wild 1995

Chapter 83
August 1995, 3, 2 am.

After getting up, Di Ye looked at the rising sun outside the window, imitated the way he wished Kevin Mitnick half a month ago, counted money, and said softly: "Yahoo! Happy birthday."

This day is the day when the superstar Yahoo of the Internet 1.0 era was officially established. At this time, the company’s valuation is 400 million U.S. dollars. When it goes public in April next year, its market value will be about 4 million U.S. dollars. At the peak in 8.5, the market value was as high as 2000 billion U.S. dollars. With such an exaggerated increase, it is only appropriate to count money to bless it.

After entertaining himself, Di Ye went to the hotel's gym to exercise, but he only worked out for more than ten minutes without sweating much. Xia Jianwu came to him and said that he would take him to eat the best soup dumpling in Jinling.

"Looking at the blackness of your eyes, did you indulge too much last night?"

"What a ghost! Last night I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about whether to cooperate with Panda Electronics, but I suffered from insomnia."

"Then have you thought about it?"

"If I think about it, I will suffer from insomnia? Don't practice, just walk with me to the Gulou Square. Walking can also exercise your body."

Di Ye lived in the Jinling Hotel in Xinjiekou, about 2 kilometers away from the Gulou Square. It was not too far to walk there, so he went back to his room to tidy up, changed his clothes, and followed Xia Jianwu while walking north along Zhongshan Road while chatting.

"Do you think it is really possible to hold Panda Electronics in the future?"

"Let me tell you a few recently collected data. You can reason based on these data. After all, I am not from Panda Electronics, and I don't know the specific situation of your company."

"You said."

"First, in 1994, domestic TV production exceeded 3200 million sets, ranking first in the world; second, there are currently more than 60 TV manufacturers in the country; third, in 1994, the penetration rate of TV in urban areas was 110%, and that in rural areas was 90%."

Since there was no Internet, Di Ye developed the habit of reading newspapers after time travel. He had to read more than a dozen different types of newspapers every day, and asked Xiaohonghua to record some important information, so all kinds of data came out of his mouth. After speaking, he asked: "Second brother, if you were the leader of Panda Electronics, what kind of decision would you make when you saw these data?"

Xia Jianwu didn't even think about it, and immediately said: "Price reduction! Fight a price war, kill those small and medium-sized manufacturers, and seize their market share."

"Smart. Do you think the current leadership of Panda Electronics will do this?"

Xia Jianwu snorted and said, "Of course not. Panda Electronics has poor management, the cost of TVs remains high, and there is little room for price cuts. Moreover, those leaders are busy going public now, and they only want to maintain the status quo. They have neither the motivation nor the courage to fight price wars."

"How much of Panda Electronics' revenue is related to TVs?"

"Over 80%."

"In this case, if Changhong, Konka and TCL start a price war, how long can Panda Electronics last?"

Xia Jianwu frowned, and after calculating for a while, he said: "The last time we were talking about "Red Fan District" in Yuncheng, we discussed the future of the VCD player. At that time, we agreed that it would be updated around 1998, right?"

"Yes."

"From 95 to 98, three years... If the price of Panda's TV does not drop, it will probably last for three years. Do you think I can earn the money to buy Panda Electronics after three years?"

Di Ye couldn't help laughing, and said: "With your current mentality of looking forward and backward, it will be good if you don't go bankrupt in three years."

Xia Jianwu himself laughed, and sighed: "The main reason is that except for the younger sister, the rest of our family have worked in Panda Electronics. The relationship is very deep, and it is difficult to let go of it for a while, so we are worried about gains and losses."

"Your elder brother also worked at Panda Electronics?"

"Yeah, he used to be a buyer at Panda Electronics for a while, and he became a secretary in the municipal government after he met his sister-in-law. My grandparents also worked at Panda Electronics before, and they are veterans."

"Your family is really loyal from generation to generation."

After teasing Di Ye, he tightened his clothes and said, "If you are free these two days, take me to visit my eldest brother and sister-in-law."

"How about having a meal together at noon today? My dad has long wanted to see you."

"Not at noon, I have to go to Jinling University later, in the evening."

Xia Jianwu was a little curious when he heard the words, and asked, "You don't even plan to go to Jinling University to study as a graduate student, so what are you going to do?"

