We are still in the manor, but this time we are not chatting in the living room, but in the reception room of the manor. Prince William did not come again, but Gerard Gronav came.
If you mention Gerard alone, the general impression among the public or business circles is that he is a very successful businessman and a large landowner.
This person owns a lot of land on five continents, and it is a large area of land. He operates minerals, oil fields and natural gas businesses. He is definitely a big boss who can do such resource business.
But today Jeld is sitting in the living room of the manor, obviously not because of his status as a business tycoon, but because of his status as a royal white glove.
In addition to Jelder, there were also a few older men.
The old man sitting on the left side, looking at a cigar and smiling, is called Sandway. He was the former chairman of Citibank and is known as the father of finance on Wall Street.
Sitting below him was a bearded man with a somewhat tall stature. His beard was already graying, and his eyes were lowered with a look of twilight. This is Picken, president of BP Capital Management on Wall Street.
On the right hand side sits Jelder, and below Jelder sits an upright old man wearing a formal suit and leather shoes, with a friendly smile on his face.
If you didn't know his identity, you would have thought he was a staff member interviewing customers at first glance. This is Charles, the founder of index investing.
The way he dressed was a habit left over from when he was a stockbroker. Compared with older people who like to wear loose and comfortable clothes, Charles has been dressing like this for work these years.
In addition to these four, Dean was also sitting in the living room.
The door to the living room was closed, the black tea on the table was steaming, and everyone had an Honor Generation mobile phone in front of them. The entire living room was very quiet.
Jeld looked around, took a sip of coffee from the cup, and then took a long puff of cigarette.
He likes to drink coffee very much, and he likes to drink this kind of strong freshly ground coffee, and he is very addicted to cigarettes. Sandway just sips the cigar in small sips, and only smokes half of the cigar.
There were already a lot of cigarette butts in the ashtray in front of Jelder, and he was still smoking the cigarette in his mouth. He shook the cigarette box and found that there were no cigarettes in it.
Jerde crumpled the cigarette box into a ball with his palm, reached out and opened another box of cigarettes, then spit out a circle and said.
"Is there no room for negotiation? Your conditions are too harsh."
The others remained silent and did not speak, obviously having the same idea as Jeld.
To be honest, as a big boss, some of them have never cooperated with Chinese people, and some have not. But regardless of whether they did or not, they never thought that one day they would be in a weak position when cooperating with a Chinese.
The opponent held a butcher's knife in his hand, while they stretched their necks and placed them on the chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered. This feeling is very unpleasant, but there is nothing that can be done.
"This is the condition for cooperation. If it doesn't work, forget it. I will get some new mobile phones to give away, or after China and Asia start distributing goods, I will wait for others to come." Yang Dongxu leaned on the back of his chair.
He rarely smokes, but he also has a cigarette on his finger. Although the negotiation fell into a stalemate not long after the beginning, such negotiations are really draining. If he doesn't hold a cigarette in his hand and occasionally takes a puff, he always feels nervous. My head hurts.
"No one will be willing to cooperate with you under your conditions." It was Picken who spoke.
"That's because you underestimated the greed of human nature." Yang Dongxu chuckled, "I know you think that my smartphone interview is over, and smartphones from other manufacturers are probably not far away. For example, Apple is very early. Smartphone projects have been established before.
But what I want to say is that in the next six months or even a year, I will be the only one with smartphones in the world. Those of you who have used smartphones know very well how much changes the advent of smartphones will bring to the mobile phone industry.
In the end, if it doesn't work out, I can look for cooperation with Nokia, Motorola, or Ericsson. If I follow the conditions you mentioned, why don't I seek cooperation with these big companies?
By cooperating with them, global distribution can be completed immediately. They only need to replace the mobile phones in the existing mobile phone stores with Honor smartphones. It is a very simple operation, isn't it? "
Yang Dongxu's words made everyone's expressions calm down again.
The conditions proposed by Jerde and others are the conditions used by Europe and the United States to do business with China, which is to take advantage of the maximum advantage and act as if I am taking care of you.
If you don't cooperate, you will be blocked technically. This kind of thing has been done before in Europe, the United States, even Japan and South Korea. Because of the need for technology, China can only tolerate such grievances.
But things are different now. Smartphone maker Yang Dongxu is the boss, and he is the only one in the world who can produce smartphones. If Yang Dongxu thought about this kind of cooperation, why would he go round the corner to find them and go directly to Motorola and Ericsson?
These two companies can kill Nokia at first glance, and they will step Nokia into the dust. These two companies are definitely more active than looking at beautiful women.
