Chapter 63 Li Yi

the next period of time.

Wei Ming became increasingly busy.

At the Limei Club, we have to come here for at least half a day every day.

Black Hole Technology Company is starting to get on the right track. Shelves are being set up and equipment is being transported and purchased. Pu Weicai and the others are very busy. With great enthusiasm, they plan to solve all equipment problems within two months and then invest in EUV is under development.

It stands to reason that as a responsible boss, Wei Ming should be in charge of the company every day, recruiting more people, signing various documents, and is extremely busy.

After all, the busiest person in a company, especially in its start-up stage, is always the boss.

Just like my colleague Ling Chao, he not only pays his own money, but also does the work himself. He works more than 12 hours a day on average and has no concept of rest days.

Wei Ming made a video call with him a while ago and found that he seemed to be ten years older, his face was pale and tired, and he looked shaky.

Wei Ming was shocked. Bosses often represent giving orders and enjoying comfort. It is really rare for someone to work hard to become like Ling Chao.

I must never follow in his footsteps.

Therefore, Wei Ming plans to hire a professional manager to help him take charge of the daily management of Black Hole Technology Company and handle more than 90% of trivial matters. Only those major matters will be decided by Wei Ming.

Wei Ming went to the headhunting agency he had worked with before and paid 200,000 yuan to help find a qualified and outstanding talent.

Soon a list of recommendations was placed in front of Wei Ming.

Among the long list of names, one person's resume stood out to him.

Li Yi.

Male, 38 years old.

He worked for Longyao Company for ten years, rising from an ordinary low-level employee to the deputy general manager of the European Affairs Department.

I left Longyao five years ago and founded a chip company with several partners to develop domestically produced chips from scratch.

It had already achieved some significant results, but was suddenly betrayed by its partners, the company was acquired by a foreign-funded enterprise, and the technology patents were sold to an American company. Five years of hard work came to nothing, and the company was almost destroyed.

However, he has recently regained his composure and plans to regroup, raise funds again, and learn from Mr. Ren, who only started his business in his forties, to launch another attack and never sink completely due to temporary setbacks.

This resume report also includes an evaluation of Li Yi’s personality:

Tough, strong in execution, and with an authoritarian management style, he has a bad relationship with almost anyone except technical R&D personnel.

This made Wei Ming feel his eyes light up.

He immediately paid another sum of money to a headhunting agency, obtained Li Yi's contact information, and expressed his desire to meet him through various methods.

The specific process is rather complicated.

On February 10th, Wei Ming, who made a special trip to Shanghai, finally met Li Yi after waiting for a while at a coffee shop in the city.

When they met for the first time, Wei Ming felt that this man was serious, with a serious face and sharp eyes. He stood there like a polished and shiny javelin.

When he saw Wei Ming, he asked straight to the point: "I heard that you plan to invest 5 million in my chip company, without taking any shares, but only a certain investment dividend?"

Li Yi has been attracting investment during this period, but his cooperation conditions are relatively harsh. Investors can get profit dividends, but they can't even think of taking shares in his company. Even 1% of the shares will not be shared.

Because of this, almost no investors were willing to invest in him, thinking he was joking.

As soon as Wei Ming said he was willing to invest in him, he immediately agreed to meet.

"It's okay to invest in your chip company, but my main purpose is to recruit you as a talent and ask you to work in my company." Wei Ming said.

"Sorry, I'm not interested in joining other people's companies. 5 million, please get it quickly. I'm very busy."

"Our company is a high-end lithography machine manufacturing company. Our company has solved the lens problem of EUV lithography machines. We will be able to produce EUV within two years. Once we have high-end lithography machines, we can make chips how we want. Why waste it?" Is time taking this detour? As far as I know, the chip you designed is still based on the 14-nanometer process. No matter how advanced the architecture is, it will fall behind once it is launched and will not be sold at all. "

Wei Ming said.

Li Yi was silent for a moment and had to admit that he was right.

"Can your company really build an EUV lithography machine?" he asked with a suspicious look on his face.

"Can you make it? If you join our company and observe it for a while, won't you be able to draw a conclusion?"

"Okay! I'll go to your company tomorrow to have a look. If you didn't lie to me, I can join. But if I want to develop chips in the future, I hope to get your support, otherwise I will still leave the company and start a business."

Without much weighing or hesitation, Li Yi nodded and agreed. Joining Black Hole Technology Company was basically confirmed.

Then they started to discuss salary - the salary Wei Ming gave him was at the same level as Pu Weicai.

In addition, Li Yi has a group of chip R&D talents, more than 30 people in total, who will join the "Chip R&D Department" of Black Hole Technology Company, with financial support provided by Wei Ming, to engage in chip R&D with a new architecture.

Of course, chip research and development is a long-term process. If Wei Ming is unwilling to spend money on this business in the future, the "chip research and development department" can choose to break away from Black Hole Technology and establish a new company. Li Yi will become the president of this chip company. And may follow the technology to escape from the black hole.

Because making chips with completely independent intellectual property rights has always been their dream, they will never be willing to make this dream come true!

Talking to the end.

Wei Ming finally asked a question that he had been holding in his heart for a long time: "Brother Yi, as far as I know, the development momentum of your previous company was very good. The five partners were all colleagues from Longyao Company. The products were also made. The company's market value was at least 1 billion. The situation was very good. How could such a result happen?"

"Maybe I am too tough, or it would be better if I was the only founder."

Li Yi shook his head and said: "My style is like that. As long as it is the right thing, everyone must listen to me and must do it according to my instructions. As long as it can be decided within 5 minutes, it must not take three days to discuss. As long as the general direction is right, just do it first, and solve the problem when there is a problem. There is no need for too much discussion and argumentation."

"Necessary discussion is still necessary. If you don't study the problem thoroughly at the beginning, and find problems in the process, and then start over, won't it waste more time?" Wei Ming didn't agree very much.

"No time to discuss."

Li Yi shook his head repeatedly: "Some easy-to-understand truths, I don't have time to wait for stupid people to figure it out, and China's chip development has no time to be leisurely. For example, the 'Nuwa' chip we made normally takes ten years to develop! But we only took five years, and its value is at least more than 10 billion. Those four idiots sold it for 1 billion, and they sold it to Americans."

"From the beginning, I shouldn't have cooperated with those four idiots. They are not only stupid, but also bad, selfish, and have no country or nation in their hearts. My biggest mistake is that I shouldn't start a business with them."

He hammered the table, his expression became ferocious. Thinking of the four shameless villains, he gritted his teeth and hated them in his heart!

"You are the talent I want."

Wei Ming stood up and stretched out his hand to him: "I will unconditionally support you in technical research and development. I wish us a happy cooperation."

"Thank you, President Wei."

Li Yi stood up and shook hands with him.

...

This trip to the Magic City was fruitful.

Another heavyweight talent was recruited by Wei Ming.

However, he did not return to Hangzhou immediately.

Instead, he took a taxi and took advantage of the night to go to a coast somewhere east of the Magic City. On an uninhabited beach, facing the turbulent sea, he began his operation.