It's not easy for a new business to find people who are really experienced enough.

Especially for the manufacturing industry with a very long supply chain such as mobile phones, it is necessary to be able to know exactly which company can produce your parts and components, which is the most cost-effective, which requires years of immersion in the industry.

If everyone is inexperienced, the cost of trial and error alone is a high expense.

Take the Nokia 3210 as an example, it is equipped with a CPU MAD2PR1 Texas Instruments, and the display is a monochrome LCD display with only 64 PPI.

It also only needs the hardware of this parameter to be able to meet the software requirements of the phone.

Seamus doesn't necessarily know such details, but he knows how to find someone who understands them.

"I know what you're worried about, you're worried about investing in R&D all the time and not seeing a return on it.

And I am so young, I have never experienced failure since the beginning of my business, and other people have not been able to make a profit in Internet entrepreneurship for a long time, and some of them have not been able to achieve profitability until the company goes public.

But when I started my business, I quickly broke even in the early stage and then made a profit.

Therefore, I am worried that I will not have the patience to wait for the growth of the company, and I will not have the patience to invest in it all the time.

So you can't make up your mind, even if you've been convinced by me in your heart, your age doesn't allow you to take any more risks.

You're not short of money, you've got a perfect end to your career, and you don't want to make this risky attempt again. ”

Zhou Xin went on to say that he could tell from Seamus's expression that he was not wrong.

"But are you really willing? Nokia was almost driven out of the company, and after only two years as chairman, he left that position.

It stands to reason that when an executive like you leaves, even because of age, he or she will be rehired to revert to a fictitious position as an honorary advisor.

But you didn't, you ran from Finland to New York. ”

Seamus was not angry at all because of Zhou Xin's heart-wrenching words, "Couldn't it be because I like the climate in New York?"

I can't stand the long winters in that part of Finland at my age. ”

Zhou Xin got up and shook his head: "If you really serve the old, you won't come to see me." ”

Zhou Xin was engaged in semiconductor entrepreneurship before, and when he participated in the gathering of entrepreneurs and investors, he often heard them say that when digging neon high-end talents, as long as Americ Ken's suppression of neon semiconductor was mentioned, the other party was silent on the surface, but in fact he was heartbroken.

One of the typical cases is that Yukio Sakamoto came to China at the age of 72 and joined Unigroup Group.

Of course, there are also remarks that Yukio Sakamoto came to steal secrets and interrupt the research and development process of Huaguo Semiconductor, which is not enough, Huaguo Semiconductor is full of engineers from Wanwan, Gaoli and Neon.

It doesn't take an elderly person to do that.

Seamo's gray hair was slightly upturned by the wind, and his eyes suddenly became less cloudy: "Of course unwilling, unwilling may not be useful."

I have no regrets about coming to see you, you can gain insight into my fundamental appeal in just half an hour, and you are worthy of being the world's top Internet product manager.

It's no surprise that your ability to perceive people's psychology alone makes it a good idea to develop a range of great products like Quora, Riot Games, NewPay, and more.

The headhunters didn't know that I had left Nokia because of internal struggles, they thought I was old and therefore retired.

I didn't even meet them in person, including the president of Sony North America and the global vice president of Samsung Electronics.

I also want to take revenge on Nokia in the field of mobile phones, but it's too difficult, Nokia is powerful, I have been working at Nokia for twenty years.

Even well-known mobile phone brands like Samsung and Sony can only rely on the domestic market and barely compete with Nokia, and it is too difficult for you to build a brand completely from scratch to compete with Nokia. ”

Seamus naturally would not have imagined that the kingdom of Nokia, which seemed to him indestructible, would decline in just ten years and be packaged and acquired by Microsoft within fifteen years.

Zhou Xin said: "So why did you come to see me? ”

Seamus: "I'm curious about you, and I want to hear if you have any insights that would impress me." ”

Zhou Xin said: "I will combine Internet products with mobile phones to make a product that is differentiated enough for users to pay." ”

Seamus shook his head: "Nokia is already doing it internally, they are already working on a product to integrate Quora into mobile phones, and they should already be talking to Time Warner." ”

Quora no longer belongs to Zhou Xin, even if Zhou Xin is still in charge of Quora, he will not know such specific news.

It's just that before reaching a cooperation, Zhou Xin's consent needs to be obtained.

Zhou Xin said: "It's not Quora, I still have a lot of ideas to be able to use Internet products to occupy a place in the mobile phone market." ”

Seamus: "It's kind of overtaking in a corner, but it's also a problem, and that's cost.

