The God of Coding, Becoming an IT Conglomerate

72. I’ll follow you

Hearing that he knew the major shareholder of Qualcomm, Jo Jung-sik did not hide his surprised expression.

“Is that so? I wonder how you know each other? I don’t think it’s a well-known company yet.”

“50% of Qualcomm’s shares are owned by an American investment company called Gaia Investments. And Gaia Investments also invested in H&H early on.”

“ah! So you know me well?”

“That’s right.”

“Then could you introduce the CEO of Gaia Investment? Seeing that he invests in promising companies in advance, I don’t think he is an ordinary person.”

Cho Jung-sik showed great interest in the story of Gaia Investment.

‘I don’t even know if he’s sitting in front of me.’

Hoyoung laughed at Jo Jungsik on the inside, but on the outside, he said with the most regretful expression on his face.

“I’ll ask you once, but it will be difficult. I hate meeting people so much. I wouldn’t have been able to build a relationship if I hadn’t met by accident when I went to the States.”

“okay. Still, please tell me at least once. The eldest son of Myungsung Group really wants to meet you.”

“All right.”

Jo Jung-sik, who said as if the eldest son of the Myeongseong Group was a great business card, laughed as if he was happy to see Ho-yeong nodding with a smile.

“Then shall we stop talking about work? The steak is all cold because of me. Waiter there!”

“yes!”

A restaurant employee standing in the corner came running.

“The food here is cold…”

“Shall I warm it up again?”

The waitress cut off Jo Jung-sik’s words, overflowing with enthusiasm as if he knew who he was talking to, and Jo Jung-sik’s impression was frowned upon.

“no. Give me another new one like this one.”

“yes. Yep!”

The waitress felt something was wrong at Jo Jung-sik’s cold words and hurriedly ran to the kitchen.

“Secretary Kim!”

“yes.”

“The next time I come here, the waitress just won’t be seen.”

“Yes. All right.”

After bowing his head to Jo Jung-sik, the secretary conveyed Jo Jung-sik’s words to the manager.

The manager whispered something to the previous employee again, and the waiter quietly left the restaurant.

‘After all, Jo Jung-sik is the same conglomerate.’

Seeing that, Hoyoung thought.

The reason Jo Jung-sik is kind to him is because he is a useful person.

Certainly, I thought that someday, if the time came when Hoyeong would become useless, I might not be able to treat him as a human like the employee from before.

‘No, I might still think so.’

Jo Jung-sik, who had always frowned as if he was touching an insect, smiled brightly when his eyes met Ho-yeong.

“sorry. Excuse me.”

“no. it’s okay.”

Hoyoung also smiled at him.

No one knew what they were thinking of each other beneath their smiling faces.

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The next day, Ho-young, who spent Shin-jeong happily with her family, went to work the next day.

At the office, Hoyoung checked the time difference and immediately called Eric.

“Eric. Can I answer your phone?”

– yes. Available.

“I think we are starting to notice that we are buying Myungsung Electronics stock.”

– Is that so? We’ve been doing it as secretly as possible, do you even know we’re doing it?

“It is not. I can’t seem to pinpoint where it is. I think they are just suspicious because of the unusually fast disappearance of items in the market.”

– It’s not a dangerous step yet. But just in case, I will move more carefully.

Eric said what he wanted to ask before Hoyoung could even say it.

“I was going to say that.”

– It seems that your mind is connected.

Hoyoung seemed to be able to see Eric’s frowning face through the phone.

“Then how many stocks have you accumulated so far?”

– We collected about 5.1% of the total stake.

“5.1%? It’s bigger than I thought, right?”

– There was a lot of bleeding. I spent about 80 million dollars, that is, close to 85 billion in Korean money.

“That amount doesn’t matter. We can afford up to $200 million, so please accumulate more.”

– All right.

After hanging up the phone, Hoyoung thought it was fortunate that it was 1991.

In the future, the so-called 5% rule, a law requiring mass reporting of stocks will occur.

It was one of the laws to prevent speculative funds or hostile M&A with a law that requires reporting to the Financial Supervisory Service within 5 days if someone owns more than 5% of the total stock.

However, it took more than 10 years for the 5% rule to be introduced, so no one knew that Hoyoung was collecting shares of Myeongseong Electronics.

“How about the investments Eric is making separately?”

– Society It can be said that it is a success, but it is not satisfied at all.

“What do you mean?”

– 18% return in 6 months. An investment that started with $30 million grew to $35.4 million.

“Isn’t that a huge success? You worked hard.”

– But compared to the investment the boss made, it’s a shabby performance.

“yes? What kind of small grain is that?”

Eric said something in an unfair voice.

– Aside from the fact that Dell Computer made profits hundreds or thousands of times, the stock price is soaring as research on new workstations is active as NeXT invests a huge amount of money.

“Is that so? I didn’t even think about it because I wasn’t paying attention.”

Hoyoung thought that it had changed a lot from the original history he knew.

Originally, it was a fate that had to be absorbed into Apple as it was after continuing to sink endlessly, but as the investment of tens of millions of dollars came in, it seemed that Steve Jobs was once again risking his life and death.

– Yes, and that’s not all. Pixar is also showing good signs.

“Is that so?”

– It is said that an offer has come from Disney to make a theatrical version animation together.

“That’s good news.”

Fortunately, this was similar to what Hoyeong knew.

– Anyway, the companies that the boss touched were all successful. It is a figure that has increased by more than 80% in 6 months simply by the stock price that has risen. Except for Dell computers. What kind of trick do you have?

