Chapter 1811 Traitor!

Danny Fadell is the creator of the ipod and the creator of the smart home company nextlabs in his previous life. He is a real genius.

After confirming that he had completed his work, and having thoroughly understood the drawings and technical specifications of the smart thermostat and smoke alarm that Xiao Qi had given him, Fadell chose to resign without hesitation.

Joe's boss had expected his resignation, but as he told Tim Cook before, Apple can be short of anyone, so after a lot of efforts to retain him, he readily agreed Fadell's resignation.

However, according to the rules of European and American companies, Fadell and his wife signed many documents before resigning, promising that they would not disclose Apple's technology, otherwise they would be punished by law.

For Fadell's departure, Joe's gang leader actually feels a little sorry, because Fadell is definitely a technical genius. Without him, many of Apple's research and development will be lost.

Fadell himself doesn't regret it very much. In terms of research, as long as they are geniuses, they always have the habit of "loving the new and dislike the old". They don't like to repeat one thing over and over again, they only like to constantly develop new things.

It just so happened that at Apple, Joe's boss asked Fadell to continue to develop the ipod and its follow-up products, and he was not required to do the rest, which made Fadell very dissatisfied. Xiao Qi is not worried at all about whether Fadell will develop all useless technologies in the future, because in this world. Pure technical R&D personnel have basically become extinct, and those who can survive are basically those who have both ideals and reality.

Take a look at what Fadell did in his previous life after leaving Apple!

It took four years for Fadell and his partner Matt Rogers to create two big killers, the thermostat and the smoke alarm!

They are not only beautiful and simple, but also very practical. The U.S. government has even issued subsidies for this, hoping that the public will buy these two excellent furniture smart products.

It was precisely because of their move to take into account the market that Xiao Qi decided to give Fadell 20% of the shares, and also prepared 20% of the shares for Rogers.

For this, what Xiao Qi paid was only the thermostat and smoke alarm created by the two, as well as the start-up capital of 200 million US dollars.

company name. After seeking Fadell's opinion, it was named nextlabs.

Except for the 10% profit sharing of the thermostat and the smoke alarm, the rest of their own inventions are distributed according to the shares. It's not that Xiao Qi doesn't care about this company at all. He has already hired several professional managers through a headhunting company to take charge of sales. This was also agreed by Fadell and his wife in advance.

With unlimited research and development funds to do what you love, you can definitely make a lot of money. For Fadell, it is a very happy life.

In nextlabs, Fadell is the CEO. His wife, Daniel, did not take on any duties anymore, but only did a good job in the logistics of the family, taking care of the children and the daily life of her husband.

When Fadell sat in the office on the first floor of the office building, which is also located in Silicon Valley, several professional managers had already begun to hire R&D personnel and daily staff in accordance with Fadell's requirements.

Fadell knew that with Xiao Qi's financial resources and influence, many technical talents would give face. So from the very beginning, they blatantly used the name of "nextlabs, a subsidiary of Fairy Company" to recruit people.

Ok.

When Fadell came like this, it became a bit big.

Although in Silicon Valley. New companies are established every day, but as soon as this sign is played. Immediately, everyone's eyes lit up.

The reason is very simple. Xiao Qi is not only a genius in the field of smart electronics, he also proved with a series of facts that he is also a genius in investment.

On oil futures, Xiao Qi taught the elites of Wall Street a lesson time and time again, making billions of dollars and making several major investment banks afraid of betting on oil.

In terms of investment business, Xiao Qi is also very good.

Needless to say, he just sold the foursquare shares that were sold for 2 billion US dollars. Xiao Qi's payment was only 300 million US dollars and about 5 months of preparation for the launch.

There is also linkedin, a professional social networking site, whose valuation was 3.3 billion U.S. dollars a few months ago, but in May, due to the rapid increase in the number of visitors, registrations and active users, the valuation has once again increased to 4 billion U.S. dollars. Xiao Qi’s contribution It's just a total of 900 million US dollars.

The remaining two were even more remarkable.

Airbnb, an air board and lodging company, has developed at an unimaginable speed with Xiao Qi's huge financial support. Not long ago, only dst venture capital company was willing to spend 1 billion US dollars to invest 20% of the shares, but Xiao Qi flatly rejected it. It is said that some analyst companies believe that there is no problem at all for airbnb to reach a valuation of 8 billion to 12 billion US dollars.

This is currently the largest mobile phone and social platform game company, because it occupies most of the game shares of Re and K, so it is not an exaggeration to describe its development as changing with each passing day.

Under Xiao Qi's instructions, a total of 13 games have been developed, basically each game has more than 90 million active users, which is two or three times more than other companies!

no way.

This is just the beginning of the era of smartphone and social networking site games. With so many classic games playing together, other games can only retreat one after another.

For this reason, the valuation a few months ago was raised to 12 billion US dollars by the Blackstone Group, which shocked the entire Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

But what shocked them even more was that Xiao Qi didn't sell it!

It can be seen that the value can be increased by billions of dollars! !

Think about it, how many companies Xiao Qi has invested in. It’s all about earning a lot of money, and now you have created a nextlabs company. Why don’t the various institutions and engineers in Silicon Valley actively pay attention?

Who wouldn't want to take a ride with Xiao Qi?

Who wouldn't want to be a part of an invention that could change the world?

Therefore, after the brand was announced, the number of engineers who came to nextlabs to apply for the company was so large that it almost overwhelmed the office space.

