Age of Dreams

On June 19th, Xiao Qi and Bobby Li of Green Pine Capital discussed the issue of share repurchase and the acquisition of Bitdefender's anti-virus software company.

By entering July, Green Pine Capital had already settled Bitdefender, and officially signed the contract on July 7, plus commissions, etc., which cost a total of 540 million U.S. dollars.

In addition to the company’s intellectual property rights and patents, another achievement Greenpine Capital has obtained is the signing of labor contracts to China with the company’s 18 core professionals. The minimum is 5 years and the maximum is 10 years.

In addition, 52 of the company’s auxiliary R&D personnel have signed labor contracts ranging from 5 to 10 years with the Fairy Company.

These people accounted for 80% of the total R&D personnel of Bitdefender, and the core talents were almost not lost. Even if they were not willing to leave Romania, Xiao Qi arranged for them a branch business and let the previous management take care of them. With them, continue to operate Bitdefender anti-virus software for the European and American markets.

The engineers who signed the contract will take their wives (husbands) and children to Chengdu, where they will spend their most important career cycles.

Although Chengdu is not an international metropolis, it is still a beautiful and fashionable city compared to the rural areas like Romania. There are no problems with life and children's learning.

To allow so many people to sign contracts, Green Pine Capital agreed on behalf of the Fairy Company and is responsible for arranging the lives, studies and work of their wives (husbands) and children. This is also an important reason.

Maintaining the Fairy Company will spend at least 30 million more resources or money each year, but in order to allow these engineers to work harder, tens of millions are not in Xiao Qi's eyes.

Moreover, the annual salary expenditure of this group of engineers exceeds 100 million U.S. dollars, compared with this amount. 30 million is just sprinkling water.

Xiao Qi is a capitalist, so it is impossible to be a philanthropist at work and give them an annual salary of more than 100 million U.S. dollars. Naturally, I hope they can bring 1 billion or even 10 billion U.S. dollars in benefits for themselves.

In fact, the benefits of this group of Bitdefender experts to Xiao Qi are more than just one aspect.

First, they can use their own anti-virus technology to improve the automatic defense and firewall system of the fairy system. Makes the fairy system more actively isolate and filter viruses.

The second is Xiao Qi's mobile anti-virus software.

The mobile anti-virus software market in the future will also have a total market share of at least 3 billion units. Even if one-tenth of the market is obtained, it will also have 300 million users. How broad is this market, and how vast is the space for development!

Naturally, there are not only 70 of them in the entire department. Xiao Qi has more than 200 experts mobilized from various departments, and half of them are doctoral students selected from schools from all over the country. Their most important task is to learn knowledge. And experience. In order to grow up in the next few years and become the backbone of the department in the future.

Of course, there is also a process of survival of the fittest. Every year, Xiao Qi will add new personnel to come in. If it is not suitable, he can only be transferred to other places, and the good and capable ones will be promoted. Everything speaks for performance and ability. .

And Sun Manxue also received the order to form the newly formed "Fairy Guardian Antivirus Software Department." Will get the largest test fund and equipment authority, all resources must be actively provided. No restrictions.

This is still confidential for the time being, and if it spreads out in the future, I don't know how many people will be jealous.

Because that can mean hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars a year in research and development funds and purchase of equipment, the possibility of achieving results will be much greater, and the more honors, awards, etc. will be obtained in the future.

In the Internet age, everything must pay attention to a dominant speed.

Although mobile anti-virus software is a lot more troublesome than computer anti-virus software. But precisely because of this trouble, many anti-virus software vendors have not made up their minds, nor have they invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop, so Xiao Qi concentrated on developing this business, which is likely to occupy the largest share.

not to mention. After the mobile antivirus software has been modified and supplemented, why can't it be used on smart tablets? Can't be used for smart wearable devices?

Smart devices in the future will definitely be the mainstream, and these smart devices are easily invaded by viruses such as Trojan horses. It is very necessary for people to protect their property and the security of their police. At this time, it is not anti-virus software. Is it time to show off your power?

