Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 926 My New Company

Li Jiankun sat on the sofa sipping tea, determined not to disturb Sun Zhenyi's collapse.

If it's going to collapse, let it collapse completely.

comfort?

nonexistent.

If this guy still doesn't believe it, Li Jiankun doesn't mind playing the game with him a few more times, and playing the seven captures and seven releases to the fullest in the literal sense.

Anyway, it’s not a waste of Li Jiankun’s money.

It's just a few times of emptying your wallet.

A few million dollars each time, even if you play it seven times, it’s only 7 million dollars, but there is an increasing probability of taming a future world richest man into a younger brother.

There's no better deal than this.

Why is Li Jiankun so sure that Sun Zhenyi will not be successful no matter how he starts a business now?
It’s not that he can tell fortunes, nor that he has a very sharp vision.

But it was the history that had already happened that told him.

Like almost all entrepreneurs, Sun Zhenyi, who was in his twenties, was certainly smart. For example, he developed the world's first translator and sold it to Sharp, making a fortune.

He is not lacking in the ability to make money.

But making money and starting a business are two different things.

When he wanted to build a career and expand SoftBank, he took many detours and ran into obstacles throughout almost the entire 1980s.

His real rise to fame came in the early 1990s, when he caught the earliest wave of Internet communications.

So the old saying goes: Times make heroes.

If the tide of the times does not roll under your feet, no matter how great a person is, he will usually face a situation where his talents are not appreciated.

Zhuge Liang was a genius, but before he was 27 years old, he still lived in seclusion in a hut, leading a commoner life of "trying to survive in the troubled times and not seeking fame and fortune among the princes."

Jiang Ziya was eighty years old and still had nothing to do, spending all day fishing by the river.

History has long told us this fact:
Everyone's success requires at least one opportunity.

The gap between people is actually not that big. The IQ of a normal person is around 100, and the IQ of a so-called genius is only a few dozen higher. It’s just that some people wait for their chance, while some don’t; some people seize it, while some miss it…

"Am I really that useless?"

Sun Zhenyi sat on the wooden floor, extremely depressed, muttering to himself.

Well, I am beginning to doubt my life... Li Jiankun put down the glass teacup and cast a sympathetic look:
"Anyway, it's not that useful."

Well!
Sun Zhenyi felt a sweet taste in his throat and almost vomited blood.

Li Jiankun was still afraid of hitting him to death, so he continued to finish him off:

"So, do you still think you are so extraordinary and will definitely achieve great things in your business life?"

A strong bitterness appeared on Sun Zhenyi's face.

He couldn't even start such a small business as a magazine, and he failed three times in a row!

He is now in deep self-doubt and feels that he is not suitable for starting a business at all. His one success during college was purely accidental.

The knife comes again:

"Don't think that the earth is losing you. In fact, everyone, at some stage, thinks that they are the destined one, that they are so special.

"In the end, after getting bruised and bloodied and having his edges smoothed by reality, he finally admitted that he was an ordinary person."

Li Jiankun is like a life mentor, guiding people step by step:

"It's important for you to know yourself, try, and work hard. You should see yourself clearly from failure, correct the direction of your life in time, and find a path that suits you. To be honest, you are not suitable for starting a business..."

As expected! Sun Zhenyi thought, no longer doubting his vicious vision.

The future richest man in the world has been completely led astray...

"But you still have some good points."

Li Jiankun said slowly: "He is good at communication, sincere, efficient, and has good execution ability."

He paused and stared at Sun Zhenyi:
"Don't you think these qualities are better suited for other things?"

Being praised suddenly... Sun Zhenyi, who was in such a bad mood, was as happy as eating a ginseng fruit: "Doing things for you?"

Li Jiankun curled his lips and said, "What's wrong? I'm wronging you. Through these three entrepreneurial ventures, oh no, four times, you have also seen your ability. If you continue like this, you may not achieve anything even after you are over fifty."

