The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

64. your own company

“Long time no see. Even though we talk on the phone every day, it’s nice to see your face.”

“haha. How are you Smith?”

“boss. too much Didn’t you see me?”

“Eric! no way Nice to meet you. You have worked so hard to come this far.”

“no. I took a plane and arrived in 3 hours.”

Hoyoung called Smith and Eric, who were working at H&H America in Dallas, and flew to New York.

It was to finalize the contract with Qualcomm.

“Sorry for calling you here. But now that all of Qualcomm’s directors are in New York, if we don’t sign the contract, we have to fly to California.”

“Did you know that California and New York fly the same distance for us?”

said Smith with a humorous expression.

In fact, Hoyoung had intended to sign the contract as soon as possible before the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute contacted him, but he didn’t even bother talking about it.

Smith and Eric also grumbled verbally, but they seemed happy to see Hoyoung after a long time.

“Eric. Do I have enough spare money now?”

“yes. If you subtract the dividends from Dell Computer and the money that went to Myungsung Electronics from some stock sales last time, you can easily fit $30 million.”

“How much is in Myeongseong Electronics?”

“We have only secured about $6 million so far. It is not easy to buy without being noticed by the market.”

Hoyoung smiled and patted Eric on the shoulder.

“no. You are really suffering.”

“haha. To be honest, I am a little embarrassed to receive my salary because my workload has significantly decreased after I changed jobs.”

“okay? Shall we cut it in half?”

“yes? no. no.”

Eric’s reaction made everyone laugh for a while.

Hoyoung laughed and suddenly looked at his watch (Gaia) and said to everyone.

“Oops, I ran out of time for the appointment while laughing.”

“Then shall we go?”

“I see.”

The four men, Hoyoung, Smith, Eric and Miru, happily headed to the road to meet Irwin.

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“ruler. Then, if you sign here, here, and here, this contract is over. Have you read the contract thoroughly?”

“yes. It is exactly as it was verbally agreed yesterday.”

Irwin was sitting at the same table with Smith as he was writing the contract, and Hoyoung was at the next table watching the process.

Eric went to the bank on the next block to wire money right away.

“Okay, I’m done.”

When Irwin finished signing, Smith went through the papers again from the beginning.

“yes. No problem. Thank you for your hard work.”

“no.”

There was one more person at the café where the contract was supposed to be signed besides the Irwin and Copeman I had seen before.

Compared to Erwin and Coffman, who were now past their prime, this man looked very young.

“Irwin. Can you introduce me to the gentleman sitting here?”

“Five. this. I was distracted by the paperwork and was not polite. This is my third son, Paul Jacobs.”

Irwin beckoned, and Paul came in front of Hoyoung and greeted him.

“I was wondering if I should have said hello first, but the atmosphere didn’t seem like it, so I stayed still. I heard a lot of words from my father. This is Paul Jacobs. Please call me Paul.”

“My son. I received my PhD in Computer Science last year, and this year I am working as a wireless technology engineer at Qualcomm.”

Hoyoung’s expression hardened slightly as he looked at him, then smiled again.

‘This person is the one who hit Korea in the back.’

In fact, until the first CDMA was introduced in Korea, Qualcomm had a good relationship with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and furthermore with the Korean government.

However, a few years later, Irwin stepped down from the position of CEO, and Paul, who is now in front of Hoyoung, sits as the CEO, and that was the start of the backlash.

In fact, the Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Qualcomm had loosely written contracts based on trust.

Paul, who interpreted and arranged the contents of the contract in his favor, demanded astronomical usage fees from Korean mobile carriers every year, and he could not help being threatened that if he did not pay, the technology related to the patent would not be used in the future. Without this, Korean companies had no choice but to pay the usage fee by crying and eating mustard.

“And when I retire, I am teaching hard so that I can serve as CEO instead of myself.”

Hoyoung understood why Erwin took his son.

If it had not been for Ho-young, Irwin, who would have been the largest shareholder of Qualcomm, would have pointed out the next manager, but Ho-young now has the largest share in Qualcomm.

That’s why he tried to impress Hoyoung in advance.

“Take good care of me.”

“no. Rather, I should say that I wish you well. What am I… not just a shareholder? We look forward to the future performance.”

Paul approached Ho-young in a friendly way, but Ho-young appropriately drew the line.

In the words just before, Ho-young was implicitly saying that he was a shareholder and that he would be evaluated based on future performance.

Perhaps Paul was also quite discerning, his face hardened a little when he realized Hoyoung’s intentions.

‘Unfortunately, you won’t be the CEO of Qualcomm in this lifetime.’

However, contrary to what he said he was looking forward to in the future, in Hoyoung’s mind, Paul was already eliminated.

Even though it was a previous life, it was because I couldn’t trust a person who ran business that was tantamount to fraud against a country.

“Then, I will contact you again when the story progresses to some extent in Korea.”

“yes. Then we will continue our research. Lowering the price will be important for commercialization.”

“All right. I wish you well.”

Irwin looked happy at the thought of being able to focus on research without hesitation, perhaps not knowing Hoyoung’s heart.

Hoyoung also had a happy face as she had successfully completed the contract.

Paul was the only one with a dark face here.

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“It’s a little disappointing that you’re going straight to Korea.”

“Iknow, right. If I had known it would be like this, I would have made the schedule a little more generous.”

The day after signing the contract to acquire a 50% stake in Qualcomm.

