Global monopoly of technology

Bluestar Technology is very popular in the IT industry. Countless IT job seekers are the ideal place to work. They want to get in.

Although the company’s equity incentives are complicated and dozens of hundreds of pages of contracts are painful to see, it also shows that the distribution of compensation and benefits is handled clearly, and employees can get corresponding returns for how much value they contribute.

However, the company’s last elimination system is also cruel. The real talents go up and the mediocre ones go, but no two sides are sorry for each other, and the amount of performance they have done during the company’s tenure will get equal returns.

In fact, Luo Sheng is a very humane boss. Everyone now regards him as the number one idol. There are many ways to join the two technology companies he founded. High salary is one aspect.

On the other hand, for employees, it is "Côte d'Azur Insurance" and "Bluestar Technology Insurance". When an employee joins any of these two companies, the company will tell the employee:

The employee will have life insurance of 10 times the salary; if the employee’s wife dies accidentally, if there is no wife, the parents can get the employee’s salary for another 5 years, if there are children, the company will raise the employee until the age of 18; if If you are unable to work with a major illness or disability, the company will pay 75% of your salary for a lifetime or die and then pay life insurance.

This kind of welfare mechanism is currently enjoyed only by companies under Luo Sheng across the country, and in the world, only Google is doing this. It has also launched a similar "Google Insurance". The general welfare system is the same. The difference is that Google's life insurance is 5 times the salary, while Luo Sheng's company is 10 times the salary.

Both Bluestar Technology and the Blue Coast have a cruel elimination mechanism but still have a human touch. For example, if an employee of Bluestar Technology is eliminated due to the last elimination mechanism, the employee will continue to be paid monthly according to the salary standard during the employment period. , Until he finds the next job, but there is also an upper limit, up to six months.

It is very hard and stressful to follow Luo Sheng to fight, but Luo Sheng must also ensure that their efforts can get a satisfactory return, even if they are eliminated at the end because of their inability, they will help him as much as possible.

It is not like an Internet company, whose employees have not taken a day of sick leave for four to five years, and their performance during the period is also good, but in the case of terminal illness, they have personally experienced persecution, calculation, surveillance, framing, threats, and even being driven out by security the company.

The employees also want to fight for their ideals, but children, wives, and families can only rely on him. He doesn't want to be squeezed out of the last drop of blood and then thrown away like broken socks.They also want a guarantee that they may be fired or resigned due to work reasons one day in the future, but he does not want to worry about being abandoned when he works hard.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for everyone to squeeze their heads and want to fight with Luo Sheng. This comparison makes judgments against other companies.

...

In the meeting room.

"The annual meeting is scheduled for the weekend of the 16th of this month. Bluestar Technology and the employees of the Blue Coast will participate together." Luo Sheng looked around everyone and said, at this moment, half of the people have left the venue to take charge of their own work. George and the others are also They all left one after another.

As the boss and founder of the two companies, there is nothing wrong with having the annual meeting together. The early employees of the Blue Coast company were all transferred by Bluestar Technology. Taking a step back, the company has the final say and does whatever he wants. .

At present, there are more than 5,000 employees on the Blue Coast, and Bluestar Technology’s employees count as over 4,700 overseas employees, which adds up to tens of thousands.

Luo Sheng added: “Since the annual meeting is held together, even though the two companies were created by me, the accounting expenditures must be calculated clearly, otherwise the investors will trouble me and I will not speak loudly to them, and the confidence will be weak. So three points, let's calculate according to the proportion of the number of people. As for the annual meeting budget, three hundred million."

Three hundred million?

Hearing this number, the attendees were immediately dull. Xu Yong said with a look of stunned expression: "The budget for an annual meeting is 300 million? My God, if investors know about it, they will not trouble you, but will attack you with a kitchen knife. Up."

The people present at Xu Yong's words can't help but laugh. Others might not say so, but he is the co-founder of Bluestar Technology and the company's 002 employee.

Luo Sheng leaned back on the chairman's seat, and said calmly: "There is more than just work in our lives. What do we work hard for and earn money for? To connect the great mission of mankind? That's right, but also To experience life, don’t you have to spend money if you earn?”

After speaking, he looked around at everyone, Feng Yi who was present couldn't help but reminded weakly: "We don't seem to make any money yet, we have been spending VC money..."

Wen Yan Luo Sheng glanced at him: "I just decided to make money just now."

Everyone is slanderous, so sure to make 100% money?

Luo Sheng added: "No Bird VC, they can't control it. I have the final say, and the company has decided to make a profit. I don't plan to let the company conduct a D round of financing. There is no need to raise funds privately. So next year, we will go U.S. listed."

Everyone can't help being surprised when this remark is so sudden, this news is too sudden, next year?That was 2006.

"Don't talk about it everywhere, I will twitch him when someone leaked the news." Luo Sheng said, everyone nodded, but even if it was revealed, it was not a big deal.

Choosing to go public in 2006, Luo Sheng has his own plan. He has not forgotten the major events that will happen in 2007, the global financial turmoil triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.

In fact, Luo Sheng has been paying attention to relevant news from time to time during this period. Now, as long as you look at the top ten listed companies in the world by market value, you will find that the status of financial companies is climbing wildly. Citigroup, AIG, Bank of America, etc. Entering the top ten has faintly laid the groundwork for the future financial crisis.

