With the rapid expansion of Microsoft and the successive listing of projects such as Dell, Blue Ocean International has become well-known in the field of high-tech venture capital.
Therefore, Zhu Lihua went to the mainland to meet with Sun Dahai at the beginning of last year, mainly to let him clearly define the nature and work direction of Blue Ocean International in the future.
After discussion, the two decided to split off the existing personnel and business of Blue Ocean International, re-register and establish the American branch of the future holding company.
The new company will be managed by Kevin Turner, Julie's current deputy, and will take over Blue Ocean International's existing non-venture capital projects.
In the future, Blue Ocean International will become a pure venture capital company, with Zhu Lihua continuing to serve as the manager. Because Blue Ocean International's reputation has been established, it will not change its name.
At the same time, Blue Ocean International Investment Company was upgraded within the system and became a direct wholly-owned subsidiary of Establishment Future Holdings Company. It will have the same status within the system as Establishment Future Investment Company and Jiahua Investment Company.
In the first half of this year, Zhu Lihua's main task was to separate the company. So far, the construction of the new framework and the preliminary adjustment of personnel have been basically completed.
Sun Dahai previously asked her to complete the split and reorganization by the end of this year without affecting the company's business, forming a trend of setting up a three-horse carriage for the future to go hand in hand.
Therefore, Zhu Lihua’s focus in the second half of the year will shift to the inside of the company, to complete the seamless connection of various businesses, as well as the recruitment and adjustment of personnel.
At noon the next day, the Blue Ocean and the Future landed on the runway of Ent Airport one after another. The captain of the Blue Ocean, Gerald, was Ent's son. He had been the co-pilot of the Blue Ocean for a year. Soon,
I just became the captain (main pilot).
The Blue Ocean also flew to San Francisco International Airport to pick up the passengers this morning. Hearing that Sun Dahai was going to the ranch, Andrew and his cousin Maggie also joined in.
Andrew went to college at Stanford. In three years, he has completed all the undergraduate credits. When the semester starts in the fall, he will continue to study as a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science here. A top student is a top student, and he will not accept it.
Stanford University is only thirty kilometers away from San Francisco International Airport, and Andrew strolled to the airport casually.
Maggie is now an editorial reporter for NBC's Los Angeles branch of "Hollywood News" and the planner and host of an outsourced column, "Light and Shadow Interviews."
Her workplace was in Hollywood, 600 kilometers away from San Francisco. But the highways between American cities were very developed, so Martha hired a laborer from among her friends to drive her there in the early morning, which took nearly seven hours.
When they arrived at San Francisco International Airport in the morning, Martha was in high spirits after sleeping all the way, but the driver (laborer) was very tired.
The people who rushed to the airport to go to the ranch together, besides the two siblings, were Chen Xi and Mayena. They flew directly from New York to San Francisco, crossing the American continent from the east coast to the west coast.
There is no way around it, Garrison Ranch is located in the town of Celias, Montana. Enter Airport is a private airport and is not open to commercial flights.
Billings Logan International Airport, the closest public airport to the ranch, only has flights to surrounding cities and has no direct flights to New York.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, Chen Xi and the others would take a flight from New York and transfer in a city on the way to first arrive at Billings Logan International Airport, and then go to Celias Town by road or short-distance flight from here.
After all this trouble, it would be better to join Sun Dahai and the others and take a business jet together.
Both the Future and the Blue Ocean are small business aircraft. After the two aircraft are ordered, the passenger capacity excluding the crew members is eight and six respectively, so they can only fly together.
After Sun Dahai's huge investment, today's Ent Airport has been completely transformed like a shotgun.
Ent Airport has more than doubled its original size. In addition to retaining the original two grass runways, a new Class 4C main runway and a Class 2B secondary runway have been added.
This expensive main runway is mainly used to take off and land short- and medium-distance small jet aircraft in the future. Aircraft like the Mirai can only take off and land on this runway.
The secondary runway is the most utilized runway and can be used by short-distance passenger aircraft or agricultural aircraft.
The two remaining grass runways, originally used by Ent Flying Services' agricultural aircraft and passenger commuter aircraft, have also been reprocessed.
After Sun Dahai took a stake in Ente, he had already made a comprehensive plan with the assistance of Bombardier Scala.
Ente Company originally had three aircraft, two light agricultural aircraft, and an old piston short-range commuter aircraft (carrying 16 people).
Two of the agricultural aircraft have been disposed of and a new multi-functional agricultural aircraft has been purchased.
Ente's passenger aircraft have not been replaced for the time being, but it has placed an order at the end of 1987 to customize an ATR-42 jointly developed by France and Italy.
This is a twin-engine turbine small and medium-sized regional aircraft. It first flew in 1984 and was officially put into production at the end of the following year. The ATR-42 is designed to carry 42 passengers, with a maximum capacity of 50 passengers and a maximum full-load range of 2,000 kilometers. Order
The standard selling price is US$8.5 million.
The aircraft customized by Ent Company reduced the number of passenger seats to 30, increased the seat spacing, greatly improved passenger comfort, and also added a beverage bar and a flight attendant position.
In addition, Enter Company also upgraded the aircraft's cabin interior and optional accessories to the highest level of design, causing the final purchase cost to exceed 10 million US dollars, reaching 10.8 million US dollars.
This aircraft was named "Happy Cowboy" by Ent and will be delivered for use before the end of this year. Sun Dahai will definitely not be able to see it when he comes to the United States this time.
In addition to continuing to fulfill the long-term commuter flight orders held by Ent Company, the "Happy Cowboy" will also be responsible for picking up and delivering ranch visitors in the future.
The Jiayi International Garrison Ranch Resort in the ranch has officially started receiving tourists at the beginning of the year. So far, it has received an average of 20 tourists per day.
This number seems relatively shabby, and it is still a long way from the maximum number of 100 people that the resort is designed to accommodate.
However, since most of these tourists are high-end consumers, and various projects in the ranch are designed according to the interests and consumption habits of these people, although the number of tourists is currently relatively small, their per capita consumption is very high.
is high, which also means that the ranch does not lose money overall.
However, according to the current operating status, it is far from possible for the ranch to recover all investment costs.
These situations were introduced by Linkwood who came to pick him up at the airport. As the owner of the ranch designated by Sun Dahai, such business performance made him feel very guilty and felt that he was unworthy of Sun Dahai's trust in him.