I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 385 072-072: Explosive Launch! (5000 words today)
Gao Huaijun stayed in the Freeport for more than half a month, which was considered a long mission.

After he had separate meals with the leaders of the Freeport government and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, he officially finalized the listing of Hillhouse Technologies in the Freeport.

As for the rest, the specific matters of Freeport's listing.

Hillhouse is led by Chief Financial Officer Zhang Zhong, while Tang Ying serves as an assistant, assisting China Construction Bank in handling all related listing matters.

There are too many things to prepare later, including listing consultation and guidance, share restructuring, listing counseling, preparation of issuance materials, securities firm internal review, sponsor agency recommendation, etc.

These all need to be handled by professionals.

He took a flight for several hours and returned to Xicheng. After resting for a few days, he returned to the headquarters building of Hillhouse Group.

"Mr. Gao, this is the latest version of the company's salary framework adjustment plan. Mr. Min and Mr. Wang have discussed it several times. This time, the salary of basic employees will be increased by about 20%. They agreed that in the future, employees will only be recruited from 985 and 211 universities and a small number of non-7 and non- target schools. In the future, unless they are at the P level, social recruitment will no longer be initiated."

"And this is the demand application plan of several major R&D centers, which was jointly put forward by President Min and President Wang. They are ready to start recruiting."

"This is the talent apartment construction plan for the Magic City R&D Center. They hope to build some single rooms, some one-bedroom and one-living room, and a small number of two-bedroom and one-living room structures."

"The last one is the promotion plan for Hillhouse Matebook. Mr. Min has reviewed it. He hopes that this product can be sold directly and launched to the market together with the latest P2 product."

Li Yinxin sorted out the content of the recent report and told Gao Huaijun about it one by one.

Hillhouse adjusts its salary structure basically once every three years.

Compared with the wages of similar competing products in the market, we will provide a competitive salary level that is higher than the market average.

Hillhouse’s benchmark for talent has always been the top small group of talents in popular majors of 985 and 211.

This wave of talent is meant to compete with big foreign companies.

If you don’t pay the money in full, who the hell will work for you?
Moreover, in order to improve its own employees, Hillhouse is now preparing to close its domestic social recruitment chain except for its overseas R&D centers.

The core purpose is to prevent some bad R&D habits and corporate habits in society from being brought into Hillhouse.

So having no money is absolutely not an option.

but.

When he talked about the last content, Gao Huaijun couldn't help but frown slightly.

Launched to market together with P2 products?
Just like that, there was no splash at all, the customers didn’t even know about it, and it was just pushed forward?

Min Weiguo really underestimated this product and underestimated Gao Huaijun's determination to enter the PC market!
Although the size of laptop computers is gradually shrinking, many people no longer use them.

However, the large PC business, including laptops, is still a super large market even ten years later!

Especially after the incident in 2019, China started the process of localizing office products, which released a large piece of the pie for this product.

The total output value of this cake is hundreds of billions!
So for Gao Huaijun, the PC business is not a small piece of cake that can be ignored, but a super big cake that can be seen and touched!

Gao Huaijun was determined to achieve this.

"What are Min Weiguo and his gang up on?"

"This Matebook launch plan should be sent back and redone!"

“They are becoming more and more casual now.”

Gao Huaijun couldn't bear it any longer and spoke sternly.

After a while, Min Weiguo rushed over after hearing the news and was scolded by Gao Huaijun.

You can just say it's an ordinary product with minor innovations.

Basically, for a product like this, it is good enough if it can achieve stable output.

Hillhouse MateBook is Hillhouse’s new product to enter the laptop business. How dare they be so negligent?
As Min Weiguo and Hillhouse Technology's new marketing director Wang Hezhou came to Gao Huaijun's office, Gao Huaijun finally spoke out his promotion plan amid the trepidation of the two. . .

. . . . . .

A few days later, an advertisement was posted on Hillhouse’s official website and major electronic digital stores: Hillhouse Matebook, a notebook placed in a file bag.

In the advertisement, Hillhouse's logo is placed aside, and in the middle is a hand holding a laptop computer in a brown paper file bag.

Some consumers were stunned when they saw this information.

What?

A laptop in a briefcase?
Can laptops be made so small nowadays?

The size of laptops in this era was basically more than twice as thick as later laptops.
You have to know that in this era, due to the layout of the disc area, the influence of a series of layouts such as the prototype plug, and the particularly serious phenomenon of piling up notebook products, this has led to most products being very thick and heavy.

It is really unimaginable that a company like Hillhouse would carry out such drastic reforms, even directly modifying the power plug!
Who dares to play like this!
In pursuit of extreme lightness and thinness, many existing stability functions have been abandoned.

For example, the stable round electrical port becomes a USB port that is extremely easy to break, the heat dissipation function will be greatly weakened, the battery capacity will be greatly reduced, and so on.

However, after these consumers took a closer look at this notebook.

