Society owes me a brother

On the morning of the eighth day, at 09:30, in the meeting room of the Mordun headquarters.

The long conference table is like a trench, separating the negotiating parties.All members of Modun gathered, while Lu Chi and Yue Bin were absent from the negotiation on the campus network.The two sides sat at the negotiating table and stared at each other.After a moment of silence, the CEO of Mordun cleared his throat, asked slowly in a rather reserved but unconcealed tone: "So, a week has passed, I don't know your second How is the detailed due diligence done?"

On the campus network side, no one has answered the call yet. The head of R&D department of Modun couldn’t wait to say “ha” and said complacently: “Mike, why do you ask why you know it? If they really caught the handle of Modun, would not sit here, but simply leave the negotiating table."

The head of the R&D department of Modun directly quoted what Yue Bin said a week ago. Needless to say, the irony in it made all the negotiators of Modun laugh tacitly.

Seeing this, the head of the R&D department of Modun straightened his shoulders even more proudly, and continued to ask: "Speaking of which, why didn't I see Mr. Yue and Mr. Lu? Could it be because I messed up the negotiation, I'm sorry to appear here Bar?"

"That's unnecessary." Another shareholder of Moldun said with a smile: "Although Mr. Yue was stubborn and caused us to waste a week's precious time, young people made mistakes, and even God will forgive them. Moldun is not a winner. Unforgiving—”

The shareholders of Modun hadn't finished speaking, only a "bang", the door of the meeting room was opened, Yue Bin, Lu Chi, and a row of people in black suits and leather shoes holding cardboard boxes walked into the meeting room. The air current was like an invisible big hand, clutching the neck in an instant, the shareholders of Modun were intimidated by the aura erupted by this group of people, they couldn't say anything, and their faces were flushed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, all Mordun negotiators," Yue Bin stood at the front of the conference room, nodding politely to everyone, "I know, because we proposed to restart the detailed due diligence process before. Many people in Moldun, including grassroots employees, are very dissatisfied. They think that our actions have seriously hurt the feelings and pride of Moldun. But it turns out that as long as it is in work, a rigorous attitude will always be Commendable."

The "demonstration" that Yue Bin pointed at immediately shocked the MoDun representative who was originally complacent.A group of people looked at each other a little uneasy, whispering to each other.

However, Yue Bin didn't care about everyone's mood at all. He waved his hand, and the black suit standing behind him immediately stepped forward, took out a stack of documents from the cardboard box, flicked his wrist and raised his arm, a personnel contract Like skating, he swished and slid in front of everyone.

The negotiators of Mordun looked at each other, with a bad premonition in their hearts.

The CEO of Mordun picked up a contract and opened it. He was stunned and asked, "Isn't this the personnel contract of our Mordun employees?"

"It's the personnel contract of the Mordun employees." Lu Chi, who was standing beside Yue Bin, confirmed, "It's also the personnel contract of the main researchers of the R&D department of Mordun—including Leo Hagen, the head of the R&D department."

The head of the R&D department, whose name was called by Lu Chi, straightened his upper body uncomfortably, crossed his hands on the table, and leaned forward, trying to oppress the enemy.He asked toughly: "Is there something wrong with these contracts?"

"Of course there is nothing wrong with the contract itself." Yue Bin crossed his arms over his chest, glanced at Leo Hagen, paused, and said, "The one who has the problem is the person who signed the contract."

"This is impossible!" Without waiting for Leo Hagen to speak, the CEO of Mordun immediately said: "Leo and his R&D team are the core team of our Mordun. Most of the people are here. They struggled with Modun, and they developed all models of Modun digital. Does Mr. Yue want to say that Leo and his R&D team betrayed Modun?"

"With all due respect, I really don't see any problem with their personnel contracts. In fact, these contracts are drawn up by the top lawyers in country M with reference to the culture and industry rules of Mordun. Whether it is confidentiality clauses or other clauses, They all have complete legal benefits." The human resources director of Mordun went through several contracts one by one, but still couldn't find any problems in the end, so he couldn't help but wondered: "Mr. Yue, Mr. Lu, what are you trying to say?" ?”

Fortunately, Yue Bin didn't mean to play tricks.Tapping the table with his slender fingers, Yue Bin said straight to the point: "Look at the length of these contracts."

The negotiators of Mordun turned to the page of the contract period.The human resources director of Mordun was even more confused: "These contracts have not expired." All the contracts still have half a year to one year to expire.

Generally speaking, for valued employees and managers, the company will negotiate the renewal of the contract six months to one year in advance before the contract of these people expires.For employees who have made significant contributions—especially core technical personnel, when the other party develops a new technology, they will re-sign a more favorable contract to ensure that the company can retain talents.

As we all know, the R&D team of Mordun developed a new technology that can be applied to the business-connected handheld computer half a year ago. It is said that once this new technology is applied to products, it can even cause changes in the field of digital electronics.It is precisely because of the emergence of this new technology that the troubled Morgan Dun has the confidence to renegotiate, which directly led to the first breakdown of the acquisition negotiations between Morgan Dun and the Smith family.

