Reinventing the Millennium

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 individuals, senior officials in Washington.

Wang Xing sometimes didn't follow you, but if he asked the boss's secretary, he would probably know what he was doing. 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, there are also more voices saying that Yike is a Huaxia brand. In the past, these troubles were not noticed in China."

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..."

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, and 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 coming 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 words of motto, it 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. Someone @himself appeared on social media. When he saw the comments from the head of Yike, 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, parties are still 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. Whatever you leave behind, let’s see what you leave 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.

Schmidt is still in high spirits after not seeing him for a long time. Although he 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 there is no 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, and Deutsche Bank provides financial support. If you ask the Bank of New York to send me money, I can also build a factory here." Fang Zhuo complained, "Of course it is progress from 10 to 11, and it is also progress to 12 , but the front is 50, it is 100, why are you so nervous, and you still want to not develop at all, how can anything be so perfect in the world?"

Schmidt smiled: "Just chat, I'm just curious about Mr. Fang's thoughts."

It’s okay to chat casually.

However, Fang Zhuo now meets people with whom he can casually chat about these things every day.

Schmidt said with a smile: "I have to add something to the answer just now, medium and low dumping, high-end restriction. This answer can get higher scores."

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 in general terms with you, which is not interesting."

He finally said: "But I firmly believe in globalization. As long as there is globalization, Yike's competitiveness will not be low, whether it is higher or lower, it doesn't matter from the perspective of the macro cycle."

Schmidt was 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."

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

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

Fang Zhuo shrugged: "That's fine. If some department or the like asks you for advice in the future, remember our point of view. Even if they have some consensus, remember to object."

Schmidt laughed loudly: "We have already reached consensus, so how can we object?"

"If it's a mediocre consensus, don't forget it." Fang Zhuo said calmly.

Schmidt's eyes lit up: "That's a good sentence. Please change it to your tweet."

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

"It would be nice to get a medal with everyone's words engraved on it. How about we let IDC, Twitter and YouTube jointly create one?" Schmidt, although he resigned as CEO, is still the chairman of Google, and the idea was inspired After a moment, he thought of YouTube again, and continued, "I remember I invited you and Steve Jobs to YT once, and the response was very good. This time, it is really a good event to invite successful and failed CEOs. "

"Sanjay has been kicked out by Google, and he still wants to suffer from your anger. Is it humane?" Fang Zhuo criticized.

Schmidt still finds it interesting. Success is often enviable, but failure allows everyone to find happiness.

This time when Google acquires Motorola, it still hopes to make this brand shine under Google. I don’t know if it will work, but I have to give it a try.

However, it is really 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.

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

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

Don’t know if Apple’s processors will be sold? What about Yike's? That ZR series turned out to be pretty good.

Schmidt couldn't help but think about it, if it doesn't work, what about the CMOS head office installed by Yike?

The car arrives at its destination.

"Tell me, what is Steve Jobs thinking about right now?" Schmidt said before meeting Jobs.

Fang Zhuo shook his head, finding it difficult to guess.

Soon, both of them heard Jobs's first words after meeting, and unanimously thought they could be put on Twitter.

"iPhone4S is not the best phone in my mind."