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   Chapter 188 Standing and earning money

  Among the giant companies in America, those who can turn the tide and make the giant companies in decline rejuvenate, without exception, have left their names in the rivers and lakes.

Not to mention Joe Tus in Wang An Company, and the most famous one is Jack Welch who saved IBM from the fire and brought the century-old General Electric company to the top again. One of America's most famous bigwigs!

   And after that, perhaps only Bob Iger, who led Mickey Mouse's old club Disney, stood up again from the shaky state, could be compared with Joetus, Gerstner, Jack Welch and others.

   There was thunder on the ground, and some people were silent and inconspicuous, seemingly ordinary, but after a few years, or until they left, when they looked back, they would find his sturdy record.

When the Hollywood collective fell into decline, there was only one company that shined brightly and carried the glory of Hollywood, and that was undoubtedly Disney, which allowed Disney to crush its nemesis DreamWorks, acquired Marvel, and allowed Disney to own a super-printer. The banknote machine, and the one who won the Fox Group at a price of nearly 100 billion US dollars, is Bob Iger.

  Song Yang did not expect that Martin Solo would recommend Iger to Song Yang. If nothing else, Martin's tricks were really vicious.

   Looking at Iger's information and photos, Song Yang did not hesitate to call the headhunting company, "I want to meet Bob Iger as soon as possible!"

   Put down the phone, Song Yang hesitated for a while, but still called the new assistant outside.

  America Telecom's personnel, except for those who had worked on the construction site, a large number of the rest were new recruits.

   "You go to KKR Group and invite President Kravis to come here!" Song Yang explained to the little assistant.

After    he was busy, Song Yang glanced at the time, Song Yang had another important thing to do today.

   called Wolfe, who was standing outside, Song Yang called Wolff and rushed towards Murray Hill in New Jersey together.

   In some places, they are famous for their local landscapes. The so-called mountains are spirits. In some places, they are famous for their local people or things. Murray Mountain is the latter.

If you ask where is the holy land of the scientific research industry in the next few decades, it is estimated that the answer you will hear, without exception, will be Murray Hill, because there are some of the top laboratories in the world, which can meet almost everything that the experimenter can imagine. Bell Labs!

However, since the split of the Telephone and Telegraph Group in 1984, Bell Labs was also split. At the peak, tens of thousands of top experimenters were conducting various experiments on Murray Hill. Now only less than the original ones have been split. one fifth.

After a long road and woods, when I came to Murray Hill, I saw the large-scale laboratory group of Bell Labs from a distance. As a place that once accommodated tens of thousands of scientific researchers, there are now a few points here. signs of decay.

Hearing Song Yang's arrival, Stanzern, the current president of Bell Labs, had a stern face when he brought people to see Song Yang, and he almost wrote the words "No strangers" on his face. There was also a feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away, so he almost said a few words to Song Yang directly.

Bell Labs, which has been split up several times, has been thrown around like a burden. Last year, it was even more outrageous. After the separation of the Telephone and Telegraph Group from Lucent, there was a direct reorganization of Bell Labs. Turn Bell Labs into a company.

Although both the Telephone and Telegraph Group and the Lucent Group have announced that they will continue to invest money in Bell Labs, they can be reorganized into Bell Labs as a company. In theory, they have separated from the Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent. It's just to provide research and development. One day the two companies don't want Bell Labs, they can just kick Bell Labs away and let it take care of its own profits and losses...

After going through all this, he also carried Stanzern, who may be the last president of Bell Labs. It would be **** if he had a good face. He really didn't want to take the blame. Why did the seven previous Bell Labs bosses all The scenery is infinite, and it is his turn, but Bell Labs is about to close down.

The most outrageous thing is that a few days ago, there was a real estate developer in New Jersey who came over to discuss with Bell Labs, wanting to buy the Bell Labs land and develop it into a business district and residential area, thinking that New Jersey is now There are more and more rich people, and there is a surge in demand for high-end residences and villas. The location of Murray Hill, where Bell Labs is located, is too good, so I want to buy it and build a building.

  Stanzern was so angry that he almost didn't break the opponent's leg, and sprayed the opponent out of the laboratory all the way.

   But in fact, Steinzern knew very well that this real estate developer was sent by the Telegraph Group and the Lucent Group to test the laboratory.

At present, Bell Labs has a sharp decrease in personnel. It is too expensive to maintain such a huge R&D organization. If you change to a cheaper place, the land of Bell Labs headquarters can still be sold for money. Why not do it, but Steinzern How dare he play like this, really, his lifetime reputation in the scientific research industry is basically gone.