According to industry practice, Modun should have re-signed a more generous contract with Leo's R&D team.But at that time, it was an important juncture in the acquisition negotiations between Morgan Dun and the Smith family. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Morgan Dun was at the moment of life and death.Where do you have the time and energy to think about the contract.Besides, Leoja is the founding partner of Mordun, and most of his R&D team are old people of the company—after many years, these researchers have been promoted to the position of senior managers because of their excellent technology and contributions. So no one thought that the founder and senior partner of the company would betray the company-it was a joke.

So even if Yue Bin clearly pointed out the issue of the contract period, the CEO of Mordun and other managers did not take it seriously, and even laughed lightly: "This is actually not a problem. Don't say that everyone's contract has not expired. Even if it expires, we can just renew the contract—as long as you can guarantee that the treatment after the renewal will not be worse than their original treatment."

"If you are really worried, we can renew the contract now." Mordun's human resources director shook his head amusedly. On such trivial matters.

Sure enough, they are a group of young people with little knowledge!

The human resources director of Mordun smiled slightly, and he even had the mood to snap his fingers, and ordered the sexy and beautiful female secretary: "Please go to the human resources department to get some new contracts. Maybe these contracts are a bit heavy and will be tiring. To your slender hands. But bear with me for a while—it's all worth it for the smooth progress of the acquisition."

"By the way, we have re-formulated the contract according to the internal benefits that the campus network can enjoy as agreed before. It is no problem for Leo and the others to sign according to this clause?"

Come out to work only for money.Even the shareholders and senior managers of Moldun cannot resist the charm of money.As a matter of fact, long before Lu Chi proposed the internal benefits of campus network employees, and before the negotiation team of Mordun decided to sign the contract, the human resources director and legal consultants of Mordun had secretly drawn up a new contract.Because everyone knows—without exception, this acquisition will be successful.

Yue Bin looked at many Modun executives and shareholders who seemed to be kept in the dark, raised his eyebrows, looked at each other with his friends, and said meaningfully: "Of course."

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly relaxed.Feeling that they were frightened, the Mordun representatives joked one after another.No one noticed that the person involved in the incident—Leo Hagen, the R&D director of Mordun, became very ugly after seeing the personnel contracts.

However, such anomalies were finally noticed by everyone.

When the blond and blue-eyed and beautiful female secretary returned to the conference room with a swaying figure in her eight-centimeter stiletto heels, holding a stack of new contracts, the human resources director smiled and teased Leo Hagen and his R&D team that they deserved to be MoDun. The core strength of the contract actually frightened the famous campus network and the financial geniuses on Wall Street because of the mere contract period, so that the buyer had to restart the detailed due diligence, and urged Leo Hagen to enter into a new contract with a proud face. Signed on the paper, but the director of the R&D department of Modun did not move for a long time, and even became pale with nervousness, and when big cold sweat broke out on his forehead, the whole conference room gradually fell silent.

Everyone, especially the senior managers and shareholders of Mordun, looked at Leo Hagen with complex expressions, an old partner who had been fighting with them for more than ten years, and a sense of consciousness was inexplicably awakened in their hearts.

Perhaps, Yue Bin's guess was right.

The CEO of Mordun was overwhelmed and covered his chest, with a forced smile on his face, trying to make his voice sound normal: "Hey, what's the matter, old man? Hurry up and sign. As long as you sign, the acquisition It’s a success. If Modun can get the money, all of us can get the money. We can also let the most glorious financial genius on Wall Street help us manage our assets... Isn’t this what we want most?”

Leo Hagen licked his dry lips and looked at his old friend with a sorry face.

Every night in the past, he fantasized about the scene after Mordun was acquired.However, none of the scenes are like today.

The CEO of Mordun took a deep breath, tapped his fingers on the new personnel contract, but fixed his eyes firmly on Leo Hagen's eyes: "Sign it, old man."

"He won't sign it." Yue Bin crossed his arms and looked at Leo Hagen, who was embarrassed and slightly ashamed, and said in a cold voice, "Because he has already received money from the Smith family."

"You betrayed us, you betrayed Modun." The CEO of Modun said in a calm voice, looking at his old friend who was instantly excited because of Yue Bin's words.

"I didn't betray Mordun!" Leo Hagen stood up suddenly, slammed his fist on the conference table, and retorted loudly: "I have said it long ago, the future of Mordun can only be saved by cooperating with the Smith family. You guys Why do you believe that a broken website that has been established for less than two years, and a group of kids who haven't graduated from college can save Mordun?"

"So you betrayed us and signed a contract with Smith privately?" Mordun's human resources director asked incredulously, "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything against the law!" At this point, Leo Hagen can only say stiffly: "Whether to renew the contract with the company, or which company to sign with is my freedom. The law protects my personal free."

In the blink of an eye, the Human Resources Director of Mordun was the first to react.He suddenly realized: "I see. All contracts are between half a year and a year. The agreement you reached with the Smith family must be paid by the Smith family to help you pay the liquidated damages, and then you bring the R&D team of Modun Jump directly to the Smith family... In return, you will hand over the new technology to the Smith family and let them establish a new digital brand."

