Chapter 1104 The Great Game(1/2)
"Yale! Woo woo woo woo woo woo..."
Aunt Susie and Tony and the others came to pick them up. Song Ya took the King's Return of the King with a smile on her face and cried, "Okay, OK, Aunt, I'm about to part with you."
“Woooooooooooo…”
Aunt Susie hurriedly let him go and wiped his tears with her hand, "We all thought you couldn't wake up, Yali..."
"Hey!"
Tony smiled and stretched out his fist. Song Ya struggled to raise her hand and touched him gently.
The relatives tacitly did not mention what happened during the coma, including Connie who was whining. "The wind at the airport is too strong, and APLUS cannot be exposed to it for too long." But Sloan still didn't want to give her a chance to speak, and immediately said when he saw Connie's mouth open.
"Okay, then we... let's get in the car, Yali I'll help you... I'll do it."
Tony diligently squeezed out the caregiver to take care of his work, and worked with the silencer to easily carry him into the ambulance with a wheelchair.
Song Ya's black Mercedes-Benz convoy was huddled around, driving on the roads in Chicago more than five months ago, and nothing seemed to have been changed.
"Thank you, doctor."
When the wheelchair was locked in the car, Song Ya showed a more sincere smile and thanked the attending physician of the University of Chicago Medical Center. This was one of the real benefactors. While the patient was in a coma for four months, he still withstood the pressure of Goodman and others, and may have private temptations. He did not issue his own vegetative state certificate.
The doctors and professors in this type of top hospital have high income and social status, and their professional ethics are still very guaranteed. There is no reason not to continue using them when returning to Chicago.
"Shame, Princeton has cured you." The other party said sourly.
After four months of treatment here, I woke up in the month when I went to House. In terms of the appearance of the outside world...
In short, the University of Chicago Medical Center is in pain.
"Haha, they are just lucky. I will donate a lot of money to you." Song Ya happily promised.
The motorcycle paparazzi chasing all the way and the reporters waiting at the door were both disappointed. The ambulance kept stopping and drove into the Highland Park smoothly. The TV helicopter was hovering in the air far away from the wealthy area.
"APLUS!" Another great 'meanor', O'Grady of Northern Trust, was already in the hall, talking to Ballard, the president of 3DFX, and other director representatives. Seeing himself joking intimately, "What? Is it time to resume work??"
"What should I do?"
Song Ya smiled bitterly, but she didn't see the three liars who made him "live up".
Some white men and women in the villa gathered over, probably Xue Linfen's relatives, but now he has no energy and doesn't want to talk to these people. They meet Tony and Connie's enemies, and they look bad at each other but don't fight on the spot.
Song Ya gave Old Mike a look, and the old man properly invited these people to the swimming pool outside.
Including O'Grady, everyone looked at themselves with curiosity in their eyes, "Please wait, I'll come down right away."
After a few greetings, Tony and the silencer carried him to the second floor with the nurse. A nurse had already sorted out a room as a rehabilitation ward. He went in and looked at it and expressed satisfaction, so he asked Linda to push herself to the door of the master bedroom.
"Tony." Linda stared at her, drove Tony away, and then pushed Song Ya into the door.
"Sansa, see who is coming!"
When Xue Linfen, who was bedridden, she couldn't stop crying when she saw him. When his wheelchair arrived at the bedside, she raised her eldest daughter, who had been only a few days ago, with a sad and pleasing expression.
"It's very beautiful... as beautiful as you, oh oh." Song Ya didn't have the strength to hug her, looked at the wrinkled little baby and smiled and rubbed it with her nose, "Is it called Sansa? It's so cute."
"I'm sorry... I... I'm so big that I really don't have the energy to care about Goodman and the others..." Xue Linfen took the opportunity to explain pitifully.
"It's not your business..."
"Dad!" The nanny came in with Robb and Jon. Robb jumped onto his lap intimately, "Why are you losing weight!"
"Um."
Song Ya played with them for a while, "You have a good rest, Xuelin, I'll go down to have a meeting first."
