about it.
Also forgot about the long queues in the back.
As a result, even if there are 10 or 20 computers on the display table, all of them are not enough.
In order to make it possible for everyone to experience it, one person can use the computer for a maximum of 15 minutes.
Even so, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., it is always full and waiting.
Every computer was surrounded by people and queues.
All right.
This display was conceived by Yin Jun.
It has proved that its effect is very good, and in just half a month, Kirin computers have sold more than 5,000 computers in various schools in California.
And that's just for the parents of the students.
What's more, many schools have also seen the infinite charm of computers and their development capabilities, so they are also actively negotiating with Kylin Computers, and finally they placed orders for more than 10,000 units!
For example, Stanford University, UCLA and other famous schools are purely local tyrants, and they obviously have a lot of computers before, but this time they saw such powerful computers, and they still chose to buy them in large quantities.
Stanford alone bought more than 700 computers.
In just one month, Kylin Computer sold almost 20,000 computers, and IBM Group couldn't imagine it while it was excited.
Today's IBM computers are not cheap, the low-configuration ones are around 3,000 US dollars, and the high-configuration ones cost 3,500 US dollars.
As a result, Kirin Computer sold $65 million in sales in a month in a blink of an eye, which is more ferocious than any dealer before IBM.
And that's not the final selling price of a computer.
Every computer sold by Kylin Computer has Microsoft's Windows system installed, and this system software is now priced at $666, so it adds up to almost $4,000!
Boy!
It's almost hundreds of millions in a month!
Or is it just in California, if it extends to other cities in the United States, like New York, for example, Cambridge, which has MIT and Harvard University, how many computers do you have to sell?
As a result, IBM's department head immediately made an active appointment with Baker Lee, lowered the shipping price again, and once again gave the maximum shipping speed commitment, as long as the Kirin computer sells more, IBM will definitely not be stingy!
For IBM, the most important thing for them now is to capture the entire market.
Once they have the largest market share, they will be able to defeat the powerful and pedantic Apple and become the king of the computer industry.
IBM hasn't tried a new project for a long time, and computers, which represent the future of technology, are definitely a breakthrough.
For this reason, they will not be embarrassed even if they give up more profits.
Because of IBM's active support, Kirin Computer Company began to attack aggressively in June, expanding its business scope to 15 major cities in the United States, including New York, Chicago, Miami and other places.
With a strong reputation, they have not only sold to students and schools, but also to many large and small companies, so that they can also use computers to work.
As of September, Kirin Computer's sales have exceeded 800 million US dollars, and in almost half a year, it has fulfilled its original commitment to IBM.
Kirin Computer's profit has also reached $100 million!
Microsoft is second only to IBM, because the successful sale of 150,000 computers also represents the entry into the market of 150,000 computers with Microsoft Windows system software installed.
When they are familiar with the Microsoft Windows system, they will definitely recommend the Windows system to their relatives and friends, which will bring about an increase in popularity and market share.
This is also of great significance to the expansion of Microsoft's market share, even more so than the computer is to IBM.
Because Bill Gates is not sure when another operating software will come out to compete with Microsoft.
Therefore, the sooner the market leadership is determined, the sooner more people can use and get used to the Windows system, which is what Microsoft has been working hard recently.
Unexpectedly, a god teammate like Kirin Computer came, and Microsoft was naturally overjoyed, and even the sales rebate given was much higher.
The sales volume is amazing, the profit is high, and this benign development momentum also makes the entire Kylin computer employees full of enthusiasm!
They don't know where their limits are, but becoming the number one in the United States is not a distant goal!