After Zhou Xin finished his explanation, Cao Yongluo understood Zhou Xin's approach very well, because if it were him, he would do the same thing.
No matter how good America is, it is not our motherland after all.
Another very important point is that even second-generation Chinese Americans cannot be trusted, let alone first-generation Chinese Americans.
With Cao Yongluo's family background, he has many opportunities to communicate with overseas Chinese, and he is an executive sent to China by a multinational company.
From the mouths of these people, Cao Yongluo knew that it was difficult for Chinese Americans to be trusted, and there would be a natural ceiling in the promotion mechanism of Amerikan Enterprises.
This ceiling is very thick and very difficult to break.
We can get a clue from certain data. In 1999, there was no Chinese CEO among the top 500 American companies, and there were only a handful of Chinese executives.
When Yahoo was in 1999, most statistics did not count it as a Fortune 500 company.
To explain, Yahoo is not a Fortune 500 company in terms of revenue or profit, but it is a Fortune 500 company in terms of market capitalization.
Cao Yongluo was a Tianlong in China, but he could only be regarded as an ordinary person in America, and he was even worse than ordinary people in some fields. This was obviously unacceptable to him.
Zhou Xin has another logic. Cao Yongluo has also analyzed Zhou Xin. He believes that it is because the real world is an easy model for Zhou Xin.
It is too easy to achieve success in the worldly sense. Even if you start to mess up now and squander all kinds of things, it is enough to live a lifetime of luxury.
Zhou Xin needs to find some higher goals. Most Chinese people have been influenced by thousands of years of traditional culture and have a sense of family, country and world.
Cao Yongluo believes that Zhou Xin’s life goal is to help China achieve breakthroughs in science and technology.
This also fits well with his studies in college.
Everyone has the same goal, and they can still enjoy the benefits, so there is no reason not to do it, Cao Yongluo thought.
"Don't worry, I will definitely help you do this part well. Even if I am not in business, I will help you find the right person from the family to take care of this piece of work."
"Mainly, I can't decide many things by myself. There are a lot of relationships in my family that I need to take care of. According to my personality, I most want to be an ordinary Yanjing person. Isn't it good to drink here every day and brag?
The problem is that if I enjoy the resources given to me by my family, I will inevitably lose my freedom. From my understanding, starting a business with you must be much more interesting than writing materials for the system and having dinner every day.
That kind of dinner is really boring. Every sentence requires repeated speculation about the other party's subtext. How I want to reply does not put my meaning on the table, but also allows him to read my meaning.
This is not a job for humans. "
It was the first time for Zhou Xin to listen to it. Although he had read a lot of similar content on the Internet before, this was the first time he heard it from someone who had experienced it firsthand.
Those who will come out to show off in later generations are basically the second generation who have lost their power and only have wealth. The things that are exposed are only superficial. As long as it involves the core content, it will be cleaned up without a trace overnight.
It even makes you wonder if this happened.
In order to go without trace, Baidu took all the Baidu snapshots.
Zhou Xin asked: "Do you have some autonomy or no autonomy at all?"
"Forget it, it's not important. You haven't graduated yet, so you can do this with me first. If you stop doing it later, just find someone to take over.
Brothers have to settle accounts. We have known each other for so many years, and we still have to discuss the distribution of interests.
You help me handle the manufacturing side, and I will give you Matrix's patent authorization, including signing a supply contract. You handle the production in China, and that company will be yours.
In fact, I think no matter what you do in the future, it will be a good thing for you to have such a process. There is no bribery involved between us, simply because I know you and our relationship is better.
I need someone to do this for me and I think you can do this well.
For you, you can think of the production of Matrix as a student project. This project can allow you to come into contact with the real logic of business society.
Even if you become a civil servant in the future, this kind of experience can help you negotiate more smoothly with entrepreneurs in the process of attracting investment. You will understand what they need. "
This is Zhou Xin’s true feeling. There are many things that can only be understood if you have started a business.
When Zhou Xin was the power exercise representative at Americen, he didn’t have much experience with it. ZTE had more than 100,000 employees and its products were distributed in more than 100 countries around the world.
These numbers are staggering, but they are just numbers and lack a deeper understanding.
Including when he went to help ZTE mediate between Washington and Yanjing, Zhou Xin was thinking more about doing it for his own interests and career planning.
After starting my own business, it is very difficult to manage a hundred or so people. Everyone has their own ideas, especially in less high-end manufacturing industries such as domestic semiconductors.
There are so many different classes involved, from returned PhDs to workers with technical secondary school degrees, from related households to young people in small towns, it is difficult to truly understand everyone’s demands.
I told you on the front foot that I would work hard here and hope to learn something and make great achievements, but on the other hand I left my job as soon as I started working on the project.
The first thing I do when I get up every morning is how much it will cost to pay so many people, purchase materials, and consumables. The summary is how long the cash flow can last.
