Bob Mansfield quickly flew back from Huaxia, saw Zhang Chen, and only said two words, "OK." ”

After Bob arrived in China, he visited the three factories of Forsconn non-stop and was shocked by the scale of the factories.

Except in Detroit in the fifties and sixties, Bob really can't imagine any other place in the world where you can see tens of thousands of workers in a factory doing their jobs in an orderly manner.

Working more than twelve hours a day, working at least six days a week, and even some working more than sixteen hours a day. And their hourly wage is only one-twentieth of that of the same worker in the United States!

And here, there are no unions working against the capitalists, and there are not so many NGOs who come to find trouble when they have nothing to do, so it can be said that in extreme cases, the operating costs of manufacturing enterprises in China can be reduced by 95% compared with those in the United States, which is not an exaggeration at all.

No wonder Guo Shouzhen said that the quotation is always 30% lower than Texas Instruments, and can still have more than 20% gross profit.

Bob couldn't help but marvel at how these people could endure such intense work, and the most terrifying thing was that when he went to see the accommodation of most of the workers, he felt that it was no different from a concentration camp.

There are at least eight workers living in each cramped and cramped room, it is winter, and the temperature in Pengcheng is also 289 degrees, and when you enter the staff dormitory without air conditioning, there is an unknown smell of sweat and foot odor and I don't know what smell is mixed.

There was no air conditioning in the room, no direct drinking water, which surprised Bob and angrily accused the people in charge of his reception, and the Foxconn employees accused Foxconn of being a completely shady factory.

But soon, Forscon taught him what reality is.

Guo Shouzhen had already prepared for this, and specially held an employee meeting in front of Bob, and many employees bluntly said that they were more satisfied with the accommodation environment given by Foxconn, which was much better than the situation in their hometown, and much better than the accommodation conditions given by other manufacturing enterprises in Pengcheng.

Bob went to see the accommodations at several other factories before he believed the employees.

In the end, Bob still gave the OEM order to Foxconn, mainly because of Guo Shouzhen's threat.

Guo Shouzhen made it clear that if you don't give orders to these employees, their survival situation will only be worse, and many of these people are skilled workers who have worked for many years, and their work level and efficiency are not lower than those in the United States, but if they leave Forsconn, they have no other better way out.

Although the order was given to Forscon, Bob was also conditional, that is, Forscon was required to install air conditioning in the production line worker dormitory for Matrix OEM iCom, and he knew how hot it was in Pengcheng in summer.

Even if the heat does not kill people, heat stroke and employee work efficiency declines, it is still Matrix and Forconn that suffer.

The top management of Forconn, who was in charge of the negotiations, agreed to Bob's terms after only a little consideration, and Forconn originally had the idea of improving the accommodation environment for front-line workers, but now it is just being implemented in advance.

Through continuous meetings and discussions with Forconn's U.S. R&D center and production department, the first batch of 50,000 production orders for iCom will be completed by May 15, and the 1,500 units for display will be shipped by April 30.

In addition to production, market promotion, marketing, venue determination, how to distribute goods, dealer channels。。。。。

And so on and so forth, so many of the jobs that need to be done by people.

Operating a brand is far more difficult than Zhang Chen imagined.

Fortunately, the accumulation of human resources has played a role in the accumulation of human resources, and in a short period of time, a large number of professionals in various fields have been recruited for Matrix.

In addition, a large amount of work was directly outsourced to other companies, and even so, Zhang Chen was still busy enough to use one day as three days.

It wasn't until the second half of early March, when Tim Cook, who was in charge of North American and Latin American distribution, was hired from IBM to serve as the company's COO, that Zhang Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Tim Cook is an excellent professional manager, as his later career at Apple has been well proven. Although there are many people who criticize Tim Cook for taking over Apple, Apple's innovation power has declined, and it is no longer as great as it was in the Jobs era, but Jobs was a miracle, and Tim Cook has reached the limit of what a professional manager can achieve.

Faced with two offers from Compaq and Matrix, Tim Cook chose Matrix, mainly because Compaq asked him to be in charge of warehouse management, while Matrix gave him the position of Chief Operating Officer.

Matrix has a lot of potential, and that's Tim Cook's first impression when he arrives at Matrix.

Cook is a well-rounded all-rounder with expertise in supply chain management and dealer management. He was surprised to find that many of Matrix's concepts in supply chain management were ahead of the times, and although there were rough spots, the direction was completely correct.

Add in the 100,000 Matrix stock options, and Tim Cook calculates that if Matrix goes public, the stake will be worth at least $3 million or more.

But what really attracted Tim Cook to Matrix was the creativity and passion of the entire startup team. He has never seen such a passionate entrepreneurial team since he started working.

After Tim Cook joined, Zhang Chen's burden was reduced by 80%, and he finally had time to go to the New York Stock Exchange to ring the bell with the Amazon team.

Yes, finally, among the companies invested by Tinder, Amazon was the first to complete the entire IPO process, and March 10 is the date when Amazon is officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

"Zack, aren't you really going to ring the bell?" John Doerr asked curiously.

Zhang Chen has been going to KPCB's headquarters on Dune Road a lot lately, after all, it is so close that it is only a block away, and it takes less than ten minutes to walk.

Zhang Chen flipped through the internal journal of KPCB, "No, there are too many people who want to be on it, so I won't join in this fun, let's let Bezos arrange it." ”

John Doerr's three mobile phones have two assistants to help answer, otherwise they can't be busy at all, just after asking Zhang Chen's words, the phone rang again, hung up the phone, John Doerr said: "Bezos himself doesn't ring the bell, he wants Schramm to bring the company's executives to the stage, and then everyone objected, so he gave up." ”

"Do you want to fly with me to New York tomorrow?" John Doerr has a Bombardier Learjet 60 that can cross the continental United States, which is fast, and for John Doerr, who is looking for extreme efficiency, this plane is completely necessary.

Zhang Chen nodded: "Of course, as long as there is no charge." ”

John Doall laughed and scolded: "Don't think I don't know, you just ordered a Gulfstream IV, right? This plane is good, I've seen it before." ”

Zhang Chen smiled: "You guys are really well-informed, I haven't signed a contract yet, the recent financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, many private jet buyers over there are now breaking their contracts, maybe you can find a spot one." ”

John Doerr nodded: "This timing is good, a few days ago Dassault's president Bianchi was still asking me, he has a Falcon 2000 that has just broken the contract, ask me if I want to, do you want to think about it?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "I still want to buy Gulfstream, now Gulfstream has been acquired by General Dynamics, and it is better than Dassault in terms of after-sales." By the way, what time will we leave tomorrow?"

John Doall took a sip of coffee: "We'll leave tomorrow evening at twelve o'clock." ”

Zhang Chen was stunned: "Why is it so late?"

John Doerr said of course: "You see, from San Francisco to New York, my plane takes about four and a half hours, there is a time difference of three hours between the two places, and we can arrive at about eight o'clock in the morning New York time, so that the working hours during the day will not be wasted, just in time to go to New York to meet old friends." By the way, how many people do you have? I've got six of them here. It is also possible to extrude three positions. ”

Zhang Chen was speechless, where is John Doerr a workaholic, he is simply a workaholic.

(End of chapter)