Chapter 2465: The pattern must be large

"Acquire a company?"

Lang Hongjun was startled by Ye Chen's words and said, "Mr. Ye, if we want to acquire a communication company with a sufficient foundation, the cost will be at least over one billion US dollars. Won't the investment be too high? I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve profitability..."

Ye Chen shook his head and said, "Profitability is not the most important thing. How to solve our urgent needs is the most important thing."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "Our biggest pain point at present is that time is tight. Let alone a year or a month, even a day or an hour must be fought for. Time is far more important than money."

Ye Chen paused slightly and continued, "If you want to develop rapidly at a speed beyond ordinary people, you must change the thinking mode of only solving immediate needs. If you don't have people or can't recruit people, and you are still stuck on how to solve the problem of recruiting people, it is basically difficult to accomplish big things."

"The premise of doing big things is that the pattern must be large enough. When those big enterprises face the same problem, they won't think about how to build a team from scratch and then develop a product. The solution they think of first is to buy suitable products on the market directly."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "Elon Musk won't waste precious time and energy to build a Twitter himself. Buying Twitter directly is the most economical for him. Actually, we are the same. If we still need to recruit employees one by one, the variables in this are really too big. Even if you expect to solve the problem in two years, once there are changes in personnel, this time will become indefinitely long."

"First of all, the recruitment cycle is definitely longer than expected. If you originally planned to recruit enough people in three months, the actual time might be at least half a year or longer."

"Secondly, personnel stability is insufficient. A team recruited in a few months still needs at least a few months to cultivate. But once the newcomers who have been painstakingly cultivated suddenly want to resign, these few months of time may be wasted in vain. From recruitment to training, half a year of hard work will be thrown into the river. At that time, we will have no other way but to do this process all over again from the beginning."

"Also, employees are not just about stability. The premise of stability is that they must have enough ability to deal with their work. This requires us to invest unknown trial-and-error costs. If we choose the wrong person, everything will have to be done all over again."

"In this way, even three years may not be able to achieve the goal we want to achieve."

"Moreover, doing things has always been about going all out. If you stumble and bump from the beginning, the loss of spirit and confidence is beyond imagination, and it must be difficult to grow big and strong."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen looked at Lang Hongjun and said seriously, "Although you are full of fighting spirit now, brother, if you really encounter various difficulties in the early personnel stage, after a year or two, you yourself won't have this energy anymore."

Lang Hongjun pondered for a moment, nodded lightly, and sighed, "You are right. Spirit and confidence are consumed more and more. By the end, the whole person is depressed. I was like that before. I was fired from my first job, and I didn't think it was a big deal. After all, I had real talent and learning, and finding a job would definitely not be difficult. But I didn't expect that one after another, the setbacks finally wore away all my fighting spirit..."

Speaking of this, Lang Hongjun suddenly froze on the spot, muttering in his mouth, "I was like this, from a high-spirited communication expert, step by step transforming into a seaman willing to do hard labor in Mexico..."

Ye Chen smiled slightly and asked, "Brother, which company was the job with the highest salary you had?"

Lang Hongjun said hurriedly, "It was an old-fashioned communication company in the United States."

Ye Chen asked again, "What is the current market value of that company?"

Lang Hongjun thought for a while and said, "The company was very popular a few years ago. The market value exceeded 10 billion US dollars at its peak. But as the bubble kept bursting and performance kept declining, when I was fired, the market value should have been only a little over 1 billion."

Ye Chen nodded and asked him, "How is the foundation of this enterprise?"

Lang Hongjun said, "The foundation in terms of software and hardware technology is very good, but the reason why it has gone downhill over the years is mainly because the market direction was not found correctly. The person in charge wrongly judged the development direction of the communication market. Later, they gradually killed their own to-c business, and then turned to eating their old capital, turning to provide hardware equipment and technical support for other communication enterprises."

Ye Chen said happily, "That is just suitable for us. If its business was doing very well and the market value was very high, it would be difficult for us to take it down. Moreover, after taking it down, the to-c business would also involve a lot of our energy. But now that it specializes in hardware equipment and technical support, isn't it just suitable for serving us? After all, we don't pursue setting up a new communication company in the world. We just hope to establish our own communication network as soon as possible."

Lang Hongjun nodded and said, "If combined with our situation, it is indeed very suitable. Many technologies of this company can be used directly when we take them over. Moreover, almost all that is left in this company are scientific research personnel. Although the market is a mess, the R&D strength cannot be underestimated."

Ye Chen said without hesitation, "That's it! Brother, pack up and return to the United States with me immediately!"

Lang Hongjun said in surprise, "Return to the United States? Mr. Ye, I just arrived here a few days ago, and I haven't sorted out anything yet..."

Ye Chen said, "It is more important to buy your old employer as soon as possible. After arriving in the United States, you go directly to talk to the boss of this company about the acquisition. Didn't you say its market value is about a little over 1 billion US dollars? As long as he is willing to sell, I can pay up to 2 billion US dollars. As for how much it can be negotiated, it depends on your ability, brother."

Lang Hongjun was dumbfounded and blurted out, "Mr. Ye... do you really want to buy that company?"

"Yes," Ye Chen nodded firmly and said, "Buy it, and let it design satellites for us. Since it has ready-made technology, it should be able to design the satellite in a few months, right? Then produce it for a few months, and it can be launched in the first half of next year."

Lang Hongjun said excitedly, "It doesn't need that long! That company itself is developing communication satellites for many big companies, and both technology and supply chain are complete. If we can successfully acquire them, we only need to make certain customized adjustments on the original basis, and we can put them into use. At the fastest, within three months, we can develop our own communication satellites according to our own needs."

As he spoke, Lang Hongjun added, "If we reserve the launch quota from the commercial launch company now, at the fastest, our own satellites can enter orbit this autumn and winter!"

Hearing this, Ye Chen said without hesitation, "Good! Too good! Brother, you go back to the United States with me this time, you must overcome all difficulties and take this company down!" ===== CHAPTER 2466 =====