Reinventing the Millennium

The high-end wine tasting event sponsored by Mr. Zhang Chaoyang, the head of Sohu, successfully invited guests.

Don't look at the small problems that have arisen in the subprime debt field. Well, considering that New Century Financial Corporation is also on the list, this problem may not be that small, but what do people in other fields have to worry about?

Most of the guests who received Fang Zhuo's invitation happily attended the meeting, except that they really couldn't leave.

On March 8, the well-known business magazine "Forbes" announced the 2007 rich list. Bill Gates has become the world's richest man for 13 consecutive years with 56 billion U.S. dollars. The second place is the stock god Buffett with 52 billion U.S. dollars, and the ninth place is 23 billion Lijiacheng.

Compared with last year's 165th place, Fang Zhuo's ranking has also improved significantly. With a net worth of US$13 billion, Fang Zhuo entered the top 50 in the world for the first time, ranking 46th.

Last year’s 165th was $6.4 billion, and this year’s 46th was $13 billion.

The reason for such a big improvement is that Forbes conducted a value-added evaluation on Fang Zhuo's four parts: Bingxin, MIGA Fund, Yongke Real Estate, and NBA teams.

However, even with such a substantial improvement, Fang Zhuo still almost lost his title as the richest man in the mainland.

On the Forbes mainland rich list, Fang Zhuo ranks first with 101.4 billion Chinese dollars, followed by Yang Huiyan, a 26-year-old girl with a net worth of 100.8 billion. She is the daughter of Yang Guofu, one of the founders of Country Garden.

The first, 1014, the second, 1008, the difference is only 600 million Chinese coins, or 76 million US dollars.

This makes many people think that Forbes still ranks Fang Zhuo first out of inertial statistics. However, there are also many people who support its correctness - you rely on Country Garden's real estate growth, Mr. Fang's Yongke Real Estate It is also the Tiger of East China.

The third place on the mainland's rich list fell off a cliff, with Xu Rongmao's 54.4 billion Chinese dollars.

Anyway, one of the 50 richest people in the world sent out an invitation to a wine tasting, and everyone either came for his money in a tacky way or just wanted to taste the wine.

Before the tasting started, Fang Zhuo met Yu Hong, who had just returned from Silicon Valley, and got the latest Yike mobile phone.

A touch-screen phone with a 1-megapixel front camera.

Fang Zhuo tossed and turned and tried to shoot from the front.

He didn't know if he was used to Nokia or Samsung mobile phones with only rear cameras, but he felt an indescribable surprise when he held it in his hand and used a front-facing camera that was both "unfamiliar" and "familiar".

"Black screen, turn off the phone, the phone is hot."

“But I can take front-facing photos!”

Fang Zhuo couldn't put it down.

Then, when he was looking through the photos taken on the front of his phone, he discovered that almost all of them were Yu Hong's selfies.

This kind of selfie...

Serious, conscientious, unsmiling, and on point.

Fang Zhuo felt very happy looking at these photos.

"Why are you laughing?" Yu Hong didn't know why.

"I thought that our June press conference should add an important new content, which is to teach users how to take better photos." Fang Zhuo smiled and motioned for Xiaoyu to come closer, and then he leaned slightly on his shoulders and raised his head. The phone comes with the right angle to shoot.

Click.

Fang Zhuo handed the phone to Yu Hong and said, "The front-facing camera looks best. The phone makes your face smaller when you tilt it up 45 degrees. It can be very three-dimensional and show the outline of your face. Do you think it's like this?"

When Yu Hong compared it, she really... looked better.

Fang Zhuo took the phone again and looked at the selfie, feeling a little excited.

"We have to take a lot of beautiful photos before the press conference, let every R\u0026D employee take them, and then present a colorful world of front-facing cameras at the press conference. There can also be funny, interesting, and double photos. .”

"Our photos open up a new world for everyone, allowing everyone to remember this first time deeply."

Yu Hong thought it was reliable. She didn't notice this posture even when she tried shooting. It seems that there is still a lot to explore with this front-facing camera.

"Start today, come on, smile." Fang Zhuo raised his phone again.

Yu Hong showed a standard eight-tooth fake smile.

Fang Zhuo wanted to check his phone in a funny way, but the screen went black the next second.

He said with some regret: "The stability of the system needs to be improved."

"Well, there is also this battery. I heard Teacher Xu and others discuss that battery management is very important." Yu Hong said what impressed her. She could feel inexplicably hot while playing with her mobile phone in the past two days.

"It will be released in June and will be launched in December. There should be enough time for optimization later." Fang Zhuo said this, and once again wondered whether he could acquire a company that specializes in mobile phone batteries, just like acquiring the sensor company Major Sensor. Successfully helped Yike mobile phone solve the problem of front camera.

He marked this matter in his mind and put away his mobile phone: "Let's go down and drink. The guests will be here later."

At seven o'clock in the evening, guests from all walks of life arrived in the banquet hall.

Fang Zhuo did not invite too many people, but the guests he introduced to Zhang Chaoyang did make the latter feel another social level.

Summers of the New York Economic Exchange, a former U.S. fiscal steward.

Lord of Goldman Sachs is the new head of Goldman Sachs who has bucked the trend this year and made its stock price rise.

Google's Schmidt, the giant leader who made Google go public.

From these three people alone, Zhang Chaoyang could see that Mr. Fang had a very pleasant conversation with them, and it was not a casual acquaintance.

At 7:30 pm, most of the guests arrived.

As the host of the reception, Fang Zhuo performed a blind tasting of red wine, selecting his favorite glass of wine from seven glasses of different red wines, and then opened a few more bottles of such wine to the guests.

