Chapter Seventy-Four: Acquisition of Motorola
Li An took a sip of water and continued: I will not fire you, but I need to choose the president of Motorola mobile phone from the beginning, you have to be demoted to vice president, full-time responsible for research and development, this is your specialty, and your salary will not change 1 million US dollars per year, and if the team you lead can develop more advanced systems and chips, I will give you a separate bonus, and even give you some equity.
Hearing Ang Lee's words, Steve breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: You will be a wise leader, I am really not good at leading the company, you know? I have been the president for 6 years, and the original dense show has fallen by half, and I have been worried every day, and now I can finally sleep well, I will return to the Ministry of Science and Technology from the beginning, and lead them to develop the world's best mobile phones, you know? The world's first miniature digital signaling mobile phone, StarTAC weighs only 96 grams, which I led the team to develop, and he identified Motorola's status as the world's mobile phone supremacy, but unfortunately it became a booster for me to become president.
The people in the head office are just pigs, let me lead the company as a person engaged in R&D. Fake.
Ang Lee stood up and said: I believe that you will definitely develop a mobile phone that can make a sensation in the world again.
Steve smiled and said, "Thank you, I won't let you down."
Li An said: You call everyone in the company's scientific research department and design department to the conference room, I want to hold a meeting with the big guys.
Steve nodded happily.
Ang Lee read two documents in the president's room, took a sip of water, stood up and walked out of the president's room.
When he came to the conference room, Li An saw that there were seven or eight hundred people in the spacious hall.
Ang Lee came to the podium and modulated the microphone and said: Colleagues, hello everyone, my name is Ang Lee, and I acquired our mobile phone business unit of Motorola two hours ago, which means that I will be your boss from now on.
It is an honor to be able to work with you in the future, and I would like to announce a few things.
First, all of you who are doing it will raise your wages by 30 percent.
Second, Motorola belongs to a Chinese company, so all companies who are willing to go to China for development will be allocated a house at a 50% markup on their wages and those who have worked in China for five years.
Thirdly, the R&D department and the design department will be the two most important departments of Motorola, so everyone who develops a new generation of systems and chips will be given a bonus of 500,000 to 1 million, but you need to sign a confidentiality contract with the company to ensure that no information about the company is leaked. I will set a high penalty for liquidated damages, and you decide whether to sign it or not.
The third and most important thing is that I would like to announce the spirit and culture of the new company.
- Focus on design, firmly believe in the company, listen to criticism, never admit defeat, pay attention to details, irreplaceable, confidentiality is paramount.
Okay, that's all I'm going to talk about, do anyone have any questions?
After Li An finished speaking, there was a burst of warm applause below, after all, everyone was happy to have given such a high salary increase.
After the applause stopped for a while, an older man raised his hand and said: I want to ask a question, I don't care which country the company is in, I want to ask what the company's software and hardware research and development needs a lot of money, how much research and development funds will Mr. Li give every year!
Ang Lee said: For the time being, I will invest $400 million in R&D funds in two years, and I will see the situation in the right way in the future.
The old man nodded and did it, although 400 million US dollars is not much, but it is okay for the current R&D department.
After answering questions for two hours at the venue, Ang Lee was able to completely control the two most important departments of the company.
Ang Lee asked Steve to arrange for the company's technicians to fly to China and then come back to arrange a place for them, after all, his acquisition of Motorola was completely accidental, and he had to go back as soon as possible to arrange it.
After calling Charles and entrusting him with full responsibility for the acquisition of Weta Digital, Ang Lee flew back to China.
The next day, Ang Lee returned to China, standing at the airport and breathing in the fresh air, Ang Lee felt extraordinarily comfortable.
I spent $1.75 billion on a trip to the United States, and I spent more than half of the $2.8 billion I originally brought over, and I still have $1.05 billion left. In addition, Motorola has to set aside 400 million dollars in R&D funds for this money, and only 650 million US dollars can be used by itself.
