Chapter 1217 Success and Failure (4k)

From the time he arrived in New York to the first week of August, Wang Xing, who had been granted a temporary vacation, followed Mr. Fang and had only one feeling - dizzying.

Cocktail parties, salons, symposiums, charity foundations.

Executives, congressmen, wealthy people, senior officials in Washington.

Wang Xing sometimes didn't follow you, but he would probably know what he was doing if he asked the boss's secretary. He was still polite at first, but soon became indifferent and just wondered.

"What does Mr. Fang do?" He took the time to ask with emotion on the day Liu Zonghong was left behind.

"It's been a while since I've been here. I'm meeting friends from all walks of life to see if there's anything that needs to be taken care of." Liu Zonghong explained.

"Why are there people like Geithner?" Wang Xing mentioned today's financial stewards.

"He and Mr. Fang are old friends. We knew each other when we were at the New York Fed. We didn't come here specifically to meet him. His home is in New York, and his son also attends high school here. He has often flown back and forth between Washington and New York in the past two years. ." Liu Zonghong said.

Wang Xing understood, nodded, recalled all the various people he had seen in the past ten days, shook his head, and sighed again: "I have barely seen anyone from the gang in the past few days."

"Hey, Fan Yuanzhi, please help Mr. Wang get a cup of coffee." Liu Zonghong glanced and happened to see Fan Yuanzhi, a second-generation man coming out of Chinatown, who had been deeply involved in Yike's overseas supply chain.

Wang Xing took the coffee and thanked the Yike employee across from him.

Fan Yuanzhi knew Wang Xing and knew that this was the president of Weibo, so he smiled at him and said you're welcome.

Wang Xing took a sip of coffee and said with a smile: "Mr. Fang is more complicated than I thought."

Liu Zonghong was a little dumbfounded: "Mr. Wang, hey, I'm Mr. Fang's secretary. If the boss asks you, should I tell you your feelings, or shouldn't I?"

"It's not in the way. I don't think Mr. Fang cares about this." Wang Xing said with a smile, "As long as we can complete the work... well, if we can complete the work and keep moving forward, this is the most important thing."

Liu Zonghong did not comment on his boss, but he did not refute Mr. Wang’s perception.

Wang Xing sighed again: "I see that not only is SIA here talking about the threat of ice core, but there are also more voices saying that Yike is a Chinese brand, and these troubles were not noticed in the country before."

Liu Zonghong also frowned and nodded. He knew some situations abroad better than Wang Xing, but before, he only read words and data. Now that he is facing it more directly, he feels very gloomy.

He took a sip of the soup and said: "Public opinion is a certain reaction. What's even more annoying is that there are people at USTR..."

Liu Zonghong suddenly stopped talking. Although it was okay to talk about this with Mr. Wang, this was new information on the boss's materials and had not been disclosed to the outside world, so it was better not to mention it.

USTR is the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. There are voices within it calling for a 301 investigation, which is a provision involving trade protection.

If the SIA's investigation report is just public opinion, then the USTR's internal investigation request is an alarming trend.

However, it is obvious that these are only inevitable manifestations under a certain situation. In the foreseeable future, there will be more and more such signals and even actions.

Wang Xing glanced at the boss's secretary, but didn't hear what was going on and didn't ask any questions.

Compared with what he saw today and the company's risks, he was more concerned about the new business direction that he had communicated with Mr. Fang before. Following the vacation, the people in front of him and the environment around him had changed, and more things did come to his mind. Lots of ideas.

With the popularity of smart mobile terminals, active recommendation of information indeed has an ecological niche.

As the president of Weibo, Wang Xing is increasingly aware that he must examine Weibo and his own future development from the entire system if he still wants to hang out in the Yike department.

But why not?

The Weibo platform has not yet reached its limit. Its future listing is a high probability event, and the advantages of the entire system's joint operations are fully revealed when competing with Penguin.

Wang Xing now wants to pursue "better" from "good", and the latter needs a higher ecological position in the system.

While eating lunch, he talked about his theory of "ecological position in the Yike system".

Liu Zonghong found it quite novel, and also came up with a theory of "biological son and godson" from his own perspective.

Wang Xing was stunned for a moment, but still felt that his own view was more fashionable and acceptable.

After finishing his lunch, he drank the last sip of coffee with unsatisfied taste. As soon as he took out his mobile phone, he smiled and said: "IDC is also one of my family members now, right? I saw the activity on Twitter."

IDC launched a topic discussion on Twitter this morning - the ten most successful CEOs and the ten most failed CEOs in the world in the past ten years.

