Chapter 81 The Last Steel
August is about to enter, and the weather in Pingyang has become a bit hot. The branches outside the Tangling High-tech Office Building are blown by the breeze from nowhere. swayed slightly.
Wearing a women's suit, Yao Luoying accentuated her body curves. Her hair scattered in front of her eyebrows was slightly blown by the wind outside from time to time.
When Yao Luoying saw the amount of money Li Dongling had invested in the Zhixing Foundation, she couldn’t help but look at Li Dongling in surprise. It said that Li Dongling would invest a total of two million US dollars in this foundation. funds!
“This money will not be invested in one go, but will be invested in four to five years!”
Li Dongling looked at Yao Luoying, "It is better to teach someone to fish than to be taught to fish!"
Getting up and opening the window a little wider, Li Dongling said in Yao Luoying's puzzled eyes, "To the Zhixing Foundation For the two million U.S. dollars invested, the annual bonuses to the Qilin Prize and the He Zun Prize will not exceed 3 million yuan, and the remaining funds will be used for investment.”
“Want! For an award to have enough authority, it needs to run continuously for ten years, which requires a steady flow of capital investment from a foundation!
To make a foundation run for a long time, Just like the Nobel Foundation, which has been running for decades or hundreds of years, it is impossible to rely solely on donations. Sooner or later, when the oil is exhausted, it is a weakness of human nature to place hope on others. It is also a fatal flaw of a foundation. .
I hope that Zhixing Foundation can survive no longer relying on Tanglin Hi-Tech! ”
Li Dongling said with a smile, while Yao Luoying looked at the yellow light of the setting sun falling on Li Dongling as she stood by the window, making her slightly absent-minded. She could hear that there seemed to be something special in Li Dongling's words.
The establishment of Tanglin Hi-tech’s Zhixing Foundation and the implementation of the Kirin Award and the Ho Zun Award are indeed to attract talents to Tanglin Hi-tech and increase Tanglin Hi-tech’s influence in the scientific research industry, but if we can give this Times, if you leave something behind, that would be the best. After all, you always have to leave something behind in your lifetime.
The US$2 million Li Dongling invested in Dongling Hi-Tech was mainly used for investment, including investments in Nasdaq’s high-dividend technology companies, real estate and other industries. In the future, he will hire professional managers to invest in it. to manage.
If everything goes well, then the Zhixing Foundation, even if it leaves Tanglin Hi-Tech, can survive by relying on stock dividends, bonds, rent from office buildings, etc., and may even survive better than some listed companies. It's good and will run for many years!
Of course, at that time, as the founding family of the Zhixing Foundation, the future Li family will also be able to obtain direct or indirect connections and resources through the Zhixing Foundation.
For example, the cooperative relationship between Zhixing Foundation and major universities, as well as the geniuses who have received the Qilin Prize and the big names who have won the He Zun Award, do not expect them to all remember the help that the Zhixing Foundation has provided to them. We don't expect them all to repay the Li family, but as long as there are some people who remember it and can help the Li family at critical moments, it will be too much for the Li family!
When the weather gets hotter, the sales of electronic pet machines around the world are becoming more and more booming.
After testing the water in three major cities in China, the electronic pet machine officially began to be sold in major cities in the country. On the first day of official sales, the electronic pet machine sold a record of 620,000 units in the domestic market. The astonishing sales volume exceeded 40 million, causing many domestic media to exclaim, where is the limit of the electronic pet machine?
How can it be so popular among young people when it is obviously such a "mundane" thing.
Of course, with the popularity of electronic pet machines in China, various criticisms have begun to appear, mainly focusing on the negative effects of playing with toys, affecting learning, etc.
But before these criticisms could form public opinion, news came from overseas again, which dampened public opinion even before it started. Sales of electronic pet machines in Japan officially exceeded 7 million, with sales exceeding 100 million US dollars!
The current domestic public opinion environment is an era when the moon abroad is rounder than the moon at home. Japan is a developed country, touted by countless media and envied by many people.
But now, the electronic pet machine is going crazy in the Japanese market. In a few months, it has achieved sales of 100 million US dollars. Now there is a lot of public opinion, and Japan and Japan are promoting the need to learn from foreign countries. This is also included, which makes the media that originally wanted to criticize the electronic pet machine unable to do so at this time.
Not only in Japan, but also in America and Europe, there are constant reports that electronic pet machines have been sold out. Especially in America, the popularity of electronic pet machines has grown from young people to Among students, it has become a trendy toy. A group of rappers such as Snoop Dogg and Hollywood stars hang electronic pet machines around their necks together with large gold necklaces in public. Occasionally declare yourself a loyal fan of this thing!