"Do you have to work just after you come back?" Xue Linfen asked.
"Um."
It turned out that two plainclothes detectives from the Chicago Police Department had just been involved in the group of directors' representatives. After Song Ya went downstairs, "We need you to confirm and sign, Mr. APLUS."
After being shot and the riots, Chicago politicians were nervous about the turmoil here. The son of the Xuelinfen family, the aunt who was in charge of looking at the keys, stole a lot of things and wanted to get them out to pay back the money. They were stupid and unfamiliar with the place, so naturally they were quickly caught by the police who were staring at here.
"Okay. Sloan."
Song Ya glanced at the yellow Oscar Little Golden Man and other valuables in the transparent plastic bag, and asked Sloan to help him hold the pen, dragging his arms and signing the police documents crookedly.
O'Grady and other 3DFX people watched the scene sympathetically, "Why do we come back in a few days? APLUS." O'Grady spoke.
"Ah?" Song Ya's hand softened and she stroked the last stroke, "No, I'll be fine right away."
The two plainclothes didn't say anything, took out the things in the plastic bag, checked them one by one with Song Yahe's documents one by one and said goodbye and left. Doing this seemed a bit of a violation of police procedures, but the big guys should have taken care of, just a small problem.
"Ha! APLUS, we just moved the baseball game arcade to the basement. It's very fun, really!"
The three liars finally appeared heartlessly, chatting happily about how a large arcade is fun. They should have sent one for free, just like the previous few times.
It’s okay to be a human being. Song Ya didn’t answer them. “Let’s have a meeting in the hall. Sorry, I don’t have a big conference room.”
Dr. Chen and Mei have followed the 3DFX matter for a long time and have a deep understanding. Generally speaking, Goodman initially wanted to make private profits from the last round of financing before the IPO like the Ameriga Music website, but they refused. Because it was separated by Dr. Chen's A+ venture capital company, Goodman no longer had to worry about making any small moves.
3DFX was successfully listed a month ago, and its stock price fluctuated from 17.5 yuan per share at the close of the first day, until it was recently shorted by Wall Street to 7.7 yuan.
Other short selling points are basically mentally prepared before 3DFX went public. The main black swan incident was actually a lawsuit with Sega. Now Sega has publicly stated that the future game console will not use Voodoo graphics cards, so that future profit expectations will be much different. In addition, if a lawsuit that violates the confidentiality agreement in the prospectus is lost, 3DFX is likely to go bankrupt directly.
"Why do you reveal information related to Sega's confidentiality agreement in your prospectus?" Song Ya asked.
The entire board of directors looked at the CTO and Chief Technology Officer Scott, the founder trio. "Writing is good for the stock price. At that time, we thought Sega would not dare to do anything. They had no other GPU choice except Voodoo chips." He shrugged and replied.
Unfortunately, Sega had it. They secretly prepared a two-handed preparation called Horse Racing Operation. The code-named "Skunk" plan in the United States uses PowerPC 603e made by IBM and Motorola as the CPU, and the 3dfx Voodoo 2 customized version as the GPU. The local "Big Knife" plan uses CPU developed by Toshiba and GPU developed by NEC.
Sega's senior executives originally intended to develop parallel, and who would use the last plan? But unexpectedly, 3DFX broke the news in order to boost the stock price...
Sega was furious and simply rejected the 'skunk' plan completely.
This is the problem with the three scammers. They are not bad, and have good personalities and skills, but they just like to go wrong paths and are very brave. For example, when they first went to the computer exhibition, they pretended to be Sgi's graphics workstation as their own graphics card, which deceived themselves and also deceived the eyes of all insiders and outsiders present at the time.
"So now we have to save Sega to save the stock price?" Song Ya asked angrily.
"There is no need. Sega has cooperated with us to steal technical secrets and revealed the technical details of Voodoo2 to the project team of the Big Sword. We will soon launch a counterclaim against them. They will not win the lawsuit in the United States." said Rose of the trio.
