Age of Dreams

Danny Fadell is the creator of that, and the creator of the smart home company nextlabs in the previous life. He is a true genius.

After deciding to complete his work, and thoroughly understanding the drawings of the smart thermostat and smoke alarm that Xiao Qi gave him, and after the technical indicators passed, Fadell chose to resign without hesitation.

The leader of Qiao’s resignation had long been expected, but as he said to Tim Cook before, Apple can lack anyone, so after some retention was unsuccessful, he readily agreed. Fadell's resignation.

However, according to the rules of European and American companies, Fadell and his wife signed many documents before leaving to ensure that they would not leak Apple's technology, otherwise they would be punished by law.

For Fadell's departure, Qiao's gang leader is actually a little sorry, because Fadell is definitely a technical genius, and without him, many of Apple's research and development will be lost.

Fadel himself doesn't feel much regret. In research, as long as they are geniuses, they always have the habit of "loving the new and disgusting the old".They don't like to repeat one thing over and over, but like to constantly develop new things.

It happened to be at Apple that the leader of Qiao asked Fadell to continue to develop and follow-up products, and he did not want him to do the rest.This made Fadell very dissatisfied.

At this time, Xiao Qi came out with only thermostats and smoke alarms, and allowed Fadel to develop them at will, all of which were paid by Xiao Qi for the generous conditions. Fadell didn't want to go!

Xiao Qi is not worried at all about whether Fadel will develop all useless technologies in the future, because in this world, pure technical research and development personnel are basically extinct, and basically all that can survive is ideal and Realistic people.

Take a look at what Fadel did after leaving Apple!

It took four years for Fadell and his companion Matt Rogers to create these two big killers, the thermostat and the smoke alarm!

They are not only beautiful and concise, but also very practical. The U.S. government even grants subsidies to them, hoping that people will buy these two excellent furniture smart products.

It was because of seeing their actions to take into account the market that Xiao Qicai decided to give Fadell 20 shares and also 20 shares for Rogers.

For this, Xiao Qi only paid for the thermostat and smoke alarm created by the two, as well as $200 million in start-up funds.

The name of the company, after consulting Fadell, is still named nextlabs.

Except for the profit share of the thermostat and the smoke alarm, which is 10, the rest of their own inventions are distributed according to the shares.

This ratio is very appropriate.After all, in various countries, R&D personnel take so much, because the production, promotion, sales, etc. of products are all very complicated things, but this aspect of sharing is also necessary.

Xiao Qi didn't completely ignore this company. He had already hired a few professional managers through a headhunting company to take charge of sales. This was also agreed by Fadell and his wife in advance.

Being able to have unlimited R&D funds to do what you like to do, you can definitely make a lot of money. For Fadell, it is a very happy life. In xtlabs, Fadell is, but his wife Daniel has no more Taking up a job is just to do a good job of the family's logistics and take care of the daily life of the children and husband.

When Fadell sat in the office on the first floor of an office building also located in Silicon Valley, several professional managers had already started to hire R&D personnel and daily staff in accordance with Fadell's requirements.

Fadel knew that with Xiao Qi's financial resources and influence, many technical talents would give face, so from the beginning, he blatantly used the name of \"nextlabs under the fairy company\" to recruit people.

Ok.

When Fadell came this way, it became a bit loud.

Although in Silicon Valley, new companies are established every day, but this sign is hit, and everyone's eyes are instantly brightened.

The reason is very simple.Xiao Qi is not only a genius in the intelligent electronics industry, he also used a series of facts to prove that he is also an investment genius.

With regard to oil futures, Xiao Qi has severely taught the elites of Wall Street again and again. He has made billions of dollars and made several major investment banks afraid of gambling when they hear of oil.

In terms of investing in business, Xiao Qi is equally good.

Needless to say, we just sold oursquare shares for 2 billion U.S. dollars. Xiao Qi only paid 300 million U.S. dollars and about 5 months to prepare for the launch.

There is also this professional social networking site, which was estimated at 3.3 billion U.S. dollars a few months ago, but in May, due to the rapid increase in the number of visitors, registrations and active users, the valuation has once again risen to 4 billion U.S. dollars. Xiao Qi can't afford it. It is only 900 million U.S. dollars in total.

The remaining two are even more serious.

This in-flight accommodation company, with the support of Xiao Qi's huge funds, has developed at an unimaginable speed. Only some time ago, a dst venture capital company was willing to spend 1 billion US dollars in a share of 20, but it was rejected by Xiao Qi. It is said that there is The analysis company believes that reaching a valuation of 8 billion to 12 billion US dollars is not a problem at all. This is currently the largest mobile phone and social platform game company, because it occupies most of the game share of re and k and, so it is described as changing with each passing day. Its development is not exaggerated at all.

.[,! ] Under Xiao Qi’s instructions, a total of 13 games have been developed. Basically, the number of active players in each game exceeds 90 million, which is two or three times more than other companies!

no way.

This is just the beginning of smartphones and social networking games.So many classic games are playing together, and other games can only retreat.

For this reason, the valuation a few months ago was lifted by the Blackstone Group to 12 billion U.S. dollars, shocking the entire Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

But what shocked them even more was that Xiao Qi didn't sell it!

This shows that the value can be increased by billions of dollars! !

Think about it, Xiao Qi has invested in so many companies. All of them have made a lot of money, and now they have created a nextlabs company. Why not let the various institutions and engineers in Silicon Valley actively pay attention?

Who wouldn't want to ride Xiao Qi's ride?

Who wouldn't want to participate in an invention that can change the world?