The past 2000-2010 was the first decade of the 21st century, with the decline of giants, the rise of companies, and the dusk and dawn of the industry, so this topic of IDC was very...no waves.

There has been some movement on Fang Zhuo's Twitter recently. His number of followers was once among the top ten on Twitter, and a large number of them focus on business and finance, which is quite a bit like a vertical account.

He reposted the IDC topic and gave a candidate: Amazon's bald Bezos, who must be one of the most successful CEOs in the past decade.

Bezos noticed the praise from Mr. Fang and replied: Obviously, this is the correct sense from the most successful CEO himself. It would be better if you don't add a description in front of my name.

Fang Zhuo continued to interact with the big bald head: As one of my favorite candidates, if you have any mottos, they can be fake.

Bezos quickly replied: I swear, this is what I mean, and I insist on long-termism.

Fang Zhuo updated his Twitter and added Bezos’s words to his own.

Twitter fans thought that Mr. Fang would continue to update his views, but they didn’t expect that he would stop writing after mentioning such a name. He only gave the reason in the comment area: I am flying to Silicon Valley and I am busy. I will talk about this again when I have time. Topic, but I would say Motorola's Sanjay Jha should be considered a loser.

This is just an opinion in the comments section, but it spreads wider than his choice of Bezos.

Some people still don’t know why Sanjay was selected, and then they were exposed to the recent rumors that Google is going to acquire Motorola.

Coincidentally, the news was officially announced only the next day. Google acquired Motorola for US$12.5 billion, and CEO Sanjay Jha and other senior executives resigned.

Sanjay had just lost his company and was in a low mood. Another person x-on:himself on social media. When he saw it, it was a comment from the head of Yike, and he gave an angry counterattack.

"Just because I don't do insider trading or manipulate the market, do I deserve such an unfair evaluation?"

This refers to the two previous short selling suspicions of Yike.

To this day, there are still parties involved in suing Fang Zhuo, but the lawsuit process will be extremely long and the hope of winning the case will be extremely slim.

On August 10, Fang Zhuocai updated his news and responded to Sanjay's grief and indignation.

"Hey, Sanjay, what else do you want me to say when a company like Motorola is being sold in your hands? If I have to say something, I'll ask Schmidt, who I think is also a successful CEO, later. How does he feel about Google acquiring Motorola but not wanting you to work here?”

Fang Zhuo quickly posted a photo of himself and former Google CEO Schmidt in a car, and then updated the results.

"Since Schmidt has resigned as CEO and does not want to cause trouble for Google's public opinion, he can only smile at the situation that you can no longer lead Motorola. Look, he is no longer CEO. Look at what Schmidt has given to Google. What you left behind, let’s see what you left behind for Motorola.”

Fang Zhuo is very active on Twitter today.

"Bezos, Schmidt, and Jobs, these are the three most successful CEOs in my opinion in the past ten years."

"Sanjay, Nobuyuki Dei, and Kallasvuo, these are the three most failed CEOs in my opinion in the past ten years."

"Nobuyuki Idei built Sony into an irreversible mess. To this day, Sony under the leadership of Stringer has still not been able to completely get out of the quagmire left by the previous CEO."

"As the CEO of Nokia during its most critical period, Kallasvuo ignored the risk of Nokia's decline and was extremely slow to face the development of mobile intelligence. This is extremely regrettable."

"Oh yes, Schmidt said that if he had to leave one sentence, it would be 'never set limits on yourself'."

Fang Zhuo put down his phone and grinned at Schmidt, who was also scrolling through his phone.

The two were heading to Palo Alto, California, to visit Jobs, who had returned home.

Fang Zhuo originally called his old friend Schmidt. During the chat, he mentioned his plan to visit Jobs. Schmidt also had the same intention, so he called Jobs and made an appointment to visit Jobs together.

I haven’t seen Schmidt for a long time, but he is still in high spirits. Although he has resigned as CEO of Google, he is now working for the Pentagon, which is undoubtedly the second spring of his career.

"Some people are saying under your Twitter that you are missing a word from Steve Jobs," Schmidt said.

"I'll ask Steve Jobs when we meet him." Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly, "I didn't expect his body to reach this level."

Schmidt also shook his head silently. Jobs fell ill a few years ago, but this year it still seems quite sudden.

After a while, he talked about things related to the rich people in the East: "I read the conclusion of SIA, saying that Ice Core has become bigger and stronger in China, and the semiconductor industry has also developed rapidly along with it?"

Fang Zhuo has met many old friends and made some new friends these days. He has objectively seen that different people are more or less concerned about semiconductors.

Like ice cores, what does this have to do with Schmidt?

