Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 819 Open

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

Regardless of the small problem 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?
The guests who received Fang Zhuo's invitation basically went to the meeting happily except that they couldn't leave.

On March 3, the well-known business magazine "Forbes" announced the 8 rich list. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world for 2007 consecutive years with 560 billion US dollars. million Lijiacheng.

Compared with last year's 165th place, Fang Zhuo's ranking has also improved significantly. With a net worth of 130 billion US dollars, he entered the top 46 in the world for the first time, ranking [-]th.

Last year's 165 was $64 billion, and this year's 46 was $130 billion.

The reason for such a big improvement is that Forbes conducted a value-added assessment of the four parts under Fang Zhuo’s name, the ice core, the MIGA fund, Yongke Real Estate, and the NBA team.

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

On the Forbes mainland rich list, Fang Zhuo ranked first with 1014 billion Huaxia currency, followed by Yang Huiyan, a 26-year-old girl with a net worth of 1008 billion. She is the daughter of Yang Guozhen, one of the founders of Country Garden.

The first, 1014, and the second, 1008, are only a difference of 6 million Huaxia coins, or 7600 million U.S. 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 are relying on the growth of Country Garden's real estate, Mr. Fang's Yongke Real Estate It is also the Tiger of East China.

No. 3 on the mainland rich list is a cliff-like decline, which is Xu Rongmao's 544 billion Chinese currency.

In any case, one of the 50 richest people in the world sent out an invitation for a wine tasting, and everyone either came here for his money, or simply wanted to taste the wine.

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

A version of the touchscreen phone with a 100-megapixel front-facing camera.

Fang Zhuo tried to take front shots over and over again.

I don't know if he is used to Nokia and Samsung mobile phones that only have rear cameras, but he is surprised to be able to use the "unfamiliar" and "familiar" front camera in his hand.

"Black screen, shutdown, phone is hot."

"But it's possible to take a front camera!"

Fang Zhuo could not put it down.

Then, when he was looking at the photos taken on the front of the phone, he found that almost all of them were selfies of Yu Hong.

This selfie...

Serious, earnest, unsmiling, and right on point.

Fang Zhuo had a good time looking at these photos.

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

"I thought that we should add an important content to our press conference in June, which is to teach users how to take better photos." Fang Zhuo smiled and motioned Xiaoyu to approach, then he leaned slightly on his shoulder, raised his The phone came at the right angle for the shot.

click.

Fang Zhuo handed the phone to Yu Hong, and said, "This is the best way to take a front-facing shot. The phone looks smaller on the top, and if you tilt your head up 45 degrees, it can be very three-dimensional and show the outline of the face. Look, isn't it like this?"

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

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

"We have to take a lot of beautiful photos before the press conference, let every R&D employee take them, and then present a colorful front camera world at the press conference, and there can also be funny, interesting, and two-person photos. .”

"Our photos will open up a new world for everyone, and let everyone deeply remember this first time."

Yu Hong thought it was reliable, but she didn't notice this posture when she tried to shoot. It seems that this front camera still has a lot to explore.

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

Yu Hong showed a standard eight-teeth smirk.

Fang Zhuo wanted to check his phone amusedly, but the screen went black in 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 the others discuss that battery management is very important." Yu Hong said something that impressed her. She felt inexplicably hot when she was playing with her mobile phone in the past two days.

"It will be released in June, and it will be launched in December. There should be enough time for optimization later on." Fang Zhuo said, thinking again whether it is possible to acquire a company that specializes in mobile phone batteries, just like acquiring the major sensor company. Successfully helped Yike mobile phone solve the problem of the front camera.

He marked this matter in his heart, put away his mobile phone: "Let's go, go down and drink, the guests should come later."

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

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

Summers of NYE, this is the former financial steward of the United States.

Lauder of Goldman Sachs, the new head of Goldman Sachs' stock price rose against the trend this year.

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

For these three alone, Zhang Chaoyang saw that Mr. Fang had a good conversation with them, and it was not the kind of general acquaintance relationship.

At 07:30 in the evening, the guests are basically present.

Fang Zhuo, as the host of the reception, did a trick of blind wine tasting, picking out his favorite glass of wine from seven glasses containing different red wines, and then prescribing a few more of these wines to the guests.

While tasting blindly, he gave a professional evaluation.

