Chapter 3 Changes
After visiting the model room, the group left Lianyuan Hotel from the original road. As soon as Du Qiu walked out of the gatehouse, he saw Lu Zijian standing next to Porsche, dancing and chatting with a policeman in uniform, so he called out, "Brother Jian, are you bragging about the driving skills with Director Ruan again?"
"When did I blew it? My driving skills are really better than him!" When Lu Zijian saw him, he threw his car keys over and said, "You are finally back. Ruan Hu and I have been jealous of this Porsche for more than a month. Hurry up and bring the keys and let's drive them in a few days."
"Don't drive in the city. Don't drive too hard when you go to the test yard." Du Qiu handed the Porsche key to the policeman and said, "Director Ruan, please help me watch him."
The policeman is named Ruan Hu. He is the cousin of Ma Jun, executive vice mayor of Yuncheng City. He is also an avid car fan. He had a small conflict with Du Qiu during the Internet conference, but later he reconciled. Like Lin Dawei, he likes to change cars instead of racing cars, which is more secure. He said, "Don't worry, if I keep an eye on him, I will make sure it's okay."
"Damn! I drove around at the age of 14, and nothing happened." Lu Zijian felt as uncomfortable as if he had run into a dream lover and a big man who sniffed his feet to check in the room, and complained: "This is the basic version of the Porsche 911, not the rs or gt2, so he can't run fast at all."
"If you don't run quickly, come and ask me to change the car?" Du Qiu had no time to argue with him. He knocked on the roof of the car and said, "I'll give it to me tomorrow at noon. Let's have a meal together and talk about setting up a real estate company."
"OK."
After sending away the two car fans, Du Qiu asked Bai Jie to drive Lu Zijian's Volvo 960, and took the bus and went to Yinhua Building where Snapdragon headquarters were located.
Yinhua Building is only 18 floors, with a height of less than 60 meters, and is not conspicuous in the city center. However, as soon as the bus entered its field of view, Yu Shuqin recognized it because there was a huge poster covering the four floors on the side of the building. In the middle of the poster was a mysterious man wearing a black hood and lowered his head. He held a ball made of red, yellow, green and blue in his hands, as if he was meditating. The following was written with a word and a punctuation mark, which was an extremely simple slogan: "I want to..."
"Yuzi, is Snapdragon's headquarters there?"
"It should be, the four-color ball on the poster is obviously the Snapdragon logo."
At this time, others also found the posters and came to the car window, observing and discussing.
"This ad is so weird. What do you think of?"
"I think that ball is like a crystal ball, probably to express the meaning that Snapdragon can make people's wishes come true."
"I think it's like the Earth, probably speaking of Snapdragon's products that sell well in the world."
"That person wearing a hat, looking at his nose and chin, it should be Du Qiu, right?"
“I think it’s a bit like…”
Du Qiu had too many halos on his body. The people in the bus were not familiar with him. They were worried and did not dare to get close to him. They whispered in the seat. Only Yu Shuqin had a fierce personality and was not afraid at all. She patted his shoulder and asked, "Du Qiu, what is that poster for?"
After Snapdragon won the CCTV bet on November 8, it appeared in national newspapers, magazines and TV programs almost every day. People from all walks of life either analyze Snapdragon's business, predict Snapdragon's advertisements, or gossip about Snapdragon's gossip, almost feeding half of domestic business journalists.
This poster is a suspense marketing to match the premiere of the "think-different" advertisement on New Year's Day. Since it is a suspense, of course it cannot be spoiled in advance. Du Qiu laughed and said, "I just returned to Yuncheng last night and haven't been to the company yet. How can I know what it is for?"
"Tsk! Let's not talk about it."
After the bus arrived at Yinhua Building, Du Qiu asked Bai Jie to take all his family away on the grounds that the company's internal space was limited and it was inconvenient to entertain, and arranged for them to visit or shop at several famous tourist attractions in Yuncheng. He took 7 talents and Professor Gao to visit Snapdragon.
When the Internet Conference was held in August, Snapdragon had just moved into Yinhua Building in the city center. At that time, the number of employees was less than 100, and only the 18th floor on the top floor was rented. However, after just 4 months, the number of employees exceeded 300, so the three floors of 15, 16, and 17 were rented out.
