In the traditional software industry, the update cycle of a software can be as long as several years, for example, Office only updates a version in two or three years, and users do not feel that there is any problem, because the business model of these application software is to draw a prison, tailor-made, get a bottle for the user, and then the user takes the bottle to fill the water, how big the bottle is and how much water, and there is no overflow problem. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, in the Internet industry, if a program is not updated for a few years, it will be eliminated, for example, IE will not be updated for several years, and the market will soon be eaten away by Firefox and Chrome, because the Internet is not controlled by anyone, it is constantly growing like flowing water, new features are emerging in an endless stream, and the application software must be constantly reinforced like a dam, otherwise it will be washed away.

Microsoft is a typical traditional software company, congenitally lacking Internet genes, in the original time and space, although Bill Gates published the "Internet wave" But Microsoft's front is too long, there are dozens of project teams, tens of thousands of employees, the ship is difficult to turn around, so the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, and there is no real action, such as IE1.0, because it is really rotten, windows95 did not integrate it at all, but in the form of an expansion package in the form of a take-out disc, this disc costs $50 to buy, sales are very dismal, almost no impact, so not long after the release of windows95, the IT industry and the financial industry think that Microsoft is outdated in the Internet era.

In mid-November 1995, Goldman Sachs analysts suddenly made a surprise and downgraded Microsoft's stock rating, and after the news broke, Microsoft's stock price plummeted, and Bill Gates lost $2 billion in one day On the day of the anniversary, he gave a famous speech and began to make an all-out transformation to the Internet, in just one month, the browser R&D team of 6 people expanded to a few hundred, 3 months later, a few hundred people became 2500 people, 9 months later, Microsoft redesigned IE, launched IE3.0 with no inferior functions and performance as Scape-Navigator, and then used up to 9 billion US dollars in cash reserves to burn money and Netscape to die.

Du Qiu tried his best to cooperate with Microsoft, is to engage in a delaying tactic, to provide a good quality browser to replace the useless IE1.0, let them integrate into Windows95, to maintain the illusion of attaching importance to the Internet to the outside world, in this way, Goldman Sachs should not be so early to lower Microsoft's stock rating, if not, Microsoft's transformation will be relatively slow, not to make a terrifying team of 2500 people at once, otherwise Snapdragon can compete with it.

If Microsoft is fooled, there is a year to buffer, until 1997 began to really exert force, the situation is very different, because for the crossing party is everywhere gold, now Du Qiu will remember the company, the yen exchange rate speculation and Snapdragon shares all add up, at most about 15 million US dollars in assets, but in 1997 there was the Asian financial crisis, lying down can also make assets hundreds of millions, between China and the United States in prices, land prices, wages, There is a gap of dozens of times in terms of taxes and other costs, 100 million US dollars can be used as 2 billion US dollars, and I am not afraid of burning money at all, and Snapdragon will grow a lot at that time, and it is no longer a grass platform team working in a warehouse, even if Microsoft is crazy to expand and burn money, it has the power to fight.

The feasibility of this plan is very high, one is a small company that mainly opens the source software, and the other is an international giant with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, which is completely different, you must know that Microsoft's turnover in 1994 exceeded 40 billion US dollars, and its profit exceeded 5 billion US dollars, which is more than the profits of all other software companies in the world combined, as long as you take 2 days of profits, you can buy Snapdragon, so even if someone sees the risk of this cooperation, they will not take it too seriously, so Du Qiu told Silver Silverberg the story of the Opium War and Sanyuanli, putting himself in an insignificant position, paralyzing them, and making them arrogant。

To borrow a sentence from "The Three-Body Problem", that is, weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is......

"Okay, let's wait for the agreement to be signed. Du Qiu retracted his thoughts and said, "Now let's talk about another thing, that is, the arrangement of interns, take out the list of people you want." ”

Snapdragon recruited a total of 37 fresh interns in May, eliminated 9, and left 28, Du Qiu only explained the basic knowledge during the training, focusing on improving the ability of programming thinking, habits and cooperation, so although the level of these people is high and low, but there is no limit to a certain field, let them choose the direction of development according to their interests, and at the same time let Qin Mu and Xiao Wu and other project directors independently select desirable employees, in the words of the popular official language in 1995, it is two-way flow, and people make the best use of their talents.

Qin Muren has a good relationship, the list submitted is the longest, 12, Xiao Wu second, asked for 9, Xu Yongrui asked for 5, He Lixing is the least, as long as 2, no way, first, he is very demanding, second, few students in China have been exposed to the BSD operating system, and the knowledge is very lacking, these 2 belong to the short general, and they are the most capable of the 28 interns.

