On the third day after the group arrived in San Francisco, after reversing the jet lag, Shan Xiuling began to show Liu Xun some schematic diagrams of real estate projects.
Of course, what Liu Xun wants to buy in San Francisco is not a house, but a software development company that is about to be established. Since he is planning to create a company comparable to Microsoft, he naturally cannot be too petty. When it comes to real estate, Liu Xun has always been more generous. , in fact, not long ago, Cisco spent tens of millions of dollars to purchase a new property as an office space.
However, Shan Xiuling took out several office building renderings one after another, but Liu Xun was not satisfied. Either the area was too small or the location was not ideal.
Shan Xiuling had no way of understanding what kind of company Liu Xun planned to create, nor could she imagine how much budget Liu Xun had prepared. Seeing that the area of ??the office building continued to increase, Liu Xun still thought it was too small, and Shan Xiuling was almost I collapsed. My God, as a small boss, how big of a place am I going to buy and how many people are going to be able to work there?
Gao Daier was very quiet after arriving in the United States and did not pester Liu Xun. She knew that Liu Xun must have important matters when he came to the United States. Therefore, after Xiao Nizi let Liu Xun accompany her for a long time, she started to have fun by herself. Yes, this is the first time for the little girl to come to the United States. Everything is very novel.
As for Liu Xun, he now admires his foresight in leaving Shan Xiuling in the United States to help him with the preliminary preparations. With the help of Shan Xiuling and her entire team, some things can proceed in an orderly manner. Otherwise, if he were responsible for these detailed tasks, I don't know how much time would be wasted in vain, such as looking for real estate, such as organizing the preliminary work of a job fair.
After spending six days in San Francisco, the only thing Liu Xun did was to make a decision to buy a very impressive office building and a large area of ??abandoned land around it on the outskirts of Silicon Valley for US$65 million. Because it is located in Silicon Valley, most of the buildings here are very suitable for scientific research inside. I passed a few in a row. When I saw this building, Liu Xun took a fancy to it at first glance. This building is built with great style. Secondly, the space is large enough, so it is easy for thousands of people to work at the same time. As for thirdly, there is a large area of ??abandoned land next to this building. They can be bought together, and the price is very cheap. Liu Xun plans to use this place as the headquarters of his new company. As for this magnificent office building, it is what Liu Xun used before he prepared to surpass Microsoft. Of course, since it is a headquarters, it cannot be too small. With the surrounding land, it will be very convenient to expand in the future.
In addition to making the decision to buy this office building, another thing Liu Xun did was to decide on a name and design a logo for the company he was about to establish.
Originally, Liu Xun wanted to use the name Huaqing. He had a special liking for this name. It also contained some of his thoughts from another time and space. However, he thought that he had already founded Huaqing Technology in China and in the United States. There is also Huaq Company, so we finally settled on the name Great Wall.
As for the trademark, it is also based on the Great Wall, and after some design, it can fully express the meaning of software development, which is simple but not simple.
Shan Xiuling originally complained that Liu Xun, the boss, was too idle and had been squeezing the labor force of employees. However, after seeing the logo designed by Liu Xun, she shut up obediently. She vaguely felt that she seemed to be participating in something. Although Liu Xun did not talk to her specifically about what he was going to do, it was an event that would have a huge impact on the future.
It has to be said that a woman's intuition is sometimes a very scary thing, and the results of the service really proved her feelings at this time. A few years later, the logo designed by Liu Xun became the symbol of the personal computer operating system, as the second As a person who has seen that sign, Shan Xiuling finally knows what kind of terrifying existence her little boss is. As for the office building she just bought, a few years later it became a holy place in the hearts of software engineers and programmers around the world, because they all knew that it was the place where the famous graphical window operating system was developed.
Of course, a few years later, the surroundings of that building have changed drastically. With the building as the center, several more magnificent R&D bases and office buildings have been built. These are naturally things for later. Shan Xiuling always talks about There was a lot of emotion about this matter. She also wrote in her autobiography that she had witnessed and participated in the rise of a miracle. She felt that she was very honored and very lucky.
While looking for properties, Shan Xiuling also sent out recruitment information at the talent base in Silicon Valley, preparing to recruit software engineers and computer programmers on a large scale. As for the treatment offered, it was also at a medium level in Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley is the distribution center for high-tech personnel around the world. The daily flow of personnelThe momentum is quite high, and there are quite a lot of new employees who are leaving and resigning every day. There is no need to worry about recruiting talents, but the cost of human resources in Silicon Valley is also quite high. An ordinary programmer with good skills can have an annual salary of 8 Between 10,000 US dollars and 150,000 US dollars. As for software engineers and senior software engineers, the annual salary is much higher. In addition to possible company option awards, the annual salary can reach hundreds of thousands of US dollars or even higher, especially for senior software engineers. Software engineers are also in high demand in Silicon Valley.
