Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 97 It’s really not digging a wall

“Tripp, have you changed your career, what kind of happy news did you bring to me this time?” Tang Huan joked retortly.

Tripp Hawkins gave a dry smile, “I was sent by President Scott to discuss Christmas sales issues, for example, can the Mac version of “Tetris” be released?”

“Is this the trick those guys did?” Tang Huan snorted and waved his hand: “Go, go to my office and talk in detail.”

There are precedents in which the three Apple shareholders were dismissed in a desperate manner. Hawkins has already understood Tang Huan’s position. The Bully game console is his own dish. No one else would want to take advantage of the relationship between Apple and Philosopher. Apple won’t work either.

Therefore, Hawkins was ready to meet Tang Huan’s anger, but the result was that he saw the opposite party’s light and wind, he had a feeling of flashing his waist, and had to silently follow Tang Huan into the office.

“Actually, I am also a shareholder of Apple, and I seem to have the fourth largest shareholding ratio.” Tang Huan smiled and greeted Hawkins to sit down, “Scott asked you to test me. What kind of attitude does he have?”

“It should be to watch the changes and be optimistic about the results.” Hawkins replied slowly, “He has been busy expanding the production line and is not enthusiastic.”

“So what about the attitude of the other Mike and the two Steves?” Tang Huan continued to ask.

“The three people have always wanted to convene a board meeting, but they have never been approved. Markkula and Woz are not interested in this matter at all. Instead, Jobs clearly supported this proposal while recruiting for the Lisa project team. He said It’s not too comfortable for you to make money.”

At this point, Hawkins couldn’t help laughing.

“Greed is the root of all evil.” Tang Huan shook his head with emotion. “Zheru and Apple are partners of interest. The launch of the Mac version of “Tetris” to help promote sales can be said to be a matter of course. But development work cannot be accomplished overnight, and Christmas will definitely not be in time.”

These guys who are aggressive and arrogant do not succeed in success but have more than failure. They try to create a gap between themselves and the founder of Apple, trying to get their support, but they will not think of the popular game in the hands of brother. The bargaining chip is far more than “Tetris”, how about selling it to Jobs and Scott to save face.

“Indeed, I think Jobs and Scott should understand this technical difficulty.” Hawkins nodded slightly and continued to express his views.

“Actually, since Zheru launched CGrid this year, Apple’s biggest selling point has changed significantly and it has become the first choice for cheap commercial microcomputers, while competitors like Dondy, who sell for about half of the Apple’s, still Make the game a feature. In my opinion, whether the Mac can play Tetris has a limited impact on the user’s purchase plan.”

Hearing this analysis, Tang Huan laughed with his palms, “As expected, you are a top student from Harvard and Stanford. You are really insightful. I think you are also a mindful person. Have you observed the delivery process of the Xiaobawang game console. Do you have any views on this industry? ?”

Hawkins corrected his sitting posture and replied concisely, “The prospects of current home electronic game consoles are very promising, but it has a competitive relationship with the current personal computers. If you can’t distance yourself from the game performance, customers may be buying. A personal computer that can both learn and play games, and a game console that can only play games, make a bad choice.”

Tang Huan showed appreciation on his face, “You seem to have done a lot of investigation and research in the game field.”

“I have liked games since I was a child, especially those simulation games that use chess pieces, cards, and dice. During my time at Harvard University, I studied an area of ​​interest-“Theoretical and Practical Game Theory”, using computers to simulate Various social issues, such as organizational decision-making and prevention of nuclear war.” Hawkins talked confidently.

“You have accumulated so much, when do you plan to start realizing your ideal of playing games?” Tang Huan tentatively said.

“Wait a few more years,” Hawkins replied vaguely.

“Then it will be at least three years later. I don’t know what height the personal computer and game console industry will develop at that time. The opportunity is not to be lost, time is not for me?”

At this point, Tang Huan smiled. Hawkins is indeed a man with a plan. Originally, in time and space, he was Apple, who left in 1982 and founded EA.

I don’t know whether Hawkins is willing to start his life ideal plan ahead of time.

“I want to find a president in charge of the game console business of Xiaobawang, are you interested in trying it?” Tang Huan frankly threw out the olive branch of solicitation.

A hint of surprise flashed across Hawkins’s face. This is a rare opportunity for career advancement, not to mention entering the game console field is his ideal.

Actually, in the process of communicating with Tang Huan, Hawkins has always tried his best to show his talents.

