Chapter 181 [Lao Xu comes to the door to run business]
Samuel Parmesano, the then head of ibm, was not idle. After the incident, he started running and traveled several times on Wall Street. He also met Goldman's latest head, Lloyd Blankfann.
It is worth mentioning that Goldman Sachs' core level has entered a major adjustment since the first half of this year. The former leader Henry Paulson has stepped down. This big shot is now the top leader of North American finance. This is Goldman Sachs' traditional skills.
The Goldman Sachs Group's board of directors decided to appoint Gary Cohen and Jon Winkreid as the next group president and co-COO, and at the same time, they were recruited as board members and joined the group's executive office to report directly to Lloyd Blankfann, chairman and CEO appointed by Goldman Sachs Group.
These people are all great people in North America, and the North American authorities have too many "Goldman Sachs" characters. Luo Sheng hugged Wall Street is undoubtedly a very correct choice.
These great people are the real local snakes.
Samuel Parmesano was invited this time, and Goldman Sachs undoubtedly supported it. ibm and Bluestar Technology have the interests of Goldman Sachs, and it is not a small number.
Lloyd Blankfann gave Samuel Parmesano his contact information.
This person is called Obilu.
This is a loyal speculator born in Florida. He once worked as a lawyer for Goldman Sachs' former CEO Ceo Weinberg. His wife is currently working at a foundation at Goldman Sachs. She participated in state parliamentary elections with the sponsorship of the late Weinberg six years ago, and was a guest professor at the University of Florida while being a member of the lawmaker.
Weinberg donated money to the school, and the school rewarded Obilu with high salaries, and everything was legal.
But it is impossible to spend money like this for free.
Obilu is a speculator who plays very straightforward in py trading. Simply put, if you give me money, I will help you make more money, you are the kind of person who will not disobey his key supporters even if they are criticized by thousands of people.
Samuel Parmesano left Wall Street and went to find Obilu according to the contact information. The business cooperation of hundreds of billions of dollars involved in the interests of multiple investors, which was enough to drive a large group of people behind him to keep running and actively operate.
The strongest fortress must have been broken from the inside, and it can also achieve the effect of making a big difference.
Luo Sheng did one thing, which was to divide the interests in it from Wall Street, and he didn't have to do anything else.
If even Wall Street cannot be settled, Luo Sheng, as an outsider, would be even more unsolvable. He would have to remove the plans for the four major data centers established in North America, and cloud computing services could only withdraw from the North American market.
Of course, Bluestar Technology will receive a huge liquidated damages paid by ibm for this, and ibm will lose this order and instead give it to its competitors.
However, Luo Sheng is optimistic about Wall Street.
It is impossible for ibm to admit defeat. Samuel Parmesano has been working very diligently these days. In order to promote this international business cooperation, ibm does not hesitate to threaten the North American authorities. If it obstructs it, it will move the company's business out of North America one after another.
This is a trick that North American technology giants have tried and tested. Enterprises move factories out, causing hollowing out local manufacturing industries, and locals will face an unemployment crisis. In fact, a large number of North American multinational corporations have moved factories to emerging market countries in order to save labor costs.
For example, Wancheng in China is a good choice.
The labor costs in North America are really high. GM is currently the most typical example and is still struggling to support it. However, its core management has already felt an imminent crisis, and it may face the crisis of bankruptcy and reorganization next year.
This matter can be big or small, but Luo Sheng was not worried about it. He believed that Wall Street had the energy and relationship to settle these things because it was in the United States.
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As the United States tried to stop Bluestar Technology Group's business expansion in the North American market, another person came to Bluestar Technology headquarters.
On the afternoon of May 19, in a reception room of the company, Luo Sheng sat down opposite the visiting guests and smiled and said, "I was wondering what wind was blowing you."
The visiting guest was Xu Zhijun, the head of Lens Semiconductor and one of the core managers of Huawei.
"The recent actions of Blue Star Group are getting bigger and bigger. Regarding the concept of cloud computing you proposed, Huawei is currently doing research on the internal research. I feel that it is necessary to join in this matter." Xu Zhijun said with a smile. He did not beat around the bush. He opened the conversation and said bluntly about the purpose of this, and immediately added: "To be honest, I came here not because of Lans Semiconductor, but for Huawei to run business."
"Come on business? Come here?" Luo Sheng looked at the other party with interest.
Xu Zhijun laughed and said, "You signed a server order of more than ¥24 billion with ibm, which is equivalent to about 36% of Hua's total sales last year. Do you think Hua can sit down?"
Hearing this, Luo Sheng seemed to understand his purpose. Huawei had already begun to actively prepare to enter the server market three years ago. This is a marginal industry that Huawei has developed in addition to its core business.
Once an enterprise grows bigger, it insists on consolidating its core business, and it will inevitably expand to marginal business and develop diversifiedly.
"Frankly speaking, Mr. Xu, I only built three data centers in China, and it may increase by more than ten times in the future. For new contracts in the future, in the data center built in the mainland, I can give some orders to Xiawei's servers, and even all the data centers in the mainland. I hope to hand over the orders to you, but you have to improve the technology. I heard that you are working with Intel?"