At that time, New Core Technology had two main partners, one of which was SMIC. Once SMIC did not want their supply, New Core Technology would go bankrupt the next day.
It was during this entrepreneurial process that Zhou Xin gained a new understanding of his work in Washington. He was not only mediating for ZTE, but also for ZTE's more than 100,000 employees and for ZTE's upstream and downstream suppliers.
Supply chains are real, not just a concept created by economists.
Cao Yongluo silently used the keyboard to type a string of letters on the computer: Matrix.
"Okay, it just so happens that it's summer vacation when I go back. I will start doing this after I go back."
Zhou Xin continued: "So how do you plan to do this?"
Cao Yongluo said without hesitation: "First set up a company to put up the frame, then go to Pengcheng to select products, and find factories to make each component.
After signing a contract with them, I estimate that it will take at least four months from factory prototype to final mass production.
However, it’s hard to say how fast Pengcheng is, and maybe it will take even less time. "
Zhou Xin: “Then there is also the need to keep it confidential. To be honest, our stuff really doesn’t have any technical content.
You don't need to be responsible for the specific assembly, you just need to send the parts.
When the time comes, I will also package the parts together and sell them. If the user needs to provide assembly services, the clerk will assemble them on site for him.
We need to create a time difference as much as possible to establish the brand.
After the specific price is set, tell me how much the deposit is, and I will pay you at that time. "
Cao Yongluo refused: "No, we will discuss a price after my inquiry is over.
And to put it bluntly, I don’t need to pay a deposit, and those factories will do the work for me, and it won’t even matter if I default on their project payment for a year or two.
Of course I won't do this, but I have seen people do this. If he does this, if he goes to another company, the factory will treat him as an uncle.
I can't do this fucking shit. After we negotiate the price, we sign a contract based on that price, and then I take the contract to the bank for a loan.
We are cooperating. Friendships are friends and cooperation is cooperation. I also believe that you will not cheat me. "
This is the advantage of having confidence. If your family has no capital, you still need to look forward and backward, and even put down the family's assets.
People like Cao Yongluo can easily complete resource integration after returning to Yanjing.
After the last exam in June, Cao Yongluo's one-year exchange career came to an end. He first returned to Yanjing to meet all the people he needed to meet, and then started the production of Matrix keyboard accessories.
"Long time no see, let's have a meal together at our old place?" Cao Yongluo returned to his familiar dormitory after returning to Yanda to complete the exchange student procedures.
Because Wang Wei and Li Li were told by email in advance that they would be back today, they were both waiting in the dormitory.
Li Li and Wang Wei hugged Cao Yongluo one by one. They missed each other after not seeing each other for a long time. They were still a little uncomfortable with a big brother who likes to treat you to dinner after being gone for so long.
"Go to Yanjing Hotel to have a meal together, and then go to Huiwang afterward?"
Wang Wei shook his head: "You can eat, forget about surfing the Internet. After eating, I have to go to the library to study."
Li Li nodded: "Me too."
Cao Yongluo joked: "Hey, what are you so excited about? Didn't you two like to surf the Internet the most before? I couldn't see you in the library every day, so I caught you in the computing center.
If you use up the Internet quota of the computing center, you have to ask me and Zhou Xin to borrow it. "
Wang Wei said with helplessness in his tone: "Not only was I stimulated, but the whole class and even the whole school were stimulated.
Zhou Xin had only been to America for a while, chatting and laughing with Bill Gates, going back and forth with Jerry Yang on business wars, and chatting with Charlie Rose on a TV talk show.
Although Zhou Xin was very good when he was at Yan University, this kind of power is within the scope of our understanding.
Who among those who can get into Yanda University by ranking first in the exam was not first in the class or even first in grade in high school.
Going to study abroad at Berkeley, to be honest, my seniors have been there before, so it’s not that unusual.
At best, it’s rare to transfer an undergraduate degree.
One year ago, his net worth exceeded 10 billion, and the unit of calculation was still US dollars. This has never been heard of.
The first class member of our class had nothing to do with Zhou Xin. The study committee member who did not speak more than eight sentences to Zhou Xin for more than a year from freshman to sophomore year wrote a book "Zhou Xin's Road to Success".
Do you know what he wrote in the introduction to this book? Zhou Xin's best friend during his time at Yanda. Aren’t Zhou Xin’s best friends during his time at Yanda, the three of us?
This purely made-up thing has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, not to mention how many pirated copies there are. I don’t know exactly how much I earned. Anyway, I haven’t stayed in the dormitory since I wrote the book. "Wang Wei was indignant.
Today’s first chapter, I will try my best to write two more chapters, but I have to go out for activities now, and I may not be able to finish two chapters when I come back from watching a movie in the evening.
Happy weekend life is about to begin~
(End of chapter)
