Chapter 354 I will form the head
Help?
Mai Wen narrowed his eyes, is this issue going to be put on the table so soon?
Because of Academician Ni's statement, it is actually difficult for Mai Wen to raise a question that should have been raised long ago:
How to cooperate.
There are many kinds of "cooperation", but basically one word cannot escape - interest.
Research and development is a money-burning activity, and there may not necessarily be benefits. Academician Ni once optimistically wanted to tie the research and development work of domestic systems with the company's money-making to form a virtuous cycle.
I spend money on research and development, and the things I develop allow you to make further money. You can invest the money you earn to continue research and development.
It sounds wonderful, but one condition must be met, making more money than spending money.
The management of an enterprise will not allow themselves to see a project continue to burn money but fail to make any money. They like to paint cakes for others, but they cannot take a bite of the cakes given to them by others.
Because of the particularity of Li Yan's identity - in the eyes of most people, he is first a genius boy, then a student, and then the actual helmsman of future technology.
Even the label "manufacturer of mobile phones" ranks higher than "company owner".
So the "cooperation" mentioned by Academician Ni in major news reports basically assumes that it is academic research cooperation, but it is obvious that after the "Hetu System" is completed, it will definitely be given to Li Yan It is commercially used by the company Future Technology.
You can’t just publish a paper and be done with it.
In addition, issues such as commercial confidentiality will also be involved. After this research reaches the results, what can be gained for Academician Ni’s team and Mai Wen himself?
It is indeed a problem.
Only by clarifying this can we answer Li Yan’s question.
“Maybe we should talk about cooperation methods first and make it clear.” Professor Mai said.
At this time, the aroma of food was already wafting in the conference room, and the atmosphere was very comfortable.
Many people are still chatting about what dishes they like and have already entered a state of rest.
"This is simple. Our common name is the Research and Development Achievements Agency. You can use this project to apply for funds and select awards, but I only need to use the finished product on my mobile phone."
Maiwen tapped lightly with his fingers. on the desktop.
“I only have one request, that is, this result belongs to both our units, so the disclosure and sale must be approved by both units.”
In other words, as long as If Future Technology doesn’t want to sell it, this system will always belong to Future Technology only.
"How much can you provide in terms of funds?" asked a middle-aged man sitting next to him.
After all, money was involved. He Zixiang stared at Li Yan. He was also curious about how much Li Yan was willing to pay for Academician Ni's team - or, in other words, how much he needed to pay.
"Wang Gong, do you want to become employee No. 16 of Future Technology?"
The four people on Li Yan's side were stunned.
But Mai Wen smiled.
Wang Gong glanced at Mai Wen, just yelled twice and passed by.
"Professor Mai, I don't like to play tacit terms. Cooperation requires sincerity. I will clarify my position and thoughts, and you can give me a clear answer."
The sound of eating is loud. Smaller.
"Well, you say." Maiwen put down his chopsticks.
“As far as the Hetu system research and development project is concerned, we have a cooperative relationship. We are not entrusting the Cursor Lab to make products, nor are we hiring or even recruiting people from the Cursor side to participate in the project. Cooperation is about the cooperation between each party. Learn from each other's strengths and share the results."
Mai Wen nodded.
"I won't say much, but I am bearing the real cost of research and development of this project. If the progress is unfavorable, you can jump out of the project at any time, but I have to hit the wall all the way. Without your participation, I will still find other talents to carry out research and development. , and if I hadn’t started this project, would you have spent all your research funds on it?”
Mai Wen took a sip of water.
“So, Professor Mai, I think that at least in the cooperation of this project, there is no option for us to provide financial support to you. Future Technology will invest money in the R&D outlet. This money is both for me and for It's for you. I definitely can't answer the specific value now."
"The research and development results belong to us?" Mai Wen asked.
“These can be stated in the cooperation agreement, and we can discuss it in depth at that time.” Li Yan said, “Or when that time comes, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for me to buy it out at a price agreed upon by both parties.”< br>
Mai Wen took a deep breath, opened and closed his mouth slightly.
