Chapter 147: Columbia Records
In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yi arrived in Sam's Country, it has been more than two months, and the Chinese New Year will be more than a month away.
Due to the recession of Sam's country, the employment situation is very unoptimistic, and the recruited employees are still very conscientious in their work. When it comes to finance, administration and personnel, he has his own set of balancing measures.
Despite this, he still transferred a group of middle-level personnel from China to enrich the Sam Country branch.
This group of middle-level people is composed of the old team that started a business together. Although the cultural quality of veterans is generally not very high, after almost a year of intensive training, a group of available talents has emerged.
For example, this group of middle-level personnel who are transferred to Sam's Country is composed of various types of personnel who are proficient in English.
Although it is not possible to take over the affairs of Sam's Country Branch all at once, the white-collar elites introduced by these headhunting companies can follow and learn and promote the integration of local employees of Sam's Country Branch and employees of the Celestial Empire.
The address of the branch is located in Silicon Valley, which is the gathering place of Sam Nation Technology Company, and the various policies provided by the local government are also very suitable.
In 1956, Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Silicon Valley.
Later, Noyce and Moore, who came out of this laboratory, founded Intel Corporation. Another engineer, Sanders, founded AMD.
If we say that semiconductors and integrated circuits contributed to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Silicon Valley, then, is the birthplace of this industrial revolution.
In addition to the semiconductor industry, this place is also known for the software industry and the Internet service industry. Xerox's research center in Palo Alto has made pioneering contributions in the areas of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), GUI (Graphical Interface), Ethernet, and laser printers. Many of today's leading companies have benefited from Xerox's research, such as Apple and Microsoft, which have used GUI GUI for their operating systems.
Since Silicon Valley is home to the prestigious Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, Cisco was founded out of the urgent need to freely transfer data between the campus networks of major universities.
Considering that in the next ten years, the land here will be the most expensive on the west coast of Sam's Country. Zhang Yi spent a lot of money to buy a piece of land nearby, and in addition to building the headquarters of Sam's Country, he will also build staff housing here to meet the needs of the growing number of employees in the future.
Few of Sam's Nation's local employees like to buy their own properties, and they are basically rented houses. However, if the employees of the Celestial Empire rent a local house, their living habits may be very different from those of the locals.
If nothing else, it is the way of cooking, there is too much fume, and the difference between it and the locals is too great.
Sometimes, the conflict of influence of this different lifestyle habits can have a great negative impact.
In preparation, he decided to build a large number of staff dormitories and manage them in a unified manner to avoid conflicts with the locals.
After all, most of his employees are demobilized soldiers. If it is targeted by the locals, the Sam Country media, which has always liked to demonize the Celestial Empire, is estimated to be like a fly smelling stinky meat, and it will cause wind and rain.
Instead of passively waiting, it is better to take the initiative to resolve it, which is nothing more than a relationship that costs more money.
What's more, with the development of technology companies, the price of land in Silicon Valley will only get higher and higher, so it is good to invest in land and make a cameo appearance as a real estate developer.
For the architectural design of the company's headquarters, Zhang Yi sent a message directly through the familiar media: the solicitation of architectural design ideas, regardless of individuals or studios, will be evaluated by a professional architect firm in a month, select the best works, and give a creative reward of 1 million US dollars.
Finally, a surprising and surprising bonus was given.
That is, a song written and composed by Zhang Yi himself will be given to the best creatives.
After the media released the news, they once again hyped up the popularity of Micro Hard Company and Zhang Yi, which had cooled slightly.
The cash prizes reported by the media are not very attractive to the established architects.
However, due to the popularity of the song "You Raise Me Up", a song written and composed by Zhang Yi himself has become very attractive to everyone.
In a country like Sam's Country, where famous songwriters are famous, every song is expensive. The point is that a famous songwriter would never write lyrics and music for an ordinary person.
And the popularity of this song pushed Zhang Yi to a height that he couldn't even imagine.
You must know that the national spirit of Sam's people is secretly in line with the artistic conception of this song, as if this song is sung for Sam's people.
In fact, after the upcoming events of 911 in the future. On the ruins of the World Trade Tower, people commemorate those who have lost their loved ones and colleagues, and this song is sung, which shows how much this song has had a great impact on Sam's people.
If you can create a song created by Zhang Yi and give it to yourself to sing, will it be like Zhang Yi, through a song, and become popular.
When the media was fermenting this matter, Columbia Records, under the name of SONY, officially announced a news, stating: For the lucky winner of Zhang Yi's lyrics, Sony will provide a free backing band and a professional recording studio to complete the recording of the song. If the person has no interest in singing, he or she can also transfer the song to Sony for $1 million.
After seeing the media reports, Zhang Yi couldn't help but be speechless for a while, and hyped up the concept of the company's headquarters.
It's just that this god assist is very good, and it completely solves the difficulties of people who want to show their singing voices, unlike the stereotypical Japanese character.
After all, it's hard for an individual to afford a backing band. What's more, professional recording equipment is expensive and far from a luxury that individuals can have.
In fact, Columbia Entertainment, which is wholly owned by SONY, is basically composed of Sam's country and Europeans, and although the Japanese have ownership in it, they have little to do with the Japanese genetically.
When Zhang Yi felt that everything was taken for granted and smooth sailing, the staff of Columbia Entertainment suddenly contacted him and wanted to visit, he felt that something was wrong.
It's just a song that is famous, as Sam's Country is second only to Warner Bros. Columbia Records, with countless artists under its umbrella, and there are many exclusive lyricists and composers, such a big company, there is no need to pay attention to him!
This doesn't make sense, and it doesn't make sense!
However, in any case, it is not wrong to get in touch with it, although it is a company dominated by Europeans and Americans, who made its owner Japanese!
From the point of view of the CIH virus killing, Zhang Yi has always treated foreign customers as much as he can. As for the Japanese, who disgusted all the people of the Celestial Empire, if they can't say it, they have to pick up the guillotine and cut it down!