What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 313 Recognition (5K)

Bai Xiaosheng was successfully listed.

Although there had been a small celebration party in New York, Shanghai, the home city, could not avoid another grand celebration, and Yu Xing naturally went along with this move to boost the morale within the company.

He only made one important speech during the meeting, clearly pointing out that Bai Xiaosheng's market value still has huge room for growth, and what can drive it is naturally the fight for market share.

As for how to gain market share, that is naturally a matter of shared interest for everyone here.

This is just a small reminder that it is unwise to sell stocks at this stage.

Yu Xing feels that the management of a company is quite complicated, with different people, different departments, different considerations, as well as various competition, market, strategic and other factors. But sometimes, when a willingness to share profits is added to the complexity, it seems that the difficulty of things naturally decreases by one dimension.

This summary seems quite interesting.

Yu Xing refused all interviews, including those from portal websites such as NetEase, with whom he had dealt many times in the past.

This is somewhat surprising.

To this day, Yu Xing is still one of the most influential business figures on Weibo. Before Weibo, he was the one who promoted and sponsored the program "If You Are the One", which successfully gained a lot of traffic for Bai Xiaosheng.

Including Vice President Liu Hao, he always felt that President Yu probably enjoyed the feeling of being under the spotlight.

He also specifically conveyed the invitation from "If You Are the One" and joked, "Mr. Yu, the production team specifically asked you to be on the show and said you can cooperate with them to create the effects. This is a great opportunity."

"Oh, I've already refused once on the phone." Yu Xing still refused, "The traffic I personally generate is just that. The promotion of our website has the usual revenue and the funds from this IPO, which will play a greater role in the future."

“The company’s image doesn’t need to be tied too closely to me personally. If I say something wrong one day, it could backfire.”

"Besides, if the company is not listed, I have to generate traffic. If the company is listed, and I am still required to generate traffic, then wouldn't it be a waste of time to list it?"

Liu Hao accepted his boss's explanation and felt that his idea of ​​binding was well thought out.

Bai Xiaosheng’s current development strategy is very clear, and the injection of large amounts of funds will inevitably become a new engine to drive development.

However, Yu Xing refused the reporters. As the founder of Red Falcon Capital, Liu Wanying took her time to accept several interviews, which was considered to meet the needs of public opinion from the side.

Red Falcon Capital was established only two years ago. Although it has tried to invest in some projects recently, its two well-known returns in the industry are the sale of WeChat and the listing of Bai Xiaosheng.

At present alone, the profits from these two transactions exceed 3 million US dollars. Moreover, Bai Xiaosheng’s stocks seem to have growth potential, so Liu Wanying is now quite famous in the circle.

She shared the whole story and interesting events of her investment in a very serious and casual manner, and also talked about her optimism about mobile Internet, but she did not expect to receive any enthusiastic response.

However, when the report was released, the title alone made Liu Wanying very happy.

"Beautiful investor, hey, call me beautiful investor!"

"I didn't clean up on purpose that day!"

"Did you see that? People say that I, a beautiful investor, am your important supporter!"

Liu Wanying took out her cell phone and showed the report content to Yu Xing with great pride.

Yu Xing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Yes, yes, you are indeed an important support, but is such a title worth your happiness?"

He didn't quite understand. They were all so familiar with each other, had been through thick and thin together, investigated scams, shorted stocks, had huge piles of dollars burning in front of them, yet they were just happy about a small headline in a report.

"This is called going from behind the scenes to the front stage." Liu Wanying flipped through her phone, "This is a sense of accomplishment, you don't understand."

Yu Xing really didn’t understand, but when he felt Xiaoying’s enthusiastic request that night, he suddenly felt that there was no need for him to understand. It was good to have a sense of accomplishment, and he had to have a sense of accomplishment.

The first week after returning home is the time to go home, and the gifts brought from abroad also need to be delivered in person.

However, before Yu Xing and Liu Wanying returned home, they happened to go to Lingang to take a look at the factory site temporarily rented by Carbon Silicon Group, and then it would be very convenient to go back directly on the highway from there.

