The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 354 Some complaints

The small manufacturer, whose combined annual sales volume is barely 100 million, said that its biggest competitor is Matrix, whose annual sales volume of Mphone3 alone is fifty times that of theirs.

This is just propaganda, just like Lao Luo claiming that Smartphone is the best smartphone in the Eastern Hemisphere. The subtext of this sentence is that Apple is the best smartphone in the Western Hemisphere, and Smartphone can compete with Apple.

It is a good strategy to stay in publicity. For example, whether it is Xiaomi or Huawei, they will always compare Apple's flagship phones this year when doing publicity.

This helps companies help users quickly and accurately position their products. Oh, this company’s smartphones are benchmarked against Apple.

But if the founders take it seriously and really think that Apple is their biggest rival, and even refuse some opportunities because of this, this is very arrogant behavior.

For any company, emerging investment is a golden sign. This is a sign that will be more useful than Sequoia Capital in the future. Especially for cooperative companies in the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, everyone will look up to you because of this.

Not to mention that Emerging Investment has invested in a large number of companies related to the smartphone supply chain, which can provide great assistance to Meizu's development, such as helping Meizu book the first launch rights for Xinxin Technology's new generation smartphone chips.

The support Cao Yongluo can give is limited. Even when his grandfather is still in power, it is difficult to provide direct assistance, not to mention that his grandfather has retired, and his father and uncles have not been able to make further progress. In addition, Pengcheng is not within the influence of the Cao Yongluo family.

Although Pengcheng is the enclave of Yanjing's old money in Guangdong Province, you still have to plan in advance. Without layout, there will be no influence.

Apart from money and limited resource support, Cao Yongluo couldn't offer much.

So Cao Yongluo himself was surprised that Huang Zhang would choose him instead of Xingxing.

Zhou Xin said while playing with the shadow of later generations, but there are many different Meizus, he said: "It is a good product and has its own characteristics.

From the product itself, I don't think there is any problem, but from a business perspective, I don't know.

In many cases, whether a company can succeed or not depends on its products on one side and its management on the other. "

Meizu and Huang Zhang are unavoidable topics in the history of the development of smartphones in China. I got up early and rushed to the late market.

The Flyme system itself is doing very well and has a group of die-hard fans. At its peak, it could compete with Xiaomi. It is no exaggeration to describe it as a first-tier brand.

Later, due to a bunch of decision-making failures, it was completely reduced to a scrap in the market share statistics, and was even sold to Geely.

So if there is no investment, there is no investment. Zhou Xin doesn't care much. Meizu is no longer worth his time.

Cao Yongluo nodded: "Yes, I talked with their founder. He is a very proud person, extremely confident, and only believes in himself.

I have been running Yongxin Technology for so many years, and to be honest, I have been through a lot of pitfalls. I think the size of Meizu is something I played with five years ago. Although he listened to some of the suggestions I made to him, I I can tell that he doesn't agree with my suggestion.

Maybe he didn't even think about it seriously and combined my suggestions with the problems he encountered in actual business operations.

In addition to this, he does have a certain concept of product design and smartphones.

Maybe success means being paranoid.

Based on my understanding of Meizu, it is a bit difficult to make a big profit from this investment, and it is a bit difficult to build a first-tier brand, but it will not be a loss. At least as long as the current volume is maintained, this investment will not be a loss. "Cao Yongluo has a strong desire to complain.

There were usually too many people flattering him, but it was rare to see Huang Zhang with such pride. Cao Yongluo felt that this was a personality trait.

Zhou Xin laughed: "Hahaha, that makes sense.

I also feel that I am always right. If the whole world disagrees with my point of view, then the world is wrong. "

Cao Yongluo waved his hands repeatedly: "Because you have been proven right too many times in the past, you will become more and more confident.

Take Madoff for example. All electronic payment institutions are cooperating with Madoff. Only you don't believe him. In the end, you are proven right.

At least tens of billions of dollars of profits are placed in front of you, and you can resist the temptation. This is too difficult. Isn't it because Yan Hong failed to resist the temptation that he did it so ugly?
However, Huang Zhang has proven himself that he can achieve millions of shipments through Internet marketing, which is not easy. "

Zhou Xin said: “Their operating system is very thoughtful, and some details are polished well, which can be seen from the inside. This requires a very paranoid personality to force the R&D team to polish the system.

