Chapter 196: Should you take advantage of a situation?

Jobs looked at Zhou Ming blankly. He didn't understand what was meant by 'if you can, try not to use violence'. After all, in this day and age, there was no such thing as 'bb', and even if there was, Jobs, being an American, also seemed to have no idea what it meant and that is precisely what surprised Jobs: was he supposed to turn this situation around with just his mouth?

It was undoubtedly a big joke, but what baffled Jobs was that his intuition told him that Zhou Ming could really do it.

Just as Jobs was extremely perplexed, Ming suddenly shouted at everyone, 'You bunch of losers, shut the hell up! I'm the one bringing you money!'

Zhou Ming's angry outburst left everyone in the meeting room stunned. They all looked at Zhou Ming in disbelief. No one expected Zhou Ming to start yelling at them without saying a word. And most importantly, didn't he come here to discuss cooperation today? How dare he be so arrogant? It's as if he has a lot of confidence, but has he got the roles of the two sides mixed up? And what did he mean by 'bring money' at the end?

Facing the puzzled expressions of everyone who has not yet come back to their senses, Zhou Ming said, 'The US dollar is the only currency officially recognised in the United States and even throughout the world. the only currency that is officially recognised and commonly used in the United States and around the world. This may be a difficult financial term to pronounce, but within the United States, whether we are eating, housing, or buying a car, we must use the US dollar. Any company that wants to pay its employees, pay dividends to its shareholders, or expand production cannot do so without the US dollar.'

If Zhou Ming's previous tirade had fooled everyone, then these words of his had everyone baffled, because no one understood what he what he was talking about. Everyone sitting there was a big capitalist. Could it be that they didn't know what the US dollar was and needed a Chinese guy from nowhere to teach them what it was?

'I know you all can't understand what I'm saying, so let me put it simply. What I mean is that I now have a huge sum of money in my possession, tens of millions of dollars. Do you want it?' asked Zhou Ming.

There was a loud murmur in the meeting room, and everyone was a little excited. After all, no one doesn't love money. Even these shareholders of Apple Inc. in the meeting room, who each had at least ten million in assets, and Apple Inc. itself, had no shortage of ten million, but they didn't mind asking for ten million more.

However, John, the CEO, responded immediately. He said to Ming Zhou, 'This is Mr. Ming Zhou from Jieke, right? If I understand you correctly, you mean the absurd thing that Mr. Jobs just mentioned, asking you to spend 10 million dollars to buy the core technology of Apple? If that's the case, then I can responsibly tell you that it's impossible.'

Following John's words, there was once again laughter in the meeting room, and someone even shouted, 'That's right, don't even think about it. We would never betray our core technology, so you and that traitor should just give up and get out!'

Zhou Ming just shrugged and said, 'So I want to say, Mr. John, you misunderstood. Neither I nor Mr. Jobs had any intention of buying the core technology.'

'Is that so?' John asked meaningfully, 'So what Mr. Zhou Ming means is that you only need to set up a booth at the technology exhibition and do not need any technical support from our company, Apple? Then I think you should discuss this matter with Forté Company, they are the host company of the technology exhibition, and we are only an exhibitor.'

Zhou Ming did not respond directly to John's mockery, but instead said directly to him, 'I think you, Mr. John, must not have heard of a story about a pig who always interrupted people when they were talking, or listened to what they said only half way before hastily expressing his own opinion. Then the pig became extremely annoying, and in the end he was beaten to death.'

Although Zhou Ming's story had no beginning or end, it still made everyone in the meeting room burst out laughing when he finished. Obviously, they all heard that Zhou Ming was not telling a story, but was clearly criticising John for interrupting him.

Of course, John understood it too. He was furious and his face was red with anger, but he could do nothing about Ming. In the end, he could only rebuke Ming, 'You guy, is this the only way you can get the better of someone, by hurling such meaningless abuse?'

'I'm sorry, but I don't really want to do this either. But for someone like you, if I don't do this, I'm afraid you won't sit down and listen to me peacefully, will you?'

Zhou Ming spoke casually, which again elicited a round of laughter from everyone. John had never met anyone like Zhou Ming in his life, so he had no idea how to respond attack. All he could do was mutter, 'What a low-quality bastard. If you can't come up with a result, I'll show you what I can do to you.' This time, however, his words became the object of ridicule.

Zhou Ming raised his hands to indicate silence before saying, 'I know everyone is worried that the cooperation between Jieke and Apple may lead to Jieke stealing Apple's core technology, but I want to say that this is absolutely nonsense. I don't mean that Jieke doesn't need all the services provided by Apple, but the services I discussed with Mr. Jobs before are not yet so extensive.'

