Chapter 117: Acquisitions
Early the next morning, Mountain View was blue and cloudy, and the air was cold but refreshing.
Outside Mickey Mouse's café stood a few programmers, talking to each other over a cup of coffee, mostly jargon and jokes that the average person couldn't understand.
At this time, a middle-aged white man in a black coat hurriedly walked into the café and almost bumped into a waitress on the way.
His name is Jason, and he has been doing system research and development for 17 years, and has worked at Microsoft and IBM, and has more than 10 years of management experience.
Last year, Jason started his own business, but unfortunately failed.
Jason, a 45-year-old man with two daughters and a young son, is currently attending the University of San Francisco, and the high cost of tuition has left him breathless.
But as a man, he had to endure it all.
Jason saw a job posting for Infinite Dreams last night, and he was drawn to the position of CEO of an overseas company, and he was ready to try his luck.
"Hey, get me a big cup of coffee!"
"Your coffee."
"Thank you."
Jason walked out with his coffee and was stopped by a big black man.
"Hi Jason! How are you, where are you going? I heard that you resigned, is it true? ”
"Yes, have you heard? Infinity Dream is hiring at the Cross Hotel, and I'm ready to give it a try. ”
After saying that, Jason didn't dare to waste time and walked into his car with his coffee.
"Hey!" The blacks caught up, and several whites standing outside the door also approached.
"Man, are you telling the truth? Is it the infinite dream of China? His founder was Paul. Poplar? ”
"Congratulations, you've got it all right." Jason gave him an American military salute. Drive away.
After he left, the people outside the café seemed to blow up, and everyone was talking about it.
At the same time, all over Silicon Valley and major news media in the United States are talking about this matter, they did not expect that a Chinese person would come to Silicon Valley to buy companies and recruit personnel.
And that Chinese man is the hot 'Gemini', 'Dr. Y', and 'Alien Kid'......
Regardless of his title, these media outlets have already begun to report on it in turn, including the most famous CNN TV, Washington Daily, San Francisco Daily, Silicon Valley Tech Channel and many other media outlets.
California Tech News Weekly also mentioned this matter at length in this morning's electronic magazine, which invisibly made an advertisement for Yang Ye for free.
At 9 a.m., reporters walked around the hotel. The interview session in the hotel officially began. There are a lot of technical managers gathered in the rest area. Most of them are white unemployed, and of course some want to change jobs.
Because they were in such a hurry, some people didn't have time to prepare, or they didn't bring anything with them.
According to the Yang Ye recruitment plan. This time, the recruitment will be divided into: individual application and group application. Lasts for three days.
The level of management targeted at individual recruitment. Group recruitment corresponds to the technical level. The average team that has cooperated for three or five years is far stronger than a genius technician.
At present, he doesn't need any genius, as long as he can honestly complete the work he arranged.
Every day he starts interviews at 9 a.m. By the end of 12 o'clock, each person has only 3 minutes to perform.
In the afternoon, Yang Ye and the others also had to meet with a group of entrepreneurs who were about to go bankrupt, and those people couldn't wait to sell the company.
Three days later, Yang Ye will publish the list on the newly registered Facebook page.
It is worth mentioning that he just registered a Facebook account yesterday, and he already has more than 100 followers, and the number is still increasing every second.
Conference room.
The conference room is very spacious, and the overall design color is black and white, which is in line with the sense of technology in Silicon Valley.
The first person to apply was a black man named Joseph.
"Hello."
With a few simple greetings, Joseph was invited to sit down, Li Lingyu and Wang Shiru were today's 'chief examiners', and Yang Ye and Feiyan were only responsible for sorting out the archives.
Joseph is here today on behalf of his team, applying for the position of mall system construction and operation audit.
Since the YOS mobile phone system is free, it is naturally indispensable to have an internal mall, which is the main financial route in the future.
In three minutes, Joseph showed Yang Ye some of their team's works and design concepts as well as team spirit.
……
One hour passed, and Jason looked a little apprehensive as he watched his competitors come in and out, and he had already drunk all the coffee in his hand. Tension was spreading throughout him.
"Mr. Jason, No. 23, please come in." The hotel service staff shouted politely.
"Come on bro! You can do it! "Everyone was cheering him on.
"Thank you."
Despite some nervousness, 17 years of work experience taught Jason how to be calm.
Taking a deep breath and walking into the conference room, Jason froze with a little surprise!
Although he had seen pictures of Yang Ye on the Internet, he still didn't expect 'Dr. Y' to be so young.
"Hi how are you?"
"Good. My name is Jason. Puvis, here's my resume. ”
"It's good." Li Lingyu flipped through it a few times and passed it to Yang Ye and the others.
"What do you think of Infinite Dreams?"
"The first question?"
Jason searched his head for the correct answer: "Young, immature, but energetic and energetic, like Mr. Paul." ”
"Oh?" This question has been asked no less than 10 times, and someone is the first to dare to say it.
Yang Ye secretly added a few points in his heart, he knew very well that Jason used two short sentences to tell the company's advantages and disadvantages.
In the next two minutes, Jason elaborated on some of his own development views and business philosophy......
A leader may not know professional knowledge, but he must know how to lead a team.
Compared to the previous candidates, Jason is more conservative in his thinking, but he is more calm in dealing with problems. This may have something to do with his biological age.
