Chapter 1119? Reorganization

"Chicago 1990 ()"

Song Ya didn't know Kirsch's choice after he left Highland Park, but he has come to his senses now. If Jim Clark is his teacher, guide and nobleman in Silicon Valley, then the relationship between Kirsch and Delay must be Also similar.

In hindsight, many of DeLay's behaviors were clearly influenced by Kirsch. For example, when Yahoo purchased the Sunnyvale land under the name of A+ Audio, DeLay obediently violated his order not to make the relationship with Yahoo too tense. , to help Kirsch delay the negotiations with YAHOO, and try to prevent the expansion speed of the main competitor of Infoseek.

After YAHOO deliberated for more than ten days and resolutely gave up the deal and moved out of Sunnyvale, DeLay rejected his plan to increase capital and let Kirsch get the land. The result was only that the land price was slightly higher than the market price, and the American music website was completely destroyed. Tied to Infoseek's chariot, the two parties attracted each other and became strategic partners.

At that time, DeLay should not have dared to eat inside and outside, but it is very likely that he encountered the same mentality he faced Jim Clark: a layman in Silicon Valley who had just arrived in Silicon Valley could hardly resist the flickering of a billionaire veteran gamer and technology hero, with poor knowledge and vision Too much.

In short, Infoseek's sudden offer of 180 million to the American music website is a bad thing. It sends out a bad signal, that is, the American music website is still worth a gamble.

No matter how the A+ audio company, which holds 32% of the shares, prevents it, as long as the other 68% bid is low enough that investors are willing to take the huge risk of losing everything, Carl Icahn and Delay, etc. There is a chance to admit compensation and escape.

After all, it is a big bull market for Internet stocks. Not long ago, the listing plan of the American music website was valued at 400 million!

And as long as DeLay dares to borrow, he can always deceive some reckless nouveau riche, or high-interest short-term loans from crooked ways, and maybe move around, and the money will be enough to burn until next year.

Just like Song Ya never expected that Goodman would suddenly suffer from paranoia under the pressure, and he never cared about it before, or he didn't have the leisure to observe the personal relationship between Kirsch and Dilai.

There will always be various accidents in the process of going to a set goal. He can only constantly adjust and adapt, taking Kirsch's variables into consideration, and be tougher, more ruthless, and not blame others.

"Uh...were you a little...a bit of an act just now?" He asked Amy in his arms.

"No, no!" Amy denied, and put her head sweetly on his chest, "Huh! I have no strength at all."

"hey-hey……"

He proudly stroked the girl's blond hair, "Call the nurse in, I'm going to get up, I have a lot of things to do today."

"Okay!" Amy jumped off the bed.

On August 31, 1997, the merger of 3DFX and VideoLogic was announced. After the resumption of trading, the total market value of the two companies has risen from nearly 600 million dollars, and it has risen by about 18% to 700 million dollars in five trading days. 100 million dollars, due to the earlier absorption of VideoLogic shares, Song Ya's own shareholding ratio in the new company has increased slightly, from 21.28% to 22%.

Barriers removed, everything in place, and he couldn't wait to start the preparatory work of the board reorganization.

"Today at four o'clock in the morning Paris time, the former British princess died in a car accident..."

When he packed up and appeared in the hall with full confidence, the sudden death of the former British princess made all the participants of 3DFX and VideoLogic gather around the TV very seriously.

"It must have been done by the British royal family! They hate the ex-princess's new boyfriend. You should depose this family long ago. Do you want to maintain the feudal system into the 21st century?"

In the 3DFX trio, Rose's big nasty mouth was yelling at the British people present at the meeting. The Americans liked the former British princess very much, but Song Ya knew that the CEO of VideoLogic, McLaren, was one of the few in the technology industry. Much staunch 'royalist',

He was suppressing his anger and turning a deaf ear to Rose's words.

Ross's stupid move is in Song Ya's arms. He has no feelings for the former British princess, but today he just wants to kick Ross and Ballard. If the situation permits, he even wants to kick out the director of IDSoftware founder Carmack in the future Lose.

"Ross! Come here!"

Song Ya stopped him, "Let's talk alone first."

But after all, Ross is the founder of 3DFX, and he is still the backbone of R&D. We want to kick him out of the board of directors, Song Ya, and don’t want him to run away in anger, especially with the other two. CTO Scott is responsible for the development of Voodoo’s original products. , must not move, the other Gary is relatively honest in the trio.

"It's not good to see these British guys." Ross followed up cursingly, "APLUS, their technology is already behind, you really shouldn't do this business."

"But investors like it very much, didn't they look at the stock price performance? And we can secure a big order from Sega." Song Ya replied quietly.

"Anyway, I think..."