Li Jiankun paused, and seemed to digress:

"What do you think of Tsuruta Nakamura now?"

Really! Sun Zhenyi opened his eyes wide. Although he had thought of it a long time ago, it was just a guess, just like the gossip.

He thought that Tsuruta Nakamura was a big shot now.

There is definitely no shortage of money.

As the company with the most land in Nippon Benz and the official boss, he has a good reputation and is a true upper-class person. He is a big shot wherever he goes and no one dares to ignore him.

And as the yen appreciates, land prices will rise, and his weight will also increase day by day.

Compared with most of the self-employed bosses, he is much more successful.

Sun Zhenyi thought, actually, it’s not bad…

He knew Tsuruta Nakamura, and even though he was hit hard now, he still arrogantly believed that he was more capable than Tsuruta Nakamura.

In other words, if he works for Mr. Li, he has the hope of reaching higher heights than Tsuruta Nakamura.

"If I follow you," Sun Zhenyi asked cautiously, "what do you plan to let me do?"

He wanted to understand and confirm two pieces of information through this question:

1. Is what Mr. Li wants him to do something he is interested in?

When a person does something that he is interested in, it is a pleasure; otherwise, it is painful.

2. Will Mr. Li make use of him?

This is of course crucial.

It will directly determine his next choice.

“High-tech industry.”

Li Jiankun said: "I agree with what you said before - something smarter than the human brain will definitely have a future. Not only that, I believe that scientific and technological progress is the primary driving force for social development.

"Japan's current science and technology, especially in electronic technology, is among the best in the world.

“In fact, I also own a number of electronic technology companies, which you will know later. But I still have the idea of ​​starting a technology company in Japan.

“This requires help.

"I won't hide it from you. I sent someone to investigate you. You graduated from an Ivy League university, have made some pretty good inventions, founded SoftBank, and you also want to work in the electronic technology industry.

"So I think it would be quite appropriate for you to do this."

Sun Zhenyi asked: "What position will I hold?"

Li Jiankun: "What position? The high-tech industry is hard for outsiders to touch in any country. Of course, the company is registered in your name, and you are the boss.

"But the prerequisite is that you must quickly become a Japanese citizen, otherwise you won't be able to do this later."

boss!

Sun Zhenyi's eyes were bright and he had no other questions.

Mr. Li's vision is as sharp as ever. Indeed, he is particularly interested in the electronic technology industry.

I can do what I like and be the boss, even if it's only on the surface, but I'm only second to one person...

With huge financial support, background, and backing...it's like divine help.

So what if I am second to none?

Kitahara Sosuke and Yoshino Eiji, these well-known business leaders, don't they have people above them? And there are more...

Sun Zhenyi got up from the ground, faced his peers on the sofa, and bowed 90 degrees:
"Mr. Li, I am willing to work for you."

Li Jiankun raised his lips slightly: "Very good.

“Let’s solve the naturalization issue first, and then we can talk about other things.

"If you don't have any connections in this area, I can get someone to help you."

Sun Zhenyi: "Okay."

To be fair, he had always been hesitant about whether to become a Japanese citizen, as he did not fully identify with this country.

Now it seems that since I was born in Japan, I can't escape the arrangement of fate...

At this moment, Sun Zhenyi suddenly remembered something, stopped, turned around and asked:
"The money I owe you?"

"It's just a small amount of money, so don't mention it to your own people."

Sun Zhenyi was delighted. Mr. Li was a generous man, and he felt more and more that he had followed the right person.

She left happily.

Li Jiankun looked at his short back, tapped his thigh with his fingers, and hummed the Peking Opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy".

Of course, he didn't want to take Tiger Mountain.

Bigger.

……

……

Sun Zhenyi once again witnessed Mr. Li's power.

Although someone like him who was born in Japan is considered a highly educated talent and it would not be too difficult for him to become a Japanese citizen, it is still somewhat unbelievable that he could accomplish it in just two days.

