Chapter 781: Enter IBM

In the morning, after eating breakfast, Xia Yu took the car to the headquarters of IBM, and under the guidance of the security guard, parked the car in the outdoor garage.

As the company with the highest market value in the United States today, IBM is also the treasure in the palm of the city of Almonk, New York. In the sparsely populated United States, the most basic commercial land is of course as much as you can get.

Coming out of the garage, he looked up at the IBM letter at the front of a row of buildings, Xia Yu nodded slightly, and led him towards the reception hall.

"Hello, is there anything I can do for you?"

The waitress at the front desk saw Xia Yu and a group of people walking in in suits and leather shoes, and immediately asked politely with a smile.

Xia Yu smiled slightly and said, "We are representatives of Polaris Capital Corporation, is Mr. Frank T. Cary there?"

Seeing that the waitress looked embarrassed, Xia Yu's help immediately stood up and reminded: "We Polaris Capital is the eighth largest shareholder of IBM."

The waitress was excited and immediately said obediently: "The CEO is in his office, please wait here for a while, and I will report to the superior."

Xia Yu smiled and nodded: "Okay, trouble you."

"No trouble, this is my accusation!"

After a while, the waitress walked down with a middle-aged man. After seeing Xia Yu and others, the middle-aged man quickened his pace again.

"Hello, I'm Robin, the manager of the administration department. Are you a representative of Polaris Capital?"

The middle-aged man Robin asked respectfully, looking at Xia Yu, who was obviously the leader.

Different from the front desk lady, as an executive of IBM, he naturally knows about the changes in the company's shareholding structure, and also knows that the new eighth largest shareholder is Polaris Capital.

Now that the representative of Polaris Capital is here, he must be attentive. After all, Polaris Capital will basically get a board seat in the company. If they offend them, if they are remembered, some shoes will be worn in the future.

"Hello! Yes!" Xia Yu smiled and shook hands with him.

"This is the chairman of our Polaris Capital Company, Mr. Xia."

Xia Yu's assistant stood up again and introduced Xia Yu's identity.

"Hello, Mr. Xia!" Robin's eyes changed in an instant, his posture lowered.

After greeting him, he felt that he was a little overwhelmed with reception, so he led Xia Yu and others into the elevator to find CEO Frank T. Cary.

Soon, Xia Yu and others came to the tenth floor and met Frank T. Cary, who was over fifty years old, in the CEO's office.

Frank T. Cary took over the CEO position in 1973, and he took over from Thomas John Watson Jr., and there is absolutely no doubt about his ability.

After the news of Polaris Capital becoming a shareholder came back, Frank T. Cary used all his connections to understand the information of Polaris Capital, and directly checked some information of Chairman Xia Yu in the official database.

Therefore, when he saw Xia Yu at this time, he was not surprised, and got up enthusiastically to greet him.

"Hello, Mr. Xia, I'm Frank T. Cary, and you're welcome."

"Hello, Mr. Frank, I'm sorry that I didn't make an appointment. I just came to disturb you."

"Mr. Xia is very kind. IBM is also your home. Of course, you don't need to make an appointment to go back to your home." Frank T. Cary smiled humorously.

Xia Yu nodded and smiled at the right time: "Mr. Frank, you are really humorous, but you are right, we are a family."

"Ha ha……"

"Come on, everyone, please take a seat!"

"Robin, you go get the fruit and coffee."

"OK."

...

Xia Yu was good at dancing and had a very good chat with Frank T. Cary. The two talked about the current situation and prospects of mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers from the US judicial department's antitrust investigation of IBM.

Especially on microcomputers, Xia Yu has to hold on to the fact that Apple has not yet had a solid market.

IBM's view of designing and producing its own microcomputer to compete with Apple's was exactly the same as Frank T. Cary's.

Today, IBM's much-appreciated management model was invented by Frank T. Cary, but the common shortcoming of the old company is that the bureaucracy is serious, so it was shackled in the 1970s and did not respond to the minicomputer market in time. The rise, helplessly watched the American Digital Equipment Corporation become the overlord in the field of minicomputers.

Now that the microcomputer market is also exploding like the minicomputer market, Frank T. Cary will of course not let the bureaucracy tie his hands and feet, so he is determined to push forward. A high-level secret meeting was held just ten days ago, and a secret was confirmed. The project, code-named "chess", called for the development of a microcomputer belonging to IBM within a year to compete with Apple.

Therefore, the attitude of Xia Yu, who is about to become a director of the company, on the microcomputer is surprisingly consistent with it, which is absolutely the best news!

After chatting for a while, Xia Yu suddenly asked: "Mr. Frank, is there any senior management in the company now? Can you recommend me?"

Frank T. Carrie showed a sudden look, and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I almost forgot, I'll take you there now."

"Mr. Thomas John Watson is with the company now, and after his retirement, he is the chairman of the executive committee, but he is in poor health, and he spends most of his time in New Zealand recuperating, and just came back this month."

"Besides, there are several directors in the company. I'll take you there to get acquainted."

After that, Frank T. Cary got up and took Xia Yu and others to recognize them.

Thomas John Watson Jr.'s physical condition is really bad, Xia Yu can obviously see that his face is wrong, but considering that he is also an old man of nearly 70 years old, he can understand.

For the arrival of Xia Yu, Thomas John Watson Jr. expressed a sincere welcome, and then entrusted Frank T. Cary to entertain Xia Yu, and proposed to arrange a board meeting in the next few days to welcome Xia Yu.

After that, Frank T. Cary brought Xia Yu to know several other directors, and one of them made Xia Yu pay special attention, because this was a female director named Mary Maxwell Gates, It was Bill Gates' mother.

And Mary Maxwell Gates' seat on the board of directors is from First Intercontinental Bank Corporation, and she is the representative of First Intercontinental Bank Corporation.

In fact, although she is a high-level executive in the First Intercontinental Bank, she can only be regarded as an upper-middle. The fact that she can represent the First Intercontinental Bank to enter IBM is still thanks to her father, J.W. Maxwell, who is Bill Gates. grandfather.

J.W. Maxwell is a big banker who has served as bank president and has a lot of influence on Wall Street and the US government.

According to the historical track, the reason why Bill Gates was able to take IBM's operating system orders as an informal company was entirely introduced by Mary Maxwell Gates, otherwise Bill Gates would even have Frank T. Cary You can't even see your face, let alone win the contract with empty words?

But in this life, whether Bill Gates can get the contract smoothly depends on how he chooses!

Xia Yu wouldn't have thought about becoming a director of IBM in a hurry if it wasn't for the preparation of both hands.

After getting to know the directors, Frank T. Cary took Xia Yu around the company again, getting to know each other with the company's executives and employees.

Three days later, the board of directors convened and unanimously approved Xia Yu to become a director of IBM.

Xia Yu also invited everyone to a five-star hotel that night, and won the favor of everyone.

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