It is also a mobile operating system based on Android, but what Sony does is very perfunctory, with almost no personalized expression.

Of course, it’s not that the original ones are not good, but the smartphones produced after Sony and Ericsson parted ways gave me a kind of stack of hardware. Apart from the good quality of the hardware, there is nothing worthy of praise. "

Cao Yongluo said: "This is true. Domestic smartphone manufacturers generally have their own design language in the operating system."

Zhou Xin: “So in places like Southeast Asia, except for Samsung, Neon and Goryeo brands obviously cannot sell well with Chinese brands.

Because their system design is far less user-friendly than Chinese manufacturers. "

Cao Yongluo: “Yes, except for Mphone, I think other foreign-made smartphones that cost several thousand dollars are not as good as Xiaomi.

By the way, recently Xinxin plans to acquire some technologies from Sumitomo? "

Zhou Xin said: "Do you know all this? I remember the news hasn't been made public yet."

Cao Yongluo said: "That's for sure. Neon Media is reporting that Sumitomo Chemical has welcomed a big buyer from China.

Besides Xinxin, who else can be the big buyer in China?
Neon Media did not mention Xinxin by name, but everyone knows who has the money and willingness to buy Sumitomo Chemical’s technology at this point in time. "

Zhou Xin said: “Yes, China has developed well in the semiconductor field in recent years, but we still have many shortcomings. If we don’t buy these technologies now, we will not have the opportunity to buy them so easily in the future.

With emerging investments as the main investment subject, and New Core Technology's investment companies as supplements, our goal is to spend all the US$200 billion in cash on hand during the financial crisis, including investments, acquisitions, patent purchases, etc. In short, we plan to spend as much as possible. Not a penny left.

If you don’t spend it now, you won’t be able to buy it later if you want to. "

Zhou Xin’s arrogance made Cao Yongluo take a breath of cold air. He said $200 billion as easily as drinking soup: “Bulls.

I invested several hundred million, and the unit was still RMB. I felt heartbroken. I was afraid that the investment would fail and you would just go out with 200 billion US dollars. "

Zhou Xin thought to himself that this was nothing. After 2016, a large number of Chinese companies would invest overseas, with a single project worth tens of billions of dollars.

"It's okay. To be honest, if Americen is willing to sell Applied Materials to me, its current market value is US$300 billion. Even if it comes with a 100% premium and US$600 billion in cash, I would be willing to buy it."

Zhou Xin doesn’t have that much cash on hand. If Washington is willing to sell, he is willing to cash out NewPay and Riot Games before buying them.

He asked Henry Paulson about it, and the Treasury Department had no objection. The problem was that the Energy Department refused to agree, claiming that it would not sell it for even 600 billion, let alone 1000 billion.

"The problem is that American disagrees, saying that I am wishful thinking and don't focus on American's core enterprise." Cao Yongluo was speechless: "You are much higher level than me, I'd better do the work at hand first. All right."

After finishing speaking, Cao Yongluo suddenly became serious: "By the way, I have one more thing to remind you.

That is, are there any entrepreneurs around you who are trying to trick you? The general meaning is that when private capital develops to a certain level, you need to fight for more rights and interests.

For example, according to last year's statistics, private enterprises accounted for more than 70% of the country's total employment and more than 90% of new jobs. "

The accurate statement here should be that private enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households account for more than 70% of all urban employment nationwide and more than 90% of new jobs.

"In fact, the food of these employed people is provided by private enterprises, so private enterprises should have more say."

What Cao Yongluo actually means is that the economic base determines the superstructure. Private enterprises have mastered a considerable part of the production materials, so they will try to fight for corresponding rights and interests.

Zhou Xin roughly guessed what the other party was going to say: "I've heard of it."

Cao Yongluo continued: "If they want to encourage you to stand out and speak out for everyone, and fight for more rights and interests for private enterprises and private capital, you must not listen to such words.

No matter how nice they say it, don't be the one who stands out. "

Zhou Xin thought to himself, isn’t this what Jack Ma meant at the Bund Financial Summit?

