Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 672 The Fairy Boy Changed Owners, Poaching People (Two in One)

Santa Clara County.

When Lin Baicheng came here, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

Not all of Silicon Valley is in Santa Clara County, but Santa Clara County is the most important part of Silicon Valley, especially now that it has just entered the 80s, the development of the technology industry has not been accelerated by the 90s and [-]s, and many technology companies have not yet been born , and did not move the headquarters here, so only a small part of Silicon Valley has been developed here.

Although the current Silicon Valley is not inconspicuous, it is definitely not as famous as it will be decades later, even in the United States, it is not a household name.

If this is put in a few decades, few people in the United States will not know that Silicon Valley is the cradle of the technology industry, a dream place to get rich overnight, and even people from all over the world know this famous place.

Here in Silicon Valley, four companies under Lin Baicheng's name have settled here, namely Galaxy Semiconductor, Microsoft, Shiwei Software, a joint venture between Microsoft and New Century Software, and Sun Electronics Communications, which has not yet fully moved here.

In addition to these four companies, Lin Baicheng also has a villa in Silicon Valley, as well as the pond, grassland and a forest area attached to the villa.

In today's Silicon Valley, land is very cheap, whether it is a villa or a building for corporate offices.

The reason for this is that the farmers in Santa Clara County united and donated land to semiconductor technology companies almost free of charge in the early days. The fees were also low in the 70s, and have not increased much until now.

In doing so, it seems that the farmers have lost a lot of money, basically making no money, and giving away the land for nothing.

But the problem is, since people do this, it must be good for other farmers.

The place where farmers can benefit is the remaining land. They have a lot of land, and part of it is given away for free to attract high-tech companies to settle down and people to come here to work. The rest of the land can be sold for a good price.

The reason is actually very simple. When a large enterprise settles down, there are employees in the enterprise. When the number of employees increases, there will definitely be demand for food, drink, housing and transportation. Businessmen will come to do business and build supporting facilities after seeing the demand. To buy land, the land in the hands of the farmer starts to become valuable.

As Silicon Valley develops better and better, the land in the hands of farmers becomes more and more valuable, and the land that was previously given away for nothing can be easily earned back.

Because it was getting late, Lin Baicheng did not go to several companies, but went to the villa.

There is no housekeeper in the villa here, but usually there are servants who clean and take care of the flower garden. Before Lin Baicheng came, Catherine arranged for someone to come over to do things in advance, and the chef was also called.

"Catherine, please contact Sandra and ask him to come over after dinner after get off work."

When he arrived at the villa, Lin Baicheng asked his personal secretary Catherine to contact Yinhe Semiconductor's manager Buhler Sandra.

Catherine responded: "Good chairman, I will contact you later."

"it is good!"

Lin Baicheng decided to go upstairs to take a shower first.

After taking a shower, Lin Baicheng called New York from the bedroom and chatted with Haruko Mori for a while.

When Lin Baicheng came downstairs, he found that Buhler Sandra had already arrived.

"Sandra, you're here, have you had dinner yet?"

Lin Baicheng was a little surprised. It's not even six o'clock, so it stands to reason that he shouldn't be off work yet.

"not yet."

Buhler Sandra seemed to know what Lin Baicheng was thinking, and took the initiative to explain: "Because I happened to have something to go to Fairchild Semiconductor this afternoon, so when Ms. Jackson contacted the company, the company contacted the company at Fairchild Semiconductor. Me, I'm just about to go back to the company, so I'll come over to you, Chairman." The Jackson he was talking about was naturally Catherine, and Catherine's full name was Catherine Jackson.

"I don't know if you can eat Chinese food? Since you are here, let's eat together at night."

Lin Baicheng said that he had no intention of accommodating Buhler Sandra to eat western food at all. He is the big boss, and Buhler Sandra is not an indispensable technical master of the company, so he has no need to accommodate the other party.

Of course, even management talents should be paid attention to, but Lin Baicheng gave the other party a higher treatment than the same industry, which is enough to pay attention to.

"Thank you, Chairman, I'm fine."

Buhler Sandra immediately said that even if he had never eaten Chinese food before, he would definitely say that there is no problem, and everything will be closer to the big boss.

