At the end of the transoceanic conference call with the backgammon team on the other side of the ocean, the time was already more than 7 o'clock in the evening.

Chen Qing carefully reviewed today's work log and the meeting notes just now, and confirmed that there was nothing missing, and then motioned to Lily Favir, who was acting as an assistant next to her, to help sort out the documents.

This is a common cubicle in a corner of the staff office area on the first floor of Scober's headquarters.

Before Chen's team took over, more than 60 of Scober's employees had been crammed into the humble two-story office building of Milpitas, with the first floor being the staff office area and the second floor being a laboratory with all kinds of expensive equipment and instruments.

Leaving the cubicle, Christina Latham, another waitress of the Wei family, who had been brought in as an assistant, gestured to her in front of the door of the conference room not far away, signaling that everyone had arrived.

Most of Scober's ordinary employees have already left work, and only a few core members of Chen's team and management such as Bill Omela are still there, waiting for her to hold a final summary meeting before leaving work.

I got up at five o'clock in the morning and had a busy day, and it would be a lie to say that I was not tired.

However, Chen Qing's spirit is still high.

Nodding to Christina, Chen Qing picked up the coffee cup next to her and walked through the office area into the conference room, sat down at a position near the door, glanced around, and said directly: "I have contacted Mountain View City, there is still plenty of office space over there, we can move the company as a whole at any time, the software and hardware environment of the Eagle Park is stronger than this side, which can greatly improve everyone's work efficiency." Bill, tomorrow you can go over and pick a suitable venue. Here's the thing. Now, Ayman, let's talk about the company's financial situation. ”

To be precise, Simon's site in Mountain View is only known as the Egrett Campus in an area dedicated to the company's headquarters, but during the development, many additional office buildings were built on the entire area that were planned to be leased to businesses around the company.

As a result, the area of Mountain View became known as the Egrett Campus in its entirety.

Several former Scooper executives present all showed expectant expressions when they heard Chen Qing say this.

The move of the company's headquarters from the corner of Milpitas to Mountain View is a step into the heart of Silicon Valley, which is another testament to the importance that the Westeros system places on Scooper.

Emmanuel Brandt, who just sat in the position of chairman of Scober today, did not say anything unusual, listened to Chen Qing's words, and began to introduce Scober's financial situation after today's re-audit. Counting the remaining funds raised in last year's IPO and the $20 million loan to be received, as well as a portion of the cash obtained from its own operations, Scober now has about $33 million in available funds.

Such a sum of money is equivalent to twice the cost of China Wanyan Group's research and development of VCD.

Wanyan Group officially launched VCD to the market last year, because of the dismal sales, in fact, it is no longer sustainable, even if VCD sales have been rising since this year, a large part of it is the result of other companies beginning to enter the market.

Scooper and Wan Yan worked closely together in the development of the VCD, however, when Chen Qing returned to China during the New Year, he made a special trip to Anhui to visit the company, and came to the conclusion that Wan Yan Group had a considerable accumulation of technology, but unfortunately, the product operation was a mess.

Moreover, this company also has these state-owned backgrounds, which makes Chen Qing even more discouraged from continuing to cooperate with the other party, she doesn't want to be hindered by messy troubles in the process of advancing her plan.

In comparison, the backgammon team that has made Xiaobawang into a billion annual revenue in just a few years is what Chen Qing needs most.

At this stage in China, there is no shortage of market demand and product supply, and what is really lacking is an excellent team that will make the market bigger and stronger.

Therefore, looking back at the history of business in China in the 90s, it is often inseparable from the word 'marketing'.

China's self-made super-rich in the 90s are basically marketing masters, many of whom will also inherit this business gene until many years later, the most typical is the blue and green factories that seem to be ubiquitous later, and other mobile phone manufacturers tear each other apart in various ways in order to point market shareWhen the ugliness is revealed, only OV and the two uphold their old-fashioned operating methods that have been inherited for decades and make a lot of money in a muffled voice.

The $33 million funding is enough for Scooper to develop a new generation of video decoding chips and a comprehensive upgrade of the current VCD technology.

At this stage, VCD products, as the heart of the video decoding chip, can only be produced by Scooper, completely monopolized. Therefore, as long as the video decoding chip is further upgraded and a complete VCD solution is developed, the possibility of other manufacturers to follow up in the short term will be completely cut off, and the profit distribution of the VCD industry will be completely decided by the Scooper.

Of course, in order not to cause a collective backlash from established manufacturers, Chen Qing still plans to purchase laser reading first-class components from Sony, Philips and other manufacturers as Scooper's supporting standards in the future. Because they do not have a monopoly, these manufacturers can only compromise with Scooper if they want to gain more market share.

Although his boss regards investing in the VCD industry as a quick buck, and the plan is executed in this way, with the advantages of the industry in his hands, Scooper can try to continue to get a piece of the pie in the future DVD era.

