Global monopoly of technology

After John Nuault came to Sioux City, he settled down for two days and adjusted his state after completing the jet lag.

At the same time, during these two days, the two parties began to contact and communicated on the choice of negotiation location, and finally decided to open the new Hilton Hotel in Sioux City.

As a result, the hotel has become the focus of attention from the outside world. For such a large-scale business negotiation event, the hotel has rich experience.

The room where the two parties negotiated is a dedicated high-level negotiation meeting room in the hotel. Before entering the formal negotiation and negotiation, both parties sent their own professionals to investigate the interior of the meeting room without blind spots. For some bugs and the like There is nothing to hide at all, and it cannot exist in it.

The wall of the conference room is also made of professional materials, which can shield radio signals.

Before entering the conference room, the personnel of both parties will also conduct a body search to ensure that they have not brought in a wiretap to wait for the equipment, and then they can simultaneously conduct investigations under the eyes of the other party in the conference room.

After confirmation, there will be someone on both sides staying in the conference room to supervise each other until the negotiation meeting is held and ended.

This shows that the specifications of this negotiation are harsh.

It is exaggerated but necessary to do so. This is a meeting related to the future direction of the technology industry, which is extremely critical to modern human civilization. Both parties are very cautious, as a closed-door meeting to negotiate, to ensure that nothing will be left during the negotiation Can be traced back.

After the negotiation, only the parties knew what happened inside, and there was no evidence to record the content of the meeting.

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February 15th, the Chinese New Year holiday has passed. Yesterday was Valentine's Day. However, the entire hotel building of the Hilton Hotel has been packaged. These days, it will serve this meeting and will not receive other customers.

"Brother Luo, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Yao have already set off. The negotiation time is at 10 o'clock, which is another 40 minutes later." An Qingxue entered Luo Sheng's private office and reported to him.

In this negotiation, the outside world, including John Nobel, believed that the person who negotiated with him must be Luo Sheng, and he never thought that he had no intention of attending.

"understood."

Luo Shengyun replied lightly. He is writing a set of machine learning algorithms. This is what Chen Xin promised.

At present, after Chen Xin got a sum of money from Luo Sheng, he has established his own company called Borch Technology Co., Ltd.

When Luo Sheng did not directly participate in the negotiations, he would definitely not know the situation in the first time, because it is impossible for any information to be transmitted from the inside during the negotiation. Luo Sheng could not do this, and the Internet would not be able to access.

However, he is not worried. All the things he explained have been communicated with Zhang Bowen and others before the meeting. Luo Sheng also believes in their abilities. If even a negotiation cannot be done, it is still taking the initiative. It is impossible to achieve the position of No. 2 in the company's real power faction.

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Hilton Hotel, the place of negotiation.

At this moment, it was less than five minutes before ten o'clock in the morning. The negotiation team from both sides arrived on time. Everyone who enters the conference room must perform a full-body scan, and it is forbidden to bring electronic devices into the interior.

The negotiating table in the conference room is a matrix table, and both parties are sitting facing each other.

At 10:58, John Knoll and others were already seated in their seats, Zhang Bowen and Yao Jianhong also walked to their seats and took their seats. The participants in this negotiation are eleven people. Luo Sheng is here. There is one more person than the other party.

After sitting down, Zhang Bowen said in fluent American English: "OK, let's get started."

This is a closed-door meeting for negotiation and negotiation. The participants at Luo Sheng's side can all speak English, but the five of them, John Nobel, apart from sending a Chinese speaker, the others, including Old Man John, can't speak Chinese themselves.

This kind of closed-door meeting, in order to be able to communicate smoothly, there is no need to add some cumbersome procedures for hypocrisy. Taking care of their difficulties in not knowing Chinese is also saving precious time for themselves.

John Nobel glanced at the clock on the wall, then looked at Lao Zhang and others who were sitting opposite: "Sorry, why hasn't Mr. Luo been here yet? He is late."

Yao Jianhong smiled and spoke fluent English: "I will answer you this question, Mr. John. Our chairman will not participate in this consultation meeting. I will represent the Cote d’Azur for this discussion. And Mr. Zhang can communicate with you on behalf of Bluestar Technology. Our chairman has authorized us to take full responsibility for this matter. You can rest assured of this."

Lao Zhang also gave a "tactical bowing style" with a dumb smile, with a scent of hiding a knife in the smile.