The speed was so fast that his family hadn’t reacted yet…

"sit down."

Since he was his younger brother, Li Jiankun's attitude was naturally different. He patted the sofa next to him.

Sun Zhenyi was excited and sat down.

In fact, many things were not discussed clearly last time, such as what kind of technology company Mr. Li...or the boss, planned to start.

High-tech industry is too broad.

Sun Zhenyi is a person who cannot sit still, especially now, he wants to prove himself even more, so he immediately asked the doubts in his heart.

Li Jiankun looked at him with a smile: "Do you know what a big brother is? Oh, yes, that's what they call it in Hong Kong."

Li Jiankun has been busy these past two days, killing billions of his brain cells.

As a person in a higher position, making the best use of subordinates is a skill that must be learned and mastered.

What are the strengths of Sun Zhenyi?
Actually, he didn’t tell the whole story last time.

To say that Sun Zhenyi is sociable, sincere, efficient, and has good execution ability is just superficial. I am afraid that even Sun Zhenyi himself does not have a clear understanding of his greatest strengths.

They are good at scheming and "borrowing", or integrating resources.

You can understand this by looking at the career development trajectory of his previous life.

Sun Zhenyi's first pot of gold, his first US$1 million, was earned by selling a game introduced from Japan on the university campus.

The second one million dollars was used to develop a pocket voice translator using the resources of the once famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States, and the patent was sold to Sharp Corporation. In the early 1990s, he persuaded the American regional network professional company NetWise to expand the market in Japan. In order to spread the risk, he persuaded Disney to join. Just two or three years later, the NetWise system became one of the main standards for regional networks, and the annual revenue of this project exceeded hundreds of millions of dollars.

This was the beginning of Sun Zhenyi's real success.

Darl McBride, vice president of Netway, once said: "Sun Zhenyi is an intermediary who can make anything come true."

What Li Jiankun needs to do is to bring out Sun Zhenyi's talents to the fullest and use them for his own benefit.

He planned to set up a technology company in Japan in order to obtain the technology he wanted, but this was obviously difficult and a shell company would not be able to accomplish this.

So the company has to really do it and have its own products.

He thought about it, what thing is the epitome of electronic technology?

Furthermore, it is best to have three characteristics:
1. It’s something new and no one has done it before.

2. It is not something imaginary; it is entirely possible to create it through inference.

3. The market prospects are promising.

In this way, if I take the lead, Japan's technology giants will become interested.

During this period, Sun Zhenyi's strengths can be perfectly stimulated.

By then, our interests will be aligned with those Japanese technology giants. It would not be appropriate to keep the technology secret, right?

As long as you take it out, no matter how you take it, there is a chance.

When Li Jiankun was sleeping last night, two words popped up in his mind - mobile phone.

Although Sun Zhenyi had never heard of the term "big brother", he understood what he was talking about: "It's a handheld wireless phone, right?"

He thought that this product was not simple and that only a few companies in the world had the relevant technology.

Can they really come up with it from scratch? Even if they spend time to come up with it, will there be any advantage?
At this time, Li Jiankun said: "Let's make an advanced version of it."

blind!
Sun Zhenyi opened his eyes wide, and it was an advanced version...

Are all geniuses’ brains so explosive?

Sun Zhenyi scratched his head and asked, "What is its advanced version?"

Even handheld wireless phones are rarely owned by people nowadays. Whenever one appears on the street, it always attracts countless eyes, but most people know nothing about it, let alone the advanced version.

He wondered, did Motorola have this idea?
Li Jiankun pulled up a deck of cards from the baffle under the glass coffee table. They were used by Brother Fugui to play "Paodekuai" when they had nothing to do. He taught them how to play, but he had no time to play.

Facing Sun Zhenyi's puzzled look, Li Jiankun held the card box to his ear and made a phone call gesture:

"My ultimate vision is that a handheld wireless phone should be this big, this thick, and this light, so that it can fit in one hand without any effort..."

blind!
How is this possible? Sun Zhenyi's eyes widened.

