Wall Street Legend

   Chapter 394 Release (2)

At present, Ye Dongqing has hundreds of millions of fans on Facebook. Facebook has more than 500 million global users, and it has not yet been listed. The estimated market value is more than 31 billion US dollars. With the increase in advertising this year, The market is expected to continue to rise, and the upward momentum is extremely strong.

  Through Apple, it has been advertising on Facebook since last month. After several rounds of advertising, people already know the specific launch time.

Coupled with the hype of the media, it should not be difficult to sell 200,000 units this year, but including Ye Dongqing, no one can be sure. After all, it is a new product that has just been launched, and the wireless network The popularization of transmission technology is not wide enough. Without the support of wireless network, this thing is not good at all, just like ordinary MP4 products on the market.

  Ye Dongqing has been waiting for this day for a long time.

  Since it was released in January this year, Jobs and Mr. Tim Cook, who returned to the position of Apple's operating officer, called to report the situation almost every other week, and encountered many problems in the mass production process.

  After more than five months, those were all resolved. The first batch of goods were stocked up and ready to be sold. I was worried that the market was not hot enough, and I didn't even dare to take out too much, hoping to slowly cultivate the market.

The foundry is Foxconn in Baodao. It is responsible for the transportation while cooperating with the production. It has to be said that it is quite good. Danshui Investment Group has paid attention to Foxconn’s parent company, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., and invested in MediaTek before. Japanese semiconductor suppliers are also very concerned.

  The appearance of iTouch made Ye Dongqing see the light. Under his instruction, a batch of assets with poor performance were cut off, a large amount of funds was withdrawn, and he tried to borrow about three to five billion dollars from the bank to expand investment.

  The handwriting is not small. Considering the total assets and liabilities of Danshui Investment, the bank approved it on the day of the application, and will transfer the funds to the account of Danshui Investment Group in the near future, and the hedge fund company is also ready to go.

This is the beginning of another major "battle", and the investment cycle may last for more than ten years. When the layout is completed, Ye Dongqing feels that he will almost enter the semi-retirement state, because the Internet market and a piece of meat bitten off by him , coupled with the field of mobile smart terminals, there will certainly not be a market comparable to it in the next two decades.

   Speaking of MediaTek, one has to mention Boss Zhang from Huaxia.

At the beginning, he and Ye Dongqing partnered to develop mobile phones, but in recent years, they have been doing well in recent years. Because of MediaTek's production capacity, when other companies entered the market, their joint venture Longteng mobile phones had already established a firm foothold, relying on lower prices As well as its durable and sturdy quality, it successfully opened a hole in the low-end mobile phone market and broke the monopoly of the mobile phone market by overseas companies.

Of course, many core technologies are still in the hands of foreign companies in Europe, America, and Japan, and the price of each mobile phone includes patent fees, but after all, it is a Sino-US joint venture established in China, and the faces of yellow races are still in the public eye. , Boss Zhang has been saying that it is a "national enterprise" in various interviews. Considering Ye Dongqing's Chinese-American identity, there is nothing wrong with saying so.

In addition to the founder of Sohu, Boss Zhang now has another identity. Last year, he sold more than 10 million mobile phones in China, with a sales volume of more than 10 billion yuan. He enjoyed tax relief and a net profit of up to Around fifteen o'clock.

I bought an advertisement for the Spring Festival Gala, and this year’s sales are even more amazing. After replacing the new shell and integrated motherboard, there is another high-end series. The total sales volume in the first quarter of this year reached more than 5.4 million units. Sending an email to Ye Dongqing to announce the good news, it's hard not to know.

Originally, Ye Dongqing's idea was to wait for the company to grow and then sell the shares in his hand for cash. This idea seems to be out of line with the status quo. The Longteng mobile phone brand has become a hen that lays golden eggs. More importantly, It is because he can achieve many layouts through this company, such as entering the upstream and downstream fields, and getting a share of the growth of a big country...

  Look back to New York.

  Queens, Brooklyn, Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, as long as there is an Apple store, there is a long queue in front of the door at this moment, the queue continues to the corner of the street, and it turns a corner.

Because it is the first iTouch, users have not yet liked the small mobile terminal products equipped with intelligent operating systems, so since the press conference, there has not been much confidentiality work, but through various channels, including the Internet, TV stations, magazines, etc. , Newspapers, etc. crazily brainwash potential consumers.

Trying to make them realize that the iTouch launched by Apple this time is a distinctive new product. Downloading game programs and chat programs through the wireless network are directly reflected in the advertisements, including watching TV, listening to music, Log on to the Internet, read e-books, take notes, set alarms, and more.

  Ye Dongqing thinks that the functions are relatively monotonous, the screen is too small and the definition is not enough, but in the eyes of other people in this era, this product is so cool!

They have been able to imagine that they lie on the bed and use iTouch to chat with friends through Whatsapp, watch news and listen to songs, etc., which was unimaginable before. Before, they could only sit in front of the computer and log on to the Internet. mobile phone, the Internet speed is so slow that people doubt life, and the cost is quite high.

The market heat is astonishing, including Ye Dongqing, Jobs, Cook and others, worrying is superfluous. In fact, at 7 o'clock this morning, when the Amazon online store opened for pre-sale, the first batch of 20,000 units had already been sold out. It only took three minutes, and this is still at four o'clock in the morning on the west coast, otherwise it would probably sell faster!

   This moment.

  Wearing a heavy down jacket like an ordinary person, Ye Dongqing was standing across the road with a hat and a mask watching.

  It was a bit cold in the morning, and the air quality in New York was also bad, so no one was surprised. Some guys who were queuing pointed at him. Seeing Ye Dongqing standing there, they thought it was another poor guy who got up late.

Familiar black and white Apple store signs, now the number of products in these stores is pitifully small, but almost every store is making money, because whether it is macbook or iMac, or the iPod that is about to withdraw from the stage of history , have achieved very good sales in recent years. From investing in Apple to now, Ye Dongqing has brought considerable returns.

  Drinking coffee, look at the team of almost two hundred people.

  Ye Dongqing understands that there is no need to worry about the sales volume. He has tried it for more than two months. This mass-produced iTouch is very sincere...

  (end of this chapter)