When Xu Zhijun was stunned for a while when he heard Luo Sheng say this, he suddenly felt energetic and subconsciously said: "Really?"
Luo Sheng sighed instead: "The United States has already started to make things difficult for the company to invest in the construction of data centers in North America, and has made various excuses to prevent my expansion in the North American market. By the same token, if American semiconductor companies do not supply me, it will not be just a problem in the North American market. If Xia can do it in the server field, I will not have to worry about potential hidden dangers at this level in the future."
That being said, but Luo Sheng is very convinced that once the US finds that once it passes normal competition and finds that North American companies cannot beat it, they will definitely use unconventional economic means to suppress it, including not only technical blockades, market blockades and other means.
Xu Zhijun was not moved at the moment of hearing this: "I thought that Mr. Luo must be the most proud of the dazzling achievements that Blue Star Technology Group has achieved now, but he didn't expect that the sense of crisis is still so heavy."
Luo Sheng smiled and said, "It is necessary to be proud, but you won't be able to get carried away."
Xu Zhijun laughed a few times and said, "This gives Huawei a major opportunity in the server market. We are more confident that we can make a name for ourselves in this market."
This time I came to see Luo Sheng, Xu Zhijun felt that the chance of convinced the other party should not be a problem. After all, this is also a technology derived from Lens Semiconductor, and Luo Sheng's Coast of Blue Company occupies 34% of Lens Semiconductor's shares.
As a new entrant in this field, especially in the initial stage, Hua is most afraid of being a large amount of investment in the early stage, which will not gain the favor of customers later, and cannot get orders and cannot recover costs. This creates a disgusting cycle that may lead to final failure.
The support of Bluestar Technology is definitely a big customer, which means that you can recover costs and invest the money you earned in R&D, thus forming a favorable two-way positive cycle.
Generally speaking, customers will never look for new players in the industry like Hua, but will look for industry giants such as Dell, Intel or ibm. The reason is simple, affordable and guaranteed.
Only Luo Sheng would do this, dare to hand over the orders to novices and support the development of mainland enterprises.
There are not many entrepreneurs who can admire Xu Zhijun, but Luo Sheng is definitely one of them.
This matter was reached today. Luo Sheng decided to create a data center with 120,000 servers for Hua for a contract worth 1.5 billion yuan, using the server brand that Huawei will be able to build a data center with 120,000 sets of servers.
The shadow of Huawei's products was not seen, and he was the first to get a large contract. This was undoubtedly a dose of stimulant for Huawei's server business department. He saw Luo Sheng's determination to truly strongly support, rather than verbal talk.
But in general, in order to be able to do it in the server market, it is beneficial to both Bluestar Technology Group and Costa del Blue.
For Blue Star Technology Group, this is to improve its own ability to fight against strikes to increase the opponent's strike costs and reduce the enemy's willingness to strike. For Coast Blue, it is real to be able to share a 34% profit.
Luo Sheng won’t do a server by himself, even if he is a time traveler.
Doing everything is equivalent to offending everyone. If you spread the plate too large, it will also bring more enemies. The key is that measuring it from a business perspective may not necessarily bring the greatest profit, and you may also face the risk of collapse. Luo Sheng does not want to follow in Boss Jia's footsteps in his previous life, although he admires Boss Jia's ability to deceive.
The correct way to do it should be to have many friends and few enemies.
In fact, most successful technology giant groups are not kaleidoscopes. They seem to be integrated into everything, but in fact they are all marginal businesses, and they only take up a pit.
When it comes to critical moments or when necessary, these edge businesses can be cut off and discarded at any time without having too much impact on themselves.
Luo Sheng firmly believes that the correct approach of a technology company is to focus on a few core businesses, mainly with high value-added businesses, and then incorporate marginal businesses into continuous trial and error. Once it is determined that it will not become a core business, it will be divested.
For example, giants like ti, ibm, and Intel do this.
They hold the core links of the industrial chain and those high-value-added businesses in their hands, and then support the entire industrial chain, allowing more companies to participate, expand the market, and exchange regional market access licenses by giving up marginal businesses, etc.
Bluestar Technology Group's business now looks a lot. At first glance, it already has ten wholly-owned subsidiaries, and now it has a cloud computing service sector. Luo Sheng has also invested in marginal businesses such as the game industry.
But carefully considering this, whether it is blue space, online video business, or game business, these are all focused on one core point, that is, the ecological chain built based on data core.
Therefore, Bluestar Technology Group's cloud computing service did not set up a subsidiary to separate the business, but was directly operated by the parent company.
In the final analysis, big data is the foundation of Blue Star Technology. As long as the data is in control, it is equivalent to having the ability to regenerate the broken arm, and its recovery ability is unparalleled.
Even if the vitality of other business segments of Blue Star Technology Group is severely damaged or even enters a survival crisis, as long as the data core is not threatened, they will soon be reborn.
But this is not enough. Bluestar Technology still has flaws, and this flaw will be perfectly solved with the Costa del Blue Company.
Luo Sheng owns these two companies, which means that from software to consumer electronics, it can create a closed-loop loop that perfect ecosystem.
As time approaches day by day, the moment when the Costa ção, which is now making a big splash on the Costa ção, has entered the countdown for the last three months.
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Chapter completed!