The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 682 Edward Zamp [Additional]

It was in December 2013 that Edward Zamp took over the throne of Motorola's president from the former Motorola president, Christopher Calvin.

Edward Zamp is the first non-Calvin family Motorola president in history, which is of considerable historical significance.

As for this Edward Zamp, such a thought-provoking celebrity story was published in the Zhiyin magazine in December 2004, and the name is: Motorola President's Smart Choice Successor.

The original text is very long, so I will briefly talk about it here.

Let’s say that Christopher Galvin, the president of Motorola, is over 70 years old and intends to retire, so he has to choose a successor for the company. In the end, two people were selected, namely 50 years old Edward Zamp and John Gjed, 51.

It's just that both of them looked good, and Calvin didn't know who to choose, and fell into distress.

One day the three of them went climbing together, and then Calvin had a whim and asked them to compete to see who could walk up the mountain first.

The two didn't think this incident was so weird at all. Instead, they thought it was the boss testing their physiques, because running a global company required a strong physique.

So the two started the race, walking up the mountain, while Gal took the cable car up the mountain ahead of time for himself.

An hour later, the first person to go up the mountain was John Gjed. This guy trotted up the mountain all the way.

It took another hour for Edward Zamp to reach the top.

At this time, Calvin happened to find that both of them had cameras hanging on their bodies, so he checked the camera space of the two of them and found that John Gjed did not take a single photo.

This is easy to understand, after all, people are going up the mountain at full speed, serious about the real game.

Looking at the photos of Edward Zamp, there are dozens of pictures of the beautiful scenery on the mountain. It turns out that Edward Zamp lost to his opponent because he kept taking pictures of the mountain scenery along the way.

When Calvin retired at the end of the year, he considered Edward Zamp as the new president and CEO of Motorola.

In this regard, Calvin also issued a post-event speech, the original text is as follows: "I wanted to check their physiques by climbing mountains, but after I looked at their digital cameras, I made a new discovery: John is an overly persistent A person who only has goals in his eyes. Although such a person is vigorous and decisive in doing things, he is easy to be greedy for success and bring risks to the company. Zanpu is a person who knows how to appreciate and relax. I'm relieved to leave the rest of the business to him, because what Motorola needs right now is steady growth, not rapid expansion."

[This article is real. If you are interested, you can find the bosom friend in the original issue, because this article made the author who read a lot of books and magazines to improve his composition writing ability remember deeply, and has since fallen in love with photography (狗头). 】

Let's not discuss how the slots in this article are so unbearable to complain about. For example, Calvin really wants to test the physique of the two of them.

Also, Christopher Calvin was forced to leave by the board of directors because of the disastrous failure of the Iridium Project. Before leaving, he was forced to sell all the shares in the company belonging to the Calvin family. This is not normal at all. The succession of the chosen heirs.

Of course, to a certain extent, being forced to sell shares at this time is really a big profit compared to waiting until the company is over.

As for Edward Zamp, he was also chosen by the board of directors himself, and had nothing to do with Old Calvin.

Secondly, it is not Edward Zamp, or John Gjed, but Ed Sandel.

Of course, you can't say that there is a problem with this, because Ed Sandel and Edward Zamp are actually the same person, but there is a deviation due to translation problems, and the names are different.

The name Edward Zamp was used before 2012, and it was translated by the Chinese themselves based on transliteration.

And Ed Sandel translated his autobiography later, and then translated it into Ed Sandel according to the translation of the English name into Chinese.

This sounds like a very normal mistake, but in fact, if you take a closer look, you will find that the name Edward Zamp is the name used by standard old white men.

And Ed Sandel, this is a name commonly used by Indian-Americans. Yes, Ed Sandel is actually an Indian-American, and he is also the first to blow in the spring breeze of the Indianization of American technology companies. Silicon Valley leader.

The Chinese people before 2012 thought that the technological leader of the United States should be an old white man, but they did not expect that the descendants of India had already begun to rise at this time.

But since everyone called him Edward Zamp before 2012, then he is Edward Zamp.

Ahem, digressed again, let’s get down to business.

If our Boss Huang encountered such a situation as the article, he would definitely fire Edward Zamp without hesitation. I even proposed to run a race, but you didn’t care about it. You walked slowly Taking pictures, I had to wait an extra hour on the mountain, and the cold wind blew for two hours. You are afraid that my 70 years old man will die later than you, right?