According to the terms of the contract, the liquidated damages for Leo Hagen and his R&D team members range from 200 million M gold to 1000 million M gold per year according to their positions.The core members of the R&D team in Leohagen are only about ten in total. That is to say, the Smith family can get the new technology of Modun as long as they pay no more than 6000 million M in gold. The family's most coveted.

"The 6000 million M gold has been obtained from the new technology of Modun and the R&D team that Modun relies on most. The remaining problem of factory machinery and employee channels can naturally be solved satisfactorily with the financial resources and background of the Smith family. The most important thing is that we can It’s really worth the money if you cheat the campus network.”

In the negotiation team of the campus network, Zhang Yang, who had been silent for a long time, applauded slowly, Shi Shiran said: "At that time, I spent 3000 million and [-] million to buy a pair of empty shells, and there are still a few warehouses coming soon. The scrap copper, rotten iron and hard plastics that have been eliminated, and a campus network with a group of unskilled support staff have become the biggest joke of the year."

"It's impossible!" The human resources director of Modun, who is very familiar with the company's personnel terms, broke out in a cold sweat at Zhang Yang's words, and he was still trying to die: "...The new technology belongs to Modun, and we have applied for a patent. According to the contract It is impossible for them to jump to the Smith family with new technology, and if the Smith family uses the new technology of Modun, we have the right to sue them." Presumably the Smith family will not make such a stupid decision.

"This is Silicon Valley."

It seems that the senior managers of Mordun have been hit hard, so that Lu Chi felt a little sympathetic to them: "Leoha is originally the developer of new technology. According to his ability, bypassing the technology of Mordun How long will it take to redevelop a similar technology that has similar functions to the new technology but will not violate the patent law?"

The senior managers and shareholders of Mordun were stunned.No one expected that such a trivial negligence would lead to such disastrous consequences.

However, what the top managers and shareholders of Modun did not expect was that Leo and his R&D team were actually in the research institute of Modun, using the research strength of Modun, they developed a new technology that completely bypassed Modun. The technical expertise limits the same kind of technology.

No wonder Mordun and his R&D team have been stuck in the lab since the acquisition.In fact, due to the relationship of authority, except for Leo and his core members of the R&D team, outsiders have no right to enter Modun's base laboratory.

In other words, Leo and his R&D team betrayed everyone under the nose of everyone in Mordun.Play the entire Modun in the palm of your hand.

"How dare you do this? How dare you do this?" The CEO of Mordun and his old partners who have also struggled together for more than ten years looked at Leo Hagen in disbelief.Qi is about to suffer a heart attack.

In fact, not only Mo Dun, but even Lu Chi and others fell into a misunderstanding at the beginning.After all, according to the acquisition process, both buyers and sellers will pay more attention to financial, technical and legal documents. Who would have thought that the enemy would make a fuss about personnel contracts?

Thinking that he might also lose face and money to his little friends because of his negligence, Lu Chi gave Leo Hagen a cool look.Then, he snapped his fingers, and another man in a black suit stepped forward and took out a set of wiretapping equipment and a stack of communication records.

"This is the recording of the phone call between Mr. Hagen and Mr. Roll Smith Jr. in the last four months. I want to ask, does Morgan know that after the acquisition negotiations between you and the Smith family broke down, the head of the R&D department of Morgan still negotiated with the Smith family? Did the subject maintain private contact?"

As soon as Lu Chi finished speaking, Yue Bin had already pressed the start button.In an instant, the conversation between Leo Hagen and someone resounded throughout the conference room.

"They want to restart the detailed due diligence... Don't worry, I'm very careful, they won't think of it... There is absolutely no problem with the technology, I have developed similar technologies, all bypassing the patent restrictions of Modun... "

"After the signing ceremony ends tomorrow, I will formally propose a breach of contract...what, you also have to appear at the signing ceremony..."

Hearing the recording played on the computer, Leohagen looked at Yue Bin and the others uncertainly, gritted his teeth and said, "You listen to me? You actually listened to my private phone, you are violating my privacy—"

"Yes." Lu Chi nodded solemnly and admitted Leo Hagen's accusation: "You can sue me. But I want to explain that this monitoring document was delivered to my door this morning when someone knocked on the door."

Leo Hagen: "..."

Redman Scott, who has been watching the show in silence, seems to have finally thought about his task as a negotiator.He glanced at the Modun representative who was almost defeated under the serial attacks of Yue Bin and others, and said slowly: "So, should we discuss the development direction of this acquisition now?"

"Does the relevant department need to intervene?"

Following Redman Scott's words, the Mordun representative sitting on the negotiating table thumped in his heart at the same time.

After a long confrontation, Leohagen took a deep breath and asked through gritted teeth, "What do you want?"

Hearing this, Yue Bin and Lu Chi looked at each other and smiled.All the partners who had been waiting for this scene also laughed.

Roll Smith Jr., sitting in a limousine two blocks away from the Morton headquarters building, got a text.

He looked down at the short sentence on the text message, and after a long silence, he chuckled lightly: "Go back."