Eric’s voice was quite serious.

His pride for having worked for an investment company all his life was hurt.

“Eric. I’m sorry, but I don’t have any tips. I just invest in companies that I think will do well.”

It was impossible to say that he knew the future, so Hoyeong just said anything to gloss over it.

However, Eric was rather relieved by Hoyoung’s words.

– Oh, I see. I’m so glad.

“What are you happy about?”

– The boss is just a genius of investment, so I decided to convince him. There seems to be an innate sense.

“yes?”

– If the boss was a typical investor who analyzes charts and aggregates information to predict the future, I might be frustrated. Because the difference is so big. But thinking of him as a born genius made me feel at ease.

“That is optimistic.”

– Yes? That’s my biggest strength. ha ha ha.

Hoyoung and Eric laughed for a while before hanging up the phone.

Securing a 5% stake in Myeongseong Electronics was significant.

Currently, Myeongseong Electronics is growing in size day by day.

‘Currently, Myungsung Electronics is facing several face value splits and capital increase, so the group’s controlling stake has not been mixed much. That’s why now is the time to have the first and last chance to attack Myeongseong Electronics.’

Ho-yeong looked at the document Jo Jung-sik handed over and made up his mind.

smart-

Just then, the knocking sound broke Hoyeong’s thoughts.

“Chief. This is Mason.”

“Come on in.”

Knock’s main character was Mason.

“Mason. what happened?”

“I came to make a suggestion.”

“What is it?”

Mason took a deep breath before opening his mouth.

“Now next week, the metropolitan area will have the infrastructure to open ADSL.”

“Oh, is that so?”

“yes. So, what do you think about opening the metropolitan area first?”

“Um… I said the other day that I wanted to open simultaneously across the country as much as possible.”

When Hoyoung refused, Mason took a step closer to Hoyoung and said.

“It takes at least six months to a year at the longest to wait for repeater parts to be installed nationwide.”

“In the first place, I was preparing for the next year (93). The reason why I am going to conduct simultaneous nationwide service is to further develop our own technology by that time. This is because, if the service is to be carried out, it is clear that technology development will not be of great concern while carrying out the service.”

“However, there is a large concentration of population in Seoul. I think it would be a better way to hurry up and improve commercialization as soon as possible.”

Despite Hoyoung’s determined attitude, Mason did not give up.

“Are you trying to commercialize a technology that is not yet 100% complete?”

“It’s not 100% complete, but I’m proud to say that 90% is complete. We can gradually fill in the rest as we service.”

“Are you trying to make Seoul citizens the subjects of clinical trials?”

“I’m not saying clinical trials, I’m saying let’s get a taste of the communications revolution first.”

Hoyoung looked at Mason for a moment.

A face full of will.

And I was full of confidence that I could definitely do it.

Hoyoung looked at him and smiled.

“All right. Then, in the Seoul area, we will try to see it as soon as possible.”

“Is that true!”

“yes. Instead, you have to do it really well. If we provide low-quality services, the image of Hermes Telecom that consumers think will be very bad in the future.”

“Thank you for your permission. I will try hard.”

“yes. Take good care of me.”

Mason said good-bye and went back to his lab.

Seeing him, Hoyoung also felt better.

The active and proactive way of working was what he liked the most.

“Then, I guess we should put more effort into ADSL now.”

Even though it is only in the Seoul area, since we decided to commercialize it, we had to focus on advertising and publicity in the future so that even one more person could use ADSL.

Hoyoung picked up the phone.

“hello? senior? This is Hoyoung. happy new year. I have a favor to ask of you, so may I go over now?”

The person Hoyoung called was Jinchan Lee of H&H.

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Moments later, Hoyoung was sitting in Jinchan Lee’s room at H&H, facing Jinchan Lee.

“When you’re busy, you can’t see a single nose poke on your face, but you come across right away like this because you need something. You bad guy.”

“haha. Sorry. But where are you seeing your face like this?”

Lee Jin-chan’s words were to criticize Ho-yeong, but his expression was not at all like that.

Hoyoung, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time, had a happy expression on his face.

“what the. I speak well. Anyway, you mean we want you to take a job in H&H’s public relations department?”

“Yes.”

Hermes did not yet have an advertising and public relations department.

However, H&H already had it, so I decided to use it.

“With the usage fee.”

“A fee?”

“Then did you try to hire our public relations department personnel without paying anything?”

Lee Jin-chan was half joking, but half serious.

“Perhaps I will have to pay for the use.”

“What?”

“I told you once before. There are programs you need to use the Internet.”

“okay. Did you say Internet browser?”

“The browser will only be provided through Cronos, so do you need to pay more than that?”

Lee Jin-chan knelt down! and hit

“Right. is this huge? Doesn’t that mean that even people who have used Windows or Apple until now should naturally use Kronos if they want to surf the Internet?”

Hoyoung smiled.

In the past, the exclusive supply contract for Internet browsers with Tim Berners-Lee was finally shining.

“As you know, our company lacks manpower, not lack of funds. Please put advertisements on TV, newspapers and radio. The funds are sufficient.”

“Yeah, I got it. Then, first of all, I need to give instructions to the publicity department and make a copy. Should I leave it to a professional advertising company? Do you have anything in mind?”

“First of all, I have some copy phrases in mind.”

“What?”

Hoyoung said while holding back a slight laugh.

“Follow me if you will.”