'Then What is the content of your cooperation?' This time, it was Ball, the chairman of Apple, who asked instead of John.

Hearing the question from the person who really controlled the power of life and death of Apple, Ming Zhou knew that the main topic was coming, so he quickly organised his thoughts and replied, 'Let you take advantage.'

This sentence piqued everyone's curiosity, and only then did Zhou Ming continue, 'Our company, Jieke, needs to participate in this year's Forte Technology Exhibition, but we don't have any good projects to show off, so we must find other large companies to collaborate with. Aipei is our top choice.'

'Of Of course, I advocated cooperation with Aipai, but it wasn't the kind of all-round cooperation. To a greater extent, we just needed to quickly expand our own popularity through this technology exhibition. Therefore, Aipai only needed to provide us with your concept products that are not sure market response to your concept products, and we will be responsible for helping you gauge market response at this technology exhibition.'

Speaking of here, Zhou Ming paused for a moment before continuing: 'I know that for a large company like Apple, in order to maintain the vitality of its products, there are definitely many research projects being carried out at the same time. But whether whether they can be turned into products that are finally launched on the market requires a lot of courage. After all, the market is unpredictable. In the unlikely event that a product receives a poor response in the market, then consumers will in turn blame Apple, Inc.! it is actually a thrilling gamble every time the company launches a new product.'

Zhou Ming rested his hands supporting the table, in a rather oppressive posture, he finally said, 'So now, why not let another company help you with this gamble?'

'If the product the product is well received, you can take advantage of the momentum to launch it; if, on the other hand, the product is poorly received, then the product is exhibited at Jackel, and this is just a collaborative exhibition, so it won't have any negative impact on you, will it?' Zhou Ming raised hands, one hand indicating good and the other bad, and said vividly and vividly to everyone:

Zhou Ming's words were pearls of wisdom that opened everyone's eyes. Indeed, as Zhou Ming said, there are many research projects in the company, but it takes a lot of courage to actually turn these research projects into products.

This is a difficult problem that every company has to face. The kind of thing where an idea can be turned into a product at random and end up being very popular with the market only exists in the world of fiction, and in reality is that no matter what product is launched, regardless of the final response, behind it there must have been a long period of research and the abandonment of many other options to arrive at the best relative solution.

This is especially This is especially obvious in large companies. Just like the personal computers released by Apple Inc., behind the models and configurations that successfully captured the market, there were at least a hundred that were abandoned. There are many other models, configurations, and software that Apple Inc. has not even released to the market yet because they believe they are not mature enough and are unsure of the market response.

Now, if they can be marketed through Jieke, won't this solve the problem? If it succeeds, it's theirs; if it fails, they can dump it on Jieke. What a win-win situation.

Faced with this obvious advantage, everyone seems a little tempted to go for it, but since they are only directors, they are not in a hurry to speak and are just waiting for the decision of the CEO John and the chairman of the board Paul.

In this situation , how could the chairman speak first?

Bauer looked at John, waiting for him to speak first, and John understood this as well. However, he was now torn. Judging from Zhou Ming's words, this was indeed a very worthwhile collaboration, and in fact many other companies are doing just that, but his intuition kept telling him that he absolutely must not do it.

As a qualified professional manager, John decided to find out more. He asked Zhou Ming, 'What is your goal? Why did you choose this form of cooperation?'

'In order to quickly expand expand our brand awareness quickly, we have to choose to cooperate with big companies. And you are worried about the market's response to the product because you focus on the brand, but we are completely different. Our brand is not comparable to Apple at all, isn't it?' said Ming Zhou.

John was silent for a long and said, 'So what about your budget? Even if it's just a concept product that's not released, it's also the result of Epay's research.'

Zhou Ming held up finger: 'As I said earlier, I'll give you 10 million, but you'll be responsible for not only all of Jieke's technical services at this exhibition, but also for any follow-up projects. Aipai will be responsible for the end result.'

'What about the patent rights ?' John asked again.

Zhou Ming smiled: 'I don't think there is any need to ask this question at all, because I don't think Aipai will sell any patents, and I don't have any intention of misappropriating Aipai's patents, even if they are patents you don't need. For this reason, we can sign a contract specifically to stipulate all the details in writing.'

After saying this, Zhou Ming stared John's eyes and finally asked, 'Does Mr. John have any questions now?'

John felt the tremendous pressure from Ming Zhou, took a deep breath, quickly analysed the situation in his mind, and then nodded to the chairman of the board next to him, Bauer.

Having received John's answer, Bauer stood up with a smile and said, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, I think we can start talking about the details of the cooperation between Apple and Jacko.'