Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2195 Escort
In the afternoon, Zhou Buqi went to Korea.

As soon as the plane landed, there was a new harvest.

Previously, Zhou Buqi's relationship in South Korea relied more on the Zheng family of Hyundai Group, and carried out extensive cooperation with the Zheng family.This time because of Xu Baihui's threat, he had more opportunities to get in touch with the Li family of Samsung.

This is a good thing.

To do business in South Korea, Hyundai and Samsung cannot be avoided.

Even the members of the Zheng family and the Li family are not inseparable from each other. On the one hand, they compete fiercely at the business level, and on the other hand, the two families often have contact in private.

The title of "the world's richest man" has not yet been awarded.

This year's Forbes Global Rich List will not be announced until early March.However, various gossips have already spread out, and it has already spread to the whole world.

Mr. Zhou Buqi, who will not be 6 years old until June this year, is likely to surpass Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and other veteran tycoons and become the new richest man in the world!
At first glance, it's just a false title, and it doesn't matter.

In fact, there are powerful invisible influences behind it.

In the real world, money is often the simplest measure.Bill Gates and Buffett have been famous for more than ten years, the most important reason is that they are rich.

Now, Zhou Buqi rushed out.

First he went to Japan, and this time he came to Korea, Zhou Buqi felt it personally. This invisible change can bring him benefits in every aspect.

Lee Jae-yong, the prince of Samsung, personally came to the airport to pick him up.

After the meeting, Zhou Buqi also introduced a "female escort", who can act as a translator, a tour guide, and some explanations of local life and culture.

In the evening, you can also take on some other work.

This escort is not ordinary, she is a popular entertainer in the Korean entertainment circle, a top-notch actress, named Son Ye-jin.

This time you can see the difference.

In the Korean entertainment industry, movie cafes are at the top of the industry, and Son Yejin is of course the top of the top; those idols in idol groups are all at the bottom of the industry.

Therefore, during business dinners, the girls who accompany the drinking, singing and having fun are usually trainee girls. Even the debut girl group idols have no right to refuse, and there are strict requirements in the contract.

Many idols who make boys and girls crazy about it basically have to pass this level behind their backs.

When I was in contact with the Zheng family before, the Zheng family also invited idols from the girl group to accompany the wine and sing, and there were even a series of follow-up activities in the hotel.

However, many of the girl group girls were minors, so Zhou Buqi sternly rejected them.

This time it's different.

The Li family is obviously more courageous!

He also has the sincerity to express his affection to Boss Zhou.

The richest man in the world!

Calling some young idols from the bottom of the industry to accompany them would make them feel a bit out of place, so Son Ye-jin, the best actress of the Blue Dragon Awards and Baeksang Awards, was invited out.

Boss Zhou can't speak Korean, and Son Yejin is the best English speaker in the entertainment industry, so it's most appropriate for her to come forward.

However, Li Zairong immediately regretted it when he saw seven or eight beautiful and young girls getting off the Airbus A330-200 private jet of Boss Zhou.

If I knew it earlier, I would have arranged a few more "escorts" for Boss Zhou!

From this scene alone, Zhou Buqi's impression of Mr. Li Zairong improved a bit.

He wasn't very well organized.

This Son Yejin is quite famous. She is over 30 years old and has been in the entertainment industry for so many years. What kind of troubles have you never seen?He must have participated in similar entertainment.

After all the battles, who likes this?
It was the second prince of the Zheng family who understood men's hearts better, and all he found were a group of young and fresh people, with a feeling of shyness, nervousness, want to refuse and fear.

This kind of delicate and helpless state can most stimulate the primitive wildness in a man's heart.

However, just because Li Zairong didn't arrange it thoughtfully, it shows that this person has better personal integrity.

Just like that Mr. Mitsui in Japan, the arrangement is so thoughtful and omnipotent. This all shows that this old man is an old villain who will not be wronged if he is shot ten times.

Next, Zhou Buqi asked Sun Wanran to take the others home to rest first, and if he had energy, he could go shopping in the center of Seoul.

Then, he took Ning Lu, a language genius, and followed Li Zairong into his convoy.

The main driver is a luxurious stretched Lincoln.

It can take seven or eight people.

Zhou Buqi had Ning Lu by his side, and a male assistant who was brought from China with great skill, who was actually a security guard. "Escort" Son Ye-jin can also follow, sitting on the left of Boss Zhou.

Li Zairong is sitting opposite.

He was very enthusiastic and said that he would first ask Boss Zhou to visit several major business divisions of Samsung Electronics.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I can't ask for it."

Samsung Group is a giant.

But the core asset of the Samsung Group's overseas business is actually Samsung Electronics, whose main business is electronic products, electrical products and some communication products.

For companies mainly engaged in hardware products, the price-to-earnings ratio is generally not too high, at most it is 30 times, that is, the net profit is multiplied by 30, which is the market value of the company.