After going public in the United States, the entrepreneurial team can have an opportunity to cash out on the day of the IPO, aiming to reward the entrepreneurial team for their contributions to the company.

Luo Sheng felt that if the global financial turmoil in 2007 did not go to North America to play a wave of real estate gambling or something, if such a huge opportunity were to be ignored, God would probably not spare him. Maybe a thunder would strike him back. Go in the future.

However, these are still too early. Luo Sheng put away his thoughts and immediately decided in the conference room. The total budget for the annual meeting was 300 million yuan. Bluestar Technology provided 145 million yuan in proportion, and the Blue Coast 155 million yuan.

Now the two companies are not short of money. Bluestar Technology received RMB 10.5 billion in Series C financing last year, and the Blue Coast company also happened to have Qin Weimu helped to obtain a loan of RMB 10.5 billion.

Rich is self-willed.

Luo Sheng settled the matter and only needed to explain. Someone would handle the following matters, and immediately began to seek third-party planning.

Sioux City currently does not have a large-scale gathering place, but it must be possible to set up the venue, but the time is not up. There is only a half-month preparation period. How can there be time to set up such a large venue?

Therefore, the venue of the annual meeting was not in Sioux City. Instead, the "80,000 people stadium" in Shanghai was selected and rented out as the venue for the annual meeting.

The Shencheng Stadium is also called the "80,000 Stadium", but it has 56,000 seats. Even so, it is too big for the joint annual meeting of Bluestar Technology and the Blue Coast. The total number of employees of the two companies can be 10,000. No, and it's impossible for all of them to be there. Someone is always needed to leave the operation and maintenance.

There is a reason to choose such a large venue, because it is necessary to set up tables in the venue, eat, drink and have fun. With a budget of 300 million, it is obviously a high-end route.

The company's annual meeting plan was officially announced on January 12, and the company was a sensation, and even this wind directly hit the entertainment industry, and there were reports in Europe and the United States.

Bluestar Technology once again made the headlines.

During the annual meeting, the company invited a top international symphony orchestra, not only that, but also invited popular singers at home and abroad to join the annual meeting. Three domestic singers were invited, Pan Weibo and two other female singers. singer.

What I have to say is that the past year, that is, the Chinese music scene in 2004, can be described as a year of fights between gods and immortals, with various hit singles emerging in endlessly, such as Pan Weibo's "Happy Worship", and Another Internet divine song "Mouse Loves Rice" that is popular in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as popular songs such as "Qilixiang" and "Persian Cat" are too numerous to list.

The appearance fees of these three domestic singers are not the most expensive, nor are they the most expensive.

This time the company’s annual meeting invited Avril Lavigne, the world’s most popular rock queen, and it can be said that she is one of the most popular female singers in the world so far.

The reason why Avril Lavigne was invited is because she is the most famous European and American female singer in the country so far. There is no one in this era. What kind of "mold" has not emerged in this era.

Avril Lavigne was also a big hit in China in 2004. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a European and American music enlightenment for many domestic music fans. With her early debut, in 2000, she was 16 years old and quickly became popular around the world with a song "Complicated".

Her posters are posted all over the walls of countless young people, and her music reverberates in TV, games, and young people's players on the streets.

There are mostly young people in the company, and the post-80s are the absolute main force. Most programmers are super fans of the rebellious rock witch who is too cool.

Nowadays, the Avril Lavigne fever is rising all over the world. I am only 21 years old this year. Among the current European and beautiful singers, he is one of the absolute face-to-face roles. With the most beautiful side face, the girls all over the world are imitating her highlights. , Her smoky makeup...

It's cool to the bone.

Whether it is business or music, Avril Lavigne can be said to be one of the most iconic pop stars in the first decade of the new century.

In order to invite her to sing and cheer for the company's annual meeting, it was bleeding.

When the people from Bluestar Technology came to the door, Avril Lavigne’s agency learned that the lion had opened its mouth, asking for $7 million, which is equivalent to 57 million.

Such a sky-high price of appearance fee, Luo Sheng definitely can't bear it, it is comparable to the appearance fee of Taylor Swift on the 2019 Double Eleven Carnival Night, and the current US$7 million is worth more than the US$7 million 15 years later. .

It’s almost no different from grabbing money. Even if it’s not bad money, you can’t be so "kai". Finally, under Luo Sheng’s remote control, the team sent to negotiate negotiated with the other party for three days, and finally the price was 3300. Ten thousand, which is about US$4 million. Avril Lavigne has to sing eight songs, with an average song worth US$500,000.

But it is still a sky-high appearance fee.

This also allowed Luo Sheng to dispel the idea of ​​inviting another European and American superstar. He also wanted to invite another popular female singer Britney Spears.

If Avril Lavigne is cool to the bone, then Britney is definitely in the bones of sex. Luo Sheng wants to invite two popular European and American pop music superstars, but it is too "cheerful" to do so, and finally gave up one. I chose Avril Lavigne.

If you don’t have him, you can’t afford it, unless you are willing to be a "prince", because Britney's brokerage company is asking too much, asking for 10 million US dollars, and finally less than 8.5 million US dollars.

Luo Sheng at this price wants to scold his mother. Britney Spears is indeed very popular in the world, but it is far from Avril Lavigne in China. There are still sky-high prices, which can only be avoided.

So it was finalized.

After the relevant news of this annual meeting was exposed, the entertainment circle made a lot of reports, and domestic netizens and fans could not sit still.

...