"All the companies have signed, and it's really bad for you!" Zhou Hongwei said with a smile in the Autodesk conference room.
"True or false..." the chairman of Autodesk incredibly picked up all kinds of documents on the desktop. These are all contracts signed by major professional software companies and Hongmeng company all over the world. Although only PS company's original contract and the rest are fax manuscripts, these contracts are true in terms of text and details.
Of course, Autodesk doesn't believe that Hongmeng company will do such stupid things as forging contracts. After all, it is an enterprise under Daqian group, one of the world's top 50 companies. It won't do such shameless things.
Of course, the chairman of Autodesk still found some problems. For example, now, he pointed to the date on the contract and said, "Zhou, why are almost all contracts signed yesterday and the day before yesterday? It's too concentrated!"
"Dear Ms. Bartz! You are indeed full of wisdom, and you can see the key to the problem at a glance!" Zhou Hongwei said with great admiration. "This is actually the key to our success in this contract!"
"We have a saying in China that we have a long dream at night. If this joint delay is too long and gives Microsoft the opportunity to break one by one, we will not be able to reach cooperation!"
"That's why we worked hard at the same time yesterday and the day before yesterday to reach cooperation agreements with almost all companies!" Zhou Hongwei said with emotion. "You don't know how difficult this alliance is. This is the result of the joint efforts of more than 300 colleagues around the world! It's God's help to reach this cooperation agreement!"
"Oh, I see!" Carol Bartz showed an expression of enlightenment. Indeed, this kind of thing must be done in one breath, or it will be divided.
"Then why didn't you come to us yesterday and the day before yesterday, but only today? Do you look down on us?" Bartz asked again.
"Of course not. If I didn't have any cooperation, I would be the first to sign a contract with your company. Would your company be willing to sign a contract?" Zhou Hongwei asked with a smile.
"Oh, your mouth is so talkative!" Miss Bartz laughed and nodded. "Since our peers have signed up, we should naturally support it, but we now have 22 software. Do you all want Hongmeng version?"
"All of them!" Zhou Hongwei nodded hard!
"Oh!" Carol Bartz's eyes brightened. "What price do you charge?"
"Please make an offer. After all, only your company knows how much it costs to complete the transformation of these software, and then we'll talk about it in detail!" Zhou Hongwei smiled.
"This..." Bartz hesitated. If Hongmeng version is added to all the 22 software, in fact, about $10 million is enough, but even PS can offer $3 million, which has tripled. At least her ACD should be the same.
Well, although the number on the contract was deliberately covered, it was not covered tightly. Bartz saw a letter. According to the position of the letter, we can directly guess that it was $3 million.
But is $30 million too exaggerated?
What if Hongmeng doesn't promise?
After all, of the 22 software models, only about five have sales of more than 100000, and the rest are less than 100000, and some even have four digit sales. After all, some industries are too rare, and there are only so many companies.
"How about 25 million?" Bartz tentatively offered.
"It's so low!" Zhou Hongwei exclaimed. "Your company is really sincere. Some say that their cost is 3 million, which is still the lowest cost. Can your company really complete the transformation at the price of 22 software?"
"It should be ok..." Bartz's expression was a little angry. The company with a price of 3 million was so shameless that she was embarrassed to open a low price.
"Well, we can't damage your company's economic interests. We take the initiative to add $5 million to you, a total of $30 million for revision. What do you think?" Zhou Hongwei asked.
"No wonder Hongmeng can challenge windows. Your company is much better than Microsoft!" Bartz said with heartfelt praise. Naturally, he accepted the $5 million without hesitation.
"Then, let's sign the contract!" Zhou Hongwei sent the document to the other party. The other party looked at it again and confirmed that there was no problem, so he signed his name very readily.
Seeing that the last name was signed, Zhou Hongwei smiled and was ready to leave. Ms. Bartz warmly invited Zhou Hongwei to have dinner together in the evening. Zhou Hongwei agreed.
"Chairman!" after Zhou Hongwei left, an anxious executive came in and asked, "Chairman, have you signed a contract with Hongmeng?"
"Already signed, what's the problem?" Bartz asked curiously.
"Oh, we were cheated!" the executive stamped his feet anxiously.
"What was cheated?" Bartz was stunned, and then the executive immediately said, "just now several familiar enterprises called us and asked us why we haven't made public information."
"When I asked them what the news was, they were surprised and asked me, didn't we sign a contract with Hongmeng long ago?"
"Later, I found out that when Hongmeng negotiated with other companies, they directly came up with the contract signed with us and said that we had signed with Hongmeng, so these small enterprises had the courage to sign with Hongmeng." the executive said angrily.
"Do you mean that Hongmeng uses us as a cover and uses a nonexistent agreement with us to trick other small businesses into signing agreements first, and then use the agreements of those small businesses to sign with us?" Bartz stared, and the wrinkles on his face were about to squeeze together.
"Yes, this Hongmeng is cheating us from beginning to end. He cheated the whole professional software industry at once!!!" the executive said angrily.
"This Hongmeng, at least a subordinate enterprise of the world's top 50, how could it do such shameless things!" Ms. Bartz said with her mouth open and unbelievable.
"Yes, chairman, while we have just signed the contract and have time to turn around, we can directly refuse it. We can also accuse them of contract fraud and give these liars a hard lesson!" the executive shouted.
"But... I made an appointment with him for dinner at night!" Ms. Bartz held her glasses and said, "forget it, since she has signed the contract, that's it!"
"Ah..." this time, the executive was shocked. He looked at Bartz in surprise. "Chairman, we were cheated like this. Don't we fight back?"
"I ask you, how much will your department cost if we develop all our 22 software versions of Hongmeng system?" Bartz asked.
"About 10 million. If you compress it, maybe about 8 million can be done!" the executive estimated and said.
"But Hongmeng gave us $30 million... And it's still cash!" Ms. Bartz smiled. "If we refuse the contract according to what you said, and don't say whether we need to pay liquidated damages, are you responsible for compensating the company for the net profit loss of $20 million?"
"..." the executive immediately closed his mouth!
"The most important thing is that now that we are together, it is impossible to block Microsoft. All our enterprises can pick up at least twice the profits without worrying about any losses. How many of us cheated bastards will turn down the contract?" Ms. Bartz asked with a smile.
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"Well, you go and talk to my secretary and ask him to fix a place for me in the restaurant of the Empire State Building tonight. We still want to thank others for giving us money!"