Smith and Eric came to see Ho-young at the airport to leave for Korea.

Hoyeong and Hoyoung steadfastly tried to dissuade her from following her because she and Hoyeong were both drinking all night yesterday, so they didn’t make any sense, but they finally followed and saw Hoyeong off.

“When are you two going to Dallas?”

“Did you forget that you gave us a week off yesterday?”

“you’re right. Even after giving me a corporate card like this.”

Smith and Eric said with playful faces.

“Aye, I understand. Get some rest and go back. I’m going to go to the departure hall soon.”

“haha. Then, when will we see the next boss?”

Smith said in a voice filled with regret.

“It may take longer than you think. Jung: If I want to see you, can I set you up in Korea? Do you have any plans to work in Korea?”

“I really want to, but my family won’t let me. If I ever get divorced, please call me.”

Smith’s eyes widened, and Ho-young’s laugh was absurd.

“Then I will really go in. I’ll contact you. Get some rest.”

“Go carefully.”

Smith and Eric bowed their heads to Ho-young as they headed out to the departure hall, and Ho-young waved goodbye to them.

That’s what Smith and Eric said, but Ho-Young knew full well that they would be flying back to Dallas for work as early as tomorrow afternoon.

It’s not comparable to Hoyeong, but it’s because they were people with enough workaholic temperaments.

In addition, Smith sat nominally as CEO, and Eric as Treasurer.

Ho-yeong knew very well that they were not the kind of people who thought the seat they were sitting in wasted.

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Returning to Korea, Ho-yeong headed to the H&H headquarters as if it were natural to check if there were any disruptions to her work during the 10 days she had been absent.

Fortunately, as Ho-yeong expected, the company was running normally.

‘This is the power of the system. This is why large organizations are so scary.’

H&H, which is just growing, is already equipped with a system, but I thought that large companies that have already been operating for decades would be more robust.

However, in Hoyoung’s heart, the spirit of good luck arose.

Not only had he already prepared a lot of things, but time was rather on Hoyoung’s side.

“What happened to the supply of cartridge expansion slots?”

“ah! Director. When did you return from America?”

“haha. I just came.”

“It doesn’t take a break… Fortunately, Nintendo cooperates and seems to be supplying it normally.”

“At Nintendo?”

“yes. Nintendo, too, started the cartridge factory in advance, which had been prepared to start at the end of this year.”

“Is this Shigeru’s decision? You also have a sense.”

Hoyoung smiled at the thought of Shigeru.

He was also a quick-witted person.

Anyway, Sega and Nintendo agreed to unify the cartridge format.

If you row when the water comes in, and supply cartridges with the Nintendo logo at this time, thanks to the sonic craze, you can automatically promote Nintendo.

In addition, they can even take the cause of helping Sega to secure insufficient supplies by sacrificing themselves.

“Please keep working hard. I’m really glad that the supply has been smoothed out. Do you need anything?”

“yes. There is no separate. I’ll tell you when it happens later.”

“yes. All right.”

Ho-young, who came out of the game development team 2, went to the company’s underground parking lot after checking that there was nothing wrong with other departments.

“Director. Are you down?”

“yes. You waited a long time, right?”

“no.”

Miru was waiting for Hoyeong in the underground parking lot.

Normally, when Hoyoung had to go somewhere by car, Miru would always get out of the car and meet Hoyoung on the first floor, but today Hoyoung came down to the underground parking lot.

“Is this your car?”

Hoyoung pointed to the shabby 1986 preferential car at Le Mans standing in the corner instead of the BMW that Jo Jung-sik had gifted him.

“yes. I deliberately instructed not to repair the outside. The internal engine and stuff like that are of course fine.”

Hoyoung opened the passenger side door of Le Mans and got into the car.

“What. Is this good enough? The secretaries must have had a lot of trouble. They told me to buy a used car like this while we were in the States.”

“Even so, I gave you some pocket money so that we can all have a meal together tonight.”

“If that happens, tell me.”

Miru waved her hand.

“no. It’s because I want to take care of my secretarial family.”

“All right. Instead, be sure to tell me next time.”

“I will keep that in mind.”

Miru also sat in the driver’s seat following Hoyeong, started the engine, and started the car.

Le Mans was a car that was not even a semi-midsize car, but it went smoother than expected.

The reason why Hoyeong had to buy a used car was because of Jo Jung-sik.

There were less than 10 BMW 750s in Korea.

Of course, the car is nice, but driving around downtown Seoul in that car was no different than advertising where Hoyeong was going.

In fact, the BMW was no different from Jo Jung-shik’s shackles on Ho-young.

‘But those shackles, I’ll use them.’

However, Hoyoung decided to think the opposite.

The fact that the BMW is still in H&H’s garage is a good way to make it look like Ho-young hasn’t left the company.

“Then can I go to the address the director wrote down?”

“yes. You can go right away.”

“Your name is… Pantech? What a strange name. May I ask what your company is?”

“Now it is a company that makes all kinds of electronic products. We mainly handle communication devices such as wireless pagers.”

“Then are you going to invest in this company as well?”

“haha. This company has a capital of 30 million won, and annual sales are less than 50 million won.”

“Why are you going to such a company?”

“If I had to ask, would it be a rebuild? I am also thinking of starting my own company. The item is… Your cell phone will be fine.”

At Hoyoung’s explanation, Miru nodded her head with a confident expression.