Chapter 168

Henry took back the design drawings of the sailing Hotel and had plans to build a sailing hotel in Malibu beach on the west coast of California! Malibu is located in the northwest of Los Angeles City, adjacent to Hollywood. The coastline stretches for 21 miles. With the most beautiful sea view in the world, Malibu has become an excellent resort for stars and celebrities from all walks of life. Historically, it is the territory of native Indian tribes, "Malibu" Indian language means "noisy Beach", so it is also a surfer's paradise!!!

In addition, as far as Henry knows, the house of man 1 in the movie iron man is located in Malibu! Thousands of luxury houses can be said here, everywhere! Henry built a seven star hotel here, just to attract the rich people to come here!!!

However, it's not urgent, because Henry is already very busy.

The design bidding of Williams center has already started. Henry is discussing with his company how to build the company's headquarters and connect all the headquarters. The headquarters building of each company is different. It should be highly recognizable, unique and simple, and become the logo of the company. At a glance, others will know what company this building belongs to!

Each company's requirements for the headquarters building will finally be summarized to Henry, who will personally review it, modify it according to his own ideas, and then tell the design company the requirements, and the design company will design it according to the requirements. If Henry is satisfied, he will use it!

First of all, Henry felt that with Williams laboratory as the center, all the stars are in the shape of a multi-storey ring. In order to maintain its independence, each building is not connected to each other, but will build a glass passage to connect Williams laboratory.

The street formed between the rings is the commercial street and the entrepreneurial street!

Outside the circle, there will be hospitals, hotels, supermarkets and so on, which will form the Williams center!

Henry predicted that he would build at least 40 headquarters buildings, large and small, with distinct layers, at least twice as many as the 19 buildings in Rockefeller Center, and so many buildings towering over the Williams center must be very spectacular!!!

Henry has already figured out the general idea. What kind of building it will look like depends on the level of the designer!

Henry then announced the requirements, and the world's major design companies were all red eyed and sent the most effective designers to design. Many companies even put off other design work and went all out

In the meantime, the Cisco certification test began. Henry paid special attention to it, and reminded employees to strengthen the crackdown on cheating to prevent the occurrence of cheating! After that, Henry represented Silicon Valley electronics group to participate in the American Electronic Technology Exhibition held in Los Angeles!

This technology exhibition will be held in the hotel hall, each company has a chance to show their products on the stage! Then, there will be judges to rate the products on display.

The sudden arrival of Henry made the people who came to the science and technology exhibition excited!

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Henry Williams, and welcome to the Los Angeles Electronics Show!" The chairman of the organizer came up with three or four people and said hello to Henry.

"Hello Henry nodded, simply said hello to them, and then went to the seat of Silicon Valley electronics group.

After sitting down, Henry found a row of Asian faces on the right.

Henry turned to Harrison, CEO of Silicon Valley electronics group, who was sitting beside him and asked, "which country are those people from?"

"Japan," Harrison added, "seems to represent Sony!"

"Sony?" Henry murmured to himself. Suddenly he thought of something and laughed again.

At this time, the science and technology exhibition has begun.

Every company has ten minutes to explain its products. Silicon Valley electronics group will show its products this time. It will be the smallest hard disk in the world, only 1 inch!!!

There was nothing brilliant about the displays of the previous companies on the stage. An hour later, it was finally Silicon Valley electronics group's turn.

Henry took the micro hard disk to the stage!

"Hello everyone, on behalf of Silicon Valley electronics group, I'd like to introduce a new product developed by our company! This product will definitely shock you. Why do you say that? " Henry deliberately stopped for a moment, glanced around the stage and said in a loud voice, "because it broke the world record..."

With that, Henry took out the micro hard disk and held it in front of him. He said with a smile, "do you think it looks familiar?"

"Yes, it will make you familiar, because it is the hard disk you are familiar with!"

As soon as Henry's words were finished, there was an uproar and a lot of discussion.

"How can it be? How can the hard disk be so small

"Yes, it's too small!"

"What's Silicon Valley electronics group going to do to make the hard disk so small?"

“……”

Henry motioned for silence. Then he said, "this hard disk is only one inch big, but it has a storage capacity of 50MB! In our company, this kind of very small hard disk is defined as micro hard disk. Micro hard disk is small, but its storage capacity is larger than that of memory and flash card. It is very suitable for small electronic products such as cameras and mobile phones. It will have a great competitive advantage in the market!!! Here, I'd like to tell you a little bit that on May 1, Silicon Valley electronics group will make an innovative electronic product with micro hard disk! Once this electronic product is released, it will certainly change the way of human life! "

"Sure it will!" At the end of his speech, Henry emphasized with great affirmation.

Then, with a smile on his face, Henry stepped down.

All the major companies under the stage were shocked by the micro hard disk for a while. It can be said that Silicon Valley electronics group is in the limelight at this science and technology exhibition. It can be imagined that the micro hard disk of Silicon Valley electronics group is indispensable for the front page news the next day!!!

Some are happy, others are sad.

Japanese companies hate Silicon Valley electronics group. They not only recruit a lot of their talents, but also compete with them in hard disk, memory, LCD and other products, resulting in a substantial decline in the company's performance. Now, Silicon Valley electronics group has launched the micro hard disk, which has made the company's reputation greatly increased, and it will be more difficult to deal with in the future!

When Henry returned to his seat, some Sony representatives on the right were not satisfied with the cold hum, showing provocative eyes.

Just at this time, the host announced that the representative of Sony was invited to show the products. The representative of Sony stood up with pride on his face and made a thumbs down gesture to Henry, which means "yours, no way! Mine, big good

Cao, even despise me? Wait for me MP3 to come out, hit your Sony Walkman like a dog!!!

