Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 94 The beam-jumping clown who covets Xiaoba

The next day, Tang Huan arrived at the company late, and the car was blocked outside the parking lot.

He looked up and saw a long line of convoy lined up below Zheru. The starting point was at the gate of the Xiaobawang game console’s warehouse.

So popular, Tang Huan couldn’t help being shocked when he saw the scene in front of him, but he quickly calmed down. The game console is similar to the movie to some extent. The industry is very risky, but once it is sought after by the market , There is no reason at all.

In the previous life in 1982, Atari’s sales reached an eye-watering US$2 billion. This figure can explain the prosperity of the game console industry.

Tang Huan got out of the car with the newspaper and asked a philosopher employee who was keeping order to help him park. He walked to the door of the company and happened to see a young man watching the lively delivery scene of the Xiaobawang game console intently.

This person Tang Huan knows, his name is Tripp Hawkins. He was born in California in 1954. He graduated from Harvard University and obtained an MBA from Stanford University. He joined Apple in 1978 as a sales job last year.

Generally speaking, if employees who leave Apple come to Zheru to apply for a job, they will basically be properly arranged according to their abilities. Tang Huan has never taken the initiative to go to Apple to find people, but the person in front of him has made him think, but in the end This idea is still shelved. After all, everyone is a partner, so it is better to respect some basic limits.

The person who can make Tang Huan entangled is naturally not an unknown person in history. In the original time and space, Tripp Hawkins was an important figure in the history of video games.

In 1982, Hawkins left Apple and founded a game company ElectronicArts, the famous EA.

In 1991, EA successfully went public, began acquisitions, and quickly developed and expanded.

This year, Hawkins founded the 3DO company, launched the game console business, and launched a new generation of game platform—3DO game console. It supports enhanced colors with a minimum color number of 16 bits and a true color with a maximum color number of 24 bits. The world’s first real 32-bit game console.

Unfortunately, under the chase of Nintendo, Sega and other manufacturers, especially the heavy attack from Sony PlayStation, the 3DO game console was completely defeated. 3DO had to retreat from the hardware field and turned into a pure game. Software developers and publishers, the famous turn-based strategy game “Heroes” series belong to this company.

Hawkins has paid out of his own pocket many times and invested a total of 20 million US dollars in personal funds to save 3DO from crisis, but unfortunately, he was still unable to recover.

The first 9 years of starting a business, Hawkins succeeded in retiring; the second 12 years of starting a business, Hawkins ended disastrously.

In 2003, 3DO officially went bankrupt, and Hawkins paid a heavy price for it.

Again in the same year, Hawkins started his third venture and established the DigitalChocolate company, which specializes in developing games for mobile devices.

The ups and downs in shopping malls are the norm. Hawkins has seen the development trend of consoles and mobile games, which has proved his old vision in the game industry.

As for the fiasco of the 3DO game console, in addition to the price factor and the lack of representative game masterpieces, partner Panasonic’s lack of strength may not be a reason.

“Tripp, why are you so leisurely and come here to see the scenery?” Tang Huan greeted casually.

Hawkins smiled bitterly and replied, “Someone on the Apple board wanted to know about the operations of Philosophers, so I was arrested by Jobs, and he brought these masters around on his behalf.”

Tang Huan nodded clearly. After Zheru and Apple cross-shareholding, Zheru gave Apple a position of director. Jobs took over. At first, he came over at intervals to express his dissatisfaction with Tang Huan. . But when he found that no one paid any attention to him, he gradually lost interest in inspecting.

Moreover, with the rapid rise of philosophers, the role of their software products in driving Apple computer market sales has become increasingly obvious. The young Jobs is arrogant, but not a fool, so he took advantage of the trend to put away his arrogant arrogance and stopped coming to add to the blockade. , But he still holds the position of director of Zheru.

Recently, after visiting PARC contentedly, the ambitious Steve Jobs paid more attention to the Lisa project team. There was not enough time to fight for power, so naturally he would not go to Philosopher’s side. Could it be that? Do you see Tang Huan’s product sales make a lot of money?

“Then why are you staying outside by yourself?” Tang Huan asked as he walked along with Hawkins.

“Those people wanted to know about Philosopher’s financial situation, but they were rejected, so they stayed in a small meeting room and waited for you.” Hawkins showed an embarrassed look on his face.

Tang Huan groaned slightly, and then walked to the conference room, “Then I will go and see, who is the person who is so curious about philosophers.”

Although seeing Tang Huan speak calmly, Hawkins clearly felt an invisible pressure oncoming.

