wild 1995

Chapter 91 Progress
After walking for a while in Central, Liang Botao and Di Ye sat down in a cafe and continued to communicate for about two hours. At around 11:25 noon, the two returned to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and were going to have lunch at the Michelin restaurant on the [-]th floor.

At this time, Xia Jianwu and Manager Wu had disappeared, and only Xia Fangfei stayed in the suite alone. She changed out of her cold-colored business attire and wore a colorful dress, looking charming and charming. When she saw Di Ye, she threw herself forward and gave him a warm kiss regardless of Liang Botao who was nearby.

"Mr. Di, I'm going to the bathroom."

"Mr. Liang, please feel free."

Liang Botao walked into the bathroom next to the reception room, took out a pen and notepad from his briefcase, turned to one page, and added seven or eight comments, such as "unique vision", "bravery", "insight into human nature", "humorous", and "generous hand" under the note written in the morning.

After finishing writing, Liang Botao read it again and felt that all the comments added up could not describe Di Ye's feelings to him, so he added a line at the bottom: "This person has great potential and is worth investing in. He should be listed as the company's core customers along with Li, Rong and others."

Liang Botao stayed in the bathroom for a few minutes, and then he heard a man talking outside, and then he went out, and found that Xia Jianwu had returned, holding a stack of typed documents, and happily said: "That kid surnamed Wu is such a waste, he handed over all the company's secrets just by scaring him."

"He filled his own pocket and stole more than 20 US dollars from the company. Of course, he couldn't help being scared. Fang Fei made a great contribution to this matter. As a brother, you should reward her well."

"That is required!"

Liang Botao glanced at Di Ye, saw him holding Xia Fangfei's hand, looking very intimate, so he took a deep breath, made up his mind, and said, "Mr. Di, do you need Peregrine to provide services for this investment?"

A smile appeared on the corner of Di Ye's mouth, and he reminded: "I have used some shady methods in this investment, which may affect your company's reputation."

"Finance is like war, winners and losers, no one blames the winners, especially in Hong Kong."

"Mr. Liang is flexible and admirable. No wonder he can become the father of red chips."

Di Ye's plan to invest in C-Cube was originally very simple and crude, but now with Liang Botao's assistance, he immediately became civilized and polite. When Sun Yansheng arrived in Hong Kong on March 3, he was greeted by a professional investment team composed of seven people.

Since Manager Wu had leaked the internal secrets of C-Cube to the sky, Sun Yansheng had no leverage at all. He only insisted on it for half a day before being defeated, allowing Di Ye to acquire 1000% of C-Cube's shares at a price of 55 million US dollars.

Monday, May 3.

Di Ye took 5000 million US dollars from the account of Peregrine Investment Company and transferred them to Goldman Sachs, Nomura, Walter, Bank of China and other securities companies, and continued to do long yen with 100 times leverage, but this time he no longer operated every day, but changed it to a long-term position based on historical data, and set a trading strategy of selling at 91.30 and buying at 80.00.

According to this setting, when the exchange rate of the Japanese yen reaches its highest point on April 4, the 19 million US dollars will become more than 5000 million US dollars. At that time, the reverse operation will be performed, and the long position will be changed to the short position. By the end of the year, the 6 million US dollar will be turned into tens of billions of dollars.

Of course, tens of billions of dollars is just a theoretical figure, and it is unlikely in fact, but it is definitely no problem to double or triple the 6 million dollars. In a word, for Di Ye, money is just a series of numbers, and there is no need to waste your thoughts on it.

The real thing to worry about is career, because career is hard.

There are two core businesses planned by Di Ye, one is open source software and the other is chip manufacturing, and these two businesses happen to encounter insurmountable obstacles. The obstacle of open source software is the lack of voice, and the obstacle of chip manufacturing is the lack of talents.

