Chapter 55 Talent is the most important
When job seekers are looking for a job, they pay more attention to the size of the company, because in addition to the salary, reputation and office environment, the personal growth of employees is also closely related to this. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Many large-scale enterprises have talent development plans or perfect employee promotion channels, because they have a deep understanding of the importance of talents, and will spare no effort to keep all capable people in the company.
Among them, the most typical way to tie up the company's executives or senior technical personnel is stock options. The measure is to allow employees to buy shares of the company at the company's internal price, rather than the market price on the exchange, so as to become a minority shareholder in the company. As for a series of top managers such as CEOs, CFOs, and COOs, they will even give shares directly.
Therefore, when Alice proposed to take a stake in Microsoft with technology, Gates and his party of course agreed without hesitation, for them who have been in the mall for nearly ten years, they knew from the beginning what Alice's idea was.
The only, and most important, and almost eternal issue, is the proportion of shares.
"The important thing here is the long-term benefits that my daughter can bring to the company, which is her personal development potential. ”
Facing the men in the room, Sophie said loudly: "Her age is obviously the biggest advantage, she is only twelve years old now, but she can develop this operating system alone with an efficiency that is several times faster than the more than fifty of you combined." In other words, her ability alone is equal to three or four times that of all the people in your company, so I believe you don't have much objection to such a comparison, right?"
"To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that Microsoft is already a big platform with a good scale, we would have been able to build a separate portal. Mr. Gates and Mr. Allen, imagine how much of an impact it would have on Microsoft if Alice were to set up a business on her own, with her talent?"
"So, I don't think the 40 percent share distribution is an exaggeration, but that's considering that you are the veterans of the company. After all, she's all over you alone, isn't she?"
It's a very excessive proposal, after all, the company is not on the verge of bankruptcy, and it is not a simple decision to force everyone to squeeze out nearly half of the shares to a stranger who has no friendship at all. But no one on the scene was angry about Sophie's request, because it was only a one-sided personal request, and bargaining was always the point.
"On the face of it, that's true, Ms. Wang. “
Ballmer looked at Alice's mother and daughter with a smile, but the glitter in those eyes meant that he was by no means so easy to fool: "However, if you want to get such a high stake just by handing over this work, you will definitely not be able to do it in terms of seniority." Of course, I'm not doubting Alice's talent, or bullying her for having no roots at Microsoft, but she's a newcomer to the computer world after all, right......?
Ballmer paused slightly, and then Gates immediately said, "Alice, about the content you left in that trial version, that Cisco Systems, you built it?"
For about ten days in total, Microsoft people had already investigated the "Cisco Systems" mentioned in Alice's letter, but the industry didn't seem to have any information about it. As for the corporate yellow pages, which are so big in the whole of the United States, where do they look at the records of each city?
Therefore, everyone is naturally more curious about it, although it is just a text document stored in the computer with no legal effect at all, a small document that is obviously written by a young girl, and an English string full of the deathbed confessions of patients with advanced secondary and secondary diseases.
"A computer industry company whose main business is the production of network hardware equipment. ”
Alice took the answer and said with a smile: "At present, I am preparing for development, and the products are all invented by me." As for the effect, everyone has used my operating system, so there is no doubt about my programming ability, right?"
Although everyone present is a pioneer in the application software industry, how can they not be interested in the term Internet hardware? At Gates' suddenly excited proposal, Alice will explain the knowledge of routers and network protocols to everyone in the next twenty minutes.
"Now that the entire computer industry is booming, major telecom operators are also crazy about laying cables across the country, and even IBM is also involved. Therefore, there is no doubt about the development potential of the Internet hardware field, almost every enterprise in the country will need to use the network, of course, there are government agencies and public settings, and even when the PC is gradually popularized to thousands of households, the development of the home network will have a new stimulus to the industry. ”
Alice explained to Gates the development trend of the global Internet, but she was not afraid that Microsoft would steal her business, because she knew very well the main tactics of Cisco becoming the hegemon in this field. Looking at the whole Microsoft company, there are engineers in the field of software technology, and it is too cost-effective to want them to switch to network communication technology.
"So, potential, and talent, together these two are the biggest weight that I have come to negotiate with you today. This is the golden age of the computer industry, and you, as pioneers who rose to prominence in the seventies, can at least continue your advantage until the nineties. And now in the 80s, it is the embryonic stage of the Internet industry, and I am now a pioneer in this field, and in terms of ability, this operating system can prove everything...... Just like Picasso exhibiting Guernica, how capable it is, it does not need to be explained. ”
"40%, that's really not an exaggeration. After all......"
Speaking of this, Alice smiled evilly: "Although I am only guessing, you know better than me how your progress is." Now that so many competitors are developing new systems, I'm saving you almost a year. Well, Bill, can we have a year?"
With that, she smiled smirkedly and kicked the ball to Gates.
After a long silence, Gates let out a slow sigh.
Who is the other party, who can understand the current situation of Microsoft so thoroughly just by relying on external information?
Enterprise development, of course, must be within the legal scope of the extreme, so, as early as last summer at the Las Vegas Computer Expo, Gates advertised that Windows 1.0 will be available this spring, but in fact, the company is not developing this product at all.
I've been busy until now, and I'm only a fraction of what I'm doing. Just a few days before Alice's tape arrived, Gates also made a process calculation for himself, and it turned out that it would be difficult to get the product out of the oven until the beginning of next year. And when it is launched to the market, it really has to wait until the end of '85 or so.
He really wondered how Alice came to this conclusion, after all, he already knew that the other party was an ordinary little girl in Los Angeles, not a senior industry insider who traveled to and from Silicon Valley every day, and had never set foot in Albuquerque.
In this way, after another discussion, when twilight has fallen, Alice's profit distribution is finally released.
First of all, the technology is 35% shared, which is a little less than what Sophie proposed, but it is completely within Alice's acceptable range. After all, she is very aware of Microsoft's future development, although the 5% ratio will be a difference of nearly 10 billion dollars...... Who cares if they are tens of billions of dollars rich, whether they are ranked third or fourth?
What's more, she still has Cisco, and she has Cisco now.
What's more, this ratio is not impossible to adjust at all, such as when she throws out the 98 and XP systems again......
And then there's the old problem, because Alice is so young, and she has to go to school -- middle school, seventh grade, a hierarchy that makes all Microsoft executives not know what to say good -- so of course she can't hold any position in the company.
Therefore, the position of chief software designer still belongs to Gates and has not been snatched away.
It seems like a pity, but as long as the real ability is in hand, does it really matter who the title is?
When they walked out of the door, Alice said in a loud voice, "Mom, you can go to the car and look at the contract first, and I'll talk to Bill again." ”
Sophie's gaze swept between the two of them and smiled lightly, "You don't plan to go to a fast food restaurant again suddenly, do you?"
Oscar and Hannah immediately made a vomiting sound quite cooperatively, and then were abducted into the car under James's elbow.
"Hehe, your two younger siblings are really interesting. ”
Seeing Hannah grimacing at himself before getting into the car, Gates chuckled a few times.
Then, he immediately frowned and looked at the girl next to him: "So, Alice......"
"In short, continuing to keep it secret means that you have behaved well in front of the media in the past two days, keep up the good work. ”
Alice patted Gates on the shoulder, and there was no one else at the door of the office building around the two of them.
Facing Gates smiled happily, but his blue eyes had turned black, and star-like lights continued to flicker on them.
"Otherwise, beware of me pinching you into a twist, Bill~"
Staring blankly into Alice's eyes, Gates swallowed a mouthful of foam with difficulty.
"Okay, yes, no problem, obey!"