Video decoding chips are also a necessity for DVDs.

After Emmanuel Brandt introduced Scober's financial situation, Chen Qing continued to confirm the detailed plan for the next step.

Since it has been decided to abandon Wan Yan, Chen Qing has taken backgammon as the focus of support in the next stage.

In the next three months, Scooper will work closely with BBK to launch the first BBK brand VCD product in China based on the current video decoding chip, so that the company can familiarize itself with the product in advance and carry out early market cultivation.

At the same time, Scober will immediately start the construction of a VCD component factory in China, where it plans to produce components for disc reading systems with laser reading heads at its core. Video decoding, disc reading, these are the two cores of VCD products, but also the two most profitable parts, until the end of the year Scober's complete machine solution is completed, the factory there can be directly put into production.

When the time comes, Scober will provide these core components, which are already semi-finished products, to all Chinese manufacturers who are interested in entering the VCD industry.

And, of course, there are turnkey solutions.

Sony, Philips and other suppliers want to squeeze into the VCD industry chain, they also need to get the consent of Scooper and give up enough benefits.

It is conceivable that there will inevitably be manufacturers to develop the same type of products in order to bypass Scooper's monopoly on video decoding chips, but these competitors have lagged behind for at least two years. Even old giants such as Sony, when they invested a lot of manpower and material resources to finally catch up with Scober's pace, VCD basically came to the brink of elimination.

The wrap-up session lasted for more than an hour.

After the meeting, Chen Qing invited everyone to have dinner at a nearby restaurant, and it was already late at night on the West Coast of the United States.

As a very sociable woman, Chen Qing has become quite familiar with some of the Westeros system cores here in Silicon Valley in recent months, and has also become good friends with the C and D girls. The last time she investigated Scober, Claire helped a lot.

When I came to San Francisco this time, I knew that Girl C was responsible for taking care of all Simon's properties here, and Chen Qing was not polite and took the initiative to ask if she could borrow a residence.

Claire didn't refuse, and quickly arranged it.

Set in the Portola Valley on the border with Woodside, it occupies an entire hilltop manor house with three floors of stone rustic villas that resemble castles.

It's a bit exaggerated.

I visited Girl C's residence in Atherton, and in comparison, the mansion there for ordinary people can only be described as shabby.

So I couldn't help but call over to ask if it was suitable, and the response I got was no problem, my boss likes to lend the house to the women around me to live, so that it can increase popularity, and the C girl also joked that as long as you don't bring a man into the door, you can toss as much as you want.

Chen Qingke didn't think it was a joke at all.

However, not for men, women should be fine.

In the end, she couldn't hold back some careful thinking about showing off, and Chen Qing invited the other two girls in the team some time ago, Emmanuel Brandt and Carla Hills, to live in this manor together.

The two black cars entered the gate of the Portola Valley estate in turn.

The man was not there, and there was no security in the guard room at the gate, but everyone was not worried at all.

The security system in the estate is directly connected to the Westeros family's security center in San Francisco and the nearby police station, and if someone tries to break in, both parties will be alerted immediately, and someone will arrive within five minutes, and the video surveillance system will record all the information about the intruder.

Eight women got out of the car and entered the villa together.

The lights are on.

In the open hall, the crisp sound of high heels quickly sounded on the wooden floor.

Even though she had already stayed here for one night, Carla Shears looked around, and there was still some eagerness in her eyes, which can be called longing, and Emmanuel Brandt, who was six feet tall and had red hair, said directly: "I must buy such a house in the future." ”

After a busy day, even though they were very tired, the girls did not have the idea of going to rest immediately.

Everyone turned to the living room next to the hall, Chen Qing, Lin Su, Emmanuel and Carla sat down on the sofa, but the four maids and guards were not so casual, either to prepare coffee for the girls, or to go outside to inspect the manor defense, each busy.

After snatching a pillow and holding it comfortably in his arms, Chen Qing kicked off his high heels, curled up on the sofa, and said to Emmanuel with a smile: "Aiman, with your ability, I believe that you will be able to afford this mansion soon." ”

Emmanuel Brandt is also curled up on the sofa like Chen Qing, but her 183CM long figure, between movements, the aura is much stronger than Chen Qing, this French girl who is full of aggression in Leon Black's mouth, worthy of her name, whether it is the red hair or the slender and toned body, her momentum is not lost to most men.

However, the girl has a soft and glamorous face, and likes to wear a provocative red lip gloss, which seems to give her a little more harmless disguise.

It is indeed a disguise.

Chen Qing has heard rumors of girls in the past few months of working in Apollo, and she was recruited into the company as a vase, however, it turns out that her strength is not a vase at all.

