Not only did he not earn more, but he lost half a million due to his own greed, which made Yan Ming both painful and angry.
However, despite being unhappy, he had no choice. On the one hand, his wife and children in the United States were calling him frequently every day, urging him to sell the company and reunite with them. What if he disagreed? It¡¯s impossible to go to the more stingy and stingy coal boss, right?
Therefore, under the "internal and external troubles", Yan Ming had no choice but to agree to Li Jingran's bid and sold the company he had worked hard for nearly ten years to Li Jingran for a jumping price of 11.5 million.
After the price was negotiated, Li Jingran quickly flew to Shenzhen with Shen Jiayi and his secretary assistant to sign a contract with Yan Ming for payment.
Two days later, after paying a price of 11.5 million yuan, this company is one of the best in the country. It has been engaged in professional voice data collection since 2004. It has more than 20 data collection centers across China, and mainland China, including The voice data center, which has close cooperation with many universities and research institutes in Hong Kong, and all its thirty-something employees, were brought under the umbrella of Li Jingran's Zhizi Hi-Tech.
After Li Jingran took over Zhiguan, the first thing he did was to rename Zhiguan Voice Data Center as "Zhiguan Voice Data Center". Administratively, it belongs to a voice data research division under Zhizi High-tech R&D Center, and Guo Chun's "nominal" one. "The R&D department of the same level is under the direct control of Li Jingran and is only responsible to Li Jingran.
Li Jingran appointed Gan Fuqiang, the former vice president of the data center, as the general manager of the data center, who was fully responsible for all work of the Sophon Voice Data Center. Promoting Xiao Xingguo to head of the sales department and managing his two salesmen was a return of favor to him. Xiao Xingguo continued to work in his original sales job of Zhizi Voice.
Zhiguan Voice Data Center is a highly professional company. Among its more than 30 employees, more than half are voice professionals. They are distributed in voice laboratories and some mobile collection points in China, and then include Xiao Xingguo. Including two or three sales staff, the staffing is very streamlined, and there are no redundant "idle people".
Therefore, after Li Jingran took over, he was not prepared to "operate" on the elderly in the company and make major changes. On the surface, except for changing the company name and appointing a general manager and sales director, everything else remains the same.
Since Li Jingran currently does not have his own land, and even the headquarters in Rongcheng is a rented office building, he does not plan to move the Zhizi Voice Data Center, the newly acquired "scientific research institution", to Rongcheng, but rather let it continue to stay there. In the North District of Shenzhen Beishan District Science and Technology Park, on the seventh floor of Block A of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Industry-Academic-Research Base Building.
"Whenever Zhizi Hi-Tech has its own territory and builds its own administrative building and industrial park, let's move these core institutions and departments into a pile." Sitting on the boss's chair where Yan Ming used to sit, Li Jingran sketched the future blueprint of Sophon Hi-Tech in his mind. In his mind, it would be comparable to the headquarters of Google or Apple, covering an area of ??hundreds or thousands of acres, with beautiful environment, advanced technology, and integrating production, learning, and research. It is a multi-functional comprehensive high-tech industrial park!
The day after Zhiguan Voice Data Center was acquired by Zhizi Hi-Tech, they received the latest task from the group president Li Jingran, which was to comprehensively enrich and improve English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese, There are speech databases in ten languages ??including Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Korean, focusing on enriching and improving the speech data of English, a common language in the world. Li Jingran's promise to them was to recruit people and give them money, so just work hard and do it with confidence!
After listening to Li Jingran's heroic declaration, a group of employees who had been worried about whether the new owner would "take action" or "operate" on them, especially the technicians and analysts at the bottom, finally gave up. A restless heart.
These professionals who study acoustics, because their studies are too professional, are not like those old oilies and old oil sticks who are engaged in sales. As long as they have a little brighter brains, they can be successful everywhere. They have their own place to stay; professionals like them are different. It is quite difficult to find a job that matches their needs and pays well. Once found, everyone cherishes it and will not easily change jobs - even if they can't. Come on, the major is too partial and narrow, and only a few specific industries are needed. Moreover, the industry is still in recession and getting worse. In addition, in China, the "favors" that do not pay attention to scientific research and originality and only value copycats and relationships are eager for quick success and quick benefits. "In society, it is really difficult to find a satisfying job where you can use your knowledge after changing jobs!
The technicians in the company are also very aware of the recent sharp drop in the company's business volume and the decline in performance. Otherwise, the original Mr. Yan would not have sold the company.?So the technicians on the ground floor were worried.
