Chapter 127: Neighbors with Microsoft
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Turning her face is faster than turning a book, except for Yao Libin, in his impression it is Xiao Jing, seeing that she just returned a smiling face, it suddenly turned cloudy and windy and rainy, Lu Xi said: "Don't say it, forget it, I'm too lazy to listen to your, but it's a little inappropriate for you to study law, you should learn acting." ”
Knowing what Lu Xi meant, Xiao Jing glanced at him and said, "We are not so familiar yet, when we are familiar in the future, we will find an opportunity to tell you, let's go down for breakfast first, don't you still have to catch a plane." ”
"We don't know each other that well." Lu Xi muttered, glanced at the time again, and the two chatted for a while, but it was past eight o'clock unconsciously.
On the flight at half past nine, he was afraid that the time would be too late, so Lu Xi turned around and went out first, and when he saw that Xiao Jing didn't follow, he walked back and frowned and asked, "You're not going?" ”
Xiao Jing took two steps faster and said carefully, "I thought you were angry." ”
Just afraid that it would be too late, and I don't know where she could see that she was angry, Lu Xi asked: "If I am really angry, for half a million dollars, will you come to please me?" ”
"I'm not that cheap." Xiao Jing said, "It's a big deal, I don't want the 500,000, continue to live here." ”
Lu Xi smiled and said: "If you have backbone, then forget the 500,000 investment." ”
Xiao Jing puffed up and slapped Lu Xi's back twice, and said, "Then you can eat it yourself." ”
Lu Xi didn't waste time with her, pulled Xiao Jing to the restaurant downstairs to order food, and said: "You should withdraw from school as soon as possible, if you go back first, you will go to Venture Capital to find Luo Shuyue, I called her last night, I will not return to China directly, and I will fly to Singapore." ”
Sun Mingwei, Hong Xuedong and others have flown to Singapore, and Yang Wenfang has shown a very capable side, recruiting personnel in place before the two arrive, and the promotion has been negotiated. Even if Sun Mingwei and Hong Xuedong and others are reassured, as the fulcrum of the Southeast Asia plan, Singapore and Hong Kong are also important links, and he cannot even show his face after the establishment of the Singapore company.
Xiao Jing fiddled with the white porcelain spoon in the coffee cup, looked up at Lu Xi and said, "I originally wanted to go back to China with you, since this is the case, then I will go back to set up the company first, and then make the plan, and then look for you when you return to China." ”
Lu Xi smiled: "Then you just wait, I won't be able to go back until at least mid-September." ”
Xiao Jing replied: "I'm not in a hurry, there are few opportunities like this in my life, I always have to plan carefully, maybe I will change my mind and do other projects." ”
Lu Xi didn't care what she did, she chatted while eating to pass the breakfast time, and Xiao Jing enthusiastically sent Lu Xi to the airport.
The two rushed to the airport, Brian and Sancho had just arrived, and Lu Xi was just about to send Xiao Jing back, when he saw her suddenly holding his arm.
I don't know what she wants to do, Lu Xi was just about to withdraw his hand, when he heard Xiao Jing say, "Ye Bowen, why are you here?" ”
Lu Xi looked sideways and saw two boys in their early twenties of the same height as him walking towards him, one of them was wearing a short sleeve with a flower, staring at him with cold eyes.
Before the two of them approached, Lu Xi smiled bitterly in a low voice: "You're going to drop out of school, why are you still using me as a shield?" ”
"Instinctive reaction." Xiao Jing let go of her hand disapprovingly, and walked over to talk to the two again.
The announcement of boarding the plane echoed in the airport, Brian and Sancho beckoned him over, and Lu Xi went over to say goodbye to Xiao Jing: "We'll get back to China and get in touch." ”
Seeing Xiao Jing nodding, Lu Xi glanced at the short-sleeved boy again, and said to Xiao Jing: "If you don't like him, just say it, no matter how stubborn he is, you don't have to be low-key, just move out your old son who is the deputy secretary of Xingang." ”
Xiao Jing glared at Lu Xi, the short-sleeved boy and the other boy with a suitcase were stunned, looking at Xiao Jing in a daze, as if asking whether it was true or not.
Lu Xi didn't care what the low-key Xiao Jing said to the two, and gloated with Brian and Sancho into the security channel.
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The day of school is getting closer and closer, and my mother and little sister have rushed back from Seattle, and in recent days, they have been following the Chinese tour guide hired by Wan Xingnian around San Francisco.
slept all the way on the plane and arrived in San Francisco, Lu Xi was not in a hurry to see his mother and little sister immediately, and went directly to Ant Moving to discuss with Wan Xingnian about setting up an overseas R&D center first.
Lu Xi suggested that the R&D center be placed in Seattle, and the Ant Moving Branch should also be moved there, and the US branch of Luzhu will also be set up there in the future, which he has discussed with Hong Xuedong on the phone, and Hong Xuedong has agreed.
When Wan Xingnian heard this at first glance, he only felt that Lu Xi was joking, and seeing that his serious expression was not like a joke, he couldn't guess why he had such an idea, so he smiled bitterly: "Lu Shao doesn't have a fever, right?" ”
Compared with Silicon Valley, except for Microsoft and Amazon, there are no well-known Internet-related companies in Seattle, and in addition to a good living environment, resources are much more barren than Silicon Valley.
