Chapter Seventy-Three: Pioneer Software Inc

"How can it be so cheap? Isn't Bangalore's housing prices catching up with New York and Tokyo? "The party for the people can hardly believe their eyes. A one-story office building, how can there be more than 300 square meters, "I have to contact quickly, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no store in this village." ”

Without further ado, he immediately dressed and tidied up, and hurried downstairs, and the waiter greeted him very enthusiastically. When he got to the hotel, he took a yellow motorized tricycle and gave the driver 70 rupees, and the driver drove away with him at a high speed.

The climate of Bangalore is between 20-25 degrees a year, the four seasons are like spring, it can be called the "spring city" of India, there is no other Indian city that is hot, the time is already March, and then 2 months will be the hottest season of the year in India, and Bangalore has always been so refreshing and pleasant. The party for the people looked at the street scene, the roads are all asphalt, mobile communication towers are lined up, and the telephone poles are also hung with optical fibers.

Got to the building. The party gave the driver money for the people, got out of the car and walked, not far away, only to see a long queue in front, more than 30 meters long. When I went around and looked, it turned out that these people were waiting in line for the elevator, three of the four elevators were broken, and people were in a hurry to go to work, so they were all waiting in line. Dang Weimin looked at the wall, on which were hung the logos of world-class large companies such as "IBM Bangalore Branch" and "Microsoft Bangalore".

After thinking about it, he walked into the stairwell and climbed to the tenth floor, and about 20 minutes later, Dang Weimin panted to the reception on the tenth floor and asked the receptionist: "Where are the rental procedures?" ”

The woman wrapped in a sari stood up and muttered a few words of English with an Indian accent, which he had heard for a long time before he understood, and found a man named Desai inside. Dang Weimin looked at the situation on the 10th floor and found that there were already many people working on the 10th floor, and there were people sitting in every work compartment. After finding it, I saw that Mr. Desai was a typical Indian, with dark brown skin and two big beards, and after hearing the rent request demanded by the party for the people, he pointed directly to a corner and said: "We rent it out there, and $15,000 is there." ”

It turned out to be four working cubicles crammed into one corner, and only four people could be seated, which was probably left behind after the original company withdrew its stall. The party was greatly disappointed by the people. Although I didn't really point to $15,000 to rent an office building, it was too small in front of me, right?

"It's too small for me to fit anything. Can you expand it a little more? "The party asks for the people.

"There's an aisle over there, and four shelves, do you think you're renting that side or renting together?"

After a period of discussion, I finally rented a place for eight people at a price of $30,000 a month, and I don't know if the price is high, but Dang Weimin really thinks that this office building is good, at least so many big companies won't be bad here, right? After the negotiation was settled, the two sides went to the bank, and Dang Weimin took out Tang Menglong's account and transferred $180,000 in advance to the building management office.

In the next few days, I was very busy, not only running the company's opening documents, but also running office facilities, pulling broadband access and the like. The Indians procrastinate, starting at nine o'clock in the morning, and there is no one at eleven o'clock, and in the afternoon... If there are many, those officials will run away, and often directly reach out to ask for money, and the most troublesome thing is that they will not do anything when they ask for money. The party has to find their superiors to give gifts for the people. The superior spoke, and the officials below moved, but the speed was not as fast as that.

After careful consideration, the party did not recruit Chinese that Tang Menglong was more familiar with, but simply recruited two through the guò intermediary, one named Wang Xuening had just graduated from university and was working everywhere and did not want to return to China; Another named Han Zhi is a master's degree, who has been working as a system integrator at Tata Software in India in the past, and jumped out in 2008 to set up his own company.

After a few days of observation, the technique of the person named Wang Xuening is indeed average, and it still takes time to cultivate, but he is very diligent and attentive to learning. Han Zhi has a very high level of technology, slightly less enthusiasm for work, and may still be immersed in his own entrepreneurial dream, and he is not very attentive to things, but he can see that he is very familiar with the software industry and has his own set of analysis and ideas for software development. ,

Dang Weimin explained to them the two sets of software FreeSQL and Openwindows developed by himself, including design principles, system architecture and partial system function implementation. greatly shocked these two employees, Wang Xuening was just fine, he was already tender, and now when he looks at the party for the people, his eyes are stars of worship.

