Global Monopoly of Technology

After John Northell came to Sioux City, he settled for two days and adjusted his state after completing the jet lag.

At the same time, in the past two days, the two sides began to communicate and communicated about the choice of the negotiation location, and finally decided on the newly opened Hilton Hotel in Sioux City.

The hotel has also become the focus of attention from the outside world. The hotel has rich experience in such large-scale business negotiation activities.

The room for the two parties to negotiate is a dedicated high-level negotiation conference room in the hotel. Before entering the formal negotiation and negotiation, both parties send their own professionals to conduct inspections without dead ends in the conference room. For some bugs and the like There is nothing to hide, and it cannot exist in it.

The walls of the conference room are also made of professional materials, which can block radio signals.

Before entering the conference room, personnel from both parties will also conduct a body search to ensure that no bugs have been brought in to wait for equipment, and then they can conduct investigations under the eyes of the other party in the conference room at the same time.

After confirmation, someone on both sides will stay in the conference room to supervise each other until the negotiation meeting is held and concluded.

It can be seen that the specifications of this negotiation are harsh.

This is an exaggeration but it is very necessary to do so. This is a meeting that is related to the future direction of a technology industry that is extremely critical to modern human civilization. Both parties are very cautious and negotiate as a closed-door meeting to ensure that words during the negotiation will not leave any traces. can be traced back.

After the negotiation, what happened inside, only both parties know, and there is no evidence to record the content of the meeting.

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On February 15th, the Spring Festival holiday has passed. Yesterday was Valentine's Day. However, the entire hotel building of the Hilton Hotel is currently under wraps. In the past few days, it will serve this conference and suspend the reception of other customers.

"Brother Luo, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Yao have already set off. The negotiation time is exactly 10:00, which is another 40 minutes later." An Qingxue entered Luo Sheng's private office and reported to him.

In this negotiation, the outside world, including John Nordell, believed that the person negotiating with him must be Luo Sheng, and it never occurred to him that he had no intention of attending at all.

"understood."

Luo Sheng replied calmly. He was writing a set of machine learning algorithms, which was promised to Chen Xin.

Currently,

After Chen Xin got a sum of money from Luo Sheng, he has established his own company called Borch Technology Co., Ltd.

As for the negotiation, if Luo Sheng was not directly involved, he would definitely not be able to know the situation in the first place, because it is impossible for any information to come out from the inside during the negotiation, and Luo Sheng could not do this, nor could he access the Internet.

However, he is not worried. All the things explained have been communicated with Zhang Bowen and others before the meeting. Luo Sheng also believes in their ability. It is impossible to achieve the position of the second person in the company's real power faction.

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The Hilton Hotel, the place of negotiation.

At this moment, it is less than five minutes before ten o'clock in the morning. The negotiating team of both parties arrived on time. Everyone who enters the conference room must undergo a full body scan, and it is forbidden to bring electronic equipment into the interior.

The negotiating table in the conference room is a matrix table, with both parties sitting facing each other.

At 10:58, John Noel and others had already taken their seats. Zhang Bowen and Yao Jianhong also walked to their seats and sat down. There were eleven people on both sides of the negotiation, Luo Sheng's side. One more person than the other.

After sitting down, Zhang Bowen said in fluent American English: "OK, let's start."

This is a closed-door meeting for negotiation and negotiation. All the participants on Luo Sheng's side can speak English, but the five of them, John Nordell, except for a Chinese speaker, other people, including old John himself, can't speak Chinese.

This kind of closed-door meeting, in order to be able to communicate smoothly, there is no need to add some cumbersome procedures to be hypocritical. Taking care of their difficulty in understanding Chinese is also saving precious time for themselves.

John Nordell glanced at the clock on the wall, then looked at Lao Zhang and the others sitting opposite: "Sorry, why hasn't Mr. Luo arrived yet? He's late."

Yao Jianhong smiled and spoke fluent English: "I'll answer you this question, Mr. John, our chairman will not participate in this negotiation meeting, and I will represent the Cote d'Azur in this negotiation. And Mr. Zhang can communicate with you on behalf of Bluestar Technology, our chairman has authorized us to take full responsibility for this matter, you can rest assured."

Lao Zhang also smiled in a "tactical bowing style", with a sense of hiding a knife in his smile.

When John Noel heard this answer, it was impossible to say that he was not angry. Similarly, more importantly, this is sending a signal that although Luo Sheng accepts the negotiation, it also shows that he doesn't care too much about the outcome of the negotiation.

