Global Monopoly of Technology

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

Although the company's equity incentives are complex, and dozens of hundreds of pages of contracts are painful, it just shows that the distribution of remuneration and benefits is clearly handled, and employees can get corresponding returns as much as they contribute.

However, the company's final elimination system is also very cruel. The really capable ones go up and the mediocre ones go down, but neither side is sorry for each other. No matter how much performance you have done during your tenure in the company, you will get an equal return.

In fact, Luo Sheng is a very human boss. Everyone now regards him as their number one idol, and they want to join the two technology companies he founded because of all aspects, and high treatment 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 with 10 times the salary; if the employee's wife dies unexpectedly, if there is no wife, the parents can take the employee's salary for another 5 years. If there are children, the company will support the employee until the age of 18; if If there is a serious illness or disability and cannot work, the company will pay 75% of the salary for life or death and then pay life insurance.

This kind of welfare mechanism is currently available nationwide and only by the companies under Luo Sheng, and in the world, only Google has followed suit, and has also launched a similar "Google Insurance". The difference is that Google's life insurance is 5 times the salary, while Luo Sheng's company is 10 times the salary.

Bluestar Technology or Cote d’Azur both have cruel elimination mechanisms 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 standard of treatment during his employment. , until he finds his next job, but there is also a cap, up to half a year.

It is very hard and stressful to follow Luo Sheng's struggle, but Luo Sheng must also ensure that their efforts can be rewarded satisfactorily, even if they are eliminated at the end because of their incompetence, they will help him as much as possible.

It is not like an Internet company, whose employees have not asked for a day of sick leave for four or five years, and their performance has been good during the period. However, under the condition of terminal illness, they have personally experienced persecution, calculation, surveillance, frame up, threats, and even being kicked out by security guards. company.

The employees also want to fight for their ideals, but children, wives, and families can only rely on him. He does not want to be squeezed to the last drop of blood and then thrown away like broken socks. They also want a guarantee that they may be fired or resigned one day for work reasons, but they don't want to worry about being abandoned if they have health problems while working hard.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable for everyone to want to fight with Luo Sheng after they are all overwhelmed. This comparison is against other companies.

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in the conference room.

"The annual meeting will be held on the weekend of the 16th of this month. Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur employees will participate together." Luo Sheng said as he looked around the crowd, half of the people had already left to take charge of their work, and George and the others also They all left.

As the bosses and founders of the two companies, it is understandable to hold the annual meeting together. The early employees of the Cote d'Azur company were all transferred from Bluestar Technology. To take a step back, the company has the final say, and he can do whatever he wants. .

At present, there are more than 5,000 employees in the Côte d'Azur, and the employees of Bluestar Technology include more than 4,700 overseas employees, adding up to tens of thousands.

Luo Sheng added: "Since the annual meeting is held together, although I founded both companies, I still need to calculate the expenses clearly, otherwise investors will trouble me and I will not speak loudly to them, and I will be weak. Then three points, let’s calculate it according to the proportion of the number of people, as for the budget of the annual meeting, it should be 300 million.”

Three hundred million?

hear this number,

The participants were immediately stunned, and Xu Yong said with a stunned expression: "The budget for an annual meeting is 300 million? My God, if the investors knew about it, they would not trouble you, but would hack you with a kitchen knife."

When Xu Yong said this, everyone present couldn't help but laugh. Others might not say that, but he is the co-founder of Bluestar Technology and the company's No. 002 employee.

With his back to the chairman's seat, Luo Sheng said calmly: "There is not only work in life, what are we working hard and earning money for? For the great mission of connecting all mankind? If you want to experience life, don't you have to spend it?"

After speaking, he spread his hands and looked around at everyone. Feng Yi, who was present, couldn't help but reminded weakly: "It seems that we haven't made any money yet, we have been spending VC money..."

Hearing that, Luo Sheng glanced at him: "Didn't you already decide to make money just now?"

Everyone is slandered in their hearts, so they are sure to make money 100%?

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 D round financing, there is no need to raise funds privately, so next year, we will go to U.S. listing."

As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help but be surprised. This news is too sudden, next year? That was 2006.

"Don't make a fuss, whoever leaked the news, I'll slap him." Luo Sheng said, everyone nodded, but even if it was leaked, it wouldn't be a big deal.

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

In fact, Luo Sheng has been paying attention to relevant news from time to time. Now, as long as you look at the top ten listed companies in the world by market capitalization, you will find that the status of financial companies is rising wildly, and Citi, AIG, Bank of America, etc. are crowded. Entering the top ten has already 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, which aims to reward the entrepreneurial team for their contributions to the company.

