The black pharaoh on the TV was confessing all the necessary matters according to the booklet, introducing the various functional personnel participating in the shareholders meeting to the delegates. In Jobs’s eyes, he is naturally not too sophisticated and a bit too serious, but he speaks clearly and behaves calmly. When introducing each person, he smiles and gestures friendly to each other, the demeanor is indeed very good.
‘3dfx currently owns...shares of class a stocks...shares of class b stocks, and each share of class a or class b represents ... votes and ... votes in this voting. ’
‘I will preside over the agenda of the meeting. I will answer your questions when I come back from the adjournment... Okay, let’s get started. ’
Without any nonsense, after he finished reading, he signaled that the relevant personnel could start the first item on the agenda.
‘Regarding the director seats due for rotation, we propose to replace the director seats of... Mr.... by the chief financial officer of 3dfx...
‘Please allow me to interrupt. 'Black Pharaoh is here to add something.' Because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act passed last year, we think we need our cfo...Mr. to enter the board of directors to gain greater power and freedom to better serve the company And it urges us to perfectly fulfill all the compliance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on financial discipline. ok, please go on...’
The long voting period was boring, and Jobs pressed the fast forward button on the remote control.
‘The motion is passed. ’
After the votes were cast, the black pharaoh made the final announcement.
It seemed that he got what he wanted. Jobs pushed his glasses and continued to fast forward. Most of the subsequent motions were boring. The financial report released by 3dfx before was very beautiful. It seems that shareholders have nothing to dissatisfy with him.
‘The following is the question session. There is a vertical microphone there. After getting permission, representatives who have questions will go there and ask me questions. Please pay attention to maintaining order in the venue. ’
After a short adjournment, the general meeting of shareholders entered a question-and-answer session, and the questions raised by shareholder representatives were sharp and varied.
‘We just lost Apple’s chip order. I heard some rumors that this is related to aplus you...er, Mr. Chairman himself and Apple’s conflicts in other businesses. What's your explanation for this? ’
After hearing a question from a shareholder, the black pharaoh laughed, ‘then you should ask Apple. The venue outside the camera also burst into laughter.
'Of course we want to keep these orders. I can tell you that our sales department is still working hard to get them to change their minds, but sometimes the business is like this. I think Apple will also explain to their shareholders the motivation for doing so. . ’
Black Pharaoh didn’t let the laughter last too long, and soon switched to Su Rong’s answer: “Our chip performance is still the best choice for performance-conscious consumers. Our latest sli model is last year’s performance champion, Microsoft, HP, Major customers such as Dell have firmly supported our products, and I would like to express my gratitude to them. ’
In response to his abandonment of the 3dfx chip, Jobs knew that 3dfx was supporting other PC manufacturers to compete for the market for those abandoned models of imac, for example, through indirect means to provide preferential prices on the supply prices of those standard models of chips.
Those methods did cause some complaints and transfers from high-end Apple users, but the overall impact was not significant.
'Although the loss suffered by 3dfx is very small due to the problem of Apple’s market share, we don’t want to lose any customer, especially an excellent customer like Apple. Personally and our company are doing their best to reverse the situation, please Everyone, give us some time. ’
The black pharaoh ended the problem smoothly.
‘I noticed that last year 3dfx spent millions of meters on supporting ethnic minority equality, politician campaigns and charity activities. Is this necessary for a technology company? Mr. Chairman, are you spending company profits on supporting your personal friends and interest groups? I think we should abolish these expenditures. I don’t have any opinion on those jobs, but I call for the money to be spent on pure company operations and research and development...’
Another person asked.
'Before I got the funds to move out of Chicago’s South City ghetto by writing songs, I lived there for fifteen years. I want to say that if it weren’t for the support of generous charitable organizations, well-wishers and social workers, I and my Relatives may die of poverty, hunger and disease. I feel that among them, there is a donation from a Vietnam War veteran in my second-hand clothes to keep out the cold...'
Second-hand clothes... Jobs fast forward.
‘You insist that 3dfx be a pure chip design company, but this will make us subject to foundries and graphics card manufacturers, which will lead to our strategic security being subject to others, right? And over the years, I have noticed that due to the small actions of various graphics card brands, the performance of products using the same chip will have very large pricing differences in sales channels. ’
When encountering a technical problem, the black pharaoh will first look down to find the documents prepared in advance, and then answer: ‘We have also noticed these phenomena. What I want to say is that the spirit of 3dfx is to trust our partners...’
‘But the so-called spirit of 3dfx, the three founders don’t think so, what they want is a company with its own graphics card production line and brand...’ The questioner interrupted not politely.
‘So their stb is broke. 'Black Pharaoh's pungent retort.
There was laughter again from the venue.
‘They said you used shameless means to drive them away. ’
"I respect them. I and them are very good friends, but I also admit that there are irreconcilable differences between us in the company's business philosophy... In the early days of the development of 3D chips, maybe they were right, but the market was changing rapidly. , So later 3dfx invited Jim Keller to redesign the chip architecture, and later facts proved that our choice was right. ’
The more confident the black Pharaoh in the camera, and the more straightforward his eyes, the worse Jobs' mood, and he left in front of the TV.
At this time Steve Jobs had noticed that he had been swept away from Apple. Amelio, who had found a new job in Black Pharaoh, was leading the First Bank of New Jersey to collect shares in Apple. Since his personal assets are heavily weighted in Pixar Animation, he has been paying attention very early. The power struggle within Disney has also been involved in the planning, layout and even tentative participation very early. The alliance between Linton and the Black Pharaoh...
And the beats music store invited Napster founder Fan Ning and the trend of recruiting programmers in Silicon Valley with great fanfare. Jobs also has mastered it. If nothing else, according to the previous accumulation and gameplay of napster, the beats music store will be better than originally expected. It was launched earlier, and it was born to support windows.
He felt that Pharaoh Black was like a squid, with tentacles sticking into his territory from all directions, just **** stalker!
It's time to make a choice!
After he meditated alone, he called a friend not far from the headquarters, Oracle boss Larry Ellison, and then called Buffett.
I was forced by him to summon foreign aid...
"Should we adjust the second-generation beats?"
Song Ya and the others walked into the study, "Or also started to set up their own specialty store?"
"It's only less than half a year~www.mtlnovel.com~ I try my best, but be careful to avoid Apple's patent barriers, and we can't be a follower of the same trend..."