"Catherine, go tell the kitchen to prepare an extra copy of Sandra's."

Seeing this, Lin Baicheng spoke to Catherine who was standing aside.

"Miss Jackson, please."

Buhler Sandra said politely to Catherine that he didn't want to offend the big boss's private secretary.

"This is what I should do."

Catherine said and left, walking towards the kitchen.

At this time, Lin Baicheng said to Buhler Sandra: "You just said that you have something to go to Fairchild Semiconductor today. Is there something wrong?"

"Actually, it's still the same thing."

Buhler Sandra said: "I am communicating with an engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor, and I have made some progress recently, so strengthen contact and move around more."

"Is it okay for you to go directly to poach someone?"

Lin Baicheng was a little puzzled, so it's fine to poach people in private, but it might be inappropriate to go to the door.

"I came here to do technical exchanges. This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened at Fairchild Semiconductor."

Although Buhler Sandra is in charge of the management of Galaxy Semiconductor Company, he is not completely ignorant of the semiconductor industry. He is also well-known in the industry, but his research and development ability is not as good as that of a well-known industry leader, and he I am better at management and know many famous people in the industry.

"It's fine if you think it's okay."

Lin Baicheng would not intervene in this kind of matter. Buller Sandra felt that it was no problem to do so, so just do it, and he, a layman, doesn't need to direct the insider.

"Having said that, what is the current situation of Fairchild Semiconductor?"

"Fairchild Semiconductor was sold to French capital at a price of 3.5 million US dollars six months ago, which caused some turbulence to the company. At present, French capital mainly stabilizes Fairchild Semiconductor, and there is no big change yet. "

"However, it is precisely because Fairchild Semiconductor was taken over by French capital not long ago, which caused the company to be in turmoil, so the brain drain was obvious. The company's high welfare benefits allowed the company to poach a lot of talents from Fairchild Semiconductor during this period."

"Before France Capital has fully stabilized Fairchild Semiconductor, I want to recruit more talents to the company, so I have been in frequent contact with the engineers there recently, and I often go there."

Buhler Sandra said aloud that Lin Baicheng knew about the sale of Fairchild Semiconductor last year. At that time, he did not have that much money, and it was difficult for him to acquire Fairchild Semiconductor due to his status, so he did not intervene. this matter.

"Well done, the more talents the better, the better one can be found."

Lin Baicheng is very satisfied. In fact, he knows that Galaxy Semiconductor has increased a lot of R&D talents in the past six months, but he only knows that they are recruited and recruited by other companies. The specific details are not clear. He did not ask before. so clear.

For Lin Baicheng, who is in charge of the general direction of the company, he doesn't need to know so clearly, as long as he can see the result he wants and understand the process a little bit.

Buhler Sandra said: "However, chairman, there are actually some troubles when there are too many people. I am going to mention this matter to you in a while."

"What's the problem? Just say it, and I'll fix it for you."

Lin Baicheng attaches great importance to Galaxy Semiconductor.

"The people who are dug into the company are all excellent talents, and their salary is not low. The company will spend a lot of money every year because of this, which is not a small burden for the company."

"And this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that after they join the company, they have to do things. The company's current research and development projects are almost unable to accommodate more people, and some of the top players in the industry even have their own projects. Companies need to invest a sum of money in research every year before they are willing to help companies research the technologies they need.”

"In general, the company's expenses have increased significantly, and it needs to start new projects, and starting new projects costs money."

Buhler Sandra talked about the difficulties, the more talents the better, how big a person eats as much food, and eating too much food will support the stomach.

Galaxy Semiconductor had a revenue of 1.2 million US dollars last year and a profit of 3500 million US dollars. Although it is a subsidiary of Galaxy Semiconductor, the company's profits have not been taken away by Galaxy Semiconductor, because Galaxy Semiconductor itself also needs money.

Galaxy Semiconductor itself has research and development tasks, and now it has some more expenses. The company that does not have much cash is naturally short of money.

"Don't worry about money, I will prepare for you."

Lin Baicheng immediately said: "Since the company has no money, let's start financing. It's time to find some powerful shareholders for the company."

