Free Insider X by Dave Buschi Page B

“acquisitions” were becoming almost too easy.  These two executives had thought nothing about taking the deal.  It enriched their coffers in the immediate term, albeit at the expense of their “sucker investors”, and that was all that mattered to them.  They probably would have sold their own mothers, if the offers were high enough.
    Yet even with their singular, happily obsessive greed, Sweetwater and Meade had still overlooked the big picture.  They had been so intent on pumping the price up before the sale, they had lost sight of what they actually had.  Had they waited a little longer, they could have sold their company for ten times the price they’d agreed.
    As Hu’s SUPREME LEADER would say, greed will be these cows’ downfall .  According to SUPREME LEADER, Americans didn’t have the capacity to visualize, to see beyond the here and now, to touch and taste what the future could be.  These two lesser individuals (true to their archetype), were like American cows, penned in constrictive cages, unable to see beyond their feeding troughs directly in front of them.
    Eat!  Eat!  Fatten yourselves, you corporate lions of America.
    Hah!   Cows who thought they were lions.  They were oblivious of what really awaited them, just around the bend, past their line of sight… the hammer gun in the slaughter pen.  As long as they got fat now was all that mattered to them.
    There was no such thing as a ten- or twenty-year plan for American companies.  Such thinking, according to their profligate CEOs, was for suckers.  Because only a sucker fattened their successor’s pockets.
    No.  Better to eat now, eat eat eat, while the eating was still good.  Men like Sweetwater and Meade were like cows, nose deep in their troughs.
    They thought EMex was doomed to fail.  That there was too much additional investment necessary to make the concept work.  That the cost structure, the price they would need to sell the units and still make a profit was “prohibitively high”.
    The silly nearsighted bovines didn’t get it.  But that annoying Mr. Carter (one of their so-called “sucker investors”) had.  It had taken him all of two seconds to see the potential of EMex.  And he’d been right.  It was a game changer.  But that was only half of it.
    EMex was so much more than it appeared on the surface.
    Hu considered this moment.  One day he might tell his progeny of his role in the “China Dream”.  All the deals he had helped broker, just like this one.  How the corporate elite of America (like dimwitted cows) had sold out their country one shortsighted little deal at a time.
    Perhaps he should heed Meade’s and Sweetwater’s concern.  Those investors, Morganfield and Carter, could get chatty at some point.  Particularly when EMex got released and began to reap success.  The price point of the unit would make it move quickly.
    Free had a way of doing that.  Forget a thousand dollars a unit.  That—to Meade’s point—was prohibitively high.  But the soon-to-be new owners, a Beijing-based company hand selected by SUPREME LEADER, and blessed with the full support of the Politburo (who just so happened to have all State banks within the PRC at their disposal), had true vision for the product.
    Offer a better product and better experience and make it free with a nominal two-year service agreement.  Like cell phones given free in America, customers would receive the EMex free, and they just had to sign up for two years of service.  But in this particular case, their $19.99 a month was going to give them access to all the games they could possibly want.  Not just IDF’s complete game portfolio, but any Activision, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, (simply “name your game manufacturer here”) game offering could be streamed directly to their gaming device of choice; be it their home computer, flat screen TV, iPad, laptop, PDA device, smartphone, or whatever.
    EMex was revolutionary in that it was