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This transaction was successfully concluded.

The benefits of Ziweixing are even greater.

First, the project arrived.

This is a big data project. In the era of mobile Internet, all people have started to go online. There are one billion Internet users in China. Ziweixing is going to be in the global market, and the user scale may reach two to three billion.

In many cases, the mergers and acquisitions of Silicon Valley giants will go smoothly, and there are technical reasons among them.

Some newly born technology companies, such as Instagram, have almost no precipitation, and quickly became popular all over the world. The development of technology is far behind the development of products.

Then there are only two ways to go.

One, do it yourself, but the speed of development should be slowed down. Just like TikTok, you can't think about eating a fat man with one bite, but accumulate food and become king slowly. First use two or three years to develop the technology, and then vigorously do miracles for marketing.

Second, find a technology giant.

time does not wait.

The Internet market is changing rapidly, changing every day. If "accumulate grain widely and become king slowly", and use two or three years to reserve technology, what if the times change? At this stage, users like this product. What if users’ preferences change in two or three years and they don’t like it?

So selling yourself is often the best option.

Selling to technology giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, and using their strong technological capabilities and marketing capabilities, they can quickly spread their excellent innovative products all over the world.

Ziweixing wants to go to the global market, first of all to break through the technical barriers.

It would be a pity if the product is made, but the promotion is delayed due to technology. In the era of mobile Internet, there are only so many pits, and whoever grabs it first will have the advantage.

The Pyramid Project is a world-class project that is rarely seen in the domestic IT circle. Baidu has been studying this for two years, fired the previous CTO, and spent 130 million on research and development funds alone.

It's such a pity that it was discarded so casually. Zhou Buqi managed to get it into the bag smoothly.

Then there is the talent.

The scientists of the Pyramid Project consist of two parts, one part is the big data team dug from Microsoft Research, and the other part is Baidu's original technical elites drawn from various departments.

If you recruit similar people through headhunting, the worst P4 and P5 will cost 50,000 to 60,000 yuan each. Like those scientists with P7 and P8, the headhunting fee is 300,000 to 500,000 yuan, which is considered a conscience price.

The headhunting fee standard is usually 50% of the employee's first year's annual salary.

The total annual salary of this team exceeds 60 million, and 50% is given to headhunters, which is 30 million.

Now, Zhou Buqi went out in person and reached an agreement with Li Yanhong.

Package the project as a whole!

Not only is the project retained, but the process of layoffs and hiring is also bypassed.

This has brought great benefits to both parties.

Li Yanhong only offered a symbolic price of 1 yuan, because after Ziweixing took over the offer, Baidu would not have to pay more than 15 million yuan in severance pay. Zhou Buqi has promised that Baidu can continue to own the scientific and technological achievements of the "Pyramid" project in the past two years. In other words, Baidu did not suffer any losses in this transaction, and also saved a large amount of resignation compensation.

Both sides of the transaction are happy.

mutual benefit.

Still retain the feelings.

If Baidu cuts this project and then lays off these people... Then Baidu's reputation will be stink, and this group of top technical talents will be very disappointed with Baidu.

Now it is different, they are very grateful to Baidu.

In particular, Li Yanhong schemingly gave a quotation of 1 yuan, which really moved those simple scientists to tears.

ah!

Mr. Lee is so great!

The technical sentiment is so stalwart!

In the past two years, Baidu has spent 130 million yuan on this project. Now, for his own technical beliefs and to support the development of the domestic technology industry, Mr. Li sold this big project for only 1 yuan when he was powerless!

He is not doing it to make money, but to keep this project going, so that everyone's painstaking efforts over the past two years don't have to be in vain.

So touched!

The deal was completed on schedule.

Zhou Buqi went to drink tea in Li Yanhong's office, and praised repeatedly, "Your hand is so beautiful! I admire it!"

"how?"

"Originally, you wanted to cut the project, and you couldn't make any money, and your reputation was bad. Now it's all right, sell the project to me, not to mention earning a full 1 yuan, and gain a good reputation!"

Li Yanhong saw that this kid was so good and behaved, she almost died of anger, "Do you always talk like this? It makes people very angry, you know?"

Zhou Buqi laughed and explained: "I know, we have a good relationship, and I didn't treat you as an outsider. Don't you know my image in the industry? I am humble, low-key, friendly and polite. Talking to you like this, It’s because we have a good relationship with you, we people in the Northeast are like this.”

Li Yanhong snorted, and said angrily: "My vice president suggested to me that I want to ask for 15 million yuan!"

Zhou Buqi laughed, "I'm not being taken advantage of."

Li Yanhong said angrily: "Is 15 million a lot? We have been working on this project for two years and put in countless hard work and energy. A total of 130 million was spent."