The Ontario office software supervised by Qin Mu and the Anjie database supervised by Xiao Wu have developed very rapidly. The number of employees exceeds 50, and large-scale recruitment continues, so they each occupy one floor. The number of Android operating system employees under He Lixing is also more than 20, occupying half of the east floor on the 17th floor and the half floor on the west floor originally belonged to the electronic tax calculation software supervised by Li Jianhua. In order to compete for the orders of the State Administration of Taxation, they moved to Beijing in November and temporarily released.
It was Saturday, but there were still many people working in the company. When Du Qiu appeared on the 15th floor, the entire floor became restless. Whether it was a familiar old employee or a new employee who had never seen before, they all stood up at their desks and saluted him.
The few people who came to visit obviously did not expect Du Qiu to have such high popularity and prestige in the company. They were deeply shocked and even their breathing sounds lighter. Professor Gao was also moved, moved his lips, and in the end he said nothing.
Du Qiu himself did not expect to be so respected by the employees, and was very happy. However, he was not as cool as he loves to show off. After enjoying the vanity for a few seconds, he felt a little pretentious again, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'm not a panda in the zoo, stop watching, go whatever you should do."
The old employee who joined Snapdragon in the early days worked together with Du Qiu for a long time, familiar with his style, relaxed after hearing this, and then led the new employees to relax. The office soon returned to its original appearance. Those who wrote the code continued to write the code, those who played the game continued to play the game, and those who were in love continued to fall in love...
At this time, a guy wearing Inter Milan football team's winter training suit trotted over and greeted with a smile: "Mr. Du, Qin Tou has not come back to recruit in Jinling yet. Let me be a commentator for him and take everyone to visit Andeng."
"You can give an explanation." Du Qiu introduced to a talent behind him who was very interested in office software: "This guy is Xiao Jialin, and he is one of the earliest employees of Snapdragon. He has participated in the research and development of Itanium from the very beginning. You can ask him any questions."
"OK."
Among the seven talents who came to Yuncheng this time, four of them had specialties in Snapdragon with corresponding departments. Du Qiu introduced them to the relevant person in charge, and then handed over Professor Gao, who was interested in the operating system, to He Lixing for reception. Then he brought the remaining three people to the west side of the 17th floor, stood in the office area full of computers but was empty, and asked Jiang You: "How much is the funding for the network security project you did at Peking University?"
“A little over 50,000.”
"It's only 50,000? Your school is so stingy." Du Qiu multiplied it by ten and said: "I will give you at least 500,000 yuan a year, and there is no limit. How about you help me build the best and internationally leading cybersecurity laboratory in China?"
"You have a very high demand." Jiang Youhuan looked at the empty office area and said, "I probably can't spend 500,000 yuan a year by myself."
"That's because you were too poor before and didn't know how to spend money." Du Qiu smiled and pointed to the rows of computers and said, "If you can't spend it all by one, just find a few more people to spend it. Snapdragon's human resources system Qin Mu must have told you that a1 is the lowest and a10 is the highest. If you can dig up a level A7 talent, I will give you a bonus of 10,000, a8, 50,000, a9, 100,000..."
"What kind of talent am I a?"
“a9, Department Director.”
"What if I find a talent at level A10?"
"If you can do this..." Du Qiu stretched out five fingers and said, "The 500,000 yuan fund is regarded as a bonus, and I will give it to you directly, and then you will work for him."
"Then I'll get the 500,000 bonus. Anyway, it's the same for everyone to work for." Jiang You's personality is a bit similar to Qin Mu, both of whom are easy-going and optimistic people, and said with a smile: "I know almost all the talents in China who are engaged in network security. As long as you are willing to give money, I'll dig it out one by one."
“As long as you have the ability, money is not a problem.”
Among the laptops Du Qiu carried during his time travel, there was a list of all scientific researchers who had won the title of Outstanding Youth from 1994 to 2016. When Snapdragon officially launched a large-scale recruitment in August, he specially checked the list and found Jiang You's name. In 1999, he received the sponsorship of the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of that year with the topic of "Information Security Management in the Internet Environment". He was only 34 years old at that time and was already a professor at Peking University.