Therefore, after the brand was put out, the number of engineers who came to nextlabs to apply for was almost overwhelming the office space.

Fadell was happy, but Joe's gang leader on the other side was not happy, and he swept over everything on the table!

Then, Gang Leader Qiao didn't care what Xiao Qi was doing in the earthquake relief work, so he made a phone call.

\"Let’s talk! Why do you want to seduce my people?\" Qiao Gang said viciously:\"Do you treat your friends like this?\"

\"Stephen, don’t you say it so creepy, okay?\" Xiao Qi was taken aback, and immediately knew the reason for his call:\" Fadel wanted to start his own business, I just happened to be right. Could it be you I still feel that if he doesn't do your product research and development, will it have much impact on you?\"

\"How can he compare to the entire Apple engineering team?\" Qiao Gang sneered.

\"Isn’t that all right?\" Xiao Qi said:\"Is there still less staff leaving Apple on weekdays? You just treat him as a normal resignation, isn’t it all right?\"

\"But before he resigned, did you guys get in touch? This is not compliant. \" Qiao helped the master grab a bit.

\"Please, Stephen, we are also good friends, right? Who resigned and changed jobs. Didn't make arrangements in advance? What do those headhunting companies do?" Xiao Qi retorted.

\"I don’t care, it’s wrong for you to be like this!\" Of course, the boss of Qiao Gang does not recognize the hidden rules of this industry.

\"Then you came to China, I'll apologize to you, shouldn't it be OK?" Xiao Qi quickly changed the subject: \"Let’s not talk about the trivial things, Stephen, do you remember our previous bet? ?\"

\"What's the right gambling?\" Qiao's helper immediately pretended to be stupid.

Xiao Qi won't let him go, \"We are gambling whether the sales volume of Dreamstars can exceed 50 million in half a year. It is May, and the total sales of Dreamstars since the end of December last year is 63 million. So right. Even if I win the bet! You promised my terms, shouldn’t it be fulfilled?\"

Helper Joe sighed dejectedly.

In order to obtain more shares in the app store, he signed this gambling treaty to Xiao Qi. If he wins, he will get 25 shares in the app store to purchase the right. If he loses, he can only buy 3 shares. Shares.

When the sales of Dreamstars reached 15 million units in April, Qiao's gang knew that he had lost. Xiao Qi officially mentioned it today, and it was inevitable that he felt a little frustrated.

Dreamstars can be in sales and popularity within a few months. On the same level, this is also where the Qiao gang feels a bit threatened and knows that he needs to be vigilant.

\"Well, Apple only buys 3 shares, I am willing to bet and lose!\" The leader of Qiao Gang gritted his teeth and said word by word.

\"It's not just that!\" Xiao Qi smiled and reminded him: \"You still owe me two conditions!\"

Helper Qiao took a breath of air-conditioning, and said angrily: "Xiao Qi, don't go too far!"

\"No, no! Stephen, I'm just taking back what belongs to me. \" Xiao Qi said in harmony: \"You won, I want to sell you 25 shares of the app store. You won You can also buy 3, if you don’t have these two conditions, how could you say I promised to bet against you? Didn’t I become a fool?\"

The anger of Qiao's gang leader rose, but he knew that Xiao Qi was right.

\"But don't forget, I promised you two things that don't violate your conscience. \" Gang Lord Joe is not pretending to be stupid now, and he also put forward the original restrictions, \" You said this sentence yourself.\ "

\"That's right!\"

Xiao Qi readily admitted: \"Then I will only talk about the first thing today. I hope I can take away an engineer from Apple in the form of buyout money.\"

Helper Qiao frowned again, feeling bad in his heart.

In Western society, it is a contracted society.

Like an important engineer, he will be bound by the company he works for with several terms, lest he sell the secrets of his company to others.

In addition to confidentiality clauses, many important engineers also have contract term clauses, which usually last for five years or ten years, so as to ensure that the engineers will work for themselves for a long time.

In addition to the confidentiality clause that cannot be broken, this contract term clause can be used to dig out the corner in the form of buyout money, which has always been the headhunting company. [,! ] It's all done, just buy out the rest of the contract and leave.

Of course, Xiao Qi wants to dig Apple's engineers, and this must be approved by Qiao's gang leader, otherwise it will be easy to cause trouble.

The previous Fadel was different.He had already left the category of ordinary people.He was a senior vice president, and this kind of high-level resignation was easier.

Qiao's helper said coldly: "Unexpectedly, you have such a deep mind! Tell me, who do you want to buy out?"

\"Intelligent chip engineer, Matt Rogers.\" Xiao Qi said: \"The loss to Apple is not great. For talents like him, you have so many apples!\"

Clan Leader Joe thought for a while, this Matt Rogers himself had an impression, he was a shy and talented person, but he was not one of the most prominent group of people.

But Gang Leader Qiao is not a fool.He knows that it is definitely unusual for Xiao Qi to ambush someone in advance.

\"I'll go back and think about it!\" The leader of the Qiao Gang decided to stand still and investigate first. After all, he and Xiao Qi are allies, but at the same time they are competitors.

Although he knows that Xiao Qi must have already talked to Rogers, but if Rogers really has outstanding talents that he hasn't discovered before, the Joe gang will still work hard to keep him!

\"Ok, please give me an answer as soon as possible.\" Xiao Qi smiled heartily:\"Stephen, you shouldn't be a credible person? Don't let me look down on you!\"

\"roll!\"

Joe's helper hung up the phone neatly.

The moment he hung up the phone, anger and annoyance appeared on Qiao's face.

\"Traitors! All a bunch of traitors!!!\"

There was such a roar in the office.

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