The journey starts from the Titanic

Sloan did not respond. He reacted coldly to burning money to build high-rise buildings. When he did not see Pierre Dupont, although the other party was the chairman and major shareholder, he was the one who was involved in the company's business affairs!

Sloan was indifferent, but the company's financial officer was also Sloan’s opponent, Rascob, who stood up: "We can’t let Chrysler succeed. We must build a taller building to prove to the world that General Motors is the car. King of industry!"

As soon as Raskob stepped up, Sloan had a headache and immediately objected: "I don't agree to use the company's funds in construction competitions in order to fight for a false name. This is stupid!"

Chapter 210 The Conflict in the General Motors Empire

"Can we ignore the advertising effect of the building and the image of the company? The increase in sales of Chrysler cars is the best proof. I firmly disagree with Mr. Sloan's stupid evaluation."

Raskob did not show weakness, and retorted Sloan in front of the company's executives and directors. As usual, the participants stopped talking and just sat and watched the ceo and cfo arguing.

"Here again! These two idiots!"

Pierre Dupont was expressionless, holding his hands on his chest, cursing inwardly, feeling helpless every time, and getting a headache every time when the two quarreled.

Rascob is his best friend and partner. It has been almost 30 years since he was the DuPont family for three generations to revitalize the DuPont family. He has made great contributions to the DuPont gunpowder empire. Later he also participated in the formation of General Motors and joined hands with himself. Drive away the former CEO Durant, use super financial ability to help the DuPont consortium buy GM stock, and finally the DuPont consortium can control General Motors with 36% of the shares.

It can be said that Raskob is the most trusted partner of the DuPont family. He has contributed a lot to the General Motors empire. He is also one of the veterans of General Motors. He is very influential and dares to fight against CEO Sloan.

As for Sloan, there is no doubt about his talents. It is most appropriate to hand over GM to him. He also lived up to the trust of himself and the board of directors and brought GM out of the dilemma of losses. Now GM cannot do without him.

One is a shareholder and financial officer, and the other is the CEO. In order to fight for power, the two are almost incompatible with each other. While Pierre Dupont is caught in the middle, he has not expressed his attitude and stood on the side of Rascob emotionally. It supports Sloan.

Time to make a decision!

Otherwise, it may ruin its own automobile empire, and GM must be in turmoil, which will give another major shareholder, the Morgan Consortium, a chance.

Pierre Dupont thought to himself, although the time to make this decision was earlier than expected, and the external cause was a skyscraper of a competitor, he was not an indecisive person and he would never be soft when he should start.

How can a person who can blow up a competitor's explosives factory be indecisive?

The automobile industry has broad prospects. Regarding the control of automobile companies, he admires Henry Ford very much. At the same time, he also thinks that it is unwise for Stuart to reduce the shares of Chrysler Automobiles!

Pierre DuPont paid more and more attention to General Motors. Had it not been for the control of the Morgan consortium, he would have privatized General Motors and turned it into the private industry of the DuPont family and monopolized General Motors.

The DuPont consortium has not been doing well in the chemical industry in recent years. The traditional explosives market has shrunk severely. At the same time, it is blocked by giant companies in the emerging petrochemical and pharmaceutical field. It is no longer a unique chemical overlord.

What is more proud of the DuPont consortium is that DuPont Chemical maintains a leading position in the fertilizer market and earns hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every year.

"Damn Stonney William, damn Mellons!"

Pierre Dupont cursed in his heart that if the two had not joined forces too much, he really wanted to send someone to California to blow up the giant's factory!

Pierre DuPont could only be dissatisfied in his heart, but had to admit that the William Consortium has completely surpassed the DuPont consortium. In the chemical automobile industry where the DuPont consortium has advantages, there are also giants such as Giant Chemicals and Chrysler Automobiles. In the energy industry, There are also Western oil companies that can rival Rockefeller's standard system.

The DuPont consortium has made little progress in the petroleum industry, and chemical plants occasionally have to buy raw materials from each other. This comparison does not need to be compared to other industries. It has been compared.

"General Motors is the backbone of the DuPont Consortium, and the automotive industry is also one of the few industries where the DuPont Consortium is ahead of the William Consortium. We must not let the internal struggle of the company ruin my automotive empire!"

Although Pierre Dupont had made a decision in his heart, he was calm on the surface and looked at Sloan, who was flushed with anger, and was slapped in the face by his subordinates. Can he not be angry?

Looking at the grim-faced Rascob again, he seemed to be a little proud, and felt that once again, he had blown Sloan's prestige in front of the board of directors and the company's senior management.