In fact, in the final analysis, the most critical point when it comes to cooperation to produce shared results is whether the levels of both partners are equal and complementary.
Obviously, in Mai Wen's eyes, the current R&D capabilities of Li Yan's team do not match the technical support he can provide.
If I contribute 90%, you can give me ideas, and then share the results. I will use it as an honor, and you can use it to make mobile phones and make a lot of money...
So wasn’t I being prostituted for nothing?
What is the essential difference between this and hiring them to do work?
Li Yan did bear the risk of wasting money if he failed to succeed, but he was the one who started the business, so he should take the risk himself.
There is no need to talk to Mai Wen about how meaningful this research is. Scholars, experts and researchers are all human beings, and we do things for money.
Only when you have money can you pursue further pursuits. It is meaningless to talk about ideals without money.
Academician Ni’s status is that of a national scholar. Of course he has his own pursuits.
In Mr. Ni's view, as long as Li Yan's domestic system can be developed to prevent problems before they occur and prevent Western countries from taking the lifeline of information security, that will be enough.
Maiwen is not!
However, this time, he can be regarded as representing Mr. Ni. He cannot make decisions on many things and cannot express his position, which is why he seems so entangled.
Then Li Yan pushed the information of employees No. 6 to 15 to him.
"Professor Mai, these are talents with sufficient technical level and accumulated experience in the mobile phone industry, mobile phone system development field and even smart phone research. I think, at least in the mobile phone system development we are going to do, In the field, we can each take what we need, right?”
The people inside exceeded Mai Wen's expectations.
“You even called Cao Haibin?”
“Well, I agreed readily.”
“He is a famous madman, be careful.” Mai Wen raised his eyebrows.
"No problem, he said I'm crazier than him." Li Yan smiled.
……OK.
"Well, I will talk to Teacher Ni later and let his opinion prevail."
Li Yan smiled. At this point, it can be said that he has won.
The way Mai Wen looked at Li Yan had completely changed. He thought Li Yan was a very pure technology fanatic, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult to deal with.
From the beginning to the end of the cooperation between New Taipei Cursor Laboratory and Future Technology, the decision-making power did not lie with Mai Wen, but with Academician Ni, who was overly aggressive on the outside but had internal arrangements.
Mai Wen didn't expect that he wanted to find out Li Yan's secrets but was shown off. He wanted to show off his muscles but couldn't show them off for a long time. He wanted to get some R&D funds but was blocked by Li Yan.
Because the point he relied on most, "Li Yan very much needs their technical support," was not true.
"Okay, happy cooperation." Li Yan said with a smile, "After dinner, I would like to ask Professor Mai to tell us, what kind of help can you provide to our mobile phone system research and development?"
Mai Wen then came to his senses, co-authoring Li Yan’s words was a kind of inspection of them!
Does this brat still have the option of "not cooperating with Cursor Labs"?
No wonder Cao Haibin, the legendary maniac in the tech circle who refused to be an electronics factory executive in the 1990s and once sold blood to make a living, recognized him... Li Yan's madness is different from the wildness of most people. His confidence stands on Very high.
It is an exaggerated self-confidence that "regardless of whether I have your support or not, I am enough", even if it is expressed very restrainedly, this kind of "will love come or not" The sense of freedom still makes those who talk to him feel quite stressed.
The discussion continued for another afternoon.
Li Yan indiscriminately made everyone at Cursor Lab experience a wave of high-pressure interviews.
In terms of professional ability alone, especially in the small field of system development, Li Yan is definitely not comparable to Mai Wen.
Forget about Mai Wen, just pick the one with the most marginal level and the worst level in the row opposite. The current Li Yan can't compare.
The reason is simple, the difference in experience value.
Essentially it is information gap.
The information gap is a great weapon in the workplace. The superiors manage the subordinates, and the old suppress the newcomers. The core lies in these three words.