In the end, I chose the Karina Cabernet Sauvignon dry red in Penfolds District 42, which I gave the comment of "the taste of this glass of wine is soft and sweet, with layers of aroma and fragrance, which makes me fall in love".

The announcement of the result made all the guests applaud. As expected of the richest people in the world, they chose the most precious wine.

Zhang Chaoyang was a little dumbfounded, it wasn't like this when Mr. Fang was drinking red wine with him before.

He waited until Mr. Fang's personable communication came to an end before seeking clarification.

"Brother Chaoyang, you seem to be stupid, I knew in advance." Fang Zhuo didn't know much about red wine, so he was just making fun of it and giving everyone an image.

Zhang Chaoyang had nothing to say, Mr. Fang seemed to be quite honest, but he didn't seem to be very honest.

Fang Zhuo patted him on the shoulder and continued to get down to business.

Along with Stringer tonight was Ichiro Miyamoto, the person in charge of the mobile phone department named by Fang Zhuo. Obviously, the old jazz also knew Mr. Fang's intentions, but he did not refuse.

And Miyamoto, who is obviously close to the head of the company, knows that the change of the company's structure has suggestions from Wai Dong Fang, and he is also very enthusiastic about helping Yike's mobile phone to adjust the camera. Peach, return it with plum."

Besides, Fang Dong is not an outsider.

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

After chatting with the old Sir Stringer, Fang Zhuo held his wine glass and found Qimonda Luo 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 opening up his circle of friends.

When he saw Mr. Fang coming to him, he took the initiative to greet him a few steps, first chatting about red wine, and then talking about the research and development center that he talked about on the phone last time.

"We want to use this R&D center for product specification, 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 the risk of an uncertain future, I still hope to be able to actively open up revenue growth. Last quarter, Asia accounted for more than 30%."

Luo Jianhua talked about the company he was in charge of.

Fang Zhuo nodded, thinking is right, emerging markets can bring rapid growth in revenue.

Now it's time to see if we can weather the coming storm.

Fang Zhuo was keenly concerned about the situation of his partners, and after repeatedly comparing the situation in Shanghai and Lin'an, he still suggested setting up the R&D center in Shanghai.

After all, I am in Shencheng, and it is convenient for me to help take care of him when I am close.

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

In the end, Fang Zhuo asked something with a smile: "Mr. Luo, the Lin'an factory is all about niche storage, which is a bit low-end. You also said that the storage field is counter-cyclical. Now that there are With such cyclical fluctuations, Lin’an Factory can also consider adopting mainstream storage technologies one after another.”

"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 thought, "Qimonda's production capacity is already at a high level. How about we discuss this matter in Lin'an after Qimonda's relatively low position?"

Fang Zhuo just nodded with a smile, no problem, Qimonda, let's see it later.

He clinked glasses with Luo Jianhua, signaled the other party to continue tasting the red wine, and turned to walk to where Google and T-Mobile operators were.

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

Google has been leading the cooperation negotiations with T-Mobile for a long time, but when it comes to the sharing of new network users, this is like stepping on the lifeblood of the other party, leaving little room for discussion.

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

"Legisl, I can understand your caution. I believe you also know that we are also talking with the V business."

"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 the 3G standard WCDMA."

"To some extent, WCDMA is also competitive."

"Your T-Mobile competitors in WCDMA have picked Apple. They are willing to bet on the new touch-screen smartphone. I believe they have great tolerance to see the arrival of the new era of mobile phones."

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

"However, I got on the phone with AT&T, and they were also interested in Eko's new phone."

Fang Zhuo did not talk about the V provider that has not made much progress, but talked about another operator with the same standard. Although AT&T signed with Apple, it might not be possible to talk about another one in the further exploration space of mobile phones.

Without the subsidy from T-Mobile, Yike mobile phone will not be able to gain a foothold in the market positioning it plans to do today.

That being the case, the semi-active and semi-passive can only be the low-end route, which is probably the old road of HTC.

They are all mid-to-low-end. Instead of looking for the third in the country, it is better to look for AT&T, which is the number one in the United States. Anyway, they have already used their actions to be optimistic about the development of touch-screen smartphones.

Once Apple lives up to AT&T's expectations, another fresh Android phone with a front-facing camera could get a taste of the market's reaction.

Fang Zhuo is open to cooperation in various directions for the survival of Yike Mobile.

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

Of course, he still hopes to reach a cooperation with T-Mobile to make each other better.

(End of this chapter)