"Donny, I have something to say upfront. The pay may be lower than you think. Do you accept it?"
"I'm OK."
"If we choose you, we will tailor a contract. Most of your time will be spent on martial arts, skydiving, and fitness. A bunch of superheroes should do it. There are also additional terms, such as regular drug testing. You can
do you accept?"
"No problem, I've quit smoking successfully!"
"The last question is, "Iron Man" is a series masterpiece, and you have to sign contracts for multiple series of movies, some of which are starring roles, and some of which are guest appearances. They may appear 5, 10, or even 15 times. Can you accept it?"
"..."
Robert Downey Jr.'s dialogue was played back on the camera recording the audition. Lu Fei, Ivanka and others stared at him. In the picture, he was afraid of losing the opportunity because of his slightest hesitation, and said firmly:
"I have no problem at all. I have always been a die-hard fan of Iron Man. I will act in it as many times as you produce it!"
"Okay, you're right."
Ivanka knocked on the table, "No one will accept such a harsh contract except him, maybe he is the only one."
"Only a drowning person would desperately try to hold on to a straw."
Lu Fei crossed his arms with a smile on his face.
I saw Robert Downey Jr.'s whole body shaking, and he was so excited that he couldn't speak coherently. He almost knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "Downey spent half his life, only regretting that he never met the Lord." He choked with sobs and vowed:
"My wife Susan gave me a new lease of life, and I promise you will soon find out that I am no longer the Donnie I used to be!"
"Come on, Downey, I hope "Iron Man" can give your career a new lease of life..."
Seeing Mr. Lu's "hypocritical" side, Ivanka smacked her lips and said, "Can you turn off the video? I can't stand it anymore." After saying this, she playfully made a gesture of covering her mouth and retching.
"..."
Lu Fei was speechless for a moment, then reached out and patted her butt.
Ivanka smiled and said: "Sauri, Lu, it's just weird to think that you want to be God, bring hope to others, and save other lost lambs. Just, pfft, I want to laugh."
"Don't you think it's a good story?"
Lu Fei rolled his eyes and said, "Iron Man is the prodigal son who turns back, part of the prototype of Iron Man. I am the prodigal son who turns back. The actor who plays him is the prodigal son who turns back. And I gave him another chance to turn back. Do you still think it's funny now?"
?”
"You had this story in mind when you met him?"
Seeing his gentle smile, Ivanka couldn't help but gasped, "Lu, if you need it, you can use everyone as a pawn without hesitation? Including yourself?"
"No, at least some people aren't."
Lu Fei shook his head regretfully and sighed: "I haven't reached perfection in cultivation yet. It's such a failure."
Ivanka said: "Does that failure include me?"
"What do you think?"
Lu Fei blinked his right eye and noticed Zeng Li's figure at the door from the corner of his eye. He secretly pinched Ivanka's butt and left.
The audition was just a formality. Zeng Li easily got the contract and script, and was then assigned to Lu Fei to observe Ivanka's workplace life and try to figure out the role of "Little Pepper".
Three days later, Seattle.
"Zeng, we can't go in."
Ivanka stopped and stood upright outside the conference room of Logic Headquarters, looking through the transparent glass at the people seated.
"who are they?"
Zeng Li blinked curiously. This was the first time she saw Lu Fei in the state of a business tycoon, and she felt that his aura was different.
"apple."
Ivanka cast her gaze at the back of Tim Cook, and then at the slightly cynical Lu Fei. Soon her sight was completely blocked by the fallen blinds, and not a single gap could be seen.
"Sauri, Cook."
Lu Fei stirred the coffee, "I had something to do a few days ago, so I had to postpone the meeting. In fact, I have always wanted to meet you. You can be said to be one of the few people in Apple that I really want to meet in person.
people."
"Really? It's such an honor."
Tim Cook adjusted his glasses and smiled.
Lu Fei said: "Of course! You are the operator behind Apple's entire supply chain system. Wow, since you joined Apple, it seems that there has never been a supply chain crisis again, right?"
"Almost, haha, almost."
Tim Cook was praised so much that his most proud work at Apple was the supply chain. He suddenly felt that Lu Fei was particularly pleasing to the eye because of his closeness to others.
"Because of you, I have always wanted to find a supply chain master as good as you from IBM, but obviously none of them are as good as you."
Lu Fei said coldly: "How about you do some logic?"
What?!
In an instant, the entire Apple team felt like it was struck by lightning.
