Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Mashup

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''My goal is to make Nine Dragons, in three to five years, the leader in
the world’s consumer marketplace,'' Ms. Zhang wore strange nipped suits, big shouldered and graphic with cinematic silhouettes, said emphatically in a short interview. '' Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of the computer.'' Indeed, at times she seems to be able to defy gravity. But while her design ideas have frequently been runaway successes, there have also been striking failures.
“There were occasional threats from competitors”. Ms. Zhang 's cocaine addiction, which she discussed during an interview on Tuesday, was an open secret in the industry.
"I was crying, laughing, crying, sleeping - I couldn't understand when I was talking; people couldn't understand me," "I think if I hadn't gone to rehab, I would have died."
Instead she saved herself and may also have begun resurrecting a troubled company. She hasn't lost her ambition.
“She's a visionary,'' says Herman Woo. It is not that she invents new technologies, she refines existing ones.
It is not clear how far she will go in letting the device begin to replace the PC and Macintosh for users who have no need to sit in front of a desk or carry a portable computer. ''Right now,'' Mr. Woo adds, ''the largest globally is Smurfit Stone. Weyerhaeuser is No. 2. By 2008, Nine Dragons could be No. 1.''

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