giants of the era

Chapter 42 Company Expansion!

Since the October 10 issue of Popular Electronics was released, Li Zetian and Zhang Hao have been busy answering the phone, and they didn't even have time for dinner.At 1 o'clock in the evening, the two decided to rest.

Zhang Hao drank two sips of water and said, "Boss, I'm done talking, let's recruit some people! For things like answering the phone, just recruit two female customer service staff!"

Li Zetian said with a smile: "I want to chat with customers in person so that I can accurately get feedback from users and find out their potential needs! This will help us develop Apple's second-generation personal computer! As for recruiting, Don't worry, I've already advertised in the newspaper, and I'm asking them to meet tomorrow, including customer service, engineers, front desk, etc... After dinner in a while, I'll take you to a place!"

"Ok!"

The two then went to the restaurant near the garage to have a big meal. After eating, Zhang Han asked, "Boss, where are we going now?"

"Go to our company's new office!"

Hearing the words, Zhang Hao was overjoyed, "Boss, what do you mean, we are going to move out of the garage?"

Li Zetian nodded, "Yes, that's right! We are going to expand, and the garage can no longer satisfy us! You go and bring the car over, and we will start right away!"

"Okay, boss, just wait a moment!!!"

Zhang Han quickly walked to the parking lot of the restaurant.

Li Zetian smiled, Zhang Hao almost became a full-time driver, but who told me that the boss didn't have a car!

Half an hour later, the black Ford parked in front of an office building on the outskirts of San Jose.The whole office building is 4 stories high and covers an area of ​​about 500 square meters. There are two big oak trees planted in front of the door, and flowers and plants are planted around it. The environment is pleasant!
"No way, boss, this building belongs to us?"

"What are you thinking? When did I become so rich? Look aside!!!"

Zhang Han looked at the place Li Zetian pointed out, and there was a small red brick building next to the building. Although it was only one floor high, its area was four or five times larger than the garage.

Li Zetian said: "The surrounding environment is good. We will temporarily move the company headquarters to that small building. When we make money, we will occupy the office building next to it!"

"For sure! I like this place so much!! It is quiet, the air is good, and there is a gurgling river behind the house, how pleasing to the eye! By the way, you can go swimming in summer!!!" Zhang Han excitedly said.

Li Zetian smiled and said: "Swimming is fine, but remember to wear swimming trunks, our company will definitely have many female employees in the future! Well, let's not talk about that, let's take you to see our new headquarters first!!!"

"Ok!"

Pass under two large oak trees, then turn right and walk up a grassy field to the new headquarters.

Li Zetian took out the key to unlock it, and pushed open the door.

The decoration style inside adopts the more popular and money-saving decoration style after the 21st century (saving money is the key). Once you enter, there is a reception desk, and then you go forward, it is an open office with no doors, no partitions, and the desks of the employees. Bring the whole office together.In addition, the roof is not suspended, and the water pipes, air conditioners and other objects are directly exposed outside. Some graffiti enthusiasts were invited to help draw some pictures for free on the walls, and ceramic tiles are used on the floor.Of course, the senior staff have independent offices, using glass screens, which not only have good visual effects, but also increase the brightness of the interior.

"Oh, boss, you designed this?!" Zhang Han sighed in surprise.

"Yes! How does it feel?"

"It's simply amazing!!! The design of this office is simple and beautiful, and it is very consistent with our Apple design concept. It is indeed the work of the boss!!!"

Li Zetian smiled. There are so many designs like this in the 21st century. It is commonplace and not surprising.

"Boss, when did you rent this place?"

"More than half a month ago, Apple-l entered the test. While contacting the accessory manufacturer, I took time to choose a new company headquarters. At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, all applicants will come here for interviews. If you go to the garage, That makes our company look shabby!!!”

"Hehe, yes!" Zhang Han nodded.