After acquiring so many companies, you must have a building no matter how you find them! But looking at the money in your hand, you can only buy a small building on the outskirts of the magic capital.
Li An took out his mobile phone and made a call to Wang Dahu.
Hey, Uncle Wang, I'm Ang Lee.
Wang Dahu said: I have your phone number, thank you so much for my daughter's business, I am much more honest at home these days, and I don't say some rumors anymore, is there something wrong with my nephew looking for me?
Ang Lee said: That's right, I want to ask you if you have a commercial building in the magic capital, I plan to buy one and pay in installments.
Wang Dahu thought for a while and said: I have two commercial buildings in the magic capital that I keep under my name for rent, a 58-story building is priced at 14 billion yuan in the magic metropolitan area, and a 38-story building is just built in the suburbs and is about to be rented out, with a price of 8.5 billion. Which one do you want?
Li An thought for a while and said shamelessly: I want the 38th floor, do you want a down payment of 500 million?
Wang Dahu smiled and said: Okay, if you want to, go live first, and talk about it when you have money.
Then he jokingly said: If you can deceive my daughter, I will give you both buildings.
Li An smiled and said, "I'd better buy it myself!" I'm afraid I'll lose motivation.
Where is your building, I'll go over and see it in a moment and go through the formalities.
Wang Dahu said an address, and Li An remembered it and went straight to Wanda Company.
After coming to Wanda Film and Television, Ang Li saw Huang Siwei's secretary and said: Secretary Liu, call Mr. Huang to come to the conference room with the company's leadership for a meeting.
After saying that, Ang Lee went to the conference room by himself.
After waiting for a while, the leaders of the departments walked in one after another, greeted Li An, and found their positions to do a good job.
Looking at the people who arrived, Li An said: Our company has developed well recently, and everyone has worked hard.
Huang Siwei took the lead in shouting: Leaders work harder.
Li An waved his hand helplessly and said: Okay, the speech will not come, and I will announce a few things below.
First, our company needs to relocate, I bought a 38-story building in the suburbs of Modu as our own base, and it can be renovated in two days, so you go back and prepare, and start moving in a few days.
Second, our company's goal in the future is to become the world's largest film and television company and acquire one of the six major Hollywood companies, so we have to have our own rules and regulations for the corporate culture. It can't be like a small workshop like it is now.
The most important thing for the development of the third company is the screenwriter and director, the work of the Propaganda Department will be handed over to you, merit-based recruitment, the screenwriter is tentatively 15, the director is tentatively five, the screenwriter Huang is interviewed, and the director is interviewed in person.
Fourth, I will not only be a director from now on, I have acquired the Motorola mobile phone company in the United States, and we will have more brother companies in the future, so whether you can get the right to speak in many brother companies depends on your ability.
Yes, we will work hard to achieve the highest profit in the company. The management below said in unison.
Good.
Li An waved his hand and said: Today, the meeting will be dismissed for these few things.
After the meeting ended, Li An rushed to An's non-stop, after all, An Mingxin had helped herself so much, she must have known when she came back, so she had to come over quickly.
knocked on An Mingxin's door, and Li An pushed the door in.
Finding An Mingxin staring at him intently, Li An said: How do you know it's me!
An Mingxin smiled and said: I just know.
Li An smiled, took out a delicate box from his pocket, and handed it to An Mingxin.
An Mingxin took it and looked at it and said: What is this, did you buy the engagement ring?
Ang Lee said: I bought you a gift in the United States, open it and take a look.
When An Mingxin opened it, he found that it was a Patek Philippe women's watch. The market price is about 6 million yuan.
An Mingxin smiled and took out his watch and brought it with himself, saying: You still have a conscience.
Ang Lee said: How are you doing, are there any difficulties?
An Mingxin said: You think I'm an ornament! What difficulties can stump me?
Ang Lee said: It's also how about the box office of "Mr. Zombie".
Hearing Li An say this, An Mingxin smiled and handed Li An a form.