When Shan Xiuling first received the recruitment plan from Liu Xun, she almost threw it to the ground in shock. It was not that the salary offered by Liu Xun was too high or too low, but that Liu Xun was prepared to There are really too many people recruiting. It doesn¡¯t look like they are preparing to build a company, but like they are wasting their money.
Taking ordinary programmers and software technicians as an example, Liu Xun plans to recruit more than 400 people. The number of assistant software engineers and software engineers is nearly 100, and senior software engineers also need more than ten people.
If we really recruit according to the number of people in this recruitment plan and follow the above salary, Shan Xiuling made a rough estimate, and the monthly salary expenses for the personnel alone will be as high as more than 10 million US dollars. Oh my God, this guy are you crazy? A prodigal can't be such a prodigal. Even with the cash cow of a US land certificate, Shan Xiuling still felt that Liu Xun was a prodigal. However, after reminding Liu Xun several times to no avail, she had no choice but to put the recruitment plan into place in accordance with Liu Xun's request. Silicon Valley¡¯s job market. Fortunately, she also knew that Liu Xun was not a fool, and he must have his own considerations for doing so, but she still couldn't hide her doubts.
In fact, Liu Xun was helpless as to why he decided to recruit so many people. The so-called great wall software company had just been founded and was not well-known in the industry. Ordinary programmers can be said to be a handful in Silicon Valley, and the main benefits are Reasonable, we can recruit as many as we want. Ordinary software engineers can be found with high salaries, but senior software engineers are not easy to find. It¡¯s not just the salary that impresses them. Supporting their families is already far away for them. What they pursue is career success and the realization of the value of life. Liu Xun does not expect that the benefits he writes can impress these people.
As for the number of people recruited, in Liu Xun's opinion, there are really not many. Perhaps, for an ordinary software company, there are hundreds of programmers, nearly a hundred assisting software engineers, software engineers, and more than ten There may be a lot of senior software engineers, but if you know that these people are used to develop a brand new operating system, I am afraid everyone will think that these people are too few.
You must know that among Microsoft's more than 60,000 employees, the proportion of R&D personnel is as high as 51%. Among high-tech companies around the world, this is a relatively high proportion of more than 30,000 people, and these three There are more than 10,000 R&D personnel, and their main R&D tasks are window operating systems and office software.
With Microsoft¡¯s strength, it requires tens of thousands of people and years of research and development, but if a little-known small company wants to rely on hundreds of people to develop a new operating system that does not rely on DOS, isn¡¯t it ridiculous?
As for personnel expenses, Liu Xun has long been mentally prepared. Microsoft spends billions of dollars on research and development every year. Most of this money is spent on personnel expenses. To develop its own operating system, even if it is opportunistic, I am afraid it will still be necessary. Liu Xun is ready to burn a lot of money.
However, Liu Xun didn't know how many R&D personnel he needed, let alone how much money he would have to spend to burn out the operating system. The recruitment figures he proposed were only his rough estimates. After all, he was not a professional in computers. , and I have never been responsible for software development, so I can only rely on rough estimates.
Of course, this is not a problem for him. Since he is planning to open a company, Liu Xun is naturally well prepared.
Just when Shan Xiuling was handing over the building to the property developer, Liu Xun also made an appointment with another person in a private room in a teahouse in Chinatown. Well, it should be said that she was a beautiful woman with an extremely hot figure. Hot BBW.
"Ms. Chu, I think Miss Xue has communicated with you on the phone before. I am going to set up a software development company to develop a new graphical window operating system that can be used in DOS systems. I need talents in this area and senior software engineers. , I need a partner who can create an era with me," Liu Xun said, shaking hands with the person opposite, and subconsciously glanced at the other person's chest, "and Xue Xuewu recommended you to me."
But she was sighing in her heart, she is worthy of being recommended by Xue Xuewu, the size of her breasts is definitely comparable to that of Xue Xuewu! ! !
This was the first meeting between Liu Xun and Chu He, who would be regarded as the father of the graphical window operating system many years later. Of course, the latter had never been very interested in this title. It is said that she mentioned it many times in private occasions. Even if you want to praise?I should also be called the mother of the operating system. I am a woman. As for the father, that should be Liu Xun
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