Zhou Buqi curled his lips and said, "Come on, I know you are a scientist, but please talk to me as an entrepreneur. Stopping losses in time is the highest level of self-discipline in corporate management."

Li Yanhong smiled and waved his hands, "Exaggerated."

Zhou Buqi changed his words, "Well, elementary self-discipline."

Li Yanhong nodded, "Almost, the highest level of self-discipline should be to focus on everything. Overseas... such as Apple, after Jobs came back to power, he cut off more than a dozen business lines, all of which can make money. I gave up all of them. Now relying on the mobile phone business to turn around completely. Domestically, Huawei is also good.”

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth and looked at him deeply, "Why do I feel that you are mocking me?"

Li Yanhong smiled and said, "Nothing!"

Zhou Buqi snorted and said, "I admit that my business is unconventional and not as focused as you said. But, don't compare me with ordinary businessmen. I do milk tea, the Internet, the media, The drone is because I have a deeper and more acute insight into the market. Even Jobs and Mr. Ren can’t compare to me, and I’m in the atmosphere this time!”

Li Yanhong nodded again and again, deeply convinced, "You are right. I have studied almost all of these domestic enterprises and entrepreneurs. Only you, I really can't understand. What you do is simply against business rules. .”

Zhou Buqi said: "It is because of the uncommon sense that I can do it in the Japanese market, but you can't!"

Li Yanhong frowned, not quite convinced, "It's only just started, why do you say you can do it? Why do you say I can't?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Baidu Japan's model is too conventional, and Japanese society is so rigid, and you still use the most traditional way to develop, how can you break the situation? To do business, you have to do it the other way around. I charge for others for free, and I charge for others. Free. Others are simple and I am complicated, others are complicated and I am simple. Others are high-priced and others are low-priced, others are low-priced and I am high-priced. Others are normal and I am abnormal..."

"Okay, okay!" Li Yanhong was annoyed and funny, "Are you teaching me here?"

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Let's chat! You're not good at this tea, I'll give you a few bags some other day, all of which are made by big girls with their feet."

Li Yanhong is different from the old horse. He is not good at talking nonsense, and his level of fooling is much worse. Seeing that he can't get around the topic after going around for a long time, he can only bluntly say: "By the way, when will the pyramid project team move out?"

"Immediately, the move will be completed by the end of this month, and I will officially work at my side next month."

"People are easy to talk about, but what about equipment?"

Zhou Buqi was a little strange, "Look for a professional company to help, do you have a problem?"

Li Yanhong coughed lightly, and said seriously: "The equipment does not belong to the pyramid project."

"Depend on!"

Zhou Buqi almost laughed out loud.

It turned out to be waiting here!

Li Yanhong said: "The project materials can be directly transferred to your equipment, leave the equipment to me, and I can still use it here."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Okay, you don't have to be devious, just ask for a price! And dump it, pretending that I don't understand anything? The dumping of the server content and the establishment of the office computer environment are time-consuming It's laborious, and a mistake seriously affects the work mood. Take it away!"

The quotation of 1 yuan is really ridiculous.

In fact, it is acting.

It was Li Yanhong who performed a show in front of the scientists of the "Pyramid" project, gained their gratitude, and made himself and Baidu gain a good reputation.

They were driven away by factional struggles, and with an offer of 1 yuan, they can turn decay into magic.

With such a good personal relationship, it's not easy for Zhou Buqi to expose him.

Li Yanhong said: "Five million, you take away computers, servers, storage devices and various experimental equipment."

This is the real offer.

"No problem, just 5 million!"

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and agreed without thinking.

I don't know when it started, bargaining is no longer in the concept of Zhou Buqi.

On the way back, Zhou Buqi told Xu Liangjie about the 5 million yuan.

Xu Liangjie was not very happy, "Such a loss? If it is 1 yuan, I admire him, which means that he is really a follower of technology. If it is 5 million, I despise him."

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "First of all, he is an entrepreneur. Then, he is a scientist. The priority is clear. If he is a pure scientist, it is impossible for the Pyramid Project to cut him off."

Xu Liangjie said: "He is a scientist, and he cut off the Pyramid Project. You are a layman in technology, but you took over the Pyramid and continued to do it. You have more technical beliefs than him."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "How can I have any technical beliefs? I am here to make money! It is impossible to make a lot of money by saving money. If you want to make a lot of money, you must first have a huge investment and take huge risks."

"If you dare to invest, this is very rare."

"Well, you convinced me that I do have something special."

Zhou Buqi sighed, feeling that he couldn't compete with him in the debate, so he had to admit his excellence.

Xu Liangjie twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking that this big boss is really a young man, so lively. Then he thought of something again, and said seriously: "I chatted with some people in Baidu, and I heard that the new CTO candidate is quite surprising."