"There is a more important point." After finishing speaking, Yang Dongxu tapped his fingers on the table when no one responded, "Even if the production of smartphones catches up in the future, what does that have to do with you? For example, maybe in the end , and Apple is the fastest to catch up. Will you get a share of the money when its smartphone comes out?”
Everyone in the reception room couldn't help but look gloomy, and Dean couldn't help but frown.
This is the important reason why these people did not just throw away the harsh cooperation conditions proposed by Yang Dongxu.
Currently, there are only a few companies in the world that can barely keep up with smartphones, such as Apple, Samsung, and maybe Motorola and Ericsson.
If Nokia transforms quickly, it is estimated that it can keep up. However, as the current leader in the mobile phone industry, smartphones have the biggest impact on him. It remains to be seen whether it can slow down.
But whether they can concentrate on keeping up or not, these have nothing to do with them.
When Apple established the smartphone project, the proceeds from the project had already been divided up. Otherwise, you think that the development is not as good as that of Apple in the previous life. Why can it continue to suck blood from Microsoft?
There are people standing behind people, and it is precisely because of people standing behind them that no one here will get a dime of Apple's future development.
Similar things are happening with other mobile phone manufacturers. The benefits that should be divided have already been divided up, unless the company dies directly.
Otherwise, no matter how powerful he becomes in the future, most of the benefits will belong to the big guys behind him, and they won't be able to get involved if they want to.
Therefore, if they want to enter the smartphone game, they can only find mobile phone companies whose profits have not been divided up by the big guys, and so far, the only company that meets this condition is Yang Dongxu.
There may be companies like him in the future, but at that time all the major capitals knew about the future of smartphones. They had no first-mover advantage and could only go head-to-head with the big capitals. It was hard to predict who would win and who would lose.
"If you change your nationality to the United States and move the headquarters of Honor Mobile to the United States, I can agree to all your conditions." Charles said.
"If I did this, what would I need from you?" Yang Dongxu simply rolled his eyes.
Isn’t this what America’s economic policy is?
You must give him a share of the profitable business, otherwise he will try his best to sanction you.
If Yang Dongxu is willing to share part of the benefits with the US government, then why would he bother to come to the UK for this negotiation? Once his nationality is changed, everything will be solved as soon as the company headquarters signs.
Even those investments on the Internet are not too risky now if they are all put into one basket.
The reception room fell into silence again.
After a while, Yang Dongxu pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray in front of him, "Not only is it a smartphone, I also have shares in some Internet companies.
If the smartphone cooperation is successful, we can join hands to take these Internet companies public. As long as the operation is successful, the Internet projects we operate will not be worse than Google currently.
From now on, I will only have a few people here in my circle. I will be responsible for product operations, company management, and future company strategy. We can sign a gambling agreement.
If the projects I manage do not reach the expected revenue and scale, I can reduce my holdings and give them to you. "
"Internet project?" The people present raised their eyebrows in surprise. They didn't know why Yang Dongxu suddenly mentioned the Internet when they were talking about the smartphone project.
"Internet projects." Yang Dongxu nodded very seriously, as if he didn't realize that he was off topic, "You can first learn about Weibo, as well as CC and MM, which are currently very popular in the European and American markets.
The projects I'm talking about are related to these two types of Internet products. As for the future of these two products, I will only guarantee that they are better than them, and will never be worse than them.
Internet projects and smartphone projects are bundled. I have no interest in whether you have shares in Samsung or whether you can work for a certain consortium.
Future cooperation will not involve arms, high-end technology, or politics. It is a simple business cooperation. As for what you use the proceeds from the business cooperation to generate, it has nothing to do with me. " Yang Dongxu raised the corners of his mouth to reveal a meaningful smile.
Everyone present raised their eyebrows, including Dean and Jeld.
It is true that everyone here is a big boss, but they are not the top bosses. They have financial groups above them.
For example, Gerard has a royal family above him. Although Dean is the head of the Spencer family, the Spencer family is not the top family in the UK. There are other big bosses above him.
Not to mention Picken and others. Although they are Wall Street tycoons, they still have a consortium on their heads, and they are even working for the consortium now.
It's just that compared to other tool workers who work for the consortium, they already have a certain degree of freedom as they are also big bosses.
But now they are just individual customers standing at the gambling table placing bets, and they cannot sit at the gambling table yet.
And Yang Dongxu's hint is that as long as this cooperation is done well, it is possible for them to sit on the table.
This is not pie-in-the-sky, but it is really possible, and Google is a living example.
