Chapter 373: The Capitalist (II)
"Valentine, I'm not as smart as you think, I'm just precocious, precocious, understand?" Li Mo said. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Don Valentine said nothing.
Li Mo didn't underestimate this person, to a certain extent, this person was quite close to the eyes of the traverser, if it wasn't for the foresight, Li Mo would be far inferior to him.
However, Li Mo was not depressed, when his foresight ran out, he would have accumulated terrible wealth long ago, money begets money, even if he did not have foresight, he would not have to worry about the expenses of his life. Can he still expect that in his lifetime, biotechnology can be developed to extend human life to the point of hundreds of years?
Li Mo also met with representatives of ABC TV.
He took out the videotape of "Journey of the Soul" and handed it to ABC TV to play, Li Mo did not give them money, nor did he ask them for money, just let them broadcast it for free.
The representative of ABC watched the tape and quickly said yes.
The first is that it shows the most realistic backward areas in China, the second is that there are some family members of Li Mo, which is also of great interest to American audiences, and the third is that after editing and processing, this documentary is really good.
I don't want money, why don't you play.
The ABC rep carefully took the video away.
Just in time, the Yili product launch began.
The products include IB game consoles, as well as 51 games, including dozens of old games by Nangong Meng, and 23 games developed by Yibao itself.
Because of the jump ticket for more than two months, Yokoi Junhei improved the IB game console again, and there were two opinions in the company at that time, one was that it was released on the old game console, which was actually the old game console, and it was also stronger than Nintendo's FC console experience. Then, with this improved technology, it will be improved again, and it will be released and sold as an upgraded version in the future. The second is to make every effort to disassemble and reprocess all the game consoles produced by Yibao's subsidiary in China to launch a stronger version of the IB game console.
The two opinions are comparable, Yokoi Junhei is a technical man, and he doesn't know what to do, so he fed back the situation to Li Mo, and Li Mo decided to adopt the second opinion. As a result, Yili incurred a loss of at least more than $3 million.
But it also shows Li Mo's attitude, if you want to do it, you will do the best.
Yibao's advertising has already begun, but the real thing is being shown to the world for the first time, and many reporters have come.
Americans also have self-esteem, and the game industry has been crushed by Japanese companies, and they are equally eager for Illy to succeed, at least as an American company.
At the end of the press conference, Gunhei Yokoi asked the reporter to take out the IB machine to experience it on the spot.
At the end of the experience, each reporter of Yili Company will also give an IB machine set and dozens of game cards. When you get home, you can play games and write reports at the same time......
From the perspective of the experience effect, the reporters are very satisfied.
But Yokoi still has some relatives, and the company has invested a lot of money, with cash alone reaching more than $500 million, as well as nearly $300 million in bank loans. If it can't be an instant hit, the company may not be able to win a bright future after investing so much money.
It can also be seen from Nintendo's attitude on some occasions that Nintendo is almost dismissive of Yibao, thinking that Li Mo is making the mistake of Ma Jian Zhao Kuo, and they also admit that Li Mo is very smart, but he thinks he is too smart!
Li Mo comforted Yokoi Junpei a few words.
The company includes two Japanese companies, with a total of more than 800 employees, of course, China's Yibao company is the production base, which cannot be counted, and only Li Mo has the most confidence in his heart.
Through experience, the IB machine is indeed better than Nintendo's current FC machine.
The most important thing is that Li Mo has Tetris in his hand, of course, Yokoi Junhei is also very cautious about Tetris now, but no one has fully realized its value, and even at the press conference, Yokoi Junpei launched two main games, one is Tetris, the other is a new game adapted from Jurassic Park, Yokoi Junpei put the two positions on equal value, in addition, Yokoi Junhei underestimated Square Enix's "Final Fantasy", and put it on which mini-games created by Li Mo are of equal value.
Li Mo also didn't say that if Yokoi Junhei could see its value, and others could see it, then this game would not fall into Li Mo's hands.
The facts also prove how terrible the consequences of Nintendo's negligence this time are.
Although Yili products were released very late because of the bounce, by the end of January 89, that is, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month of this year, in just eighty-one days, the sales volume of IB machines reached more than 2.21 million units, and more than 2.2 million boxes of Tetris game cards were also sold. Almost every customer who buys an IB machine buys the game card Tetris, which means that Tetris may have driven the sales of 50-100 IB machines.
But Jurassic Park's game cards only sold more than 400,000 boxes, not that the game is not beautiful, but that the IB platform is too small, and if it is placed on the Nintendo platform, it may be able to sell millions of boxes at the same time.
In addition, "Final Fantasy", which was ignored by Junhei Yokoi, also sold more than 300,000 boxes, of course, which mini-games created by Li Mo also sold well, with more than 200,000 boxes and less than 50,000 boxes, compared to this small platform, these sales are very optimistic.
Yibao product sales are not over here, with the increase of its reputation, the monthly sales are increasing, and the three companies of Yibao are broken up again, Yibao headquarters and Square Enix, Nangong Dream Company are still launching a steady stream of new games, at this time, Nintendo only felt a chill hit, but it can no longer stop the rapid growth of Yibao.
As Li Mo's most cash-out and the most complex business for shareholders, Li Mo must attend this press conference. He also playfully sat on the side and answered some questions from reporters.
However, the focus is not Yibao, to put it bluntly, Yibao is Li Mo's money-making industry.
If he can't get the intellectual property rights of Tetris, Li Mo will most likely not enter this industry.
