The two Wall Street Journal reports seemed like a sign.
Some people are optimistic about Yike's future, while others are pessimistic about its performance.
It's just that it seems a bit strange for such opposing views to appear in a media for such a short period of time.
The world's second-best CEO, who was touted by domestic media as the man who built a Fortune 500 company in eight years, did not accept an interview invitation. Even Sina Finance, which used to often get new news, failed to get any news.
This made the media somewhat regretful, but the praise became more intense.
Just last year, in 2008, Lenovo Group was selected into the Fortune Global 500 with revenue of US$16.8 billion in 2007. However, it was unable to make the list this year after encountering the financial crisis.
Domestic public opinion has always been particularly fond of the title "Fortune 500".
In fact, not only the media, but also people from the administrative and business circles called to congratulate. They expressed great importance and envy to Yike's achievements.
At first, Fang Zhuo would explain that "there is still a gap between him and the top 500 companies in the world", but he soon realized that this was just a waste of time, so he simply accepted the congratulations.
In addition to the popularity of honors, another key data revealed in Yike's financial report has also been repeatedly mentioned in media reports.
Hundreds of billions in revenue!
According to the real-time exchange rate, Yike’s US$14.858 billion is equivalent to 102.52 billion Chinese dollars, which has just crossed a big threshold.
Sina Finance quickly worked overtime to compile data and rank the top 100 domestic private enterprises.
The first place is Jiangsu Shagang Group's 145.2 billion.
The second place is Legend Holdings with 114.56 billion.
The third place is Yike Company’s 102.52 billion.
Sina Finance wrote enthusiastically - "Private enterprises under the international financial crisis have shown strong resilience and still maintain a high level of growth in terms of scale indicators and social contribution. This is especially the case with Yike Company.
represent."
Some media also narrowed the scope and gave examples to illustrate what level Yike's revenue of 100 billion is.
Taobao, a representative e-commerce company, had a transaction volume of over 100 billion in 2008, but it was not profitable.
Penguin, a representative company in instant messaging, has revenue of 7.2 billion and net profit of 2.8 billion.
Baidu, a representative company of search engines, has revenue of 3.2 billion and net profit of 1 billion.
Such a comparison, together with the "Top Ten CEOs in the World" selected by the still warm external media, Yike's achievements in the past year with its two flagship smartphones are simply too dazzling.
Some media directly dubbed Mr. Fang "the number one business person in China" and humbly added the word "Mainland". Most of them reviewed Mr. Fang's past business achievements. Even CCTV's financial channel also took advantage of this trend.
Edited and replayed clips of entrepreneurial programs that Mr. Fang participated in.
I thought that going from contestant to judge to the richest man in Mainland China was enough of a legend. Unexpectedly, the legend continues, inspiring countless entrepreneurs even more.
"Mr. Fang, you are going to become a god."
Su Wei's mood became particularly happy these days due to the public opinion situation. She took the time to go upstairs and sighed when she saw Fang Zhuo flipping through documents.
"Is it still too cold to climb up and see the distance?" Fang Zhuo carefully put away the compiled foreign media reports, raised his head and smiled.
Su Wei walked closer and looked at the documents on her desk, and found that they were increasingly negative reports from abroad, and asked: "Is it really instigated by short-selling institutions?"
Fang Zhuo shrugged: "Absolutely. There are also people who are not optimistic about the strength of Yike's patents. Mr. Kong said before that there may be movement, which proves it. Moreover, from a certain perspective, it makes sense.
It lays out the worst-case scenario."
Su Wei knew that the worst-case scenario would be to repeat LG's mistakes.
She thought about it carefully and said: "I have heard rumors in the past two days that someone from Penguin lamented that it was too stressful to have a competitor with a revenue of 100 billion, but fortunately, Yike is engaged in the global market.
It would be terrible if we only rely on the domestic market to achieve revenue of 100 billion."
"If Yi Ke is really banned in the United States, the worst thing to do is focus on the domestic market and see if we can achieve results that would scare our friends and businessmen."
Fang Zhuo said with a smile: "Yike's flagship model has already achieved a lot of excitement in the domestic market. It cannot always be misplaced and sink. The follow-up depends on the situation of YMS. It is difficult for Yike alone to be too scary. With YMS
Gathering a few companies with entry-level models can probably put some pressure together."
He added: "Of course the future of the domestic market is huge, but since Yike is already in the global market, it would be a pity to shrink back."
Since the release of Mars, its terminal market performance has successfully driven upstream Qualcomm, Ice Core and related links in the industry chain.
For Bingxin, maintaining an average capacity utilization rate of 80% during the financial crisis is quite outstanding. Compared with the same industry, this is also extremely difficult.
"Penguin likes to cross borders, and Yike's YMS is also going to cross borders. I think they are already mentally prepared, but they just don't know where to attack. Maybe they think the development of Weibo is fatal," Su Wei said.
The mentality of friends and businessmen.
Weibo is fully and actively embracing the development of the mobile Internet and has initially achieved results.
This is considered a threat by penguins.
After all, Penguin’s instant messaging also takes up social time. Although Weibo is not a PC software as Fang Zhuo once said, the APP on smartphones also has some new styles.
What’s the next step for Weibo? Will there be more targeted communications?
This is where the penguins worry and watch.
"Yike is ultimately a hardware company, and YMS may be able to inject more software ecological genes." Fang Zhuo thought, "Penguin's traffic foundation is still very solid. If we really want to develop in this track, we must complete our efforts in one battle."
Su Wei felt the murderous aura beneath the calm.
She suddenly added fuel to the fire: "In the past few days, I have seen sporadic reports mentioning Yike's patent dilemma. Guess where they appear invariably?"
Fang Zhuo didn't need to guess, he just sighed: "This is how relationships get worse and worse."
Although the domestic media selectively ignores external reports, foreign reports are also very professional and straightforward. The patent dispute between Yiko and Nokia is a battle that will determine whether the former can stand in the ranks of international brands.
If it is really banned from selling, Yike will be devastated, and the global market will be like a dream.
Just when Fang Zhuo wanted to continue chatting about the relationship with friends and businessmen, the president's landline and mobile phone rang almost at the same time.
Fang Zhuo threw the phone to Xiao Su, picked up the landline himself, and heard the news that Apple released its 2008 financial report today.
Su Wei on the other side also quickly hung up the phone and said with a strange look on her face: "You must not have guessed that this is the latest situation from a Taiwan reporter."
Fang Zhuo was surprised. The old guy had a second life? Why so fast?
Su Wei said: "Zhang Zhongtou of the Taiwan Journal replaced the new CEO and came back to take charge of the Taiwan Journal. He also released an industry white paper predicting the recovery of global semiconductors this year. In it, he praised Bingxin and believed that it would become an important
competitors."
Fang Zhuo frowned, this was written for Americans, Lao Zhang wanted to give him a heart-breaking blow as soon as he came back.
