The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

The shooting incident at the Mphone launch conference was apparently a peripheral incident caused by the expansion of the financial crisis.

Just like the Occupy Wall Street movement happened four years in advance. Due to the early prosperity of Internet finance, the financial crisis in 2008 directly affected more individuals.

The subprime mortgage crisis in the original time and space affected more of the middle class, and the middle class must have accumulated a certain amount of assets.

Now, because of the low threshold and real-time nature of Internet finance, this wave of financial crisis has affected a wider group of people.

This is like the original financial crisis, which was similar to the Zhongzhi system, with an investment threshold of 5 million, but now it has become Yu'e Bao, and you can invest with just one dollar.

When Zhou Xin was thinking on the plane, he felt that he should have predicted this. Since Occupy Wall Street can happen, why won't the Mphone conference be affected?

If they had predicted it, they should not have chosen an open-air venue, but a smaller exhibition hall to hold the press conference, and implement stricter security checks on the audience.

There will always be times when people don't think well. Zhou Xin felt that he needed to be vigilant. As time went by, his advantages in vision and predicting the future were gradually weakening.

Not to mention that his arrival has already caused the world line to change so much that we don’t know where it is going.

In addition, the launch of Mphone 3 will affect too many original interests, so it is normal to find someone to cause trouble at this time.

Of course, for Zhou Xin, he took this opportunity to come to America to cause trouble.

The financial crisis means that too many of Amerikan's high-quality assets will fall to unimaginable prices.

Economic interests are only one aspect, and the other aspect is political blending.

Bush has not done very well in the past eight years, and in the end he caused an unprecedented financial crisis. Next year is another election year, and the Elephant Party obviously has no hope for next year's election.

Otherwise, the final winner would not be McCain.

You must know that in the Elephant Party's internal candidate competition in 2008, Romney had certain advantages within the Elephant Party's traditional sphere of influence. At the last moment, Romney simply gave up and turned to support McCain.

Romney later ran in the 2012 election.

Obviously, the Elephant Party realized that there was little chance this time in 2008 and sent McCain to give it a try, leaving the more promising Romney until the next term. Of course, Romney himself is willing to have a better chance next time. Come out again.

McCain is too old to do anything. At 74 years old, this is his last chance.

The candidate of the Elephant Party has been decided after Romney switched his support to McCain, while the candidate of the Donkey Party has not yet been decided. Hillary and Obama are fighting fiercely.

It won't be finalized until the middle of next year.

Zhou Xin hopes to make good use of this final opportunity to be politically effective.

Eight years later, after decoupling has become a rare consensus between the two parties, even if he supports the correct candidate, it will not have any effect.

This is the last chance to make political deals. No one will dare to deal with you in another two years.

And this deal with Obama may work wonders in the future.

The combination of various factors resulted in Zhou Xin having to go to Amerikan in person.

At the same time, you can also meet old friends and inspect your business empire.

Matrix acquired a piece of land of approximately 900,000 square meters near San Francisco as Matrix's headquarters.

It's close to the airport, Stanford and Mountain View.

"So it was an accident, both publicly and by our internal consensus, it was just an accident.

In addition, when facing publicity, it needs to be pointed out that Matrix is ​​also a victim.

Let the self-media and opinion leaders who have good relations with us throw dirty water on Nokia and Samsung. The bad remarks or content about Matrix imply that they are fabricated remarks and accuse them of being unable to defeat Matrix on the frontal battlefield, so they adopt this method. A dirty trick. "

To be honest, this is not a slander. As a competitor, he must have done this. The only difference is whether he was caught or not.

Ziru stood up for Xiaomi, and then debated with Lao Luo on Youku for three hours. It was not a big problem for Lao Luo to hang him up during the debate. After all, you can't even go to Qin, but someone dug him out. His self-media company has Lei Jun. shares, then this problem will be big.

No one will believe that you, a stakeholder, can explain the quality of mobile phones from the standpoint of an objective and neutral third party.

In the same way, if some evidence can be found to shift the focus of public opinion to competitors using despicable means to spread rumors, that is also a marketing strategy.

As someone who is used to seeing how major mobile phone brands manipulate public opinion in later generations, Zhou Xin knew very well how to shift the focus and minimize the impact of this incident.

