Coquettish Rebirth

"That's right, acquisition. You guys have ideas now, but lack of money. And I have money now, but lack of projects. Why don't we work together? I can exchange the dividend rights of Holmes' company to ensure that you can get enough small money every year." Money..." Jia Hongjian began to promise conditions.

Andy Rubin was stunned for a moment. To be honest, he really didn't think about joining any company at first.After all, when he started working on webtv, he was acquired by Microsoft, but his life in Microsoft made him feel very uncomfortable!Although he has worked in both Carl Zeiss and Apple, in fact, he has already experienced that kind of serious atmosphere, but since he came out to start a business, his heart has long been "wild".I have long been used to this kind of free and easy development, and I am used to the days of fighting with my friends.If he entered Sherlock Holmes Company, would it be serious or uncomfortable?

However, on the other hand, although Andy Rubin is a geek, although he seems to like to engage in technology all the time, he has slowly changed his career to become a CEO or something. After all, this is a small company now. He has to estimate many positions and markets in advance, and he has already developed this kind of forward-looking boss.If he embraced the thighs of Holmes Corporation, it goes without saying that he can know that the future can be developed easily. After all, he also knows that when money is not a problem in many cases, many problems are really not a problem!And this Andy Rubin is still an American, he is different from the Chinese!Chinese people have a habit of "father and child".It is easy for a person to regard his own company and his own products as his own son, and then fear that others will come and snatch them away!

Therefore, when Chinese manufacturers often seek venture capital, there is a big rule - they must maintain their dominance!Either the limelight can only get less than 50% of the shares, or there are too many shares, but it must be the same as Jia Hongjian treated Nvidia's Lao Huang, and completely hand over the control of the company to the founder!Just like Beijing West Company, although the company has obtained billions of dollars in financing for several rounds, his requirement has always been that he must obtain a majority of seats on the board of directors-there are 9 seats on the board of directors, and he alone needs Occupying five, in short, means that he wants an absolute majority of management power.Even if the other shareholders occupy the majority of the shares, he must be allowed to lead the operation!

The Chinese are used to this.But relatively speaking, many Americans don't care about this.Because for many Americans, such a company or project they started is just a "job" on their way to success.Just like the Musk who developed a private aerospace company in the United States in history, this person started playing with PayPal.It is a thing similar to Alipay.Then this thing was sold to ebay.He simply took the money and ran away.Regardless of ebay or paypal at all.Then I found a female sci-fi writer and got married, and then I tried to find a way to start a private rocket company!

So in fact, for Andy, he doesn't care about equity or anything.If it can make his idea come true quickly.And it can make him very happy to do it, and it can get him a lot of money, so it's no problem to give up controlling rights and the like!Anyway, for decades, entrepreneurs in the United States have faced the limelight of demanding controlling stakes!Everyone has long been familiar with it!

So how should you choose?He hesitated and asked Jia Hongjian: "Mr. Jia, can you tell me about the overall atmosphere of your Sherlock Holmes company? Is it serious, or relaxed and lively? Are businessmen controlling the company, or engineers controlling the company?" He asked After this question was asked, Jia Hongjian immediately realized that this was an opportunity for two-way choices. To put it bluntly, it was an opportunity for both sides to interview each other!If the two people asked this question after they had just spoken a few words, Jia Hongjian might not have a good choice, because it would be the same as guessing the size. Let the other party not like it.

But the problem was that Jia Hongjian had asked Andy to tell so many of his own experiences before, and according to those experiences, Jia Hongjian still wasn't sure what kind of style Andy liked?Of course, it is impossible for him to say that he is fooling around without conscience. Obviously, the environment of Sherlock Holmes' company is relatively serious, a bit similar to Microsoft's. He can't just say that he is relaxed and lively, right?Even if it is Apple, where Jobs returned, it is not relaxed and lively, it is still serious, and it is still high-pressure!If Jia Hongjian fooled him, wouldn't he find something wrong after he came into the company for a few days?After people find out that they have been cheated, can they develop things for Jia Hongjian happily as if they were not cheated?This is obviously impossible!