The land plot of Carbon Silicon Group in Lingang has been basically determined, but the design and construction here will take at least a year, and before that, a place is needed to carry out preliminary research and development.

On September 9, at 6: am, Yu Xing arrived in Lingang.

After getting off the car, he looked at the finalized factory site, pointed at the grass in the yard, and said with a smile: "It's a bit desolate."

Chu Zhiguang replied: "It just so happens to be a good match for Lingang."

Yu Xing glanced at his cousin and was speechless.

Indeed, Shanghai is prosperous, while Lingang is just...

"Pragmatic." Liu Wanying promptly gave a better evaluation, "The tram project needs to be more pragmatic. There is no need to waste too much money on land rent. This is not a financial project."

Yu Xing smiled and nodded: "What the beautiful investor said is absolutely right. We must spend the investor's money wisely."

He looked around at the pragmatic weeds again and thought, "We need to find someone to clean up here. We still need to recruit more people. I felt a chill in my heart as soon as I got off the car, and others must feel even worse."

Chu Zhiguang thought for a moment and said, "I heard from Zhang Yangxu that the Lingang Management Committee seems to have arranged for someone to clean up. We shouldn't need to find anyone else. They will help take care of it within the next two weeks."

Yu Xing was a little surprised. He knew that the management committee helped him find the factory, but he didn't expect that this kind of service would be included. He nodded slightly and said, "Okay, Xiaoguang, we can bring some more grapes this time, and you can deliver them to the people."

Chu Zhiguang followed suit and said seriously, "Okay, brother, giving grapes is very practical."

Liu Wanying smiled.

Yu Xing knew why Xiaoying was laughing. The logic was still the same, but why did these words sound a bit weird when put together?

All he could say was: "Practical and safe."

After strolling around for a while, Yu Xing got on the bus and talked about a problem the tram project is facing now: "It's hard to recruit people right now."

Chu Zhiguang, who was driving, was puzzled when he heard this: "Is it difficult to recruit people?"

"I mean, it's difficult to recruit those famous experts in the industry now." Yu Xing frowned and said, "At least we can talk to the domestic ones, but the foreign ones don't even want to meet them."

Carbon Silicon Group is now also a client of Bai Xiaosheng Recruitment, and has set up a special team for docking, but the problem it faces is that it is not attractive enough for talents.

Chu Zhiguang said "Oh", thought for two seconds and said: "Yes, if it is so easy to recruit, why give the money to Bai Xiaosheng? That's what we hire them for."

Yu Xing switched the positions of Party A and Party B, and felt that this made sense...

But this matter still needs to be resolved.

Bai Xiaosheng has communicated with the team of the tram project, listed the experts and backbones in various fields, and tried to introduce the opportunities that have emerged on the Carbon Silicon Group side.

Yu Xing estimated that this matter needed to be done slowly.

However, within two days after returning from the weekend, Fu Yunliang, the leader of the special team working for the Carbon Silicon Group, excitedly knocked on the door of the president's office.

"Mr. Yu, Mr. Yu, Thomas from Volvo is willing to meet!" Fu Yunliang stood in front of the boss with the materials.

Yu Xing heard the two key words "Volvo" and "Thomas", but couldn't match them up for a while.

He had looked through the list of targets, but foreign names were difficult to remember.

When I took the materials and glanced at them, I remembered who this Thomas was.

Thomas Bühberg, senior vice president of Volvo Safety Center, is now responsible for coordinating the research and development of passive and active safety of automobiles. Before joining Volvo, he was responsible for body structure design at Ford Motor Company.

To date, he has been immersed in the automotive industry for more than twenty years.

Yu Xing can't remember his name, but he has an impression of this person. One of the most eye-catching things is that he pushed Volvo to launch the world's first pedestrian automatic braking system in 06. Through millimeter-wave radar and vision fusion technology, the risk of collision on urban roads was reduced by 20%.

This millimeter wave radar and vision fusion technology... Yu Xing is very interested in this aspect of active safety. However, for Carbon Silicon Group, Thomas is more interested in passive safety. In simple terms, how to make the car body hard enough, how to design it to be safer, etc.

