Chapter 245: Microsoft Corporation
After entering the United States, Zhao Chen did not go directly to David Rosen, the current president of Sega, but came to Warner Group first and met with Warner's senior leaders, including the current president of Warner Group.
After a year of cooperation, it can be said that Zhao Chenhuana Group attaches great importance to it.
Zhao Chen met with the senior management of Warner Group, and explained the purpose of this visit, hoping that Warner Group could help negotiate and collect information about Warner in the United States.
Zhao Chen believes that as long as Warner Group, as the head snake of the land, agrees, then the success rate will undoubtedly be much greater, at least he will have the possibility of competing with Sega in the United States.
Honolulu, Hawaii, looking at the towering building in front of him, Zhao Chen couldn't help but feel a little emotional, this is the Sega Games Company that is now in the waning mountains.
Due to the recession of the U.S. economy, David Rosen has not had a good time in recent years, and in addition to Sega Games, it has many other assets that need to be rescued. In desperation, he moved the idea of selling Sega.
Over the years, Sega Games has become famous as a game company on a par with Sony and Nintendo. There are also many wealthy people who are interested in acquiring them, including IBm and Microsoft!
It can be said that in addition to Hayakuo Nakayama, IBM and Microsoft are also not to be underestimated.
It's just that IBm's focus is mainly on computer development, and if it wants to acquire Sega Games, it can be regarded as investing in the future.
As for the current Microsoft company, it is not a giant in the future, and it is currently a little dependent on IBm.
In 198o, IBM selected Microsoft to write key operating system software for its new PC, which was a major turning point in the company's show. Due to the tight schedule and complexity of the program, Microsoft bought the rights to Qdos, an operating system, from Patterson, a programmer in Seattle, for $50,000. It was partially rewritten and provided to IBm and named it microsoftdos. The popularity of IBm-PCs has made MS-DOS a huge success, as other PC manufacturers want to be compatible with IBm. MS-DOS is licensed to many companies. So in the 8o's, it became the standard operating system for PCs.
And in 1983, Microsoft signed a contract with IBm. BasIc interpreter for IBmpc, as well as operating system. It is because of the cooperation with IBm that Microsoft's sales can be described as skyrocketing. By the time next year, Microsoft will have sales of more than $100 million. Subsequently, Microsoft continued to develop software for the computers of IBm, Apple, and Radio Equipment.
In other words, although Microsoft is now in a high exhibition, it is undoubtedly painful to want to acquire Sega Games. Similarly, Microsoft is mainly focused on developing software. How can they lose their greatness because of the small?
It can be said that although IBm and Microsoft are equally competitive, they are not Zhao Chen's biggest opponent due to their own reasons, and the biggest opponent may only be Hayao Nakayama, the current vice president of Sega!
After negotiations with Warner Group, Zhao Chen easily obtained the permission to buy Sega. Of course, in order to make a deal, it will undoubtedly need to convince David Rosen. After all, Hayabusa Nakayama has a great advantage. It can be said that the building near the water is the first to get the month.
Similarly, Zhao Chen also has his own advantages, that is, Qian Duo is a big man and has a wide connection!
It stands to reason that with Zhao Chen's fame, he doesn't need the help of Warner Group at all, presumably David Rosen also has to see it. But Zhao Chen invited Warner Group to help, which naturally contains inexplicable meaning.
There is no doubt that Warner Group is a giant in the United States, and there are very few companies that can compete with each other, and it is conceivable that such a large group has connections. And the reason why Zhao Chen helped Warner Group first was completely to deter David Rosen. Not only will there be more room for maneuver, but it will also be able to avoid David Rosen's lion opening his mouth, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Zhao Chen was waiting in the living room of Sega Games, David Lawson was currently very busy, and during this time, there were often rich people who proposed to buy Sega Games, and for his own interests, he could only talk slowly one by one.
Just as Zhao Chen was drinking coffee and waiting, two people came in from the door, looking at the familiar faces of the two, Zhao Chen almost choked.
