Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 177 Selling Shovel Graphics Chips
Rogers' expression froze for a moment, and he responded in a low voice, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Um, President, I heard about this yesterday."

Ordinary workers in Xinghai Group may have no idea about Xinghai Investment and have never thought about investing.

The middle and senior levels are completely different.

Everyone is very concerned about the fund shares of Xinghai Investment and wants to invest all their assets in it.

Therefore, after the news spread among Xinghai Investment, all middle and senior management of Xinghai Group knew about this good news on the same day.

Although Rogers had just returned from Kyoto, he also learned about the situation through a phone call.

"Oh, I see. You are well-informed."

Masato Takeshita was not at all embarrassed about being surprised and knowing it, and he still maintained a faint smile on his face.

"But it doesn't matter. In addition to the fund matter, there is another surprise."

"Is there any surprise?"

"Yes, guess again."

After saying that, Masato Takeshita leisurely drank a sip of tea, looking like an old man in an office.

Rogers looked at his president and asked tentatively, "Could it be that the company is going to give out bonuses?"

"As expected of the president, you guessed it right."

Masato Takeshita nodded with emotion.

"Yes, I plan to give everyone the gross profit from the first day's sales as a bonus."

The three armies have not moved, and the food and grass go first.

Since the game is already a hot seller, why not just not wait and overdraw some bonuses in advance to make everyone happy, which will give them more motivation to make a good game.

"All of them?"

"Yes, all of them."

"That is not bad."

Rogers breathed a sigh of relief.

Although "Soviet Cube" was completed by the first development department led by himself, the main contributor was Alexei Pajitnov from the Soviet Union.

Even the minor contributor was not the First Development Department led by him, but Masato Takeshita himself.

It can be said that the first development department led by Rogers only completed auxiliary work.

If this happens, the first development department can still get a huge bonus, while the other two development departments can just watch, which can easily cause conflicts within the company.

Why does the First Development Department get such a huge bonus when its contribution is not that great?

Is it because they are the president's direct subordinates?

It's just a nice-looking art skin.

Who can't do such a simple job?

"Don't worry, I value fairness more than you do."

If people's hearts are lost, it will be difficult to lead the team.

Therefore, after Masato Takeshita established the company, the most important thing he attached great importance to was fairness.

Of course, absolute fairness cannot be guaranteed at all, he can only achieve relative fairness.

Like Xinghai Fund, Xinghai Games also adopts the cash payment model.

Although the 10 billion yen prize is only one-fifth of the Xinghai Fund, it looks equally shocking.

The amount ranges from tens of millions to several million.

The only one with over 100 million is Masato Takeshita.

But Rogers himself didn't get much less, just a little over 7000 million.

After distributing the bonuses, Masato Takeshita did not immediately announce the end of the meeting.

He stood on the podium and happily announced the second thing to everyone.

“Some people may know, and some people may not know.”

"I also have some talent in finance, and I founded a financial company called Xinghai Investment."

"Xinghai Investment mainly deals with hedge funds, and its current performance is pretty good. The earliest Rat Fund has almost doubled tenfold, and the Ox and Tiger Funds that were established later have also tripled more than threefold."

Having said that, Masato Takeshita paused for a moment to give his employees some time to recover.

Then he continued, "The fund's returns are good, and outside investors hope that I can set up a few more hedge funds to meet everyone's investment requirements."

"There were too many people trying to persuade me, and I couldn't refuse. I had no choice but to set up three more private hedge funds to help these investors manage their assets."

Although it may sound a bit Versailles, Masato Takeshita does often receive calls from acquaintances who try to persuade him to set up a new fund in a roundabout way.

Especially after Xinghai Investment successfully escaped the stock market crash, there were more similar calls.

You know, the 20% interest rate or even 10% interest rate of many Ponzi schemes has already attracted countless wealthy people.

As a financial leader like Xinghai Investment that owns several top hedge funds, it naturally attracts more attention.

Even foreigners have contacted him through different means.

Masato Takeshita naturally would not refuse.

The three newly established hedge funds, Rabbit, Dragon and Snake, have investors from the United States, including Stanford University Fund, Harvard University Fund, California Teachers Fund, California Police Fund, and New York Civil Servants Fund.

In the future, Masato Takeshita will further strengthen his relationship with the United States and the world.