That's why there are so many young people who far exceed their superiors in terms of IQ level, theoretical knowledge, and technical ability, but they become idiots after entering the company.
I have studied a certain field but you have not. It doesn’t matter whether your brain is better than mine, your academic qualifications are better than mine, and your status is higher than mine. You will definitely show your timidity when talking about this field.
Li Yan has relatively little exposure to the field of computer system development, and has seen fewer problems than Mai Wen has solved personally.
If we really talk about it in detail, I’m afraid that asking a hundred questions is just to show off how awesome the Maiwen team is.
So Li Yan specifically asked about the mobile phone system. For example, what should be done to meet a certain functional requirement of the Hetu mobile phone system?
Li Yan occupies a favorable information gap for this kind of problem. They have built mobile phone systems themselves and know the difficulties in operation, but Mai Wen does not know.
Even if these difficulties are not worth mentioning based on the technical level of the Maiwen team, as long as they formally participate in the development of mobile phone systems, they do not have the conditions to face them directly at the meeting.
Looking at Li Yan leading the discussion and setting the pace so that the Maiwen team looked embarrassed, employees No. 2 to 5 of Future Technology were still cheerful.
I didn’t realize that Li Yan could apply this method to company management and become a terrible boss.
But there is really no need for them to worry. As long as these guys are willing to trust Li Yan "naively", Li Yan will definitely give them enough rewards.
The meeting didn't end until dinner time. Li Yan was originally going to invite Maiwen's team to dinner, but Maiwen's team obviously had a lot of things on their mind and was not in the mood to eat.
After they left, the initial five members of Future Technology returned to Li Yan's office, and a burst of cheers suddenly broke out.
“Mr. Yan is so handsome!” Deng Yudi clenched his fists and shouted, “We were the ones leading the whole process!”
“Is that us taking the lead? That’s Mr. Yan taking the lead, Alone!" Lai Yining sighed, lying down on the sofa, but immediately jumped up like an electric shock.
"Everyone, relax." Li Yan sat on the office chair and closed his eyes to rest. "Today is not a big event. The real issue of benefit distribution will have room for discussion after results are produced. There will be no room for discussion in the afternoon. As I said, a team from Professor Mai will be assigned to work here from tomorrow, and a few people should be in place next week, so we can all get along well.”
"We only have a little more than a month left, and we have to go to Beijing at the end of August." Deng Yudi was actually a little sad, "I even thought about studying in high school for one more year and doing this project with you."
"I want to go to Beijing too. I'm in school," Li Yan said.
Everyone was a little uncomfortable at once, and almost asked "What else are you going to school for?", but they immediately realized that this guy is still the number one in the Youth Excellence Class of BGI...
"Be a student during the day and CEO at night?" He Zixiang muttered, "Okay, okay, Chen Fan, you have to keep an eye on our Mr. Yan, this will make us more eye-catching in school and please the girls!"
"You don't know that he and Yi Li..." Chen Fan felt the cold pressure halfway through his sentence and quickly stopped.
This man was busy with his career recently, and he didn't even have the chance to meet the beautiful senior sister during the summer vacation. Maybe he was feeling depressed. Chen Fan successfully convinced himself.
In fact, Li Yan and Wei Yunzhi had a great time chatting in private. Li Yan didn’t talk to her about work at all, but talked about novels, painting, and life, so it was time to take a rest. .
In the hot August, Li Yan’s Future Technology finally gathered its first batch of employees.
Zhou Yang has a long work handover process - in fact, it is very difficult for Dai Li Company to recruit another such person. In addition, Li Yan is currently in the system development stage, and there is no need for Zhou Yang to participate in the work, so for the time being Let him work Dai Li now, and Li Yan will consult him if necessary, and let him do some preliminary preparation work.
Li Guangde agrees. At present, he is basically directly connected to Li Yan, and there is no need to sit on the shift.
