Chapter 256 Equity Awards
In the good times when countless Internet companies began to rise, no one knew whether they would be the next Bill Gates.
Thousands of large and small enterprises in Silicon Valley, tens of thousands of entrepreneurs are counting on the rise of new industries in the short past few years, Sumu's World Communication Network Alliance has broken the original deadlock, with the increase in the number of people using the Internet, the scale of the industry is also expanding.
Fortunately, compared with many entrepreneurs with little future, Su Mu has undoubtedly been called a success, with enough resources and experience, the first to enter the Internet industry, the successful promotion of the Bee chat program has made a good start for Galaxy, and the second new program is also waiting to be tested by users.
The new term "web spider crawler" for search engines, coined by the members of the browser OO project development team, compares the entire Internet to a large web, and spiders and crawlers continuously crawl data in the Internet and store those network resources in the server. Whenever a user retrieves the information they want to know, they are actually looking for files related to it in the company's server, and display it through the browser, it is not enough to find it, after all, the information in the entire Internet is too cluttered, and a complete set of display methods is also needed, and the information that best meets the needs of users is put in the forefront.
Now these Internet companies only need to make, can meet the needs of users of the product, whether it can make money in the early stage does not need to be considered, charging is destined to mean that the user group has become narrow, not to mention that there is no network payment channel, the use of the Internet to provide services and charge, too troublesome.
Su Mu prepared sufficient funds to ensure that there was no need to be "robbed" for the development of the Galaxy Group, and when he heard him say that he was willing to purchase a supercomputer and server, James wrote the word happy on his face and laughed: "This is what you said, don't think it's expensive when the time comes!"
Let's go upstairs and give it a try, and when we test the reliability of spider crawlers, we have already scraped some files on the web, and maybe you can find the news you want to know from the forums through the search engine. ”
"Then what are you waiting for, we'll go upstairs now! The employees of the OO project team have been busy for so long, you find a time for them to take a few days off and take paid vacation, and you too. ”
James smiled: "Even if you don't say it, I'm going to take a leave of absence for a while, find a scenic island to relax, do you know that our company's mini-game has sold more than 10,000?"
"You mean those two air combat games?"
Su Mu nodded and replied, "I saw the sales data, and now it's just a small fight, and I don't expect them to make much money." ”
"We think the same way, first accumulate experience, there are too few talents with game development experience, there may be a market in the future, I mean wait until the computer hardware reaches a certain level, and it is not possible to develop games that are good enough at the moment, or Bee and OO are more important, you said that you would give us equity rewards, don't forget in the future. ”
"Regret not working with me on the Spider email in the first place?"
James shook his head: "With such a big investment, I can't see the prospect clearly, I didn't regret it at the beginning, and I don't regret it now."
However, if I miss the opportunity to hold a stake in Bee or OO, I will definitely regret it in the future, and recently not only we have said it, but also people in other companies in Silicon Valley have been saying that whether it is live chat or browser, it is an important Internet project in the future. ”
Patting him on the shoulder, Su Mu walked out of the office with his leg raised, and said: "I also think so, when recruiting excellent software and hardware engineers, if the performance is excellent, they will be given a part of the equity reward stipulated in the contract, of course I will not forget this matter."
But a supplementary agreement must be signed, otherwise what will happen to me if these people get the equity and walk away with it, so it must be stipulated that even if they leave our company, they are not allowed to participate in the field of work in the same industry for five or ten years. I've always felt that it's not good to use contracts to forcibly restrict them, but recently people have been leaving, it's time to be ruthless, it doesn't matter if ordinary employees go or not, those project directors and senior engineers can't leave, and I will draw up an option reward plan before the end of the year, or the same sentence as I said before, everyone will make a fortune together. ”
Recently, there are still employees leaving, just received as many as 20 resignation letters, perhaps because of the success of Bee, stimulated this group of arrogant young people, many of whom have just graduated from college, and some of whom have been poached by Su Mu with money from other companies, in short, they are not satisfied with the status quo, and hope that they can also become one of the many entrepreneurs.
James was also puzzled when he heard this, and said to Su Mu at this moment: "I will tell them this good news, you are very good to the employees of the company, you must be very happy."
Sue, what do you think of those resignation guys...... As far as I know, many people don't even know what they're going to do next, just because they heard that a friend or a former colleague or classmate started a business, so they think they will succeed, it's not that simple. ”
Sumu shrugged.
"Maybe I will succeed, I am not very old, but I have already made so much money, and if I can succeed, others may be able to do the same. Nowadays, Silicon Valley is full of opportunities, write some code in your own room, you have the opportunity to be favored by investors, sell at a high price, relatively speaking, work safely, the future is indeed limited, how do you know if you will be like me if you don't try. ”
The wave of resignation not only appeared in Galaxy, but also in many large companies, including Oracle and Microsoft, which have the largest number of employees and senior engineers, and many people are not satisfied with the status quo, so they start their own businesses and become bosses.
Take Oracle founder Larry Ellison, for example, who was a small employee of a company before he started his business, and is now a famous billionaire in Silicon Valley.
It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, and the employees plan to resign and start a business, Su Mu can't stop them, so he doesn't care much, he can agree on the spot, and if he doesn't agree, he will still agree when they finish their work, and the reward should be given a lot of money.
There are too many opportunities in Silicon Valley, and it is not surprising that people who are dazzled have appeared, they all feel that they are different and lucky, and Su Mu does not dare to say that they will definitely fail until they really fail.
James, who was worried about asking such a question, also had the idea of quitting his job and starting a business, and Su Mu asked him tentatively: "What, do you want to learn from them to start their own projects?"
"I? I don't have that mind, I just expect you to give me more option awards, or I have a goal of continuing to work hard, a market value of 300 million US dollars, a market value of 500 million US dollars, and then I can spend money to buy these shares and become a shareholder of the company. ”
"No, no, James, I'm going to give you a stake award directly, no need to spend money to buy, at least one percent of Bee's shares, and soon it's worth a million dollars......"