Sure enough, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

Without waiting for Hawkins’ answer, Tang Huan continued: “I know that Apple is preparing to go public next year. Those of you who are the first to enter Apple and have university degrees will have the opportunity to get Apple’s stock. If you come over, maybe There will be some losses, and I will make up for it, and I also have plans to list the company of the Xiaobawang game console.”

Tang Huan didn’t give up empty words. When he saw someone coveting Xiaobawang, he wondered how to use the foreseeable peak of the game console industry in 1982. At that time, it was the craziest stage of hot money pouring into the market.

Anyway, the United States does not have the three complete business cycle restrictions specified by the Dragon Kingdom in the previous life. As long as Wall Street is optimistic and willing to buy it, Apple is the best example.

As for Xiaobawang’s market performance, with his own help, it is not a problem to make a short-term small peak to win the eye.

“Of course I am very willing to work.” Hawkins scratched his head unconsciously. “But this time I’m here to talk about official business, but I switched jobs. It seems inappropriate.”

“Of course it’s appropriate, Jobs will be very upset.” Tang Huan laughed happily, “I like to do things simply, you should act quickly. The reason is to transplant “Tetris” to the Mac as soon as possible, and I seconded you. , It’s really not about digging a wall.”

Steve Jobs wanted to add chaos, so I made your move invisible. Tang Huan couldn’t help but feel proud of this.

In the next place, it is conceivable that Jobs found that the people he sent in the past were actually taken over by Tang Huan. He was extremely depressed, but could not find a place to blame, so he could only spread his anger on the Lisa project. In the group, fortunately, those people are naturally accustomed to this perverse behavior.

After giving Apple a small warning, Tang Huan quickly promoted the formation of a new game company.

Naturally, in order to cut off Hawkins’ back path, the new company was directly named ElectronicArts, or EA for short, and Xiaobawang Game Machine Company became a subsidiary of EA.

The reason for adopting such a complicated structure, Tang Huan is to reserve space for the acquisition of other excellent game companies.

In the past life, EA took the path of merger and development. Of course, I have to learn from it.

Christina, the female ship king who has tasted the sweetness of acting for the Cassidy game consoles in Argentina and Greece, will also invest in EA after learning about Tang Huan’s new operation.

Seeing that the other party was so enthusiastic, Tang Huan was disrespectful.

During this period, he participated in several social activities within the Chinese range. Then, Tang Huan set off to Baodao to attend the Information Week activities there.

However, he stopped in Hawaii halfway. It was a Christmas holiday investigation hotel in Hawaii for the excellent employees of Zheru. In fact, he met with Lin Qingxia and went to Baodao together.

Before, Tang Huan was entrusted by Lin Qingxia to help her brother handle the affairs of studying in the United States. Later, Lin Qingxia’s younger sister and Lin’s father also arrived in the United States. This time Lin Qingxia was to pick up and stay on the treasure island to handle trivial matters. Mother.

In this way, Tang Huan and Lin Qingxian got along.

After months of living in seclusion to escape reality, Lin Qingxian’s tortured heart calmed a lot, and she was chatting and laughing with Tang Huan on the plane, which made people sigh that time is a pig-killing knife, but it is also a good medicine.

After getting off the plane, Lin Qingxian was carefully picked up by Lin Mu, who looked like a tiger in fear of the media, while Tang Huan was hosted by Shi Chongtang and other philosophers.

In fact, attending the Information Week event is a must-have show. After going through the cutscenes and dealing with various forces, Tang Huan naturally needs to turn his attention to serious matters.

At exactly this time, Lin Fengjiao stayed in Xiangjiang to film “Shang_Beach”. Although Tang Huan was unavoidably lonely, he just focused on the factory here.

As far as the Xiaobawang game console is concerned, the 400,000 units have already been offline in a short period of time. This shows how heavy the production pressure here is.

During the inspection process, Tang Huan took advantage of the opportunity at the end of the year to give employees benefits, condolences, eliminate grievances, and boost morale. Many problems have been solved, and the reputation value has risen steadily. But Tang Huan’s ultimate goal Let them work harder.

There is not enough inventory, no matter how good the marketing is, no matter how deceptive the slogan is, it is impossible to share the gluttonous feast during the Christmas period in the United States.

Therefore, Tang Huan had to let himself show the merciless side of a businessman.

The so-called sweatshop is an unavoidable product in a certain period of time.

What he can do is to slightly increase the remuneration within the scope of the cost.