Global Monopoly of Technology

The interview between the two parties was a reluctance to reach some unwritten consensus. Although it was not very satisfactory, at least there was hope that it might be improved.

The next day, Lowell and others had returned to North America. After he returned, he had a private call with Randall, the head of the AT\u0026T Group, for the first time.

After learning the general situation, the head of AT\u0026T asked directly: "How can Ansys be willing to cooperate with Luo Sheng to help him cultivate CFD talents? It seems impossible, and the Ansys board of directors will never agree."

Lowell said with a blank face: "Of course it's impossible to tell them, there is only one way to do it, and that is to sit on the board of directors of Ansys in person and gain control of the company for a vote."

Randall: "You mean a hostile merger..."

Lowell nodded affirmatively: "United with Wall Street to short Ansys' stock and gradually gain control over Ansys. You and I have made the most of it, and several other tech giants have also contributed. Ansys's outstanding performance is worth the $23 billion plate. Shorting still requires a little price, and at the same time, it has to secretly acquire the shares of some small and medium shareholders.”

Randall has no objection. After all, whoever has the best interests, the major operators in North America will suffer the most and most intuitively, so they will definitely get the most in terms of cost, but the final benefit is also the largest.

It's just that poor Ansys still doesn't know that it has been given to Luo Sheng as a bargaining chip by the bigwigs.

After a while, Lowell asked, "How are things going on your side? Is it going well?"

Randall replied: "I personally visited the Koch brothers the day before yesterday, and they expressed their willingness to provide necessary support behind the scenes. They are in the same interests, and it is unlikely that the Koch brothers will go back."

Hearing this, Lowell was refreshed: "Great, with the support of the Koch brothers behind the scenes, the success of this matter has greatly increased."

The Koch brothers, this name is a notorious name in the eyes of the North American public. If there is anyone in the world today who can compete with Luo Sheng in wealth, I am afraid that only the Koch brothers have a fighting strength.

This name is the real richest man in North America, and his wealth actually surpasses Buffett and Gates' familiar names.

Koch Industries is the second largest non-listed company in North America, spanning various fields such as finance, energy, chemistry, agriculture and animal husbandry. Just as no one knows the real wealth of the Luo Sheng family, the real wealth of the Koch brothers family How many outsiders also do not know.

The most powerful part of Koch Industries is,

All of its expansions are all based on its own profits, rather than making money through listing and financing, and it has just rolled out a business empire with an annual income of hundreds of billions of dollars.

The Koch brothers are richer than Buffett and Gates, because the Koch brothers' money is not virtual wealth, not the valuation of corporate capital, but real cash and annual profits of 20 to 30 billion US dollars, which are real money and silver .

Because it is a private company, no one knows how much assets Koch Industries has today, and its profits do not need to be distributed to shareholders and shareholders. All these incomes go into the pockets of the Koch brothers' family.

For the super-rich like Gates and Warren Buffett, their wealth is too much, and they have very little cash to use. If they sell a lot of stocks for cash, it will inevitably cause the company's market value to plummet, and their own worth will also shrink.

In fact, Luo Sheng's worth has a lot of water, which is supported by the market value of Bluestar Technology, but even if Luo Sheng's wealth is large, it can't support his terrifying base. No matter how crowded it is, it is still hundreds of billions of dollars. The scale of terror, the Luo Sheng family fund alone is hundreds of billions of dollars in cash.

But the Koch brothers are obviously not inferior. Now they are making more and more profits of more than 20 billion US dollars every year. This kind of earning ability has lasted for five or six years. These profits are exclusive, Luo Sheng's Enterprises have to share the cake with many people, even though the plate is several times larger than that of Koch Industries.

If Koch Industries goes public, the market value will have to go up to the level of 400 billion US dollars, and this is all owned by the Koch brothers family, and there are no external shareholders and shareholders to share with them.

In terms of wealth, the Koch brothers may not be as good as Luo Sheng, but in the influence of the North American elite, the Koch brothers are completely unmatched by Luo Sheng.

The influence of the Koch Group in the United States is beyond the imagination of any ordinary person. The Koch brothers have extended their tentacles to the North American federal courts, Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, state courts and the Commodity Futures Trading Association. Wait.

The energy tycoon Raymond Tusk in "House of Cards" is based on the Koch brothers, but the real Koch brothers have more terrifying influence in the United States.

In fact, the current reselling wave in the Mexican market and the suddenly hot futures trading have the shadow of the Koch brothers behind them.

The profits here are too great, and everyone wants to take a piece of the pie.

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On the other hand, after meeting with Lowell and others, Luo Sheng greeted Yao Jianhong about this matter. As the No. 2 real-power mission of the Azure Coast Company, the main business is that Yao Jianhong is in charge of the operation. Naturally, I have to talk to him, otherwise the work in the future will not be carried out well, and I will not be able to be a good boss.

"Mr. Luo, do you think companies like Verizon and Qualcomm can really...or can they settle what Ansys wants for us?"

In Luo Sheng's office, the company's No. 1 and 2 people were discussing this matter, and when he heard Yao Jianhong's words, Luo Sheng asked directly, "Is this important? I won't be at a loss if I can't get it for a cheap price, isn't it? There is a wave of reselling in Mexico. Continuing to create greater profits, Ansys’s success or failure, we all make money, it’s just a matter of making more and making less.”