Afterwards, the two stayed here for ten minutes before leaving.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Zetian and Zhang Hao arrived at Apple's new headquarters early.

After the publicity of "Popular Electronics" yesterday, Apple is no longer an unknown small company, but a new technological star with great innovation. The developers of Apple-l are full of admiration, and think that the company that can develop such amazing products as Apple-l must be extraordinary, and this is the company they want to join!
Excellent companies select talents, and similarly, excellent talents also select companies!
Apple has undoubtedly become the most innovative new company of the moment, and naturally attracts a lot of talented people's ideas.

Li Zetian attaches great importance to technology, so the corporate culture will naturally tend to be engineer culture, so this time the recruitment is mainly to recruit engineers.

In order to ensure the quality, Li Zetian is personally responsible for the recruitment process and strictly checks the checkpoints. In line with the principle of preferring shortages to excesses, excellent talents are not rejected, especially in the early stage of the company. They must be carefully selected, because these people came to the company first and will develop into the mainstay of the company in the future!

At 9 o'clock, the recruitment activities began, but it almost made a big joke.

All the applicants were stunned when they saw Li Zetian sitting in the chair of the interviewer.

Who is this young man?
Could he be the interviewer?
Unexpectedly, Li Zetian shocked everyone when he opened his mouth.

"Hi everyone, I'm Apple CEO—Chronos Lee!"

Is he the CEO of Apple? !
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay!I'm afraid he hasn't graduated from high school yet?

Li Zetian said lightly: "Since I'm sitting here, I'm a fake CEO. If any of you don't believe it, you can leave now!"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Zetian announced: "Apple's recruitment activities have officially started. Those who apply for engineers will first take a written test here. Those who pass the written test will have an interview in the afternoon. The customer service and front desk of the applicant company will follow me to another room ..."

Zhang Han felt depressed, his title is the chief technology officer of Apple, but he went to recruit customer service MM and front desk lady...

Seeing Zhang Hao's reluctance, Li Zetian couldn't help feeling amused, and thought, why don't you want to deal with the sexy and beautiful customer service MM?How many people want to go without this opportunity!
Zhang Han stood up and took a dozen young and beautiful girls to another room.

Since the scale of Apple is not large, Li Zetian can hold several positions such as CEO, human resources director, financial director, sales director, etc. In fact, he only needs customer service, front desk and engineers now!There are only a few people in the company, can't Li Zetian manage it?It's not too late to go to other companies to poach people when the company grows stronger!

At the end of the day, Li Zetian only recruited 7 people: 2 customer service MMs, 1 front desk lady and 4 engineers.

These four engineers are top students of American Ivy League schools, and graduated from Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of California, Berkeley respectively.

"Although I dropped out of college, thousands of top students from Ivy League universities will work for me in the future!!!"

Li Zetian couldn't help but the corners of his mouth curled up, and he laughed.

After dinner, Li Zetian asked Zhang Hao to count the orders for Apple-l in the past two days, and there were 150 in total in the end!
"Each Apple-l computer costs 2000 US dollars, 150 is 30 US dollars! Boss, in two days, we have earned 30 US dollars!!!" Zhang Han couldn't help shouting excitedly.

Li Zetian calmed down a lot, thinking, this is just the beginning, and he will earn more in the future!

Apple products in previous lives have always been highly profitable, and this life is no exception.

The hardware manufacturing cost of an Apple-l is actually less than $500, and the profit can be as high as $1500!Of course, the reason why it is so expensive is because it mainly sells technology, innovation and taste!Apple does not have its own factory yet, otherwise, the manufacturing cost can be reduced!However, as long as the funds arrive in the account, Li Zetian will definitely start to build his own factory immediately!

PS: Tomorrow is Monday, and it will hit the new book list for the last time. As long as there are votes and rewards, the update will not be slow
　PS: Tomorrow is Monday, and it will hit the new book list for the last time. As long as there are votes and rewards, the update will not be slow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)