However, no matter whether Stanzern is willing to do it or not, there is a problem in front of him, which is to attract investors for Bell Labs. Bell Labs burns at least more than one billion dollars in funds every year. At its peak, After burning four billion dollars a year, life is much more difficult than before. Both the Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent Group are reluctant to spend too much money on Bell Labs for the sake of stock prices.

When he saw Song Yang, he didn't even look good, especially the news from the Telephone and Telegraph Group made Stanzern even more cold-faced towards Song Yang. He thought that Song Yang also wanted to get another job from Bell Labs. Take something out.

Song Yang doesn't care about Stanzern's attitude. Those who are engaged in scientific research, especially those who have no temper, are the president of Bell Labs. Award, Steinzern is also a big bull.

   followed Song Yang to Ulf, showing a curious expression for the first time, looking at the place where the smartest people in the world gather.

Song Yang was behind Statzern, looking at Bell Labs. There was no sci-fi advanced stuff like in the movie, and the entire Bell Labs was a little outdated. After all, it had been more than half a century since it was built. Heck.

   What caught Song Yang's attention the most was the long corridor in the laboratory. There were many laboratories and offices on both sides of the corridor. Song Yang saw the names on the doors of these laboratories.

   Rumor has it that when the lab was designed to get people, it was done in the hope that the people at Bell Labs could communicate at any time. It's hard to say how effective it will be, but Bell Labs does have a set of skills for cultivating people.

  Song Yang followed Stanzern to an office marked with his name. Although he had a stern face, after entering the office, Stanzern asked Song Yang, "Water or coffee?"

"water!"

   "Mr. Stratzern... Doctor."

   Song Yang, who was originally going to be called Stanzern, changed his mouth after seeing the doctor's certificate hanging in the middle of a large number of honorary certificates hanging on the wall of Stanzern's office.

Hearing this sentence, the stern-faced Stanzern always calmed down a bit. If Stanzern wanted to be a president or something like that, why would he come to such a place? Some companies are willing to ask him to be the chief technology officer. Even the energy department of America invited Statzern to come out and ask him to lead the research and development of a certain energy physics project, but he was rejected by Statzern.

   "Dr. Stratzern, I think the Telephone and Telegraph Group should have told you this, and I want to cooperate with Bell Labs!"

   said, Song Yang took out a check and pushed it in front of Stanzern. In Stanzern's surprised eyes, Song Yang said, "This is me, and I have to donate to Bell Labs."

"I have always liked technology very much. It's a pity that I didn't get into the technology industry. But I have the greatest respect for Bell Labs and the people from other laboratories. They changed the times!" Song Yang said. Said with a calf.

  The people who do scientific research are basically straight, and they don't have as many twists and turns as Wall Street. Hearing Song Yang's "heartfelt words", Steinzern's face finally calmed down completely.

   "Song, what do you want from Bell Labs?" Anyway, Stratzern who came to Bell Labs had never seen a single one who came back empty-handed, so he wanted to evacuate Bell Labs.

Song Yang shook his head and corrected Stanzern's erroneous statement, "Dr. Stanzern, I heard what happened to Bell Labs, and I really want American Telecom, ICQ and other companies in my hands, to communicate with Bell. Lab collaboration, but that's never what I want."

"I hope that one day, companies such as American Telecom, ICQ, etc., can provide sufficient experimental funds for Bell Labs, and there is no need to cut off one R&D project after another because of insufficient funds, so that Bell Labs will grow from a great laboratory.

   No longer let Bell Labs become an ordinary R&D department for a company to earn profits. Just because a company needs to make a profit, let Bell Labs develop electronic products and technologies for it. That is not the real Bell Labs! "

Listening to Song Yang's righteous remarks and his heart-wrenching words for Bell Labs, Steinzern's mouth twitched a few times, but he was speechless. What Song Yang said was the current situation of Bell Labs. .

In order to bring more profits to the Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent Group, they had to develop some products that Bell Labs was not willing to develop at all. Even Bell Labs' most proud physics laboratory is now on the verge of disbanding, because The investment is too large, and there is no return, and the Telephone and Telegraph Group has long been unwilling to support it.

  Song Yang looked at Stanzern who was in deep thought and a bit of sadness, and also felt that he had gone too far and led Stanzern into a ditch.

  What is the highest level of cutting leeks, you have to cut the leeks, and the leeks have to be grateful to the people who cut the leeks!

   (end of this chapter)