Chapter 1281 Sincerity (4k)

Objectively speaking, Bingxin encountering problems is the last thing the leader wants to see.

However, when the leader is Fang Zhuo, and when Fang Zhuo and Washington are obviously hooking up, the so-called last round of financing before listing is thought-provoking when viewed today.

Shao Zongming comes and goes like the wind. What should he do after saving money? He still has to continue working.

If he goes public, there will be a chance. If he doesn't go public, he will really cut his losses.

One rise may not be all rise, and one loss will definitely be all... loss.

It should be said that the name may be a bit conflicting, and the Yike system is really about to become a consumable part.

Yike 23 is as still as a mountain. Old friends and new faces of Goldman Sachs come and go. Their emotions will not cause any trouble to Fang Zhuo. The only focus is whether the work with common interests can proceed smoothly.

After November, the news of Bingxin's listing will be a small reminder, and there will always be some room for maneuvering.

However, once it is successfully listed, the channel for loosening will be opened, and the evolution of the relationship in the future still needs to be considered.

But compared to this year's public opinion, next year and the year after may be much more stable, and it will be a very good and rare development period.

Fang Zhuo knows that Bingxin is very anxious, that the upper and local governments are anxious, and that the upstream and downstream industries are also anxious. This urgency can only be digested with time.

The new Apple phone was released on the 28th, and the product news was not too unexpected.

The previously accidentally leaked phone fell into the hands of the media. Although Apple warned and claimed that it would sue the newspaper, they still fearlessly conducted research and exposure.

So, this is probably the least anticipated press conference since Apple released its smartphones.

Fang Zhuo compared his own mobile phone and felt that the sales this time should be quite good, because, compared with Trump and iPhone, Mars' style this time is slightly more radical, trying to expand the screen ratio.

In his own perception and aesthetics, this is a move that will be praised.

Of course, considering the perspectives of different groups, Slefy is still a traditional upgrade, and it still has a second-level price positioning.

Yike's internal meeting focused on discussing the official release of the iPhone, preparing for the busy work next month.

This year, co-founder Yu Hong will still host the new product launch conference. In addition to the two traditional series, the tablet products that were originally rumored to be unveiled have failed again.

The release of this news made the outside world believe that Yike may have given up the tablet product line.

However, on the second day of September, many foreign media received another latest news when they received the official invitation to Yike's press conference. Yike will launch Galaxy2 in March next year.

This will be an update after nearly two years, including the release of some product pictures on Yike's official website, which has brought certain expectations.

Galaxy2/Gaishi 2, will it be Yike's blockbuster work to reverse the failed product line?

On September 2, at Yike Global's online meeting, Yu Hong talked about the important innovation of tablets next year after talking about the usual operator cooperation in the United States.

"Is Bingxin's 28nm not going to fail? I'm watching the media news now, and they're discussing the pros and cons of 28nm technology all day long. I'm a little panicked."

Bingxin is about to conduct risk trial production, and then small-scale mass production.

Because of production capacity issues and considering the subsequent optimization, the first customer of Bingxin's 28nm process is Yike's tablet Gaishi 2. If everything goes well, the second customer will be Yike's Mars mobile phone.

"Don't worry, believe us." Fang Zhuo vowed, and interrupted Mr. Yu's next words, "If you don't believe me, you can call Dr. Liang directly after the meeting, or even listen to their face-to-face talk when you go to California."

Liang Mengsong and Hu Zhengming are still in California, and have started technical cooperation with Intel, one is FinFET, and the other is multiple exposure technology.

It is expected that Liang Mengsong will return to Luzhou in October to continue to preside over Bingxin's research and development work, and Bingxin Microelectronics Center will send a group of engineers to the United States for technical exchanges.

This is a good news since Bingxin was restricted.

"Then let's look forward to our press conference in March next year." Yu Hong said.

Fang Zhuo smiled and asked, "Aren't you looking forward to the end of the month first?"

Yu Hong said steadily, "After seeing Samsung and Apple, there is no need to look forward to it too much."

She was very confident after seeing the products of Samsung and Apple.

"Come on, applaud Mr. Yu in advance." Fang Zhuo applauded on the microphone, and heard the voices from other microphones, and made a small suggestion by the way, "We can make some applause effects on Line, and we can also make some serious background sounds, so that it will be much more convenient for me to criticize and praise people next time."