The software industry originated from the Unix operating system that was born in 1970. During the 1970 years from 1995 to 25, China’s presence was almost zero. There were neither technological innovations worth mentioning nor commercial companies that shocked the world. Therefore, the few open source articles published by Di Ye before the Spring Festival did not attract much attention on the foreign Internet, especially when Richard Stallman, the leader of the free software movement, posted an objection, and soon no one cared about it.

In order to promote the concept of open source, when Di Ye decided to use browsers as role models, he encountered another problem of discourse power, that is, W3C. W3C is the abbreviation of World Wide Web Consortium (World Wide Web Consortium).

W3C members come from top academic institutions in Europe and the United States, all of whom are well-known experts. It is impossible to listen to an unknown university student in mainland China. Therefore, if Di Ye wants to add various new technologies to the browser, and then turn these new technologies into common standards, he must challenge W3C’s right to speak, otherwise he will go back to Microsoft’s old path. When IE was in full swing in the late 90s, W3C and Microsoft saw each other. infinity.

It is precisely for this reason that Di Ye did not stay in Pengcheng to focus on developing the browser, but came to Hong Kong to make money and plot against Diana. The purpose is to use a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, he spends money to promote technology, and on the other hand, he creates fashion trends, promotes European and American netizens and Internet companies to follow the hype, and turns his technology into a de facto standard in a short period of time, forcing W3C to accept it.

As for the lack of talents in chip manufacturing, Di Ye can’t solve the problem for the time being, because in 1995, the scientific research conditions and living standards in the mainland were relatively backward, and it was difficult to recruit high-end talents, and the 909 project promoted by the whole country had not yet started, and there was no policy support for the time being. Therefore, he could only invest in C-Cube, a chip design company with low gold content, and accumulate some wealth.

Tuesday, July 3.

Sun Yansheng got the authorization from the C-Cube board of directors, and formally signed a shareholding agreement with Di Ye. Di Ye was going back to Pengcheng in the afternoon, and time was tight, so after signing, he immediately called Xia Jianwu over and held a meeting in the suite to discuss the production of VCD players.

"Panda Electronics has a branch factory for circuit boards. We designed the drawings of VCD players last year, and we are fully capable of producing them ourselves."

"I have already written the system control software. In this way, it only needs to be equipped with a movement and a server, and a DVD player will be produced."

Di Ye looked at Xia Jianwu's sketch of the VCD player's production process, and felt that there was nothing to add, so he asked Sun Yansheng: "Mr. Sun, which company do you think has better movement and servers in the market now?"

"Sony, Philips, and Samsung. Samsung is cheaper. They ordered 5 chips last month, and they should be preparing to produce VCD players."

Samsung was the first international brand to enter the VCD player market in mainland China, but it did not do so authentically. Instead of designing a circuit board, it directly soldered the decoder chip to the circuit board of the CD player. In essence, it was no different from Di Yongchang’s counterfeit products, so the quality was very poor, but the price was as high as more than 5000 yuan.

"Mr. Sun, I have an idea. We can cooperate with Panda Electronics to set up a research and development center in Jinling, integrate this set of production processes, make a solution, and sell it to small and medium-sized enterprises without research and development capabilities. This will not only increase the sales of chips, but also increase the overall profit. What do you think?"

According to the investment agreement, Sun Yansheng will continue to serve as the chairman of C-Cube and be responsible for daily operations. Hearing this, his eyes lit up and he said in English: "A very good idea!"

Xia Jianwu was a little impatient, and said dissatisfied: "Hey! You guys are doing this, why don't you confront me face to face?"

Di Ye glanced at him and said mockingly: "You have the brand of Panda and low-priced chips. If you can't handle those small and medium-sized enterprises, you might as well beat yourself to death."

At this time, Xia Fangfei, who was acting as a temporary secretary, knocked on the door and came in, and reported decently: "Mr. Di, lawyer Hu from McKenzie Law Firm and Professor Luo from Hong Kong Polytechnic University are here."

"Invite them in."

(End of this chapter)