Chapter 2490 Huge Sum of Money Delivered to Your Door

"Oh," Feng Yiping couldn't help shouting out, but Lao Ma next to him could hold it back, and from time to time he tilted his head to look at Feng Yiping with pride, "You little guy, you can't hold it anymore."

This was also the rare time when he felt that he was stronger than Feng Yiping.

But the noises of other people around him greatly weakened his sense of accomplishment.

Because it was not only Feng Yiping who made the noise, but also several people around him were humming. Although it meant that he had won a large group of people, Lao Ma also had his pursuits and integrity. He didn't care about beating those ordinary employees, he only cared about beating Feng Yiping.

If everyone around him was as quiet as him, and only Feng Yiping was shouting, then the sense of accomplishment would really explode.

While thinking that everyone else was weak except himself, Lao Ma was also questioning their integrity. Can you not be consistent with your boss like this? This will greatly reduce my sense of accomplishment, you know?

"This benefit is pretty good," he said, "Do you come here often to enjoy it?"

"Hiss," Feng Yiping took another breath, "Really not,"

Old Ma looked at him, who was in pain and enjoying it, and was obviously a little unconvinced.

"Really," Feng Yiping said, "Let me put it this way, I tried it at the beginning at Google, but when the masseur's palm touched my back, I felt itchy and couldn't help laughing..."

"Haha," Old Ma raised his head and laughed comfortably, "Other people massage to relieve fatigue and enjoy it, but you massage to make people laugh?"

"Pay attention to cooperation, pay attention to cooperation," Feng Yiping pointed at the masseur who stopped and said to Old Ma.

The next sentence made Old Ma a little uneasy, "Of course I don't have as much experience as you, big brother. I think I must have experienced massages and foot washings often, right?"

Thinking of the consequences of Feng Yiping's last prank, Old Ma raised his head again, forcing the masseur to stop again, "I say, don't make such jokes again,"

"No problem, I'm a kind person," Feng Yiping said.

But his next words made Lao Ma want to sit up again.

"But I say, brother, don't you know that you are so nervous, doesn't it just prove that what I said is true?"

"Hiss," Lao Ma also took a breath - that was because of helplessness.

He immediately made a wise decision that the best choice was not to discuss such topics with Feng Yiping.

"I think such benefits can also be introduced in China," he suggested.

"Okay, it just happens... to solve many... employment problems of blind people," Feng Yiping said this in a somewhat intermittent manner because the masseur increased his efforts.

"By the way, in solving the employment of disabled people, are there any exemptions or rewards in the policy?" he asked.

"Then don't think about it," Lao Ma said, "how many masseurs can we assign to our employees?"

"I also think that we can provide some other special benefits, such as acupuncture," he said.

"Oh, this, it seems that there is such an arrangement here," Feng Yiping remembered that Sandberg seemed to have said it to him.

Many foreigners are skeptical about our traditional Chinese medicine, but they think acupuncture is magical and want to try it.

"We also need to improve the restaurant," Lao Ma made it seem like he was here to inspect the benefits that Silicon Valley companies provide to their employees.

"However, the most important thing is our employee apartments. I think we need to reserve some more land,"

"Providing houses to employees at cost price, even if the location is a little worse, is the best benefit."

Feng Yiping had already sat up, feeling particularly comfortable all over. He thanked the masseur and stood aside waiting for Lao Ma, who had not finished yet because of several interruptions in the middle.

"Yes, domestic housing prices," he shook his head. He really didn't want to talk about this issue now.

"But don't just think about making great efforts in employee benefits. We should also compare with Silicon Valley in terms of investment in R&D and investment in important talents,"

The more he understood Silicon Valley and American high-tech companies, the more he felt that domestic Internet companies' investment in new technologies was far inferior to that of American companies.

We can also talk about Netflix. Who would have thought that it was originally just a company that bought and rented discs online, but it also invested so much in related technologies, such as warehousing, and made so many achievements?

Not to mention Amazon.

"We really need to strengthen this aspect," Lao Ma finished pressing, and he sat up, "This time, Amazon has given me a great impact,"

"Including us, most domestic Internet companies only focus on software, and rarely consider the research and development of related hardware and other technologies,"

"So this time, I intuitively felt the gap in creativity between us and some American companies, such as us and Amazon,"

Lao Ma was talking about the first generation of kindle officially released by Amazon on the 19th.

Although many people, including Jobs, were not optimistic about it in advance, thinking it was quite ugly, and the high price of $399 would make many people stay away.

