George Mitchell has been chairman of the board for the past six months, and his voice has become louder and louder. There is no other way. He can't do much on the board except for blowing his beard, screaming, arguing and swearing. What do you say about the chairmanship and the introduction of Goldman Sachs?"
But he is the chairman of the board after all, and he can still do things within his powers.
"No problem, I will cooperate."
This year’s shareholder meeting’s turn to re-elect was pressured by Linton and another director who supported him. What did Eisner say to George Mitchell’s strategy? .
"OK, the new war will begin again, are you afraid of Mike!?"
George Mitchell asked proudly, spreading his hands.
"I don't know what fear is!"
“Palm acquired the IBMPC department and Motorola’s A+ laptop computer business. The consulting business was given to Morningstar and Bear Stearns, and the financing business was given to Northern Trust, New Jersey First Bank, and the investment bank. The legal work was the PGE law firm of Gates’ father. The work is handled by Samuel’s PricewaterhouseCoopers, and we have no involvement at all."
In Manhattan, people from Goldman Sachs also reported to Chairman Paulson, “Palm gave IBM a 600 million dollar stake and immediately introduced him and Motorola’s shares through the acquisition of Motorola’s A+ laptop company. This made him at least In a short period of time, it still retains its dominant position in Palm."
"I see, is this the same lineup that he bought Warner Records?" Paulson didn't plan to get involved there either. APLUS was able to quickly persuade Lanof to leave Lanof, making the preparations for external forces lacking.
"almost."
Compared with the rigorous IBM, AOL Time Warner leaked like a sieve, and no information was hidden from Goldman Sachs. His subordinates replied: "Warner is using the merger with EMI to raise the price, but APLUS should still be able to get it done quickly. , AOL Time Warner Group has friends from his AOL department. The current YAHOO CEO Terry Semel will also use his former Warner Pictures co-CEO to help. The final transaction price is likely to not exceed 3 billion dollars..."
"The black pharaoh is really strong in action, and if he has money, he can unite considerable alliance forces. In another ten years of operation, the Chicago consortium will have successors."
Paulson nodded in recognition of Song Ya's abilities. "I remember that the Bronfman family still owns a small amount of Warner Records shares, right?"
"Yes, but they put all their holdings in the family trust company, I am afraid they have no intention of returning to the entertainment circle to toss." The subordinate replied.
"Have you asked the old Bronfman to play golf with me?"
"He declined because of his ill health, but you are welcome to Canada."
"Oh! Forget it..."
Paulson did not want to go to Canada at this critical moment, because he had an appointment with the Georgian dynasty and was preparing for a very important personal meeting.
On January 20, 2004, George Jr. was sworn in for re-election, and many important members of the cabinet received new faces and moved closer to the political correctness of ethnic balance. For example, the one who succeeded Colin was historically Condoleezza, the first black female secretary of state, succeeded Ashcroft by Alberto Gonzalez, the first Latino Attorney General in history.
In the days before this, Apple has successively launched new Walkman products: the second-generation iPodmini and the first-generation iPodshuffle that uses flash memory as the storage medium.
"We do online music stores, Beats follow, we use large-capacity micro hard drives, Beats follow, we switch to smaller capacity but lighter weight hard drives, Beats continue to follow, and now we are switching to flash memory, Beats does not I know if there is any face to follow up haha..."
Apple’s new Walkman products are getting faster and faster, and there is a time gap with Beats. The iPod project leader John Rubinstein laughed optimistically and teased his competitors at the meeting. “Users will see that they are following the trend. I Remember APLUS himself wrote a song called CopyCat for Milla Jovovich?"
Jobs was not in such a good mood. He always had a straight face. His condition repeated after the operation. Pixar animation was stuck in the quagmire of Disney in conflict. Even the one-handedly created Apple company was as high as seven to eight. One point of the shares fell in the hands of the black pharaoh, this figure far exceeds the proportion of his personal shareholding in Apple.
Wouldn't I, the CEO, be a part-time job for him?
When he thought of this, he was angry and asked John Rubinstein sharply, "But I noticed that the Beats walkman and music store have formed a solid user base. Starting from the second generation of Beats, their single product prices and profit margins Can be maintained at a high level, flash memory? They have had a good relationship with Samsung, the main player in that field, and the lack of control over the supply chain and channels after the acquisition of the IBM personal computer division has also been well compensated... So what do you have So happy?"
"Uh…"
John Rubinstein was embarrassed: "I mean if they follow the trend of flash walkman, the style of the product can no longer be maintained, and users will no longer recognize their high prices."
This is true, Steve Jobs pursed his lips and didn't stun anyone anymore.
"Palm Group has just released the first long-form company advertisement after the merger. Would you like to see it?" some of his staff walked in and asked.
"Look."
The advertisements often show what strategy the company wants to implement, what ideas it wants to express, which people it wants to please, and what products it wants to promote, especially the first advertisement that promotes a new company of such significance. Jobs nodded and allowed his subordinates. Play.
Judging from the streetscape layout with full sense of reality, this advertisement is obviously expensive. The male protagonist is a capable, elegant and aggressive, thin white male of about 60 years old, wearing a British tailored dark suit. , Carrying an old-fashioned traditional leather men's bag, he walked calmly into a building with a meticulous and big back.
"Who is the actor? A little familiar."
"British actor Charles Dans."
"Using such an old-school business elite image? Beats walkman is determined not to the mainstream market of young people?"
"Don't worry, the follow-up plot may be reversed."
Apple executives discussed it.
"Ha ha ha..." Then everyone smiled knowingly.
Charles Dans walked into a company whose name does not exist, but this company has a very strong sense of vision for people living and working in Silicon Valley, because it obviously has the most advocating management and office environment style of Silicon Valley Internet upstarts. , That is: simple and bright office space decoration, rich snacks that can be used at will, and a dazzling array of tea rooms. Because of the emphasis on individuality and no restrictions on the staff’s clothing, people walking around can wear everything colorfully, and they are all young. In the face, there are employees wearing roller skates passing by Charles Dans, and several employees sitting on the floor by the wall, pointing at laptops and discussing codes.
There are various small objects on the workstations that Charles Dans passed by, such as the black samurai helmet in Star Wars, superhero posters, cartoon characters and dolls in the book, etc...
A traditional, older white business elite is totally out of place in this scene.
But Charles Dans did not show any dissatisfaction, disdain or unsuitability, only a restrained and knowing smile in front of the camera.
He seemed to be here to discuss business, and was led into the meeting room by several senior executives who were equally casual. There were all kinds of colorful shells on the table in the meeting room, but also non-existent branded laptops.