Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

The day after the party, Lin Baicheng first went to the temporary office of Galaxy Semiconductor, chatted with Genus Wilson, and asked him to lead people to take over the four factories acquired from Texas Instruments to ensure a smooth handover of the factories.

After that, Lin Baicheng went to the nearby New Century Software Company.

Isabella is a manager at New Century Software, so she is in the company.

When he arrived at New Century Software Company, Lin Baicheng asked Isabella to take him around the company to let all employees know that he was the big boss of the company. Although I have only left Los Angeles for about a month, the company has recruited many new employees, and these new employees have never met the boss Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng will chat with the new employees at the supervisor level, while the lower-level employees will only chat with a few random people.

After doing this, Lin Baicheng took Isabella to his office.

After the two sat down respectively, Lin Baicheng asked aloud: "How is the sales of the company's office software recently?"

"It's selling pretty well."

Isabella was mentally prepared for this question and replied: "Since BOSS last time you left Los Angeles, another 40,000 sets of office software have been sold through official channels, and more than 60,000 sets have been sold through retail. Official channel companies sold a total of 120,000 units, and retail sales totaled nearly 220,000 units."

"Official sales companies have always sold them for US$199, and the actual sales price is US$149 per set. The retail prices vary from high to low due to inconsistent prices, but the average selling price is about US$190 per set."

"The company's current revenue is nearly US$60 million, and its net profit is about US$35 million to US$40 million. The company's software was developed in July, and it has been less than half a year. It can be said that it has developed quite quickly. .”

Judging from the data alone, New Century Software Company is developing faster than Apple. However, Apple sells personal computers and hardware, and it has to develop its own market.

What New Century Software Company sells is software, targeting computer users. In this era, users who can afford computers usually use them for office use, so it can be said that it is quite easy to sell office software. What's more, there are no competitors and everything is smooth sailing.

"Very well, Bella you did well."

Lin Baicheng was very satisfied with this. He said: "While our company is the only one selling office software in this market now, hurry up and sell more. When there are competitors, the price will definitely be lowered, and the profits will be huge." Down."

In the final analysis, office software does not have very high technology, and R\u0026D ideas are the most important. Therefore, after the office software of New Century Software Company comes out, when companies see the profits of this market, they will definitely choose to develop office software. At that time, New Century Software The company already has competitors, so don’t even think about making money like it is now.

"The overall computer market is still limited. If the computer market does not experience an explosion in sales, we estimate that in about half a year, we will be able to capture almost 80-90% of this market. At that time, the company's revenue and profits will be very high. It’s hard to grow.”

Isabella reported that the computer market is not unlimited. After New Century Software Company sells almost all of its office software, it will not be able to find customers if it wants to sell it.

The office software sold by New Century Software Company is a set of software for one computer. As long as the computer has no broken software, it can be used continuously. In this era, it is impossible to use an account to log in online because the network does not support it.

"In other words, the current revenue limit of this market is more than 100 million U.S. dollars, and the profit is 70 to 80 million U.S. dollars?"

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but nodded. He had never thought of this before.

Isabella replied: "The upper limit of revenue and profit will be higher, but we cannot win the entire market. There will always be institutions and individuals who do not buy our company's office software, but the profit will not be less than 8 There are still tens of millions of dollars.”

"I believe more and more people will use computers, so as more and more personal computers become available, our office software will sell more and more."

With that said, Lin Baicheng changed the topic: "However, the growth rate of the personal computer market may not be that fast. Do you have any ideas about the future development of the company?"

"After almost all the U.S. market is captured in the first half of next year, I plan to send employees to explore overseas markets. Although the United States is the country with the largest number of computers in the world, the combined market of European countries will not be lower than that of the United States. This is a profit growth point." Isabella said her plan.

Lin Baicheng heard this and said approvingly: "It's a good idea to explore overseas markets. I look forward to your performance."

"I won't let you down, Boss."

Isabella solemnly said that she is the manager of New Century Software Company. The better the company develops, the more her abilities will be reflected.

Lin Baicheng asked aloud: "How are Ed En and Peter doing with their research and development on expanding the database function? After the office software was developed, I asked them to carry out research and development. It took nearly half a year. .”

Isabella said: "I am not familiar with software research and development. During this time, the company's R\u0026D department has also recruited some talents. They said that the progress is good. You have to go and see the specific progress, BOSS, in person."

"Well, I'll go over and take a look later."

Lin Baicheng nodded. Although he didn't have much time, it was okay to check out the progress of the research and development, see if there were any mistakes in the research and development direction, and give some pointers.

Isabella asked: "BOSS, I heard them say that data storage requires a large number of servers. Will the company invest a lot in this area?"

Lin Baicheng nodded: "Yes, data is a good thing. It will be one of the company's main development directions in the future, and a large number of servers will be used."

Isabella suggested: "If a large number of servers are used, the company can actually set up relevant departments, which can save a lot of costs."

"Let's wait until the software is developed. After all, we won't be able to use a large server at the beginning. The value of data will be in the future."

Lin Baicheng neither agreed nor objected. After all, the Internet era has not really begun yet, and the importance of data is not yet obvious. Databases are only the company's key development direction.

Hearing what Lin Baicheng said, Isabella couldn't help but nodded. It seemed that short-term database was not the company's key business.

Afterwards, Lin Baicheng went to the R\u0026D department to find Edwin Sherland and Peter Roslin to check the progress of database software development.

Throughout the whole day, Lin Baicheng was at New Century Software Company and did not go to other companies. Of course you have to go to other companies, but don’t be in a hurry, take your time, you can definitely go to one company a day.