You know, today's handheld wireless phones are like bricks and weigh several kilograms.

"It's unrealistic," Sun Zhenyi said. "On the surface, this is just a matter of the size of the shell mold, but if the phone is to be made so small, the volume of the various components inside must also be reduced accordingly.

“As far as I know, a handheld wireless phone contains at least hundreds of parts made with cutting-edge technology.

"This requires hundreds of cutting-edge technologies to achieve... an overall technological leap."

Like a daydream.

Li Jiankun glanced at him and said, "Can you please listen to me first?"

Sun Zhenyi smiled awkwardly and quickly apologized.

"It's just a change in size." Li Jiankun continued, "In terms of function, the handheld wireless phone I envision in the future should not only be a phone, it should be more like a microcomputer. For example, the software you developed before can also be used on it..."

"!!!"

Sun Zhenyi felt like he was listening to a science fiction story.

Regardless of whether this matter had any chance of happening, at that moment, he felt endless admiration for Li Jiankun from another perspective.

What a magnificent imagination, he thought.

Mr. Li should write a novel...

He hopes it can come true.

But... this is too fucking sci-fi!
Li Jiankun put down the playing cards and looked at Sun Zhenyi with a half-smile: "You think it's impossible?"

Sun Zhenyi hesitated and nodded.

Li Jiankun asked again: "Do you know Moore's Law?"

Sun Zhenyi was stunned for a moment, then nodded again.

Li Jiankun: "Moore's Law was proposed in 65000 and has been widely verified. In , a new type of charge-charge device memory chip did contain nearly components, which is consistent with Moore's prediction in ."

Li Jiankun raised a finger:
"For example, the 4004 processor launched by Intel in 2300 is still the mainstream in the market. It has 7.5 integrated transistors. According to Moore's Law, by the s, for example, in , the number of transistors in Intel's new processor will increase to million, which means that in years, it will increase times!
"What is this concept?"

Li Jiankun paused, stared at Sun Zhenyi and asked:

“Can you imagine how powerful a chip with 7.5 million transistors would be?
"What would happen if such a high-density integrated chip was put into a handheld wireless phone?"

Sun Zhenyi was a little confused.

Moore's Law has indeed been proven. Most people, including him, may not think about it in this regard, but in fact, the speed of technological development is changing with each passing day, beyond people's imagination.

Li Jiankun added: "Chips are almost the most difficult technology to promote in electronic technology.

“It’s all grown so rapidly.

"What's impossible about the parts needed for other handheld wireless phones?"

Li Jiankun let him think for a moment, then asked, "Do you still think my idea is impossible to achieve?"

Sun Zhenyi's eyes sparkled: "It seems... a little possible."

Li Jiankun spread his hands:

"As I said earlier, this is the ultimate vision and the direction of the new company's future efforts. We can't achieve everything in one go. If we work towards this goal, as long as we can 'slim down' the current handheld wireless phones by half, as long as we remove the mechanical buttons, make the screen bigger, and make it touch-screen, it will be a huge improvement and there will be no shortage of market."

Sun Zhenyi looked excited; he liked this entrepreneurial project!

At the same time, his inner admiration grew stronger. He thought that Mr. Li's achievements today were all due to his real skills.

What a great idea!

Remove the buttons on a handheld wireless phone, enlarge the screen, and make it touch-screen... Has anyone else in the world ever thought about this issue?
Unparalleled imagination, or creativity!

He suddenly felt that his future schedule was full and there were many things to do.

He likes this feeling of fulfillment.

Sun Zhenyi said excitedly: "However, this is obviously not an easy task. It requires massive investment and we also need to win the cooperation of relevant technology giants."

Li Jiankun smiled secretly, thinking, as long as you know what to do:
"money is not a problem."

Sun Zhenyi really believed in this matter, and it was mainly because of this sentence of his.

Now, Sun Zhenyi is becoming more and more motivated.

