Playing financial warfare, Wu Tao is not good at it.

But seeing that Molly was so enthusiastic about it made him relieved.

With Molly in charge of the overall situation, it is enough for him to occasionally cooperate with the recording and have a coffee chat with Mr. Anderson, the founder of Netscape.

In addition, Wu Tao put more energy into preparing the R&D team of the school's intranet and blog.

After a day of traveling, the location of this new Internet technology company was set on the site of a company not far from Tianxing Games on 101 Avenue.

In the days of the dot-com bubble, almost every day, companies in Silicon Valley closed their doors.

The location that Wu Tao has set his eye on was once a medium-sized company, and its stock price once soared to more than $40.

Now it is empty, and one of the company's main buildings and two auxiliary buildings have also ended up selling at a low price.

After Wu Yingying took Wu Tao to visit, she asked cautiously, "Boss, will this company be unlucky if it is prosperous and declining?"

Wu Tao waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid, the predecessor of Tianxing Game Company was a small bankrupt company, and now it's not developing very well?"

In fact, this is also caused by the different environments and cultures of the two countries.

Investing and building factories in Huaxia is mostly to be auspicious and have a new atmosphere. In addition, the cost of construction is relatively low, so many bosses choose to build their own factories.

And here in the United States, especially in the Internet industry, there is a garage that can be engaged in research and development. The investment obtained in advance is often used to purchase servers and other cutting-edge things, and will never be used to build factories and buildings.

However, the next day, when Bill Babbitt brought his team over, he was stunned.

"Mr. Wu, my boss, will this be the location of the new company, the territory we will develop in the future?"

Wu Tao nodded, and glanced at the seven people except for Bill, except for two Indians, the other five were all white.

This number is still a little less than I expected.

Obviously, Bill also realized, and explained in a series of surprises: "Boss, I didn't expect you to invest so much in one fell swoop, so there aren't many people brought in this time." But I can assure you that all of them are veteran programmers. ”

It's not hard to understand why.

At least judging from the number of people brought this time, Bill should have used his brains.

In the case of not knowing Wu Tao's follow-up investment actions, it would be embarrassing if the number of people increased and the new boss couldn't eat. On the other hand, if the number of people is small, it is not appropriate. Because then on the one hand, it seems that he has no influence, and on the other hand, he can't afford the development of the project, which is also in vain.

Jim Fehrman, a programmer who was dragged over by Bill, is a tall, lanky, bearded white man.

He had already received a tap from Microsoft and got a good offer. If Bill hadn't had a good relationship with him, he wouldn't have been moved by it.

However, even so, the first time he saw Wu Tao, he was a little disappointed.

It's actually an Asian Chinese, and he's so young!

Their country is so backward, how much do they know about such a trendy industry as the Internet?

However, when Bill and Wu Tao confirmed that this location was the future new company, Jim's eyes finally changed a little subtly.

Not only him, but the other six people also looked at everything around them with great interest, imagining their pride as the company's patriarch.

At this moment, Bill Babbitt suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "Mr. Wu, may I ask what is your first investment?"

Wu Tao raised two fingers and said, "Twenty million dollars!"

Bill and his party were stunned, looking at each other, and no one spoke.

Wu Tao saw this reaction and hurriedly added: "Of course, if it's not enough, you can add it." At that time, the company's investment and financial work will all be done by my investment company, and you can apply at any time. ”

Bill waved his hand again and again: "No, no, no, my boss, the first investment is so large, it is already quite considerable." Then he thought about it and sighed: "It seems that I have to go back and dig some more people to come over......."

At this time, Jim suddenly interjected and asked: "Mr. Wu, for the product you are interested in, I think it is more like a developer product, and it is expected that the market will be very limited, I am afraid it is not in line with your big investment." ”

Wu Tao's eyes narrowed, the meaning of this product is probably that he is an old hat in the Internet industry, and he doesn't understand anything, so he knows how to throw money around.

"Jim, can I call you Jim?" As soon as Wu Tao spoke, he took out the momentum of the superior, after all, now is not the time to be low-key.

“…… It is precisely because the current product that I am sensitive to does not meet the expectations of the majority of target users that I hired you to develop it with a high salary. ”

“…… If one day, when it comes to the market, it will still be just a developer product, at least it means that your R&D work is not in place. ”

“…… Of course, if you come up with a product that I'm happy with, and the market doesn't respond well, that's going to be my problem. In fact, I don't believe that will happen. ”

Jim's blue eyes stared at Wu Tao for a long time before he came back to his senses.

From these words, he could hear that the Chinese young man in front of him had a clear demand for the product he wanted, and he was very confident in the future market prospects of this product.

Since this is the case, it is enough.

Bill picked up the conversation and asked, "My boss, have you come up with a name for this new company?"

"Yes, I figured it out. Wu Tao nodded, "SkyScape, how about Tianjing Internet Technology Company?"

Bill's eyes lit up, "This is clearly related to Netscape's Netscape, and to some extent, it is easy for his group to agree." ’

At this point, SkyScape was officially born, located at 668 101 Avenue.

After seeing the new company's territory and the magnanimity of the investment boss, Bill returned to Netscape to poach people much more smoothly.

Although people's hearts have fluctuated during these days, many people have received offers from Microsoft one after another.

Today's Microsoft is booming and lucrative, and it's really a good place to go.

For mediocre programmers, it does.

However, programmers with a little bit of skill under their hands don't think so, and they tend to choose challenging jobs.

The first strike is strong, and the second strike suffers.

So Bill took the opportunity to agitate and lobby, and he really poached a lot of good players.

Bill moved quickly, and eventually the number was fixed at 20 people, and he has formed a lean technical team to complete medium-sized software development projects.

And everyone's offer salary, Wu Tao respected his suggestion and approved it word for word.

In his plan, these are all seed players, on the one hand, as the development team of the intranet technology prototype, and on the other hand, they are also prepared for the follow-up intranet and more local Internet R&D teams.