In order to gain a share of the hedge funds under his command, Japan and the United States each account for 30%, Europe accounts for 20%, and the rest of the countries account for 20%.

This way his career will progress more smoothly.

Of course, these proportions are not static and depend mainly on influence.

China will also have a place in the future.

"Since outsiders have helped, our employees should naturally help even more."

"However, there is a limit on the number of people in private hedge funds. So the company first established four public funds, and each company has its own public fund."

"The exclusive public offering fund of our Xinghai Game is the Spring Equinox Fund."

"Everyone should invest the money here first, and then evenly distribute it among the three newly established private equity hedge funds, Linjiangxian, Qingyu'an, and Dielianhua."

After finishing his speech in one breath, Masato Takeshita left everyone a full 3 minutes to think.

Then he continued,

"The fund's investment is voluntary. You don't have to invest a penny, and Xinghai Investment will keep it confidential. But there is an upper limit on investment, which cannot exceed two-thirds of annual income."

"Okay, that's all I have to say. Tomorrow, employees from Xinghai Investment will come to the company to sign a contract. If you are interested, just sign the investment contract directly. If you are not interested, just stay inside for 5 minutes before leaving."

"At the same time, those who have no intention will also receive a contract."

"This way everyone will look the same on the surface and there won't be any problems."

Japan has a very strong herd mentality and if similar measures are not taken.

It would be bad if someone was targeted because he did not invest.

This is a welfare benefit and must not be turned into tyranny.

After the meeting, Takeru Sato whispered, "Mr. Aoki, how much are you going to invest?"

Aoki Hideyuki looked at his friend and said as a matter of course: "Of course it's two-thirds. Didn't you watch the news?"

"Xinghai Investment is making crazy money."

"We gave out 50 billion yen in bonuses alone, and all new employees received bonuses of tens of millions of yen."

"Such a good opportunity must not be missed."

Nine out of ten people who have access to computers these days have attended college.

Even if there are one or two unexpected cases, the family conditions are usually very good.

They are not college students, in most cases they are just not old enough.

The game software development industry inevitably requires contact with computers.

Therefore, Xinghai Games and Xinghai Investment are both concentrations of high-quality talents.

These people have access to a wide range of information, and it is easy for them to come to the conclusion that investing in funds under Xinghai Investment is very profitable.

Of course, there are some bold and some timid employees.

The bold ones will invest to the limit and even borrow money to go all in; the timid ones may only invest 10/1, which is more symbolic than actual investment. But it doesn’t matter, after the fund distributes money for the first time.

Even those who are afraid in their hearts will shout, "It smells so good."

Then, start investing two-thirds of your salary income.

Xinghai Games was Masato Takeshita’s first stop, and he chose Matsumoto Manufacturing as his second stop.

He had the lowest expectations for this company.

Because Matsumoto Manufacturing has the lowest average educational level and the oldest age.

Many people have a negative view of products such as financial stocks and tend to be conservative in their investments.

Of course, Matsumoto Manufacturing has many employees and everyone's income is relatively good.

Therefore, even if the average investment is relatively small, it should still exceed Star Ocean Games and Star Ocean Investment.

Perhaps only Xinghai Semiconductor can defeat it in terms of total volume.

After repeating the same words, he arrived at his last stop, Xinghai Semiconductor.

"The president is worthy of being the hero who established the American Express credit card system. He has helped the company attract more than 20 orders from the United States in such a short time."

An expert will know if there is one as soon as he takes action.

Lou Gerstner is worthy of being the legendary CEO who can save the blue giant IBM in the future.

In such a short period of time, not only did we sort out Xinghai Semiconductor, but we also helped our subsidiary Xinghai Foundry to attract more than 20 orders.

Among them is the American giant AMD.

"No, I am just one of the contributors to American Express Credit Card. As for the credit for getting the order, it is indeed mainly due to me."

It was his own credit, so Lou Gerstner would not refuse.

If it doesn't belong to him, he won't take it.

This is one of his basic principles in life.

"I was not rigorous enough, sorry."

After apologizing with a smile, Takeshita Masato asked again seriously: "What do you think, should we build more wafer fabs?"

Three years later, the computer market will see a huge explosion.

By then, there will not be enough wafer fabs on the market, ushering in the first spring in the wafer foundry industry.