Because the Internet products need to be realized through mobile phones, this has higher requirements for the CPU, memory and storage of mobile phones. ”

Zhou Xin nodded: "I have always positioned Matrix as a mid-to-high-end product, and we need to use product differentiation to enjoy high pricing."

Consumer electronics brands cannot only have one product, mobile phones, and other products can also enjoy the premium brought by the brand.

I can't tell you the specific product plan and design now, I can only say that I am not a momentary impulse, but a long-term plan.

Building a brand is far more inspiring to win than starting a business. ”

Seamus: "I need time to think, let me think about it as an old man." ”

After Zhou Xin left, Seamus took a walk in New York's Central Park, and called his wife by the way:

"Alena, Newman came to talk to me about work, he wanted to start a new consumer electronics company, and he wanted me to be the CEO of this company."

Alena, Seamo's wife, ten years younger than him, heard it on the other end of the phone: "Congratulations, this is a great opportunity. ”

Seamus asked, "Why do you say that?" The new company has nothing but the Newman name, and the likelihood of beating Nokia is infinitely closer to zero than that of Sony and Samsung. ”

Alena mopped the floor on the other end of the phone and said, "Seamo, you're wrong, it's an infinite number of times more likely to succeed than Sony and Samsung."

Because the probability that Sony and Samsung can beat Nokia in the field of mobile phones is zero, and the probability of this new company beating Nokia is close to zero, but it is not zero.

A number that is not zero is much better than zero, it means hope.

At your age, what you need most is hope, and with hope, people's mental state will be much better.

The reason we moved from Helsinki to New York was because you were in a bad mood all the time.

The traces of that company are all over Helsinki, and every time you see it, you get caught up in negativity, which is why we moved to New York.

And when you receive a headhunter call, it is obvious that the state of the whole person is different.

Because Newman gives you hope, with Newman's achievements, he is synonymous with miracles.

It is when you realize this that your mood is greatly improved. ”

Alena knew Seamus too well, and her words woke the other party up sharply.

Regardless of whether Matrix can succeed or not, with him joining, the probability of successfully defeating Nokia will be much greater, as long as this is clear, there is an answer to whether or not you want to join Matrix.

"Seniors, I'm sorry I answered the phone." After Zhou Xin finished speaking, everyone signaled that there was no problem.

After receiving the call from Seamos accepting the position of CEO of Matrix, Zhou Xin returned to his seat, and he continued to be quiet, listening to the bigwigs talk about the association.

The bigwigs present are Hu Zhengming, Yau Chengtong, Li Zhengdao, Ding Zhaozhong and Zhang Zhongmou (in no particular order).

The third thing I did when I came to New York was to discuss associations.

"I don't think there's a problem with the company's vision to promote scientific exchange between China and America.

But many other Chinese organizations also have this vision, is our vision a little different from other Chinese organizations? Yau Chengtong said.

According to rumors, Yau Chengtong's desire for power is very strong, and it is from this that he and Tian Gang's public tearing up after returning to Tsinghua University.

Zhou Xin had not been mixed with Yan Daming, where Tian Gang taught, nor at Harvard, where Yau Chengtong taught, so he didn't know much about it.

But judging from this meeting, the rumors are indeed groundless.

From the name of the association, to the vision, to the personnel access standards, it is basically Yau Chengtong and Zhang Zhongmou who are expressing their opinions.

Others, like Ding Zhaozhong and Lee Tsung-dao, think that this is okay, that is okay, anyway, you will be fine.

They will only feel that there is something that is not going to work, and they will not give advice.

And Yau Chengtong and Zhang Zhongmou will keep expressing what I think should be, and then try to convince others.

"I think we should strengthen the academic training of Chinese students.

I have seen many Chinese scholars, their ability is good, but their academic taste is average, which is not conducive to fully playing their role in academics.

Many Chinese students come to study abroad at Ameriken, working very hard and spending their time in the laboratory and library, but they lack communication and don't know which questions are good and which are really valuable to do.

I think we need to start from this aspect and teach them from the perspective of our seniors.

Both Mr. Li and Mr. Ding have first-class academic taste and have made first-class academic achievements. ”

Zhang Zhongmou disagreed: "We are an organization of scientific and technological talents, not only academics in academia, but also engineers in industry.

Engineers in the industry need to explain academic training?

This is a deviation from our organizational positioning.

I think this vision is sufficient to promote scientific and technological exchanges between China and Ameriken.

It's normal to have similar visions between different organizations, we just need to do our thing. ”

Today's update is over, and there will be more follow-up updates, as well as speeding up the progress

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