Fadell was delighted. But Gang Leader Qiao on the other side was not happy, and directly swept everything on the table!

Then, Qiao's leader didn't care about Xiao Qi's earthquake relief work, and just made a phone call.

"Tell me! Why do you want to seduce my people?" Qiao Gangzhu said viciously: "Is this how you treat your friends?"

"Stephen, don't say it so creepy, okay?" Xiao Qi froze for a moment. He also immediately knew the reason for his call: "Fadell wanted to start his own business, but I just happened to be at the right time. Do you still think that if he doesn't do your product research and development, it will have a big impact on you?"

"How can he be compared with the entire Apple engineering team?" Joe's leader snorted.

"Isn't that enough?" Xiao Qi said, "Aren't Apple's usual resignations less? Just treat him as a normal resignation, won't it be fine?"

"But before he left the job, you guys should have contacted him? This is against the rules." Gang Leader Qiao grasped a point.

"Come on, Stephen, we are also good friends, right? A person who quit his job and changed jobs. Didn't he arrange his way out in advance? What are those headhunting companies doing?" Xiao Qi retorted.

"I don't care, it's wrong for you to behave like this!" Gang leader Qiao certainly didn't recognize the unspoken rules of this industry.

"Then you've come to China, and I'll give you a solemn apology. Is it okay?" Xiao Qi quickly changed the subject: "Let's stop talking about those trivial things, Stephen, do you still remember our previous bet?"

"What's the bet?" Gang Leader Qiao immediately pretended to be stupid.

Xiao Qi will not let him go, "We bet on whether the sales volume of Dreamstars can exceed 50 million units in half a year. It is now May, and it has been on sale since the end of December last year. So far, the total sales volume of Dreamstars is 63 million units. Then the bet Even if I win! The conditions you promised me at the beginning, shouldn't it be fulfilled?"

Gang Leader Qiao sighed dejectedly.

Previously in order to get more app store shares. He gave Xiao Qi this gambling agreement, if he wins. He will get 25% of the app store shares to buy interest, and lose can only buy 3% of the shares.

When the sales volume of Dreamstars reached 15 million units in April, Qiao Gang knew that he had lost. Today Xiao Qi officially mentioned it, and he was inevitably a little frustrated.

Dreamstars can be on a par in terms of sales and popularity in a few months. This is where Gang Leader Qiao feels a little threatened and knows that he needs to be vigilant.

"Okay, Apple only buys 3% of the shares, so I'm willing to bet and admit defeat!" Gang Leader Qiao gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"It's not just like that!" Xiao Qi reminded him with a smile: "You still owe me two conditions!"

Leader Qiao gasped, and said angrily, "Xiao Qi, don't go too far!"

"No, no! Stephen, I'm just getting back what belongs to me." Xiao Qi said harmoniously: "You won, and I will sell you 25% of the shares of the app store. You can also win Buy 3%, without these two conditions, how could you say I would agree to bet against you? Wouldn’t I be a fool?”

Gang Leader Qiao's anger rose, but he knew that Xiao Qi was right, that's how gambling is like this, if you lose, you should pay the price.

"But don't forget, what I promise you are two things that don't violate your conscience." Leader Qiao stopped pretending to be stupid now, and raised the original restrictions, "You said this sentence yourself."

"That's right!"

Xiao Qi readily admitted: "Then I will only talk about the first thing today. I hope that I can take away an engineer from Apple in the form of buyout money."

Leader Qiao frowned again, feeling bad in his heart.

In Western society, it is a society of contracts.

Like an important engineer, he will be bound by the company he works for with several terms to prevent him from selling his company's secrets to others.

In addition to confidentiality clauses, many important engineers also have contract term clauses, usually five or ten years at a time, so that engineers can work for themselves for a long time.

In addition to the non-disclosure clause that cannot be broken, the term of the contract can be poached in the form of buyout money. Historically, those headhunting companies have done this, directly buying out the rest of the contract and leaving.

Of course, if Xiao Qi wanted to recruit engineers from Apple, he had to get the consent of Gang Leader Qiao, otherwise it would be easy to cause trouble.

The previous Fadell is different. He has already left the scope of ordinary people and is a senior vice president. It is easier for this kind of high-level resignation.

Gang Leader Qiao said coldly: "I didn't expect you to be so scheming! Tell me, who do you want to buy out?"

"Smart chip engineer, Matt Rogers." Xiao Qi said: "It's not a big loss to Apple. You have a lot of talents like him!"

Leader Joe thought for a while, this Matt Rogers was impressive, he was a shy and talented person, but he was not one of the most prominent group of people.

But Leader Qiao is not an idiot, he knows that someone who can make Xiao Qi ambush in advance to poach someone must be unusual.

"I'll go back and think about it!" Leader Qiao decided to stay put and investigate first. After all, he and Xiao Qi are allies, but they are also competitors at the same time, so they can't do such stupid things as being an enemy.

Although he knew that Xiao Qi must have made an agreement with Rogers, but if Rogers really has outstanding talents that he hadn't discovered before, Gang Leader Qiao still has to work hard to keep him!

"Okay, please give me an answer as soon as possible." Xiao Qi smiled heartily: "Stephen, you shouldn't be a dishonest person, right? Don't let me look down on you!"

"roll!"

Gang Leader Qiao hung up the phone neatly.

The moment he hung up the phone, Gang Leader Qiao showed anger and frustration on his face.

"Traitors! They are all a group of traitors!!"

There was such a roar in the office.

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