"I donated 20 yuan to Jinling University yesterday. In order to thank me, they arranged for me to give an academic lecture today and visit the State Key Laboratory of New Computer Software Technologies."

"Damn it! You have cheated my sister away, and you are so stubborn that you don't want to give me money. Jinling University has nothing to do with you. You just pay 20 yuan for a trip. Is it reasonable?"

Di Ye squinted at him, and said with contempt: "For those CD players sold by Section Chief Wang, I let you take more than 70 in kickbacks, and you have the nerve to cry poor?"

"I helped you delay the payment for the CD player and the decompression card for a month, which made you earn an extra 327 million yuan on the 700 treasury bond futures. Isn't it right to take kickbacks?"

"Speculation in futures is my own skill, what does it have to do with you?"

Di Ye and Xia Jianwu taunted each other and came to the Gulou Square, walked into the second floor of the Gulou food store in the northwest corner, and found a restaurant called Jiming Restaurant, where the business was extremely hot, and the window for taking meals was crowded with people, the scene was not inferior to the ticket office of the train station during the Spring Festival travel season.

"Today is Thursday, and there are not many people. If it was the weekend, I wouldn't dare to bring you here."

The two squeezed in the crowd and waited for nearly 10 minutes before they got the four-cage soup dumpling and two bowls of egg soup. Di Ye tasted it under Xia Jianwu's guidance.

Xia Jianwu ate several steamed buns in a row, and after satisfying his desire for tongue and tongue, he suddenly had a great understanding and said with emotion: "A man, if you don't live with five dishes, you will die with five meals! I decided to take a gamble and cooperate with Panda Electronics. We will jointly acquire it in three to five years."

"You look so stern, you don't have enough confidence, after all, you still want to drag me into the water."

"Who made you bolder and better at making money than me?"

Xia Jianwu took a sip of the shredded egg soup to dissolve the greasiness caused by the soup dumpling, and then continued: "The leaders of Panda Electronics are all wastes who don't seek merit, but seek no faults. I guess they will only invest in the brand and some fixed assets. They will not give real money. I am afraid that the funds are not enough. How about you offer 300 million for 30% of the shares?"

"How many shares do you plan to give to Panda Electronics?"

"No more than 30%."

Xia Jianwu has many advantages, such as high emotional intelligence, strong professionalism, and keen business sense, etc., but his shortcomings are also obvious. He is indecisive and not decisive enough. Therefore, Di Ye did not believe his rhetoric just now, and said: "Go and talk to the leader of Panda Electronics first, and then come to me after talking."

After eating the soup dumplings, Di Ye took a taxi to Jinling University. Professor Xu personally served as the introducer and helped him give an academic lecture attended by more than 200 people to promote the concept of open source.

Since Di Ye was going to Pengcheng soon, the schedule was very tight, so the lecture was held in a hurry. There were no manuscripts and no slides. Professor Xu and others thought that the effect would not be very good, so they made temporary rescue preparations, but the result surprised them.

With the help of Xiao Honghua, Di Ye completely unscripted and talked for more than two hours, starting from the Unix operating system of Bell Labs in 1970, and continuing to talk about the release of the 1994BSD operating system by the computer research group at the University of California, Berkeley in 4.4. Interspersed with major events such as the free software movement, Unix copyright disputes, and the birth of Linux, he instilled the concept of open source in students by combing history.

This period of history is far from magnificent, but Di Ye’s lectures are full of wit and wit. Words such as “freedom”, “rebellion”, “changing the world”, and “challenging business giants” fascinated and excited the students who came to the lecture, and produced excellent publicity effects.

"Di Ye, your memory is also very good. You can quote a lot of scriptures and quotes word for word. No wonder you got more than 490 points in the test."

"It's a pity that your eloquence is not a teacher. After finishing your doctorate at Yunda, are you interested in teaching at Jinling University?"

"Di Ye, sort out the content of this lecture, combine it with the previous articles and compile it into a volume. I will find a publishing house to publish it for you."

After the lecture, Di Ye communicated with several professors for a while, and found that Xu Chenye stayed by and kept winking at him, so he understood and said with a smile: "Brother Xu, you are a native of Pengcheng, you have also participated in work, and have rich social experience. Are you interested in being a nanny for undergraduates for three months?"

　I didn't finish writing last night, so I'll fill it up now.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)