Chapter 43: Mobile Phone Giants
Three months after Tomson's funeral, only a few months before the second anniversary of the establishment of Feitong, in the year of Feitong's establishment, the company's sales rose from one million to 100 million, and many executives, including Zhao Hongbing, have also become multimillionaires.
However, Zhao Hongbing is not satisfied with the status quo of Feitong at all, because whether it is a digital switch or a wireless paging system is the future development trend, now the first generation of paging system UU developed by Feitong is actually very similar to foreign MSN, and because the Internet has gradually settled down and entered the homes of ordinary people, most of the middle-class families in the city have installed 1M or 2M broadband networks, and naturally UU has also absorbed a large number of users.
"We must pay attention to the feedback of users, now there are only one million users in the country, we aim to expand this number to 100 million in five years, and we want to occupy more than 80% of the market share in ten years."
At a meeting of Feitong's internal executives, Zhao Hongbing put forward such a request, which can be regarded as Feitong's grand idea or goal in the future of wireless paging system.
Because Feitong is developing rapidly, the old office area of Huaqiangnan has long been unable to meet the work of hundreds of employees, and Zhao Hongbing has already bought the new office building, which is located in a 20-story building in the central area of Huaqiangnan, which is enough to accommodate 2,000 people working in it at the same time.
The board of directors of Feitong has also grown from the original five to ten people, in addition to Zhao Hongbing, Zhang Xiao, Da Zhuang, A Xin, Xu Bo and other original personnel, there are also many natural person shareholders and consortium representatives.
Of course, Zhao Hongbing still maintains absolute control of Feitong, accounting for as much as 60% of the shares, Xu Bo originally accounted for 18% of the shares, but after the follow-up capital injection into Feitong, his shares were diluted to 7%, and Zhao Hongbing, who originally accounted for 80% of the shares, was also diluted by 20%, which is roughly different from the original.
However, in any case, this is to allow Feitong to develop better, and if it can be listed on the Tangcheng Stock Exchange, the Nangang Stock Exchange or even the American New York Stock Exchange in the future, it will be the next round of take-off for Feitong.
"I think we can imitate an Internet company in the United States and create an online community, which is related to UU and called the UU community, what do you think?" Zhang Xiao responded.
As an IT student who came back from abroad, Zhang Xiao has been paying attention to the development of foreign Internet companies, and she deeply feels that the network community will be a trend in the future, but now there are only a few companies in China doing it, and the content is relatively monotonous, without much innovation, she thinks this is an opportunity for Feitong.
"Do you want to be an online community? Now that almost all of our resources have been invested in the construction of UU itself, I think this can be slowed down. Zhou Chang, a natural person shareholder, put forward a different opinion.
"Resources can be transferred, if you just look at the immediate benefits, it won't be long before our UU loses the support of users, you should realize that the current trend is online socialization, I expect that in the future people can achieve the purpose of communication and social interaction without meeting." Zhang Xiao continued to add.
Regarding Zhang Xiao's words, Zhao Hongbing naturally still supports it, because Zhang Xiao has always had advanced ideas in this regard, and he knows very well that Zhang Xiao will not give up.
"Then vote! I think I can wait anyway. Zhou Chang said dissatisfied.
As one of the few natural person shareholders in Feitong, Zhou Chang made a fortune in private equity in Shanghai, and later heard that there was a company in Tangcheng that was developing rapidly, so he directly came to Tangcheng to invest in Feitong, and this investment cost 200 million yuan, accounting for 5% of the shares, becoming the seventh largest shareholder of Feitong.
"How so? Pete, you have an idea! Zhang Xiao looked at Zhao Hongbing, looking eager for consent.
"Illya is right, Zhou, I think this matter can be put on the agenda, and in two days I will fly to Silicon Valley to see the company, and maybe I will be able to get the final answer. Don't argue, whether it's Illya or Zhou, I think it's all for the good of the company, that's all for today's meeting, adjournment. Zhao Hongbing's words did not leak, neither offending Zhang Xiao nor embarrassing Zhou Chang.
Compared with the online community, Zhao Hongbing feels that there is a more urgent thing at the moment, that is, the mobile phone giant Northink recently acquired the mobile phone business of the United States, and is still negotiating with Zhongsheng to acquire the other party's mobile phone business.
Feitong is ranked after Nuosenke, Japan and Japan, ranking third in the world's mobile phone manufacturers, of course, to reach this level, but also with Zhao Hongbing a year ago to acquire Kangle has something to do with Kangle, Kangle's original optical communications, electronic screens and cameras have an important impact on the mobile phone industry, it is no exaggeration to say that without the addition of these three departments of Kangle, Feitong could not have today's achievements.
It's just that now in the face of the challenge of the Norsenke overlord, Zhao Hongbing feels a little powerless.
After the end of the board of directors, Zhang Xiao did not go home, but found Zhao Hongbing and said: "Pete, I know that you are trying to save face for Zhou, but this matter must be put on the agenda as soon as possible, and I will accompany you to Silicon Valley in two days!" ”
"Illya, you see you're in a hurry, okay, just go! However, recently Northenke has been moving frequently, and I am worried that we will not be able to stand in the domestic mobile phone market! What do you think? Zhao Hongbing said worriedly.
"Northenck...... They are a century-old company, and they used to be very good at making semiconductors, but they didn't expect that they would be able to shine in this IT era because they are known for their exquisite workmanship. Zhang Xiao also expressed similar surprise.
"Alas! Even if you say that, I don't think there's anything I can do about it. Zhao Hongbing said helplessly.
"No, I'm not done yet! I don't think they're investing enough in smartphones, and I think there's one company in the U.S. that deserves our attention. ”
"Oh? What company? ”
"Colorful fruit company."
When Zhao Hongbing heard this, he shook his head and responded: "I have also heard of Caiguo Company, didn't their head Buchos be kicked out of the board of directors before?" As a computer company, I don't think there's much to challenge Northenck. ”
"No, you'd be wrong. Buchos has been invited back, it is said that the Caiguo company did not have this head, after several years of loss, almost to file for bankruptcy, and then the board of directors was forced to invite him back, this person is very powerful, is a genius, he proposed that the future will be an intelligent era, whether it is a computer or a mobile phone, the future is more intelligent than now. Zhang Xiao responded.
At this moment, Zhao Hongbing is becoming more and more impatient, he knows that as long as he grasps this intelligent era that Northenke is not aware of, maybe Feitong can get further take-off!