What goes well up comes down to what goes down. When America’s fashion stars all express their opinions in this way, the electronic pet machine has almost reached the point of being hyped in America.
Especially after Tanglin High-tech and Bandai jointly launched a collector's edition electronic pet machine, the price of a collector's edition machine in New York was as high as a thousand dollars.
I spent such a big price to buy it, and I thought with my toes that it must be some celebrities or stars for collection, but it does not prevent a bunch of scalpers from taking advantage of the opportunity to speculate, and the media follows the trend and is curious. According to reports, the electronic pet machine has been completely hyped in America, and the shortage is worse than that of Japanese benzene. "It has become, along with AKs and contraband, the most hyped product on the black market in the Europa Peninsula!"
The Times of England also reported on electronic pets in its pages The madness caused by the machine in Europe, where the electronic pet machine has become a complete hype.
When a product becomes a hype product, its product attributes have undergone fundamental changes. Whether users really like it or why it is popular is no longer important. Anyway, Everyone wants it and is proud to get it. In this fanatical atmosphere, electronic pet machines are even more popular abroad than in China, and they are much more fanatical!
Regarding this phenomenon, Li Dongling and Dongling Hi-Tech have also noticed that such a fanatical atmosphere for electronic pet machines overseas is definitely abnormal. There must be many people speculating and stocking up, hoping to sell them at high prices.
But what Tanglin Hi-Tech can do is to keep producing at full capacity and constantly launching new products. As for the scalpers and speculators who are hoarding goods, will they get away with it and lose the machine? , that’s not what Dongling Hi-Tech can care about.
“Based on the current overseas sales trend of electronic pet machines, it is estimated that the sales volume of electronic pet machines abroad this year will be between 15 million and 18 million, and the total sales are expected to... exceed Two hundred million U.S. dollars!"
In the conference room of Tangling High-tech, Zhang Ao said to Li Dongling and a group of Dongling High-tech executives.
Hu Xian, Yao Luoying, Gao Peng, Chen Tao, Li Dongshan and others all applauded. Especially Hu Xian, who was in charge of finance, was all smiles.
This year is also a year of ups and downs for Hu Xian. Before the first half of the year, Hu Xian was still worried about whether Tanglin Hi-Tech could survive. In the second half of the year, he would have to worry about the tax issues of Tanglin Hi-Tech's huge overseas revenue. .
As overseas sales returns are gradually received, Tanglin Hi-Tech's account funds have begun to become abundant. Now electronic pet machines are hot-selling, whether they are agents or dealers at home and abroad, in order to When I get more machines, I don’t dare to press the payment at will, and the payment is timely. This makes Tanglin Hi-Tech’s cash flow quite abundant!
"As for domestic sales, it is estimated to be more than 6 million. The main issue is the selling price. The selling price of 68 yuan is still a bit high compared to domestic income!" Zhang Ao said.
The monthly salary income of most people in China is only more than 200 yuan. It may be higher in Yanjing, Shanghai and other places. Now the sales of electronic pet machines are mainly concentrated in cities and above, and counties are still Sales in urban areas are not ideal. Families in these areas still have to think carefully about spending dozens of yuan to buy an electronic pet machine.
But even so, the country is really too big, and there are still many users who are willing to buy electronic pet machines. Just like cars with starting prices of hundreds of thousands each, they can be sold in China in a year. There are more than one million cars, so it is not difficult to sell millions of electronic pet machines in China.
After Zhang Ao, Yao Luoying, Hu Huxian, Gao Peng and others also reported to Li Dongling one after another, most of them related to the electronic pet machine business.
“The electronic pet machine research and development project team must continue to upgrade its products. In addition, Tanglin Hi-Tech cannot bet everything on the electronic pet machine project. By next year, it must be prepared to lose it at any time. Prepare!"
Li Dongling reminded the executives of Dongling Hi-Tech. After hearing his words, Yao Luoying, Hu Xian, Zhang Ao and others all looked at him in surprise.
“Everything should be done just in case!”
Li Dongling said with a smile that the electronic pet machine will last for one or two years at most, and will it still be sold even this time next year? , I’m afraid it’s all unknown.
People will get tired of it, and the enthusiasm that suddenly starts for something will suddenly disappear one day. If Tanglin High-Tech puts all its hopes on it and produces machines regardless of all costs, one day it will suddenly become unsaleable. , then Tanglin Hi-Tech will probably have to spit out all the money it made before, and may even gain a lot from it.
Just like the companies and scalpers that produced and hoarded pagers in previous lives, they were mercilessly shot to death on the beach overnight, without giving them any time to react.
So by next year at most, no matter how the market is, Tanglin Hi-Tech will start the project of reducing the production of electronic pet machines. The last one is steel, the risk is really too great!
(End of this chapter)