Chapter Eighty-Seven: Bringing People In
After leaving Ms. Yang's house, Lu Zhou thought about it for a long time.
After all, a person's energy is limited, not to mention that he himself is not very interested in running a business.
As a researcher, you only need to do your job well, and as for a series of troublesome problems such as product operation and enterprise management, you can leave it to someone who is good at it.
He felt that his battlefield should be in the laboratory, not at the negotiating table, and not in the general manager's office.
Chen Yushan is a good choice, but her senior management talent is biased towards the middle and late stages, and there is no room for small startups such as "campus trains" to exert their strength. What's more, she has to take the graduate school entrance examination, and it is unlikely that she will find time to help herself with this.
After returning to the bedroom, Lu Zhou thought for a long time, and finally thought of someone, so he went to the balcony and made a phone call.
As soon as the phone was connected, a fat man's hearty voice came from the other end: "Hey, Lu Zhou? What's going on? ”
Lu Zhou smiled and said, "Where has Angkor made his fortune recently?" ”
"What kind of fortune to make, just do some small errands, then I have to congratulate you, in the future, we will have to add another great god to the list of outstanding alumni of our Jinda." Say, why do you remember to call me, do you still want to work part-time? I won't take you! Wu Fatzi teased.
"How come," Lu Zhou smiled and said, "I just wanted to ask if you are interested in making a fortune together." ”
Fat Wu was stunned, thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "...... Campus trains? ”
Lu Zhou: "Yes. ”
"So, let's make an appointment? We still have to talk about this matter in person. ”
Lu Zhou thought about it and felt that it made sense.
This kind of thing can't be talked about on the phone, it's just a waste of phone bills, so he said.
"OK, then I'll see you at the small fish village at the school gate at five o'clock tomorrow afternoon."
……
The next day, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Zhou arrived at the appointment on time, and saw Wu Fatzi, who was wearing a black shirt, sitting on the bench at the table at the door, beckoning to him.
Glancing at the short sleeves on his body, Lu Zhou couldn't help but ask, "You just wear a short sleeve?" Isn't it cold? ”
It's the end of October now, it's late autumn, not to mention long sleeves, Lu Zhou has begun to wear coats.
"People are fat, hardy, I sometimes do this in winter," Wu Fatzi smiled, stretched out his hand and pulled away the chair, "Hurry up and sit down, I'll let the boss make a pot of grilled fish first, you see if there is anything else you want to eat, don't be polite." After a while, when the grilled fish is served, let's talk about it while drinking. ”
Lu Zhou: "Let's drink tea, don't drink when we talk about business." ”
Wu Fatzi smiled and said, "That's okay, whatever you want, I can do it." ”
Wu Fatzi is still a good person, when he used to work part-time, he took care of Lu Zhou. So with this good thing, Lu Zhou naturally thought of him for the first time.
Of course, that's just the reason why he comes to mind in the first place. The main reason for really working with him is that he likes his ability, or to be specific, emotional intelligence and organizational ability.
And these two abilities are exactly what they lack.
"Speaking of which, I also use the campus train you developed, especially the team carpool, which is quite effective." After serving, Wu Fatzi poured tea for Lu Zhou and himself, and said with a small talk and a smile, "When we get out of the train station in our hometown, we can't call Didi at all, and ordinary taxi drivers have to walk around the station when they pass by, and they can only take a black car." In the past, I relied on black car drivers to take the initiative to solicit customers, but now I have formed a team on the train, and I can save more than a dozen yuan in a group, and I can also meet a few fellow people who are studying in college elsewhere. I really envy the brains of you top students, you turn fast enough, if I wanted to be myself, I would definitely never have thought of doing this thing. ”
"I just did it casually when I was practicing." Lu Zhou said with a smile.
"Fraud, there are hundreds of thousands of users who make up a program casually, I understand. Compared with you scholars, I really feel that I am not learning that material," Wu Fat Man sighed and shook his head, filled his teacup, and said with a smile, "Say, talk to me about something, don't tell me to come to pretend to be with me." ”
"Are you interested in working on this project together?"
"You want to pull me in?" Fat Wu glanced at Lu Zhou in surprise.
Lu Zhou nodded: "Yes." ”
Wu Fatzi didn't nod directly, but asked, "I don't know if it's inconvenient for Fang to ask, why did you find me?" ”
"I'm going to say it straight?"
Wu Fatzi smiled: "Let's be straight, let's two science and engineering men, don't go around in circles." ”
"One is that I really don't have the energy to do this, and the other is that I don't have any experience in organizing operations. You have neither graduate school entrance examination nor organizational experience," Lu Zhou smiled, "Of course, the most important thing is to rely on feeling." ”
"Is it all about feeling?" Fat Wu smiled, paused for a moment, and said, "Then tell me your plan, what are you going to let me do?" ”
"To put it simply, I want to make the campus train project bigger. Whether it is to raise money all the way to become bigger and stronger, to go public or to package and sell, a beautiful and well-researched paper data is a must. I'll admit that it's really not my cup of tea, and I still prefer to work in R&D, so I need a helper with strong organizational skills and management experience. ”
Fat Wu nodded: "So, you are going to hire me as the manager of the company?" ”
"That's right," Lu Zhou nodded, "Regarding your treatment, I can offer you two options." ”
"First, after the angel round of financing, if the financing is successful, I will take 5% of the equity of the campus train from my personal shares to you as a reward. If I end up choosing to sell the project as a package, 5% of the total value will be your payment, which we can write into the contract. ”
"As for the second option, I will pay you a salary, a base salary of 8,000 per month, plus a bonus commission."
Lu Zhou looked at Fat Wu and asked, "Which one do you choose?" ”
Fat Wu was silent for a while, closed his eyes and thought.
If you can't hold out the angel round of financing, there is no point in talking about equity. Internet companies that do not get capital transfusion will end up dying on the beach, and equity is equal to a piece of waste paper. But if the angel round of financing is passed, such a company will generally raise more than one million, and 5% of the shares are worth at least 50,000 yuan.
As for the second option, it is a relatively safe one. The basic salary of 8,000 plus bonus commission is quite good for fresh undergraduate graduates, especially for graduates majoring in mathematics. Don't say that 985 graduates are not worth the price, the mathematics department can be transferred to the bank to finance and to Wall Street, after all, not everyone is a boss, what is the reality of the situation, you can find out if you slip around the talent market.
But if you choose the second one......
That's not his style.
After thinking about it for about half a minute, Fat Wu opened his eyes, smiled and said: "I really like to find some challenging things to do for myself, and receiving a dead salary is not my pursuit, and most of them will not last long." Angel wheel, let's be the first one. ”
"I guess you will choose this too," Lu Zhou's mouth hooked up a smile, and stretched out his right hand: "Then from today onwards, we will be partners." ”
Fat Wu held Lu Zhou's hand and said with a hearty smile: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation." ”
"Happy working together!"