But, what is this called? People who are interested don’t need to be taught, they will just get on the pole and pay attention.

The expression on Fang Zhuo's face remained unchanged, and he mentally labeled Schmidt, who worked for the Pentagon, and said calmly: "There is development for sure, but when it comes to rapid development, how can it happen quickly?"

Schmidt stared at Mr. Fang with interest and said with a smile: "Why can't you get up quickly?"

"Schmidt, what do you think is the best way to limit the growth of another competitor in a market?" Fang Zhuo asked.

Schmidt pondered for a moment, thinking about the topic of discussion, and said slowly: "Dumping."

"In this case, what else is there to say?" Fang Zhuo said helplessly, "European and American equipment manufacturers have been accumulated for so long and provide stable supply chains and advanced technologies. Do you think that the equipment in the wafer factory can be replaced at any time? How to develop the so-called rapid development?”

He continued: "What's more, I am in the high-end business, which is based on global division of labor. Regardless of orders or suppliers, I am dependent on Europe and the United States. You SIA is really too vigilant in doing this."

Schmidt thought for a few seconds: "The ice core factory is located in China. It can drive development after all."

"We also have a factory in Germany, Deutsche Bank provides financial support. If you ask the Bank of New York to give me money, I can also build a factory here." Fang Zhuo complained, "From 10 to 11 is of course progress, and to 12 is also progress, but the previous is 50, and 100, why are you so nervous, and you still want no development at all, where is the perfect thing in the world?"

Schmidt smiled: "Just chatting, I am just curious about Mr. Fang's ideas."

It's okay to chat casually.

However, Fang Zhuo now meets people who chat with him casually about these things every day.

Schmidt said with a smile: "I have to add one more point to the answer just now. Dumping in the middle and low, and restrictions in the high end, this answer can get a higher score."

Fang Zhuo shook his head at this time and said: "It's not that easy. You have never done business in this area. I can only talk to you in general terms. It's meaningless."

He finally said: "But I firmly believe in globalization. As long as globalization exists, Yike's competitiveness will not be low. It doesn't matter if it is a little higher or a little less from a big cycle perspective."

Schmidt is indeed not familiar with the semiconductor industry. He nodded and said: "What Mr. Fang said makes sense, but the more reasonable Mr. Fang's words are, the more I can only believe it 50%."

"You are at Google, and the success rate of a project is estimated to be 50%. Do you make the decision or reject it?" Fang Zhuo asked Schmidt, who left "Don't limit yourself".

"Although they are two completely different things, of course I made the decision." Schmidt gave an unsurprising answer.

Fang Zhuo shrugged: "That's it. If any department asks you for advice in the future, remember our views. Even if they have a consensus, remember to oppose it."

Schmidt laughed: "How can I oppose it if we have a consensus?"

"If it is a mediocre consensus, it doesn't matter." Fang Zhuo said calmly.

Schmidt's eyes lit up: "This sentence is good. Change it to your Twitter."

Fang Zhuo asked: "Do you still want to attract supporters with famous quotes? Do you want IDC to give you an award?"

"Make a plaque with everyone's words engraved on it. This is also good. Let IDC, Twitter and YouTube jointly make one. How about it?" Although Schmidt resigned as CEO, he is still the chairman of Google. His ideas were stimulated and he thought of YouTube again. He continued to add, "I remember that I invited you and Jobs to YT once, and the response was very good. This time, if we can invite successful and failed CEOs, it will be a good event."

"Sanjay has been kicked out of Google, and he still has to suffer your anger. Is there any humanity?" Fang Zhuo criticized.

Schmidt still found it interesting. Success is often enviable, but failure can make people happy.

This time Google acquired Motorola, hoping to make the brand shine under Google. I don’t know if it will work, but I have to give it a try.

However, it is not easy when Yike, Apple and Samsung are so successful. In other words, it is not easy for any brand to challenge their position in smartphones now.

Schmidt glanced at Mr. Fang and felt that according to his personality, he would definitely not refuse similar activities.

If Motorola can take advantage of the situation to introduce new models and new news, it will also be a good publicity.

I wonder if Apple’s processor will be sold? What about Yike? That ZR series is actually pretty good.

Schmidt couldn’t help but think about it. At worst, the CMOS installed by Yike will be okay, right?

The car arrived at the destination.

“What do you think Jobs is thinking about now?” Schmidt said this before meeting Jobs.

Fang Zhuo shook his head and found it difficult to guess.

Soon, both heard Jobs' first words after the meeting, and they both agreed to post them on Twitter.

"iPhone 4S is not the best phone in my heart."