Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

The annual revenue of 30 billion US dollars still supports Wang An Computer's position as the number one technology company in the United States.

Among them, the most enviable thing that makes Yang Chen envious is the talent reserve of Wang An Computer. Various scientific research talents support the development of Wang An Computer. The annual scientific research expenses of nearly hundreds of millions of dollars are not only a problem of huge expenses, It also proves the scientific research level of Wang An Computer and the importance it attaches to technology.

What are the two most important things for a tech company?

Not talent and technology

As for Wang An Computer, which is in its heyday, as long as he can acquire it, he will be able to own one of the world's largest and strongest computer companies. Apple and Microsoft can only eat ashes behind them.

Chapter 1011 Replicating Huawei

Although these words are exaggerated, Wang An Computer is indeed the well-deserved overlord of the industry at this time.

That's right, it is the overlord of the industry. In the past few years since entering the 80s, the word Wang An represented the computer industry.

Even Bill Gates, the famous founder of Microsoft in later generations, once told the media that if Wang An Computer can complete the second strategic turning point, then there may not be a Microsoft company in the world, and Bill Gates himself will not Become a tech icon.

If Wang An's computer does not fail, there will be one more ordinary teacher or lawyer in the world, and his name is Bill Gates.

There are three most important reasons why Wang An Computer failed to complete the second strategic turning point.

First, it was Wang An, the founder, who made a wrong decision for the first time, which made Wang An Computer seriously lag behind his old rival IBM in the first reform.

Second, it was eager to compete with IBM when the second transformation had just achieved results.

The third is to let the son with insufficient ability take over the company forcibly.

Leaving aside the latter two, let's talk about the first one first. On the personal computer, Wang An made the wrong choice from the very beginning.

There is a saying on the internet

Wang An's success began with IBM and ended with IBM.

The grievances between any computer king and IBM are really hard to understand. It is undeniable that Wang An's first pot of gold came from IBM.

Wang An's breakthrough in memory technology research and development in the early years allowed him to obtain a start-up capital of US$50 from IBM.

After getting the first pot of gold, Wang An was keenly aware of the huge market for computers in the future, so he devoted all his funds and energy to the computer field.

During the period from 80 to 20 years, the scope of computer applications was mainly in the enterprise and military. During these [-] years, neither IBM nor Wang An Computer was involved in personal computers.

In the 80s, personal computers suddenly emerged, and how to transform became the biggest problem facing the two giant technology companies.

After suffering from the impact of personal computers, IBM, which has always been conservative, resolutely opened up its policy and united a group of small personal computer equipment manufacturers to cooperate.

Among these small personal computer equipment manufacturers, there are later famous Apple and Microsoft.

Although the technical scale and business scope of small manufacturers are not large, the advantage is that the equipment is compatible and easy to use, and these small manufacturers have their own software development technology.

IBM abandoned prejudice and actively cooperated with small manufacturers, thus stabilizing its position first in the transformation of the personal computer market.

In our terms, IBM is already invincible.

Wang An, the founder of Wang An Computer, who is also a competitor, did not agree with IBM's approach at the beginning. He believed that the development of personal computers was unreasonable, and it was better to develop incompatible high-priced machines alone. choose.

Therefore, when IBM and other small manufacturers jointly developed the personal computer market, Wang An Computer chose a path that was completely opposite to the direction of future technological development.

Facts have proved that if you don't follow the trend of the times, you are destined to be eliminated by the times. The development of personal computers is changing with each passing day. In just a few years, people have completely changed their concepts.

Due to conservative thinking and personal judgment errors, Wang An Computer missed the best opportunity for transformation, and at the same time, it failed in the first transformation.

After the failure of the first transformation, Wang An, who had learned from experience and lessons, voluntarily gave up the most proud achievement in his life-the "Losai" desktop computer made of transistors, and turned to small personal computers.

In view of the previous influence of Wang An Computer in the computer field, although Wang An Computer's second transformation was a bit late, it also successfully caught the last train. After entering the personal computer industry, it quickly occupied a part of the market share.

It's just that people didn't expect that the second transformation of Wang An Computer was successful, and its founder Wang An made another incredible decision, that is, to continue to fight IBM to the end.

As a technology giant, IBM is only stronger than Wang An Computer Company. Its business involves all aspects, many of which are the lifeblood of the US technology economy. Its background is far from what Wang An Technology can match.

In addition, due to timely transformation, IBM has already cooperated with many small manufacturer alliances and won the support of a large number of small manufacturers. Now, Wang An Computer has just gained a foothold and wants to start a war with IBM. This is undoubtedly dizzy .

It would be fine if it was just like this, but by coincidence, Wang An fell ill at this time, and the fatal one was still terminally ill.

If Wang An himself is healthy and there are no problems, then relying on his personal influence, Wang An Computer will continue to struggle with IBM, and it is hard to say how the final outcome will be.

Even if Wang An Computer loses, it won't lose so badly.

However, God did not give Wang An this chance.

The computer tycoon is sick, and wants to push his son Xiao Wang to the stage. Not to mention that Xiao Wang doesn't have as much influence and ability as his father. It is strange that Xiao Wang can withstand the pressure under internal and external troubles.

Facts have also proved that Xiao Wang's performance in the stage was very mediocre. Not only was he unable to manage such a large company, but he also accelerated the decline of the company.

The second strategic transformation of Wang An Computer left a beautiful start, and the rest are all incomprehensible anticlimactic.

On the plane, Yang Chen couldn't help shaking his head and sighing after reading all the information about Wang An's computer.

Times can make a person great

It can also make a person extremely small

It is said that man will conquer nature

But is God so easy to defeat?

Fortunately, Xiao Wang has not been in office for a long time. Although Wang An's computer is chaotic at this time, the overall situation has not collapsed, especially the loss of talents is not serious.

In good conscience, there is nothing wrong with Wang An's ability and vision, especially in terms of talent training and technology research and development, even his old rival IBM has to admire.

Nearly one-third of the annual revenue is invested in talent training and technology research and development, which shows how much attention and support Wang An attaches to talent and technology in this area.

At this time, Wang An Computer is equivalent to a replica of Huawei. It is well known that Huawei's talent and technology investment in later generations has always been talked about by everyone.

However, the huge investment in research and development has also seriously dragged down Wang An Computer's finances. I am afraid that it is precisely because of this reason that Wang An Computer in the previous life declared bankruptcy in just a few years.

In Yang Chen's view, instead of waiting five years to take over a company that has nothing, it's better to spend more now and buy Wang An Computer directly.

In this way, both the market and talents can be preserved.

As for the little money for the acquisition, it is nothing compared to the market value of Microsoft and Apple in later generations.

Chapter 1012

Now the market value of Wang An Computer has been affected by the stock market crash, and has fallen from a peak of 56 billion US dollars to about 30 billion US dollars.

Almost half of the market value was cut in half, which is not tragic.

However, compared to five years later, Wang An Computer will only have a market value of less than [-] million US dollars. At this time, investors have obviously not completely lost confidence in Wang An Computer.