Chapter 711: Fantastic
Song Yuanchao did not contact Liu immediately. In the next few days, apart from accompanying Lin Yan, he mainly handled official business.
In addition to Shenghua’s official business in Hong Kong and China, there is also the important event of the establishment of an American company.
Last year, through Ying Anlun's introduction, Ying Anlun's friend George showed great interest in the cooperation.
George is a high-end talent in electronics and semiconductors, or to be more precise, a high-end talent in computers.
Like Ying Anlun, he attended a prestigious American university, but their majors were different.
After graduation, George first joined Texas Instruments, and worked his way up from a technician to a technical supervisor. Later, due to factional struggles within Texas Instruments and other problems within the company, George left the company and went to work for Motorola.
At Motorola, George was the technical director and did a good job at first. But later, no one knew what happened. It was said that he had a dispute with his boss at work. The two had a big fight and George left Motorola in anger and went to New York.
When Ying Anlun called George, George was working as vice president of a semiconductor company in New York.
However, compared with his previous work experience, although this position seems to be much higher than the previous technical director position, the problem is that the company he is in is just a small company and its strength is far from comparable to large companies such as Texas Instruments and Motorola.
The company is not strong, the funds invested in research and development are insufficient, and it has no outstanding patents. Although George is technically capable, as a technician, management and sales are not his strong points. Moreover, a good cook cannot cook without rice. A mediocre small company that relies on making semiconductor components as a supplier to large companies can only barely make ends meet. What future does it have?
Even if Ying Anlun didn't make this call, George would have thought about leaving the company. As for whether to start his own business or find another suitable company to apply for a job after leaving the company, George hasn't made up his mind yet.
So when Ying Anlun called George and told him that a Hong Kong company was interested in recruiting professional talents and planned to set up R&D institutions and companies in the United States, George couldn't help but be tempted.
In George's view, China is a very backward country, and certainly cannot be compared with the powerful United States. Although the company mentioned by Ying Anlun is located in Hong Kong, in George's eyes, Hong Kong is also the Far East. Even though Hong Kong is now under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, it is still considered Chinese territory.
In his heart, George was somewhat dissatisfied with this. But at the same time, he was also very tempted by the other party's plan to set up a research and development institution and company in the United States. After all, in George's view, no matter what country or person he was from, as long as he spent money to set up a company in the United States, it would be extremely beneficial to him. Perhaps this was a good opportunity for him to start his own business and also a good opportunity to change his current embarrassing situation.
As an American, George was very pragmatic. What if the other party was a Hong Kong company? Even if the Soviet Union, America's enemy, paid to set up a company in the United States? Anyway, the company was in the United States and had to abide by American laws. As long as the financier could pay the price, he would welcome the other party with a smile and raised his hands even if the other party was a devil.
With an idea in mind, George specially arranged a vacation and traveled all the way to Hong Kong to discuss cooperation matters.
When George came, he was received by Li Daqi, after all, Li Daqi was the president of Shenghua Telecom.
George was warmly entertained in Hong Kong, and then he was taken to Shenzhen to visit Shenghua Electronics and the factory, including Shenghua's current telecommunications products.
After reading this, George bluntly pointed out that Shenghua's technology was too backward. The switch products currently produced by Shenghua are already obsolete models abroad. Better-performing and more powerful programmable switches have long replaced these backward small switches.
In addition, George also found fault and said many things that made Shenghua Electronics very angry. These words directly poured a bucket of cold water on the technical staff of Shenghua Electronics who were originally proud of them. It was just short of pointing at their noses and saying that all the things they made were rubbish.
Although I was angry , I had to admit that George was quite capable during the contact. He was not only extremely professional in semiconductors and electronics, but also proficient in computers.
Some of the ideas and opinions revealed during the conversation made the technical staff of Shenghua Electronics' eyes light up, because they had never thought that they could solve the problem in such a clever way on this kind of product.
There is a saying that goes, those who complain about goods are the ones who buy them.
George did this just to give Shenghua a warning. By showing his strength in this way, he can also gain more initiative and benefits in subsequent cooperation.
Song Yuanchao was very clear about this, so when Li Daqi called Song Yuanchao and told him about George's attitude, Song Yuanchao didn't ask any other questions, he just asked one question.
When he learned that although George said a lot of strange things and said Shenghua was worthless, he did not immediately book a flight back to the United States after returning to Hong Kong, but instead began to tentatively ask Li Daqi and others about cooperation issues and focused on the details of how to cooperate, Song Yuanchao understood George's real intention.
