Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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After talking with Lei Jun and Sun Yafang about the direction of mobile phone research and development, Xu Cun briefly told Lei Jun and Sun Yafang about the future development direction of mobile phones he "envisioned", and then Xu Cun had breakfast with Lei Jun and Sun Yafang.

During breakfast, Xu Cun asked Sun Yafang to help him contact Ren Zhengfei, the boss of Huawei——Xu Cun wanted to invest in Huawei.

actually--

Huawei, the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the future and one of the world's top 500 companies, has always been the target of Xu Cun's investment, but before that, Xu Cun had no chance to contact Ren Zhengfei.

Of course, it is really hard to say whether Huawei, without Sun Yafang, the "market killer" at the helm, can reach the heights of the previous life.

but--

Ren Zhengfei, the boss of Huawei, is also a ruthless character—he can develop the sales agency department of a Hong Kong company that produces private branch exchange (PBX) into a company with sales of 1.5 billion in eight years. Xu Cun died, Xu Cun didn't believe it.

In addition, in the previous life, Huawei did not have the position of chairman. Around 1998, due to Huawei's low-key style, coupled with its marketing tactics, early equity, loans and other issues, the outside world had many ways to deal with Huawei. There are criticisms. In view of Sun Yafang's ability in external coordination, Ren Zhengfei suggested that Sun Yafang be the chairman and be responsible for external coordination, and he himself became the president to focus on internal management. In fact, he established that Ren Zhengfei is the top leader and Sun Yafang is the second in command. In addition, in the company, Sun Yafang is also responsible for the work of marketing, human resources, etc., while Ren is more focused on strategic research. Since then, people can see Sun Yafang in many of Huawei's external activities , and Ren Zhengfei, who has never liked to socialize, is even more natural to "shrink" behind the scenes.

That is to say, in the previous Huawei, Ren Zhengfei was not as good as Sun Yafang in external aspects, but in internal aspects, such as internal management and strategic research, Ren Zhengfei was the soul of Huawei.

The current stage is a critical period for Huawei's development—Huawei has just begun to develop and launch rural digital switching solutions, and is short of funds for research and market expansion.

Therefore, with Sun Yafang as the bridge, Xu Cun easily obtained 35% of Huawei's shares and became Huawei's second largest shareholder.

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Shenzhen.

DreamWorks Electronic Imaging Ltd.

Under the leadership of Ye Zhiming, Xu Cun, Ye Yuqing and Ye Yuqing's three children to Xu Cunsheng are inspecting the newly built VCD production plant of DreamWorks Electronic Imaging Co., Ltd.

While watching, Ye Zhiming introduced to Xu Cun: "According to your request, our factory has the capacity to produce one million VCDs a month, and I have already bought all the surrounding land, and I can do it anytime. Expansion, so no matter how big the market is, we can handle it.”

Xu Cun said: "Brother, have you registered all the patents I asked you to register?"

In the last life, the world's first VCD was developed by Anhui Wanyan Company. In the last life, in 1992, at the International Broadcasting and Television Technology Exhibition held in the United States, an unidentified VCD was exhibited by the American C-CUBE Company. The humble image decompression technology aroused the interest of Jiang Wanmeng, the general manager of Anhui Modern Group. He immediately thought by intuition that using this technology, images and sounds can be stored on a small CD at the same time. Since then, Jiang Wanmeng has successively invested 570,000 U.S. dollars. In September 1993, he successfully applied the image decompression technology to audio-visual products, and developed a high-quality and low-cost audio-visual product, that is, VCD. In December of the same year, he and Sun Yansheng, a Chinese-American, jointly invested 17 million US dollars to establish Wanyan Company, and each took one of Jiang Wanmeng's and Sun Yansheng's names as the company name.

pity--

Since Wanyan Company did not apply for a patent, the first batch of VCDs that went on the market were all purchased by domestic and foreign electronics factories to make prototypes. After finding out the technology, a large number of VCD manufacturers sprang up like a blowout.

The biggest mistake Jiang Wanmeng made was not understanding patent protection. Later, when a reporter asked him about it, his answer was quite frank: "Under the circumstances at the time, I thought it was meaningless to apply for a patent or not." , the key is to let the product occupy the market as soon as possible.”

It was precisely this mistake that caused Jiang Wanmeng to lose an excellent opportunity to lead the market, and at the same time caused China to lose half of the country that should have had the initiative in the development of this industry.

Many years later, when the reporter asked Jiang Wanmeng if he regretted it, he just smiled lightly——that smile contained a bit of helplessness, a bit of guilt, and even more of his eternal regret.

Xu Cun is not Jiang Wanmeng, he will not let this kind of oolong incident happen.

Therefore, as soon as the VCD was developed, Xu Cun told Ye Zhiming to obtain the VCD patent as soon as possible.

Honestly--

The technical threshold of VCD is not high. With the support of Xu Cun’s abundant funds, Dreamworks Electronic Imaging Co., Ltd. developed VCD half a year earlier than Wanyan Company, so that they can raise funds and prepare to work together. Jiang Wanmeng had to give up VCD, an audio-visual product that he felt was very developed.

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The main reason why Xu Cun made VCD was not to make money with VCD, but the decline of Hong Kong films in the last generation and the shrinking of the film market. One of the main reasons was the invention of VCD. Choose to rent or buy pirated discs to watch at home. Especially in the Mainland, various VCD manufacturers are engaged in a price war, which finally makes the price of VCD fall again and again, and finally spreads rapidly, and almost everyone can afford it. No one goes to the cinema to watch movies anymore.

Xu Cun's idea is very simple, that is to register patents in advance to prevent VCD from becoming Chinese cabbage on the street, so as to slow down the rapid shrinking of the film market.

When Xu Cun asked about patents again, Ye Zhiming said with a wry smile: "You have told me for the fourth time, can I not register? Now I have registered patents in all countries and regions that have patents. Guaranteed, except our DreamWorks, no one can legally produce VCD... This time it is just right for you to come here, and bring back those patents, so as not to worry about you."

Hearing what Ye Zhiming said, Xu Cun also felt that he was being too cautious-may I ask, with his identity and record, who would dare not listen to him now?

Therefore, Xu Cun changed the subject and said: "Before the VCD is officially released, you can ask Yuqing to contact Monica and ask Monica to match you with a team of lawyers... We will sue anyone who dares to pirate our VCD In this matter, I will never give up the slightest bit!"

When he said this, Xu Cun's eyes flashed coldly - he would never let pirated copies hurt his empire!

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