Chapter 23: The Big Guys Gather
As soon as the news was released, Warburg Pincus's consultation hotline was flooded by potential buyers from all over the world, and ordinary operators could not answer all kinds of inquiries on the opposite phone, so they had to connect the hotline to the president's office.
So in the past few days, the two co-presidents, Ji Jie and Joseph Randy, have been busy with their feet, receiving telephone inquiries from all over the world, while directing the preparations for the auction.
To be honest, when they were contacted by so many large companies and the other party expressed great interest, the two actually regretted their company's decision, if the monocrystalline silicon research project was unprofitable, where could it attract so many capital predators from all over the world to come.
However, if you say what you want, it's like spilling water, and you can't get it back, unless Warburg Pincus doesn't want to continue to mix in the industry, otherwise this kind of thing that offends the entire world world can't be done.
Now what Ji Jie and Randy need to do is to make this auction more powerful, and strive to achieve the maximum benefit for the company, the investment cost of 150 million US dollars must be recovered, this is Warburg Pincus's bottom line, if the price can be speculated higher, then they are very happy.
"Mr. Yao, I didn't expect you to arrive a little earlier than me, and you are also interested in this Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute?"
I didn't expect Kearns to come, but it's right to think about it, which of the current high-tech products with technical content can leave monocrystalline silicon.
"Mr. Kearns, you are so humorous, I am purely here to see the excitement, as a member of the tech world, such a major scene should not be missed!"
Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute, to be honest, Yao Fei is indeed very interested, but that's all, with the current amount of funds in his company, I'm afraid one-tenth is not enough.
However, he didn't come here to see the excitement, the real purpose was to see if there was an opportunity to recruit talents, with talents, as for the skills, what he had here was ......
"Yao, you are also very humorous, inkjet printers and floppy disk drives are selling well, I estimate that your company's working capital is at least more than 20 million, which is not a small amount, although it is not possible to buy this research institute, but you can also lend it to others at a critical time, so as to earn a lot of interest!"
As a giant crocodile in the business sea, the insight into business opportunities is really in place, but there is one thing he still miscalculated, although these leap technologies do have so many profits, but they have been used for equipment procurement and computer parts procurement There are more than 10 million yuan, and Mao's money is lent to others.
"Mr. Kearns, you are so wise, by the way, why didn't you see General Manager Smith, didn't he come with you this time?"
There was no Smith in sight next to Kearns, Yao Fei asked, and at the same time changed the subject.
"You said he, the day after you reached a cooperation, I went to Zurich, this time you may not see him, but I will help you convey your greetings to him, haluha......"
On April 6, in order to wait for potential buyers who have not yet arrived on the way, and not to tire the waiting of the elites who have already arrived, Warburg Pincus announced that it will open the Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute to the public for a limited time.
At present, there are no staff members in the research institute, and in order to ensure that the research institute is not overcrowded, a maximum of five people per company are assigned to visit.
There is no introduction and introducer, all have to look at the eyesight of the various companies to visit the technician, the people who come to visit here can draw conclusions should be very different, the insider looks at the doorway, the layman will see the excitement.
The main thing is that Warburg Pincus has also opened up its momentum, showing the hard power of this institute so that it can be auctioned at a higher price.
In order to give the companies that came to the auction more time to prepare, the whole opening period lasted four days.
It is said that because of Warburg Pincus's decision, those tycoons who did not bring technical experts pushed the temporary employment price of technical experts in Silicon Valley to a sky-high price in order to be able to set up a technical evaluation team on the spot.
On April 10th, this feast that triggered the entire semiconductor industry officially kicked off.
Yao Fei and Kearns rushed to the auction site together, this time the auction hall was a Western-style circle, with an auction table arranged in one corner of the arc, and many chairs and stools scattered around and in the middle.
After finding a seat, he sat down, and after a while, a waiter who was interspersed with the audience took the initiative to come to his side, bending down and lowering his body to deliver the tray full of wine to the two of them.
"Professor Brady, it's been a long time, did you come to the venue so early to find yourself a good home?"
After sitting down for a while, I heard this sentence not far away.
Yao Fei suddenly became interested, and learned from the information he had collected in the past few days that the research leader of the Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Research Institute was undoubtedly a person named Brady, and he was able to develop a slightly higher purity monocrystalline silicon from scratch in more than a year, this person is undoubtedly very capable.
In terms of time alone, the manufacturers of high-purity monocrystalline silicon currently sold on the market do not have strong technical accumulation, and have spent a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources.
"Hmph, Jackson, don't be too complacent, even if I change the owner, I will continue to experiment with monocrystalline silicon, and God will eventually favor persistent suitors!"
Brady's face turned red and he shot back, he had been hit hard by the temporary closure of his research institute, coupled with the taunts of his old rivals, which made Brady suddenly angry, and secretly vowed in his heart that one day he would make Jackson look good.
"The loser will always be the loser, the loser will never have the right to speak, wait until you really create a qualified product and then come to me to theorize, maybe then our company's new achievements will come out, you will look up to me behind the ass, haluha."
"You ......"
Just when Brady wanted to continue to fight back, the organizers accessed in time and temporarily calmed down the farce.
Seeing this, Yao Fei also had his own calculations in his heart.
Although Yao Fei spent some time trying to contact the Brady professor in front of him in advance, there are not a few people who have the same thoughts as him, but these are all isolated by Warburg Pincus' early preparations, it is estimated that if it weren't for today's official auction, Warburg Pincus also needs him to show his face on the field, and he will definitely continue to be hidden.
At eight o'clock in the evening, after the host's brief opening remarks, the auctioneer also officially took the stage.
"Brady Monocrystalline Silicon Institute, everyone must have seen, heard, and visited for so many days, this is Professor Brady, the research leader of the monocrystalline silicon project of the Institute, if you have any professional questions that need to be answered, Professor Brady will give you the answers......"
Before the auction began, in order to completely dispel the doubts and concerns of the buyers present, Warburg Pincus also held the principle of making the best use of people, and was ready to let Professor Brady answer questions from various specialties first!
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