"Web design is fast, and it can work with browsers, and Manager Xu's project is very important, so it's too few to give him 5 people. Chen Dayou is very enthusiastic about the idesign project and suggests: "Now the company is not short of money, and it can be recruited on a larger scale." ”

"I have that idea too. Du Qiu began to implement snowball tactics and said: "These interns are recruited in batches, the earliest 10 people will be a month old next week, sign a formal contract with them first, and then send them back to their own schools to continue to recruit interns, and the summer vacation is about to begin, whether it is a fresh graduate who has graduated, or a junior or sophomore student, as long as the foundation is good, you can recruit for internship." ”

Wei Zhiqin bit his ears with Xiao Wu and said, "Look, not only is your stomach full of bad water, but even your heart is black." ”

Although Xiao Wu smiled, his expression was disapproving, and he said: "Those students in school follow Mr. Du for a day, which is stronger than studying in school for a month. ”

Wei Zhiqin was a little surprised when he heard this, and let out a soft sigh and stopped ridiculing.

"Mr. Du, these junior and sophomore interns can only work for two months, and when school starts in September, they will leave again, although it is cheap, but it is unstable. Qin Mu hesitated a little and said: "Otherwise, it's better to focus on fresh graduates, we have such a good momentum now, don't worry about no fresh graduates coming to join." ”

"Fresh graduates, students in school, we have had a lot of exchanges with interns this month, it should be seen that the current teaching resources and teaching quality of computer majors in domestic universities are very poor, unless the self-learning ability is very strong, otherwise the vast majority of students are in school to do nothing, waste of youth. Du Qiu continued to play the role of a black-hearted boss and said: "We are not the government, we don't look at certificates, we only look at ability, fool those excellent students, and if suitable, we can directly sign a work contract with them." ”

"Mr. Du, it's common for college students to drop out of school in the United States, but it doesn't work in China. Li Jianhua is in his 30s, and his thinking is more old-fashioned and conservative, reminding: "It is not easy to go to university, if you go out to work without getting a graduation certificate, even if those students don't care, parents will not give up, and if you don't do it well, it is easy to make trouble and affect the company's image." ”

That's the same thing......

Du Qiu is a fake black heart really seeking talents, and wants to use word of mouth and virus transmission to spread the fame of Snapdragon in various universities in China, attracting talents to take the initiative to defect, Chen Dayou is really black-hearted only seeking money, indifferent said: "We can extend the internship period, when to graduate and when to sign a contract, now the junior year will be a senior after the summer vacation, the senior year has nothing else to do except do graduation design and find a job, there is a lot of free time, and you can run back and forth between school and the company." ”

Interns are paid by the day, 30 yuan for the last day, and there is no money on weekends or holidays, only six or seven hundred yuan a month, and the lowest-paid regular workers have 1,500 yuan a month......

It's really black-hearted......

"What Manager Qin just said is also reasonable, interns have uneven abilities and unstable working hours, so they can be a helper, but they can't be the main force. Du Qiu nodded Qin Mu and Xu Yongrui, and said: "Now the company has its own team, strong morale, strong cohesion, and initially formed a healthy and upward corporate culture, no longer have to worry about being damaged by some vices in the industry, the two of you will go to Beijing with the first batch of interns, dig some excellent programmers with work experience and come back, 10 places per person, the salary standard starts from A4, and A6 is capped." ”

Snapdragon's salary system imitates the future Alibaba, which is divided into 10 levels, A1 and A2 belong to interns, A3 is assistant programmers, interns who have signed a formal contract belong to this level, A4 is a junior programmer, A5 is a senior programmer, and A6 is a senior programmer.

Starting from A6, you can hold management positions, such as the director of the R&D team; A7 is an expert, and the management level corresponds to the project director; A8 is a senior expert, and the management level corresponds to the project manager, Xiao Wu, Xu Yongrui and Li Jianhua all belong to this level; A9 is a senior expert, and the management level corresponds to the department director, Qin Mu, He Lixing, and Wei Zhiqin belong to this level, A10 is a researcher, and the management level corresponds to the senior vice president, and there is only Du Qiu at present.

Train a group of students to be descendants, recruit a group of stragglers to come over, assimilate them, then train a batch, recruit another batch, and so on, and by 1997, there were at least 1,000 Snapdragon A4 to A6 employees, enough to fight Microsoft. (To be continued.) )