Houston, Texas

Dell Headquarters, a boardroom.

"Michael, shareholders want to see the stock price rise steadily, rather than on a rollercoaster ride. Over the past two weeks, Dell shares have fallen 7% so far following the release of their first-half earnings reports. While the stock price has picked up recently, it is far from meeting the requirements of the board, and you have to come up with a plan to restore investor confidence. Klauslavt, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Europe and independent director of Dell, said with a serious face.

Dell has a total of 10 board members, and as the representative of Goldman Sachs at Dell, Krausslaw naturally wants to put pressure on Mike Dale to find a way to solve the current problem.

Unlike high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, Dell, which was born in Texas, the hometown of cowboys, has only been established for 13 years and is still growing rapidly, but in some ways, Dell is more like a traditional manufacturing company.

Mike Dale still had a smile on his face: "Relax, gentlemen, there will never be a shortage of spoilers in this market. I know that the recent stock price movement is due to the market's concern about the rapid growth of Matrix, but I will tell you that our opponents are IBM, HP, and Compaq, not Matrix, which has only one-tenth of Dell's sales. ”

"We're still growing more than 60 percent this year, and we're still the fastest-growing PC manufacturer in the country. In addition, the decline in operating profit growth is not due to the pressure of Matrix, but the fact that our layout in the server market has consumed a large amount of the company's cash reserves. But this is very necessary for Dell, whose future goal is to replace IBM as the world's largest computer company and system service provider, and the personal computer business is only a small part of it. ”

"So, I'm very confident about Dell's future. The current volatility in the stock price is only temporary, and I am confident that after the Q3 earnings report, Dell's share price will return to a stable situation and meet the board's target by the end of the fiscal year. ”

Dell's ten directors are hard to get together today, and after listening to Dell's explanation, their faces are also relaxed, this nearly 32-year-old genius has never let them down.

But Klauslaw remained unrelenting: "Michael, the directors need you to take stronger steps to ensure Dell's growth advantage in the market." ”

Mike Dale was already frustrated, and since he went public, he felt a lot more constrained. Whether it is a long-term strategy or industrial layout, the pressure on stock prices and investors go hand in hand, so he has to pay more attention to short-term goals to meet the needs of investors for stock prices.

Mike Dale was adamant, and while he was proud, he wasn't as unruly as Jobs, "Last week, our sales department reached a cooperation agreement with ConocoPhillips, and Dell will become one of ConocoPhillips' global partners, with an annual order volume expected to exceed $55 million. I will be disclosing this information within this week, and after doing so, I am committed to increasing my holdings of three million Dell shares, and I am confident in the future of Dell. ”

The rest of the board, with the exception of Dell executives, was happy, and that was good news. ConocoPhillips is a Houston company and one of the world's top 500 companies. Being able to get ConocoPhillips' orders is of course related to factors, but Dell's ability to win ConocoPhillips' orders when it first set foot in the toB market is a very great victory.

Krauselft couldn't help but smile, and Mike Dale quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Mike Dale is also smiling, but he has never been able to relax in his heart, and in the face of Matrix's strong rise, he has not thought of a better way to deal with it until now.

Zhang Chen's interview was broadcast on CNN's night time slot at 10 p.m. yesterday, and Mike Dale certainly already knew Zhang Chen's response.

In the face of Zhang Chen's ridicule, Mike Dale was not very angry. In the mall, what is needed is a cool head and accurate judgment, and impulsive people cannot achieve great things.

Therefore, in the face of the rush of reporters in the morning, Mike Dell just said lightly: "Wait until Matrix's turnover reaches half of Dell's and then he will point fingers." He tells a good story, maybe he can go to the talk show world after Matrix collapses. Provided, of course, that he is not deported for espionage. ”

Although Mike Dale said this, he also knew that a baseless accusation alone could not have a real impact on Zhang Chen. At the end of the day, the United States is a typical capitalist country, and ultimately it will be up to which company can achieve real victory in the PC business.

It's a long-term battle, and Dale is destined to have the last laugh.

Mike Dale is convinced of this.

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Matrix Building 1, Rooftop.

"Hey, doghead, get out of the way. "An engineer with a topless body, only a white cloth wrapped around his lower body, a traditional Egyptian necklace around his neck, and a mustache sticking to his chin patted the guy in front of him, who was also wearing ancient Egyptian clothes and a dog hood on his head, posing as Anubis.

"What a!?I'm Anubis!The greatest god of Egypt!Hahaha, Josh, your mustache is just like the underneath, haha, it's so funny. As soon as the doghead spoke, Josh heard that it was Valery, a colleague from his department.

Josh pouted: "You're ridiculous, look at it, there are no less than ten Anubis in the audience, it's really uncreative." ”

Valery was just about to sneer at each other when he heard the voice of a woman beside him, "Excuse me, please get out of the way." ”

Valery turned his head with great effort, his gaze glazed over.

Cleopatra!

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The black eyebrow-length short hair is adorned with a golden headdress, the soft and close-fitting golden silk dress is just right tightened at the waist and abdomen, making the curve of the whole body looming, and the white and well-proportioned upper arm is wrapped around a golden snake-shaped armband, the snake's mouth is slightly open, and it gently spits out the letter, as if it is choosing someone to eat.

The pale cyan eyeshadow is hit all the way to the sideburns, and the shadows on the cheeks are deliberately darkened with makeup, making the whole face more three-dimensional, diluting the original sweetness on the face.

Valery hurriedly stepped aside, his bulky headdress accidentally knocked on a pot of palm trees, and "Cleopatra" couldn't help but smile, attracting the attention of all the men nearby.

"You're so hot, make a friend. "There is never a shortage of suitors around beautiful women, even if they are engineering men, the desire to mate will not be weaker than that of literati.

Before the beauty could answer, all the lights of the makeshift stage were turned on, and the hired drummer of the Bon Jovi band beat a fine drum, and four palanquin bearers in ancient Egyptian costumes carried a wide throne from the back of the stage, and sitting on it was Zhang Chen, who was wearing a half-length shoulder-style Roman armor and holding a scepter in his arms.

Everyone let out a burst of cheers, the four palanquin men bent down to place the throne firmly in the middle of the stage, Zhang Chen walked down slowly, holding a scepter in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other: "Everyone, I salute many nights like today in the future." Now, I'm handing over the stage to the great Bon Jovi!"

"It's 。。。。。。 Caesar?" Cleopatra came to Zhang Chen, who had just walked off the stage with a cocktail, and Zhang Chen looked up and down, "Miss Barros? But unfortunately, this is not Caesar, it is Octavian, and I don't want to be a short-lived ghost. ”

Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows and drank down a cocktail he had just gotten from the waiter's tray.

(End of chapter)