Looking at Lu Xi's smile, Wan Xingnian asked again: "Lu Shao won't be here to meet Miss Chen, right?" ”
"It has nothing to do with this." Lu Xi shook his head and said, "Although moving to Seattle is far away from Silicon Valley, it is also beneficial for us to guard Microsoft and Amazon, Microsoft and Amazon, two huge enterprises, will provide us with more excellent technical personnel in the future, and Seattle's consumption level leads to employee expenses that are two to thirty thousand dollars lower than those in Silicon Valley, we can use Silicon Valley standards to dig more mature technical personnel of Microsoft and Amazon to lay the foundation for our future." ”
Wan Xingnian didn't expect Lu Xi to make this idea, laughed twice, and said: "It's really difficult for Silicon Valley to recruit mature technicians now. ”
There are many high-tech enterprises and Internet companies in Silicon Valley, although almost all the world's talents are pouring here, but most companies are in the development stage, are vigorously recruiting, good talents are available for anyone, Ant Moving has been recruiting recently, except for recruiting two Chinese students who are rushing to Ant Move, there is nothing.
Although he knows that a large number of companies will go bankrupt when the dot-com bubble bursts next year, and many technicians will lose their jobs, Lu Xi still favors the technicians of Microsoft and Amazon more than those who only care about hyping concepts and ignoring R&D and business companies.
Lu Xi added: "I heard that most of the people at Microsoft leave after the summer evaluation or the bonus in September, and we can go to hire now, even if some of the people who leave Microsoft will go to Silicon Valley, but there are many more people who are not willing to give up the leisurely and quiet living environment of Seattle." ”
Wan Xingnian has worked at Microsoft, relatively understands the situation, nodded with a smile and said: "Every year in August and September, Microsoft will have personnel outflow, and there are also personnel supplemented, some people want to start their own businesses, and many people are poached by other companies for higher salaries, Lu Shao moved the R&D center and the company over, and poached the technical personnel of Microsoft and Amazon, which is really good." ”
Lu Xi said: "It's August now, Lao Wan can also contact his former colleagues, no matter what kind of talent, we may use it in the future." ”
"I'll try." Wan Xingnian said with a smile, "We want to make browsers to compete with Microsoft, and now Lu Shao is using the idea of digging Microsoft's corner to move the R&D center and company to Seattle, I really don't know what the expression of that old guy at Gates will be." ”
"We're not just going to dig Microsoft's corner, we're going to move to Redmond and be their neighbor." Lu Xi laughed and said, "Even if Gates knows that we make browsers and poach their people, IE now has more than eighty percent of the market share, and Luzhu is just a small company in the eyes of Microsoft, and they may not take us seriously." ”
Looking at Wan Xingnian's expression of not knowing what to say, Lu Xi said: "I heard that Gates's mansion is on the Medina Washington Lake, and if there is a good house on Mercer Island, I will also buy a house there and look across the lake from him." ”
Knowing Lu Xi's intention to buy a house, Wan Xingnian said with a smile: "Now the house price is not expensive, you can buy a pretty good mansion within one million, but there is only one road on the island leading to the city and the surrounding areas, and most of the houses near the lake rely on boats to go out, and Lu Shao has to buy a motorboat or yacht." ”
Lu Xi got up and walked to the window, looked at the busy crowd downstairs, remembered that Sun Mingwei told him to pay attention to his body, and remembered that he was busy with work all day long, but in the end he ended up with an unexpected sudden death, more than ten years of savings, and finally I don't know who it belonged to, and sighed slightly: "Life is too short, maybe one night when you sleep, you won't see the sun the next day, the money earned is spent, although the dividend money is not much, the purchase of houses and yachts is enough." ”
"It's still Lu Shao who can see it!" Wan Xingnian smiled and said, "When will Lu Shao pass?" ”
"Let's wait until my mom comes home." Lu Xi turned around and said, "I'll go to the front station first, there's no problem on Brian's side, we talked in Miami, he and Sancho will do other people's work." ”
Wan Xingnian said: "That's good, Seattle people don't want to leave Seattle, and most people who are used to living in San Francisco don't want to go to a small city to develop. ”
Lu Xi knows that because of the existence of Microsoft and Amazon, Seattle will become the new Silicon Valley in the future, and many companies will set up branches here because of their abundant talent resources and lower employee salaries than big cities such as San Francisco.
No matter how many people Brian can say to leave San Francisco to work in Seattle, the R&D center will be placed in Seattle, and the Ant Moving branch will also move there, and the branch of Luzhu will also be set up here in the future, just for Microsoft's basket of experienced technicians.
When meeting in Miami, Brian said that there would be a team of more than a dozen people entering, I don't know how many people he can say about the R&D center set up in Seattle, he was silent for a moment, Lu Xi said: "Let's do it, Lao Wan will go to Seattle first to choose the office location of the R&D center and Ant Move, and then do the recruitment first, I will go over in a few days." ”