The 29-year-old French girl graduated from the Zurich Institute of Technology, one of the top European rankings, and Einstein is an alumnus, and the girl's university major also happens to be physics, she was born with a high IQ and got a doctorate in particle physics at the age of 26, and originally planned to enter the European Institute of Nuclear Research in Geneva to continue exploring the mysteries of the universe according to her preferences, however, the insurance company run by the girl's family was hit by the European currency crisis in 92 and went bankrupt, which made this personality girl with a golden spoon become a bankrupt sister and had to choose to enter the society and start working。

In fact, there is an element of debt evasion when he came to the United States.

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.

Then, it only took more than two years, relying on his clever brain and diligent study in private, Emmanuel Brandt quickly adapted to the atmosphere of Wall Street, and had a wonderful performance in the past several acquisitions of Apollo Management.

Emmanuel Brandt is very confident, but not arrogant, just now she just sighed, she was born in a wealthy family, however, before the Brandt family went bankrupt, the total assets could probably only buy the current manor, hearing Chen Qing say this, the girl smiled and asked, "Chen, what has our boss been doing lately, do you know?"

Of course, Chen Qing knew who Emmanuel was talking about as the boss, and speaking of which, if Simon was in San Francisco, she would not have brought Emmanuel here anyway, and no one would take the initiative to cultivate competitors for themselves.

Thinking so, Chen Qing said: "I don't know, I may not be able to see him once a month or two." ”

deliberately didn't bring Lin Su next to him in his words.

Lin Su, who was sitting next to Chen Qing, didn't care at all.

When Emmanuel heard this, he was a little surprised, and his eyes wandered around: "Won't it?"

If Westeros was so cold to the Oriental girl, how could he lend her this luxurious estate to live in?

Chen Qing just shrugged her shoulders, saw the French girl's mind again, and said with a smile: "Did you suddenly react, you may have been deceived?"

Emmanuel was stunned for a moment, and shook his head with a smile: "Of course not." ”

During this time, Chen Qing's authority to operate the Scooper acquisition is obvious to all, as well as the investment from China, which cannot be faked. Even if a young tycoon is not very interested in this oriental girl's body, he definitely trusts her ability.

Emmanuel is more interested in this.

Chatting casually, the waitresses brought coffee, and Carla Shears brought up another topic: "Ygritt's employee stock ownership plan should have been completed, didn't it say that a prospectus was going to be filed recently, why is there no movement?"

Chen Qing shook his head: "I don't know, but after a few busy days, maybe everyone can have a meal together and chat, and you should know." ”

Carla Shears said, "You mean, Girl C, well, Girl D?"

Chen Qing smiled and nodded: "Yes." A is next to the boss, B is in New York, and C and D are in San Francisco. ”

Carla Shears said: "There should also be Alice Ferguson, I think she is a little more powerful than C and D, Amazon.com, tsk, there is a feature in BusinessWeek praising the development of this project in recent years is a miracle." ”

Emmanuel Brandt sipped his coffee and interjected: "I think Alice Ferguson is too aggressive, there is nothing that needs to cultivate the market in the early stage, and it is not sustainable at all in the long run, and it is too expensive." The next thing she needs to do is put the project away, otherwise, Igret's e-commerce business will collapse sooner or later. ”

Chen Qing saw that Lin Su next to him had not spoken, and deliberately leaned over, but Lin Su glanced at her, smiled, and continued to say to the other two women: "I talked about this when I chatted with Claire, and the boss kept staring at it." If you look at BesTV, why in the past two years, this videotape rental chain has beaten other competitors to the point of bankruptcy, precisely because BesTV has optimized the storage and distribution system of videotapes to the extreme, saving costs to the greatest extent, so it also has a price advantage that other rental chains cannot match while ensuring a comparable profit margin. Why Walmart and 7-11 are so successful, in the final analysis, is also the same. Amazon's online store is destined to develop in this direction, and if Alice Ferguson can't do it, or is unwilling to do so, the boss will change sooner or later. ”

Carla Shears said: "It seems that Alice Ferguson will get a 2% Igrete stake award this time, is that true?"

Chen Qing nodded: "Actually, it's 3%, cash out 2% first, and the remaining 1% will be paid in the next contract period." ”

When Carla Shears heard this, her eyes widened a little, her appearance was much more ordinary than the other girls present, about 1.7 meters tall, with a slightly square face, but a pair of pure blue eyes looked very beautiful.

Emmanuel couldn't help but let out a slight sigh.

3% of Igrete shares, based on the current valuation of Igret's $100 billion IPO, is $3 billion.

Even if you only count 2% of this cash, there is $2 billion.

That's enough to occupy a fairly prominent spot on the U.S. 400 list.

After the bankruptcy of the family business, Emmanuel Brandt, who once did not attach much importance to material things, inevitably developed a strong thirst for money. She didn't know Alice Ferguson, but in this case, she knew she was very close to the man.

This is your chance.

With a platform like the Four Alphabet Girls or women like Alice Ferguson and Sophia Fercy, Emmanuels doesn't think she's going to be much worse than them.