Yang Dongxu came out of the square and was about to deal with the papers in his hand to see if he could go back to school from time to time. After all, the end of the semester was coming soon. Du Fei suddenly whispered something in his ear. He was originally because of several textile factories. The bad mood caused by going back on one's word suddenly became happy.
"Is there something good that I don't know about?"
"Ye Rongrong has won an OEM order for 50,000 Nokia mobile phones." Yang Dongxu said cheerfully.
I thought that these 50,000 mobile phone orders were pitifully small compared to the millions of mobile phone orders in the past. After all, this was 1995, and the world's mobile phone market had not yet entered a high-speed development track. The previous order for Notorola’s mobile phones that Bessie signed was only for 10,000 units.
And Yang Dongxu is confident that as long as it has these 50,000 orders as a benchmark, only Dongxu Technology will definitely receive orders for electronic products, especially mobile phones, which will definitely become the leader of global OEM companies in an instant.
"Nokia?" Han Xing was stunned for a moment and didn't realize the name of this mobile phone brand.
At present, most of the attention in the country is focused on the United States. Who allowed it to kill polar bears and become the only superpower in the world? So as long as it has something to do with the United States, even if it's stinky shit, it will feel more delicious, all kinds of high-end, all kinds of high-tech.
Therefore, when it comes to the emerging mobile phone market, the first thing that discerning businessmen in China will focus on is Motorola in the United States, rather than Nokia in the small Nordic country of Finland. Many people have never even heard of this name.
However, Yang Dongxu, who has experienced it, knows that starting from this year, this seemingly inconspicuous mobile phone brand from a small European country will rise rapidly, directly defeating the currently seemingly powerful Motorola, and become the leader of the world's mobile phone industry, dominating this industry for more than ten years.
It was not until the emergence of smartphones led by Apple that the giant who was immersed in moving forward was caught off guard and ended his dynasty of dominance.
"A good mobile phone brand." Yang Dongxu didn't explain anything.
Han Xing nodded and didn't ask any more questions, thinking that Yang Dongxu couldn't win orders from some well-known mobile phone companies from Bai Qian, so he found this not-so-famous mobile phone manufacturer to cooperate with. In order not to lose face in front of Bai Qian, he didn't think deeply about it.
Han Xing was not the only one who thought so. He was the first to know about this matter, and everyone thought so after an investigation into Nokia.
Because compared with Motorola, the current Nokia is indeed a younger brother, but what everyone did not expect was that it was only a year, or just a few months after cooperating with Dongxu Technology for OEM. The person who was regarded as a younger brother by Motorola instantly became a grandfather.
When Yang Dongxu came to the hotel from the factory, he saw Ye Rongrong and his party, in order to surprise Yang Dongxu. She did not notify Yang Dongxu immediately after signing the contract, but directly brought the head of Nokia negotiations to Ningbo.
In fact, this is not only what she means, but also what Nokia's head of negotiations, Carew-Edward, means. Carew-Edward is a typical Finn, not very tall, somewhat chubby and with a big beard.
However, this unattractive guy is one of the shareholders of Nokia, and is currently one of the four deputy general managers with the last real power in Nokia. He is also the most powerful contender for the next Nokia CEO. Beneath the ordinary appearance is a very careful heart, and his abilities are also very outstanding.
"Haha, Karu didn't expect you to be a fat guy." Seeing Karu, Yang Dongxu was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, laughed, opened his arms and hugged him, but the language of his greeting was not English, But Swedish.
After learning French and German by himself, Yang Dongxu recently began to master the small languages that he is more interested in. Sometimes language is a wonderful door. As long as you can walk through the door, you will find that learning a foreign language is not as difficult as you think. Many languages seem to be unrelated, but in fact, you can find some similar rules and master them. With this rule, you can quickly learn a foreign language.
"Are you...Yang?" Although he is much thicker than Yang Dongxu, Kalu still feels a little uncomfortable being held by Yang Dongxu, who is about 1.8 meters tall. However, he can't care about this discomfort at the moment. , but looked at Yang Dongxu with surprise.
The two had not met before, but the two had spoken on the phone. Because Nokia only sent people to China to discuss OEM cooperation this time, it was Yang Dongxu who applied to the board of directors as a shareholder, and the person in charge of this matter was Kalu, who was very interested in China.
The two of them talked on the phone more than once, and they often chatted for more than an hour each time, because when talking about the development and future of the mobile phone industry, the two of them could always find a common language and a feeling of mutual sympathy. As for that damn thing To hell with the high international long distance phone bills.
But listening to Yang Dongxu's voice on the phone, although he was young, he had such a clear understanding of mobile phones. He thought that Yang Dongxu must be quite old, and he is an elite who has been engaged in the mobile phone industry for at least ten years. Even if he couldn't understand that China's mobile phone industry had developed for ten years.