Everyone heard that the boss was in a good mood. Most people thought that this was because they saw the products of competitors, and a few people were more aware of the happy events in the boss's family.

After the formal meeting ended, Yu Hong asked Weiwei about her situation online alone.

"Everything is fine. I originally said that she should not care about work anymore, but she said that looking at documents every day is also a kind of exercise." Fang Zhuo replied with a smile.

Yu Hong had just called Weiwei two days ago. This was just a habitual inquiry. She thought about it and asked about Bingxin's latest situation. She was in the United States. Although Bingxin was restricted, it was not the end in the public opinion here. Many people still hoped to promote further restrictions.

"Just bear with it for a while. Next month, there will be news that Bingxin will be listed in Hong Kong." Fang Zhuo said, "Goldman Sachs has already hired someone to work on it."

"Goldman Sachs can really bear with you." Yu Hong couldn't help but say.

"It can't bear it sometimes." Fang Zhuo was referring to the shorting of Yike. "Now that things have come to this, let's just make do with it. I can't do anything, and neither can they."

Yu Hong smiled and said, "Okay, you're in China, back in Shanghai, anyway, there's no problem with safety."

Fang Zhuo thought for a moment and said, "It won't come to that this time. I'm not coming back to avoid them. If Goldman Sachs is really dissatisfied, it can also think about it. It's not just it that is affected by force majeure. Including me, we are all victims this time."

He continued, "In the whole incident, I was actually the one who suffered the most. It can't be that it comes to me after being harmed."

"Okay, Mr. Fang, your words are very powerful." Yu Hong could almost imagine Mr. Fang's righteous expression when he said this, and said, "I will return to China to see Weiwei in October, and I hope to bring our beautiful sales results."

Because of the performance of the two competitors, everyone has raised expectations.

After Fang Zhuo quit Line, he thought about the sales issue for a while. Samsung might suffer the most this time. If its flagship this year fails to meet expectations, it will need to use another technology route, 28nm, next year. Under these two pressures, it is unknown whether it will make mistakes in a hurry...

In September, everyone in Yike released their energy to welcome the arrival of the new phone of the year. Liu Qiangdong did a lot of emotional marketing, which also affected the internal situation to some extent.

On the morning of the 5th, the president's office of Yike welcomed the head of YMS.

Qi He hurriedly flew from Berlin and did not take time to rest. The first thing he did was to find his boss.

"Mr. Fang, Hanwang is considering quitting YMS. This matter has a bad impact." Qi He mentioned his business with dark circles under his eyes.

Hanwang is one of the first domestic manufacturers equipped with Android system. When it transformed into the mobile phone track again, many people were not optimistic about its future, but with its starting advantage, Hanwang also got a lot of soup.

However, when everyone began to be optimistic about Hanwang's development again, it inexplicably began to fall behind.

It is not as good as Meizu, OPPO, Kesheng, or VIVO. This year, it is not as good as Huawei, which is undergoing transformation.

This surprised many media and third-party organizations.

What happened to Hanwang?

This question did not stir up much waves, because the development of the smartphone track is too fast and everyone is desperately running forward.

"Then what should we do? Should we acquire it?" Fang Zhuo motioned Qi He to sit down first, and then asked a counter-question.

"At this stage, our system ecology still has a lot of room for growth, and these are very dependent on entry-level models." Qi He said seriously, "I think at least from this year to next year and the year after, we still have to work hard to maintain YMS manufacturers."

He is not unaware of the company's internal judgment on the development of smartphones, but even if there are only a few left in the end, there are still many brands now, and it is still worth continuing to bundle for a few years.

"This time, it is not only domestic, Kesheng's layout in the overseas market is also very good." Fang Zhuo talked about a piece of information that Qi He was not aware of.

Qi He couldn't help but frowned. If the overseas market factors were taken into account...

"If you ask me, at this stage of reshuffle and elimination, YMS doesn't need to seek more, but only seek quality." Fang Zhuo discussed, "With the size of Yike, and two or three more mid- and low-end companies, there is Kesheng, and Meizu's market performance is also good, the coverage is quite wide."

Apple can't use YMS, and Samsung is also difficult. Remove these two companies, and the entire market can accommodate at most four or five influential brands.

YMS can maintain three or four companies in the same camp, and this ecosystem is already good.

Fang Zhuo saw that Qi He didn't respond, and said: "Of course, my idea may not be right in the current market. You can do more research and talk about it. I'm not saying to drive away partners."

