RBCT Chapter 1427 Crazy
Chapter 1427 Crazy
Chapter 1427 Crazy
The conversation between Yike's head and BIS officials was recorded and leaked.
This caught Yi Ke and Fang Zhuo off guard.
It is understandable that the call was recorded, but if it was leaked at such a critical moment, it would inevitably cause an uproar, and...it is also difficult to say whether it was an accidental leak...
That night, Fang Zhuo received constant calls from home and abroad, all asking about emergencies and Yike's global business.
In the early hours of the morning, I still received various interview calls from abroad, but my phone finally ran out of battery.
Seeing that Fang Zhuo had no intention of charging or changing his phone, Su Wei joked, "It's all Mars 9's fault. If it weren't for the battery life upgrade, I would have turned off the phone and gone to sleep a long time ago."
"In one's lifetime..." Fang Zhuo shook his head and said with emotion, "Do you know what I was thinking just now? I was just thinking, in many days and nights, did the friendly companies I had dealings with also watch the stock price drop in the dead of night like this?"
Su Wei was surprised and said, "Sure, President Fang is going to change his ways?"
"I just thought that everyone who is out there in the world will inevitably encounter similar moments. You stab me and I stab you. It's all normal," Fang Zhuo said.
"I see. The big boss had no time to record audio, but now he is being recorded by someone else, right?" Su Wei said with a smile, "He deserves to be hit by the boomerang today."
Fang Zhuo snorted and said, "Do you know how George from BIS explained it to me?"
George is the other person named in the recorded call, and part of his job is to be in charge of temporary permits.
"He actually called you..." Su Wei felt a little strange, "How did he explain it?"
"He said he was using a Samsung phone and he swore not to disclose the recording to anyone. I don't know how the recording got out," said Fang Zhuo.
"I'm afraid they are worried that President Fang will get angry and blame him for this, so they may have already started notifying relatives and friends. He will definitely not have the idea of committing suicide." Su Wei said dimly, "Even if President Fang is not angry, there is no guarantee that the interests of other organizations will be seriously damaged."
This call recording was an unexpected shock. Yike's stock price on the Nasdaq has already plunged today, falling by a degree in more than three hours after the opening.
"He is a BIS official. Who would go after this?" Fang Zhuo said disapprovingly. "Everyone is willing to accept the loss. It's just that the short position data of Nasdaq has not been disclosed yet. I don't know if they are the ones who are causing trouble this time."
He had been suspecting for the past few hours that this was not an accident but a carefully planned event.
It's just that the world is sometimes full of makeshift teams. If it was leaked accidentally, it was leaked. The thing has already happened, and there is not much point in investigating how it happened.
"What should we do now?" Su Wei asked, "How about not attending the meeting tomorrow? We are at the center of the storm right now, and no matter what we say, it will be magnified."
"I'm not shy about expressing my personal stance," Fang Zhuo sighed, "but it's easy to be exaggerated. I have to take care of the US market if I can."
Whether it was calls with friends or with the shadow shareholders themselves, the conflicts at YiKe always erupted when the third temporary license ended, which was in 2016.
But the current emergency has made things more obvious. If Yi Ke is unwilling to give up its cooperation with Bingxin, it will really face restrictions.
Unlike Bingxin International, Yike is still a company with extensive influence and a market value of over 300 billion yuan. The losses at that time will undoubtedly be huge.
However, BIS will obviously not be lenient.
Will Yi Ke give in?
Yi Ke should back off.
But will Mr. Fang give in?
The uproar that has been caused at this time has focused on this issue. The exposure of the private call recording seems to be different from the attitude expressed by Yike officials.
Yike has always been about actively solving problems.
Mr. Fang now...is he proactive?
He seems to be actively fucking others.
This kind of positivity is not what Yi Ke needs...
Almost within ten minutes of the New York Times exposing the recording, many major media outlets began to analyze it and even called out to Yi Ke and Mr. Fang.
——"YiKe has reached a very dangerous moment, which is caused by its unscientific management structure. If a company is in the hands of a madman, no matter how great the company was in the past, it will eventually fall to the bottom."
——"Fang Zhuo is crazy!"
——"Fang Zhuo is really crazy!!"
——"Is Yike ready to lose the world market?!"
——"Mars 9 will be Yi Ke's swan song!"
——"Yi Ke lost his charm because of Fang Zhuo!"
It seemed like with just one word "Fuck u", the best president in the world made the most unfortunate decision. Some media even openly called on the Yi Ke board of directors to fire Yi Ke's president, just like Apple once expelled Steve Jobs.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the leak of the recordings, then explored BIS's position on Yike, and finally actually explored the possibility of Yike expelling its founder.
The first thing that needs to be ruled out is the effect of the board of directors, because it is firmly controlled by the founder, and it seems that only the American president Schroeder has a certain tendency.
So, is it possible for Yike’s shareholders to undertake this operation?
Fang Zhuo has been reducing his holdings at a relatively regular pace over the past two years. He currently still holds 27.6% of Yike's shares, plus some Chinese-funded institutions, and... it is not ruled out that Yike's head secretly holds shares...
Even if the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders is successfully held, what impact will Fang Zhuo's prestige, who founded Yike and led it to become the world's best mobile phone brand, have on the shareholders who are able to attend the meeting?
To take a step back, for a company as developed as Yike, even if it managed to use the extraordinary shareholders' meeting to expel Fang Zhuo, the management team that was deeply influenced by him would not make the situation better.
Taking a step back, if the conflict between Yike and BIS is truly irreversible, is it better to protect the interests of shareholders if Fang Zhuo remains in office or someone else is appointed?