When it comes to brand crisis public relations alone, Zhou Xin believes that he is definitely a master.

"How are the sales of Mphone 3?" Zhou Xin changed the subject.

Lei Jun has the data at his fingertips, “It’s only been one week since it was released, and Amerikan, Maple Leaf Country and most countries in South America are in a state of simultaneous release.

The current number of activations is close to 10 million units, and the sales number has reached 15 million units.

From a pure data perspective, this shooting incident did not affect the sales of Mphone3.

On the contrary, because the shooting case was reported all over the world, many groups who originally did not know about the release of Mphone3 became aware of the release of Mphone3.

In addition, due to the impact of the shooting, we originally only arranged strict security measures in major cities such as Detroit, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

This kind of security measures have now been arranged in all our offline stores.

Later, two zero-yuan shopping incidents actually broke out. "

The Occupy Wall Street movement has arrived early, so how can there be a lack of traditional arts shopping for zero dollars? As the scale of Occupy Wall Street gradually expands, zero-dollar shopping has also spread from New York to other big cities.

Even inspired by the shooting at the Mphone 3 launch event, some people in the Occupy Wall Street movement brought guns and tried to attack the Goldman Sachs building.

It was just that he was controlled by the security team before he could get in and cause any real casualties.

Similarly, it is not just Matrix that is increasing its own investment in security. Other companies, from the financial industry to the consumer industry, are significantly increasing their spending in the security field.

This can also be regarded as a derivative opportunity brought by the financial crisis.

After a brief understanding, Zhou Xin felt relieved and found that the sales of Mphone3 were in line with expectations, or even better than expectations. The next step was to enjoy this trip to Amerikan.

I won’t know that next time it will be the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.

"Junior brother, you are right. I should not adopt too radical a strategy. I should not lead Baidu into the abyss." Robin's face was filled with regret.

The specific verdict has not yet come down, so after paying a huge bail, Robin has returned to his luxurious villa in San Francisco.

Of course, he met Zhou Xin at Zhou Xin's villa, not Robin's home.

Zhou Xin said: “Because I returned to Shenhai, I don’t quite understand how you made the decision regarding Baidu Payment.

Because Xinxing Investment has invested in too many companies in Amerikan and is a board member of too many listed companies, when Jason comes to Zhangjiang to report to me every year, he will only choose the most important content to talk about.

So I always only knew that you were cooperating with Madoff, but I didn’t know that you had scaled this up to 500 billion.

Hedge funds, 500 billion, just for the Baidu payment channel, should be almost the same size as all other hedge funds on Wall Street combined. "

Zhou Xin thought to himself that he was able to make all the wrong decisions in the mobile Internet era, destroy products with potential, and move promising directions from the top to others. Robin's judgment outside of search engines is second to none.

Robin said: “Whether it was before cooperating with Madoff or during the process of cooperating with him, I had many friends in the financial circle who reminded me that Madoff might have problems and risks.

First, I was bewitched by George. He received almost 10 billion US dollars in compensation from Madoff. He kept saying that it was no problem and used Bernard's experience to brainwash me.

In addition, Bernard is indeed capable. During the contact with him, there was no smell of a liar.

We are all managers and have managed all kinds of subordinates in business operations. Different people have different characteristics. I can almost tell at a glance when subordinates exaggerate their expressions and actual work.

I did not choose to trust the friends around me, but chose to trust my own judgment and the brainwashing given to me by Reyes. "

Zhou Xin thought to himself, stop talking. I don’t know you yet. As long as it’s profitable, even if you know Madoff is a liar, you will still choose to cooperate with him.

Of course, if you knew the consequences of cooperating with Madoff, you would not choose to cooperate with Madoff.

Robin did not finish: "The second is that cooperation with Madoff has brought huge profits to Baidu, unimaginable benefits.

At its peak, Madoff's channel fees and advertising fees alone accounted for half of Baidu's profits.

At the same time, the user growth and various data indicators it brought to Baidu Pay, as well as the positive effects it brought to Baidu's market value, made me relax my vigilance. "

At its peak, Baidu's market capitalization exceeded US$200 billion, making it the largest Internet company in the entire Nasdaq market capitalization, even close to twice the market capitalization of Microsoft.

