20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2888 It was just that I was already confused at that time

After the meeting, Qi Xidong invited Zhao Changan to stay at his house. Zhao Changan happened to have many things to discuss with him about BlackBerry, so he readily agreed.

The small villa that Qi Xidong bought was not far from the company's headquarters building. He walked to and from get off work, and the two of them would talk as they walked.

"With my confidence in you, if nothing unexpected happens, in two years, 20% of Pro could be sold for $ million to $ million, or even more."

Qi Xidong smiled and said, "Just now I saw that you were a little angry, it seems that I did a good job."

"It's already pretty good. Fortunately, you knew the times and were willing to join BlackBerry. Your professional behavior would not be accepted in China."

Zhao Changan asked in confusion: "Since you have seen it, why do you still want to push the Pro? You know, BlackBerry doesn't need to do anything. It just needs to borrow a few hundred million dollars from the bank."

"It is difficult to convince current shareholders that Pro has a promising future. The gap between BlackBerry's global reputation and its sales of just $200 million last year is so huge, and it is not appropriate to expand the brand when the company itself has not yet grown. Therefore, BlackBerry can participate in Pro, but it is not suitable for controlling the company."

By this time, the snowstorm before Christmas had almost completely melted, but in places along the way where the sunlight did not reach during the day, there were still piles of snow like small hills. The temperature was cold, and the exhaled breath was like white mist rolling in the pale moonlight and the dim yellow street lights.

Qi Xidong said: "The most important thing is that BlackBerry should not be overly distracted by matters and profits outside of its own business. Even hundreds of millions of dollars in future profits are not worth distracting attention at this time. If one day BlackBerry can sell hundreds of millions of mobile phones a year like Nokia, then these hundreds of millions of dollars will really not be important."

Zhao Changan understood Qi Xidong's logic. He knew that many industrial business projects could indeed make money, a lot of money, but one could not just pick other fruits while holding a watermelon. A person has only so many fingers. Similarly, an enterprise's energy, capabilities and business scope cannot be as large or as numerous as possible.

So even though he judged that Pro would have a good development in the future, he was still unwilling to get involved.

"It seems that I made the right choice in choosing a CEO for BlackBerry."

Zhao Changan also had complicated feelings. If Qi Xidong cooperated, Pro would definitely have more convenience in its development and rise.

However, his choice was not exactly what he wanted. After all, he was the largest shareholder of BlackBerry.

"Haha, hearing Director Zhao's assurance, I feel relieved."

Qi Xidong laughed heartily.

As a graduate of the first batch after the resumption of the college entrance examination, and an international student (at his own expense), although Qi Xidong abandoned, criticized, and overturned many concepts and things, there was one thing that was deeply rooted in his heart, that is, he did not seek food, money, women, many children, and happiness in this life.

I just hope that this life has not been lived in vain, that I have lived, left a name behind after my death and a voice behind when the wild geese pass by, and that I have accomplished something real!

"Haha~"

When Zhao Changan saw Qi Xidong's look, he didn't know whether to laugh or smile bitterly.

As of now, no matter what, after paying enough for the One Nano North American Pro, BlackBerry still made concessions and agreed to take the Pro on a flight.

However, this is also BlackBerry's bottom line, and the maximum time it can be used is two years.

Two years later, regardless of whether the Pro is a dragon or a snake, BlackBerry no longer wants to have any connection with it.

This also means that from the beginning, Pro must initially build its own user information cloud service center, and in the first few months before the two-year deadline, it needs to start transferring Pro's user network cloud service functions from BlackBerry's servers. In addition, the BlackBerry patented technology and operating system currently used by Pro will also face this problem in two years.

Even though Yinamen North America was still BlackBerry's largest shareholder at that time and Zhao Changan was still the chairman of BlackBerry's board of directors, he could not prevent BlackBerry from most likely launching a patent ban on Pro and terminating its cooperation in mobile phone design and operating system.

Because by that time, the relationship between Pro and BlackBerry had changed from a cooperative and shareholding relationship to a severe competitive relationship.

In short, just thinking about it gave Zhao Changan a headache.

In Zhao Changan's original vision, just as Mike and Doug expected, BlackBerry would eventually completely break away from its identity as a hardware manufacturer of mobile phones and PAD wireless devices, and transform into a technical high-tech Internet software company that purely provides Internet solutions and services.

Just like Microsoft in the computer industry.

But the problem is that the vast majority of BlackBerry's shareholders, BlackBerry's employees and leadership, upstream and downstream suppliers and sellers, and even the city of Waterloo and Canada, do not want to see BlackBerry gradually de-materialize.

Some consider profits, some consider stock prices, some consider employment and economic promotion, and some actually consider their own business, jobs, and jobs.

In particular, Nortel Networks, Canada's most powerful Internet high-tech company, is now mired in huge losses. The huge losses of this company alone have caused the entire Toronto housing price to plummet, many companies in the entire manufacturing chain have stopped production and closed down, and a large number of stock investors have lost money.

Therefore, BlackBerry, which emerged as a life-saving straw, now shoulders more than just the company's own affairs and responsibilities.

This is also the reason why Zhao Changan, an Oriental, controlled BlackBerry and made major adjustments to BlackBerry's senior management, and everyone here just had to bear it.

If Zhao Changan and Qi Xidong do something too ugly, especially de-materialization, Zhao Changan dares to say that at least Waterloo will not agree, and it may even step by step lead to Canada's investigation into Zhao Changan and Yinami in September last year.

That was a really terrible thing. Putting aside other things, the order from the Persian Gulf ensured the well-being of the Luoyi joint venture vehicle factory, and also allowed YTO to have a good New Year. The local people of Luoyi were also very satisfied with it. However, it made Zhao Changan's pants stained with yellow mud, and he couldn't explain it clearly.

Therefore, over the past few months, Zhao Changan has been in Waterloo, and even though Mike and Doug have mentioned it in public, Zhao Changan dared not mention making BlackBerry the Microsoft of the future wireless mobile industry.

Because doing so will destroy many people's jobs.

Mike and Doug said this with lofty aspirations, but if Zhao Changan dared to respond, it would be considered as having ulterior motives.

"Da da da--"

Zhao Changan was wearing sneakers with wool inside, so he walked silently. Qi Xidong was wearing leather shoes, and the soles of his shoes tapped on the road. On this empty and quiet road with few pedestrians and closed shops, the sound of his shoes was very clear.

At this moment, Zhao Changan was actually thinking about the future direction of the wireless mobile industry controlled by One Nano.

In fact, I was also in deep confusion.

This is human will and ideas. Often in the actual operation process, it is difficult to develop step by step. There will be too many unpredictable factors, influences and changes.

Especially when the beast in hand becomes ferocious, either the beast becomes uncontrollable and runs away, or the outside world reacts to the beast, causing the ideal to deviate and become blurred.