At first he was confused, then his face showed understanding, and finally he was happy and shocked!
Laptops have been stagnant for many years due to lack of innovation.

The products of each company are pretty much the same.

The rest is running performance.

It really makes people have no desire to buy!
It cannot be said that the production capacity of each company is exactly the same, it can only be said that there is no difference.

In fact, there is not much difference compared with the products five years ago!
That’s it, how can you let consumers choose?

But now, this notebook has come out and it has made many ordinary consumers shine.

You know, generally speaking, the core purchasing groups for laptops are two groups of people.

One category is urban white-collar workers who like lightweight, flexible and portable laptops and have high requirements for non-electrical office work. Hillhouse's target users in the computer field are these people who use thin and light office laptops.

The second category is college students, which are divided into two groups. One group is male college students who like to play games and have a preference for performance. The other group is ordinary college students who like good looks, just want to watch dramas, and like ordinary games.

As for other groups, there are buyers, but they do not constitute the mainstream customer group.

Some older middle-aged people, if they use computers, would prefer to use PCs.

This group of people actually have very high requirements for computer configuration, that is, they are male college students who like to play games and prefer high performance.

This small group of people prefers to assemble their own PCs to play with.

A desktop computer with a speaker next to it and a mechanical keyboard, which makes clicking sounds when you play, wouldn’t that be super cool?

Therefore, Hillhouse's definition of this laptop directly ignores this group of customers who have very high performance requirements.

Hillhouse’s industrial chain in notebooks is completely incomparable to that of Lenovo.

When it comes to performance, it's definitely a matter of playing to one's weaknesses and avoiding one's strengths.

Therefore, when the Hillhouse notebook, a beggar version of the later thin and light notebook with some performance defects, appeared, it caused shock in the audience.

This is so awesome!
Soon, more and more customers learned about this product through Weibo posts forwarded by passers-by or recommendations from roommates.

At this moment, it also sparked discussion.

"Holy crap! Can a laptop be made that thin and light? It looks really cool!"

"Sure, sure. I feel like today's laptops are as heavy as bricks. I don't feel that way at all. I'll go to the computer mall tomorrow to have a look."

"I had no desire to change my laptop this year, but suddenly I have the urge to do so!"

"Hillhouse is becoming more and more powerful now, stirring up a pool of water that has been stagnant for a long time!"

"Even the laptops that have a business style don't change the molds for long-term production, only the configuration is upgraded. It is very suitable for commercial office use, but the younger generation may not like it. At least, Hillhouse's is eye-catching."

However, there are also many skeptical comments below.

"Hillhouse, a mobile phone manufacturer, still has a long way to go to catch up with Lenovo." "For consumers, cost-effectiveness is the most important thing."

"Those who look down on the Thinkpad series, what can Hillhouse use to challenge you? Just forget about it!"

Soon, the two groups started to quarrel with each other.

With Hillhouse and Lianxiang, two rivals that can attract traffic, how could there be a lack of competition?
"Even if the Chinese people lose Lenovo, when it comes to Chinese brands, they still have to look to Hillhouse!"

"The United States cannot live without Lianxiang, just as Europe cannot live without Jerusalem."

"Lenovo is playing with the price/performance ratio in the computer industry. It played with price/performance ratio ten years ago, it can only play with price/performance ratio now, and it can only play with price/performance ratio a hundred years from now. American multinational corporations love this kind of company to death."

"Lianxin is a good value for American people, but not for Chinese people... What good value for money is Lianxin talking about?"

"Old Liu: I don't care what the Chinese people of the future will think of me. I only care what the descendants of our Liu family will think of me."

"Hahaha! You guys are so fierce in the laning match! It's making me laugh to death."

While their fans were fighting each other, gradually, the Chinese people began to join in unconsciously.

Words like the pride of Chinese technology, the conscience of beauty, and the technology war.

All of them appeared in front of the audience.

Patriotic topics are the most likely to spark heated discussions.

At the same time, it is also the easiest to get addicted to.

This also made the battle between Hillhouse Matebook and Lianxiang a hot topic throughout the entire Chinese-speaking Internet.

Even headline-grabbing articles like "I'll show you this once! Hillhouse wants to beat Midea's conscience!" came out, which was also beyond Gao Huaijun's expectation.

The situation is also gradually entering a more intense confrontation.

Hillhouse Capital also gradually felt that something was wrong.

The second important product information was quickly released - the software was created by Hillhouse's professional team in collaboration with the China Academy of Art. It is a self-developed painting software that is close to the usage habits of professional art students: Born to Paint!

As soon as the software "Born to Draw" came out, it immediately attracted the attention of all professionals related to painting.

“As a painting software, ease of use and smoothness are crucial. I hope that Born to Draw can provide intuitive and powerful painting tools, allowing users to express their creativity without complicated operations.”

"This is a real academic master! It is very suitable for the needs of Chinese art students! In addition to basic painting tools, can some unique special effects and filters be added, or intelligent painting suggestions combined with artificial intelligence be provided? For this software, I have to buy a laptop home!"