As for Han Zhibiao, it is very complicated, that is, there is envy and admiration, but also a little unconvinced and jealous. It makes sense to think about it. In Han Zhi's opinion, although this guy named Tang Menglong finished college in Bangalore and has two years of practical work experience, who would have thought that he could complete such two excellent software? He has known that the FreeSQL library has been in existence for several months, and he also feels sincere admiration for the fact that this product can quickly expand his territory without the support of a large company system, but he really did not think that this is a set of software that is open to the Chinese people themselves.

Han Zhi was indeed shocked when Dang Weimin sent hundreds of MB of system descriptions and source code descriptions to his computer, such a huge system design, the combination of advanced scalability and ease of use, it was really hard to imagine that such a young man could do it alone. After a few days of half-consulting and half-investigation, Han Zhi understood that the scarred Tang Boss in front of him could indeed be regarded as a top-level number master. Not to mention that he got that OpenWindows, and to be honest, it was the first time he had seen such a beautiful design on non-Windows and Apple MacX operations. Whether it's the library or the graphical interface, the boss will be the top developer.

"I'm going to stay in this company, and there will definitely be a huge development prospect for a product of this technical level, and I believe this will be the best choice in my life." In an email to friends in China, Han Zhi wrote, "A new IT legend is about to emerge, similar to the legend of Google and Microsoft, and I must have a good development here." In a few months, you can come over too, and we'll work together. ”

This protagonist, who is regarded as a genius, doesn't know that he is regarded as a smart person by his subordinates. In fact, I was almost exhausted to death by these two people who kept asking me for a week. The party for the people completely relied on himself to stay up in a different space for a few years plus the help of the super host, so he basically understood the general situation of these two systems, even if ordinary people have studied for so long, they will become experts.

Opening a company in India is quite cumbersome, and if it is a purely foreign-owned enterprise, it must also recruit enough local people according to the regulations. His company had to recruit two more from the local Indians, a man and a woman, the man has been engaged in software programming and has been engaged in service support for many years and has rich experience. The salary is not high, 12,000 rupees a month, and the woman, who is mainly responsible for internal and external relations and internal coordination, is 7,000 rupees a month.

As for financial accounting and cashiering, the party will work part-time for the time being, and then talk about other things when there is a profit. After a week of trial runs, the $500,000 software company, SharpSoft, opened in Bangalore.

At the time of the opening, there were no companies to congratulate, only some of his friends from four employees came to cheer and send some gadgets to express themselves. Dang Weimin asked that there were still Chinese restaurants in this city, so he said that he would go to dinner together in the evening. Seeing that everyone suddenly cheered, he wondered why these people were so happy.

By noon, he and his four men had finally understood when they found one of the most frequented Indian restaurants in the building. Dang Weimin eats in hotels these days, and generally eats Western food, and has not eaten authentic Indian food, so he deliberately found the purest Indian restaurant at noon that day.

A few little beggars appeared at the door, stretching out their dirty little hands to beg, and Dang Weimin took out a few coins of 10 pai and 20 pai from his pocket and threw them at them. The waiter at the restaurant saw it and stood at the gate and shouted angrily, and the little beggars immediately ran away without a trace.

"It's still this waiter's history, and those beggars are afraid of him." Wang Xuening was busy running before and after, ordering and cleaning up.

"Why? Is he very fierce?" Dang Weimin also felt strange, he shouted a few words, and no one listened to those beggars, and they were still blocked, but as soon as the waiter came out, his voice dispersed.

"No, that waiter is a Brahmin, high caste, those beggars are all low caste, and when they see him, they are angry" Han Zhi replied, it seems that he is also familiar with this place, "This restaurant is more suitable for our Chinese tastes, so the Chinese people in Bangalore often come here to eat." ”

Dang Weimin looked at the menu. "It's really rare to have chicken for sale in this restaurant, and I thought Indians eat it all day long."

"This owner is Chinese, married an Indian wife, if not for fear of causing public anger, he once planned to sell beef." Wang Xuening leaned into the ears of the party for the people, obviously afraid that the other two local employees of the company would hear it, "So the taste is much smaller than that of real Indian food, and it can be swallowed." ”