Chapter 181 [Lao Xu Comes to Run Business]

Samuel Pamisano, the head of IBM at the time, was not idle, and after the incident, he began to run, made several trips to Wall Street, and met with Lloyd Blankfane, the newest head of Goldman Sachs.

It is worth mentioning that the core layer of Goldman Sachs has entered a major adjustment since the beginning of this year, and the former head Henry Paulson has stepped down.

The board of directors of Goldman Sachs Group Coin has decided to appoint Gary Cohen and Jon Winkreed as the next group president and co-chief operating officer, and to include them as board members of the group's executive office, reporting directly to Lloyd Blank Vanne, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs.

These people are all cattle people in North America, and there are too many "Goldman Sachs" figures in the North American authorities, and Luo Sheng's embrace of Wall Street is undoubtedly a very correct choice.

These cattle are the real local snakes.

Samuel Pamisano came to him this time, and Goldman Sachs undoubtedly supported it, IBM and Bluestar Technology all had Goldman Sachs' interests in it, and it was not a small amount.

Lloyd Blankfane gave Samuel Pamisano the contact information for a person.

This man's name is Obilu.

A committed speculator, born in Florida, he worked as a lawyer for Weinberg, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, and his wife now works for a foundation at Goldman Sachs, and six years ago she ran for the state legislature under the sponsorship of the late Weinberg, serving as a lawmaker and as a visiting professor at the University of Florida.

Weinberg donated money to the school, and the school reciprocated Obilu with a high salary, all legally.

But this kind of money can't be free.

Obilu is a very straightforward speculator who plays py trading, to put it simply, you give me money and I will help you make more money, and he belongs to the kind of person who will not disobey his key supporters even if he is pointed out by a thousand people.

Samuel Pamisano left Wall Street and followed the contact information to find Obilu, tens of billions of dollars of business cooperation, involving the vital interests of multiple investors, is enough to drive a large group of people behind the non-stop running, active operation.

The strongest fortress must have been breached from the inside, and it can also achieve the effect of four or two thousand pounds.

Luo Sheng did one thing, divided the interests with Wall Street, and didn't have to do anything else.

If even Wall Street can't settle down, Luo Sheng, as an outsider, can't do it, so he has to withdraw the plan to build four major data centers in North America, and cloud computing services can only withdraw from the North American market.

Of course, Bluestar Technology will receive a huge amount of liquidated damages paid by IBM for this, and IBM will lose this order and give it to competitors.

However, Luo Sheng is very optimistic about Wall Street.

In order to promote this international business cooperation, IBM did not hesitate to threaten the North American authorities, and if it was obstructed, it would move the company's business out of North America one after another.

This is a tried-and-true move by North American tech giants, who have moved their factories out and hollowed out local manufacturing, leaving locals unemployed, and in fact a large number of North American multinationals are moving their factories to emerging market countries in order to save labor costs.

For example, Guancheng in Huaguo is a good choice.

The labor cost in North America is really high, and the current General Motors is the most typical example, which is still struggling to support, but its core management has felt the imminent crisis, and it will face the crisis of bankruptcy and reorganization next year.

This matter can be big or small, but Luo Sheng is not worried about it, he believes that Wall Street has the energy and relationship to settle these things, because it is in the United States.

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While Lao Mei was trying to stop the expansion of Bluestar Technology Group's business in the North American market, another person came to the headquarters of Bluestar Technology.

On the afternoon of May 19, in a reception room of the company, Luo Sheng sat down opposite the visiting guests and said with a smile: "I was wondering what kind of wind blew you here." ”

The guest who visited was Xu Zhijun, the head of Lens Semiconductor and one of the core managers of Huawei.

"Bluestar Group's recent actions are bigger and bigger, regarding the concept of cloud computing you proposed, Huawei is currently doing internal research, and I feel that it is necessary to participate in this matter." Xu Zhijun said with a smile, he didn't beat around the bush, opened the conversation box and bluntly said the purpose of coming, and then added: "To be honest, I didn't come here this time because of Lens Semiconductor, but for Huawei to run business." ”

"Running business? Come to me? Luo Sheng looked at the other party with interest.

Xu Zhijun said with a smile: "You signed a server order of more than 24 billion yuan with IBM, which is equivalent to about 36% of the total sales of Ploughshare last year. ”

Hearing this, Luo Sheng seemed to understand his intention, and Huawei had begun to actively prepare to enter the server market three years ago, which was a marginal industry developed by Huawei in addition to its core business.

Once an enterprise grows bigger, it will adhere to the consolidation of its core business, and at the same time, it will inevitably expand to the edge of the business, so as to diversify its development.

"Frankly speaking, Mr. Xu, I am just the beginning of building three data centers in China, and it may increase tenfold in the future, and in the future, I can give some orders to Huawei's servers, and even all the data centers in the mainland, I hope to be able to hand over the list to you, but you have to get the technology up, I heard that you are cooperating with Intel?"

