Chapter 320 Participating in CES Exhibition

Since the old man said this, everyone in the meeting naturally had no objections. Just take a look, New China has been in existence for more than 30 years. What kind of storms has it not experienced? Many facts have proved that this old man has a unique vision.

None of this was known to Bai Zirui. He and Peng Feng led a team to Las Vegas to participate in the CES exhibition. On May 6, 1982, at Xiangjiang International Airport, Dingtian Company directly chartered a Boeing 700 from Pan American Airlines

747 passenger plane.

Dingtian Company participated in the CES exhibition this time and brought 10 arcade machines and 6 small CNC machine tools. Bai Zirui brought the machine tools in order to exchange some patents and technologies from those old and well-known companies.

There are 300 Walkmans, two of which are upgraded versions. They are products designed by Liang Jinghua and have been upgraded in function. Compared with the previously produced Walkmans, a small flashlight is added, which can provide lighting when there is no light outdoors.

use.

There is also Dingtian Software Company, which is responsible for the development of the first software, the personal computer electronic graphic form office software RoyalTek-1, which has been developed.

RoyalTek-1 software is the Lotus1-2-3 spreadsheet software released by Lotus Company in 1983. The world's first spreadsheet software was invented by Dan Brick, a beautiful Chinese young man, in 1979. It is world-famous

VisiCalc (Visible Calculation). VisiCalc spreadsheet does not require programming and is easy to learn and use, so it is very popular among users.

Until the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software released by Lotus Company in 1983 appeared. It was much more powerful than VisiCalc, adding a variety of functions, and also integrated table calculation, drawing, small database analysis and other functions into

As a result, it achieved great success and was widely used on IBM and its compatible systems, becoming popular for a while.

Lotus Development Corp., which launched the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software, was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with founder Mitch Kapor.

In the mid-1980s, Kapoor and Gates were the twin stars of the American software industry. In 1982, they founded Lotus (Lotus) Company and served as CEO. They launched the personal computer "killer application" software Lotus 1-2-3. In 1985, Lotus

With more than 1,000 employees, it is the largest independent software company. It was not until April 1988 that Microsoft surpassed Lotus and became the number one software company.

In 1978, Kapur met the inventor of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet software. He also wanted to develop a similar software that could draw spreadsheet calculation results into charts.

He and another partner developed VisiPlot. VisiPlot became an instant hit, and sales of VisiPlot soon reached $100,000 per month. In less than a year, Kapoor and his partners earned $12 million, and Kapoor created

The first success of his business career.

In 1981, Kapoor and his partners raised funds to establish Lotus Company. In 1983, Lotus Company released its first product-Lotus 1-2-3.

This was the first product in the history of software to provide users with masked help content and a user guide attached to the disk. Lotus also established a customer support department, which was unheard of in 1983.

Lotus 1-2-3 software sells for US$495 per copy. Kapur predicted that it is expected to reach US$2-3 million in the first year. Unexpectedly, the actual revenue in the first year reached an unprecedented US$53 million, and soared to US$53 million in the second year.

156 million U.S. dollars, and as high as 258 million U.S. dollars in the third year.

Lotus 1-2-3 was on the market for only one year, and quickly defeated VisCalc, n to win the first place in sales, becoming the first software in the world to sell more than 1 million units. Lotus 1-2-3 is a product of Lotus (Lotus) Company

Successful works have brought huge profits and high visibility to the company.

Bai Zirui relied on the Lotus1-2-3 software sample from his previous life to guide the highly paid engineers hired by Dingtian Software Company to successfully develop the Lotus1-2-3 software and register a patent within two months, named it RoyalTek-1, and prepared to

The CES exhibition in Las Vegas is officially launched.

There are a total of 30 employees from Dingtian Company going to Las Vegas to participate in the CES exhibition this time. In addition to the 10 employees from the Xiangjiang head office, there are also 12 sales teams led by Meng Jianhua, general manager of the Meili Guo Branch, and

Other administrative and logistics personnel in some companies.

The Las Vegas CES exhibition was founded in 1967. This year is the 15th edition. It has not received enough attention and is not as influential as the Berlin exhibition.

Many big, established companies would not go all out to invest. Dingtian Company signed up as quickly as possible, paid the fee, and selected a 200-square-meter seat on the right side of the entrance hall.

The price per square meter of the exhibition hall has reached 3,000 US dollars per square meter. The rent of the exhibition hall alone is 600,000 US dollars. Dingtian Company spent about 1.5 million US dollars on this exhibition.

Bai Zirui led a group of people from Dingtian Company to arrive at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on May 9. Meng Jianhua led the beautiful Chinese employees who had arrived in Nevada in advance to pick him up.

Meiliguo is now half of Dingtian Company's home. After the employees declared all the goods to customs, they drove them to the exhibition hall area by truck, and then arranged the booths. The time was tight and the task was heavy.

When everyone came to the exhibition hall, the exhibition hall had been basically built. The design of the exhibition hall was creatively provided by Bai Zirui. The entire exhibition hall uses a large number of glass structures, which feels a bit like alien technology in this era.

A TV recorder was used in the exhibition hall, and the commercials that had been recorded were placed on the largest wall of the exhibition hall and played repeatedly. In order to make the projection clearer, this wall was the only one in the entire exhibition hall that had no lights around it.

As soon as you enter the Dingtian Company's exhibition hall, you will see a reception desk, and then walk in from the right. The first part is the arcade game exhibition area. There are a total of 10 arcade machines, 5 each of Great Wall Cube and "Tank Battle", and 20 Great Wall Cube gameboy handheld game consoles.

Each arcade machine occupies 8 square meters including the queuing area.

Some small countries have not yet introduced the Great Wall Cube and "Tank Battle" arcade games. Let agents see Heiyun Company's strength in the gaming industry.

The second part is the Walkman exhibition area. There are a total of 5 Walkmans, including 2 of the latest models. The Walkmans are placed on rectangular glass pillars, and lights are specially installed below. The auction house displays jewelry with this specification. These

The labor cost of each glass pillar is US$400. The remaining Walkmans are placed on the shelf for people to enjoy and listen to.

The third part is the small CNC machine tool exhibition area, which includes a small industrial mother machine. These small machine tools will be demonstrated on-site according to customer needs.

The fourth part is the Dingtian software display area. Bai Zirui asked Meng Jianhua to buy 10 IBM 5150 computers to demonstrate the functions of the RoyalTek-1 software.

The employees of Dingtian Company started to decorate the exhibition hall as soon as they got off the plane. They also ordered fast food for lunch and brought it into the exhibition hall to eat. The employees looked at Bai Zirui sitting on the ground and picking up his lunch box to eat without caring about his image. Considering the boss's wealth, that was

People who can be included in the Forbes list are just sitting on the floor eating lunch boxes like them, so why do they have any complaints?

Meng Jianhua sat next to Bai Zirui and ate with the same lunch box. He saw several female employees of Dingtian Company and said: "Bai Sheng, some of the female employees in our company are not suitable to be etiquette ladies. Do you think you should be around?"

Recruit some beauties to serve as hostesses."
Chapter completed!