After being pointed out by Chen Qing, and feeling the indifferent gaze of a certain man that seemed to be emotionless but also contained some meaning, Lin Su was inexplicably flustered and retorted: "I... I don't."
Helping the emperor to do evil.
This is a very serious accusation.
And although he was hateful, he was far from that level. At most, I just, um... I like to mess around a little too much in those aspects.
Simon looked at Lin Su's wandering eyes and whispered something into Chen Qing's ear. The girl immediately stood up and before Lin Su could react, she had already pulled her over and stuffed her next to Simon.
There were other people around, so Lin Su wanted to run away, but hesitated for a moment, and ended up staying behind by some strange mistake.
A bewitching voice came from my ear: "Do you think I'm a good person?"
Lin Su turned his head in protest.
bad guy.
Do you even need to ask
But a certain guy didn't let her go: "Answer me, and if you answer wrong, you will be punished, right here."
it's here
Lin Su's eyes quickly drifted over the three women on the sofa on the other side, and then she paused for a moment before saying in a voice like a mosquito, "It's not bad."
"wrong answer."
"?!"
"I am not a good person. You have to know that all the people who can reach the top of this social pyramid cannot be good people, because this world is cruel, 100 times crueler than you think. So many people are doing whatever they can to... If you climb up, good people will only be pushed down and smashed to pieces." As he said this, the man's tone became more teasing: "So, if you think that a superior person is a good person, then there are only two possibilities."
Lin Su was already a little confused. Words like punishment, punishment, punishment were floating in his mind, and he subconsciously asked: "What are the two possibilities?"
"The first one is that you were deceived."
"Um?"
I responded subconsciously, but instinctively didn't want to know the second one. It might feel a little bad.
However, the voice still came over: "Second, you fell in love with the bad guy."
“…”
Lin Su still turned his head and raised his eyes to glance at the balcony guardrail not far ahead.
here.
It shouldn't be a big deal if you jump down, right
Then, the voice was like a devil from hell who could see into people's hearts: "It's okay. I'll break my leg at most. Do you want to try? It may hurt a little, but it will definitely be an unforgettable experience."
Oh my God!
Unable to bear it anymore, Lin Su simply raised his hands to cover his face.
I can't see.
Can't see, can't see, can't see...
It seemed like an unknown amount of time had passed, but the man didn't do anything further and just let her pretend to be an ostrich.
Night shrouded the earth, and stars appeared in the sky at the end of Long Island that was not illuminated by neon lights, and then Chen Qing's low-pitched singing sounded again.
*When will the bright moon come
*Ask the sky for wine
*I don’t know what year it is today in the palace in the sky
*…
Time seems to slow down in this song, but in my heart I hope it will go slower, preferably forever.
Forever.
Until someone comes to remind me that dinner is ready and I return to the world. In the dim light of night, the shadows of the surrounding trees were dancing, the sea water was slightly rippled in the distance, and there were no wheat fields.
What needs to be done still needs to be done.
After dinner, Chen Qing showed Simon a personal computer prototype that had been developed by Excellence Technology Company. Her boss only had time to take care of her small business now.
In a study room on the second floor of the villa, a prototype brought specially from China has been placed on the desk.
At first glance, at least by PC standards of this era, it looks very nice.
Plastic body, overall pure white design style.
The current common CRT monitor has a square and simple screen, a 17-inch screen, and a resolution of 800*600. The vertical host has the same bright design style. On the basis of retaining the floppy drive, it also comes with a CD drive that has become rapidly popular at this stage, and adds a front USB interface.
Exterior.
This is the only thing that outstanding technology companies can do at this stage to achieve the ultimate goal. Chen Qing also followed Simon's suggestion, and next plans to follow Simon's idea of marketing according to a certain "artistic journey of a steel plate".
Simon initially proposed designing the console according to the later metal body style, but unfortunately it is not realistic at this stage.
Because it needs to be matched with the display.
This era is still dominated by big-headed CRT monitors. LCD monitors have appeared, but not many can afford them. It is impossible for CRT monitors to have a casing that matches a metal chassis. Currently, they are all made of plastic.
It comes down to cost.
If Excellent Technology wants to open up the situation, it must keep costs to the extreme.