Thomas is very accomplished in cage-type body. Just this year, the Volvo XC90 he led received the top safety rating from IIHS. The combination of cage-type body + active braking is a benchmark in the industry.

As a start-up automobile company, product safety must be the top priority, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

It’s just that Lang has feelings for Thomas, and he’s the type of person who doesn’t even want to meet him.

Yu Xing was both pleasantly surprised and shocked: "Didn't he already refuse? Why did he change his mind?"

Fu Yunliang smiled and said, "We don't have any way to contact foreign experts. We can only try harder. Thomas has a high level in Volvo. He completely refused twice before, but last Friday, he may have relented for a reason."

Yu Xing quietly watched the team leader keep the secret.

Fu Yunliang waited for several seconds, but did not dare to continue, and revealed the situation: "I called him, and he asked us not to harass him anymore, but when I mentioned that Mr. Yu already had a company listed on NASDAQ, his attitude changed a little."

Yu Xing really didn't expect this to happen. He was surprised and said, "A company listed on NASDAQ? The two fields are completely unrelated. Is it because of this?"

Fu Yunliang nodded and said, "Combining these three communications, I really can't think of why you are willing to chat."

Yu Xing looked at the materials again, stood up and walked back and forth a few steps, and said with a smile: "Okay, this can be considered a name, right? It's pretty useful, right?"

Fu Yunliang confirmed: "Yes, it's a listed company, and it's NASDAQ. This seems to be useful. At least, this is not a scam."

"If it's useful, then use more." Yu Xing picked up the materials again and asked as he looked at them, "Where do you want to meet? What time? Do you need me to fly to Europe? If I need to go abroad, it would be best to talk to more people. If we talk to them all at once, I can go anywhere in the world."

Fu Yunliang smiled and said, "He will come to Geely for a meeting for three days next week. We can meet in the evening then."

Yu Xing put away the smile on his face, put down the materials, and poured him a cup of tea.

Then he asked a key question: "If, hypothetically, we can negotiate with Thomas, he will have a non-compete agreement, right? What are your considerations in this regard?"

Geely has three days of meetings.

He now felt that it might not be the name of a Nasdaq-listed company that had any effect. Maybe the other party was tired of being harassed and happened to come to China to refuse in person. Of course, he would know this soon.

Now the tricky question is... Thomas's level will definitely involve a non-compete agreement.

It is precisely with this situation in mind that Carbon Silicon Group's main goal now is to poach mid-level technical personnel through Bai Xiaosheng who are not involved in non-compete agreements.

"Mr. Yu, this is what I want to report to you. I feel that if Volvo had not been acquired, Thomas might not have had any intention to move. The Volvo employees we have come into contact with during this period have more or less had this factor." Fu Yunliang said, "But Thomas is different, so if you want to poach him... considering the current situation and the opinions given by the legal department, it is best to let him transfer to a third-party consulting company and then work as an independent consultant."

Independent consultants of consulting companies are paid by Carbon Silicon Group through third-party consulting companies to avoid direct employment relationship.

Moving from corporate to consulting, or vice versa, is a common career path.

Fu Yunliang continued, "In addition, we need to limit his work scope to non-core areas, such as software algorithm optimization, and disclose his specific responsibilities to the public as vaguely, describing him only as an external technical consultant."

He finally said: "The worst-case scenario is that Thomas still needs to go to court, pay liquidated damages and continue to enforce the non-compete agreement, and then we will have to wait a little longer."

Yu Xing pondered and said, "Will this work?"

"The risk of this worst-case scenario is relatively low. As long as Thomas does not join the company directly, there will be more room for negotiation even if the lawsuit is filed through a third-party consulting company," said Fu Yunliang. "Once the two years are up, there will be no more concerns in this regard."

Yu Xing thought for a while and asked, "What do you think if I go talk to Jili directly?"

When Fu Yunliang heard this, he immediately advised: "Boss Yu! It's better if you don't talk about it. Once you talk about it, I'm afraid the risk will increase immediately!"

