Chapter 34: The Soul of Nanka
When he got off the plane from the San Francisco International Airport terminal in San Mateo County, Gu Mojie was in a state of high spirits.
Cabins without portholes, which provide a good rest. The sailing experience is so smooth that no matter how much you toss in bed, the plane will not be able to vibrate. Gu Mojie slept in the United States and did not feel the discomfort caused by jet lag at all.
Compared to when he came to the United States two years ago, he was already a shotgun.
The 777's second-floor business class has a separate exit ramp, so it won't be crowded with regular tourists. When he came down, Gu Mojie could still feel that there were a few reporters in the distance - in fact, it is more appropriate to call it the financial version of the paparazzi - there flashing flashes and secretly taking pictures, oh not open shots.
The ramp was covered with a red carpet, a bunch of Cadillac high-end and Lexus cars were parked in the distance, and Google's CEO, Larry Page, actually came to pick up the plane in person - obviously Google is looking forward to the negotiations.
Gu Mojie inquired privately about the fact that Google did not directly get involved in the matter of Sequoia Capital's attempt to commit a stake in Hatsune. But Larry Page is clearly happy with the outcome of this operation, which is the fact that the Hatsune Group has had to hand over a portion of its operations in the United States to a U.S.-owned company.
Larry Page and others did not expect that Gu Mojie would make the choice of selling part of the business. After all, if you change an entrepreneur who is not very confident in yourself, in this situation, most of you will choose to cooperate with Sequoia Capital, and you will accept it when you negotiate a condition.
Larry Page made an exaggerated posture like a bear hug, opening his arms like Pushkin to hug the sea, but when he walked up to Gu Mojie and smiled narrowly, the thunder and rain changed to a small hammer Gu Mojie's fist, and then shook hands:
"Gu, do you know what our people here call you - Zuckerberg of the East."
Gu Mojie shrugged like an American: "Thank you." I would prefer that in the future you will call Zuckerberg the Gumojab of the West. At the moment, it seems that he does not have any advantage in terms of personal assets. ”
He didn't speak quickly, but he spoke very clearly, and when he came to the United States again, his English had not yet warmed up.
Page looked around at the left and right staff, pointed at Gu Mojie and said, "Aha-this guy is really not like a Chinese arrogant." ”
"Of course I'm Chinese, but I'm first and foremost a bastard in the Internet world. Isn't it? Silicon Valley just pulls a guy who has just gotten venture capital, and dares to brag that he will pay 100 million dividends to employees next year, how can I not keep up with the times. ”
Larry Page didn't talk more nonsense with Gu Mojie, but instead had a few polite words with Gu Mojie's entourage, he saw Feliro in the crowd at a glance, and vaguely remembered that this girl seemed to have seen it two years ago - in fact, of course, this is not the only one Gu Mojie entourage that Paige has seen, but only Feliro has had a meal and party together, so the impression is naturally more profound than others.
"Miss Fei, I didn't expect to meet again. After this business was negotiated. Be sure to invite you to a trip to Santa Clara, where a friend has a themed ranch. ”
Feliro smiled gently and modestly, and thanked the other party for the invitation: "Mr. Page is too polite, but I'm afraid you have found the wrong person this time." This Miss Lu is the operating officer of Hatsune Corporation and the fiancée of President-Gu. If you only invite me and President-Gu to the appointment, I'm afraid it won't be good. ”
Chairman, president, president are all presidents in English, and even the chairman can use the word. This saves the embarrassment of "Mr. X"/"Mr. X" being stupid and unclear when the two sides chat. Feliro used the word lightly, and the Americans did not hear the slightest hint of jealousy and rustiness. It's not easy to get in shape.
Lu Wenjun was on the side, and he felt that Sister Fei's treatment of people was really leaky. It seems that I still need to put in a lot of work in this regard to keep up with my fiancé's rhythm, so as not to embarrass the other party in social situations.
Engineering girls, after all, are not as proficient as liberal arts students. But it's not a technical job, be careful, and experience it a few more times. The forced aura naturally came up.
Lu Wenjun was still spinning thoughts in his mind, and Page had already greeted her to talk to her.
"Miss Lu is really young and beautiful, can I compliment you on your luck."
Americans speak very casually, especially on such occasions and are willing to make a little joke, Lu Wenjunzheng doesn't know how to deal with it. Gu Mojie came over to help her out of the siege.
"Mr. Paige, I am glad that you complimented me on my fiancée's beauty, but you said that she was lucky, and I can't accept it - she didn't marry me because she was lucky, she has her own strength - when you meet your old rival Robin-Lee, you won't say that his wife Mrs. Mrs. Ma is lucky."
Boss Li and his wife Ma DM met when they were studying in New York State, and Ma Feng and his wife Zhang Y are also seniors. In China's Internet circle, there are still many good examples of wealth and nobility that are not forgotten, and the wives of those rich people are also knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and they have been quite helpful when their husbands started their own businesses.