Here are two different things.

An SIA executive sitting next to John said angrily: "Is this your sincerity? No, I only see arrogance. I doubt whether it is a waste of time now."

Yao Jianhong's expression turned cold, and he said calmly, "You are right, our chairman really thinks that this is likely to be a waste of his precious time, so if you don't want to fulfill his prediction, then I suggest you do it now. Let’s start, if you think we can’t continue the discussion without our chairman, let’s end it, the choice is in your hands.”

"you……"

The high-spirited face of the SIA executive turned from white to green in a rhythm, and he didn't answer either, nor did he answer.

He didn't expect the other party to be so stubborn. This is not the negotiating style of the Chinese people he expected. This kind of rule of thumb that doesn't give you a step has never been encountered before.

This is a closed-door meeting. The door of the conference room has been "welded", and not a fly can fly in. Many things that can get on the table and can't get on the table can be placed on the table at this moment. Said, there will be no consideration, and the fragrance of the mouth is even more insignificant.

Before the meeting was over, everyone was from Zaan before going out the door; after the memory was over, when they went out the door, everyone was civilized.

"Enough, I didn't come all the way to quarrel." John Northell said in a sullen tone, but whether he was angry or not, Lao Zhang and the others didn't react at all.

John Noel looked at the other party: "Let's talk about Bluestar Technology first, you must leave the database when you withdraw from the North American market, and transfer it to my North American network service provider. Our company can buy it, and then you Whether you want to sink the facility to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean or transport it back is your choice, and we will not have any obstacles."

Zhang Bowen smiled and said: "Buy? Sorry, this is impossible. Data is the core production material of Bluestar Technology, and it is also the core competitiveness of the company. Give the most core things to competitors, and then defeat us in turn? You? You're not kidding, are you?"

"Secondly, even if you sell it, can you afford it? The total scale of direct investment in Bluestar Technology over the past ten years has been no less than 120 billion US dollars, and the operating cost of ten years is close to 158.2 billion US dollars, a total of 258.2 billion US dollars. So far The cost has not yet been recovered, and the sunk costs in the past ten years cannot be estimated. Compared with money, it is the outlet of the times that is more precious, and if you miss the era, you will lose everything.”

"OK, we can also convert it into a specific amount. As long as you pay 500 billion US dollars to pay, it will all be yours. The value of the Internet commercial database in the United States in the past ten years is far more than that."

After speaking, Zhang Bowen ended his speech, and his eyes were fixed on the other side without hesitation.

Hearing Lao Zhang's bid, the attendees on Old John's side were almost stupid. They dared to shout 500 billion US dollars. This Nima De Fake is outrageous, and it can't be used too much. To describe it, it's like the back on a toad, shameless.

If it is said that 258.2 billion is a figure that can be calculated, but this "sunk cost" is outrageous, and it can be as much as it is, because there is no specific quantitative standard to measure it.

Even the old American can't spend 500 billion US dollars to pay the bill for ten years of data information in the United States. Even if it is really worth the price, it can't come up with so much money.

$500 billion!

Old John Rao was also furious, and suddenly said angrily: "Sheet, why don't you say that Bluestar Technology earns an average of 70 billion US dollars from the United States every year, and 700 billion US dollars in ten years?"

Lao Zhang calmly said: "It is true, but most of the funds have also been invested in the North American market, which has been converted into production materials and core competitiveness. You have to take it now, wait a minute, maybe I should add 50 billion US dollars to be reasonable. ."

other side:"……"

This sentence has become more and more outrageous before the negotiation. There are already 10,000 "squids" from France in the hearts of the old and beautiful people.

The people from SIA were so angry that they slapped the table on the spot and breathed fragrant aromas, and the conference room was instantly transformed.

Slapping the table and spitting out fragrance are not the exclusive skills of SIA people.

The meeting was outside the gate, and there were two security guards standing. They were sent by the two sides. The sound insulation effect was so good that they didn't know what was going on inside, nor could they hear it. Both sides stared at each other.

Inside the gate, there are also two people standing at the gate, sent from both sides, and all that is happening inside at this moment can be heard in the ears.

The two also stared at each other, silently saying nothing.

John Norell forced himself to calm down, and kept telling himself in his heart that this was the negotiating table, and the other party was asking for a price, but he was actually testing his bottom line.

Both sides are testing each other's bottom line. If they don't take it seriously, they will lose if they take it seriously.

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