Giant of the times

It is certain that IBM is dissatisfied. After all, Li Zetian poached so many people.

Seagate Technology now has 65 people, all of whom are engineers, which is already very large for a newly established company. This shows Li Zetian's determination to enter the disk field. Currently, Seagate Technology is temporarily living in Apple's headquarters building and will move out after it grows in size.

In fact, in addition to floppy disks and hard disks, Li Zetian also plans to let Seagate Technology enter the CD, VCD, and DVD fields. The CD standard was to be launched in 1980, and now it is 1975. Li Zetian naturally wants to cut off the nonsense, and cut off Sony's nonsense!

At this moment, a meeting was being held in the Seagate Technology conference room. Li Zetian sat in the first place, with Tian Shuai, Zhang Han, and Wozniak sitting on his left, and Alan Shugart and several senior executives of Seagate Technology sitting on his right.

Seagate Technology needs to do three things right now,

Li Zetian said in a deep voice:

First, establish a floppy drive department. IBM's 5.25-inch floppy drive is about to be developed. We will not make 5.25-inch floppy drives and go straight to 3.5-inch floppy drives. We will try to launch 3.5-inch floppy drives before other companies!

Second, establish a hard drive department to develop smaller and larger hard drives. It is best to be the first to develop a 5.25-inch desktop computer hard drive. When desktop computers are equipped with hard drives, it will inevitably promote changes in the entire PC industry and at the same time provide Seagate delivers huge returns!

Third, set up a compact disc department to develop CD laser discs that can accommodate digital audio! As far as I know, in 1972, researchers at the Dutch company Philips began to use laser beams to conduct research on recording and replaying information. In addition, in August this year, Sony's Nakajima Working Group invented the PCM Information Processor, which can record digital signals on magnetic tapes. Philips was a pioneer in laser video recording, and Sony was the first to develop digital audio signal technology. If these two companies join forces, they will definitely be able to develop an epoch-making recording medium - what I call a CD! I even dare to predict that CD laser discs will definitely replace the most popular LP vinyl records!

Except for Tian Shuai, everyone present was an engineer, so they naturally understood what Li Zetian was talking about. Tian Shuai has been with Apple for so long. Even if he is not proficient in professional things, he still understands what these things are like.

Alan Shugart frowned and said: Mr. Li, the first two points are easy to say, but the development of the optical disc department is not easy. We are already far behind Philips and Sony. I don't know if we can catch up.

Well, this is indeed a problem. Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, and then said: I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to catch up with Philips' laser storage technology, but we still have a chance to catch up with Sony's digital audio signal technology. Go after it! No matter what happens, Seagate can become a member of the CD standard setters and establish a CD patent pool with Philips and Sony!

When Alan Shugart heard this, he couldn't help but nodded secretly. CD standard setters authorized each other to form a monopoly patent pool. If CD laser records can replace LP vinyl records, Seagate Technology will benefit greatly!

Li Zetian looked at everyone at this time and asked in a deep voice: Do you still have any questions that you don't understand? Or do you have any good suggestions?

Everyone shook their heads.

Li Zetian announced: Okay, since everyone has no problems, Seagate Technology's early development strategy will be based on the three points I mentioned!

Yes!!! Everyone responded in unison.

Since then, Seagate has embarked on a hugely expensive research project, which will probably burn money in the first few years! However, the money is worth burning.

Storage technology is one of the core technologies of future technology. From floppy drives, hard drives, CDs, and DVDs in the early stage to cloud computing, cloud data, and artificial intelligence in the later stage, storage technology must be used in all walks of life.

With Seagate in hand, I have storage!

