Kapitel 774: Chapter 774: Entering IBM
In the morning, after Xia Yu finished breakfast, he took a car to the base of the IBM headquarters building. Under the guidance of the security guard, he parked the car in the outdoor garage.
IBM is now the company with the highest market value in the United States and the pride of Almonk, New York. In the sparsely populated United States, the most basic commercial land is of course used as much as possible.
Coming out of the garage, Xia Yu looked up at the IBM letters at the front of the row of buildings and nodded slightly, leading the way to the reception hall.
'Hello, how may I help you?'
The receptionist immediately smiled politely and asked, seeing Xia Yu and the others enter in suits.
Xia Yu smiled slightly and said, 'We are representatives of Polaris Capital. Is Mr. Frank T. Cary here?'
Seeing the receptionist's face turn pale, Xia Yu's assistant immediately stepped forward and reminded her, 'Our Polaris Capital is the eighth largest shareholder of IBM.'
The receptionist tensed up, and immediately said obediently, 'The CEO is in his office. Please wait here for a moment, I'll go report to my superior.'
Xia Yu smiled and nodded, 'Yes, thank you.'
'No problem, it's my pleasure!'
In a moment, the receptionist came down with a middle-aged man, who once again quickened his pace when he saw Xia Yu and the others.
'Hello, I'm Robin, the manager of the administrative department. May I ask if you are representatives of Polaris Capital?'
The middle-aged man Robin asked slightly respectfully, looking at Xia Yu, who was obviously the leader.
Unlike the receptionist, he, as an executive at IBM, naturally knew about the changes in the company's shareholding structure and that the new eighth largest shareholder was Polaris Capital.
Now that the representative of Polaris Capital was here, he definitely had to provide good service. After all, Polaris Capital would basically get a seat on the company's board of directors. If he offended them, and if they remembered it, he would have a hard time in the future.
'Hello! Yes!' Xia Yu smiled and shook his hand.
'This is our chairman of Polaris Capital, Mr Xia.'
Xia Yu's assistant stepped forward again to introduce Xia Yu's identity.
'Hello, Mr Xia!' Robin's gaze changed instantly, and his posture became even lower.
After exchanging greetings, he felt that he was unable to provide a proper reception, so he led Xia Yu and the others into the elevator to go find CEO Frank T. Cary.
Soon, Xia Yu and the others arrived on the tenth floor and met Frank T. Cary, who was over 50 years old, in the CEO's office.
Frank T. Cary took over the CEO position in 1973, and he also took it over from Thomas John Watson Jr., so there was absolutely no doubt about his abilities.
After news of Polaris Capital becoming a shareholder came back, Frank T. Cary used all his connections to find out about Polaris Capital and directly obtained some information about Chairman Xia Yu from the official database.
Therefore, when he met Xia Yu at this time, he was not surprised and greeted him warmly.
'Hello, Mr. Xia, I am Frank T. Cary, welcome.'
'Hello Mr. Frank, I'm sorry for not making an appointment and just dropping by.'
'Mr. Xia, you're too polite. IBM is also your home, so of course you don't need an appointment to return to your own home,' Frank T. Cary laughed humorously.
Xia Yu nodded in time and laughed, 'Mr. Frank, you're really humorous, but you're right, we are family.'
'Haha...'
'Come, everyone, please sit!'
'Robin, go prepare some fruit and coffee.'
'Okay.'
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Xia Yu was a smooth operator and got along very well with Frank T. Cary. The two of them talked about everything from the US Department of Justice's antitrust investigation of IBM to the current situation and prospects of mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers.
In particular, Xia Yu held the view that IBM must design and produce its own microcomputers to compete with Apple before the latter had established a firm market position. This attitude was completely consistent with Frank T. Cary's views.
Today, IBM's much-admired management model was created by Frank T. Cary, but the general drawback of established companies is a heavy bureaucracy, so in the 1970s they were bound hand and foot and could not respond in time to the rise of the minicomputer market. They could only helplessly watch as Digital Equipment Corporation became the dominant player in the minicomputer field.
Now that the minicomputer market has exploded just like the minicomputer market, Frank T. Cary will of course not let the bureaucracy hold him back, so he is pushing ahead with determination. A top-level secret meeting was just held ten days ago, and a project codenamed 'Chess' was confirmed, requiring the development of an IBM minicomputer within one year to compete with Apple.
Therefore, Xia Yu, who is about to become a company director, is strikingly consistent in his attitude towards minicomputers, which is absolutely great news!
After chatting for a while, Xia Yu suddenly asked, 'Mr. Frank, is there any senior management at the company right now? Could you introduce me to them?'
Frank T. Cary looked confused and apologised, 'I'm really sorry, I almost forgot. I'll take you there right now.'
'Right now, Mr. Thomas John Watson is at the company. After retiring, he became the chairman of the executive committee, but he is not in good health and spends most of his time recuperating in New Zealand. He just returned this month.'
'In addition, there are several directors at the company, and I'll take you there to meet them.'
After saying this, Frank T. Cary got up and took Xia Yu and the others to meet the people.
Thomas John Watson Jr.'s health was indeed not good. Xia Yu could clearly see that his face was not right, but thinking that he was also a nearly seventy-year-old man, he could understand.
Thomas Watson Jr. expressed a sincere welcome to Xia Yu's arrival, and then entrusted Frank T. Cary to entertain Xia Yu well, and proposed to arrange a board meeting in the next few days to welcome Xia Yu's joining.
After that, Frank T. Cary took Xia Yu to meet several other directors, one of whom Xia Yu paid special attention to because she was a female director named Mary Maxwell Gates, who was Bill Gates' mother.
Mary Maxwell Gates' seat on the board came from the First Continental Bank Company, and she was a representative of the First Continental Bank Company.
In fact, although she was a senior executive at the First Continental Bank Company, she was only considered to be in the upper middle class. She was able to represent the First Continental Bank Company at IBM thanks to her father, J.W. Maxwell, who was Bill Gates' maternal grandfather.
J.W. Maxwell was a major banker who had served as the bank's president and had considerable influence on Wall Street and at the US government level.
According to historical records, the reason Bill Gates was able to take on IBM's operating system order with an informal company was entirely because Mary Maxwell Gates introduced them. Otherwise, Bill Gates would not even be able to meet with Frank T. Cary, let alone win the contract with empty words.
But in this life, whether Bill Gates can successfully get the contract depends on how he makes his choice!
If he hadn't wanted to be prepared for the worst, Xia Yu wouldn't have been so eager to become a director of IBM.
After meeting the directors, Frank T. Cary took Xia Yu around the company to meet the executives and employees.
Three days later, the board of directors convened and, after going through the formalities, unanimously approved Xia Yu becoming a director of IBM.
That evening, Xia Yu invited everyone to a gathering at a five-star hotel, which won everyone's favour.
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