Masato Takeshita wanted to seize the opportunity and make more money.

Lou Gerstner was not a time traveler, but with his own shrewdness, he could also feel the unstoppable trend of computers.

He said seriously: "I predict that the computer industry will soon usher in an explosion. Investing in two more 2-inch wafer fabs will definitely not be a loss."

The world's most advanced wafer factory is currently 6 inches, and it still has more than a decade of glory.

Even if it becomes outdated in the end, you can still sell it cheaply.

As for the 8-inch wafer factory, the first one to go into production had to wait until 1990.

At that time, Masato Takeshita will follow suit and invest heavily in building a factory.

On the one hand, 8-inch wafer fabs are still the mainstream in the world even in 2020.

Invest early and earn early.

At the same time, the wafer foundry market is limited. If Xinghai Foundry takes more, other wafer foundries will take less.

It is very likely that this will greatly slow down the development speed of other wafer foundry companies.

On the other hand, the company also took advantage of the panic caused by the bursting of the bubble economy to reduce the equity shares of several companies in Xinghai Semiconductor.

NEC, Toshiba and other companies still have too many shares in Xinghai Semiconductor. It would be best to reduce them to around 10%.

Of course, if several companies choose to withdraw.

Even better.

"Okay, it's up to you."

After briefly understanding the wafer factory, Masato Takeshita asked about the company's flash memory development.

"It is estimated that memory cards and mobile hard disks will be ready for laboratory use next year. As for official commercialization, it may take until after 1989."

"So fast, not bad, not bad."

Masato Takeshita did not expect that the development of flash memory would be so fast.

Hundreds of Intel engineers have been researching and developing this product for three or four years, and it will only be possible to come up with a commercial product next year.

Xinghai Semiconductor was only established this year, but it was able to officially start production in 1989, which is an astonishing speed.

The young man was very satisfied.

However, thinking of the importance of this group of talents, he earnestly reminded them: "Don't let everyone work too much overtime. There is no rush for flash memory. Even if it is put into production in 1992, it doesn't matter at all."

The flash memory business will be very small in the next few years.

It would take until at least 1992 for flash memory to take off.

At that time, electronic consumer products such as digital cameras, laptops, and mobile phones began to rise, and the sales of flash memory chips attached to them increased significantly.

"Please rest assured that I have always been concerned about your physical and mental health."

"Ah That's good."

Masato Takeshita was still very confident in Lou Gerstner's abilities.

Since he said he was paying attention, then it must be so.

“By the way, you should also pay attention to the graphics chip aspect. It would be best if you could set up a graphics chip department.

With the development of video games, 3D graphics technology will sooner or later enter the world stage."

"We can't miss every opportunity. Who knows which one will be a gold mine in the future?"

Which company would not envy Nvidia's achievements?

Although the AI bubble is indeed huge and Nvidia, a shovel seller, is also overvalued, even so, it is difficult for Nvidia's market value to fall below the trillion-dollar scale.

Of course, not necessarily.

In the PC era, Cisco also sold shovels, with a peak market value of over $6000 billion.

However, after the Internet bubble burst, Cisco became worse and worse and finally became an ordinary company.

"Understood. I will hold a meeting to discuss this in the afternoon."

"okay."

After talking about business, Masato Takeshita began to ask about investment.

"Mr. Gerstner, how much are you going to invest in the rainwater fund this time?"

"Five million dollars, okay?"

Lou Gerstner asked tentatively, wanting a larger share.

"No, the company has a rule that it cannot exceed two-thirds of the annual income."

"Then I will invest 2 million yen first."

"OK, no problem."

Although Lou Gerstner cunningly invested two-thirds of his annual salary into it, Masato Takeshita still agreed with a smile.

For the company's top talent, this is a harmless loophole.

It is better to turn a blind eye.

“Hopefully you can invest more next year.”

Lou Gerstner’s annual income includes a bonus as long as Xinghai Semiconductor’s performance is good enough.

It would also be an easy matter for him to earn over 10 million dollars a year.

"Don't worry, I definitely will."

Lou Gerstner now has infinite confidence in himself and in Star Ocean Semiconductor.

The foundation of this company is so good.

If this doesn't work, you might as well buy a piece of tofu.

(End of this chapter)