Anyway, these two big guys are not asking for money. When they are needed later, it is enough that they can do their best for the common goal.
There is also Liu Liwei, who showed his face on the first day of joining the company and has been running around since then. He was directly recommended to Li Yan by Dong Zhenchang, the boss of Guard Map.
Liu Liwei is the youngest among the ten people recruited by Li Yan this time, only 26 years old.
I have been researching mobile phone software in advance since college. They are the special talents recruited by Dong Zhenchang for Wei De mobile map. Since the old Dong himself has reached verbal cooperation with Li Yan, and Liu Liwei is from Linjiang, he might as well just Just a favor as a favor.
“Anyway, it helped me a lot in the end.” Dong Zhenchang said.
This buddy formed a mobile phone software development team during college, but he died because he didn't know who would dominate the world of smartphone systems in the future.
So now he is grateful to Dong Zhenchang and Li Yan from the bottom of his heart. He feels that his value has been affirmed and he has been given a stage to perform.
Li Yan offered him a salary of eight thousand a month and she was so happy that she even said thank you.
It can be seen that there is a need for a stage for self-expression...
The remaining seven people are all the technical backbones related to system research and development.
Sun Miao was one of them. Because he hesitated for a few days, he lost his job number No. 06, and the position was replaced by Shang Jie, a researcher at a technological state-owned enterprise in Xin'an City who readily agreed.
Sun Miao himself is No. 07, No. 08 is Zhou Yang, and No. 09 is Cao Haibin who was picked up by Mai Wendan. He is also the other two talents that Li Yan found to go to Beijing.
A man worked in an electronics factory to become a senior executive and then resolutely left his job to enter real estate. After getting a small fortune, he then crossed over to open a store in the famous fake phone center in Xin'an City, and then was poached by an upstart in the mobile phone industry to become the deputy chief engineer. , a madman who resigned decisively because of different development concepts and declared that he was going to start his own mobile phone factory.
Bald head, very strong, looks like a promiscuous person.
Cao Haibin claims that he understands "the entire production line of a mobile phone", claiming that "give me a day, I will help you buy all the parts of a mobile phone and assemble it with bare hands for you to see", and also said that he " It’s not the rubbish of those mobile phone integrators in the copycat phone center”…
Anyway, if his words are not shocking, then he will die, but for the sake of being poached by mobile phone manufacturers, he should not be an "integrator" who only engages in appearance design.
What Li Yan likes about this buddy is his familiarity with the entire mobile phone black market industry chain and the resources he may have at his disposal.
And he has a reckless energy, which is very suitable for bringing vitality to start-up companies. Talents who are too technical can easily fall into a state of not daring to try and make mistakes. It is not bad to have such a devil to stir things up.
As for how Li Yan brought this guy back... It's very simple. The way to deal with a madman is to use your strength to fly.
Cao Haibin is forty years old. He has been saying that he is a genius and learns things very quickly.
Compare learning... Li Yan has never been afraid of anyone.
He didn't need to show anything to Cao Haibin. He just introduced himself - that is, told all the results, commonly known as showing off - and then handed him his ID card.
The age of fifteen years old speaks for itself. Mastering so many skills and achieving so many results in such a limited time can only be for one reason - he learns things quickly.
Later, Cao Haibin officially joined the team on the grounds that "Li Yan is better than me", and he only wanted salary, saying that although he didn't do it for money, he couldn't do it without money.
No. 10 is Liu Liwei, No. 11 is Li Guangde, and No. 12 to 15 are all technicians from Xin'an.
The overall ability is relatively average, but each has its own specialties.
One week after they got together, in mid-August, Li Yan suffered from insomnia.
When such a group of guys, whose minds are as bright as the stars in the sky, and who don’t regard Li Yan as their boss, get together, let alone meetings, they usually work together to do research, or even sit together. Having lunch can make Li Yan dizzy.
As the actual helmsman of future technology, Li must do something.
(End of this chapter)