Tang Huan walked quickly to the meeting room and gently opened the door, just in time to see three white men standing at the window pointing and talking, “The game console market is really prosperous. No wonder Warner bought Atari. We don’t want to I missed this opportunity to make a big profit.”

Of these three people, Tang Huan only knows one, and the other two should be newly added shareholders after the financing this year.

At the end of this summer, Apple conducted a round of external private equity financing before listing, but due to the influence of Tang Huan, the situation has gone wrong.

In the original time and space, through the relationship between Don Wallen and Markkula, this financing was quickly successful. Including Xerox, LFRothschild, Untenberg, Towbin, Brentwood Associates Capital Corporation and some individual investors, a total of 16 investors subscribed for shares of Apple Computer at a price of $10.5 per share. Apple successfully raised $7.27 million.

Among them, Brentwood Associates is a Silicon Valley venture capital company that was established in the early 1970s and focused on the high-tech industry earlier; as for LFRothschild, Untenberg, Towbin, it was formed by the merger of the investment banks CEUnterberg, Towbin and LFRothschild in 1977. Such a long name can tell that it contains a number of core investors, especially the name Rothschild, or Rothschild, which can explain this problem even more.

Correspondingly, Apple’s sales in the market were 2.5 million U.S. dollars in 1977, 15 million U.S. dollars in 1978, 70 million U.S. dollars in 1979, 117 million U.S. dollars in 1980, and 335 million U.S. dollars in 1981.

Thanks to Tang Huan’s arrival, Zheru’s various mature software products, and even a package of microcomputer office solutions, have directly brought the development of Apple Computers onto the fast lane. It takes time for the monthly shipment to exceed 10,000 units. It has been more than half a year, and this year’s sales have steadily surpassed the 117 million US dollars in the previous life in 1980.

Under this situation, Apple has established a direct sales model of retail stores, factory production, product research and development, labor costs, etc., and the need for funds is more urgent.

Tang Huan produced hardware products such as Fangyuan Computer and Xiaobawang game console. It was through cheating to obtain a low-interest loan of US$10 million through Christina and directly relying on the cost advantage of Asian factories to successfully pass this hurdle.

And Apple has to honestly raise funds step by step, but unlike the previous life, Apple’s aura has become more and more dazzling, investors rushed to it, and Steve Jobs picked the past during the negotiation, which was delayed for a long time.

Institutional investors like Xerox have joined Apple following the original historical trajectory, but individual investors are very different. Naturally, the amount of financing is much higher.

Of the three guys in front of me, the one I knew was a director of Apple. The position of the other two new shareholders was unknown, but Tang Huan didn’t take it seriously regardless of his status.

“Sorry, my ears are so good, I overheard what you are talking about.”

Tang Huan said while sitting on the main seat with a golden sword, and opened his mouth with a smile.

“I’m very busy, and I don’t want to waste time needlessly. What is the purpose of your coming here? Could it be that you smell the fat of the game console and want to take a bite? If this is the case, I am afraid you will be disappointed. Xiaobawang Games The machine is a product of another company, and Zheru is only hired to do some paid labor export. Other than that, there is no other relationship.”

The most indispensable people here in the United States are people with a keen sense of making money. UU reading www.uukanshu.com three people have identified the way through Apple’s shares in philosophers to meddle in the business opportunities of the Xiaobawang game console. Don’t be so easily dismissed by Tang Huan and give up the opportunity to take advantage.

“How can it be okay? As far as I know, the company to which the Xiaobawang game console belongs belongs to you.” The director of Apple showed an unhappy look on his face. “All aspects of R&D, production, and sales are all philosophical. Resources are doing it. As for the specific relationship between the two companies, we need to read the financial data to know.”

intends to make a surprise attack and check the financial statements. That is definitely not possible. Even if Jobs comes, it is a wishful thinking. Even if Apple really wants to know this information, it will have to wait until after a certain accounting period.

“According to Zheru’s company charter, I have the right to refuse your request.” Tang Huan waved his hand impatiently, “Everyone is smart, don’t go around in business, I can feel your malice. Chinese people are not the only ones. I can work hard and know how to protect my own results. If you are optimistic about the game console business, look for companies in this industry to invest in Silicon Valley. If you want to pick peaches through the so-called business rules, you have to do something. American rules of the game , I understand too, please don’t act like a beam jumping clown.”

At this point, Tang Huan stood up and made a gesture of seeing off the guests, “I’m very busy, I don’t have time to accompany you, please.”

was told by Tang Huan that he was embarrassed in his heart, and he was also expelled face to face. The three of them immediately turned pale and left a sentence of “Let’s walk and see”, and walked away.

Seeing this scene, Tang Huanbao sneered, an insatiable guy, he really thought that his brother was just a simple technical man.