Pierre Dupont coughed slightly and attracted everyone's attention. At this moment, he smiled and said: "Gentlemen, your quarrel made my eardrums hurt. I think this is exactly what Chrysler expected."

Haha, those directors on the board who have been bombarded by Laskobe and Sloan showed knowing smiles. Laskobe and Sloan glanced at each other, hummed in their hearts, and did not speak. Now the company Boss Pierce They can't continue to be presumptuous.

As usual, Pierre Dupont would say a few words in a light or serious way, and then there would be no more.

I saw that Pierre Dupont became serious at this moment, ignoring Lascob and Sloan, and continued: "If Walter Chrysler knew that because of a building, my ceo and cfo could compete against each other, and even become enemies. If so, I think he will not only build one building, but also a few more buildings.

At that time, he will proudly tell reporters that Chrysler has beaten its competitors through the construction industry!

We, General Motors, did not lose in automobile manufacturing, but lost in construction buildings. This is really a classic case of commercial competition!"

Pierre Dupont finally got angry this time, and although he didn't use a dirty word to swear, he made the faces of the two GM groups hot.

Sloan didn't expect that Pierre Dupont would be so angry, his mouth moved, and he wanted to distinguish a few words, but let it go, and resisted.

Rascob looked at Pierre Dupont's gloomy face, his heart shuddering, and after so long, he finally wanted to make a move.On the surface Pierre Dupont is accusing himself and Sloan, but Rascob understands that most of the board is on him, because he is still Sloan's subordinate in name!

Rascob didn’t tell the difference either. He had a hunch that he and Sloan had been fighting for the control of General Motors for several years, and they couldn’t reach Sloan’s competitor by various means. Instead, he saw that Sloan’s position was firmly established. , It is not difficult to understand Pierre Dupont's choice.

Pierre Dupont vented the fire and calmed everyone down, then suddenly asked Sloan: "If the company wants to build a taller building than the Chrysler Building, is there a financial problem?"

"Mr. DuPont, it is not a good idea to use funds to build tall buildings..." Sloan said in a hurry.

"I'm asking you about funding. I can judge if it's a good idea." Pierre Dupont interrupted Sloan and asked hard.

Sloan's face was stagnant, and he looked at Pierre DuPont's long face for a few seconds, and saw that his face was calm, so he understood that DuPont also had the intention of building a building.

After calculating it in my mind, he replied reluctantly: "Squeeze it, and the money should be able to raise 30 to 40 million U.S. dollars. If it is more, it will affect the operation of the auto company and the capital chain will be under pressure."

Pierre Dupont stretched out his hand, stopped what Sloan was about to say, nodded, and said, "Okay, I get it!"

Sloan's face was sullen. Although Pierre Dupont didn't explicitly say that he was going to build a building, he was already on the side of Rascob.

He is his own!

Sloan sighed inwardly.

Raskob saw it in his eyes, his heart was refreshing.Pierre Dupont asked Sloan to take out the funds to build the building, which seemed to show that Pierre Dupont was still optimistic about himself.

After the meeting, Pierre Dupont kept Laskobe and Sloan, and none of the three spoke in the office.

Pierre Dupont stood in front of the window and smoked silently, with his back to Rascob and Sloan, making it difficult to see the expression on his face.

Rascob’s face was somewhat profitable, and he looked at Sloan provocatively, as if to say: “Let’s just say, building a building is a good idea. What’s the use of your objection? With me in one day, you would never want to be in General Motors. Cover the sky with your hands!"

Sloan did not speak, turned his head slightly, lowered his head slightly, ignoring Rascob, silently thinking about his own thoughts.

General Motors has ample funds and has the ability to squeeze forty to fifty million dollars to build a mansion, but he is more concerned about his dignity and control of the company.

There is no doubt that the existence of these people like Rascob has seriously affected the development of General Motors.

If... if...

After all, Sloan is a calm person, and a momentary setback is not enough for him to tell Pierre Dupont-choose me or Laskobe, you can figure it out!

Where is there no struggle, no disagreement?

Sloan believes that he can allow the company to have different opinions, and that different opinions are beneficial to the company to some extent, provided that they cannot exceed his own bottom line, and the arrogant veteran of Raskob is obviously not within his tolerance.

Sloan raised his head and glanced at Pierre Dupont's back. He was motionless. The only thing that moved was the smoke from the cigar in his hand that was blown away by the wind. The smoke was blown in by the wind and slowly filled the room.

A few minutes have passed, what else do you say?

Everything was quiet, the atmosphere in the room became depressed, and even Rascob, who had been in a good mood just now, became a little nervous, unable to guess Pierre Dupont's thoughts.