Therefore, Xiao Qi’s first task for this department is to occupy the mobile anti-virus software market, the second step is to expand to the smart tablet market, and the third step is smart wearable devices...

In this way, the five or ten years' time is simply gone in a flash, and it is not enough at all.

Xiao Qi only hopes that by that time, his own team has been cultivated. After all, the maintenance and upgrades for decades in the future will require a steady stream of talents.

But Xiao Qi is not anxious. In 2013, there will be no professional anti-virus software to enter the mobile phone market, that is, Kaspersky has one for the system, but it has not developed the Android mobile phone that needs the most security protection. It's really strange.

Except for the acquisition of Bitdefender, Bobby did not bring good news about the acquisition of 25% of the shares.

After all, Green Pine Capital is really losing too much. Don’t look at them investing everywhere, but in fact, they don’t invest too much each time. Millions and tens of millions account for more than 90% of the projects, and 10 billion. , Dreampad’s 6.5 billion, are their two largest investment projects.

Now it seems that Dreampad has made a huge profit, but the same, it is a huge loss, a loss of 4 billion US dollars, whichever company seems to be big.

So several directors were wondering whether to wait and see what Xiao Qi did.

Anyway, Xiao Qi has already acquired a lot of shares. If he has any confidence in the market, he can also sell it with a little more money.

Faced with their thoughts, Xiao Qi could only think that they were too naive.

After a few months of the financial crisis broke out, people did not shrink their clothes and diet to buy cheaper things online, but did not spend money at all!

Their panic caused them not to buy anything to eat, wear or use except for the most basic living supplies! !

This situation will not gradually improve until the beginning of next year, and the period between September and December will be difficult for many companies.

Including the Fairy Company, Xiao Qi is planning to welcome a downturn in sales.

Even a company whose products like Fairy Company are in short supply is likely to usher in a trough, so life will definitely be more difficult, because their main battlefields are in Europe and the United States!

At the same time, Green Pine Capital’s other investments will also enter a difficult period. Companies that are still starting up will have no ability to resist risks in the overall market environment. If they are not supported, it will not be a failure. What a curious thing.

do not doubt.

The very easy thing in Silicon Valley is to set up a company.

But easier than this is the failure of a company.

The problem is that these companies have good development prospects, and Green Pine Capital is optimistic about them, so it is impossible to let them go bankrupt directly.

But here comes the question again, where do they get so much cash?

It is with this idea that Bobbyli actively communicated with the directors and partners, hoping that the strong man could break his wrist and get the 6 billion US dollars in cash given by Xiao Qi to spend the cold winter.

Unfortunately, some people figured it out, but some people couldn't figure it out, so this matter was temporarily stranded.

Seeing Bobby's embarrassed eyes, Xiao Qi simply gave him another very attractive and confusing condition.

"Sell me $6 billion, and I will give you a priority." The teenager gently said: "Next time I sell shares of Dreampad or Dreamstars, Green Pine Capital will have the right of first refusal. What do you think?"

Bobby blinked. "Really?"

"of course it's true."

"When?" Bobby was excited. "Others say you won't sell shares anymore!"

"It's impossible to sell too much, but it is possible to sell dreampad by 10%, or dreamstars by 20%," Xiao Qi said indifferently, "Go back and tell them this condition, if not Agree, then we have nothing to talk about."

"Row!"

Bobby nodded earnestly: "If there is such a benefit, they can also explain to the shareholders, then there is no problem!"

He is very clear about the minds of those partners~www.readwn.com~ Isn’t it just afraid to take responsibility?

Not only can we abandon the burden, get cash flow to maintain development, and have future participation in dreampad or dreamstars, then it is definitely not a tragic failure.

The world does not know how many people are eyeing the shares of Dreampad or Dreamstars. Such high-quality shares, even if they are just pre-emption rights, are enough to make people excited.

As for the loss of 4 billion US dollars, with the above statement, it becomes simple.

You can't just see the money lost, not the six to seven billion price increases and dividends earned on Dreampad, right?

Combining the two together, they have earned two or three billion dollars!

Isn't that the way to do business?

There are gains and losses, there are failures and successes, even Buffett is the same! (To be continued...)