Because as long as you can't get Tetris, most of the intellectual property rights will fall into the hands of Nintendo, and if you get Tetris, Nintendo will continue to serve as the overlord of the game industry, under the suppression of Nintendo, Li Mo will never have a chance to get ahead without Sony's various capitals.
Limer went to Pixar.
The product that Jobs and Jacobs pounded is what Li Mo pays the most attention to.
Jobs asked, "Lee, how is the development of your battery product going?" ”
This premise, that is, with the help of Jacobs, Jobs has verified the feasibility of what Li Mo called a "mobile phone", and has already manufactured a product in the laboratory.
Of course, it is not yet a mobile phone, one is the immaturity of all aspects of component technology, it is larger, much larger than the big brother.
However, this problem is not important, the important thing is whether the digital signal call can be realized, which is the most important condition for whether the mobile phone can be practical in the future.
Secondly, whether it is Qualcomm's TDMA or Finland's GSM, the technology is still not mature. Of course, you can't wait for them to mature before developing, by then it's too late, and there is no way to compete with big companies like Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens, and Nokia.
However, whether it is the emergence of laboratory products or the progress of Qualcomm TDMA and Finland's GSM technology, it has been demonstrated that this era of "Limo mobile phone" will come.
The battery that Li Mo said is very important, some patents, spending money to buy people may not sell to you, without patents, then have to use the patent licensing fee in humiliation, subject to others, it will also affect the brand, but also generate additional costs.
If you have the battery that Li Mo said, you can get a lot of patents, and you have all kinds of patents in your hands, you can sue me, I can also sue you, sue and sue, everyone has to give up.
Secondly, it is the relationship between volume and weight, without the battery that Li Mo said, the volume cannot be reduced, and the weight cannot be reduced.
Li Mo said: "There has been some progress, so when I go back, you will go to China with me to have a look." ”
Li Mo also talked about the research and development process, including some difficulties.
Jacobs asked, "Why does it have to be in China?" ”
It's your own person, and when it's almost time, Li Mo said: "Jacobs, if you pay attention to the news in my country, you should know that the price of goods broke a few months ago. China has reached a crossroads, there are several roads ahead, and there is no unity of opinion, and I am afraid that something bad may break out. If it becomes a big fuss, it may affect Sino-US relations...... We are businessmen, and politics has nothing to do with us, but politicians will force businessmen to bow to them. ”
"Politicians are a bunch of damn guys." Jacobs casually scolded, businessmen, have to pay taxes, and the more they pay, the more they hate politicians.
"Why does your dispute with China affect Sino-US relations?" Jobs, however, was a little confused.
"You Americans are strong, so some politicians want to make other countries kneel to them, Jobs, you also know, although China is poor, but the country is developing, the area is large, the population is large, let China make some concessions to the United States is okay, but let China kneel to the United States, will the Chinese agree, even I will not agree." Then when the time comes, some politicians will forcibly interfere in China's internal affairs. ”
Jobs cupped his eyes, shook his head and smiled.
He is not an ordinary citizen, and the US government will make him believe it if he says a few words.
In the final analysis, the United States still practices hegemonism, I have money, I have technology, I have military, so my fists are big, strong, and fast, and whoever doesn't listen to me, I want to teach him a lesson. But Jobs was still a little unconvinced, because the United States still needed China to share the pressure on the Soviet Union.
Li Mo said: "I am a businessman, a capitalist, and I go with the profits, but I really have a bad relationship between China and the United States, and my identity may be a little embarrassing, so I have made some arrangements and arrangements, Jobs, Jacobs, investing in China, but spending some more money in the early stage, once there are research results, China's production costs will immediately recover all the additional investment in the early stage." ”
Jobs nodded, acquiescing to Li Mo's statement.
Jacobs didn't ask much, he was still concerned about his Qualcomm, and said, "Lee, you'd better allocate some funds to me." ”
In fact, Qualcomm has signed a contract with Schneider Transportation, which has brought them a significant amount of revenue. However, compared to the research and development mentioned by Li Mo, this income is far from enough.
Originally, Qualcomm grew up normally, but Li Mo suddenly dialed them to the height of adults, even if they were developed, they would inevitably incur a lot of unnecessary expenses due to various restrictions.
Li Mo nodded.
This is still in the United States, if it is placed in China, now it is necessary to study the various key components of the mobile phone...... Don't even think about it.
A few people began to discuss various technologies.
Don Valentine called: "Lee, we've kicked Mr. and Mrs. Bossak out of management. ”
Li Mo said: "It's your Metasequoia Company, not us, and it has nothing to do with me." ”
"Li, you are also a major shareholder, and if you go public in the future, the stock price will rise, which will also increase your income."
"Valentine, I know better than you what prospects Cisco has. If I hadn't been optimistic about it, I wouldn't have joined Cisco. Even today's Cisco business policy is still the development plan I made with Ballmer. The company will be listed in the future and operate well, which is what your Metasequoia Fund should do, and if it is not well managed and the market value is not good, it is the mistake of your Metasequoia Fund. Since I have given you the right to vote, the decision is your business, not mine. ”
Kick or not, this notoriety, Li Mo will never carry it for them.
But Li Mo said that the capitalist, the Metasequoia Fund's approach, is a real capitalist, a group of businessmen who pursue profits. For a company, their practices are not necessarily bad, and indeed many small and medium-sized companies have made them popular. But for shareholders, or others, Metasequoia Fund is unscrupulous and unreasonable. Either stick to the bottom line and don't let them get a controlling stake, like Oracle, once they get a controlling stake, the founders will gradually lose their right to speak, even if it is the two founders of Google later.