Luo Sheng felt that if he didn't go to North America to play a wave of real estate betting during the global financial crisis in 2007, if he turned a blind eye to such a huge opportunity, most of the gods would not spare him, maybe a thunderbolt would knock him back. future go.

However, it was still too early. Luo Sheng put away his thoughts and immediately made a decision in the conference room. The total budget for this annual meeting was 300 million yuan.

Now both companies are not short of money. Bluestar Technology received ￥10.5 billion in Series C financing last year, and Cote d’Azur also happened to be helped by Qin Weimu to get a loan of 10.5 billion.

To be rich is to be selfish.

Luo Sheng settled the matter, just need to explain it, someone will handle the following matters, and immediately began to seek third-party planning.

There is no large-scale gathering and event venue in Sucheng yet, but if you want to do it, you can definitely set up a venue.

Therefore, the venue for this annual meeting was not in Suzhou City, but chose the "80,000-person Stadium" in Shanghai, and rented this stadium for the venue of this annual meeting.

The Shencheng Stadium is also known as the "80,000-person Stadium", but the number of seats is 56,000. Even so, it is too large for the joint annual meeting of Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur, and the employees of the two companies can only account for 10,000 people. No, and it is impossible for all of them to be present, there is always someone who needs to leave the operation and maintenance.

There is a reason for choosing such a large venue, because it is necessary to set up tables in the venue, eat, drink, and have a big carnival. 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 immediately became a sensation, and even the wind blew directly into the entertainment industry, and there were reports in Europe and the United States.

Bluestar Technology once again made 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 add to the fun of the annual meeting. Three domestic singers were invited, Pan Weibo and his two other women. singer.

What I have to say is that in the past year, that is, the Chinese music scene in 2004, it can be described as a year of fights between gods and gods. Another popular online song "Mouse Loves Rice", as well as popular songs such as "Qilixiang" and "Persian Cat", are too numerous to mention.

The three domestic singers invited are not the most expensive, nor are they the most expensive.

At this company's annual meeting, Avril Lavigne, the world's most popular rock queen, was invited. It can be said that she is one of the most popular female singers in the world so far.

The reason why Avril was invited is because she is by far the most well-known European and American female singer in the country. She is not one of them in this era. What kind of "Mildew" has not emerged in this era.

Avril also became popular in China in 2004. It is no exaggeration to say that she is the inspiration of European and American music for many domestic music fans. With her early debut, in 2000, when she was 16 years old, she quickly became popular all over the world with the song "Complicated".

Her posters are posted on the walls of countless young people, and her music resounds on TV, games, and the players of young people in the streets.

There are many young people in the company, and the post-80s generation occupies the absolute main force. Most of the programmers are super fans of this little rock witch who takes the rebellious rock route and is too cool.

Nowadays, Avril fever is on the rise all over the world. She is only 21 years old this year. She is one of the most beautiful singers among the current European and American singers. She has the most beautiful side face. Girls all over the world are imitating her highlights. , her smoky makeup...

It's downright cool.

Whether in business or music, Avril Lavigne is arguably one of the most iconic pop stars of the 2000s.

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

When Bluestar Technology's people came to the door, Avril's brokerage company learned that the lion's mouth was open, and the asking price was $7 million, which is equivalent to 57 million yuan.

Luo Sheng must not be able to endure such a sky-high appearance fee, which is already comparable to Taylor Swift's appearance fee on the 2019 Double Eleven Carnival Night, and the current $7 million is worth more than the $7 million in fifteen years' time. .

It's no different from stealing money. Even if it's not bad money, it can't be so "kai". In the end, under Luo Sheng's remote command, the team sent to negotiate with the other party for three days to negotiate the price, and finally negotiated the price of ￥3300. 10,000, which is about $4 million, Avril will sing eight songs, and the average song is worth $500,000.

But it's still a huge price to pay.

And this also made Luo Sheng give up the idea of ​​inviting another European and American superstar. He also wanted to invite another popular female singer Britney Spears.

If Avril is cool to the core, then Britney is definitely sexy. Luo Sheng wanted to invite two popular European and American pop stars, but it was too "kai" to do so, and finally gave up one. I chose Avril.

If you don't have him, you can't afford it unless you are willing to be a "Kaizi", because Britney's brokerage company is asking too much.

At this price, Luo Sheng wants to scold her mother. Britney is indeed very popular around the world, but in China, it is far less popular than Avril Lavigne, and the price is still sky-high, so I can only avoid talking about it.

So it was settled.

After the news of this annual meeting was exposed, the entertainment circle made a lot of reports, and domestic netizens and fans couldn't sit still.

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