The Wall Street Journal had to come to the conclusion that since the shareholders have enjoyed the glory that Fang Zhuo has led the company to achieve so far, they probably have to bear the losses brought about by his madness.
Moreover, even if he wanted to, he had to bear it considering his control over the company.
The recording of the call was leaked for twelve hours. From day to night and from night to day, all kinds of media reports were flying around the world. Some people even gave this incident a name, calling it the "Fang Zhuo Recording Gate Incident."
When Fang Zhuo woke up the next day, he found that he had an extra door incident. Before he had time to process the strangeness in his heart, he received a call from his brother Zheng Danrui, who was now in charge of business affairs.
"Mr. Fang, I thought you were busy yesterday, so I didn't ask. Is it true that Yike can't reach a temporary cooperation with UMC and Intel now?" Zheng Danrui asked a question.
"Brother Zheng, I no longer have the initiative in this matter. Now even the phone call has been recorded and exposed. Yi Ke and I are in a more passive position." Fang Zhuo replied, "Yi Ke has always been willing to add suppliers and has been in talks, but nothing has been agreed. There are more additional influences here."
Zheng Danrui pondered and said, "Yi Ke's global business is very rare."
Even he felt it was a pity.
"Brother Zheng, my understanding is that since BIS has issued a temporary license, since Yi Ke has always been unable to reach a cooperation for various reasons, and since Yi Ke is naturally on the same side as Bing Xin, they will not stop the pace of weakening Yi Ke." Fang Zhuo said, "If they stop, it can only mean that they have made such a decision out of necessity."
He continued: "I would like Yike to continue to gain nutrition from the global market more than anyone else, but now it is probably time to hit them head-on."
"This is a challenge that Yike needs to face, but I still say that this is also a rare development period for the domestic semiconductor industry."
Zheng Danrui understood Mr. Fang's determination and sighed, "It's a pity."
"Once all the problems, big and small, are solved, Yi Ke will come back. Besides, Yi Ke is not in too bad a state now." Fang Zhuo maintained his confidence.
After finishing the phone call with Zheng Danrui, all subsequent calls were basically handled by the secretary.
Fang Zhuo still attended the Internet industry conference.
Just as he was on his way to the venue, a little-noticed piece of news spread in the domestic semiconductor industry that SMIC's 20nm had entered the stage of large-scale mass production and was ready for commercial use.
News about Yike and Bingxin has been all over the news recently, especially last year when Mars 8.8 achieved the world's first place with its 16nm process, and public opinion has frequently discussed the most advanced technology.
But in fact, SMIC's 20nm is also very advanced in the global market.
TAIC and Samsung started mass production of 16nm this year, and UMC and GlobalFoundries are close to mass production of this node. They are barely in the front line, and SMIC's current mass production of 20nm is only one generation behind them.
This generation gap would have been worth celebrating in the past, but because Bingxin is at the forefront of the first-line and is still half a generation ahead, SMIC appears to be doing pretty well.
But the domestic semiconductor industry knows the value of SMIC's news, but it is inevitable that they are a little skeptical...
It is said, it is said, that someone from SMIC was walking in the factory and suddenly picked up a 20nm process manual.
It is said that, it is said that the FinFET process specification was also picked up along with the 20nm process specification.
But no matter what, SMIC's progress seems to be somewhat encouraging at this moment.
The car arrived at Yike Center.
Secretary Liu Zonghong, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw the reporters surrounding him outside and said hesitantly, "Boss Fang, how about we not attend today?"
Even though he was used to big scenes, he was still shocked by the media attention today.
"It's okay. Once everyone reports it, the heat will die down. I've thought about it again and again and it's nothing." Fang Zhuo was very calm.
The car slowly slowed down, greeting the flashing lights and the reporters surrounding it.
What arrived today was not a single car, but a convoy, and security personnel got off the cars to maintain order.
Fang Zhuo calmly got out of the car and heard a sudden burst of noisy questions.
He turned a deaf ear to them and walked inside through the space squeezed out by the security personnel.
"Mr. Fang, Mr. Fang, Intel's new CEO is on his way to Shanghai. May I ask, will you reach a new cooperation?" The latest news was actually received while the reporter was asking the question.
Fang Zhuo was a little surprised, but still answered: "Yi Ke is actively solving the problem. We welcome all cooperation that is beneficial to each other."
He didn't know what Intel's new CEO was here for, but he probably came to get some free stuff.
When the reporters heard Mr. Fang speak, they asked more questions.
"Mr. Fang, what do you think of the restrictions of BIS? Are you saying Fuck as the head of Yike or Bingxin?"
Fang Zhuo was amused by such a question. He glanced at the direction of the question, not knowing who asked it, and casually quoted the media's words and answered: "As the craziest CEO in the world."
He quickened his pace to break free from the blockade.
When Mr. Fang was about to enter the venue, a reporter asked a question so loud that his voice broke: "Mr. Fang, will Yi Ke surrender?"
Fang Zhuo turned around but did not answer, only gave an expression and a look.
His expression was stern and his eyes were disdainful.
As for how the media will interpret it, I’ll just write it casually for now.
As the head of Yike entered the venue, the media who had arrived temporarily and were unable to enter instantly recovered from the noise, and many colleagues circulated photos taken from different angles to each other.
In particular, Mr. Fang’s final look back almost locked the picture to be used in today’s report.
"Hey, what will happen to Yi Ke?" A reporter also felt that Yi Ke's future was difficult to guess.
"I don't know." The reporter next to him admired today's photo and said, "But Mr. Fang is really crazy... Crazy and graceful! So crazy!"
(End of this chapter)