Calculated by this standard, Huawei's market value at its peak was 1500 billion U.S. dollars, while Samsung Electronics' market value was approaching 5000 billion U.S. dollars in the same period.

Huawei is already a god-like existence in China. Only through this horizontal comparison can we feel the unimaginable strength of Samsung Electronics.

Any company that makes hardware products, as long as the market value exceeds 100 billion US dollars, is enough to be a world-class big company and can be called an industry giant.

There are only a dozen or so companies in the world that can achieve a market value of more than US$1000 billion in hardware products, and there are only Huawei in China.

In the previous life, Xiaomi also made it to this threshold for a short time.However, Xiaomi relied on the concept of the "Internet" to increase its price-earnings ratio to increase its market value to more than 1000 billion U.S. dollars, which is not at the same level as Huawei.

Along the way, Zhou Buqi had a simple communication with Li Zairong and Son Yejin very politely.

Then I went to Samsung Electronics headquarters.

Visit along the way.

It's so big!

It is unimaginable that there is only a part of the business here at the headquarters, not only the top high-tech industries such as chips and LCD panels, but also some low-end businesses such as refrigerators, color TVs, computers, and audio.

While Zhou Buqi was shocked, he couldn't belittle himself, and said with a smile: "The mobile phone business should be the most professional division of Samsung Electronics, right?"

There is nothing to hide, Li Zairong smiled, "Indeed, the Samsung mobile phone... Hehe, you and your Asda are still enemies."

"How can there be any rivals?" Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "I have never had any enemies in my business. Everyone is a friend. Those in the same industry who have a competitive relationship are even better friends. Because of Samsung and Asda Competition can make the smartphone industry better and promote the arrival of the global information age."

Li Zairong said with a smile: "Hearing what you said, I feel relieved. Samsung's mobile phone market share has already surpassed Asda. I was worried that you would be unhappy."

"The market is the fairest."

Zhou Buqi didn't care much.

Aster's share has indeed been exceeded, because Aster's Aster series is a high-end model, with an average price of around $500.

But Samsung mobile phones are different. Relying on the tactics of the sea of ​​​​machines, especially those low-end and mid-end phones that are cheap, they have occupied the market in large numbers.

Even the domestic market.

It is estimated that the sales volume of smartphones in the domestic market this year may reach 2 million units, while the sales volume of Aster series under Astar is estimated to be only about 1000 million units, of which 400 million units are mid-to-low-end Astermini aimed at college students.The expected domestic sales of normal Aster high-end machines are only about 600 million units.

The expected sales volume in overseas markets is expected to reach 3000 million units.

As a result, the sales volume of the Aster high-end machine series will exceed 3500 million units this year, and the gross profit can exceed 30 billion US dollars.

Domestic consumption still hasn't picked up.

In this case, the opportunity for Samsung's mid-to-low-end smartphones has come, and it has rushed into the domestic market, which has aroused deep fear of China Cool Union.

This is also the reason why Zhou Buqi urged Asda to acquire Motorola.

The "Aster" high-end phone brand that was finally established cannot be destroyed, so rely on Motorola's global brand to quickly occupy the market for low-end and mid-range phones.

At the same time, Ziwei Xing is behind Asda.

Ziweixing has developed Rokid, the world's best intelligent interactive voice assistant.

This has become a major selling point of the Aster series of high-end machines.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Apple has Siri, but there is no movement from Samsung?"

Lee Jae-yong said: "Samsung has VoiceTalk."

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "No interaction, it doesn't count."

Both Rokid and Siri are interactive smart assistants that can ask and answer questions and interact with each other. Behind this is the latest and most powerful AI algorithm network in the world, which is the top technology in the industry.

VoiceTalk is a very traditional language assistant that cannot interact.

That is, the user uses a Samsung mobile phone, and can send commands to the mobile phone through VoiceTalk, such as "open the browser", "open the music box", "call XX" and so on.

These are system-level functions.

This thing appeared many years ago, and it was an AI technology more than ten years ago.

However, if the user asks VoiceTalk: "How is the weather today?"

VoiceTalk can't respond.

Samsung Electronics is strong in hardware.

It is not enough at the software level, especially for products like Rokid, which leads the development of artificial intelligence in the world, it is even worse.It was not until 2016 that Samsung Electronics acquired an American artificial intelligence company, which was a new company created by the team that developed "Siri" and then innovated again.

This allowed Samsung mobile phones to launch a real AI voice assistant.

This is far worse than that in China, which is all self-developed.Even if many AI algorithms are open source, Samsung Electronics does not have the level to do it on its own. There are more than a dozen similar companies in China that are just famous.

This is Zhou Buqi's opportunity.

Zhou Buqi smiled and asked, "How is it? Do you need help?"

(End of this chapter)