Chapter 691: Dealing with Apple's Breach of Contract
Cloud computing projects are not open and perfect for a year or two, and there is no way to produce results in a short period of time, even if there is a kernel program of Dr. Ye, it needs to be further developed by the team, but it will greatly shorten the development time.
After all, in the IT field, time is a great asset.
The next day, Ridge Green, who received a phone call, came to the company to sign a work contract, and Andy, as the big boss, introduced him to all the staff, and his twenty-third company officially ushered in its CEO.
"Okay, this office is yours, I can also go to the UK with confidence, you also heard at the meeting just now, the company also needs to carry out a professional recruitment to speed up the development of operating procedures, as well as a series of artificial intelligence components need to be talented. ”
Andy took his coffee and looked at Ridge Green across from him a little leisurely and said, to be honest, he used to be very interested in managing the operations of a large company, but with the accumulation of wealth and more and more companies, that idea is a little faded, or a little unrealistic.
However, this kind of management mode that directly controls professional managers is more handy, and loyalty is something that Andy has never had the luxury of foreigners, but it is integrity, professional ethics, and the spirit of contract that makes him more at ease than the kind of ethereal loyalty that needs to be cultivated and tested for a long time.
Of course, supervision is essential, so he has always carried out the selection and management of the legal department and the finance department from his own think tank talent pool, so that he knows each company well and does not deviate from the development direction at the strategic level.
The most important point is that all of Andy's companies are non-listed companies, and the shares are firmly controlled in his own hands, he doesn't have to worry about the company's power, obedient and capable professional managers will reuse themselves, give full trust, and crooked people, they don't need to come forward, an authorization can let the company's legal department directly fire, Andy doesn't even need to come forward.
"I understand. Ridge Green's expression was very serious, he didn't expect the company to hold such two big killers in his hands, the cloud computing kernel operating program, and the initial model of artificial intelligence.
This simply made him extremely excited, and he will now be in charge of a future super unicorn company, which has to be said to make his career even brighter.
"Boss, I think that if we set up our own studio and start from scratch, the time and manpower and material resources required for artificial intelligence components such as image recognition technology, face core technology, speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language understanding and other technologies will outweigh the losses.
There are not many studios with specialized domain technology like this in Silicon Valley, and we can completely select some potential development teams for mergers and acquisitions as needed to refine our own needs.
Spending tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars more is not an unacceptable thing for the boss, and our company can rely on annexation, absorption and digestion to get a complete technology tree, which is undoubtedly the easiest and an important part of promoting the company's technological leap in a short period of time. ”
Andy agrees with Ridge Green, and he has considered this solution, but for now he believes that cloud computing is the company's top priority for development, after all, the evolution and learning of artificial intelligence needs to be based on huge amounts of data.
However, now it seems that it is indeed necessary to prepare early and first do a good job of the company's technical reserves, which is the so-called company technology tree, to deepen the foundation of the Musika company.
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you, and I'm sure your judgment and vision won't disappoint me. ”
Hearing the words of the young boss, Rich Green did not show any flattered expression, but smiled calmly, in the matter of running the company, he is still very confident, after all, he can let BEA and IBM grab the market, and can rely on the cannibalization of market share to finally defeat the plan of this giant company is directed by him, as for the final BEA was acquired by Larry Ellison, it was a non-war crime, just the result of the capitalist's profit-seeking.
Andy said hello to Dr. Ye in the data center, and then left the Musika cloud computing company, because it is a new company, Andy naturally knows that the next period of time will enter the run-in period, but fortunately, he has repeatedly made it clear that the company's administration and operation are the responsibilities and authority of the CEO, and although Dr. Ye, the CTO, is a shareholder, he can only be in charge of the company's technology, and has no authority to carry out administration, personnel, and operation investigations, and the division of labor is very clear, and there is no overlapping management conflict.
Flights to London, England have been booked, and at 10 o'clock tonight, he will travel to England to complete the acquisition of Tottenham Hotspur. Before that, he came to Mockingjay Games and called Michael Wright, the CEO of the software app store on the other side, into the conference room.
"You've all received letters from Apple that they want to restart negotiations, and they want to change the terms they signed upon. Andy has long been prepared for Apple's greed, but he doesn't want to loosen his mouth easily, there is not enough interest, and he Andy Smith will definitely not suffer this kind of aggrieved loss.
"Jobs's attitude is more resolute, even at the expense of a total breach of contract, and then go to court to delay time, even if Apple eventually pays the breach of contract damages, their purpose of building a new platform and stealing our current advantage has been achieved. Michael Wright said with a frown.
"The key is the choice of platform jump for download, after all, Apple controls the hardware of the mobile phone, as well as the IOS system, they also want to solve our trouble before launching a new model, and block or modify the system according to the situation. Blair also said with a little ugly face.
However, there is no competition between the mocking bird game company and Apple that he represents, and he does not want to affect the expansion plan of the game company because of the contradiction between the Freedom City APP app store and Apple, but the final choice depends on how the big boss chooses.
Andy pondered for a while, and finally decided: "Blair, the difference between the game company and Apple is not very big, it is nothing more than a problem of downloading and jumping to the preferred app store, after all, our game is based on the IOS system, and at present, before the Android system is introduced to the market, our game company is really inseparable from Apple's support, so the negotiation with Apple can choose to make concessions." ”
He looked at Michael, who had a gloomy face, and said: "Michael, haven't we thought about this situation a long time ago? After all, this is a 100 billion dollar market, and Apple itself has a huge advantage, how can they let others earn their own beautiful knives."
So, from the very beginning, Apple and Jobs planned to breach the contract and kick Liberty City out, and your next negotiations should pay more attention to what moths they play to reduce liquidated damages, you must know that $300 million is nothing for a large company like Apple, but after all, it is to pay money from outside, I don't think they will happily fulfill the agreement.
Therefore, your task is to get the liquidated damages without giving in, and then I will leave you 100 million US dollars for development publicity, and use the publicity to resist the official background of the official app store of Apple's mobile phone, after all, we are a dominant player in the current APP download market, and the developers of various software also make a lot of money, and the programmers who have tasted the sweetness know how to choose. ”
Hearing the big boss's analysis, Michael Wright could only smile helplessly, nodded and said: "It seems that it can only be like this, and then the mall will engage in a competition of the most popular APPs to increase the number and types of applications in the mall. ”
"That's a good idea!" Andy nodded with satisfaction, not surprised by Michael Wright's revisions to his operational strategy.