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"Hi Dr. Paul, can you talk about the hiring and acquisition intentions?"
"Dr. Y, are you going to open a company in Silicon Valley?"
"Yang, I heard that you signed a 'Google Glass cooperation opportunity' with Google, is this true?"
"I'm sorry. It's not convenient to disclose ...... right now."
At 12 noon, the first day of the signboard meeting ended, Yang Ye was surrounded by a large group of reporters as soon as he walked out of the conference room, and some people who came late had regretful expressions.
Yang Ye didn't expect so many people to come, he thought it would be great to have seven or eight on the first day, but he still underestimated the reputation of Infinity Dream in Silicon Valley.
After lunch, Yang Ye updated the recruitment information on his personal Facebook page.
This time, he changed the recruitment to an appointment mode, and Yang Ye will select 80 people from it every day to participate in the interview, and announce the company's email address to receive electronic resumes in the message.
At 1 p.m., Yang Ye came to a cloud technology company in the south of Mountain View. Because there have been exchanges before. The negotiation went smoothly, and Infinity Dream invested 21 million to acquire all the shares.
In 15 minutes, the four of them appeared in several electronic technology companies around Mountain View, Silicon Valley, including Blackstone, a well-known chip R&D and manufacturing company in the last century.
Blackstone was created during the Cold War. Several of his founders were Dilla. The technical backbone of Ives Technology Company. Later, I don't know what to do, the Dilla company laid off people in its heyday. So the ousted executives founded Blackstone.
Blackstone specializes in chip design and microelectronics manufacturing, including CUPS, memory, disks, hard drives, integrated chips for mobile phones, and second-rate cameras.
Blackstone once competed with AMD and Intel in the nineties, but it was only two years.
Subsequently, their technical skills reached a bottleneck. Now we can only survive by cooperating with the development of national electronic equipment companies!
Before 2010, in the years when copycat phones were most popular, in addition to MediaTek, they were another big promoter behind the scenes.
The high-density integrated chipset solution launched by Blackstone has solved the manufacturing problem for major manufacturers in China, almost no manufacturing, and it can be used when assembled.
With the advancement of science and technology and the elimination of the market, mobile phones have entered the era of intelligence, MediaTek has valued this early on, while manufacturing cheap CPUs, while continuing to carry forward its advantages, and Blackstone is slowly aging with a large number of copycat manufacturers......
In the face of the continuous loss of market share, Blackstone has cut the salary of all employees by more than 80%!
The most touching thing is that none of them left!
This group of older scientific research members is defending the original oath with firmness - even if the night falls, we are like a rock!
"Whew~ What a great bunch of people!"
Staring at the slogan in the middle of the hall, Yang Ye seemed to have been infected by the spirit in the words, which was deeper than his infinite dream!
"They may be old, but when you remove the dust from the surface, you can still see the unfading brilliance...... And mental power! ”
"Isn't it a little old? Just like us? Hehe, it's really funny, you know, we don't have the money to fix it...... Here, please, Dr. Paul. ”
CEO John Sr. seemed to be self-deprecating, but there was pride in his words.
When they came to the Blackstone reception hall, more than 30 white-haired old men stood straight there to greet them, each wearing a 90s coat, which was also their most glorious period.
At present, Blackstone is also the only one left, 80% of the manufacturing plant has been closed, and when they heard that Yang Ye intends to buy Blackstone, their soon-to-be-extinguished dream burned again.
"Gentlemen, this is Mr. and Mrs. Paul, this is Ms. Shiru and Ms. Lingyu......"
"Paul, this is Jack, the president of our company's union, and this is Lady Snow Lotus, my personal secretary and wife, it's cute, isn't it?"
"you John, this is a formal occasion, do you want me to make a fool of myself?"
"Ha Lu Ha...... It's a pleasure to meet your beautiful Lady Snow Lotus, although you are old enough to be my grandmother, but I have to admit that I have already moved my heart for you. ”
"Hehe, Mr. Paul is really good at talking, everyone sit down! Let's talk about acquisitions. ”
After some small talk, Old John roughly told Yang Ye about the current situation of the company.
To the surprise of Yang Ye and the others, Blackstone is not a listed company, which is absolutely rare in the United States, where finance is prevalent. The owners of the company's equity are these old people.
"Paul, as you can see, the current situation of Blackstone is not optimistic. If you hadn't come, my old fellows and I were already planning to go to heaven with Blackstone. ”
Old John quipped.
"No, Blackstone will have a new beginning!"
Yang Ye flipped through the purchase price they gave and said, "450 million should be the average market price of Blackstone in the nineties, right?" ”
"Yes, it was our most glorious period, although we are old now, but ......"
Before he finished speaking, Yang Ye interrupted: "I agree to this price, if you can, let's start signing the contract now!" ”
"Brother-in-law, boss......"
Shiru and Lingyu looked at him in surprise, originally thinking that Yang Ye was just here to 'shop'...... Who knew that he would really buy it, it seems that chip companies are of little use to them!
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"Don't worry, sister, I won't do a loss-making business......"
The moment they walked out of the black stone, a cheer full of joy came into Yang Ye's ears.
If it weren't for the sedan reminder, Yang Ye seemed to have forgotten about Alpha Star's microcomputer......
"Thanks buddy!"
"Falk squid! If you really want to thank me, kill Steve! Damn old shaggy hair! Damn bastards! (To be continued......)