"Don't think so! Ross!" Song Ya interrupted him, "At least VideoLogic's 2D technical reserves can help us develop VoodooRUSH2 and regain the favor of PC manufacturers."

"Their 2D tech isn't the best either..."

"Because the best is our competition! ATI is making a lot of money off PCs..."

"Okay, okay, anyway, what are you talking about now, you are the BOSS." Ross couldn't make sense, and wanted to end the argument.

"It's good that you have this awareness."

Song Ya nodded, "One more thing. I don't want too many people in the new board of directors after the merger. Your seat needs to be released, and there is Ballard."

"WTF? Why!? Don't forget that I founded this company!" Ross jumped up.

"It's not that I want to drive you out of the company, it's just that you don't come to the board meeting." Song Ya fooled.

"Ha! I'm not a three-year-old APLUS." Ross laughed angrily.

"Three-year-olds won't talk nonsense in front of the media cameras like you." Song Ya retorted.

"Wow, it turns out that you have always hated the time we revealed to the media that we successfully deceived you, right?"

"So that's something to be proud of?"

"You still remember! But don't forget, APLUS, we still firmly supported you when you were in a coma! If we made a deal with your two private lawyers, you wouldn't have the status in 3DFX today! We did everything we could for you! We started the company, we invented the Voodoo graphics card, and all the money you make at 3DFX is due to the technology of the three of us! Don't forget this!"

Ross was furious.

"I am very grateful for that incident, but I also want to remind you to pay attention to the fate of those thieves and collaborators. If you choose to cooperate with Goodman and Hamlin, maybe 3DFX is worthless now, just like America Music Site."

Song Ya sat in a wheelchair and looked up at him with domineering eyes, "Business is business, and capital has no emotions. I am responsible for the interests of the entire company. I am a major shareholder. I sponsored the three of you to start a business. I endure you bragging about failure time and time again, increasing investment...Even if it was Steve Jobs, he founded Apple, but wasn’t he also kicked out later?”

"Ha! But Jobs has killed him again now, and so have I. Just wait!"

Unable to talk at all, Ross turned and strode away.

As expected, Song Ya hurriedly followed out, and without giving the three of them and Ballard any time to negotiate a unified caliber in private, he directly announced: "Then the enlarged meeting will start now, Sloan, and turn off the TV."

"This is the new corporate structure, candidates for each position and a list of nominations for new directors." Sloan distributed the documents.

The trio stood outside and whispered. Ballard turned to look at them after quickly browsing through the documents he had obtained, but the reaction was not that intense. He was just a senior manager, and Song Ya had asked the new CEO McLaren to look He has been vaccinated, and he should know that the current situation is stronger than others.

"Specific candidates..." Carmack's director representative smelled it. According to the new company's high-level structure and board members, it is obvious that the future 3DFX will be farther and farther away from Carmack's expectation of focusing on 3D chips.

"I am the chairman, and this proposal is my personal will. We will communicate if it cannot be passed later. But now... let's talk about everything after the voting is over." Song Ya looked at the members of the enlarged meeting, "But I remind Everyone, the IT industry is changing with each passing day, we don’t have much time to waste, and after the resolution is quickly formed, there is still a shareholder meeting to go through.”

"We all trust you APLUS."

Most of the shareholders and members of the board of directors were delighted from ear to ear. The chairman returned as king, and the stock price rose from a low of 120 million to 700 million, although it was diluted a bit due to the share swap and merger.

The people at VideoLogic were even more satisfied. The boss McLaren continued to serve as the CEO of the new company. The outside media said that VideoLogic had completed the small and big, and the snake swallowed the elephant.

Moreover, in order to buy these people, Song Ya basically distributed all the benefits of getting rid of Ross and Ballard.

"I defeated Carl Icahn's short and am still fighting that Wall Street tycoon on all fronts. I remind you that if the voting results disappoint me, my personal failure may bring Carl Icahn back to 3DFX. Maybe." Song Ya threatened those participants who were more neutral and ambiguous.

"Impossible, impossible..."

No company wants to be tossed about by barbarians at the door, not to mention that the current situation of 3DFX is good. The shareholders' meeting is not one person, one vote, and power is divided according to the proportion of shares. The resolution established at the enlarged meeting can basically be passed by the shareholders' meeting.

"I need to make a call," said the representative of EA's board of directors.

"Me too..." Many people echoed.

"Okay, I'll give you forty minutes, it should be enough."

Song Ya glanced at Ballard who was walking towards the trio, and just stayed in the hall with his eyes closed and did not go anywhere.

If Ballard still dares to wear a pair of pants with the trio, he plans to fire him after a while.

Some people went out cautiously, scattered on the lawn to report to their respective bosses.

"APLUS."

At this very tense time, Will, Diane, Cochrane and other members of the dream lawyer team suddenly visited, "Is it convenient?" Diane asked.