So, even if it suits his liking, Jia Hongjian would say this: "Whether serious or not, it has nothing to do with you. As long as you want, in fact, we can give you Arrange your own office in San Francisco. You come to be the head of a department, and you come to be the boss. There is only me above you, and you are only responsible to me. You can apply for grants with me every year, and then hire the people you like .You can use whatever rules you want in your office. It doesn’t matter. The whole Sherlock Holmes company, as long as I am the boss, no one will interfere with you. You don’t care whether the businessman character dominates the company or The character of the engineer is leading, you just need to know that I, Jia Hongjian, is leading the company, and then I am very optimistic about you, that’s all.”

Jia Hongjian's asking price is really enough to save face!To know such an asking price, it is tantamount to making Andy the boss of the company himself!It means that Jia Hongjian pays him to do whatever he wants!Just like treating Nvidia's old Huang, Jia Hongjian wants to share the money, but he can let go of the technology and even the management!At least for those who have a strong desire to control or create, such a boss is really like an angel!As for Andy, he was also moved now!Of course he knew, it was a bit of a fantasy for such a big company to give him such a condition!Want to know that the market value of Sherlock Holmes' company will be almost 500 billion in a few years?This growth rate is even faster than that of Ford Motor after it went public that year!No one can guarantee whether this company will become the new Microsoft in ten or twenty years!Under such circumstances, it is not easy for the boss to give him such power!He didn't know that this was a Chinese proverb, "If you employ a person, don't be suspicious, but if you are suspicious, don't use it." So in his opinion, this is enough to save Jia Hongjian's face!

"Okay, Mr. Jia, I think we can talk about the details of capital contribution and dividend rights, can't we?" He smiled excitedly and said to Jia Hongjian.That's right, don't talk about the next thing in front of so many people. He is now afraid of his peers. When he was working at Apple, he drove a Mercedes-Benz to the company's parking lot. All the "nerds" inside thought he was showing off his wealth!Your sister's group of people can afford it, but they didn't buy it, and Andy bought it, they think it's showing off their wealth?Dazzle your sister!So since then, he has tried his best not to irritate others.And among the more than 80 people onlookers at the scene, aren't they all "geek" engineers?What if they are jealous or feel that the two of them are showing off their wealth?

Jia Hongjian also agrees with this.So after borrowing a small room from the ams company, Jia Hongjian and Andy Rubin started talking in secret.After a secret discussion, Jia Hongjian will pay 5000 million US dollars to buy all the shares of the "dangerous" company. Although this dangerous company has not really been established, the meaning is similar.Then Jia Hongjian will give Andy Rubin a temporary after-tax salary of 20 U.S. dollars per year. After his products go on the market and create greater profits, the salary will increase.At the same time, he is given 20% of the dividends of the "Sherlock Holmes Mobile Division" as a reward every year, and this part of the reward will be automatically canceled after he leaves.And this "Sherlock Holmes Mobile Division" naturally refers to the department where Andy is going to be the boss, which is the department built for him.As the boss, it was impossible for Jia Hongjian to say that he would share the profits of the entire Sherlock Holmes Group with him, so Jia Hongjian would suffer a lot instead!And after doing so, it can also stimulate Andy to make the operating system of the smartphone profitable!Instead of occupying a large market share like Google, the result is that you can't make a dime!

Of course, this kind of meaning does not mean that Jia Hongjian is going to stimulate Andy to charge for the future Android system, but that he needs to learn some details from Apple, at least the online store and so on. money?At least say that third-party stores cannot be allowed to appear?It’s okay to use the Android system for other manufacturers for free, but at least they use the Android system, and they can’t add an online store of their own, and then they and the author will share the money they make, and don’t give us Sherlock Holmes at all?

Then, after it was settled, Jia Hongjian and the others took advantage of the heat and signed the contract directly in the ams company. The contract also stipulated that before the end of the year, the headquarters of Holmes Company represented by Jia Hongjian would give Andy Rubin The development cost of the representative mobile business department is [-] million U.S. dollars in the coming year - Andy himself has never thought that the mobile phone will be launched this year, and he himself predicts that it will be launched around the middle of next year. You can even make a little money yourself!So in this way, the time fit is good... (to be continued...)