This is a very exaggerated number.

Such a brilliant record also made Robin popular in Amerikan and even around the world. People hailed him as the light of the Chinese after Newman.

Zhou Xin shook his head: "Hey, what did Amerikan tell you?

The main thing is that there are too many people involved in this matter, and you can't settle it out of court.

But as long as you're willing to pay, you shouldn't have to go in. "

Robin was extremely frustrated: "Yes, but Baidu is about to be split up by Americen on the grounds of monopoly. I will face a fine of at least 2 billion, and there may be penalties similar to industry bans. To be honest, it is not too difficult to get in." Big difference.”

Why Microsoft has not been broken up on the grounds of antitrust is because Microsoft is strong enough and influential enough to succeed in taking sides between donkeys and elephants.

Why Baidu was split up was because it had a bad reputation and a group of former Google executives were thinking about splitting it up every day. Washington also lacked a scapegoat to ease civil conflicts.

"Senior brother, to be honest, no matter how much I punish you, you have already achieved the goal of wealth and freedom. You still have a long life and there are still many things you can do.

You should always have the faith and courage to start over in life. As for an industry ban, I think it is unlikely.

Does it prevent you from working in the Internet industry? This is unlikely. At best, you have improper management, and it is not your subjective intention that caused the investor losses. "

Robin shook his head: "I'm not sure, that's what the lawyer I hired told me.

I will definitely do my best to minimize the punishment as much as possible. Even if I can control Baidu again, I don't know how to get out of this round of user trust crisis. "

As Robin was investigated, Larry Page became Baidu's interim CEO.

Larry Page, who got the news in advance, has reactivated Google's domain names and web pages, and used Baidu's resources to attract traffic to Google.

In addition, Baidu's reputation has been ruined in the Madoff incident, so Baidu's market share has declined rapidly, while Google's market share has grown rapidly.

At the same time, Yahoo's market share is growing faster.

Yahoo made payment software before the turn of the millennium, but because there was no hope of defeating NewPay, Yahoo cut off the entire business when the Nasdaq bubble burst in 2000.

Later, when electronic payments were booming, Yahoo did not distract itself from this business because of its overall transformation to mobile Internet.

It was a blessing in disguise. Because they were not involved in Internet finance, American netizens had a strong impression of Yahoo, their first love, and a large number of Baidu users left Yahoo.

There was no Bing at this time, and Microsoft's Bing would not be launched until the year after next. Of course, Microsoft's portal MSN also had a built-in search engine, using Yahoo's technology.

Zhou Xin consoled him: "Let's get through the current difficulty first. As for Baidu, it's really too difficult.

Users have lost trust, and there are alternatives like Yahoo eying the market.

And you just said that Baidu will face a split, which should be split into Google and Baidu.

In other words, there will be three search engines, Baidu, Yahoo and Google in the future. I think you need to cheer up as soon as possible. If you are not careful, Baidu will face an existential crisis. "

What Zhou Xin wants in his heart is a good death. Enterprises that only have profits but no moral bottom line should withdraw from the stage of history.

During this process, Zhou Xin did not remind Robin of the risks. As a director representative, he had been making a lot of money selling Baidu's stocks. Zhou Xin felt that he was an indirect murderer.

If it weren't for Emerging Investment, the initial shareholder and the largest individual shareholder, who has been selling Baidu's shares, Baidu's peak market value would be even higher.

Robin nodded sharply after listening, "Junior brother, what you are saying is that I really need to cheer up.

Baidu was able to succeed before, and it will also be able to defeat Google and Yahoo again in the future. "

After being split up, Baidu failed to recover. Because it was too deeply involved in the Madoff incident, it lost the trust of users. Its market share was quickly swallowed up by Yahoo and Google. It was finally sold to Google for US$1 billion.

After almost ten years of going around in circles, Google achieved a reverse merger.

After Robin sold Baidu, he tried to return to China to start a business. However, China had entered the mobile Internet era and there was no stage for search engines. In the end, like other Internet giants who were eliminated by the times, he disappeared from the public eye.

It’s okay to write about the shooting case. I think it’s within the scope of reasonable deduction.

From the time he wrote Madoff, he had planned that a shooting would occur at the Mphone3 launch conference.