Chapter 1878 Overweight

On June 19th, Xiao Qi and Bobby Li, the CEO of Green Pine Capital, discussed the share repurchase issue of Choker Girl and the acquisition of Bitdefender antivirus software company.

By the beginning of July, Green Pine Capital had secured Bitdefender, and officially signed the contract on July 7, plus commissions, etc., and spent a total of 540 million U.S. dollars.

In addition to the company's intellectual property rights and patents, another achievement of Green Pine Capital is that it has signed a labor contract with 18 core professionals of the company to go to China. The minimum is 5 years, and the maximum is 10 years.

In addition, 52 of the company's auxiliary R&D personnel have signed labor contracts ranging from 5 to 10 years with Xiannv Company.

These people accounted for 80% of Bitdefender's total R&D personnel, and there was almost no loss of core talents, and even those who were not willing to leave Romania, Xiao Qi also arranged for them a branch business, so that the previous management could bring With them, continue to operate the Bitdefender antivirus software for the European and American markets.

The engineers who signed the contract will take their wives (husbands) and children to Rongcheng, where they will spend the most important period of their careers.

Although Rongcheng is not an international metropolis, compared to rural areas like Romania, it is still a beautiful and fashionable city. There are no problems in life and children's study.

It is also an important reason for so many people to sign contracts, Green Pine Capital agreed on behalf of Fairy Company, and is responsible for arranging the life, study and work of their wives (husbands) and children.

Maintaining Fairy Company will cost at least 30 million worth of additional resources or money every year, but in order for these engineers to work hard, a mere tens of millions is not in Xiao Qi's eyes.

Moreover, the annual salary of this group of engineers exceeds 100 million U.S. dollars, compared to this amount. 30 million is just a sprinkling of water.

Xiao Qi is a capitalist, so it is impossible to be a philanthropist at work. If he gives them an annual salary of more than 100 million US dollars, he naturally expects them to bring him 1 billion, or even 10 billion US dollars in benefits.

In fact, these Bitdefender experts brought more benefits to Xiao Qi than just one aspect.

First, they can use their own anti-virus technology to improve the automatic defense and firewall system of the fairy system. This makes the fairy system more active in isolating and filtering viruses.

The second is Xiao Qi's mobile phone anti-virus software.

The future mobile phone antivirus software market will have at least a total market share of 3 billion units. Even if one-tenth of the market is captured, it will still have 300 million users. How broad is this market and how vast is the room for development!

Naturally, there are not only 70 of them in the whole department. Xiao Qi also has more than 200 experts mobilized from various departments, and half of them are doctoral students selected from schools around the world. Their most important task is to acquire knowledge and experience. In order to grow up in the next few years and become the backbone of the department in the future.

Of course, there is also a process of survival of the fittest. Xiao Qi will recruit new personnel every year. If they are not suitable, they can only be transferred from their posts and go to other places. Those who are good and capable will be promoted. Everything is based on performance and ability. .

And Sun Manxue also received an order to form the newly formed "Fairy Guardian Antivirus Software Department". The authority to obtain the largest test fund and equipment will be obtained, and all resources must be actively provided. No limit.

This point is still kept secret for the time being, if it gets out in the future, I don't know how many people will be jealous.

Because that can mean hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars a year in research and development funds and equipment purchases, the possibility of achieving results is much greater, and the more honors, rewards, etc. you will get in the future.

In the Internet age, everything must pay attention to a dominant speed.

Although mobile phone antivirus software is much more troublesome than computer antivirus software. But precisely because of this trouble, many antivirus software vendors have not yet made up their minds, nor have they invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the development, so Xiao Qi concentrates on the development of this business, which is likely to occupy the largest share.

not to mention. Mobile phone antivirus software has been modified and supplemented, so why can't it be used on smart tablets? Can't be used for smart wearable devices?

In the future, smart devices will definitely be the mainstream, and these smart devices are easily invaded by viruses such as Trojan horses. It becomes very necessary for people to protect their property and security. At this time, it is not just anti-virus software Is it time to show off your power?

So Xiao Qi's first task for this department is to occupy the mobile phone antivirus software market, the second step is to expand to the smart tablet market, and the third step is to smart wearable devices...