Yao Jianhong nodded and smiled, "That's true."

Luo Sheng analyzed: "My influence is limited in breadth and depth in North America, and it can't compare to the local rich family like the Koch brothers. I can't judge how successful the success rate is, but one thing can be confirmed 100%, that is Luo Sheng. Will's group will definitely try their best to try to meet my requirements, because only by meeting my requirements can they recover their losses and even make money, and the two are linked."

Whoever's interests are at heart, Lowell's gang is helping Luo Sheng, but also helping themselves, so they are not worried that Lowell's gang will play a trick on the surface and behind the scenes.

Luo Sheng said with a smile: "More importantly, companies like Qualcomm can't afford to lose a big customer like the Côte d'Azur, let alone the Greater China market. This is not as simple as losing a customer or a little market share, it is possible to lose it. It's an era, they know the benefits, they just don't know the king."

Yao Jianhong nodded slowly: "That makes sense."

It's no wonder that the Silicon Valley tech circle and Xing Wang are not dealing with each other.

Knowing Wang's fuss now has made the high-tech companies in North America angry and nervous, especially Qualcomm and IBM.

Losing the Côte d'Azur customer is not just as simple as losing orders. These high-tech companies in North America now pay special attention to performance, because whether it is a leap-forward breakthrough or iterative progress in the research and development technology, they have to keep pouring money into it. , to invest heavily in prepaid sunk capital, it requires strong performance to make a bottom line.

Luo Sheng is now continuously investing in technology research and development. High-tech companies in North America do not dare to relax. They cannot stop Luo Sheng from taking the road of self-research. If Luo Sheng catches up, he will be surpassed even more.

The previous one gave a trillion-dollar stimulus plan. I understand that Wang Yi didn’t say a word, and it caused trouble for you. Outside, there are Cote d’Azur and Wah who are eyeing these competitors. It is possible to lose a few decisions. There is no leftovers left.

The outside world does not know that the current North American high-tech companies are walking on thin ice. They charge high technology patent fees. The outside world only sees how profitable they are. Compared with the Côte d’Azur or Huawei, these companies do not charge or charge less patents at all. It is incomprehensible that even open source does not make money directly.

That's because there is no pressure to survive on the Côte d'Azur. Instead, it is in a period of high-speed expansion. Before it is ready, of course, it serves the expansion of the territory of this huge business empire.

North American high-tech companies like Qualcomm and IBM, who are lying and charging royalties, are now happy to count money on the surface, but they are actually very nervous. In order to maintain their monopoly position, they must be very careful, and they must prevent the competition from the Riviera and Wah for these competitions. The latter came from behind.

It's not easy to maintain a good monopoly ecosystem. I understand that Wang Yi came up to disrupt you, and madly sent assists to Luo Sheng. The mentality of North American technology giants has not collapsed. It is already very strong.

These North American high-tech companies have invested so much in research and development and purchased a large amount of equipment. If you understand Wang's word, you will not be able to eat. Even if it is repaired in the future, the customer has already lost it, and the income will decrease, which will inevitably result in the result. It is the reduction of R\u0026D investment, and finally the slowdown or even stagnation of technological progress.

At the same time, competitors are desperately catching up.

In this era of rapid and iterative development of high-tech, technology companies actually have no sense of security, because you may open your eyes one day and tell you that your technology has been overtaken and your company is declining.

Not to mention how dangerous the stagnation of technology is for a technology company, even if the progress is slow, it is dangerous.

Under the background of the iterative development of technology, as long as companies have sufficient funds to spend time, they will be able to achieve breakthroughs. The rise of Huawei in the past two decades is an example. The lightning rise of the Côte d’Azur in the past ten years is even more general. paradigm.

Of course, the success of Huawei and Bluestar Technology is also based on the premise that China's population quality is higher than that of North America, and they dare to invest in human capital, and they have not made money for five years or more. It is an indisputable fact that happy education has led to a cliff-dive in population quality.

What Qualcomm is most afraid of now is knowing Wang to let him out of stock. Well, Qualcomm’s revenue has plummeted, which will affect the scale of R\u0026D investment and ultimately affect the iterative progress of technology.

On the contrary, Huawei's baseband chips may receive almost explosive incremental investment because of this. Qualcomm's people have no doubt that once such a thing happens, Luo Sheng will definitely make up his mind to spend money on Crazy Krypton Lansi Semiconductor himself. For Hua to accelerate the development of baseband chips, he has enough capital to provide prepaid capital for the research and development of baseband chips of Lens Semiconductor, and fully cover the risks of research and development.

Competitors are taking off faster, but their own progress is slowing down. One thing is going on and the other is growing. What will happen to Qualcomm after that?

No matter how this account is calculated, it cannot be said that it can be recovered by losing a little market share in the short term. It is very likely that what is lost is an era, and it is finally shot to death on the beach by the tide of the era.

Such a thing, the technology giants in North America dare not gamble? Can't afford to lose! Even more cautiously.

Qualcomm understands it, and all the tech giants in Silicon Valley understand it, but the worst part is that the arrogant understanding Wang can’t understand it, and the understanding Wang, who was born and made his fortune in real estate finance, does not understand the accumulation of technology and the technology ecology at all. The meaning of the system is even less clear. Once the ecology is destroyed, it may be lost forever. If you want to get it back, you have to start from scratch.

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