At this time, although Chinese people are the same as foreigners, foreigners are currently in a state of face blindness when looking at Chinese people. But he could still see the childish look on Yang Dongxu's face. Although the tall guy in front of him was definitely not more than 25 years old. He still overestimated Yang Dongxu's age, because Yang Dongxu would not celebrate his 20th birthday in a few months.
"It's me, Karu. Have you signed the contract? Don't worry, I will never cheat my friends. The sales of this batch of goods will not cause a headache to the company." Yang Dongxu said with a smile.
Yang Dongxu is very optimistic about Karu Yang Dongxu, who is only 42 years old this year. Especially during the chat some time ago, this guy actually put forward some prototypes about the Symbian system. This made Yang Dongxu particularly surprised and wanted to put this guy directly. Digging over.
In the eyes of future generations, the Symbian system was a failure, because it was so beaten by Android and Apple systems that it could not even find its biological mother. But you can't deny that this is one of the predecessors of intelligent systems, and Nokia's senior management must bear most of the responsibility for the failure of Symbian. It is not that this system is really a garbage.
If there was someone at the top of Nokia who could clearly understand the future development direction of smartphones and was willing to pay for this future and invest heavily in research and development, then it is really unclear whether there will be an Apple in the future. After all, Nokia was definitely the well-deserved overlord of the mobile phone industry at that time, and its hardware production was always emphasizing the user experience. Apple had several streets.
"Your age is really... unbelievable." Kalu still looked at Yang Dongxu with a surprised look on his face, although he had already judged from the sound of his voice that this young and excessive guy in front of him was the same as him. The person who talked freely about the development of mobile phones on the phone, but he still couldn't believe that this was true.
"There is an old saying in China, which is that the person who has learned before and after is the teacher. It means that we should not look at a person's age, but how profound a person's knowledge is. Even if he is very young but has enough profound knowledge, we We must also learn from him.”
"Although I didn't quite understand the Chinese proverb you said, your explanation made me feel like you were praising yourself." Carew joked after the surprise in his brain slowly subsided.
"Haha, I have such a feeling. Let's go to my room and show you some new mobile phone design patterns that I have recently come up with." Yang Dongxu put his arm around Kalu's shoulders and laughed.
The people nearby only saw Yang Dongxu and the bearded man chattering and didn't know what they were saying. Then the bearded man followed Yang Dongxu upstairs happily, while the translator still stood there with a confused look on his face. Many people also looked confused. I don't know what happened.
"What did they just say?" Ye Rongrong asked the confused translator.
"I don't know about that, he didn't speak English." The translator shook his head in confusion, then remembered something and quickly asked the other translator in English.
Yes, there were two translators at the scene, one brought by Kalu and the other by Ye Rongrong. Bringing two translators is not just for convenience.
It's because there is no translator in Finland who can speak Chinese, and there is no translator in China who can speak Swedish or Finnish. So there can only be one English translator who can speak Swedish, and another English translator who can speak Chinese, so that both parties can communicate.
After hearing the questions from the English translator, the Swedish translator Jili Guala spoke in English, then quickly followed his boss, and looked at Yang Dongxu's back very curiously. This was the first time she met a guy abroad who spoke Swedish so well. Although she was a little hasty, she couldn't stop her curiosity about this man.
"She said that... the person just now spoke in Swedish. He and Mr. Carew seemed to know each other and were friends, so the two of them decided to go to the room upstairs to have a good chat. Boss, we... ..”
"Oh, that's it. Let's go back to the room and have a rest. It's quite tiring to come all the way." Hearing that Yang Dongxu wanted to chat with Karu and didn't signal for her to follow, Ye Rongrong naturally had no intention of following.
However, she was still a little surprised that Yang Dongxu could speak Swedish, but she didn't show it on her face. Because he knew that Yang Dongxu was proficient in Swedish and could also speak English and Russian. Her husband Wu Aibing said that Yang Dongxu seemed to have learned German before, which made her sigh that the success of some people is not unreasonable.
"Go back to your room to rest?" The translator was stunned for a moment, and then said hurriedly: "The boss, Mr. Carew, is the foreign guest we invited to discuss cooperation. How can he..."
"Why, do you want to work as a translator for the big boss?"
"You must go up, otherwise what will happen if he bumps into a foreign guest?" the translator said quickly, but only after finishing speaking did he realize: "Huh? Is that the big boss?"
"Otherwise, why do you think I was rushing here with the Karu line in such a hurry?" Ye Rongrong almost laughed when she looked at the silly translator, then she patted the translator on the shoulder with an enigmatic look and walked out of the hotel elevator. go.
Isn’t it great to speak some English? If I hadn't been too busy at work and had no time to study, and because we were cooperating with foreign businessmen and the government was afraid of misunderstandings due to poor communication, it sent you as a translator. Do you think you were just afraid that I would use you because you looked like a foreigner? If someone like you comes to Dongxu Technology to clean the toilet, it will feel like your salary is overpriced.
Now, how about meeting someone like a big boss who has more money than you and speaks foreign languages better than you? You’re dumbfounded!