Song Ya didn't know this section, but fortunately Ross added, "We just got conclusive evidence in these two days."
"Can you win 100%?" O'Grady asked.
"100%, the stock price will go up after the news of their money coming out." Ross was sure: "We will let those short sellers go home crying and look for their mothers."
"How much can we pay? We and Sega are both wrong, so there is a high probability of reconciliation?" Sloan asked.
"One or two hundred million? That's how lawyers predicted it." President Ballard replied.
"What's the use? Are you all afraid of Sega's orders? That's a game console that can compete with Sony's next generation PS." Song Ya asked other board members irritably.
"It's going to happen a few years later." The representative of the director of Carmack said: "Sega has a bad image in the minds of American consumers. Products such as 32X, Sega CD and Saturn are not successful, and they are still tortured channel merchants, which is inexplicable."
According to Dr. Chen's summary, John Carmack, who created games such as Thor's Hammer, does not like 3DFX to be half-hearted. His interests are supporting 3DFX to create the top 3D platform for the new game he created. He also likes to dig out the top talents of 3DFX.
Song Ya looked at the representatives of EA, who were Sega's strategic partners.
"Of course it's good to be able to work with Sega, but now...this is already happening."
EA Company undoubtedly wants to deepen its relationship with Sega, but they also have conflicts with Sega because the authorization fee cannot be reached. In order to share risks, Sega is also supporting his competitors, such as Visual Concepts, which also makes sports games.
"APLUS, which side are you from? Netscape? Microsoft?"
Ross suddenly smiled and interrupted: "Now everyone knows that you have been buying Microsoft stocks quietly, so you also support Sega. His next generation game host uses Microsoft's Windows CE customized version of the operating system. If you support Sega, Netscape will be unhappy."
"hehe……"
Song Ya was a little embarrassed by the look of others eating melons. The game was played, and the various companies and countries were constantly playing games. No one would completely hand over the back to others. But why did he always trust Goodman so much before? He was a little embarrassed, "Everyone will share the risks, don't I understand?"
The board of directors continued to be held, and Song Ya was not in a hurry to propose firing the trio. They were the founders, all had board seats, and had a good relationship with EA and Carmack. Dr. Chen believed that it would not be possible for this party to get enough votes.
Song Ya looked at the director representative of the second largest individual shareholder who had been deceived by the trio from the beginning and was now tortured to death. Now, among the people, the only ones who are still on the board of directors. The interests of both parties are absolutely the same, and even the other party is even more dissatisfied. They initiated the investigation of the accounts with other investors in the past.
There are also several director representatives of investment institutions, and of course these people don’t want to lose Sega’s big business.
"How about we fight for another Sega?" Song Ya asked.
"Look down? You are too young and may not feel APLUS in the 1980s. The books were very vicious when they were in a strong position. Don't look at them being much more obedient now..." said President Ballard.
"Is there a way? APLUS?" An investment institution director representative became interested.
"No! No! We will never bow our heads!"
Ross shouted, "We are the world's top 3D display chip company! The best! Let them use NEC's bad chips! Without our Voodoo2, they would definitely be fucked to death by Sony!"
When he mentioned Sony, Song Ya wanted to make friends with Sega even more...
"Is there a big business not to do it?" The director representative of the second largest individual shareholder quarreled with Ross.
The trio seemed to treat the book with a simple national pride. Perhaps the same is true for the book's plan, which insists on retaining its own chips. Their semiconductor industry has been ruined by the United States, but its spirit seems to be still there.
"Let's rest first, and continue to open tomorrow."
Song Ya soon felt tired, and no one else could do anything about it, so he had to say goodbye and come back tomorrow. When he woke up, he was still the chairman of the company.
"Netscape this time should really not be able to do it. Unless a miracle happens, you will win Microsoft's monopoly within one year, APLUS." After sending the person away, O'Grady came back to remind him, "Of course it's my personal opinion. You are more powerful in investment."
"Um."
How is it possible? I can easily delay my little Bahn case for a year if I want to.
To be continued...