He can say that he will be very familiar with these two people in the future. Of course, they belong to the characters who have been friends for a long time, they are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft! Of course, the current two are very young, and they have recently become young and rich, of course, they can't be compared with Zhao Chen.
Last year, Paul Allen and Bill Gates completed his last work for Microsoft: a new BasIc language. He had to leave Microsoft because he was diagnosed with some kind of cancerous syndrome. But he still holds a stake in the company and is Microsoft's second-largest shareholder.
This time, Bill Gates actually wants to buy Sega Games, but after all, the stakes are important, and Paul Allen, another shareholder of Microsoft, needs to agree, so they came to Sega Games together.
"Presumably the two are Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft, I am Zhao Chen, it's a pleasure to meet you!"
In the face of these two future tycoons, Zhao Chen would not put on a show, but came to the two of them and stretched out his right hand.
"Ah, no wonder it's so familiar, it turns out to be the grand pianist Zhao Chen!"
Now Bill Gates is a relatively pure otaku, especially in the past two years, when Microsoft has entered a high exhibition period, basically staying in the studio all day to design programming software. And Bill Gates knows Zhao Chen entirely because of the piano album "Breaking Dawn", because in order to avoid boredom, he will play music by the way when he is working.
"It's obviously a big screenwriter!" Paul Allen muttered beside him, although this guy is much more extroverted than Bill Gates, but since he was diagnosed with carcinogenesis syndrome last year, he has spent a lot of time either staying at home or in the hospital, and he is also not very clear about all aspects of Zhao Chen. It's just that Paul Allen watched "Home Alone" last Christmas, which had a deep impact on this film, and he often heard Zhao Chen's name. Over time, Zhao Chen is a big screenwriter in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, both of you, whether it's piano or movie screenwriting, it's just my spare job, my real job is comics!"
Zhao Chen was a little confused, but he still shook hands with the two and said that his main business was in comics.
After Bill Gates and Paul Allen glanced at each other, they could see the surprise in each other's eyes, they never thought that there would be such an oolong, and neither of them thought that it was just Zhao Chen's side business. couldn't help but shrug his shoulders at Zhao Chen to apologize.
After the two introduced themselves, Paul Allen took the lead and said, "Mr. Zhao Chen, don't you want to buy Sega this time?" ”
Compared with Bill Gates, who is still relatively sullen and silent, Paul Allen is obviously much more extroverted. In fact, to become the second largest shareholder of Microsoft, although the light was taken away by Bill Gates, Paul Allen also contributed a lot, especially when he introduced Bill Gates into this industry.
The way Americans talk is so direct, not like the Chinese people go around, and Zhao Chen also likes a more direct way, after all, it is too much waste of time and energy to go around.
The two of them are now blinded, and they don't know the true details of Zhao Chen, but even the two identities they know as a great pianist and a great screenwriter are enough for Zhao Chen to have competitive funds, which is what Paul Allen would say.
Of course, on the other hand, because the two don't know Zhao Chen very well, they think that even if Zhao Chen really has the intention of acquiring, they are afraid that they will not be able to compete with others.
This is Paul Allen's thoughts, if Zhao Chen knows his thoughts, he is afraid that he will laugh at it, this Paul Allen's idea is undoubtedly more strange.
Not to mention Zhao Chen's companies, the film "Home Alone" alone gave him a return of nearly $200 million. Similarly, the "Dawn" piano album has now successfully exceeded 10 million sales worldwide, and the surrounding words can also bring him a lot of benefits.
And the Tianxia Society in the island country alone has created hundreds of millions of dollars for him in the past three years, not to mention animation clubs, toy factories and other companies. If you count the various overseas branches, the assets have reached two or three billion US dollars, which is already a veritable rich man, enough to rank on the Forbes list.
"You're right, Mr. Paul, I'm here to buy Sega Games, and so are you!"
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