Next, the two sides entered into specific negotiations. The conditions proposed by George were passed on to Song Yuanchao by Li Daqi, but were directly rejected by Song Yuanchao.
What a joke! George not only demanded nearly half of the shares of the American company, but also demanded to be the chairman and CEO of the American company. He also demanded that he have complete independent decision-making power in the American company, and Shenghua must not hinder his decision-making on the American company due to various demands.
Song Yuanchao would have to be out of his mind to agree to such conditions. This is not cooperation at all; it is even more outrageous than angel investment.
What Song Yuanchao wanted was George's ability and the R&D team he promised to build, rather than spending money on George to start a business.
Song Yuanchao directly rejected the other party's request. Seeing Shenghua's decisiveness, although George was dissatisfied, he still did not turn hostile. He just slightly lowered his requirements and promised that as long as Shenghua could invest in establishing a company and R&D institution, he could find a complete R&D team for the company in a very short time, which would be very beneficial to Shenghua.
But even so, Song Yuanchao still refused . In Song Yuanchao's opinion, this was completely impossible. Since George was still hot-headed, there was no need to continue discussing this matter. George was not the only professional in the world. As an investor, as long as he spent some effort and money, Song Yuanchao didn't believe that he couldn't find a more suitable talent.
The negotiations were terminated and George returned to the United States in frustration.
The first thing he did after returning was to find his good friend Ying Anlun. He planned to scold Song Yuanchao and other Chinese people for their rudeness in front of Ying Anlun. It was obvious that they were taking advantage of the cooperation, and he was just asking for what he deserved, so why didn't they agree?
George originally thought that Ying Anlun shared the same hatred with him and severely criticized Shenghua and those Chinese people, but he never expected that after meeting Ying Anlun, before he could even finish his complaints, Ying Anlun asked him with a cold face what he was thinking? Why was he so arrogant to ask for such an outrageous condition?
On George's way back, Song Yuanchao had expressed his dissatisfaction with George through a transatlantic phone call, and told Ying Anlun all of George's outrageous conditions.
After learning about the situation, Ying Anlun was very surprised. He didn't expect George to do this. Isn't this crazy? Which boss would agree to such a condition?
Although he had only known Song Yuanchao for a short time, as a successful businessman, Ying Anlun admired Song Yuanchao's talent and ability very much. In particular, Song Yuanchao's vision and skills in business really impressed Ying Anlun, not to mention that the company that his sister Ying Anni and Song Yuanchao had cooperated with, the Si Te Company, had become a large enterprise in the domestic food and beverage industry in such a short period of time. The speed of development was simply unimaginable.
How could a successful businessman, a forward-looking boss, be a fool? How come he hadn't noticed George's superior pride and arrogance before? He had known George for many years, and in his impression, George was not such a person. Could it be that a trip to the Far East had changed his character?
For a moment, Ying Anlun regretted introducing George to Song Yuanchao.
At first he just had good intentions. On the one hand, he wanted to help Song Yuanchao. After all, his company had now reached a comprehensive cooperation with Song Yuanchao's Sitter Company. With the start of the cooperation at the end of last year, their products were successfully sold to China and they received generous returns.
China is a big country. Not only is its land area larger than that of the United States, but its population is also the largest in the world.
Although China's reform and opening up has only just begun, the impact and changes brought about by such development are extremely astonishing.
I didn't know this before I went back, but it was only after I went back last year that Ying Anlun witnessed with my own eyes how fast the changes in the country are. With such a large potential market, whoever takes the first step will take the initiative. This is also the reason why Ying Anlun tried every means to cooperate with Song Yuanchao, and the facts also told him that this cooperation is a complete win-win situation.
Now Ying Anlun's company's products have entered the Chinese market through cooperation. Although such cooperation is still somewhat unsatisfactory, Ying Anlun is very happy because he knows that with the passage of time, many problems can be slowly solved. After a few years of market cultivation and maturity, the opportunity to make real money will not be far away.
As for the second aspect, he wanted to help George. As a good friend of George, Ying Anlun knew that George was very capable. Since there was a chance, why not help George? If this matter could succeed, it would be a good thing for both parties.
But the development of things was beyond Ying Anlun's imagination. He never expected that George would have such an outrageous idea. For a moment, he couldn't help but really regret recommending him to Song Yuanchao.