In this way, the time of 5 years and 10 years will simply pass by in a flash, and it will not be enough at all.

Xiao Qi also only hoped that by that time, his own team would have been cultivated. After all, maintenance, upgrades, etc. for decades to come would require a steady stream of talent to be replenished.

But Xiao Qi is not in a hurry. In 2013, there will be no professional antivirus software entering the mobile phone market. That is, Kaspersky has one for the iOS system, but it has not developed the Android system mobile phone that needs the most security protection. , is really strange.

In addition to the acquisition of Bitdefender, Bobby Li did not bring good news about the acquisition of 25% of Choker Girl's shares.

After all, Green Pine Capital is really losing too much money. Although they invest everywhere, in fact, they don’t invest too much each time. Millions or tens of millions account for more than 90% of the projects, and the choking girl The 10 billion for DreamPad and the 6.5 billion for Dreampad are the two projects with the largest investment.

Now it seems that Dreampad has made a huge profit, but at the same time, Choker Girl has a huge loss. A loss of 4 billion US dollars, any company seems to be a big head.

So several directors were wondering whether to wait a little longer and see how Xiao Qi would do it.

Anyway, Xiao Qi has already acquired a lot of shares in choking girls. If he has any confidence in boosting the market, he can sell them for a little more money.

Faced with their thoughts, Xiao Qi could only think that they were too naive.

For a period of time after the financial crisis hit in a few months, people were not cutting down to buy cheaper things online, but not spending money at all!

Their panic caused them not to buy anything for food, clothing or use except for the most basic daily necessities! !

This situation will not gradually improve until the beginning of next year, and the period from September to December will be difficult for many companies.

Including Fairy Company, Xiao Qi is planning to meet a low ebb in sales.

Even Fairy Company, whose products are in short supply at all, may experience a downturn, so Choi Girl will definitely have a harder time, because their main battlefields are in Europe and the United States!

At the same time, Green Pine Capital’s other investments will also enter a difficult period. Those companies that are still in the process of starting a business will have no ability to resist risks in response to changes in the overall market environment. If they do not provide support, they will go bankrupt. What a strange thing.

do not doubt.

The very easy thing to do in Silicon Valley is start a company.

But easier than that is the failure of a company.

The problem is that these companies have good development prospects, and Green Pine Capital is optimistic about them, so it is impossible to let them go bankrupt directly.

But here comes the question again, where do they get so much cash?

It is precisely because of this idea that Bobby Li actively communicated with the directors and partners, hoping to cut off his wrists and get the 6 billion US dollars in cash from Xiao Qi to survive the cold winter.

It's a pity that some people can figure it out, but some people can't, so this matter is temporarily shelved.

Looking at Bobby's embarrassed eyes, Xiao Qi simply gave him another very tempting condition.

"Sell it to me for 6 billion US dollars, and I will give you a right of first refusal." The young man said gently: "The next time I sell the shares of Dreampad or Dreamstars, Green Pine Capital can have the right of first refusal. What do you think?"

Bobby blinked, "Really?"

"of course it's true."

"When?" Bobby became excited, "People say you won't sell shares anymore!"

"It's impossible to sell more, but it is also possible to sell another 10% of dreampad, or 20% of dreamstars." Xiao Qi said lightly, "Go back and tell them this condition. If you don't Agree, then we have nothing to talk about."

"Row!"

Bobby nodded seriously: "If there is such a benefit, they can explain it to the shareholders, then there is no problem!"

He is very clear about the thoughts of those partners, isn't he just afraid of taking responsibility?

Not only can we get rid of the burden now, but we can get cash flow to maintain development, and we can have future participation in dreampad or dreamstars, so it is definitely not a tragic failure.

I don't know how many people in the world are eyeing the shares of dreampad or dreamstars. Such high-quality shares, even if they are only the right of first refusal, are enough to make people excited.

As for the loss of 4 billion US dollars, with the above statement, it becomes simple.

You can't just see the money you lost, but not the six or seven billion in price increases and dividends you earned on the dreampad, right?

Taken together, the two have earned two or three billion dollars!

Isn't that what business is all about?

There are gains and losses, failures and successes, even Buffett is the same! (To be continued..)