The Industrial Giant Reborn

"Me? Be the person in charge?" Woz looked surprised, and at the same time looked at Chen Zhiwen in disbelief.

"This is my reservation deposit. As long as you agree, the money will belong to you." Chen Zhiwen took out a small leather bag from behind and handed it to Woz.

"Appointment deposit." Woz took the purse, feeling that the purse was a little heavy, and opened the zipper to see that there were 3 stacks of one hundred dollar bills inside.

"This is?" Woz, who had never seen so much money, almost dropped his eyeballs, but he was a smart man, and he immediately closed his purse when he saw the money, and at the same time looked around cautiously, and found that No one paid attention to him, so he meowed again.

"It's the same number as you thought, 30K." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Keep your voice down. Although there is a little security here, you still have to be careful." Woz pulled up the zipper of the purse, feeling as if he was holding a fireball in his hand at this moment, and asked, "Mr. Chen, what company are you going to start? "

Even though he worked as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard, because he was relatively young, his salary was only about 2,000 US dollars a month, which is not bad in the United States now, but as a traditional American, how much money does he spend? Money, if you don’t have much money, you can spend credit card money, and when you have the most around you, you only have a few thousand dollars. Otherwise, how could you fight for four days and three nights for Jobs’ $450?

Now that someone suddenly gave you 30,000 US dollars, you will either suspect that the other party has malicious intentions, or the other party is telling the truth. Considering that all your property is not so much money, the latter is more likely.

"I have a company in Hong Kong called Midea Electronics Co., Ltd., which specializes in the production of air conditioners, refrigerators, fans, radios and other home appliances. I saw an arcade machine in a bar some time ago and thought it would be a promising business. , so I want to set up a company specializing in the production of arcade machines in the United States." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Arcade?" Woz said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Chen, you asked me to design the motherboard and design the circuit layout. That's no problem, but I don't have any idea what kind of games to play in the arcade."

"You don't have to worry about what kind of game. You just need to be responsible for the circuit design and layout, including subsequent production and sales. I will be in charge. The company in the United States can be regarded as a research and development center." Chen Zhiwen said lightly.

In Hong Kong, the export of electronic products can also rank in the top ten of exports, and it will enter the top three in a few years, but they are basically OEM, and the R\u0026D and design are very weak. Research and development of frequency conversion technology, but the most basic chip layout design, the whole of Hong Kong could not find suitable talents, and later had to go to Wanwan to set up a research and development center, but Wanwan may be much better than Hong Kong, but the ability is still insufficient. If it wasn't for Chen Zhiwen's sufficient financial support to hire professional engineers from RB Germany at a high price, ordinary small household power plants would have to give up at this point.

Although arcade games seem simple, they have higher requirements for chips and cost control, so they can only set up a research center in Silicon Valley, where there are currently computer talents.

Woz is a very powerful talent, but the research and development of arcade machines is not only chip design, but also many other factors, so a team is required to be responsible.

"R\u0026D center?" Woz was a little confused. Although the person in front of him gave a lot of money, he can also be said to have smooth sailing in HP. After getting a certain score, it is not impossible to be a middle-level manager. You know, in the current In Silicon Valley, HP is the second ladder of technology companies in the United States, second only to IBM, the first ladder.

"In terms of salary, I can give you 5,000 US dollars a month. If the project tasks are completed smoothly, there will be an additional 5-10 months of salary rewards at the end of the year. I will also rent a high-end apartment for you. You can choose the location yourself. " Chen Zhiwen continued to seduce.

The profits of arcade machines, in this era, including Atari or other big electronics companies preparing to enter this market, have no idea, thinking that this industry can earn at most a few million dollars, at most tens of millions of dollars. Admittedly, this is already a very high profit, but I don’t know that in a few years, a space invader can make a net profit of more than 100 million US dollars in the US market. This is only the profit on the arcade. Finally, the game card market will be much larger than that of arcade machines.

An annual salary of only a few hundred thousand US dollars is simply a drop in the bucket for a game whose profit may reach hundreds of millions. Besides, Woz is also unknown at HP, and his value is so high that it does not exceed a million dollars a year.

"Mr. Chen, I hope you can prove what you said. Although this leather bag is very convincing, I still need to see official company information." Woz's awkward sentence reflects his mood, but this kind of person It's just that he is not good at expressing, but he is not a fool. Such a thing naturally needs iron proof.

After speaking, he returned the purse.

"That's fine. I'll invite you to visit after my company is established." Chen Zhiwen nodded and put away his purse. At the same time, he stood up and said, "I've invited you to drink today. You can drink whatever you want. In the evening It's free to drink."

After gesturing to the person behind him, an aggressive young man nodded, walked to the bartender in front, and then pointed to Woz, who was watching all this. The bartender nodded and smiled brightly at Woz.

Woz turned around, and Chen Zhiwen handed over a business card and said, "I know how to find you, but if you want to take the initiative to find me, you can call this number. I hope we can meet again soon."

After finishing speaking, Chen Zhiwen greeted him politely and left, along with several middle-aged Caucasian men and his assistant An Qi who was eating chicken wings alone in other places.

After leaving the bar, Chen Zhiwen looked at the surrounding buildings, and said to An Qi: "An Qi, find a small building with three or four floors nearby. The location and decoration should be similar. It doesn't need to be too good or too expensive. Poor, rent all of them, or buy them, and use them as Midea’s American branch.”

"Just for that fat man just now? Do we want to invest so much?" An Qi asked curiously.

"Whether there is that fat man or not, I have to invest. Go find Ron, he must know the agent in Los Angeles." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "The value of this fat man is far beyond your imagination."

"Okay." An Qi nodded. With an annual salary of more than 100,000 US dollars, if she was in Hong Kong, she could recruit a platoon of technicians.

"Go back, Costco will open soon." Chen Zhiwen said to the driver beside him.