Now, not only has the new owner not laid off anyone, but it has also increased investment, giving them a big task and a big order that will take several years to complete. These low-level technicians are like eating. After receiving a reassurance, the mind that was thinking about things and worrying about gains and losses suddenly stopped.
After testing by professionals from Zhizi Voice Data Center, the test results of the three microphone samples were quickly delivered to Li Jingran¡¯s desk.
"Mr. Li, this is the detailed test report sent by the speech laboratory." Gan Fuqiang, the new general manager of Zhizi Voice Data Center, led two testers to open the original general manager Yan Ming's office, which has now been changed to the CEO's office. In the president's office, a test report with pictures and text was respectfully placed in front of the young boss's desk.
"Well, it's out? I can't understand these things. Lao Gan, you'd better ask our technician to explain it to me." Li Jingran smiled and said to Gan Fu, who was standing respectfully in front of him, "Hey, you all sit down. , What are you doing standing here? My office doesn¡¯t sell standing tickets!"
"I can't understand" must be self-effacing. In order to understand the company's first new product, Li Jingran has recently acquired a lot of knowledge about acoustics and microphone principles, structure, materials and workmanship. Generally speaking, People really can't fool him.
At this time, Li Jingran, who claimed to "cannot understand", was flipping through the test reports issued by the laboratory, listening to the technician's explanation, nodding from time to time, and occasionally asking questions.
The results of the test report are:
In terms of acoustic performance, Japan¡¯s Sony ranks first, Audio-Technica ranks second, and Germany¡¯s Heissendel ranks last. The Japanese are world-leading in electronics and microelectronics. Even Germany's Heisendel has to import many microelectronic components and control chips from Japan. Therefore, Li Jingran was not surprised when he heard this ranking. Not surprisingly.
In terms of workmanship, the two Japanese companies are also more sophisticated than the Germans.
However, in terms of structural strength, Germany¡¯s Heisendel is superior to the two Japanese samples. The testers conducted a test. They threw Hessendel's samples from the second floor to the ground floor ten times in a row. Except for some scratches on the surface, there was no structural damage and there was almost no damage to the sound quality. Its strength can be seen from this.
As a computer peripheral, a microphone that is mainly plugged into a computer does not have high requirements for the strength of the microphone. However, for the first physical product he launched, Li Jingran did not want to lower the requirements in any aspect. Not making money is the second priority, but the concept of "Sophon products must be high-quality products" must be carried out from beginning to end!
You absolutely cannot settle for nothing!
Li Jingran asked Guo Chun to send letters to the three manufacturers, asking them to improve the defects of their samples according to their own requirements and send samples for the second time.
Microphones are gadgets. When they first made samples for Li Jingran, several manufacturers not only made one sample, but five or six. Therefore, they only needed to perform some minor operations on the ready-made samples to meet the customer's needs. Just ask.
A week later, the three manufacturers sent samples as scheduled.
This time, the test of the voice data center showed that the samples from the three companies were about the same in terms of performance and structural strength, and could meet Li Jingran's "harsh" and "weird" requirements.
However, Li Jingran did not take seriously the "complaints" of the Germans and Japanese. To say it was weird, he also admitted that it was "unheard of" like the microphone he ordered that was as sensitive as an ordinary monitor. In the eyes of Germans and Japanese, this kind of microphone was almost impossible to If used, there will definitely be "constant noise" by then. If Li Jingran hadn't given each of the three companies a deposit of 500,000, they would have thought someone was playing a prank on them!
But he would never admit it when he said it was "harsh". Compared with the rigorous and meticulous spirit of the Japanese and Germans in treating their products, that is really "harsh" and the real pursuit of excellence. How can his small requirements be considered "harsh"? At most, it can only be said to be more serious!
Since the performance is almost the same, all you have to do is look at the quotation. The one with the lowest price will get it, and the price will be the final word!
Sony¡¯s highest quote: 219 yuan/piece!
Next is Heisenel: 210 yuan/piece!
The cheapest one is Audio-Technica: 205 yuan/piece!
In the end, Japan¡¯s Iron Triangle had the last laugh!
The next step is to sign an order contract with the Greater China Branch of Japan's Audio-Technica. According to the original promise, Tomoko Hi-Tech's first batch of orders reached 50,000!The total contract value is 10.25 million!
The delivery time specified in the contract between Tomoko Hi-Tech and Audio-Technica is 30 days. It's already early April, which means that the fastest time to market for Sophon Microphone, the first physical product of Sophon Hi-tech now named "Voice Elf", is not possible until early May!