IBM's dissatisfaction is certain, after all, Li Zetian has poached so many people.
Seagate Technology now has 65 people, all of whom are engineers, which is quite large for a newly established company, which shows Li Zetian's determination to enter the disk field. At present, Seagate Technology is temporarily living in Apple's headquarters building, and will move out after the scale has grown.
In fact, in addition to floppy disks and hard disks, Li Zetian also intends to let Seagate Technology enter the field of CD, VCD and DVD. The CD standard was to be launched in 1980, and now it is 1975. Li Zetian naturally wanted to cut off the Hu, cut off Sony's Hu!
At this moment, a meeting is being held in the Seagate Technology Conference Room. Li Zetian sat in the first place, Tian Shuai, Zhang Yan, Wozniak sat on the left, Alan Shugart and several senior executives of Seagate Technology sat on the right.
"Currently Seagate Technology needs to do three things,"
Li Zetian said solemnly: "
First, set up a floppy drive department. IBM's 5.25-inch floppy drive is about to be developed. We will go straight to 3.5-inch floppy drive instead of 5.25-inch floppy drive, and strive to launch a 3.5-inch floppy drive before other companies!
Second, set up a hard disk department to develop hard disks with smaller size and larger capacity. It is best to be the first to develop a 5.25-inch desktop computer hard disk. Seagate brings huge rewards!
Third, set up the optical disc department to develop CD compact discs that can accommodate digital audio! As far as I know, in 1972 researchers at Philips in the Netherlands started using laser beams to record and replay information. In addition, in August of this year, Sony's Nakajima working group invented the "PCM information processor", which can record digital signals on magnetic tapes. Philips was a pioneer in laser video recording, and Sony was the first to develop digital audio signal technology. If these two companies join forces, they will definitely be able to develop an epoch-making recording medium - what I call CDs! I even dare to predict that CDs will definitely replace the most popular LP vinyl records nowadays! "
Except for Tian Shuai, all the people present were engineers, so they naturally understood what Li Zetian was talking about. Tian Shuai has been at Apple for so long, and even if he is not proficient in professional things, he understands what it is all about.
Alan Shugart frowned and said, "Mr.li, the first two points are fine, but the optical disc department in the back is not developing well. We are far behind Philips and Sony, and we don't know if we can catch up?"
"Well, this is indeed a problem." Li Zetian nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "It is difficult for us to catch up with Philips' laser storage technology, but Sony's digital audio signal technology, we still have a chance to catch up. Chase! No matter how bad it is, Seagate can become a member of the CD standard setter and build a CD patent pool together with Philips and Sony!”
When Alan Shugart heard this, he couldn't help but nodded secretly. The CD standard makers authorized each other to form a monopoly patent pool. If CDs can replace LP vinyl records, Seagate Technology will benefit greatly!
Li Zetian looked at everyone at this time and asked in a deep voice, "Is there anything you don't understand? Or do you have any good suggestions?"
The crowd shook their heads.
Li Zetian announced: "Okay, since everyone has no problems, then Seagate Technology's early development strategy will follow the three points I said!"
"Yes!!!" Everyone responded in unison.
Since then, Seagate has started expensive research, and I am afraid that it will burn money in the past few years! However, the money is worth the burn.
Storage technology is one of the core technologies of future technology. In the early stage of floppy drives, hard disks, CDs, and DVDs, to the later stages of cloud computing, cloud data, and artificial intelligence, storage technology must be used in all walks of life.
Seagate in hand, storage I have!
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At the end of October 1975, "Panda Fast Food" opened a branch in San Francisco's Chinatown, but Yu Jingqiu didn't come. She went to school, she is a senior, and will graduate in May or June next year. Li Zetian attended the opening ceremony of this branch, and then reached the investment intention with his prospective father-in-law Yu Jingshan. Li Zetian invested 400,000 US dollars in Panda Restaurant Group in his personal capacity, holding 30% of the shares. He took the $400,000 from Sunbird, which is a wholly-owned company of Umbrella. No one would say anything if he took the $400,000. Besides, Sunbird is very profitable and will release the Game-Watch in December. Li Zetian later checked the leaks and filled the gaps, and instructed the developers to add some easter eggs to each game, which could be beautiful women, interesting sentences, scenery photos, etc., which in turn aroused the curiosity of players and continued to pass the level.
