Chapter 18: The Genius and the Madman (I)

Trouble-free citizens mean that it is not easy for Chinese people to come to the United States to make a living, except for a very small number of gangsters in Chinatown, the rest will abide by the law.

However, as a Chinese immigrant, Yang Zhiyuan was always asked where he came from before he became famous? His answer to this question is: San Jose, California. However, the questioner is always unhappy with the question, and they shake their heads and continue: "No, no, I mean where the hell are you from?"

Unexpected discrimination is always hurtful, and this communication is sometimes carried out in unfriendly forms, one of which is: cynicism. Some people will say, 'If you don't like it, you can go where you come from and go back.'" ’

This is not just a problem for Yang Zhiyuan alone, but a problem of widespread distrust of Chinese Americans in general. According to a 1996 U.S. public evaluation report, 45 percent of respondents believed that Chinese Americans would support their home country in the event of a dispute between the United States and China.

In the face of this discrimination, there are no more than two choices: to fit in or to stay away, and Yang Zhiyuan's choice is to integrate, so he even became the leader of a student club at Stanford.

Li Jiaming did not encounter this kind of problem, and he did not have the experience of climbing from the bottom in the United States. Although he was willing to hide behind Kyle and keep out of all the American media for the sake of the success of the iPod, for the Americans who knew him and the HH company, the Chinese kid was a genius, a genius of God's grace. For Americans who know about HH but don't know about him personally, that's a very shocking fact, how can the chairman of an American company be a non-American Chinese?

So when Li Jiaming appeared in front of all the members of Qualcomm's board of directors with Owen Jacobs in a wheelchair, he also encountered a question of trust: whether Qualcomm cooperated with HH or with a Chinese consortium.

Isn't it important?

It is very important, don't look at the Americans' arrogance, but this is a country with different hearts, the constitution guarantees that citizens have complete freedom, the first is the freedom to choose faith; but the first item of all sports competitions is to stand up and sing the national anthem and raise the national flag, and every major festival is covered with the stars and stripes, and the government and the people have spared no effort to educate the people in patriotism with various ceremonies.

Does this question really matter?

It doesn't matter, although these directors are all white Americans, they are not the kind of Americans who are enthusiastic about it, and they only have green dollars in their eyes. Of course, the premise is that Li Jiaming gives a reasonable statement, so that they can have an explanation on the scene.

Bullshit!

It's nothing more than discrimination, I think Lao Tzu is a yellow-skinned Chinese, and I want to make myself like those 'trouble-free' citizens, silently contributing to the company. Every time there is a general election, the presidential candidate will talk about human rights, and Congress will also talk about human rights every year.

Looking at Li Jiaming, who is actually arrogant, he can't play Yang Zhiyuan's set at all, he is used to reducing ten meetings with one force. Lao Tzu is more capable than you, so you have to listen to Lao Tzu and discuss well with you, that is for unity, in order to let everyone work together!

Li Jiaming, who had a sneering face, not only took a new director's questioning as bullshit, but also slapped him under his nose and said provocatively: "Oen, how can I smell a smell of rotting corpses, hasn't the Berlin Wall fallen yet?"

Robert, who was still lobbying Li Jiaming a few days ago, had a gloomy face and sneered: "Ming, young people should be polite! illiam, just ask who you are?"

, you know that you are the chairman of HH company, and you still ask such a question?

Li Jiaming sneered: "Robert, you have the opportunity to sit in this conference room by virtue of the family's shadow, and I rely on my own struggle. Take care of your dog, and have enough respect for a strong man like me!"

"I'm proud of my family!"

The shopping mall is like a battlefield, even if Li Jiaming and Robert are good friends, they will not save any face on this occasion, and immediately mocked: "No, that can only prove that you are incompetent!"

Gentlemen, I would like to ask you a question, in the nearly 200 years of American history, how many of the successors have surpassed the inherited? In the civilian society, perhaps everywhere, in the upper class, I only know that the little Ford is better than the old Ford, and the rest of the successors are not worth mentioning. What is even more tragic is that the heirs of those great people have not only become parasites of society, but many have also degenerated into scavenging vultures!

By the same token, why do you trust third- or even fourth-generation family heirs like Robert and not entrepreneurs like me and Owen?"

How did a good board meeting turn into a personal attack?

The angry Robert was so angry that he wanted to interrupt but was asked disdainfully by Li Jiaming: "Robert, the good tutor you have received since you were a child has not taught you a basic etiquette, is it very rude to interrupt others at will?"

"You!"

If you have to play hooligan with civilized people, Li Jiaming was born as a gangster, how could he talk about etiquette with these vultures dressed as gentlemen?

"Gentlemen, I have brought not only friendship, but also a great plan. In the past two days, some friends have listened to my plan, and I want to take this opportunity to tell you, do you have any opinions?"

This kind of vulgar style is also very disgusted by Owen, but on this occasion, he is very happy to see it happen, which has regained his ability to speak.

"No, child, you are a gift from God to Qualcomm. ”

Regardless of whether Qualcomm can exist tomorrow, in this conference room today, Owen, the chairman, will be able to control the flow of the meeting. Robert and the others were helpless, so they could only watch the company's VP Bruce set up the projector by himself like an office assistant, while the Chinese kid began to explain his views on the future of the Internet like a big man.

"Gentlemen, in June 1995, the Internet of Things was mentioned in the book "TheRoadAhead", but it was not widely taken seriously. In March last year, Professor Kevin Ash-ton of MIT first proposed the concept of the Internet of Things, and three months later, MIT established the "Auto-ID" (Automatic Identification Center', proposing that 'everything can be connected through the network', clarifying the basic meaning of the Internet of Things......".

After speaking freely, Li Jiaming took out a black iPod2 from his jeans pocket, although it was rough to the eye, but he was very proud: "Gentlemen, this is the latest product of our HH company, iPod2, with the powerful performance of QC6522, it has fully realized its real-time connection with the PC.

We can foresee that with the development of technology, in the near future, as long as the capacity of lithium batteries and the miniaturization of wireless network cards are solved, the iPod can completely bypass the intermediate medium of the PC and directly connect with the Internet. Since iPods do, what about mobile phones?"

After a pause, Li Jiaming took the mineral water handed over by Bruce and moistened his thirsty throat, the potential battle between DMA and GSM, everyone knows in their hearts, as long as the trend of mobile phones can be connected to the Internet in the future, the rest is everyone's choice.

Are you sure?

No, Li Jiaming and Yang Zhiyuan, under the leadership of Bruce, visited several directors who live in San Diego in the past few days. Everyone agrees with his judgment, but without exception they are worried about the risks, as long as the GSM breaks through the potential bottleneck, the CDMA will also fail.

Now it depends on whether you dare to take risks, and whether you dare to bet that before GSM breaks through the field of analog communication, Qualcomm can forcibly push CDMA from the field of analog signals to the field of 2G digital communication.