Seeing that the boss didn't say anything, he tried to persuade him again: "Boss Yu, think about it, if you can talk to this person, can you talk to the next one? We want to recruit people from all directions now, are you going to talk to them one by one? You won't be able to talk to them all."

Yu Xing shook his head slightly: "Then let's meet first, we are too eager to get a haircut now."

Fu Yunliang said seriously: "Mr. Yu, it's not just Thomas. If other people face similar non-compete agreements in the future, they should be handled in this way. Then let me ask you, if we are poaching people from Toyota, would you still want to talk to Toyota?"

Yu Xing was stunned: "That won't happen."

"Yeah, that's it. If you think they are domestic peers, we have invested in millimeter-wave radar. When this or other breakthroughs are made, there will be a lot of room for cooperation." Fu Yunliang said earnestly, "Mr. Yu, you have to think about the overall situation."

Yu Xing looked at him like this, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and asked, "What do you mean by considering the overall situation?"

Fu Yunliang said: "Mr. Yu, you are the overall situation. You have to think about the entire project and the investors, like Mr. Xu. Their money is just to make the tram."

Yu Xing looked at Fu Yunliang in front of him and said, "You are so talkative. Thomas must have agreed to meet you because he was annoyed by you."

Fu Yunliang felt that this was a compliment.

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Let's meet first. I don't think there will be many opportunities."

Fu Yunliang suggested: "Mr. Yu, I have communicated with him three times and I feel that he is a person who pays great attention to car culture and agrees with Volvo's values. You should talk more about this kind of foreign expert when you meet him."

Yu Xing was quite hesitant, as he was not good at this.

He thought about it again and again and attached great importance to the upcoming communication with Thomas. He made a special call to Xiong Xiaoge and discussed it with Liu Wanying. They all felt that this kind of meeting needed more packaging.

What car enlightenment, what dream car, what ideological identification, and so on.

On the evening of September 9, Wednesday, Yu Xing drove to Lin'an with Fu Yunliang and Zhuang Guanlin to visit Thomas who was attending a meeting at Geely.

Zhuang Guanlin is in charge of the electrification of electric vehicle products. He accompanied us on this trip because he was considering translating certain words more accurately.

At half past nine, Thomas arrived at the conference room in the hotel. He was wearing glasses and was quite tall.

The four of them shook hands and exchanged greetings.

As a headhunter, Fu Yunliang first introduced the current projects and work progress of Carbon Silicon Group.

Yu Xing listened to a few words and whispered to Zhuang Guanlin who was dragged over: "Tell me, if I give him more salary, will this matter be easier to handle?"

Zhuang Guanlin dissuaded him, "No, Mr. Yu, we need to talk about the development of the industry and the green contribution that new energy can bring. Believe me, this is the only way to impress this European."

Fu Yunliang finished his introduction without trying to steal the spotlight, waiting for the translation of the two sides' words.

Thomas looked at the headhunter, then at the young founder of Carbon Silicon Group, nodded, and asked, "How much are you offering?"

He speaks very fast and his pronunciation is very authentic.

But Fu Yunliang and Zhuang Guanlin both understood and were stunned. Why did they start talking about money right away?
Yu Xing's English was not good, but he seemed to hear a familiar word. Seeing that Fu Yunliang did not translate, he asked in confusion: "Did he say how much? Was he asking for money?"

Thomas knew from the configuration of the translation that the other party's English was not good, but he heard familiar words when he spoke, so he nodded while guessing, making common gestures, rubbing his fingers and asked: "How much? How much?"

Yu Xing confirmed what the other party meant this time. He was very happy that things seemed to be entering a familiar area. He also rubbed his fingers and nodded repeatedly: "Much, much."

—How much? How much?

——A lot. A lot.

Thomas understood and smiled.

Yu Xing also smiled.

Fu Yunliang suppressed his urge to complain and translated, "He asked what kind of treatment he could get..."

Zhuang Guanlin couldn't help but express his feelings in one word: "Damn!"

Yu Xing saw the expressions of the two men and said with a smile: "The job-hopping culture is probably bigger than the car culture."

(End of this chapter)