Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2977 Recruitment

There are only a few days between Christmas and New Year's Day, and it is time to relax at the end of the year. Many people will choose to travel or go on vacation with their family and friends during this period.

So do many executives.

Zhou Buqi received requests for annual leave from eight executives above the vice president level, including Kurian.

Executives are different from ordinary employees.

In the US, you can’t assign tasks to ordinary employees during their vacations, which will irritate them and may even lead to complaints or even lawsuits. Executives are different, as they must shoulder more important responsibilities. Even when many people are on vacation, they often have to hold video conferences to handle work matters remotely.

Zhou Buqi approved the executives' applications for leave, but made a request that they consider the company's next strategic structure during their leave, especially the possibility of a merger between Ziweixing International and LinkedIn.

Ziweixing International is a social giant.

So, should we do business socializing?

If you want to do business social networking, is it better to do it yourself, or is it better to directly acquire LinkedIn?

What are the benefits of acquiring LinkedIn?

Zhou Buqi is not an American, so it doesn't matter whether he celebrates Christmas or not, his main job is work. Things have to be done one by one, and recently the acquisition of Reddit was finalized, with a total price of $21.81 per share and a total value of $1.85 million.

To this end, Ziweixing International paid a total of 830 million shares to Reddit shareholders.

830 million shares seems like a lot.

  But in reality, after several rounds of splits and adjustments, the headquarters of Ziweixing International has reached 82.5 billion shares, and these 830 million shares are simply negligible. The reason for splitting so many shares is mainly for the convenience of issuance. The more shares there are, the lower the stock price will be, which can promote the activity of trading.

The stock price is too high, one lot may cost tens of thousands of dollars, which is too unfriendly to retail investors and they simply cannot afford it.

So many large companies will continue to split their stocks.

Keep the stock price low to promote stock circulation.

Because Netflix is ​​developing so well, it is already planning its third round of stock split.

The Reddit deal went through smoothly.

After Christmas, the formal signing and sealing took place.

Get it!

For an industry giant like Ziweixing International, acquiring Reddit is just a small case and is easy to operate.

What Zhou Buqi cares about is the company's interim CEO Sam Altman.

Because both parties were in a hurry, they didn't have much time to rest during Christmas. Zhou Buqi rented a private island in Southern California and invited him to take a day off. There were a lot of islands there, and a private island could be bought for several million dollars.

Most of it is still undeveloped.

The really good islands have long been bought up by American tycoons, and many places have been transformed into tourist attractions.

Vacation is fake.

Recruiting is the real thing.

There were also many people in the industry, such as Netflix CEO Hastings, Changyou CEO Mattrick, LinkedIn Chairman Hoffman, PayPal CEO Schulman, and two Hollywood female stars... to be precise, two TV actors, Emilia (Dragon Mother) and Sophie Turner (Idiot) in Game of Thrones.

There is only one day off.

Go in the morning and come back in the evening.

If you are not busy, you can stay there overnight and come back the next day. Zhou Buqi rented it for three days, fully considering the guests. After all, there are female stars present, and if someone strikes a romantic spark with the actress, they should always be given more time to spend together.

Reid Hoffman was a fat man who was already very old and had long passed the age of enjoying beauty. He joked, "I really envy you. Wherever you go, you are accompanied by big Hollywood stars."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I invited them here, not for myself."

"After the last party, I discovered a little secret."

Hoffman has been very close to Boss Zhou recently, and they often exchange emails and phone calls. He came over and spoke mysteriously.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What secret?"

Hoffman sighed, "Musk, the last time he left, the actress in the red dress got in his car and left with him."

Zhou Buqi was not surprised at all and said with a smile: "Maybe they are all friends! By the way, do you know that Sam Ultraman?"

"I know him, he's a great young man." Hoffman gave him a high evaluation, "He has high vision and pursues big things."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then do me a favor and go over to talk to him and say something good for me."

"Say something nice?" "Well, I'm planning to do a big project, but I'm short of a person in charge, so I'd like to ask him to come and help."

"Who would refuse you?" Reid Hoffman couldn't help but laugh. "He has accepted your invitation. The meaning is obvious, right? I have heard that he has resigned from YC Investment. This is big news. I am quite surprised. He has only been here for a few months. Why is he leaving? It turned out to be you!"

This guy has a very high status in Silicon Valley, a bit like the "know-it-all" of Silicon Valley.

He is an important member of the "PayPal Mafia".

Zhou Buqi said: "He should be motivated now, but my project is a super project, it is very difficult, and it may not produce results in ten years. If you want to accomplish this, you must have a stronger sense of belief."

"What project?" Hoffman was surprised.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "The risk in the field of artificial intelligence is huge. But I hope he can work with me to create a new era and make greater achievements than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This is a great goal, which inevitably means great difficulties."

“More than Gates and Jobs?”

"Correct."

"Yeah." Hoffman nodded. "If someone else said that, I would definitely think he was a liar and an egomaniac. But you are different. If anyone can do it, I believe only you can. But... do you really believe that kid?"

Zhou Buqi cleared his throat and said, "He is not a child. He is one year older than me."

Hoffman laughed, "Okay, I get it. You are of the same age, so you will indeed have more in common."

There are some things that Zhou Buqi himself said. If he said them too much, it would sound like he was bragging, or like brainwashing PUA.

So he has to restrain himself.

Find some helpers, let them take turns, and further inspire Sam Altman through the introduction of a third party. It is not enough to let him join the project, but also to make him have a firm belief.

Everyone was sunbathing on the island beach. It is located in the subtropics and the temperature is just right.

All in swimsuits.

Hoffman's fat appearance was as ugly as it could be.

The actress in the sexy swimsuit is still pleasing to the eye.

After a while, actress Sophie Turner, who showed off her hot body in a white bikini, came over and sat down next to him, hugging her legs. "Mr. Zhou, you're looking for me?"

Zhou Buqi asked: "Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Ah?" Sophie Turner was a little surprised, her eyes flickering, "No! I'm still single."

Zhou Buqi pointed in the direction of Sam Altman, "That guy doesn't like watching movies, but he has watched a lot of American TV series, and his favorite is Game of Thrones. You are his favorite actress, and he told me this secretly."

"Oh."

Sophie Turner covered her mouth and laughed. At first she thought Mr. Zhou was interested in her.

But it's nice to meet his friends.

Zhou Buqi said: "But, he is gay..."

"what?"

Sophie Turner was disappointed.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "You can go and tease him, and make friends with him, what do you think?"

"All right!"

Sophie Turner felt it was a pity and thought these rich and powerful people were really weird.

Zhou Buqi then casually asked, "By the way, how is your career going? Game of Thrones is so popular now, do you have the opportunity to develop in Hollywood? Have you got a film contract?"

Sophie Turner said excitedly: "I'm trying to get a role recently! Sir, can you say something for me?"

"What role?"

"Phoenix in the rebooted X-Men."

"X-Men..." Zhou Buqi was a little embarrassed. "X-Men is not a Marvel movie, it's from 20th Century Fox. But it doesn't matter, I'll go and tell you something. You have such a good image and such good acting skills, you can definitely play this role!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Sophie Turner didn't dare to have any unrealistic ideas about having any intimate relationship with the boss Zhou in front of her. She was already satisfied with having some basic social contact.