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At the end of October 1975, Panda Express opened a branch in San Francisco's Chinatown, but Yu Jingqiu did not come. She went to school as a senior and would graduate in May or June next year. Li Zetian attended the opening ceremony of this branch, and then reached an investment intention with his father-in-law Yu Jingshan. Li Zetian personally invested US$400,000 in Panda Catering Group, holding 30% of the shares. He took the US$400,000 from Sunbird Company, which is a wholly-owned company of Umbrella Company. No one would say anything if he took US$400,000 away. Besides, Sunbird is very profitable and will release Game-Watch again in December. Li Zetian later checked and filled in the gaps, and ordered the developers to add some easter eggs to each game, which could be beautiful women, interesting sentences, scenery photos, etc., so as to arouse the curiosity of the players and make them unable to extricate themselves and continue to play through the levels.

The other two shareholders of Panda Catering Group are Yu Jingshan and Yu Jingqiu, who hold 40% and 30% of the shares respectively.

Obviously, Panda Catering Group has developed into a family-owned enterprise, and the shareholders are all members of the same family.

Panda Express is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panda Catering Group and currently has two branches in New York's Chinatown and San Francisco's Chinatown.

However, after receiving investment from Li Zetian, Panda Restaurant Group quickly opened a branch in Chinatown, Los Angeles. In addition, under the introduction of Li Zetian, Yu Jingshan met with Maxwell, the director of First Intercontinental Bank, and borrowed US$3 million from the bank to prepare for the establishment of a business in seven cities: Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Boston, Houston, and HSD. Chinatown copied the successful model of Panda Express, established branches, and quickly occupied the market.

People have to eat every day, so it doesn't matter if fast food restaurants open a little faster. Moreover, the location chosen by Panda Restaurant Group happens to be one of the top ten Chinatowns in the United States, so it is not considered a blind expansion! With Li Zetian's help, Yu Jingshan's career ushered in a second spring. This time, he is more motivated than before. He gets up early and goes to bed late every day, working hard. It seems that he is determined to open Panda Express all over the United States and even the world.

As the saying goes: “Food is the most important thing for people!”

Catering is very profitable. Just look at companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, McDonald's, and KFC. There is no doubt that Li Zetian, who likes to make money and enjoys it, also wants to get involved in this industry. In addition, as a shareholder of Panda Catering Group, I have the responsibility to promote the rapid development of the company!

Therefore, Li Zetian began to pay attention to the development of the global catering industry in his spare time, and Starbucks first attracted his attention. Starbucks was founded in 1971, only 4 years ago. It has been carefully operating coffee beans, tea and spices. It is small in scale and has only 4 branches in total.

Li Zetian was both surprised and happy.

As long as you raise a little money, you can buy Starbucks!

However, when talking about Starbucks, we have to mention one person, he is Howard Schultz.

It was he who led Starbucks to glory and established a coffee empire with a market value of tens of billions of dollars! ! !

After receiving his bachelor's degree in business in 1975, Schultz entered Xerox's New York branch and got a job as a salesperson. It was a good job for a student who had to pay off school debt at the time. But soon, he switched jobs to a company that imported Swedish kitchenware and became the vice president of the company's U.S. branch. While selling products, he discovered that a small company in Seattle called Starbucks purchased many coffee machines from him. He was curious and went to Seattle to see what happened. There he saw Starbucks, which specializes in selling freshly brewed coffee, spices and other condiments made from coffee.

Soon, Schulz realized that he would have to deal with coffee for the rest of his life. He said to himself: When I came here, the first thing I smelled was the aroma of coffee, which was completely original. I felt It’s like a diamond in the rough and I have the ability to cut it into a brilliant jewel.”

In 1982, Schultz resolutely resigned from his position with an annual salary of $75,000 and joined Starbucks as the coffee shop's retail business and marketing director. This year, he communicated with the original founder of Starbucks and hoped to expand the business to open coffee shops, but was not recognized. So, in 1986, he chose to resign and raised funds to establish his own coffee company. After just one year, he made a lot of money and in turn acquired Starbucks. Then he resolutely gave up his own brand and officially started Starbucks' entrepreneurial journey! Five years later, Starbucks was successfully listed on the NASDAQ in New York and entered the fast lane of development.

Li Zetian couldn't help but think, as long as he acquires Starbucks now, he will be Jiang Taigong fishing, and Howard Schultz will take the bait!

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