Wall Street Legend

   Chapter 131 Good News and Bad News (221)

  Ye Dongqing is not an expert in the company's strategic layout, but it is easy to find some deficiencies by working backwards from the successful Apple company and checking for deficiencies.

  Leaving aside other things for now, the appearance design of Apple products is obviously not satisfactory to him. Compared with other companies in this era, it is already considered good, but it is not perfect.

   After visiting in a serious manner, I kept some thoughts in my heart and didn't say them.

Considering the size of the funds in my hands now, it is better to let Apple continue to be confused for the time being. Anyway, there are no strong competitors, and it doesn’t matter to give development suggestions later. Let Apple's other shareholders make money for nothing.

Accidentally received a call from the headhunting company, saying that he wanted to discuss something with him face-to-face. Thinking that he had found a clue, Ye Dongqing immediately ended the tour, bid farewell, asked the specific direction, and drove to ManpowerGroup Silicon Valley Division.

  As one of the largest headhunting companies in the United States, the previous enrollment expansion plan of Freshwater Fund has just been realized through ManpowerGroup, and the service quality is guaranteed.

  It is about three kilometers away from the location of Apple's headquarters. Because Ye Dongqing didn't know the way, it took more than ten minutes to find it smoothly. He parked the rented Ferrari downstairs and took the keys to go upstairs.

  Mr. Alfred was also there. When he saw Ye Dongqing, his face was a little ugly, and he said first: "I have good news and bad news. Boss, which one do you want to hear?"

   "...bad news."

   "Someone has already developed an online call program that is said to be great, and it will be put into use in the near future."

   "What about the good news?"

"The good news is that those people are not strong enough, Estonians, if you are willing to spend money, maybe you can buy it directly, or develop a similar product first. Considering the development cycle, it should not be very large by then. Big," said Mr Alfred.

  Ye Dongqing looked away from him and asked another black man in the office, "Is the news accurate?"

   “We can be sure because my counterparts on the European side have told me that someone is peddling this program, and it has raised the alarm of several communication companies, and they don’t want their business to be destroyed.”

The middle-aged black man stretched out his hand to Ye Dongqing, and introduced himself: "Call me Jaden, I just talked to you on the phone, if I think it is necessary, I can ask my colleagues to help you contact those Estonians, but they hardly Maybe come to New York, because I once developed an Internet sharing tool called KaZaA, and I will face prosecution in the United States.”

  Just knew the name of this tool, Ye Dongqing had never used it before, and said with a headache: "Please ask me, if you want to sell it, I will pay for their team and technology, but the asking price must not be too high."

   "Okay, I will contact them according to your intention, but if the negotiation is successful, the fee will be higher than previously agreed, OK?"

   "Of course, just tell me the charging standard in advance..."

It is good news for Ye Dongqing to have a ready-made company in front of him. This can save development time and eliminate uncertainty in the development process. The only problem that bothers him is that it costs money. Money is tight.

After asking, I found out that, as expected, the name of that program is Skype, which is a program he is very familiar with. In order to avoid being monitored by agencies such as the CIA or the National Security Agency, Ye Dongqing used it to talk frequently in the past. business, very familiar.

After Skype came out for a period of time, young people no longer used the traditional way of calling with high bills, so that the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States said: "When I downloaded Skype, I realized that the era of traditional communication is over. People can use it to communicate with anyone. With free calls to one person and excellent call quality, the era of traditional communications is coming to an end and the world will inevitably change."

There are more than one or two traditional industries that have been impacted by the Internet, such as typewriters, greeting card companies, retailers, etc., but at the same time they have created huge job opportunities. European communication companies have become vigilant because of this product. It didn't surprise Ye Dongqing, after all, no one wanted to see their interests diminish.

As long as those communication service providers show even a little bit of interest, it means that Ye Dongqing's acquisition price will increase. The communication service providers who did not contact Europe in the previous life may be because of his arrival. Changed the trajectory of development.

  Try to contact first. If you think it’s not worthwhile, then find someone to develop it slowly. Anyway, don’t rush it for a while.

Seeing that Ye Dongqing was thinking, Mr. Alfred leaned over and whispered: "Our company added 140,000 registered users yesterday! The news I just received this morning almost paralyzed that temporary server, and there were 100,000 more registered users. about new information!"

   "So many?" Ye Dongqing raised her eyebrows, this number is really not bad.