He gave a professional evaluation while blind tasting.

Finally, I chose the Penfolds District 42 Karina Cabernet Sauvignon dry red which I said “This wine has a soft and sweet taste, with layers of aromatic and fragrant aromas, which makes me fall head-over-heels.”

The announcement of this result made all the guests applaud. It was indeed one of the few richest men in the world who had chosen the most precious wine.

Zhang Chaoyang was a little dumbfounded. He was not like this when Mr. Fang drank red wine with him before.

He waited until Mr. Fang's graceful communication came to an end before looking for answers.

"Brother Chaoyang, I know in advance whether you are stupid or not." Fang Zhuo didn't know much about red wine, he was just teasing and giving everyone an image.

Zhang Chaoyang had nothing to say. Mr. Fang seemed to be quite honest, but not very honest.

Fang Zhuo patted him on the shoulder and continued on with his business.

Also coming with Stringer tonight was Ichiro Miyamoto, the head of the mobile phone department who was named by Fang Zhuo. Obviously, the old jazz man also knew Mr. Fang's intention, but he did not refuse.

Miyamoto, who is obviously close to the leader, knows that the company's structural changes have come from the suggestions of foreign director Fang, and is also very enthusiastic about helping Yike mobile phones to adjust their cameras. In his opinion, this is the "investment" in Chinese culture. A peach, repay it with a plum.”

Besides, Director Fang is not an outsider either.

Fang Zhuo is pleased with this. Yike Mobile has made up its mind to impress users in photography, and the help from Sony's related technologies will better promote this.

After chatting with old Jazz Stringer, Fang Zhuo held his wine glass and found Qimondaro Jianhua, who had been paying attention to him for a long time.

Luo Jianhua is a talkative person. Although he doesn’t know many people when he comes to taste red wine this time, he is also very interested in expanding his circle of friends.

When he saw Mr. Fang coming to him, he took the initiative to greet him, first talking about red wine, and then about the R\u0026D center he talked about on the last phone call.

"We want to use this R\u0026D center to conduct product specifications, circuit design, and application testing of consumer memory."

"It is to achieve the goal of expanding and diversifying the product portfolio."

"Mr. Fang, as you know, the Asian market has more and more revenue."

"Before storage faces uncertain risks in the future, I still hope to take the initiative to start revenue growth. Last quarter, Asia accounted for more than 30%."

Luo Jianhua talked about the company he runs.

Fang Zhuo nodded. The idea was right. Emerging markets can bring rapid growth in revenue.

Now it’s up to us whether we can weather the coming storm.

Fang Zhuo was eagerly concerned about the situation of his partners. After repeatedly comparing the situations of Shanghai and Lin'an, he still suggested that the R\u0026D center should be located in Shanghai.

After all, I am in Shanghai, so I can help take care of him because I am close.

The two people communicated very smoothly. Luo Jianhua wanted Mr. Fang's influence in mainland cities, and Fang Zhuo wanted... to test Mr. Luo's ability to face risks.

Finally, Fang Zhuo also asked one thing with a smile: "Mr. Luo, what Lin'an Factory does is niche storage, which is a bit low-end. You also said that the storage field is all counter-cyclical. Now that there are With such cyclical fluctuations, Lin'an Factory can also consider adopting mainstream storage technologies."

"Counter-cyclical competition is fierce. Of course, Fang always has the capital to do it, but now is still not the right time." Luo Jianhua considered, "Qimonda's current production capacity is already at a high level. After some time, , how about we discuss this matter in Lin'an after Qimonda is relatively low?"

Fang Zhuo just smiled and nodded, "No problem, Qimonda, let's see again later."

He clinked glasses with Luo Jianhua, motioned for the other person to continue tasting the red wine, and turned towards where Google and T-Mobile operators were.

T-Mobile CEO Legere attended the reception at the invitation of Google Schmidt.

Google has always been leading the cooperation negotiations with T-Mobile, but when it comes to the sharing of new network users, it is like stepping on the lifeblood of the other party, leaving almost no room for discussion.

Even T-Mobile has doubts about the cooperation model between Apple and AT\u0026T, believing that the latter will not agree to the legendary conditions, which is too risky.

"Legere, I can understand your caution. I believe you also know that we are also discussing with V."

"In fact, one of the reasons why Google and Android, including me, are willing to talk to you is that we are optimistic about the maturity of WCDMA, the 3G standard."

"To some extent, WCDMA also has competition."

"Your T-Mobile competitors in WCDMA have already chosen Apple. They are willing to bet on new touch-screen smartphones. I believe they are extremely tolerant to see the arrival of a new era of mobile phones."

"March is coming to an end, and we can all wait until June to see how Apple sells."

"However, I had a phone call with AT\u0026T, and they also showed interest in Yike's new mobile phone."

Fang Zhuo did not talk about the V provider that had made little progress, but talked about another operator with the same standards. Although AT\u0026T signed with Apple, it might not be able to talk about another operator in the further exploration of mobile phone space.

Without T-Mobile's subsidies, Yike Mobile will not be able to establish its current market positioning.

In this case, the semi-active and semi-passive can only be the mid-to-low-end route, which is probably the old route of HTC.

They are all mid- to low-end. Instead of looking for the third-largest company in the country, it is better to look for AT\u0026T, the number one company in the United States. Anyway, they have taken actions to be optimistic about the development of touch-screen smartphones.

Once Apple meets AT\u0026T's expectations, another fresh Android phone with a front-facing camera could also test the market's response.

Fang Zhuo is open to cooperation in various directions that can help Yike Mobile Phone survive.

Only by surviving can we talk about long-term development.

Of course, he still hopes to reach cooperation with T-Mobile to make both parties better.