Chapter 60 Yang Chaoye’s Surprise
On the morning of June 20th, London Heathrow Airport.
Today, Suzhou City personally came to the airport to greet an old man, Mr. Yang Chaoye, who had just resigned from IBM.
At 11:30 in the morning, a plane flying from New York to London slowly landed at Heathrow Airport.
At the exit of the station, among the many white and black passengers, an elderly Chinese couple stood out.
Su Cheng, along with Zhong Chuhong, Yu Xing and others, saw the old gentleman at a glance. The person next to him must be his wife.
Before coming over, Su Cheng had already had a preliminary understanding of some things about this old gentleman.
IBM is a well-known international company in the world. It is very simple to find the information of their former vice president.
Yang Chaoye, born in 1918, is from Fujian Province. He left Fujian Province at the age of 16 to join relatives in the beautiful country of San Francisco. He successfully graduated from Stanford University. After graduation, he went to New York State to work at IBM. After thirty years After years of hard work, he went from being a low-level salesperson to becoming the vice president of IBM's International Business Department, becoming the third most powerful person in IBM.
Served as Vice President of the International Business Department for 6 years and increased IBM's performance by more than 300%. It can be said that he is a rare contributor to IBM in recent years.
In the first four years of his tenure as vice president, Yang Chaoye did indeed work very aggressively, and IBM's president and board of directors were very supportive of him.
It was only in 1976 that everything changed after the new president J. Watson took office.
As the saying goes, a new official has three things to do when he takes office, and J. Watson is no exception. After he took office, he carried out reforms in many departments of IBM, and many senior executives were affected by this.
As the president of the International Business Department, Yang Chaoye believes that Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia will be very important emerging markets in the future and require greater investment. However, J. Watson believes that the European market has not yet been developed. Finished, there is no need to invest too much in Asia;
Yang Chaoye believes that the mobile phone business will become a very important part in the future, but J. Watson believes that IBM should focus on the computer field in order to remain in this field Maintaining a leading level and not willing to spend too much money on other areas.
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Yang Chaoye has a strong personality and is unwilling to compromise. He loudly called on IBM to change its development strategy on various occasions inside and outside the company. The end result was that the two IBM executives were increasingly divided.
Two years later, Yang Chaoye finally decided to resign and submitted a resignation letter. President J. Watson naturally signed it happily, while the board of directors reluctantly approved it.
Every director on the board of directors naturally sees Yang Chaoye’s ability, but as the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. IBM needs a leader with unified political views. Only one of them can be let go in order to achieve better results. Develop IBM well.
In this way, Yang Chaoye left the company he had worked for his whole life.
This is the information Su Cheng obtained.
When he saw this information, Su Cheng knew that if nothing unexpected happened, he seemed to have acquired an extraordinary talent.
Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong will all be very economically active places in the next few decades, and Southeast Asia, before the 1998 financial crisis, was also developing quite well economically.
As for the mobile business, its potential in the future is no worse than that of computers. Even in the era before Sioux City traveled over, computer hardware had gradually declined, while the mobile phone business had been on the rise.
This shows that Yang Chaoye’s unique insight is extraordinary.
When Yang Chaoye appeared, Su Cheng naturally recognized him at a glance.
After all, he had already seen Yang Chaoye’s photos.
"Mr. Yang, I finally look forward to your arrival. This must be your wife." Su Cheng stepped forward to greet him enthusiastically.
"You are Su Cheng, the boss of the Su Group, right? You are so young!" The moment he saw Su Cheng, Yang Chaoye was also a little surprised. Before this, although he had a certain understanding of the Su Group and had a deep impression of Su Cheng through Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu never mentioned Su Cheng's age.
Therefore, before meeting Su Cheng, he thought that Su Cheng was at least a middle-aged man. Unexpectedly, the boss was younger than his son...
"Mr. Yang, come with me, let's go first It's not convenient to talk here when we go to the company." Su Cheng said with a smile as he looked at the airport with people coming and going.
"Okay, I'm done." Yang Chaoye nodded and followed with his wife.
The ride from the airport to the Su Group Building was very smooth.
Now, the original signboard of the building has been removed and replaced with the Su Group's LOGO and name.
Su Cheng led everyone directly to the 21st floor.
This is not only his address in London, but also his office during his stay in the UK.
“I didn’t expect that the Su Group has such a property in the center of London. It seems that I underestimate the Su Group.” Yang Chaoye said in surprise.
This building, if calculated in Hong Kong dollars, is worth more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars, right?
However, according to the information he learned from Mr. Liu, the market value of the entire Su Group is only three to four billion Hong Kong dollars at most.
Moreover, Mr. Liu said that the Su Group also has a headquarters building in Xiangjiang. It is impossible that the main value of the Su Group is these two buildings, right?
"Actually, there are still many things that Mr. Yang doesn't know about our Su Group." At this time, Yu Xing smiled from the side.
"Mr. Yang, let me introduce to you. This is Yu Xing, the current head of the European branch of our Su Group." Su Cheng introduced to Yang Chaoye.
"Hello, Mr. Yu." Yang Chaozhu took the initiative to shake hands with him.
"Mr. Yang, let me briefly introduce you to our Su Group and our boss." After the two shook hands, Yu Xing said with a smile.
Naturally, Su Cheng himself cannot be the one to praise this thing.
"Then I'm all ears." Yang Chaoye sat on the sofa and said with a smile.
“The Su Group was actually inherited by our boss not long ago. More than a month ago, the strength of our Su Group was indeed average. However, after our boss inherited the Su Group, he increased his influence on the Su Group. The Group's investment, especially in Europe, originally we only had one office here, but after the boss came to Europe, he directly bought this building as the future office of the European branch
In addition, the boss also spent more than 50 million Hong Kong dollars to directly acquire five companies, including logistics, property, media, supermarkets, and real estate. This also laid a solid foundation for our European branch of Su Group.
And this is only a small part of our boss’s investment. Mr. Yang of Huifeng Bank must have also heard of it. He is a well-known financial brother in Hong Kong. And just this month, our boss just left Huifeng Bank. The bank took over Hutchison Whampoa, a listed company under their control, and became the major shareholder of Hutchison Whampoa, whose total market value is several billion Hong Kong dollars.”
When Yu Xing talked about his boss's deeds, he worked very hard and felt very honored. According to him, the boss was not short of money. If he could work under such a person, his future would definitely be bright.
As for Yang Chaoye, the more he listened, the more surprised he became. This young man seemed to be much more powerful than he imagined.
Just talking about Hutchison Whampoa, although he didn't understand it, a major shareholder with a market value of several billion must hold more than one billion shares. This kind of strength is quite powerful.
Although the Su Group is not very powerful now, under his management and with the boss's heavy investment, he believes that it will definitely be able to build the Su Group into an international company like IBM. Top companies.
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(End of this chapter)