It is impossible for John Nobel to say that it is impossible to keep his heart out after hearing this answer. This is like two companies negotiating. One sends the chairman of the board to talk, and the other sends a general manager to talk. The specifications are completely different. The same, and more importantly, this is sending a signal. Although Luo Sheng accepts the negotiation, it also shows that he doesn't care much about the outcome of the negotiation.

There are two different things here.

An SIA executive sitting next to John said angrily: "This is your sincerity? No, I only see arrogance. I doubt that I am wasting time."

Yao Jianhong's expression turned cold, and he said indifferently: "You are right. Our chairman really thinks this is likely to be a waste of his precious time. Therefore, if you don't want to fulfill his prediction, then I suggest you do it now. Let’s start. If you feel that our chairman will not be able to continue the discussion without coming, then let’s end it. The choice is yours.

"you……"

The SIA executive's face changed from white to green in rhythm, and he did not answer, nor did he answer.

He didn't expect the other party to be so rigid. This is not the Chinese negotiating style that he expected. This kind of constitution that does not give you a step up has never encountered before.

This is a closed-door meeting. The door of the conference room has been "welded to death". A fly can't get in. Many things that can and cannot be placed on the table can be opened here and at this moment. That said, there will be no consideration, and the fragrant mouth is even trivial.

Before the end of the meeting, everyone was Zuan without going out; after the memory was over, everyone was civilized.

"Enough, I didn't come all the way to quarrel." John Knoll said in a sullen tone, but he was not angry, Lao Zhang and they didn't react at all.

John Nobel looked at each other: "Let’s talk about Bluestar Technology first. You must leave the database when you withdraw from the North American market and transfer it to our North American network service provider. Our company can buy it. Then you Whether you want to sink the facility to the bottom of the Pacific or ship it back, it's your choice, and we won't have any obstacles."

Zhang Bowen smiled and said: "Buy? Sorry, this is impossible. Data is the core production material of Bluestar Technology, and it is also the company's core competitiveness. Give the core things to competitors and then defeat us in turn? You? Are you kidding me?"

"Secondly, even if you sell it, can you afford it? The total scale of direct investment of Bluestar Technology in the past ten years is no less than 120 billion U.S. dollars, plus ten years of operating costs close to 158.2 billion U.S. dollars, a total of 258.2 billion U.S. dollars. The cost has not been recovered, and the sunk costs in the past ten years are even more incalculable. Compared with money, what is more precious is the outlet of the times. If you miss an era, you will lose everything."

"OK, we can also convert it into a specific amount. As long as you pay 500 billion US dollars, it will all be yours. The value of Internet commercial databases in the United States for the past ten years is much more than that."

After speaking, Zhang Bowen ended his speech, staring at the other party without evasiveness.

Hearing Lao Zhang’s offer, the attendees on John’s side were almost stupid. They dared to shout for 500 billion US dollars. This Nimad Fak is too far, and it can’t be used too much. Described, it's just like the back of a toad, shameless.

If 258.2 billion is a figure that can be calculated, the "sunk cost" is outrageous. You can say as much as there is no specific quantitative standard to measure it.

Even the Lao American cannot spend 500 billion US dollars to pay for the nation's ten-year data information. Even if it is really worth the price, it can't come up with so much money.

500 billion dollars!

It was the old man John who was also furious, and suddenly said angrily: "Xiete, why don't you say that Bluestar Technology makes an average of 70 billion U.S. dollars from the United States every year, 700 billion U.S. dollars in ten years?"

Lao Zhang calmly said: "It is true, but most of the funds have been reinvested in the North American market and transformed into means of production and core competitiveness. You have to take it away now. Wait a minute. Maybe I should add another $50 billion to make sense. ."

other side:"……"

This sentence has become more outrageous before the talks begin. There are already 10,000 French "squids" in the hearts of Lao Mei.

The people of SIA slapped the table on the spot, breathed out fragrance, and the meeting room instantly became peaceful.

It is not the exclusive skills of SIA people to pat the table and breathe fragrance.

The meeting was outside the gate. There were two security guards standing. They were sent by both sides. The sound insulation effect was so good. They didn't know or hear what was happening inside. Both sides stared at each other.

Inside the gate and at the door, there were two people who were sent by the two sides. At this moment, everything that happened inside was heard.

The two of them stared at each other with wide eyes, and said nothing.

John Knoll forced himself to calm down, and kept telling himself that this was the negotiating table, and the other party was asking for prices, but he was actually testing his bottom line.

Both sides are testing each other's bottom line. If they can't take it seriously, they will lose.

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