Of course, Lin Baicheng did not really want Galaxy Semiconductor to start financing. Now is not the time for the company to raise funds. The reason why he said this is to let his overseas companies participate in the financing, with his left hand and his right hand.

In this way, Lin Baicheng's shareholding in Galaxy Semiconductor will be reduced on the bright side. When the financing is actually launched and the company is listed, his holdings will not be too many and will not be too conspicuous.

Buhler Sandra said: "I will cooperate with the company's financing plan."

"After the company starts financing, I will start the equity incentive plan at the same time, and take no less than 5% of the shares as incentives for outstanding employees. Whether it is management or R&D talents, as long as they make contributions to the company, they can get corresponding rewards. equity as an incentive.”

Lin Baicheng is very clear that if a company wants to develop well, it is best to implement an equity incentive plan, especially for high-tech R&D companies, which have a particularly high demand for talents.If the talents cannot be retained, the company will never even think about developing, and even if it develops, it will be surpassed by the latecomers.

Just think about generating electricity for love, no one is a fool.

"Thank you, chairman. I believe that after this news is announced, everyone will be very happy and work more seriously for the company."

Buhler Sandra was overjoyed when he heard the news. He is the manager of the company, responsible for the management of the company. Even if he can get the most incentive equity, at least he is the one with the most.

The valuation of Galaxy Semiconductor is not low. Although part of the industry has been absorbed by Galaxy Semiconductor, the company's valuation will be at least 3 million U.S. dollars in one year, and at least 5 million U.S. dollars when the company goes public.

As long as he can get two-thousandths of the incentive equity, he can become a millionaire, which is the goal of countless middle-class people.

In today's America, most people's annual salary is less than [-] U.S. dollars, and a million dollars is already a "rich man". Countless middle and low-class people want to become millionaires and complete the class transition.

Lin Baicheng said: "You can first formulate an equity incentive plan and submit it to me for review. The incentive equity will be allocated from my shares, which will not affect the financing."

"I'll do a good job with it."

Buhler Sandra solemnly replied, this is related to his own future income, how could he not be serious.

"Continue to recruit talents, expand the company's R&D team, increase R&D projects, and don't be afraid to spend money."

Because of Galaxy Semiconductor's relationship with the United States, Lin Baicheng's investment will not be too much. Galaxy Semiconductor is in Xiangjiang, which is on Lin Baicheng's site. Therefore, most of the huge capital investment in the semiconductor industry planned with Haruko Mori will Invest in Xinghe Semiconductor.

The company is located in Xiangjiang. Although Xiangjiang is still a British colony, Xiangjiang will return in more than ten years. Lin Baicheng can feel more at ease in the semiconductor company in Xiangjiang.

Even if it is sanctioned at that time, the company is in Xiangjiang, and the United States cannot reach it, but it can be replaced by Yinhe Semiconductor in Silicon Valley, and it will be too easy for the United States to make trouble.

Time passed slowly in the chat between Lin Baicheng and Buhler Sandra, until a servant said that dinner was ready and asked Lin Baicheng when he was going to have dinner, Lin Baicheng ended the chat with Buhler Sandra.

Lin Baicheng not only invited Buhler Sandra to dine with him, but also asked Catherine to dine with him.As for the bodyguards, they are divided into two groups for meals to ensure that there are people on duty at each time period.

Although nothing happened to Lin Baicheng all this time, the high-paid bodyguards are still very dedicated, and Lin Baicheng does not allow them to slack off.So far, he has not seen the bodyguards slack, otherwise he will definitely remind him that no matter whether there is an accident or not, the duty of the bodyguards is to protect him, and he will never allow them to be negligent with the high salary he gave.

After dinner, Lin Baicheng told Buhler Sandra that he would go to Yinhe Semiconductor tomorrow afternoon and let Buhler Sandra prepare for it. He was not going to engage in surprise attacks.

In Silicon Valley, Lin Baicheng didn't plan to stay for too long. He would leave in two days at most. If the matter could be completed in one day, he would leave Silicon Valley and go to New York after staying in one day.

(End of this chapter)