But what is surprising is that less than 5 hours after it went online, all the stock of Amazon was snapped up.

You know, the first generation of kindle was only sold in the United States, which is enough to show that users welcome and recognize it.

Although Amazon did not disclose the specific quantity, considering their announcement that supply will only resume in the second quarter of next year at the earliest, a conservative estimate is that there must be at least tens of thousands of units, such as 50,000 units.

It is a conservative estimate that as long as the supply is sufficient, it will not be too difficult to sell hundreds of thousands of Kindle units next year, say three to five million units.

That would mean at least several hundred million dollars in additional revenue.

The popularity of Kindle has, in turn, actually boosted Amazon’s book sales.

Therefore, the launch of Kindle has not only expanded Amazon's business areas, but also increased users' recognition of them, and effectively promoted the development of its main business... It is really a successful attempt that achieves multiple goals with one stone.

Because of its close business relationship with Amazon, the impact this had on Lao Ma was truly extraordinary. In other words, it also opened up a new world for him.

Who said those who are in the e-commerce business can’t be in the hardware business?

Feng Yiping didn't know much about this, but he had an impression. Later, Kindle seemed to sell tens of millions of units a year?

That's billions of dollars in sales.

Domestic Internet companies have never made such achievements in this regard.

"If you have any ideas in this regard, you can discuss it with Magic Workshop. One of their current key directions is various smart products," Feng Yiping said. "However, I don't really recommend products similar to Kindle."

He knows that what many domestic companies like to do most is to follow.

I do what my competitors do, and I launch whatever products my competitors launch.

"In China, the sales of such products should not be very good,"

Especially after the iPad comes out in the future, how many people will buy a kindle?

"That's natural. We are not Amazon. We focus on books from the beginning," Lao Ma said.

He still sees things very clearly on this issue.

"It's just that I think that for our e-commerce business, we should also set up an office in Boston," he said.

On the first day they arrived, when Abigail and Robert were waiting outside Feng Yiping's office, Feng Yiping summoned company executives, including Lao Ma, to discuss the establishment of an office in Boston.

Although compared with Silicon Valley, Boston's development in the high-tech field is not even a bit worse, it is undeniable that because of Harvard UMass, Boston has many outstanding talents.

For this reason, it is very necessary to set up branches there.

State Street, which is headquartered in Boston, has promised to provide strong support in various aspects, such as suitable office locations.

"With Drucker at the helm, the work of the human resources department will naturally be very good, but many times, we ourselves know best what kind of talents we need."

"That's no problem," Feng Yiping readily agreed.

He seemed a little absent-minded at this time, because he was thinking, what hardware products are suitable for his e-commerce company to develop?

But he still didn't forget to give the old horse a hand, "Don't go back to my office."

"What's wrong?" Lao Ma was puzzled.

"There are too many congressmen visiting Tesla today, and I don't want to entertain them,"

After congressmen expressed their support for Android, Feng Yiping also gave them the opportunity to express their support for Tesla. Since yesterday, congressmen have visited Tesla one after another, but many people obviously still hope to meet Feng Yiping. Feng Yiping Yiping was the most impatient to do those things, but if he was in the office, it would be bad not to see him.

"I think that in terms of cloud computing, we can increase our investment, vigorously increase our investment," Lao Ma said.

This is naturally also related to the influence of Amazon. Amazon’s investment and achievements in cloud computing are well known in the industry, which also makes Lao Ma feel the gap.

"I support that if 1 billion a year is not enough, we will spend 2 billion. If 5 years is not enough, we will spend 10 years," Feng Yiping made it clear.

"With your words, I will have the confidence to expand the scale immediately when I get back." Lao Ma stopped, "I don't believe it. If we use money and people, we will be worse in this regard."

It seems that the success of Amazon Kindle really stimulated him a lot.

He saw Feng Yiping holding his mobile phone in a daze, "Why, I dare not answer anyone's call,"

"It's not that I don't dare to answer," Feng Yiping pressed the call button, "Hello Madoff,"

After answering the phone, it was his turn to stop, "What's wrong?" Lao Ma asked, "Trouble?"

"Trouble? Maybe," Feng Yiping said, "You think, if someone gives me a large sum of money, should I accept it or not?"

"A lot of money? How much?"

"Five billion, US dollars," Feng Yiping said.

Lao Ma suddenly couldn't help but want to roll his eyes, can this be done? Someone gives you $5 billion?

Could such a good thing happen?