Hearing Luo Sheng say this, Xu Zhijun was stunned for a while, and suddenly his spirits were lifted, and he subconsciously said: "Really? ”

Luo Sheng sighed instead: "The company's investment in building a data center in North America, Lao Mei has begun to make it difficult, and all kinds of excuses are making excuses to prevent my expansion in the North American market. By the same token, if the American semiconductor companies don't supply me, it's not just a problem for the North American market. If I can do it on the server, I won't have to worry about the potential hidden dangers at this level in the future. ”

That being said, Luo Sheng firmly believes that once the United States finds that once it passes normal competition and finds that North American companies can't beat it, it will definitely use unconventional economic means to suppress it, including but not limited to technological blockade, market blockade and other means.

Xu Zhijun couldn't help but sigh when he heard it: "I thought that the dazzling achievements of Bluestar Technology Group today, Mr. Luo must be the most proud, but I didn't expect the sense of crisis to be so heavy." ”

Luo Sheng smiled: "It's necessary to be proud, but it's not so bad that you can't get carried away." ”

Xu Zhijun laughed a few times and said: "This gives Huawei a big opportunity in the server market, we can get your list, and we are more confident to make a name for ourselves in this market." ”

Coming to see Luo Sheng this time, Xu Zhijun felt that the chances of convincing the other party should not be a problem, after all, this is also a technology from Lens Semiconductor, and Luo Sheng's Cote d'Azur company accounts for 34% of the shares of Lens Semiconductor.

As a new entrant in this field, especially in the initial stage, Huawei is most afraid of a large amount of investment in the early stage, and then it will not be favored by customers, and it will not be able to get orders and recover costs, which may lead to final failure if it forms a disgusting cycle.

The support of Bluestar Technology, and it is definitely a large customer, which means that the cost can be recovered and the money earned can be reinvested in research and development, thus forming a favorable two-way positive cycle.

Under normal circumstances, customers will never look for new players in the industry such as Huawei, but go to industry giants such as Dell, Intel or IBM, for the simple reason that it is affordable and guaranteed.

Only Luo Sheng will do this, dare to hand over orders to novices, and support the development of enterprises in the mainland.

There are not many entrepreneurs who can admire Xu Zhijun, but Luo Sheng is definitely one of them.

A consensus was reached on this matter today, and Luo Sheng decided to give Huawei a contract worth 1.5 billion yuan on the spot, and build a data center with 120,000 sets of servers with the server brand of Huawei in the future.

Huawei's products were not seen, and they took the lead in getting a large contract, which was undoubtedly a stimulant for Huawei's server business department, and saw Luo Sheng's determination to really support it, rather than verbal words.

But on the whole, it is beneficial for both Bluestar Technology Group and Cote d'Azur to be able to do it in the server market.

For Bluestar Technology Group, this is to improve its own ability to resist strikes to increase the cost of the opponent's strikes and thus reduce the enemy's willingness to strike, and for the Cote d'Azur company, it is real to be able to share 34% of the profits.

Luo Sheng won't do the server himself, even if he is a traverser.

Doing everything, it is equivalent to offending everyone, and spreading too big a plate will also bring more enemies, the key is that from a business point of view, it may not be able to bring the greatest profits, and it may also face the danger of collapse, Luo Sheng does not want to follow in the footsteps of Boss Jia in the previous life, although he admires Boss Jia's ability to fool very much.

The correct approach should be to have more friends and fewer enemies.

In fact, most of the successful tech giant groups are not kaleidoscopic, and they seem to be involved in everything, but in fact they are all marginal businesses, and more of a pit is just a pit.

At critical moments or when necessary, these edge services can be cut and abandoned at any time without having much impact on themselves.

Luo Sheng firmly believes that the right approach for a technology company is to focus on a few core businesses, mainly high value-added businesses, and then incorporate the edge businesses into continuous trial and error, and once it is determined that they will not become core businesses, they will be divested.

For example, giants such as TI, IBM, and Intel have all done this.

They pinch the core links of the industrial chain, those high value-added businesses, and then support the entire industrial chain, so that more enterprises can participate, expand the market, and exchange regional market access permits by ceding marginal businesses.

Bluestar Technology Group's business now seems to be a lot, at a glance there are already ten wholly-owned subsidiaries, and now there is a cloud computing service sector, Luo Sheng has also invested in the game industry and other marginal businesses.

However, if you think about it carefully, whether it is the blue space, the online video business, or the game business, these all focus on one core point, that is, the ecological chain built based on the data core.

Therefore, Bluestar Technology Group's cloud computing services did not set up a subsidiary to separate the business, but were directly operated by the parent company.

In the final analysis, big data is the foundation of Bluestar Technology, as long as the data is in hand, it is equivalent to having the ability to regenerate the broken arm, and its recovery ability is unparalleled.

Even if the vitality of other business segments of Bluestar Technology Group is seriously damaged or even enters an existential crisis, as long as the data core is not threatened, it will soon be reborn.

But this is not enough, Bluestar Technology still has a flaw, and this flaw will be perfectly solved with the Cote d'Azur company.

Luo Sheng's ownership of these two companies means that there is a closed loop from software to consumer electronics to create a perfect ecosystem.

And as the time is approaching day by day, the day of the Cote d'Azur blockbuster is getting closer and closer, and it has entered the countdown to the last three months.

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