There was a twinkle of disdain and sneer on Henry's face.

After the Sony representative came to the stage, he looked proud and said to everyone: "Hello, everyone. My name is Ichiro Yamada. The product that SONY company came to the electronic technology exhibition this time is the latest Sony Walkman - minidisc, or MD for short. We use magneto-optical disc as the storage media. After three years of research and development, Sony has finally used the combination of traditional disk technology and modern optical technology to produce a magneto-optical disc. The sound quality of this magneto-optical disc is very close to that of a CD, but the minidisc Walkman is smaller than that of a CD Walkman, and there will be no music pause in motion! "

"Therefore, our Sony minidisc Walkman will be the best Walkman at present!"

Sony's representative, Ichiro Yamada, said with a smile.

At this time, many companies can't help but be shocked by the minidisc walkman. In secret, Sony is really awesome. Others are still using CDs, but they actually use magnetic discs

After enjoying enough vanity, Sony Representatives announced in a loud voice: "our minidisc Walkman will be officially released on May 1st. The price of each Walkman is only $500!"

Henry couldn't help smiling when he saw it.

Very good, actually and MP3 release time is in the same day, simply do not know how to write dead words!!! You sell $500, Silicon Valley electronics group MP3 sold $499, not only disgusting Sony, but also rob its users!!!

"In the United States, MP3 will make minidisc Walkman lose a mess!"

At this time, Sony's representative, Ichiro Yamada, came down and gave Henry a proud look when he passed by!

Henry shook his head and laughed. So did Harrison, CEO of Silicon Valley electronics group.

Harrison said to Henry with a smile: "Chairman, I think Sony's face will be very" wonderful "on May 1st."

"It goes without saying," said Henry, "absolutely wonderful..."

Harrison and Henry looked at each other and laughed!

……

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the science and technology exhibition ended, and the judges' scores came out.

Micro hard disk got 10 points, ranking first; Minidisc: 9 points, second place

After receiving the prize and leaving the hotel, someone came to contact Henry.

"Hello, Mr. Henry Williams, I'm Johnny Edie, a director of Kodak company!"

"Hello, Mr. Johnny Edie!" When he heard that he was a director of Kodak, Henry knew what he was looking for.

"Mr. Williams, I just saw your Silicon Valley electronics group's micro hard disk at the science and technology exhibition. I think it's very good. As you said, it's very suitable for camera products. Therefore, we Kodak want to cooperate with Silicon Valley electronics group to launch digital hard disk cameras! "

"Well! This is OK, or we can find a place to talk about it in detail! " Henry laughed.

"Of course!" Johnny Edie nodded.

Later, the two, together with Harrison, CEO of Silicon Valley electronics group, were in a high-end hotel nearby, ordering food while negotiating business.

"At present, we have limited production and high cost of microhard drives," Henry said. Therefore, if Kodak wants to buy it, we can only provide 10000 microhard disks per month, and the price of each microhard disk is $200! "

Johnny Edie frowned and said, "let's not talk about the production, but the price is a little expensive. Mr. Williams, you see, the micro hard disk is so small that it can't cost 200 dollars... "

"Mr. Johnny Edie, maybe you don't understand. It's the small size of the micro hard disk that makes it expensive. In order to manufacture micro hard disk, we have developed a lot of technologies. Only the R & D cost is astronomical! Naturally, we need to earn money from the micro hard disk... Is that the truth, Mr. Johnny Edie? " Henry asked, smiling.

Johnny Edie deliberately picked up his glass and slowly tasted the wine, pretending not to hear the same.

After a while, Johnny Edie put down his glass and said, "Mr. Williams, Kodak is sincere. We really want to cooperate with Silicon Valley electronics group. Besides, with our camera sales, if you sell more micro hard drives to our company, you can make a small profit and more sales."

Small profit but quick turnover? You got your head in the door? At present, micro hard disk is in a monopolistic position. If we don't take advantage of the opportunity to make money at a high price, will we make small profits but quick turnover? Kodak has been the leader in the field of cameras for a long time, and has got a fatal illness. It doesn't look at who is sitting in front of him!

"Mr. Johnny Edie, 200 dollars a micro hard disk, no more, no less, no price! If you Kodak want to cooperate, we will continue to talk; If you don't want to cooperate, don't talk about it! " Henry said firmly.

Johnny Edie's face was a little red, and he couldn't stand Henry's tone. He tried to hold back his anger and said, "isn't the price going down at all!"

"No drop!" Henry said in a low voice. Henry's original intention is to promote the micro hard disk and do hungry marketing. Kodak is a camera company, and there is no conflict with its own products for the time being, so he is willing to talk with him. However, Kodak is smart and thinks that its sales volume is large, so it can make silicon Valley electronics group bow down and sell the micro hard disk cheaply. But it's impossible!

What's wrong with Kodak? I won't sell you micro hard disk ~!

Johnny Edie had a bad temper. He stood up immediately and said, "well, Mr. Williams, it seems Kodak can't cooperate with your company. Goodbye!"

"No!"

Johnny Edie snorted and left the door.

Harrison whispered: "Chairman, actually, I think we can buy Carl Zeiss and develop our own cameras..."

"Well," Henry nodded, "Carl Zeiss is a German manufacturer of optical systems, industrial measuring instruments and medical equipment, and a world-class manufacturer of camera lenses. Many of Sony's camera technologies come from Carl Zeiss company!"!!! In this way, you send someone to contact them and see that they seem to have the intention to sell the company! You tell them that Silicon Valley electronics group is willing to buy their company at a 10% premium... "

"Well, I see!" Harrison nodded.