However, this article is also very valuable to a certain extent, because it fully reflects the style of Edward Zamp.

That is stability, very stability, and everything is based on the interests of the board of directors, that is, the stock price.

So in the future we can see many magical operations of Edward Zamp.

First of all, on the first day that Edward Zamp officially went to work, he directly rejected an acquisition on the grounds that the acquisition would cost a lot of money, but it could only buy a useless company.

This is just a waste of the company's money, so the acquisition should be cut.

As a result, Edward Zamp missed the opportunity to acquire Huawei from China, and this was the only chance for Huawei to be acquired by a foreign company with a high probability. Pu nodded and approved the plan this time, but Edward Zamp vetoed it.

And this decision also made Huawei feel a great humiliation at that time, so it completely gave up the fantasy of foreign companies, and began to embark on the road of self-forced scientific research, and then became the leader of Motorola at its peak. double the size of the telecommunications company.

Immediately afterwards, Edward Zamp made a classic decision, which is a classic decision.

That's right, the character's name is Classic.

Edward Zamp believes that an excellent mobile phone company should not constantly change the appearance of mobile phones like other mobile phone companies in the market, and then try to launch a variety of novel mobile phones.

They only need to take out the most classic mobile phone styles in history, and then make some fine-tuning, such as enriching the colors to meet the needs of consumers, and the rest do not need to be changed at all.

So in the next few years, Motorola has always followed the classic and retro road. The appearance of the mobile phone has always been the previous best-selling styles, but it keeps changing the skin every year.

The result is naturally self-evident, so this has caused Motorola to fall behind in the era of functional phones.

And by 2005, Edward Zamp made another classic decision, which was to cooperate with Apple.

At that time, Apple's iPod was very popular, and the itunes store was also very successful. Many users liked to buy songs in the store, and shopping was also very large.

At that time, Edward Zamp, who was troubled by the decline in Motorola's profitability, made a safe decision, that is, to cooperate with Apple and introduce the iTunes store into Motorola mobile phones, so that Motorola can retain a large amount of intermediate fees from the store. , to directly obtain a considerable amount of income.

This strategy seemed to be very successful at the time, because this strategy brought Motorola a huge profit of more than 20 billion US dollars within two years, and Edward Zamp also successfully used this to get out of the crisis of trust in the board of directors.

At the same time, Motorola has also become the only mobile phone brand in the world that is not an Apple mobile phone, but can be equipped with an iTunes store.

However, software is not Motorola's strong point, especially adding an itunes store to the mobile phone, which requires improvement in the underlying system, which Motorola cannot do at all.

So Apple said very intimately that they can complete this task and help Motorola mosaic itunes store for free.But Apple doesn’t understand mobile phones, so I hope Motorola can provide a mobile phone team to explain and explain the underlying logic of mobile phone manufacturing to Apple, and understand the hardware manufacturing of the entire mobile phone, so that Apple can perfectly embed the store into the mobile phone.

Edward Zamp thinks this makes sense. After all, as long as the iTunes store uses Motorola, Apple will definitely be able to benefit from it, so it is only natural that they are willing to help Motorola develop programs for free, so Edward Zamp directly sent his own Teams of elites are dispatched in the past.

It's just that this elite team soon discovered that Apple's team wanted to know too many things, so much that it didn't want to just inlay a store, but wanted to directly manufacture a mobile phone.

In this regard, Edward Zamp thought it was a Russian joke and ignored it.

And then ihpne was born.

After the birth of the iPhone, Edward Zamp was extremely angry. He made the first radical decision in his life, which is the only decision that might change the fate of Motorola, that is, to launch an acquisition of Apple in the market. Apple became its own company.

This was not impossible at the time. After all, before the launch of the iPhone, Apple’s market value was less than 200 billion, but Motorola’s market value had soared to 650 billion.

But unfortunately, Apple's resistance was very firm, which made Edward Zamp's acquisition cost continue to increase. In the end, he really had to bet on the entire Motorola Group. Stable, feel that it is unnecessary, for such a computer company shed all Motorola's blood, so Edward Zamp gave up the acquisition of Apple.

(End of this chapter)