The other two shareholders of Panda Catering Group are Yu Jingshan and Yu Jingqiu, who hold 40% and 30% of the shares respectively.
Obviously, Panda Catering Group has developed into a family-owned business, and the shareholders are all family members.
"Panda Express" is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panda Restaurant Group and currently has two branches in New York Chinatown and San Francisco Chinatown.
However, Panda Restaurant Group soon opened a branch in Los Angeles' Chinatown after receiving investment from Li Zetian. In addition, under the introduction of Li Zetian, Yu Jingshan met with Maxwell, the director of the First Intercontinental Bank, and borrowed 3 million US dollars from the bank to prepare for the seven major cities of Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Boston, Houston, and HSD. The Chinatown replicated the successful model of "Panda Fast Food", established branches, and quickly occupied the market.
People have to eat every day, fast food restaurants open faster, but it's not much. Moreover, the location chosen by Panda Restaurant Group happens to be one of the top ten Chinatowns in the United States, which is not a blind expansion! With the help of Li Zetian, Yu Jingshan's career attracted a second spring. This time, he is more motivated than before, getting up early and going to bed late every day, working hard, and it seems that he is determined to open Panda fast food all over the United States and even the world.
As the saying goes: "The people take food as their heaven!"
Catering is very profitable. Just look at Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, KFC and other companies. There is no doubt that Li Zetian, who likes to make money and enjoys it, also wants to get involved in this industry. In addition, as a shareholder of Panda Restaurant Group, it is the responsibility to promote the rapid development of the company!
Therefore, Li Zetian began to pay attention to the development of the global catering industry in his spare time, and Starbucks first caught his attention. Starbucks was founded in 1971, only 4 years from now. It has been meticulously managing coffee beans, tea leaves and spices. It is small in scale and has only 4 branches in total.
Li Zetian was both surprised and happy.
As long as you scrape together a little money, you can buy Starbucks!
However, when it comes to Starbucks, I have to talk about one person, and he is Howard Schultz.
It was he who led Starbucks to glory and built a coffee empire with a market value of tens of billions of dollars! ! !
After earning a bachelor's degree in business in 1975, Schultz entered Xerox's New York branch to get a job as a salesman, a good deal for students who had to pay off school debt at the time. But soon, he jumped to a company that imported Swedish kitchenware and became the vice president of the company's US division. While selling the product, he discovered that a small company called Starbucks in Seattle had bought many coffee makers from him. Intrigued, he went to Seattle to see for himself. There he saw Starbucks, which sells freshly brewed coffee, spices and other flavors made from coffee.
Soon Schultz realized that he was going to have to deal with coffee for the rest of his life, and he said to himself: "When I came here, the first thing I smelled is the aroma of coffee. It's completely authentic. I feel It's like an unfinished diamond, and I have the ability to cut it into brilliant jewelry."
In 1982, Schultz resigned from a position that paid $75,000 last year to join Starbucks as director of retail operations and marketing for the coffee shop. This year, he communicated with the original founder of Starbucks, hoping to expand the business to open cafes, but was not approved. So, in 1986, he chose to resign and raised funds to set up his own coffee company. After just a year, he made a lot of money and in turn bought Starbucks. Then he resolutely gave up his own brand and officially started Starbucks' entrepreneurial journey! Five years later, Starbucks was successfully listed on the Nasdaq in New York, and has since entered the fast lane of development.
Li Zetian couldn't help thinking, as long as he acquired Starbucks, he was Jiang Taigong fishing, and Howard Schultz volunteered to take the bait!
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