Qi He nodded slowly, planning to ask Kesheng about overseas data when he left the office.

He knew that Kesheng had discussed cooperation with overseas operators through Yike channels, but he had never paid attention to the actual situation. Now it sounds like the effect is probably very good.

In this case, the biggest impact on Kesheng is Samsung, because Samsung is pursuing a full market strategy, covering the upper, middle and lower levels.

He took two sips of tea, temporarily put the matter of YMS partners in his mind, and then said: "Mr. Fang, I will meet with Baidu later, they still want to talk about the default engine."

Baidu has no rivals in China, only challengers.

However, when the mobile terminal began to be more controlled by mobile phone manufacturers, Baidu gradually felt a little bit of the driving force for change.

Baidu has reached a cooperation with OPPO, and they have previously stated that "just do Yike", but Suning has done it in a mess, and Alibaba is obviously a long-term competitor...

There are only slogans, but actual actions have no effect. Baidu thinks that there can still be cooperation in competition. What in the world can't be discussed?

Therefore, after the news of dissatisfaction of YMS partners appeared in the industry, Baidu tried to contact the person in charge of Yike Ecology to see if they can cooperate.

The reason for the new contact is simple - we were willing to talk to Yi Ke before, and we respect Yi Ke's size and influence, but the small and medium-sized manufacturers of YMS cannot be bundled together.

Now that the trash has gone, we are willing to talk again with sincerity.

"Why does Baidu think we will give up cooperation with Sogou?" Fang Zhuo was a little surprised.

"Maybe it's because... YMS's browser does not force users to change engines, nor does it make frequent change requests." Qi He talked about YMS's product strategy.

Not forcing or being rude to users is precisely considered to be releasing space for cooperation.

The internal discussion of YMS is that Baidu probably thinks that since you don't force cooperation with Sogou and don't come up to violently attack me, then you can talk.

"Oh, because we are not rogue enough, right?" Fang Zhuo understood what he meant.

Qi He nodded and pondered: "The vice president of Baidu contacted me and said that the price is negotiable."

"How to negotiate?" Fang Zhuo asked.

Qi He shook his head. This hasn't met yet, and there has been no specific discussion.

"We have a cooperation agreement with Sogou. I also talked about it with Wang Xiaochuan last time." Fang Zhuo said, "You are meeting someone today, right? Then ask about the price. You can try the price between us and Google. I am a little curious."

YMS talked to Baidu and got a price that would send off a beggar. The other party was sincere this time, which inevitably made people curious.

Qi He simply said: "Okay, there is still an hour. I will go eat something and talk again."

He really had no appetite on the plane, and he felt hungry after landing.

At 10:30 in the morning, Qi He, who had eaten 80% full and had a cup of coffee, met Baidu Vice President Lu Zhendong. He did not waste time and asked directly.

"Mr. Lu, how much can Baidu pay a year? You know, we have a cooperation with Sogou."

Lu Zhendong felt Yi Ke's refusal from such a straightforward question. Without greeting, he got to the point directly. He just wanted to refuse.

He lifted his spirits and said, "Mr. Qi, we sincerely want to cooperate with Yike this time. Baidu and Yike have great room for cooperation. How about 200 million a year?"

Lv Zhendong looked at Qi He. This should be the highest offer in this field in China.

"We will sign a new default engine cooperation agreement with Google this year." Qi He said slowly, "If Baidu is sincere, it can refer to our similar cooperation in this regard."

He stretched out his right hand.

Lv Zhendong pondered in his heart. It has more than doubled. He has to go back and ask for instructions.

He said, "Mr. Qi, Google is different. It faces the global market. Your cooperation is based on this. Moreover, even so, it is only 500 million. This is not really..."

When Lu Zhendong said this, he saw Qi He's smiling expression and suddenly shuddered and asked, "Is it 500 million...US dollars?"

Qi He gave a confirming look.

Lv Zhendong's first reaction was impossible, the second reaction was blackmail, and the third reaction was...

This must be exaggerated. This is Yike's usual trick. Even on the basis of the global market, how could Google be willing to give Yike 500 million US dollars?

Lv Zhendong said with a fake smile: "Yi Ke really has a big appetite."

"Boss Lv, how do you think we should talk?" Qi He wanted to hear Baidu's new sincerity.

Lv Zhendong stood up and shook hands with Boss Qi with great effort: "Boss Qi, let's talk again next time."