In the study room, Chen Qing introduced the design details of the appearance to Simon, pressed the power-on button personally, and said: "Boss, I have contacted Intel several times, and they said that at most they would give us the same quotation as other manufacturers, which is difficult to bring." After thinking about it, I think the best solution is to choose AMD's processor. AMD just launched the K5 processor three months ago to compete with Intel's Pentium series. We got the sample last year. Although it is different from Intel's Pentium series, There is still some gap in the processor, but it is not obvious. The most important thing is that the price of K5 is only one-third of Pentium. I have talked with AMD several times. They have seen my business plan and have given some additional discounts. .”
The girl spoke a little cautiously.
You know, your boss is the major shareholder of Intel. According to some information she obtained, Westeros System also bought AMD stocks at the beginning, but later liquidated all the positions because it was not optimistic about them. Even after being together for so long, I have concluded that my boss probably does not lack this kind of heart.
But what if
Chen Qing is very ambitious about this excellence, and the Chinese market happens to be highly valued by his boss. If AMD, the excellence, defeats Intel in China, this may not be good.
If excellent technology wants to succeed, it cannot do without the tiger skin of the Westeros system.
Chen Qing just said that AMD had read her business plan before giving further discounts. In fact, she quietly used the banner of her own boss and said that someone would give guidance on the plan, and AMD took it seriously.
The current equity structure of Excellence Technology Company is that Westeros invested US$1 million, accounting for 50% of the shares, Chen Qing invested US$600,000, accounting for 30% of the shares, and the remaining 20% of the shares, Emmanuel Brandt and Lin Su brought in by Chen Qingqiang each holds 5%, and the last 10% of the shares belongs to the two technical and marketing backbones she brought in from China, each holding 5%.
These were all proposed by Chen Qing on her own initiative.
Chen Qing can now easily come up with a total of 2 million US dollars in start-up capital. However, this is not how business works. Especially after staying with his boss for a long time, Chen Qing is more able to understand the meaning of 'giving up'. Meaning, only by giving up can you gain. If you don’t give up anything, you will get nothing in the end.
Simon leaned on the leather chair on his desk, looked at the Windows 95 startup screen on the desktop monitor, and smiled: "Actually, I will be disappointed if you choose Intel, because this is completely following the old path of other manufacturers in China. "It can be said that China's PC market is still in the early stages of market explosion, but the intensity of competition has completely transformed it into a red ocean market. If you want to break through, you must find another way to overtake."
Although he is Intel's major shareholder, given Simon's current position, he will not deliberately favor any system subsidiary.
The market is cruel.
All businesses must adapt to this cruelty.
If Intel is defeated by AMD in the Chinese market, Simon will not be angry with Chen Qing at all, but will appreciate it.
As for Intel, as the loser, it needs to bear the wrath of the major shareholders.
Chen Qing relaxed after hearing this and realized that some of her original worries were unnecessary. She leaned towards Simon while standing next to the man. She bent down, held the mouse, clicked on the desktop where the boot had been completed, and opened a document, saying: "Boss, this is the configuration and cost information of this prototype. In addition to AMD's K5, we also configured a discrete graphics card, but it is not the most popular ATI now, but the first graphics card launched by another NVIDIA company. I checked and both companies have investments in the Westerosi system.”
In recent years, Simon has been making layout in the hardware field, and graphics cards are a very important part.
ATI and NVIDIA were rivals in the original time and space, and the N card dominated the A card.
The current situation is a little different, because the Westeros system first invested in ATI and also reached a cooperation with Intel. Now ATI is already developing third-generation PC graphics products, and NVIDIA, which was only founded in 1993, has With the support of Tello System funds, it has just launched its first graphics card product for personal computers.
Simon was still noncommittal, just smiled, and carefully browsed the configuration information of this prototype. According to the list and comparison in the information, except for the CPU and GPU, the other configurations of this computer are quite excellent, and are priced compared with the Lenovo model. The official computer with a Pentium processor priced at RMB 9,999 is comparable.
As for the cost, the total is about 4,500 yuan.
After reading the document on the desktop, Simon looked up at Chen Qing beside him: "How much do you plan to price it?"
Chen Qing specially put a prominent question mark on the pricing list at the end of the document. When Simon asked, she smiled and said, "Guess, boss."
Directly benchmarking the price of Lenovo's Pentium processor computer priced at 9,999 yuan, if you want to achieve a blockbuster effect, then the pricing must also be quite attractive.
