“Acquiring a company?”
Lang Hongjun was startled by Ye Chen's words and said: "Mr. Ye, if you want to acquire a communications company with a sufficient foundation, the cost will be at least one billion US dollars. Is the investment too high? I'm afraid it will be difficult.
gained profit……"
Ye Chen shook his head and said: "Profit is not the most important thing, how to solve our current urgent needs is the most important thing."
Saying that, Ye Chen added: "Our biggest pain point right now is that we are pressed for time. Let alone a year or a month, even if it is a day or an hour, we must try our best. Time is far more important than money."
Ye Chen paused for a moment and continued: "If you want to develop faster than ordinary people, you must change your thinking mode that only solves immediate needs. If you don't have people or can't recruit people, if you still stop at how to solve the problem of recruiting people,
It’s basically difficult to accomplish big things because of the problems;”
"The prerequisite for doing big things is that the structure must be large enough. When large companies face the same problem, they will not think about how to build a team from scratch and then develop a product. They will first think of solutions.
, just buy the suitable products on the market directly.”
Saying that, Ye Chen added: "Elon Musk will not waste precious time and energy to build a Twitter by himself. It is the most economical for him to buy Twitter directly. In fact, so are we.
Likewise, if you still need to recruit employees one by one, the variables here are too great. Even if you expect to solve the problem in two years, once there are changes in personnel, this time will become far away."
"First of all, the recruitment cycle is definitely longer than expected. It was originally planned to recruit enough people in three months, but it may actually take at least half a year or even longer;"
"Secondly, there is insufficient staff stability. A team that has been recruited in a few months will take at least a few more months to train. But once the new people who have been trained with so much effort suddenly leave, those few months may be wasted.
, including recruitment and training, half a year of hard work has been wasted. At that time, we have no other choice but to go through the process all over again.”
"Also, employees are not just stable. The prerequisite for stability is that they have enough ability to cope with their work. This also requires us to invest in unknown trial and error costs. If we choose the wrong person, everything will be ruined."
Have to start over."
"As a result, even three years may not be able to achieve the goal we want to achieve."
"Furthermore, we always pay attention to doing things in one go. If we stumble and stumble from the beginning, the loss of energy and confidence will be unimaginable, and it will be difficult to become bigger and stronger."
Speaking of this, Ye Chen looked at Lang Hongjun and said seriously: "Brother, although you are very motivated now, if you really encounter various difficulties in the early personnel stage, you will not be as good as you are now in one or two years."
It’s really exciting.”
Lang Hongjun pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and sighed: "You are right, the energy and confidence are consumed less and less, and in the end, the whole person is depressed. I was fired from my first job before.
I thought it was nothing special. After all, I have real talent and practical knowledge, so it would be easy to find a job. But I didn’t expect that I would run into obstacles again and again, and in the end all my fighting spirit was gone..."
Speaking of this, Lang Hongjun suddenly froze on the spot and murmured: "That's how I am, from a proud and arrogant communications expert, to a seaman who is willing to go to Mexico to work as a coolie..."
Ye Chen smiled slightly and asked: "Brother, which company was your highest-paying job in?"
Lang Hongjun hurriedly said: "It is an old communications company in the United States."
Ye Chen asked again: "What is the current market value of the company?"
Lang Hongjun thought for a while and said: "The company was very prosperous in the past few years. When the market value was at its highest, it exceeded 10 billion US dollars. But as the bubble continued to burst, the performance continued to decline. When I was fired, the market value should only be more than 1 billion US dollars."
Already."
Ye Chen nodded and asked him: "How is the foundation of this company?"
Lang Hongjun said: "The technical foundation of software and hardware is very good, but the reason why it has gone downhill in recent years is mainly because the market direction has not been found correctly. The person in charge misjudged the development direction of the communications market, and later gradually changed his to-c
After the terminal business died, it then turned to resting on its laurels and providing hardware equipment and technical support to other communications companies."
Ye Chen said in surprise: "That's just right for us. If its business does well and its market value is high, it will be difficult for us to win it. And after we win it, the to-c business will also involve a lot of us.
But now that it specializes in hardware equipment and technical support, isn't it just right to serve us? After all, we are not pursuing a new communications company around the world, we just hope to establish our own communications network as soon as possible."
Lang Hongjun nodded and said: "If combined with our situation, it is indeed very suitable. We can use many of this company's technologies directly, and almost all the remaining people in this company are scientific researchers. Although the market is in a mess,
But the R&D strength cannot be underestimated.”
Ye Chen said without thinking: "That's it! Brother, pack up and come back to the United States with me right away!"
Lang Hongjun said in surprise: "Go back to the United States? Mr. Ye, I have only been here a few days and I haven't sorted out anything yet..."
Ye Chen said: "Now it is more important to buy your old company as soon as possible. After arriving in the United States, you can directly talk to the boss of this company about the acquisition. Didn't you say that its market value is probably over one billion US dollars?
?As long as he is willing to take action, I can offer up to two billion US dollars. As for how much we can negotiate, it depends on your ability, brother."
Lang Hongjun was stunned when he heard this and blurted out: "Mr. Ye... do you really want to buy that company?"
"Yes." Ye Chen nodded firmly and said, "Buy it and let it design the satellite for us. Since it has ready-made technology, it should be able to design the satellite in a few months, right? And then
It will take a few months to produce and it will be ready for launch in the first half of next year."
Lang Hongjun said with some excitement: "It doesn't take so long! That company itself is developing communication satellites for many large companies. Both the technology and the supply chain are complete. If we can successfully acquire them, we only need to
After making certain customized adjustments on the original basis, it can be put into use, and within three months at the earliest, you can develop your own communication satellite according to your own needs."
With that said, Lang Hongjun added: "If we reserve launch quotas with commercial launch companies now, our own satellites can be put into orbit as soon as this autumn and winter!
When Ye Chen heard this, he said without thinking: "Okay! Great! Brother, come back to the United States with me this time, you must overcome all difficulties and win down this company!"
This chapter has been completed!