In mid-January, Wu Guangyao came to Japan and spent five days visiting various important factories and important departments of Lenovo Group;

Group President Akio Morita, Group Vice President Itsumida, Group Vice President Jerry, Group Vice President Jerry, and three senior executives accompanied.

After five days of visit, Wu Guangyao has greater confidence in Lenovo Group;

Lenovo Group has three first-level subsidiaries, namely Lenovo Electric, Lenovo Electronics, and Sony;

Lenovo Electric mainly develops and produces: TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners and other household appliances;

Sony is divided into two fields: electronics and entertainment (recording industry), and electronic products include: audio (recording) audio machines, video recorders, recorders, etc.

Lenovo Electronics mainly develops semiconductor integrated circuits and some basic scientific research.

Lenovo Group's global turnover was US$1.8 billion last year (1968) and its net profit was US$160 million;

Wu Guangyao was very surprised by his growth so fast;

However, of the $1.8 billion turnover, $1.2 billion is the sales of TVs;

Lenovo Group sold a total of 1.8 million Trilon color TVs and 1 million Trilon imaging tubes last year.

Lenovo Group Conference Room

Wu Guangyao is giving face-to-face advice to six executives and setting new goals.

Akio Morita, Fukada, Jerry, Li Jiaki, Onoki, and Ryohei Kimura are still these six executives.

Wu Guangyao said: "Although Sony has developed quite well over the years, it still has a certain gap with the real electrical and electronic companies in Japan."

Everyone was shocked, wondering what the boss meant to say?

Because Sony's development of entertainment equipment (excluding televisions) and entertainment business is a strategy formulated by the group company;

Sony, Lenovo Electric and Lenovo Electronics are not divided into importance for Lenovo Group, only with different business.

If there is a gap between Sony and Lenovo Electric, then the gap between Lenovo Electronics is even bigger;

Because Lenovo Electronics' semiconductor integrated circuit research and development is purely for Lenovo Electric and Sony.

Jing Shenda responded the fastest and said, "What the president meant is, do you have a new entertainment equipment idea?"

Everyone suddenly realized that it was like that!

Sony still develops entertainment equipment, but it does not mean that it cannot catch up with Lenovo Electric!

Wu Guangyao nodded with a smile. Don’t think that he doesn’t understand technology, but he knows products;

Therefore, the middle and senior executives of Lenovo Group were convinced and admired Wu Guangyao.

Wu Guangyao said: "I thought of the third item about Sony's development project!"

Everyone quickly recorded the punctuation marks, afraid of missing out on one.

"For the first project, you should know that I have mentioned the slogan of "entertainment first" before; when people's living standards improve, new entertainment products will be urgently needed. 7 years ago, I asked you to develop tape players and tape recorders; the manufacturing cost of tape is low and easy to carry. These excellent characteristics will make "listening to music" truly a mass entertainment that can be afforded by all classes in the society.

At present, we have achieved certain results in tape players and tape recorders, but we have no obvious advantages!

So, I ask you to reduce the size of the tape player to the point where it is convenient to carry around;

In this way, people who like music in the world will not be able to reject its temptation.

Think about it, a tape player as big as a palm, hanging around your waist, plugging in headphones, and immersing in music, is a kind of fashion.

Therefore, I suggest: remove the recording function of the tape player, add stereo, and commercialize the tape player;

As for this product, let’s call it ‘Walman’!”

After listening to Wu Guangyao's words, everyone began to ponder.

First of all, technically, the difficulty is not very high;

It is not even a great invention, because all technologies are ready-made, but they only need to reduce the size and portability.

However, will anyone still pay for the tape player without the recorder function?

Akio Morita took the lead and said: "I think the president's idea is very great. To be simple, this product is a portable music player, which can be said to be something that young people desire the most..."

Then everyone discussed it one after another, and Wu Guangyao even talked about the marketing of this product in advance and how to fully open up the global market with Sony Music.

In the end, everyone was confident that this product must be second only to Trilon color TV among the innovative products developed by Lenovo Group, and higher than transistor radios, rice cookers, pulsator washing machines and other products.

You should know that as far as Wu Guangyao knows, the total sales of Sony walkman (Walman series) in his previous life were over 100 million units.

The first project was officially launched, and Ishin-Da is still personally involved in the Walkman R&D team. Of course, he is just a person who controls the overall situation. After all, he is also the technical president of the entire Lenovo Group.

Then, Wu Guangyao said: "Sony's second new project is the gaming field!"

“Electronic gaming field?”

A question mark was written on everyone's heads!

Indeed, electronic games did not enter the business at this time. As the founder of electronic games, "Space War" was an electronic game compiled by Stifin Russell on the PDP-1 electronic computer produced by Dec, the US in 1962. Since the PDP-1 was worth US$120,000 at that time, it was too expensive for ordinary people, making "Space War" difficult to become a commodity.

Wu Guangyao continued: "Electronic computer games are naturally difficult to commercialize now, but the electronic games I call them arcade machines. The coin holes, operating tables, and inherent game substrates are basically composed of two parts: the frame and the machine version. The games running on the arcade machines are called arcade games... If developed, we can sell this machine to bars and other entertainment venues."

Wu Guangyao can only describe the appearance and structure, but he knows nothing about research and development;

But it doesn’t matter. Atari in his previous life was established in 1971, but it was sold in 1975 for US$28 million;

Even if Sony cannot develop it, it can still be acquired!

Moreover, arcades are just Sony's first step into electronic games, and the second step is to develop red and white machines before Nintendo.

Akio Morita said: "The president has a good idea and is a stepping stone for us to enter the game field. Sony will set up a special department - the game department later."

Wu Guangyao said: "Well, you go and do it! Remember, you can invest more money, this project is very promising."

Everyone nodded seriously, and the president did not miss it. This is everyone’s idea!

Then, Wu Guangyao talked about the third project, and everyone finally felt the boss's ambition!

"Acquiring American film companies and entering Hollywood!"

In Wu Guangyao's plan, Sony acquired Hollywood Film Company, while Keira's Metro Group acquired American theater chains, making progress in parallel, and Wu's family fund can serve as shareholders.

In this way, the Wu family will definitely rule Hollywood in the future.

The reason for the acquisition of both ends is that the United States stipulates that theaters and production must be separated, which means that you are either a production company or a theater, and you can only choose one;

Companies that originally had both businesses were forced to split!

Akio Morita is very good at acquiring American companies and has operated a lot over the years;

From Columbia Records to Motorola's TV business, there are dozens of acquisitions of all sizes.

So Akio Morita said unscrupulously: "Which film company did the president like?"

Akio Morita's words are very skillful, and he asked Wu Guangyao that film company he liked;

This shows that several Hollywood production companies and Lenovo Group can buy them;

It is difficult to acquire a US production company without acquiring a TV station. Acquiring an American TV station must be of American nationality.

Thinking back to the beginning, Lenovo Group took the lead in acquiring the American TV business, and the US government did not have no protests, but it was helpless;

Americans are willing to buy Japanese TVs, and entrepreneurs are willing to sell TV business. Unless you issue a law, it will not be stopped at all.

Wu Guangyao said: "Preferring to Universal Pictures first!"
Chapter completed!