By entrusting a headhunter, the company hired him at a high price with an annual salary of $2.18 million to take charge of Bluestar Technology's European business.

Come to think of it, it's certainly not easy to snatch talent from Larry Page. Google's treatment is no worse than that of Bluestar Technology, and if you want to dig into Google's corner, you have no choice but to give higher treatment.

There is an interesting phenomenon in the technology circle abroad, especially in the North American Silicon Valley, that is, many Indians hold key positions in well-known technology companies.

It is no coincidence that this phenomenon has become extremely common. Southern University of New Hampshire conducted a cross-cultural study of professional managers in North America and India.

The study found that more managers from India ranked and scored the highest in Silicon Valley in terms of the leadership qualities of professional executives.

However, this research report is actually a bit one-sided, not that the Chinese are not good, but because most Chinese executives usually return to their own countries to start their own businesses and become their own bosses, while Indians do not have the soil for their own success in their own countries.

Luo Sheng's vision is global, and Bluestar Technology's positioning is also a multinational company.

If you want to make the company's overseas business development smooth and bigger and stronger, you really can't blindly appoint domestic people, not to mention that Chinese people generally like to work alone and be their own bosses, otherwise the professional managers of Silicon Valley are definitely no less than Indians.

Luo Sheng usually likes to tease the third brother occasionally, but he has no malicious intent, no matter how he says it, he is also talking about business, Indians are not useless, how can they be like a fish in water in Silicon Valley without something?

Niksh Mehrotla, a professional executive from India, was personally interviewed by him, and through communication, he found that the 37-year-old middle-aged bald uncle with glasses has a future-oriented quality. In addition, he has been able to combine a sincere personal humility with a strong professional will, and has a very outstanding track record.

This kind of professional manager has never lacked work, all of them are looking for him, as long as he shows a little bit of job-hopping, the phone from the headhunting company will blow him up every minute.

The establishment of the film general manager in Europe is in line with the development plan of Bluestar Technology, which is conducive to the company's better business operation in Europe.

Today, Bluestar Technology has become more and more like a mature multinational technology company, divided into three major business segments by region, Greater China, the Americas, and Europe.

All three business segments are at the core of the company, and from a business perspective in the next five to ten years, the most commercially valuable business segments are the Americas, followed by Europe, and finally Greater China.

Ten years from now, Greater China will be the world's No. 1 in terms of single market size and commercial value.

As for the present, because the development speed of the domestic Internet is not even comparable to that of Europe, let alone North America, not to mention the quality, let's talk about the volume, North American Internet users are twice as many as in China, and they have gone to 200 million, and the country is currently worth more than 100 million.

To say that now, among all the domestic Internet companies, Luo Sheng's Bluestar Technology Company is the only Internet technology company that has successfully gone overseas so far, and even if other companies are "BALT" to the other three, there is no one who can fight abroad, let alone others.

It is no exaggeration to say that at present, except for Bluestar Technology, which is advancing at home and abroad, other Internet companies have no idea of going overseas at all, and they have no idea, at least not now.

It is already a huge success to be able to do it in China, and Bluestar Technology is unique after all, and it can't be copied, not even in Silicon Valley.

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In August 2004, Luo Sheng's focus was still on the Cote d'Azur company, and he spent two-thirds of his time in the "Cote d'Azur Laboratory" every day, where he coordinated the entire [Azure] project plan, led the research and development of the "Blue Core" project, and took into account the operation of Bluestar Technology.

However, when he was not there, the company's second-in-command, that is, the chief operating officer, Zhang Bowen, was in charge.

This month, it is quite important for Bluestar Technology, and the company's other heavyweight new product this year will be officially released this month, that is, the streaming video business, the domestic version of Bluestar Video, and the international version of BluestarVideo.

The launch date has been set, just later this month, on August 21, 2004, when the domestic and international versions will be launched simultaneously.

This is the longest development cycle among the company's many products, the project was established at the beginning of the year, and it was not launched until August.

In fact, it can be launched in June, but because Luo Sheng dug his own corner after establishing the Cote d'Azur company in March, nearly half of the backbone engineers from Bluestar Technology to the Cote d'Azur company, the lack of manpower and the project handover will inevitably slow down the progress.

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On August 20, the CEO office of Bluestar Technology.

Luo Sheng looked at the computer intently, he opened a page, it was a report on the Forbes website, and it was a habit to spend one or twenty minutes every day paying attention to information.

On August 19, that is, yesterday, the North American Internet giant Google was listed on the NASDAQ, raising $1.666 billion in IPO, which was supposed to raise $2.7 billion, but Wall Street was secretly doing things, and Google decided to lower the price of some original shares the day before the listing, and at the same time significantly reduced the amount of financing, from the original $2.7 billion to $1.7 billion, and the final actual financing was $1.666 billion.

After receiving financial backing from the IPO, Google began to rapidly expand its territory and seek to diversify.

Luo Sheng looked at the content reported on the Forbes website, and he was also quite emotional, Google's listing is definitely a gluttonous feast for capital.

It is not unreasonable to be so crazy, Google started to make a profit in 2001 when it was just three years old, and at the same time almost all Internet companies, including Yahoo, were losing money, and the other exception at that time was eBay.

Even in the era of the bursting of the Internet bubble, Google is still gaining momentum, constantly consolidating its position as the 'king of search'.

Not surprisingly, its share price will climb to around $200 by the end of the year, and its market capitalization will exceed $50 billion.

Because Google's performance report is too bright, with revenue of $3.19 billion and profit of $399 million, revenue growth of 118%, the key is that Google has made nearly $400 million in profits in the case of large-scale diversification and expansion, which shows its ability to make money.

After reading the relevant news reports for a while, Luo Sheng closed the page, and the time was almost up, and it was time to put it into work.

Silicon Valley and Wall Street are now chasing Google's listing, and Luo Sheng is not only emotional, because he firmly believes that the value of Bluestar Technology under his own helm will inevitably be better than Google.

Major Internet companies at home and abroad have entered the IPO stage one after another, and this track seems to be getting hotter and hotter.

However, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry, Bluestar Technology is still some time away from the IPO stage, although as long as he wants to go public, he can let the company go public in the United States this year, but he doesn't want to go public so soon.

On the next day, that is, on August 21, Bluestar Technology's other heavyweight product this year, the streaming video business, the domestic version of Bluestar Video and the international version of BluestarVideo, were officially launched simultaneously.

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