Tim Cook stared straight into Mr. Lu's face, his eyes were firm and did not seem to be fake. It was obvious that he was sincere.
But I refused without thinking.
He is the COO, Apple's second-largest person, and is responsible for legal affairs, finance, design, and marketing. As long as Steve Jobs retires from illness, he will be Apple's talker.
If you ask me to follow you, can you take me to the moon?
Or is it a double talk, where you are the talker and I am the talker?
There was silence in the huge conference room, a moment of silence, and a hint of embarrassment in the dull air.
"Haha, hahaha~"
Lu Fei's serious face suddenly burst into laughter, and his unserious laughter became louder and louder, which suddenly diluted the solemn atmosphere.
"I'm just kidding, if Steve Jobs knew that I poached you, he would fight to the death with me."
"Huh, yes, haha, haha..."
Tim Cook exhaled and forced a smile, "Lu, I believe you can find someone like me."
"Oh, I hope, I hope."
Lu Fei still looks eager for talents, but in fact, Apple’s model is called “Just in Time” in the industry, and the supply chain management logic of Huawei is very clean.
Occupying the two golden ends of electronic products, design and retail, it has established an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and imported all IT systems of parts suppliers, assembly plants, logistics and retailers into the "Sophon" ERP system.
In the future, you can use "Sophon" to detect the operation of the entire supply chain, specific weekly sales, and inventory statistics of retail channels, and accurately issue ordering requirements to outsourcers.
It’s only one or two days behind Apple’s 7 days to destock.
"Cough cough, cough cough."
Tim Cook's eyes flashed, and then he said with a smile: "Lu, we are here to launch a capacitive touch screen for Logic. I know that you have been selling it to Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and BlackBerry recently, but the sales volume
Not very good, right?"
"This is only temporary."
Without waiting for Lu Fei to answer, Jiang Chaorui said confidently: "People can only see what is in front of them, not the long-term. It won't be long before they find that resistive screens have fallen behind, and the future of touch screens must be capacitive screens.
"
"But how can we convince them that capacitive screens can replace resistive screens?" Tim Cook squinted his eyes, "At least it has to be like Nokia's proof of resistive screens. It must come up with several capacitive screen products to sell, and also
It’s going to be a big sale!”
"We thought about it too."
Lu Fei pondered for a moment, "It doesn't hurt to tell you, we will install it on the latest fifth generation lmusic, and will also be on kindle in the future."
"Where's logic? Don't you put it on your phone?"
Tim Cook looked at Lu Fei's face and saw that there was information that the Three-Body Laboratory had a silky touch engineering machine.
"When we founded ThePaper, we had already made a promise to the outside world that we would never step into a feature phone again, and would only build good phones for mobile phone manufacturers. This screen is prepared for them."
Lu Fei sighed, "It's a pity that I don't even know the goods."
"How about we cooperate?"
Tim Cook sensed an opportunity to seize the initiative, "Apple has a new product, and maybe the capacitive screen will come in handy."
"Of course, no problem. How does Apple want to cooperate?"
The corners of Lu Fei's mouth turned up.
Tim Cook realized that no one wanted the capacitive touch screen XY same-side structure solution, so he decisively attacked. Not only did he need to purchase a patent license, but he also required an exclusivity period of 1 to 2 years.
You really dare to think about it!
Lu Fei rolled his eyes. He still hoped that this XY same-side structure would earn enough research and development funds. It was impossible to monopolize it unless Apple gave too much...
"During the exclusivity period, I can guarantee that TPK Chenhong will have a position in the supply chain of Apple products, and it will have the largest order volume, as long as your production capacity can keep up."
Tim Cook crosses his arms over Apple's offer.
Jiang Chaorui's expression changed instantly and he almost shouted "Go away".
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong? The price isn't right?"
"Mr. Lu, it's not that it's inappropriate, it's simply impossible!"
Jiang Chaorui's face was gloomy, and he said that the price offered by Apple requires a yield rate of at least 85% to avoid losing money, and 90% to barely make a profit. However, even with the XY same-side structure plan, the yield rate is only about 15%, even if the technology has already
The improvement is, at most, just over 30%. Rounding off, it’s almost a blood loss.
As expected of an apple!
No one knows how to squeeze the supply chain better than you!
Lu Fei curled his lips and declined politely. "It's hard for me to help you with such a small amount of money. I have to pay more!"
Tim Cook smiled, as if he had expected it. He took the initiative and struck again, saying that it was okay to increase money, but he had to agree to Apple's trivial conditions.