Simon thought for a moment, raised his hand and typed out a few numbers on the question mark at the end of the document.
4999.
When Chen Qing saw this number, she showed obvious surprise on her face: "Boss, you are so awesome."
Although the processor is a little bit worse, the other configurations of this computer are about the same as Lenovo's 9999 yuan product. If anyone else guesses, it should be around 7999, a gap of 2000 yuan. The performance is similar, and it should have considerable value for consumers. Appeal.
The direct price is 4999 yuan, but it is a bit desperate.
Price butcher.
The cost is 4,500, and the gross profit is 10%. If you don't pay attention, you won't even be able to survive.
And it is destined to only follow Dell's direct sales strategy.
However, Simon did not make a random judgment.
On the surface, Joyo Technology is targeting Intel's Pentium processor products with the same performance. However, in fact, its biggest rival is China's already sizable machine-building market. At this stage, the most popular processor in this market happens to be AMD. . The operation method of Zhuoyue Technology was actually the way Xiaomi later harvested the market share of copycat phones.
Simon continued to discuss some hardware configuration issues with Chen Qing, and then said: "I have already told you about cost control. Now that we have produced the product, the next step is marketing. Do you have any ideas?"
Chen Qing nodded: "Excellence will first explore the South China market centered on Guangdong, mainly through large-scale information coverage through print media. The core sales idea is the hunger marketing that the boss once said."
Simon nodded slightly and looked at the document on the computer desktop: "This comparison is very good, but it still requires users with a certain understanding of computer hardware to experience it. So, have you ever thought about a more intuitive performance display?"
Chen Qing looked confused.
Simon smiled and said: "Develop a special evaluation software to test and score all computers and even various hardware on the market. How many points are there for different CPUs, how many points are there for different graphics cards, and what are the scores for peripherals such as memory, hard drives, motherboards, and even keyboards and mice. points, how many points the whole machine adds up to, so it’s clear at a glance.”
Simon gave a little guidance, and Chen Qing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he added: "But, boss, we definitely can't develop this software ourselves."
"Of course, it must be an independent third party."
Chen Qing chuckled, and naturally placed quotation marks on the name 'independent third party' in her mind.
There is no real independent third party.
It’s time to eat.
Simon added: "Also, the first batch of Chinese websites in China have already appeared, and the first data center built by Yigrit in Shanghai will be launched in the middle of this year. By then, there will definitely be an explosion of Chinese websites. , this, um, let’s call it benchmarking software, it can be disseminated and spread through the Internet. By the way, we will build a website based on this software to update computer accessories reviews on the market in real time.”
After last year's IPO, Igret launched the construction of the latest batch of data centers around the world.
China's data center project finally settled in Shanghai. Due to the size restrictions of China's Internet industry, this data center is not large in scale. It is expected to be officially opened in June to provide services such as YWS to Chinese users. The number of fixed-line users in China has exceeded 50 million, and the number of the first batch of Internet users in the next few years will be considerable. The biggest problem now is that the basic supporting facilities of China's Internet industry cannot keep up.
Igret's Shanghai data center will solve one of the biggest obstacles. Just like the campus network of Stanford University in time and space incubated a large number of legendary websites such as Yahoo and Google, the Westeros Company's first in China A large data center is expected to play the same role.
Chen Qing is actually paying attention to this matter, saying: "Juovo's first product will probably be released in June, but the benchmarking software and website can be built in advance."
Simon looked at the girl's thinking look and said: "Chen, you have to understand that relying on cost-effectiveness to open the market for excellence can only be a means in the early stages of entrepreneurship. If a company wants to develop in the long term, this method is actually inappropriate. Only with considerable profit margins can a virtuous cycle be formed. Therefore, excellence must transform in the future."
Chen Qing blinked and then smiled: "Boss, I understand, so I don't plan to do it for a long time. As long as the outstanding market share reaches a certain size, I will launch the listing and then exit as soon as possible. Just like Si Gao Same as Bai. After all, Excellence has nothing of its own, and most of the profits go to upstream component manufacturers. I don’t plan to keep doing this.”
Simon smiled and did not object: "As long as you understand."
Chen Qing lowered her body and hugged Simon's shoulders with a crooked look on her face: "Boss, I will let Westeros Company withdraw first when the time comes."
“…”
Where have you heard this
but.
Well, on to the road.
Who wouldn't like such a subordinate