"You know I don't like to be in the limelight, so how could I make such a statement?

Besides, if Shen Hai and Yanjing hadn't insisted on giving me a bunch of political identities, I wouldn't even want them, let alone fight for more rights.

I just want to do things well, and I don’t care or value the rest.

For me, I can directly contact the people above Yanjing through Shen Hai. Is it possible that I fight for others? "

Cao Yongluo nodded: "That's good, I'm just reminding you.

Avoid being deceived into trying to be a leader. Although you won't be directly affected if you do, there will always be consequences in the long run. "

Cao Yongluo actually understood why the overall economic situation waited until 18. This is because these private entrepreneurs have more rights and interests after obtaining the means of production.

Cao Yongluo's ability to see this now is undoubtedly related to his growth background and the information he has been exposed to.

"Do you think I feel like a big tree now?

The scale of Xinxin is too big, and many people in Yanjing can’t stand me? Zhou Xin suddenly asked.

This is normal. Globally, China's business environment is considered to be above average, but there is also a lot of plunder and robbery.

It's just because Zhou Xin has a halo as a talisman, and he is low-key enough to do things in a low-key manner and be a low-key person.

Cao Yongluo shook his head: "You don't have to worry about this. You are the richest man in the world. Xinxin has a $1000 billion portfolio and is a high-tech enterprise. Who else can play well except you?"

Xinxin also owns Xiaomi, which was valued by Wall Street at around US$1000 billion before the financial crisis.

After the financial crisis, thanks to the impressive sales of Mphone3, the valuation of Xinxin Technology did not drop.

"Xinxin directly provides tens of thousands of jobs, all of which are high-paying jobs. There are thousands of upstream and downstream companies, and it indirectly supports at least hundreds of thousands of people.

Besides, after you return to China, you will be China’s business card around the world. Who dares to touch you?

Besides, even if everyone has ideas, they don’t have the courage.

On the contrary, they are very envious of me. I can get on the line with you and cooperate with you to create such a big dish as Yongxin Technology in a completely legal and compliant manner. "

Zhou Xin asked: “Didn’t Xinxin Technology’s chip manufacturing company open its doors for everyone to invest?
I remember that many second-generation investors in Yanjing invested, ranging from several million to as much as 3000 to 7 million. They guaranteed an income of no less than [-]% every year, which is not a lot.

In ordinary years, there are returns of more than 10%.

If the U.S. dollar appreciates, the return in a better year can reach more than 15%. "

Zhou Xin knows how to share profits. Of course, what he shares with everyone is incomparable to what the real estate company shares with everyone.

Companies like Wanda and Evergrande urgently issued additional shares to a small group of people on the eve of their listing in Hong Kong. Then after the listing, these people cashed out and made a fortune.

Cao Yongluo smiled bitterly: "It's true that the income is not low.

It’s much higher than banks, but the problem is that it’s still too slow for them to receive money.

How should I put it? This is a kind of drought and flood guaranteeing harvest, and it is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine that is slow to take effect.

If these people want to engage in Western medicine, it is best to give them injections. Once the injection is administered, they will immediately become excited.

For example, before the launch of Xinxin Lithography Machine, they would be more satisfied if they were given a private placement of additional shares, or if they were asked to urgently join Xinxin Lithography Machine, nominally given management positions, and then given strategic allotments.

Zhou Xin, I didn’t say there was anything wrong with what you did, I just pointed out their hyena nature.

Human nature always has to look forward to Shu. "

Zhou Xin was helpless: "It seems that I will ask you for advice next time."

Cao Yongluo waved his hand: "No, you are strong enough, you don't need to worry about their feelings, and they can't find any fault with your current behavior.

Besides, the inheritance of power will gradually shrink, so there is no need to feed them. You are not engaged in real estate, and you do not need to obtain land at low prices from local governments.

What you provide are jobs, massive investment, and high-tech enterprises. The local government is eager to provide you with convenience. The path you take is different from that of others.

I'm just sharing the case. "

Zhou Xin and Cao Yongluo have been dealing with each other for many years, and they know that the other party has no intention in this regard, and that they have a deep relationship of interest. Cao Yongluo would like to remind him that there is no need to beat around the bush.

(End of this chapter)