At the age of 34, he became a professor at a prestigious university and won the title of Outstanding Young Master, which is enough to prove Jiang You's ability and potential. Those who are one level higher than him can only be academicians or quasi-academicians. If a prize of 500,000 yuan can be found, he will definitely make a fortune...
The last two talents were named Xu Zhuo and Ni Xiaodong. Their research direction was not software or network, but chip design. After Du Qiu visited Samsung in South Korea, he deliberately tricked him from an electronic components research institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences to prepare for his future entry into the chip industry, because chips are useless just by building wafer factories, and they must have a complete industrial chain to become bigger and stronger.
The 909 project carried out by the Ministry of Electronics Industry was approved on December 13 with a total investment of 4 billion yuan. It plans to build an 8-inch monocrystalline silicon production line and a 0.5-micron chip production line in Pudong. In order to cooperate with this project, the country's future annual event has introduced many preferential policies to support domestic chip design companies. Du Qiu wants to take advantage of this trend to cultivate the talent team in this area.
"How much is the funding for the chip design project you are working on in the research institute?"
"We spent about one and a half years to do it, and it cost about 1 million."
"Then I'll give you two 10 million in research funds, how about it?"
"Mr. Du, although we only spent 1 million yuan, the laboratory we used was built by the state invested more than 30 million yuan." Xu Zhuo, the two, explained: "The chips are very delicate and need to be tested in a dust-free environment. The related equipment is also very expensive. There is nothing on Snapdragon, and 10 million is probably not enough."
"I know all of this." Du Qiu pointed out the window, drew a circle and said: "Snapdragon will invest 100 million yuan to cooperate with China University of Technology and Yuncheng University to jointly build a high-level chip design laboratory. The 10 million I just mentioned refers to the research fund after the laboratory is built."
Xu Zhuo and Ni Xiaodong were surprised and happy when they heard this, and almost asked at the same time: "Really?"
Jiang You, who was standing next to watch the fun, could not hide his surprise and questioned: "Mr. Du, you really invested 100 million?"
"Of course it's true." Du Qiu made an invitation gesture and said: "The cooperation agreement has been signed, and the site is currently being selected. The draft plan is in the office upstairs. I'll take you to see it."
"No wonder netizens said that you are the world's number one tycoon, spending money like earth and making a fortune." Jiang You stretched out a finger and sighed: "Our Peking University is also one of the top two prestigious schools in the country. This year, the school's scientific research funding is only 110 million, which is just enough to build a laboratory for you."
In 1995, China's economy was not strong enough, and it was normal for insufficient scientific research funds. However, Du Qiu did not expect that even top universities like Peking University were so few, which was a bit unbelievable. While waiting for the elevator, he said, "So poor? I thought you have at least 1 billion scientific research funds every year."
"If there were 1 billion, our principal would probably wake up from a smile in his dream."
After finishing the surprise, Xu Zhuo felt very stressed, so he got a precaution and said: "Mr. Du, hardware research and development is different from software. It is difficult to make mature products without three to five years of hard work. Even if it is made, it may not be possible to make money. I cannot guarantee that I can recover the cost of this 100 million investment."
"It's okay, there are inevitable risks in doing business. 100 million is nothing, Snapdragon can lose money."
At this time, the elevator arrived, and there was a beautiful woman in professional attire and holding a folder standing inside. It was Du Qiu's official secretary Dai Yi. She smiled and greeted everyone, and then reported: "Mr. Du, Mr. Chen called again just now."
When Du Qiu first returned to China, he often carried his cell phone with him. Later, the number leaked. Every day, all kinds of strangers called him. He was so annoyed that he simply stopped bringing his cell phone. The private phone was transferred by Bai Jie and the business phone was transferred by Dai Yi. He smiled and said, "Do you still urge me to go to New York to promote IPO?"
"No, it's another thing." Dai Yi handed the folder to Du Qiu and said, "Mr. Chen and Microsoft have reached an intent agreement, look."
Du Qiu opened the folder and glanced, then turned his head to Jiang You and others and said, "I have an important job to deal with. I won't treat you at noon and have dinner together in the evening."
Seeing this, Jiang You became curious.
Chapter completed!