Chapter 31 Design and A Deal is Struck
"What price do you think this mobile phone should be?" Tony asked Fang Bie beside him, playing with the mobile phone that radiated a silver-white metallic luster all over.
After spending three hours, they finally obtained this laboratory product.
Even Tony, who was used to high-intelligence products, had to admit that this mobile phone really scratched his itch. This simple, efficient, and cool-looking mobile phone could be considered unique in the world.
"600 US Dollars, I think it should sell for at least 600 US Dollars!" Fang Bie blurted out without hesitation. According to the exchange rate of this world, the smartphone he had named M1 was definitely worth 600 US Dollars.
He remembered that in his previous life, the price of Apple also fluctuated around this point, and later even rose to over a thousand US Dollars. It was precisely because of this that Apple Company smoothly became the company with the highest liquid cash and the company with the highest market value in the world.
It is the first company in the world with a market value exceeding one trillion US Dollars. Compared to Tony Stark's apparent net worth of hundreds of billions of US Dollars, it is still dozens of times higher!
"Okay! Then let's price it at 599 US Dollars!" Tony clapped his hands. "Jarvis, what is the cost of this mobile phone?"
"Sir, based on the experimental product calculations and your microchip cost price, the price of one mobile phone should be around 3000 US Dollars. However, if we expand to factory mass production, producing 100,000 mobile phones, the cost price per mobile phone should be reduced to less than 50 US Dollars!" (The author doesn't understand these things, just writing casually, please don't criticize)
This terrifying profit margin not only startled Little Pepper, who had just come down with coffee, but also Obadiah Stane, who came with her. The two of them couldn't contain their excitement and quickly stepped forward to pay closer attention.
"Tony, haven't you been working on your reactor?" Obadiah asked quickly, his eyes fixed on the silver-white prototype.
"That's my matter. You've come at the right time. This is our company's next flagship product, truly epoch-making technology, the M1 Smartphone!" Tony reiterated what the three of them had discussed to the two newcomers.
The expressions on their faces varied, but you could see the joy in their gazes.
Unlike Tony's previously unreliable Ark Reactor, such an epoch-making mobile device, and what it represents, is like computers just being invented. Anyone with eyes could see what kind of revolution it signified!
"Good! Good! Good!" Obadiah exclaimed three times, his voice even slightly distorted, holding onto the prototype tightly.
"Pepper, go and notify all media outlets. I'm going to hold a press conference. The appearance of this mobile phone means it's time to ease the decline of Stark Industries' stock!" Tony said, taking the mobile phone from Obadiah's hand.
His conversation with Fang Bie made him realize the limitless business opportunities contained within this mobile phone. So, of course, he had to seize the time, at least use this new device to stop Stark Industries' plummeting stock.
"Obi, you go and contact the production OEM factories now. Immediately start the production of mobile phones after the press conference. I want to see the first batch of 1 million mobile phones roll out of the factory within three months!" Tony said to Obadiah.
The resentment Obadiah had when he first arrived was long gone. Even the words he had been planning to say had vanished. He nodded excitedly and quickly ran out of the room.
But he didn't see the cold glint in his nephew's eyes behind him, or the strange looks among the other three.
"Obadiah definitely has a problem!" Ethan, who had been playing the role of a tool for so long, finally realized it. He tapped his tablet in the air, displaying a series of information.
"By using this piece of information, we've at least disrupted his plan a bit. Tony, have you found any information about him?" Fang Bie, completely devoid of his previous excitement, said very calmly.
Tony's fingers flew across the keyboard, lines of code appearing rapidly from beneath them. Accompanied by a stream of data, photographs materialized before their eyes.
"When his fingers touched the mobile phone, I intercepted his fingerprint and compared it with the military arms we recovered earlier. Every time the company produces products, Obi has to inspect them. This is his fingerprint!" Tony retrieved a wooden box from his personal space. Inside were the military arms he had recovered from the terrorist base.
"He's been selling military arms to these terrorist organizations behind my back this whole time. Fang Bie, if you hadn't reminded me, I'm afraid I still wouldn't have realized it!" Tony said gratefully.
"It's alright, we're all in the same boat now. You should still be careful. Since he's capable of sending terrorists after you, he's capable of anything. Now that you've given him such a huge wealth-gathering tool, I think he might not be able to restrain himself." Fang Bie said.
He successfully cast out the bait and got the other party to bite down on such a big fish. Everything was going according to his plan.
He was even more excited that a product that had only existed in his memory was now being brought into this world through his own hands. This was what made things feel truly incredible.
"You're coming with me to the press conference later. You're the real designer of this mobile phone. You have the highest authority to speak." Tony said, but Fang Bie quickly shook his head.
"No, no, I've never seen such a big scene. I don't want to embarrass myself in front of you." Fang Bie tried to refuse, but Tony forcibly dragged him into the car.
"Don't worry, what do you have to worry about with me here? Do you think I wouldn't embarrass myself with you? Just confidently state your ideas, and whether we make money depends on your performance!" Tony seemed very confident in his previous statement and, without further ado, pulled him into the car.
Fang Bie felt a little helpless for a moment. How did he end up on this pirate ship? And how come when he wanted to get off, he found the door was welded shut?
"Hey, don't make that face. You're the one who proposed this company. How about this, I'll give you 20% of the stock?" Tony said.
"20%? Are you sure?" Fang Bie suddenly perked up. For a newly established mobile phone company, destined to reach Apple's heights, 20% of the stock would be an unimaginably large figure.
Moreover, Stark Industries isn't short of money. Almost all financing can be done in-house. Calculating it this way, that final 20% of the stock would be an unimaginably large figure.
Although he wasn't from this world, and wouldn't be staying in this world for long, as an ordinary person, being able to possess such a vast fortune was exciting just to think about.
"Deal! It's a deal!" Fang Bie quickly agreed, fearing the other party might go back on their word.
And at this moment, their car had just driven outside the Door...
ps: The signed contract has already been sent out, but due to the holiday, it's estimated we'll have to wait until work resumes to receive a reply.
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