Chapter 762
Wu Tao is not good at playing financial warfare.
But he was relieved to see that Molly was so enthusiastic about the matter.
With Molly in charge of the overall situation, he only needs to cooperate with recording an interview once in a while, drinking coffee and chatting with the founder of Netscape, Mr. Anderson, is enough.
Apart from this, Wu Tao put more energy into preparing the research and development team for Xiaonei website and blog.
After a day of running around, the location of this new Internet technology company was set at an old company site on 101 Avenue not far from Tianxing Game Company.
In the days of the dot-com bubble, almost every day, companies in Silicon Valley closed their doors.
The location that Wu Tao was interested in was once a medium-sized company, and its stock price once soared to more than 40 US dollars.
Now it is empty, and the company's main building and two auxiliary buildings have also ended up being sold at a low price.
After Wu Yingying took Wu Tao for a tour, she asked cautiously, "Boss, is it unlucky for this company to turn from prosperity to decline?"
Wu Tao waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid, the predecessor of Tianxing Game Company was a small bankrupt company, and it is developing very well now, isn't it?"
In fact, this is also caused by the different environments and cultures of the two countries.
Most of the investment and construction of factories in Huaxia is for auspiciousness and a new look. In addition, the cost of construction is relatively low, so many bosses choose to build their own factories.
In the United States, especially those who are engaged in the Internet industry, they can do research and development with a garage. The investment obtained in advance is often used to purchase servers and other cutting-edge things, and will never be used to build factories and buildings.
However, when Bill Babbitt brought his team over to bring people over the next day, he was stunned.
"Mr. Wu, my boss, is this the place where the new company will be located and where we will develop in the future?"
Wu Tao nodded and glanced at the seven people except Bill. Except for two Indians, the other five were all white.
This number is still a little less than I expected.
Obviously, Bill also realized it, and explained in a series of surprised voices: "Boss, I didn't expect you to invest so much in one fell swoop, so the number of people brought this time is not many. But I can guarantee that all of them are Senior Programmer."
That said, it is not difficult to understand.
At least judging from the number of people brought this time, Bill should have used his brains.
Without knowing Wu Tao's follow-up investment actions, it would be embarrassing if there were too many people and the new boss couldn't afford it. On the contrary, if the number of people is too small, it is not appropriate. Because on the one hand, it would appear that he has no influence, and on the other hand, it would be useless if he could not undertake the project development.
As the programmer Jim Fairman who was dragged here by Bill, he was a tall, thin, bearded white man.
He had already received an excavation from Microsoft and got a good offer. If it weren't for Bill's good relationship with him, he wouldn't be moved by it and come over for such a trip.
Even so, he was a little disappointed when he saw Wu Tao for the first time.
It's actually an Asian Chinese, and he's still so young!
Their country is so backward, how much do they know about such a trendy industry as the Internet?
But when Bill and Wu Tao confirmed that this location is the future new company, Jim's eyes finally had some subtle changes.
Not only him, but the other six people also looked at everything around them with great interest, imagining their pride as the company's elders.
At this moment, Bill Babbitt suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "Mr. Wu, how much is your first investment?"
Wu Tao raised two fingers and said, "Twenty million dollars!"
Bill and his party were stunned. They looked at each other in blank dismay, but no one spoke.
Wu Tao saw this reaction, and quickly added: "Of course, if it is not enough, you can add more. At that time, all the company's investment and financial work will be done by my investment company. You can apply at any time."
Bill repeatedly waved his hands and said, "No, no, my boss, the initial investment is so big, it's already quite impressive." Then he thought about it and sighed: "It seems that I have to go back and recruit some talents..."
At this time, Jim suddenly intervened and asked: "Mr. Wu, for the product you are interested in, I think it is more like a developer's product, and the market is expected to be very limited. I am afraid it does not match your large investment. .”
Wu Tao squinted his eyes. What this guy meant was that he was an old hat in the Internet world, who knew nothing but wasted money.
"Jim, can I call you Jim?" As soon as Wu Tao opened his mouth, he showed the momentum of a superior, after all, now is not the time to keep a low profile.
"...It is precisely because the products I am currently interested in do not meet the expectations of the majority of target users, so I hire you with a high salary to develop them."
"...If one day, when it is launched to the market, it is still only a developer product, at least it means that your research and development work has not been done well."
“…Of course if you come out with a product that I like and the market doesn’t respond well, that would be my problem. In fact, I don’t believe that’s going to happen.”
Jim stared at Wu Tao with his blue eyes for a long time before he came back to his senses.
From these words, he could tell that the young Chinese man in front of him had a very clear demand for the product he wanted, and he was very confident in the future market prospect of this product.
Since this is the case, it is enough.
Bill took the conversation and asked, "My boss, have you thought of a name for this new company?"
"Yes, I've made up my mind." Wu Tao nodded, "SkyScape, Tianjing Internet Technology Company, how about it?"
Bill's eyes lit up, "This clearly has something to do with Netscape's NetScape, and to some extent it makes it easy for my group to agree with it." '
At this point, SkyScape officially came into being at 668 101 Avenue.
After seeing the new company's territory and the wealth of the investment boss, Bill went back to Netscape to recruit people much more smoothly.
Although people's hearts are fluctuating these days, many people have received offers from Microsoft one after another.
Today's Microsoft is in full swing, with huge profits, it is really a good place to go.
For mediocre programmers, that's true.
However, programmers with a little bit of skill under their hands don't think so. They are more inclined to choose challenging jobs.
It is better to strike first, and to suffer later.
So Bill took the opportunity to encourage and lobbied, and he actually got a lot of good players.
Bill moved quickly, and finally the number was fixed at 20 people. A capable technical team has been formed and a medium-scale software development project has been completed.
Moreover, Wu Tao respected everyone's offer salary and treatment, and approved it without changing a single word.
In his plan, these are seed players. On the one hand, they serve as the development team for the technical prototype of Xiaonei, and on the other hand, they are also prepared for the follow-up Xiaonei and more local Internet R&D teams.