“As a professional painting software, connection with the community is essential. A special social community has been established here, and it is very convenient to buy and sell free products. As expected of a company that started out as a technology company, it only wants perfection.”

"This is definitely a blockbuster app. Just relying on art students, it can probably sell hundreds of thousands of laptops, right? How can this company make so much money?"

"Lian wants you to take a look! Take a look! If you have this kind of potential, would we still need to buy those foreign brand computers?"

The Gaoling Matebook laptop quickly spread from person to person in the small art circle.

In this era, there is a lack of such painting software specifically for art students.

Even if there are some professional software, such as Procreate, their tools and interaction with artificial intelligence are completely killed by this product.

It is hard to imagine how much damage Hillhouse has to this small but extremely sticky group of customers.

It can be said that they will defect from Guozi to Hillhouse Technology as soon as possible.

I was deeply attracted by Hillhouse Matebook.

. . . . . .

China, Yuzhou City, Yuzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Wang Xiaoxiu is a college student majoring in painting at Yuzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Today, he was wearing a greasy coat, his hair was unwashed, and he was sitting at his desk with a scruffy beard. He was listening to music with headphones and working on a piece of work on his newly bought Hillhouse Matebook laptop.

He is a part-time hand-painter who specializes in customizing small works for companies or individuals.

Today is the deadline, and he is writing furiously to finish his manuscript.

After a while, his good friend and roommate, Wang Fu, walked in, "Xiu'er, you're still drawing your crappy pictures! Come on, let's play a game."

Wang Xiaoxiu rolled her eyes at him and said directly, "I'm busy! Can't you see I'm rushing to finish the manuscript? What do you mean by bullshit painting? I'm taking off now! My current painting speed is more than three times faster than before!"

As he spoke, he proudly showed Wang Fuxiu a draft that he was about to finish - he was drawing a little yellow... love painting, the picture was very fresh and refined, the work was often spliced ​​with only a few lines, and the soft light colors were matched, which made the love between lovers vivid.

Wang Xiaoxiu added some dirty and exciting little movements.

Sweet interaction between couples.

Although there is no blood-pumping physical description.

There are no bold or explicit actions.

But it makes people blush, heartbeat and eager to try.

Couples are attached to each other.

A sudden kiss catches people off guard.

It's like a shy girl who is hesitant to accept her lover.

Wang Fu couldn't help but blush when he saw the painting. "Which pervert wanted to draw this? Isn't it just a pornographic picture? I didn't expect you, Xiu'er, to be good at this! Damn it! I'm so tired of it, damn it!"

Wang Xiaoxiu flipped him a sanitary ball again, "What kind of spring palace painting is this? This is art, don't you understand? In this era, what is lacking is the eyes to discover beauty, don't you understand!"

"Wait, you said you can draw this thing three times faster?"

"How can it be!"

“Although the lines are simple, the texture is still very complex!”

Wang Fu on the side exclaimed.

He felt a little incredible.

"You don't understand this, do you?" Wang Xiaoxiu smiled. "See here? The texture of the watercolor brush is also very good, with that delicate gradient effect, the paint dissolving and spreading evenly, and the color transitioning smoothly. The rendering is very accurate."

"The ink naturally penetrates the rice paper with unique texture and quality, which is handled very well."

“And if you are not satisfied with the preset texture, you can also customize the brush lines, shapes, particles, rendering and other parameters.”

"All of these can be optimized by something called artificial intelligence. This optimization is really amazing!"

“I find it hard to imagine that I will ever use any other brand of painting software.”

Wang Fu no longer had the mood to tease. He looked carefully at the work drawn by Wang Xiaoxiu, and then tried it out himself. He found that this product was indeed very easy to use, so easy to use that it was extremely useful!
"Xiu'er, where did you find this magical APP? It's really smooth and easy to use." Wang Fu exclaimed.

"Did you see it? This Hillhouse brand laptop is really great to use! Anyone who has used it knows it. This laptop only costs 5000 yuan. It's a little expensive, but not outrageous!" Wang Xiaoxiu showed Wang Fu the full picture of her laptop as if showing off.

Only then did Wang Fu notice the laptop in Wang Xiaoxiu's hand.

"Fuck! It's so frivolous! Then take it to the bed and make... paper airplanes. It's actually very comfortable!" Wang Fu picked it up, looked at it, touched it, and exclaimed in admiration.

To be honest, a laptop computer that costs around 5000 yuan is not expensive for high-intensity users like them.

Nowadays, if you want to buy a laptop computer that costs less than 5000 yuan, its performance is really terrible!

He has made up his mind and will spend some time to buy this laptop to play with!

"Get lost! Who hit...a paper plane? I see that you have kidney deficiency recently. I guess it's because Fifth Girl used too much!" Wang Xiaoxiu said angrily.

(End of this chapter)