Reborn in Hong Kong: The Tycoon Grows Up

On March 2, 1878, at Xiangjiang International Airport, Heiyun directly chartered a Boeing 747 passenger plane with Pan American Airways. This time I am going to an exhibition, so I just need to bring some samples.

They brought 8 game arcade machines, including 2 Space Invaders and a small CNC machine tool. Bao Zixuan brought the machine tools so that he could exchange some patents and technologies from established companies. Seeing such good things, he was not afraid of them. Don't be tempted.

In addition, 300 Walkmans were brought, two of which were upgraded versions, products that Joanna later designed and had some upgrades in functionality. Compared with the previous Walkman, it has a small flashlight. In fact, many people think it is useless, but when there is no light outdoors, it can still be used.

There are also 3,020 Transformers toys since John Chambers found ABC, the three largest commercial radio and television companies in the United States. The first Transformers cartoon was sold for a bargain price of US$30,000 per episode.

The plot of the new version of Transformers is all set according to the preferences of American children, and it immediately caused a storm in the United States after it was broadcast. After seeing cartoons, many children want to have an Autobot toy. Heiyun also made an announcement that it will be fully launched after the Los Angeles Electronic Technology Show.

ABC's children's channel has always been ranked last in the ratings of the three major TV stations, but after the broadcast of Transformers, it became the children's channel's ratings champion during this time period. As a result, the director of ABC Children's Channel has begun discussing with Heiyun the issue of broadcasting the next Transformers cartoon. Seeing that ABC has charged US$30,000 per episode and the ratings for the first broadcast are so high, many TV stations are considering buying the second round of broadcast rights. For a time, John Chambers became the most popular person on major American television stations.

Since Chambers joined, he has been responsible for all Black Cloud operations in the United States. Hashimoto Hiroshi became the head of the US branch's R\u0026D center. In fact, his current strength is more about coordinating the operations of various departments.

Hiroshi Hashimoto knew that his management and resilience capabilities were far behind those of John Chambers, and now he began to consciously take over the logistics work and coordinate the various studies of the engineers.

Heiyun's R\u0026D department in the United States has been working hard on computer projects. Bao Zixuan did not give specific performance research indicators. He just wanted to make the most portable and practical computer in the world. He wanted to develop a laptop first.

As for desktop computers, we currently don’t want to have any conflict with Apple. He originally had no confidence in notebook computers, but after buying so much titanium alloy from the Soviet Union, the thin and light notebook had super strong body materials. The rest depends on the strong technical reserves of Intel and MIT. Black Cloud ordered some of Intel's most advanced chips at high prices in the name of MIT.

The world's first laptop computer was developed by Toshiba in 1999. With the support of so many computer PhDs and professors from MIT, Heiyun Company should be able to catch up with this 7-year time difference.

Now Bao Zixuan's thoughts are focused on the Los Angeles Electronics Show. As for the speed of computer development, he does not insist on it. After all, it is just an experimental product.

A total of 30 people from Heiyun Company participated in the Los Angeles Electronic Technology Show, including 10 people from the game design department of Miyamoto Hat, 12 people from the North American sales team led by John Chambers, and some other administrative and logistical staff of the company.

Junpei Yokoi did not come over, after all, this was not his stage. He would save his strength for next time.

The Los Angeles Electronics Technology Show is in its third year this year, and it has not received enough attention so far. After all, it is not as influential as the exhibitions in Berlin and Tokyo. Many big companies would not go all out to invest, which gave Heiyun an opportunity. They were the first to sign up, the first to pay the fees, and the first to choose the 200-square-meter seat on the right side of the entrance hall.

The price per square meter here has reached 3,000 US dollars per square meter. The rental of the booth alone means that it will cost about 1.5 million US dollars to come to Heiyun for this exhibition. If there are no amazing products, you will not even be able to earn back the booth fee.

A group of people from Heiyun Company arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on March 3. John Chambers led American personnel who arrived in California early to pick them up.

After all, the United States is now half of Heiyun's home field. After Heiyun employees declared all the goods to customs, they hauled them to the exhibition hall area by truck. They can't take a break now. After all, the exhibition layout is tight and the tasks are heavy.

In fact, since this was a chartered flight, everyone had a good rest on the plane, and no one felt the fatigue of the journey.

When Heiyun and everyone came to the exhibition hall, they saw that the exhibition hall had been set up. The design of the exhibition hall this time was mainly creatively provided by Bao Zixuan and designed by Martin Grieve.

The entire exhibition hall uses a large number of glass structures, which feels a bit like alien technology in this era. A TV recorder was used to place the already recorded commercials on the largest wall of the exhibition hall and play them repeatedly. This wall was the only one in the entire exhibition hall that had no lights around it, in order to make the projection clearer.

John Chambers began to arrange the exhibits according to the drawings. After all, Heiyun has two games on the market this time. Although one is jointly developed with Taitung Co., Ltd., in North America Heiyun is responsible for the development, and this time Taitung It was a bit late when I signed up, and the venue I got was far different from Heiyun in terms of location and exhibition hall size; currently we can only focus on Heiyun.

Upon entering the Heiyun Exhibition Hall, there is a reception desk, and then walking in from the right, the first part is the game arcade exhibition area. There are a total of 12 game consoles, including 2 each of Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and Hong Kong Cube. Some small countries have not yet introduced Pac-Man and Xiangjiang cubes, and they need to show their faces at this time. Let agents see the strength of Heiyun Company in the gaming industry. Each machine occupies an area of ​​8 square meters including the queuing area.

The second part is the Walkman exhibition area. There are a total of 5 Walkmans, including 2 of the latest models. The Walkmans are placed on rectangular glass pillars, and lights are specially installed below. This is how the auction house displays jewelry. The labor cost for each of these glass pillars is $400.

The rest of the Walkmans were placed on shelves for people to listen to.

The third part is the small CNC machine tool exhibition area, which includes a small industrial mother machine. These small machine tools will be demonstrated on-site according to customer needs.

The fourth part is the Transformers exhibition area. In fact, it is not very suitable to display Transformers in the electronic technology exhibition, but it is to let people remember the functions and gameplay of Transformers. He prepared 3,000 plastic Transformers toys for visiting children. Some of the remaining 20 titanium alloy versions were turned into cars and some into people for display in the exhibition hall.

Heiyun's employees started decorating the exhibition hall as soon as they got off the plane. Everyone also brought in the fast food they ordered in the exhibition hall. Seeing that Bao Zixuan also sat on the ground and picked up lunch boxes to eat without caring about the image, everyone no longer hesitated. After all, the boss's current net worth is such that he could be included in the Forbes list.

John Chambers was eating from a lunch box next to Bao Zixuan. When he saw the female employee in Heiyun, he said: "Boss, some of our female employees are not suitable to be hostesses. Do you think we should recruit more nearby?" , after all, it’s very close to Hollywood. Every year, many beautiful women come here looking for opportunities.”

Bao Zixuan also discovered that the female employees of Heiyun have never been associated with beauty. He didn't dwell on this, as long as he could do his job well. Beauty and ugliness were things that her husband should consider and had nothing to do with the company. But when Chambers said this, yes! If you are a hostess like this, you can still meet people!

Bao Zixuan said with a smile: "You don't have to tell me these things in the future, you can just figure it out yourself. From now on, you will be responsible for all these things in the United States. My strengths lie in creativity and research and development. As for sales and promotion, that is your responsibility." thing."

John Chambers was also speechless. He had only been employed for a few days. The power in his hands now, and the amount of approval has surpassed that of the CEOs of many large companies in North America. This boss is really someone who doesn't follow common sense.