People in Hong Kong create super chaebols

Chapter 60 Yang Chaoye’s surprise
On the morning of June 6, London Heathrow Airport.

Today, Suzhou City personally came to the airport to greet an old man, Mr. Yang Chaoye, who had just resigned from IBM.

At 11:30 a.m., a plane flying from New York to London slowly landed at Heathrow Airport.

At the exit of the station, among the many white and black passengers, an elderly Chinese couple stood out.

Su Cheng, along with Zhong Chuhong, Yu Xing and others, saw the old gentleman at a glance. The person next to him must be his wife.

Before coming here, Su Cheng already had a preliminary understanding of some things about this old gentleman.

IBM is a well-known international company in the world. It is very simple to find the information of their former vice president.

Yang Chaoye, born in 1918, is from Fujian Province. He left Fujian Province at the age of 16 to join relatives in the beautiful country of San Francisco. He successfully graduated from Stanford University. After graduation, he went to New York State to work at IBM. After more than 30 years of hard work, he became a The most junior salesman has worked his way up to the position of Vice President of IBM's International Business Department, becoming the third most powerful person in IBM.

He served as Vice President of the International Business Department for 6 years and increased IBM's performance by more than 300%. He can be said to be a rare contributor to IBM in recent years.

In the first four years as vice president, Yang Chaoye did indeed work very aggressively, and IBM's president and board of directors were very supportive of him.

It was only in 1976 that everything changed after the new president J. Watson took office.

As the saying goes, new officials have three things to do when they take office, and J. Watson is no exception. After he took office, he carried out reforms in many departments of IBM, and many senior executives were affected by this.

As the president of the International Business Department, Yang Chaoye believes that Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia will be very important emerging markets in the future and require greater investment. However, J. Watson believes that the European market has not yet been fully developed and there is no need to invest in Asia. Too much investment;

Yang Chaoye believes that the mobile phone business will become a very important part in the future, but J. Watson believes that IBM should focus on the computer field in order to maintain its leading level in this field and is not willing to spend too much money on other fields.

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Yang Chaoye had a strong personality and was unwilling to compromise. He loudly urged IBM to change its development strategy on various occasions inside and outside the company. The end result was that the differences between the two IBM executives became increasingly wide.

Two years later, Yang Chaoye finally decided to resign and submitted a letter of resignation. President J. Watson naturally signed it happily, while the board of directors reluctantly approved it.

All the directors on the board of directors naturally see Yang Chaoye's ability, but as the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. IBM needs a leader with unified political views. Only one of them can be let go in order to better develop IBM.

In this way, Yang Chaoye left the company he had worked for his whole life.

This is the information Su Cheng obtained.

When he saw this information, Su Cheng knew that if nothing unexpected happened, he seemed to have acquired an extraordinary talent.

Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong will all be very economically active places in the next few decades, and Southeast Asia, before the 98 financial crisis, was also developing quite well economically.

As for the mobile business, its potential in the future is no worse than that of computers. Even in the era before Su City traveled over, computer hardware had gradually declined, while the mobile phone business had been on the rise.

It can be seen from this that Yang Chaoye's unique insight is extraordinary.

When Yang Chaoye appeared, Su Cheng naturally recognized him at a glance.

After all, he had already seen Yang Chaoye's photos.

"Mr. Yang, I've finally come to see you. This must be your wife." Su Cheng greeted him warmly.

"You are Su Cheng, the boss of the Su Group, right? You are so young!" Yang Chaoye was also a little surprised when he saw Su Cheng.Before this, although he had a certain understanding of the Su Group and had a deep impression of Su Cheng through Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu never mentioned Su Cheng's age.

Therefore, before meeting Su Cheng, he thought that Su Cheng was at least a middle-aged man. Unexpectedly, the boss was younger than his son...

"Mr. Yang, come with me. Let's go to the company first. It's not convenient to talk here." Su Cheng said with a smile, looking at the airport with people coming and going.

"Okay, I'm done." Yang Chaoye nodded and followed with his wife.

The ride from the airport to the Su Group Building was very smooth.

Now, the original signboard of the building has been removed and replaced with the Su Group's LOGO and name.

Su Cheng led everyone directly to the 21st floor.

This is not only his address in London, but also his office during his stay in the UK.

"I didn't expect that the Su Group has such a property in the center of London. It seems that I underestimate the Su Group." Yang Chaoye said in surprise.

If calculated in Hong Kong dollars, this building is worth more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars, right?
However, according to the information he learned from Mr. Liu, the market value of the entire Su Group is only three to four billion Hong Kong dollars at most.

Moreover, Mr. Liu said that the Su Group also has a headquarters building in Xiangjiang. It is impossible that the main value of the Su Group is these two buildings, right?

"Actually, there are still many things that Mr. Yang doesn't know about our Su Group." At this time, Yu Xing smiled from the side.

"Mr. Yang, let me introduce to you. This is Yu Xing, the current head of the European branch of our Su Group." Su Cheng introduced Yang Chaoye.

"Hello, Mr. Yu." Yang Chaozhu took the initiative to shake hands with him.

"Mr. Yang, let me briefly introduce you to our Su Group and our boss." After the two shook hands, Yu Xing said with a smile.

Naturally, Su Cheng himself cannot be the one to praise this thing.

"Then I'm all ears." Yang Chaoye sat on the sofa and said with a smile.

"The Su Group was actually inherited by our boss not long ago. More than a month ago, the strength of our Su Group was indeed average. However, after our boss inherited the Su Group, he increased his investment in the Su Group, especially It's on the European side. Originally we only had one office here, but after the boss came to Europe, he directly bought this building as the future office of the European branch.

In addition, the boss also spent more than 5000 million Hong Kong dollars to directly acquire five companies, including logistics, property, media, supermarkets, and real estate. This also laid a solid foundation for our European branch of Su Group.

And this is only a small part of our boss’s investment. Mr. Yang of Huifeng Bank must have also heard of it. He is a well-known financial brother in Hong Kong. And just this month, our boss just took over Huifeng Bank. The listed company Hutchison Whampoa they control has become the major shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa, and Hutchison Whampoa's total market value is in the billions of Hong Kong dollars. "

When Yu Xing talked about his boss's deeds, he worked very hard and felt very honored. According to him, the boss was not short of money. If he could work under such a person, his future would definitely be bright.

Yang Chaoye, on the other hand, became more and more surprised as he listened. This young man seemed to be much more powerful than he imagined.

Speaking of Hutchison Whampoa alone, although he didn't understand it, a major shareholder with a market value of several billion must hold more than one billion shares. This kind of strength is quite powerful.

Although the Su Group is not very powerful now, under his management and with the boss's heavy investment, he believes that it will definitely be able to build the Su Group into a top international company like IBM.

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