Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 85

NEC, the full name of which is NEC Corporation, is a global enterprise based in Japan and is headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo.

NEC's headquarters building is very beautiful in this era and can definitely be called a landmark building.

As soon as Masato Takeshita got off the car, before he had time to take a closer look, he was taken to the president's office by the beautiful female receptionist who had been waiting there.

"Enter!"

Hirotada Sekimoto's voice was not loud, but it was full of indomitable momentum. As the world's leading chip company, it really needs this kind of domineering aura to calm the situation.

"Hi."

After getting the president's permission, the receptionist opened the door and bowed to the two of them, saying, "President Yokota, President Takeshita, please come in."

As for herself, she is not qualified to enter the president's office for the time being.

"OK, thanks."

The two men nodded politely to the receptionist before walking into the NEC president's office.

"President Yokota, President Takeshita, good afternoon. It's a pleasure to meet you both."

"Good afternoon, President Guan Ben. Thank you for your guidance."

"Please give me more advice."

Although Takeshita Masato was the protagonist of the event, he was clearly in a follower position in front of the two big guys. After the two of them greeted him politely, he bowed respectfully at a 45-degree angle and presented his business card with both hands.

"Hello, President Sekimoto. I'm Masato Takeshita from Xinghai Semiconductor. It's our first meeting. Thank you for your guidance!"

Matsumoto Manufacturing’s reputation is indeed more famous, but Masato Takeshita is representing Xinghai Semiconductor this time, so he must clearly distinguish between the primary and the secondary.

"I know you're Waseda's rising star. Please give me your guidance."

Youth is capital.

As a student from an ordinary family, he was able to establish a company with annual sales exceeding 10 billion yen before graduating from university. It can definitely be called a miracle.

Waseda University will naturally publicize it and highlight its civic side.

If ordinary students want to change their fate, then they should come to Waseda. Unlike Keio, ordinary people can also achieve great success here.

Masato Takeshita has now become a golden signboard of Waseda University and a topic of bragging among the bigwigs of the Waseda family.

I don't know how many times Sekimoto Hirotada has heard this name, and he has remembered it.

"You're too much of a compliment. It's all the publicity from my seniors and the school. I'm actually not that great."

Although Waseda University's publicity brought a lot of benefits to Masato Takeshita, and Matsumoto Manufacturing's monopoly on more than 8% of the profits of Japan's trolley suitcases was partly due to Waseda University's publicity, he himself actually does not like to expose his private life to the media.

If possible, he would rather everything be quiet.

Unfortunately, this is destined to be a luxury.

Humans are social creatures and are destined to be unable to break away from the collective and live completely according to their own ideas.

"No, President Takeshita is being modest. Let alone the suitcase project, even the mouse in front of us is enough to show President Takeshita's talent."

As he spoke, Hirotada Sekimoto took out a mouse used for testing Xinghai semiconductors and once again praised Masato Takeshita's scientific research and invention capabilities.

The mouse has been around for so long, but no one has thought of changing the mouse from a square shape to an arc shape that is more suitable for the human body.

After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Hirotada Sekimoto smiled and brought the topic back on track.

"You two chose to come to NEC as guests, probably to promote mice."

"Yes, we do hope to sell the mouse to be paired with your company's computers."

"Yes, but we need to sign an exclusive agreement."

As he spoke, Guan Benhong placed two contracts that had been prepared in advance beside the two of them.

Masato Takeshita soon reached an exclusive cooperation agreement with Hirotada Sekimoto.

The content of the agreement is simple.
For three years, the mice produced by Xinghai Semiconductor could only be supplied to NEC exclusively. Likewise, NEC could only purchase mice from Xinghai Semiconductor for the same three years.

This contract completely tied Xinghai Semiconductor to NEC, and Masato Takeshita suffered a small loss.

He originally wanted to sign an exclusive contract for Japan only. Since NEC now dominates the domestic market, he would gain more benefits by signing an exclusive contract.

Unfortunately, the arms are no match for the thighs.

Xinghai Semiconductor is just a small company and has no negotiating power at all.

If it weren't for Fumu Yokota's support and if Masato Takeshita himself had another company, NEC would definitely have drawn up a more excessive contract.

such as:

The mice produced by Xinghai Semiconductor can only be supplied exclusively to NEC, but NEC has no requirements and can freely purchase mice produced by any company on the market.

This is the sadness of small companies facing big companies. They have no ability to resist at all.

Faced with this situation, Masato Takeshita could only comfort himself in his heart.

"Forget it. Even though NEC has become a middleman, maybe we can sell more."

Although they are all computer operators, NEC has a good relationship with IBM, Apple and other companies. If NEC helps with promotion, at least hundreds of thousands more units can be sold every year.

In this way, Xinghai Semiconductor's annual mouse sales may exceed 100 million units.

This number is indeed not enough compared to the hundreds of millions of sales in later generations, but in this era when computers were scarce, it was already a top sales volume.

After the cooperation was reached, Hirotada Sekimoto's attitude became more friendly.

Needless to say, as a common practice in Japanese companies, meals and other things must be arranged.

This time, Masato Takeshita did not refuse because he was not qualified to say "no".

However, after eating and drinking, Masato Takeshita rejected the beauty arranged by Hirotada Sekimoto.

Who knows if he is a spy arranged by NEC.

Since both of them lived in Setagaya Ward, they took the same car on the way back.

Masato Takeshita looked at the NEC building outside the car window and couldn't help but sigh: "President Sekimoto is really amazing. No wonder he was able to stand out from the semiconductor industry and develop NEC into the world's number one chip manufacturing company."

NEC is a giant company with annual sales of trillions of yen, covering most industries in the computer field.

Its computer business has annual sales of less than 1000 billion, which is actually not worth mentioning within NEC.

However, even for such a small accessory as the mouse in this marginal business, he can quickly get the latest news.

From this we can see that Hirotada Sekimoto definitely attaches great importance to the development of the computer industry.

This kind of forward-looking vision is exactly what Japan's giant companies lack in the 21st century.

"Yes, it's really amazing. NEC has become the world's number one, but he is still so approachable."

When Fumu Yokota thought of his own president, he couldn't help but shake his head.

He was an ultimate tyrant who could lash out at his subordinates for hours without getting tired.

"Well, that makes sense."

Although the two people are not on the same channel, they have the same goal, and both aspects reflect the strong personal charm of Hirotada Sekimoto.

(End of this chapter)