"Yes, the main reason is that several forums have launched our advertisements and attracted many new users. The effect of advertising is really different. If this trend continues, we will soon need to change to a more advanced server Already." Mr. Alfred continued in a low voice, "I'll go to Oracle Corporation to remind you later."

  Nodded but did not speak.

  Facebook has just started, and Ye Dongqing is worried that it will spread to Jaden’s ears. In the Internet industry, creativity is the most valuable, and it is hard to guarantee that it will not be plagiarized. That small company still needs time to develop and operate, even if it takes the initiative for one more day, it will be good.

Up to now, Ye Dongqing has spent more than two million dollars on development, site, staff expenses, etc. Now, the average monthly salary of the more than 50 employees is as high as more than five thousand one hundred dollars, which means that it will cost nearly nearly one month. Three hundred thousand dollars, not counting medical insurance, social security, etc. The salary of software engineers is generally higher, otherwise the bubble will collapse, and the labor cost will be even more.

The bulk of the expenses are the relatively advanced server and the data management system developed by Oracle Corporation, and the money spent during the advertising period. As long as users can be retained and Facebook can be developed, these expenses are all worth it.

Speaking of bosses in the United States, because the government has a mandatory social security plan, it adopts the "pay-as-you-go" payment method, allowing employees and employers to pay 6.2% of the payroll tax to maintain the operation of the pension , so the pressure is quite high.

All companies save as much as they can, and they like the kind of employees who pay a few employees. In terms of medical insurance, the company and employees pay a part in proportion. Ye Dongqing's benefits for the employees are good, covering almost 7% Ten medical insurance, even so, the life of those employees is still very hard.

Take the seemingly prosperous senior programmer as an example, with an annual salary of about 100,000 U.S. dollars, a monthly salary of about 9,000 U.S. dollars, monthly income tax withholding of more than 2,000 U.S. dollars, medical insurance of more than 100 U.S. dollars, and if you have a house, you have to pay two dollars for the mortgage. Thousands of dollars or so, plus property taxes, home insurance, utilities, gas, auto insurance, other expenses, etc., it's almost impossible to save.

  If you have children, you also need to add school bus fees, interest classes, private study fees, etc. This is the so-called American middle class. It is true that the dollars they earn are valuable, but the expenses are also huge.

This time Ye Dongqing is expected to spend a lot of money on advertising. Fortunately, the number of users has ushered in a big explosion, and the money has not been wasted. It doesn't make sense that it will die in Ye Dongqing's hands.

  Compared with Xiao Zha, Ye Dongqing can use more funds to invest in the initial stage, and use money to buy promotion channels, thereby increasing the number of new users.

  They were just about to leave when they accidentally heard arguing outside. A tall young woman was yelling and saying that she would return the money.

  Alfred asked with interest: "What's going on?"

It ruined the company's image, Mr. Jaden said in a slightly awkward tone, "It's okay, this beautiful woman wants to find a job through us, but the requirements are relatively strict, and she must get a million dollars as soon as she goes to work. A UC degree isn't bad, but you know who wants to spend a million dollars for no reason?

A model agency is willing, but the other party has made some unreasonable demands, and now she is going to sue the other party for sexual harassment. As far as I know, her boss just asked a few words, and did not really do anything. Our company is also Followed by bad luck. "

   Keeping his back to Ye Dongqing, he hasn't seen what he looks like, but since he can be spotted by a modeling agency, his appearance shouldn't be much different.

It's none of their business. After signing the entrustment agreement, when he walked out of Mr. Jaden's office, he looked at this woman curiously. She looked very young and had a very good profile. She looked a bit like Angelina, a Hollywood actress. Na Jolie, no wonder someone is willing to spend millions of dollars to get her, and she can be sent to be a star in any package.

  Unfortunately, this temper seems to be a bit hot. Ye Dongqing patted Mr. Alfred, telling this old pervert who just stole it to look away, and went out together and took his car away.

  I ordered three cars through the bank some time ago, but they haven’t been delivered to Ye Dongqing so far. People without money think this kind of sports car is very valuable, but in the eyes of rich people, it’s more like a cool big toy.

It was not comfortable to drive, and with Alfred as the guide, they went to Oracle Corporation to inquire about the server. This kind of small business is no longer qualified to be received by the famous Silicon Valley **** Mr. Larry Ellison in person. How long will it take to finish the work? It is estimated that it will take about one and a half months to get the server and supporting software.

  That night, Ye Dongqing walked to a bar, ready to have two more drinks and go back to sleep.

   It was not intentional, the girl I met at the headhunting company during the day happened to sit next to him

  (end of this chapter)