"What's the matter? Is it important?"

"Very important."

"Then let's talk about it."

"OK."

A group of people came to the study room, and Diane took out a document, "The special prosecutor of the Bahn case suddenly submitted two new witness lists and testimonies. Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich of that factory."

"Heinrich retired last year."

Cochran's face was a bit ugly, "You don't seem too surprised? Did something happen that we don't know about? APLUS."

"It stands to reason that they shouldn't be involved." Will Gardner added, "Especially Heinrich."

"That's why I'm paying you guys to take care of these troubles, isn't it? I remember you had plans for them to testify before."

Song Ya didn't answer Cochran's question.

"Of course there is a plan, but the odds will definitely come down..." Diane was very serious, "You have to be mentally prepared."

"No problem, find a way to start the court as soon as possible. The public's attention will definitely be on the death of the former British princess during this period. Let's take this opportunity to completely resolve the Barn case. This lawsuit has bothered me for too long..."

Song Ya didn't continue chatting with the lawyers. They had to do business with money, and returned to the hall to continue to "suppress the place".

"Start voting now, regarding this list of new board members..." Forty minutes passed quickly, and Song Ya presided over it himself, "Raise your hands if you disagree."

The trio immediately raised their hands, followed by Carmack's director's representative.

Ballard watched for a while, and found that there were many more people who did not raise their hands, so he was discouraged and chose to follow the trend, which attracted the glaring of the trio.

Then he temporarily kept the position of president.

In mid-September 1997, the joint shareholders meeting of 3DFX and VideoLogic passed this resolution, and Song Ya finally took full control of this industry leader company with a market value of 700 million.

"So now, let's start the first agenda. I decided to start a comprehensive strategic cooperation with Microsoft. The first thing is to set up a joint project team to make our GlideAPI and D3D fully compatible."

It’s time to cut a section of sausage, Song-ah announces at the new board meeting.

"This is betraying the interests of the company!" CTO Scott immediately shouted, "Our Glide is still ahead, a lot ahead!"

"We need Microsoft's help. Most PC manufacturers use Microsoft's operating system, and Sega's new game console also uses Microsoft's Windows CE customized version. How stupid we have to be to compete with them to the death." Song Ya replied.

"Ha! You were scared by Microsoft when you were in Netscape, right? APLUS!" Scott sneered.

"Do you think we are stronger than Netscape?" Song Ya asked back.

"But Netscape didn't bow their heads, and their spirit will continue until one day..." Scott expressed his true feelings affectionately, "We should do the same!"

"I don't want to be mourned after I die!" said the representative of the second largest individual shareholder: "Netscape's browser market share is about to drop by 60%, and Microsoft's IE4. Close to a complete overtake...they have endless money to spend developing catch-up, and one day we'll be left behind like Netscape."

"That's it!" The other director representatives all agreed.

"The timing now... APLUS, after all, Glide still maintains its advantage. We know where Microsoft's advantage lies, but..." Carmack's board representative chimed in for Scott.

"The timing is right now, and we can still sell Glide for a good price."

CEO McLaren retorted, "And I heard that the programmer who wrote Glide was poached by IDSoftware? Glide has not been updated for a long time... Besides, you are all working closely with Microsoft, but let us be the challenge dragon A martyr? It's too hypocritical!"

"Okay, okay, stop arguing, let's vote." Song Ya glanced at the field with cold eyes, calculated in his mind that there should be no problem, and was the first to raise his hand, "This time, the one who agrees raises his hand."

Sure enough, most people on the board raised their hands. CTO Scott glanced at the new board without Ross and Ballard, and then looked at the old brother Gary, who was slowly timid and hesitating whether to raise his arm. He was silent. sighed.

"Okay, then McLaren, you should start contacting people from Microsoft immediately."

Song Ya turned to the next page, "The next topic is about the VoodooRUSH2 project team..."

"Tomorrow the Bahn case will resume. This trial is very important, APLUS."

After the meeting, the black barrister Cochran who was waiting asked him for a secret talk, "Is it really impossible to dissuade the former general manager of the Bahn fluorescent agent factory and Heinrich? I think the special prosecutor has the help of powerful people. You There was always a solution before, didn't those politician connections of yours..."

"I've been waiting for a long time, the same sentence, let us work together to solve all problems tomorrow."

Song Ya raised her hand to stop him from continuing, "That's it? Cochran."

"Okay, okay, we'll come to you tomorrow morning and go to the court together." Cochrane nodded and left as he looked at the calm and calm young man in the wheelchair, as if everything was under control.

"See you tomorrow."

Song Ya watched him leave, "Mike..." He called Old Mike, "I'll go out after the download, by the way, call Tony and the others too."