When Gu Mojie praised Lu Wenjun in Page, he directly interrupted the other party's praise of "luck value", obviously fixing Lu Wenjun in the position of a powerful faction, even if Lu Wenjun's talent can't be the COO of Hatsune Group, it is still possible to be a strategic operation planning consultant in the future.
"Oh, Gu, I'm sorry I took back what I just said. Let's talk as we go, and we'll get down to business tomorrow. ”
Page said, leading Gu Mojie and his party to the convoy prepared by Google. Google is still quite simple, and has prepared two large RVs for the Hatsune advisory group behind, saving the trouble of getting a bunch of small cars.
Gu Mojer landed Wenjun and Feliro in the car, and before closing the car door, he didn't forget to turn around and say to Page: "I'm beginning to believe your argument that 'the American auto industry is about to be wiped out by the Japanese' -- companies like Google actually send cars like Lexus to receive VIPs." ”
Page shrugged helplessly: "Who's to say it's not, but it can't be helped." The detroit gangsters are already being killed by their own workers' union, so we won't be stupid enough to pay for their union benefits, right? Japanese cars are good for Japanese cars, and the Japanese are willing to do the tedious factory links, and we also save a lot of environmental review. You may not know that two-thirds of the cars on the ground in the United States are now Toyota. ”
"Aren't you afraid of the end of the real economy?"
"What's this, I heard the old guy from Apple Jobs a while ago, the future of the American auto industry is the best, and in a few years he will cooperate with the Japanese to make an icar - he is in charge of i, and the Japanese are in charge of car."
The first generation of the iPhone in history was released in January 2007 and released in early July, and now it is only the end of May 2006, and it is still more than half a year before Steve Jobs painted the pie. At this moment, Apple is still relying on other half-dead traditional businesses to support, and the impression that Jobs gives to insiders is still just a tenacious, once brilliant and old and strong mouth cannon.
"Are American unions really that strong? The car tycoon's cars can't be sold, and the U.S. government still uses the union to raise wages for workers and negotiate benefits? After Gu Mojie closed the car door, Lu Wenjun asked with a little curiosity.
Gu Mojie was still thinking about his own problem in his heart, and he didn't come back to his senses. Fei Liluo took over the conversation and answered Lu Wenjun's questions.
"That's the way it is in the United States, maybe in a few years, some of the traditional industries in the United States will be destroyed by their own flattering voters. If nothing else, let's just say that their airlines are good -- for example, the flight we flew today, United Airlines.
The last time I visited, my aunt told me that the United Airlines union had forcibly asked the management to issue an internal management document in order to restrain the management from threatening the asking price position of the company's pilots by poaching pilots from outside. Ensure that all pilots who change jobs, regardless of the actual hours of original flight experience, must be cleared and calculate the flight service from zero hours.
As a result, veteran pilots who originally earned more than 100,000 or even 200,000 US dollars a year can only start from an annual salary of more than 60,000 US dollars after changing jobs. After a long time of this method, the sense of labor competition in the United States has almost stopped, and there are lazy people everywhere who are not afraid of dismissal when they take leave. ”
Lu Wenjun came to the United States for the first time, and he listened secretly.
Gu Mojie came back to his senses, only to hear the second half of the small talk between his women.
"I remember Terry Gou saying that if Americans don't want unions and don't talk about human rights, he will immediately move Foxconn to the United States -- just for this point, I will definitely not be an American, at most the green card will come and go conveniently.
The United States is already on the verge of degenerating into a socialist-socialist country, and there is still a bit of wolf blood left. As long as we Chinese all fight as bravely as Mr. Ren of Xia Wei, within twenty years, we will be determined to overthrow the Americans in many core scientific and technological fields. I'm afraid that our generation will also be harmed by this trend of thought in the future, and we will not dare to work hard for pleasure. ”
Ferly pinched Gu Mojie coquettishly: "Don't say it so naked-naked, you are really a big mouth." ”
"No way, I'm a capitalist now, but I don't need desperate workers, I need desperate scientific researchers. And it is best to be a scientific researcher who is hardworking, regardless of seniority, makes the best use of people, and has no threshold for job hopping. With the model of the Americans, who have a lot of industry associations and a lot of barriers to entry and job hopping, sooner or later they will kill themselves.
I have never pursued how many scientific research achievements can be made for me by engineers without professional titles, but if in a country, those wild roads can't even use them as bargaining chips to threaten people with professional titles and industry practice qualifications, then its scientific research vitality is about to end. ”
Feliro had a disgusted expression of "don't say you know me when you get outside":
"If you live in the United States, you must be red-necked and white-right, and the politicians in the seven states of the Deep South must like it very much -- for example, the South Carolina legislators were clamoring a few days ago, hoping that once Boeing can't stand the Seattle unions, it will move its headquarters or factory to South Carolina, and South Carolina will ensure that Boeing is on South Carolina territory, and they will not care how to provoke engineers and R&D personnel to eat dogs and bloody competition."
"No way, who made me worship personal struggle." (To be continued.) )