At this time, Li Jiankun added: "Investment is inevitable. In order to speed up the process, we need to acquire some high-tech enterprises and high-tech technologies and recruit a group of top talents.

"In addition, for those technology giants whose technology we need but cannot acquire, if we want to cooperate with them in the future, I have a request for you."

Sun Zhenyi: "You say."

"We need to learn from them. We need to try our best to master any advanced technology so that we don't end up being controlled by others due to unpleasant things happening in the future."

There is nothing wrong with this statement, but Sun Zhenyi was very surprised: "If this is the case, the investment will... increase infinitely."

Are you kidding me? Which technology giant’s core technology is not developed with billions of dollars of funding?
And try to master them all...

The amount of money required is difficult to estimate.

In other words, it is almost impossible to accomplish.

Li Jiankun did not expect that he could achieve 100% success and fully exploit the high technology of Japan. If he could exploit one thing, he would make money. He glanced at Sun Zhenyi and said:
“Do you want to invest money?”

Sun Zhenyi: “…”

forget it.

Didn’t he say that I’ll try my best? I’ll try my best.

Sun Zhenyi suddenly became excited again. Mr. Li decided to do something big, and he was the person in charge of the company. To some extent, it could be said that it was an investment in him, which was a great thing!
Now, the company has its positioning and goals.

Sun Zhenyi couldn't wait to ask: "What is the name of our company?"

As we all know, Li Jiankun is a bad namer. When he was free, he thought about it and came up with a name that he thought was pretty good. It was a word called "Redefine", which means "redefine."

It has some style and connotation, doesn't it?
But he thought again, our company makes mobile phones. Although the original intention of establishing it was to make money, the company is serious about it. When the mobile phones are produced in the future, will it be called... redefining the mobile phone?
Nondescript.

Li Jiankun told Sun Zhenyi about this and asked, "What do you think?"

Sun Zhenyi's eyes rolled around, and after extending his idea, an idea suddenly occurred to him: "How about calling it... 'standard'?"

Standard Technology Corporation.

Standard mobile phone.

Fog grass~
Li Jiankun opened his eyes wide. This name is really tricky.

From now on, no matter which mobile phone manufacturer makes products that are not as good as ours, they are all rubbish and cannot meet the standards...

This incident once again proves that Li Jiankun is a bad namer:

"Not bad!"

Sun Zhenyi was delighted. You see, he also named the company. What's the difference between this and our own company? Even if we start our own company, if it is bigger, we must attract investors.

After the company name was decided, Li Jiankun left the office.

When I came back, I had two more documents in my hands.

All prepared in advance, except for the crossword puzzle.

One is a set of company application documents obtained from the Tokyo Legal Affairs Bureau, which is Japan's industrial and commercial bureau.

One is a loan contract.

After Sun Zhenyi took it, he stared at the loan contract, seeming to be hesitant to speak.

Li Jiankun explained: "I didn't ask you to borrow. Fill in 'Standard Technology Company' as the borrower. I will approve 10 billion yen for the company first."

Although all his money was invested in the Japanese stock market and real estate, Li Jiankun had enough money if he needed 180 billion yen.

The two banks under its name are not just for show.

Sun Zhenyi looked a little strange, but he couldn't get angry. He knew that this was Mr. Li's way of controlling him.

Every dollar of funds for the company's development was borrowed from Mr. Li's bank.

There are also high interest rates, late payment fees and other charges.

Anyway, as long as the company is not listed, its financial statements do not need to be made public.

Then if one day, Mr. Li wants to turn against the company, he can take back the company assets.

Sun Zhenyi could understand that with such a huge investment, it would be unreasonable not to have some control, but...

Li Jiankun patted him on the shoulder and said, "Those who work hard and do things with all their heart will not be treated unfairly."

Suddenly, Sun Zhenyi thought of Tsuruta Nakamura again.

Then he regained his passion and grinned, "I understand!"

(End of this chapter)