"What conditions?"
Lu Fei pretended to understand, but pretended to be confused.
"Lu, the supply chain system I designed for Apple is stipulated to purchase components from at least two suppliers. This can avoid dependence on a single supplier, so I hope you can sublicense the patent to another supplier.
"
Tim Cook smiled and cited three panel companies: Elo, 3m, and Shenghua, all of which are suppliers that rely on Apple.
"Sauri, Cook."
Lu Fei raised an imperceptible smirk. He had long expected that such a thing would happen, so he took the first step and licensed the patent to Shenyueguang and BOE in addition to TPK Chenhong.
If you want to place an order for Apple, you can only go to these two companies.
"Lu, are they related to logic?"
Tim Cook frowned, feeling something was wrong.
Lu Fei didn't shy away from it. He could have found it if he wanted to. He directly admitted that Logic had invested in BOE, and "Shenyueguang" was Logic's joint venture. It had previously produced resistive screens for Huaqiangbei's copycat phones, and added a few more by the way.
A capacitive screen production line.
"Lu, can't there be a fourth family?"
Tim Cook looks serious, and Apple has a strong desire to control, especially the supply chain.
These three companies can penetrate, but it is difficult to control them because they are not like other suppliers in the fruit chain, which depend on Apple for survival.
Just a small decision made by Apple may very well lead to the death of its suppliers, so the industry calls "entering the fruit chain" "drinking poisonous apple cider vinegar". You think you and Apple are in the same boat.
Grasshopper, little do you know that you are indeed a grasshopper, and the apple is the rope.
The life and death of the grasshopper is tightly controlled by Apple, so its control and bargaining power are absolutely passive, and it can be beaten or killed at will.
"There won't be a fourth one for the time being. We don't want to open so many of these advanced touch screen technologies at once."
Lu Fei secretly said: "So as not to be like Xerox."
The name "Xerox" has been used throughout the history of Apple. Tim Cook couldn't even pretend to be confused. His face was full of embarrassment, and the sharp overtone could be heard——
I'm afraid that if you get the patent authorization from Logic, you will turn around and secretly plagiarize and copy my patent with your own suppliers.
"If you are willing, I can recommend Apple to Shenyueguang and BOE. They will definitely be very happy to cooperate."
Lu Fei took a shallow sip of coffee.
"Don't Logic plan to cooperate with Apple?"
Tim Cook was surprised.
"No, TPK Chenhong's production capacity can only barely guarantee the logic for the time being." Jiang Chaorui said, but there was one sentence he did not say. The structure of different sides of XY completely destroyed the same side of XY of those two companies.
Tim Cook pondered for a while, "I can't make the decision on this matter. I have to go back and report to Steve Jobs, and he will make the decision."
"No problem at all."
Lu Fei stood up and saw off the guests personally.
Watching the Apple team disappear into the elevator, Jiang Chaorui looked solemn and said, "Mr. Lu, do you think Steve Jobs will agree?"
"How can you agree? Apple definitely wants to firmly control the supply chain in its own hands, otherwise how can it make money?"
Lu Fei said quietly: "Jobs and Cook will not rest assured that the lifeblood of the touch screen will be left in the hands of logic."
Jiang Chaorui asked doubtfully: "Then will Apple still give orders to BOE and Shenyueguang?"
"Does it have any other options?"
Lu Fei straightened his back, "If we don't have enough money, we won't talk about it. We can't help Apple produce at a loss. I'm not a fool. Unless we use 'n-hexane' instead of alcohol as you said, we can never do this kind of sweatshop."
Do."
"But Mr. Lu, this won't work, and that won't work either. Isn't this all in vain?"
Jiang Chaorui lamented that Mr. Lu had not cultivated to the highest level of a capitalist and had a moral vacuum. He was also glad that he had not cultivated to perfection.
"It's not in vain."
Lu Fei waved his hand, "I will agree to license the technology to Apple's suppliers, but not now. We must delay it as much as possible, at least leaving enough research and development time for your technology iterations."
Jiang Chaorui understood it and said, "Mr. Lu, please rest assured that the team has determined two new technical directions. The results should be achieved after the press conference is over. But what if Apple can't wait and looks for other companies?"
"A person who is about to drown has already seen a straw. Do you think he is willing to give up the ready-made straw and look for the next illusory straw?"
The corners of Lu Fei's mouth raised, not to mention that the man was Steve Jobs.
