Even though he couldn’t understand Chinese, he could detect the flippant tone in Qiao Yu’s livestream, showing not a shred of respect for Microsoft, only unabashed disdain.
However, after Qiao Yu uttered these words, Satya Nadella suddenly restrained his temper.
There was no need to ask those scientists at the Microsoft Research Institute; he already knew that their Majorana chip was still at a nascent stage, designed to tackle future challenges rather than present ones.
Even with the relatively mature Azure Quantum cloud service platform, it is highly unlikely that one could control the main wallet of a cryptocurrency trading platform in just ten minutes.
It was clearly unwise to engage in a direct confrontation at this mont, so he couldn’t afford to lose his temper.
Therefore, when he spoke, he set the tone for the next eting right away: "It’s ti to end this farce. Find a way to get in touch with Qiao Yu and end this livestream as soon as possible."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the eting room exchanged looks.
Soone’s doing a livestream, and you’re going to negotiate with Qiao Yu to make them stop? How do you do that?
Of course, everyone could understand Satya Nadella’s helplessness. Qiao Yu directly targeted the stock market in the livestream. No one could tolerate that.
For CEOs of these Arican tech companies, one of the most crucial asures of their managerial ability is the company’s stock price. This explains why large tech companies are particularly fond of playing with concepts and telling stories.
After all, stock prices are not only linked to the interests of the investors behind the company but also to the interests of all the senior executives within the company. This includes Satya Nadella himself.
Company executives will undoubtedly hold the company’s stock, and most of it is restricted stock.
Hence, the long-term positive trend of the stock price is crucial. Ideally, when people’s equity can be cashed out, the stock price should still be soaring.
If a decision causes the company’s stock price to experience abnormal declines, or even remain in a downtrend for a long ti, the CEO in question would be deed unqualified.
There wouldn’t even be the need for a vote of no confidence from the board; a large number of executives would beco disloyal to the leader.
Evidently, if this livestream continues, allowing Qiao Yu to continue his obvious targeting of Microsoft without any effective counterasures, it will indeed affect the stock market’s fluctuations.
Having just told a story yesterday and now being confronted today, and being unable to respond appropriately, what would investors think? What about the general retail investors?
As for giving a tit-for-tat response?
Don’t be ridiculous.
Even though not every executive in the eting room understands technology, they understand capital.
If Microsoft could really, like Qiao Yu’s team, control the server backend in just ten minutes under fully prepared conditions on the opponent’s side, even directly locating the opponent’s main wallet and transferring all the virtual currency inside, Microsoft would have long started collecting protection fees from these platforms in various forms.
Microsoft’s stock price might already have surpassed Google and the value of all other tech companies, becoming the biggest tech company in the universe.
Their quantum computing technology can only be said to be leading within a certain range, but hasn’t reached the capability to do such things.
Thus, finding a way to make Qiao Yu end this livestream is undoubtedly the best solution to prevent the damage from escalating.
Everyone feared what else might co out of Qiao Yu’s mouth and were even more afraid that comnts from the Huaxia livestream audience might trigger Qiao Yu into taking action against certain markets.
Although the three major stock markets in the United States were closed, markets like futures trading were still open.
A child who hasn’t fully matured but already wields terrifying power is very frightening, frightening to the point of sending chills down one’s spine upon deeper thought.
The problem is, understanding is one thing, but how to communicate with Qiao Yu now? Who should communicate with him?
While everyone remained in mutual perplexity, Satya Nadella’s phone on the table suddenly rang.
The Microsoft CEO glanced at it, imdiately stood up, and said, "You guys continue to discuss a plan, find a way to end this livestream within ten minutes."
After speaking, he took the phone and walked into the small room beside the eting room, then answered the call.
The next mont, an unfriendly voice ca over the phone.
"This shouldn’t have developed like this, it’s not in line with your promise. This makes feel very foolish."
"Yes, so things have indeed exceeded expectations..."
"No, no, no, it’s not exceeding expectations; it’s you underestimating the disruptive power of new technology! This is terrifying! It can’t continue like this! Regardless of the potential of quantum hardware in the future, we must first have a future! I hope you understand this, Mr. Nadella!"
"Of course, we are already discussing how to terminate this farce."
"Good, it seems we have reached a consensus! Quickly make that damn guy shut up, I an at all costs! If everything spirals out of control, it won’t just be about whether you can continue being the CEO safely."
"Understood, Mr. Gates."
After hanging up the phone, Satya Nadella resisted the urge to throw the phone out, stood at the sa spot for a mont, took a deep breath, and cald down.
Though aware the real big figures were starting to shift the bla, he had no options. Satya Nadella knew too well that his skin color dictated that his current achievents already represented his ceiling.
Just like his salary could never catch up with Tim Cook’s, even if there wasn’t that much of a gap between their abilities. Even surpassing Apple’s profit-making capabilities with Microsoft still wouldn’t grant him such possibilities.
And when it ca to bearing the bla, he was undoubtedly a good choice. High in position and authority, yet not irreplaceable.
These damn, hypocritical guys...
And of course, there was also that little brat from Huaxia!
Ten seconds later, Satya Nadella regained his composure and then re-entered the eting room.
The murmurs in the eting room died abruptly as Satya Nadella returned.
All the executives looked toward the current leader.
"Do we have a plan?" Satya Nadella asked directly.
This was not the ti to brush things off with words.
Considering the little ti left for him, as long as Qiao Yu remained on cara, who knows what else he might say or what earth-shattering actions he might undertake.
It’s important to note that Qiao Yu had only been streaming for twenty minutes so far, and it had already made those behind the scenes unable to sit still. If the livestream went on for one or two hours, he couldn’t even imagine what might happen.
"Yes, Mr. Nadella. We have already communicated with the three major exchanges. Regardless of the true situation, at least the other side has admitted that this security test against the three major exchanges was by invitation.
So we hope that the exchanges will step in to coordinate the end of this livestream as soon as possible. Of course, this may require so costs. The Huaxia party might make so demands."
Satya Nadella took a deep breath, gave the speaking senior vice president a aningful look, and thought of what Bill Gates had said earlier: "At all costs!" Hence, he straightforwardly repeated it.
"I said, at all costs, to make that young man shut up quickly! In addition, you can think of other ways. The people from Google’s previous negotiations with him, the mathematicians, or even your personal connections.
In short, any relationships that can connect to Qiao Yu now, can all be utilized. Our ti is short. I hope that this farce can terminate in no more than twenty minutes! You can make promises, like million-dollar projects or investnts!"
Nurous surprised glances were cast towards Satya Nadella, beginning to speculate about whose call it was just now...
To make such a promise shows the imnse pressure of being in that position at this ti.
So others’ gazes subconsciously drifted towards the ongoing livestream, especially that young face animatedly speaking to the cara...
That is a feeling of humiliation.
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