Chapter 96： [New business goes live]

By commissioning a headhunting consultant, the company paid him $ 2.18 million in annual salary and invited him to head the European business of Blue Star Technology. The film in charge of the European business is always an Indian. The previous owner was Google and served It took a lot of effort to dig up the president of Global Global Sales.

Think about it too, of course, it is not easy to grab talents from Larry Page. Google's treatment is no worse than Bluestar's technology. If you want to dig into Google's corner, there is no other way but to give higher treatment.

国外 There is a more interesting phenomenon abroad, especially in the North American Silicon Valley technology circle, that is, many Indians hold core positions in well-known technology companies.

When this phenomenon becomes unusually common, it is no coincidence. The University of New Hampshire Southern University has conducted a cross-cultural study to investigate and research professional managers in North America and India.

The study found that in terms of the leadership qualities of professional executives, more managers from India have achieved the highest rankings and scores in Silicon Valley.

However, this research report is also somewhat one-sided. It does not mean that the Chinese are not good, but because most Chinese executives usually return to their own countries to start a business and become their own bosses. As for the Indians, their own country has not allowed The soil for the success of their entrepreneurship is also difficult for clever women. They can only show their talents on the stage in Silicon Valley.

Luo Sheng's vision is global, and Bluestar's positioning is also a multinational company.

If you want to make the company ’s overseas business development smoothly bigger and stronger, you really ca n’t just use domestic people. Besides, the excellent people in China like to start their own business and become their own bosses. Otherwise, they are professional managers in Silicon Valley. There are definitely no fewer people from China than Indians.

Luo Luosheng usually likes to ridicule the third brother occasionally, but it is not malicious. No matter how it is spoken in business, Indians are not useless. How can there be nothing in the Silicon Valley?

Nixe Mehrotra, a professional executive from India, was interviewed for the interview and found that the 37-year-old bald uncle with glasses has a future-oriented trait. In addition, it is able to integrate sincere personal humility with strong professional will quality, and has achieved very outstanding results.

This professional manager has no shortage of work. He is always looking for him. As long as he shows a little change of mind, the phone call from the headhunting company broke him in minutes.

去 The establishment of a film company in Europe is in line with Bluestar's development plan, which is conducive to the company's better business operations in Europe.

The development of Bluestar Technology today has become more and more like a mature multinational technology company. It is divided into three major business segments by region, Greater China, America, and Europe.

The three major business segments are the core of the company. From the perspective of five to ten years of business, the business segment with the most commercial value is the Americas region, followed by the Europe region, and finally the Greater China region.

Ten years later, Greater China will be the first in the world in terms of single market size and commercial value.

As for the moment, because the development speed of the domestic Internet is not even comparable to that of Europe, it is even worse than North America, and not to mention quality, let alone mass. North American Internet users have doubled domestically, already running 200 million Yes, and the domestic market is now worth more than 100 million.

To say that now, of all the domestic Internet companies, Luo Sheng's Bluestar Technology Company is the only Internet technology company that has successfully gone overseas. Even if other companies are among the "BALT", there are three other companies. Nothing, let alone the others.

I can even say without exaggeration that at present, except for Bluestar Technology, which goes hand in hand both at home and abroad, other Internet companies have no idea of ​​going abroad. There is no idea, at least not now.

Being able to do it in China has already been a huge success. After all, Bluestar Technology is unique and cannot be replicated, not even Silicon Valley.

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The time has come in August 2004. Luo Sheng's focus is still on the Azur Coast Company, and he spends two or three times a day in the "azur coast laboratory". He coordinates the entire [Azure] project plan and leads " The research and development of the "Blue Core" project, while taking into account the operation of Blue Star Technology.

But the blue star technology company, when he was away, the company's second officer, that is, the chief operating officer Zhang Bowen was in charge.

This month is quite important for Bluestar Technology. Another major new product of the company this year will be officially released this month, namely the streaming video business, the domestic version of Bluestar Video, and the international version of BluestarVideo.

The launch date has been determined, just in the second half of this month, the exact date is August 21, 2004, the domestic version and the international version will be launched simultaneously on this day.

This is the product with the longest development cycle among the company's many products. The project was initiated at the beginning of the year and was only launched in August.

In fact, it can be launched in June, but since Luo Sheng dug his own corner after the establishment of the Blue Coast Company in March, nearly half of the backbone engineers from Blue Star Technology were dug to the Blue Coast Company. It is inevitable to slow down the progress.

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On August 20, Bluestar Technology CEO Office.

Luo Luosheng looked at the computer intently. He opened a page, which was a report on the Forbes website. It took him 20 to 20 minutes a day to follow the information and it became a habit.

On August 19, that is, yesterday, the North American Internet giant Google was listed on the NASDAQ. The IPO raised US $ 1.666 billion. It was originally intended to raise US $ 2.7 billion. However, Wall Street was secretly engaged in business. On the day before listing, the price of some original shares was reduced, and the amount of financing was greatly reduced, from the original 2.7 billion US dollars to 1.7 billion US dollars. The final actual financing was 1.666 billion US dollars.

After the listing was supported by funds, Google began to rapidly expand its territory and seek diversified development.

Luo Luosheng looked at the content reported on the Forbes website, and his heart was also very emotional. UU reading Google listing is definitely a feast of capital.

It's not unreasonable to be so crazy. Google started to make profits just three years ago in 2001. At the same time, almost all Internet companies including Yahoo were losing money. At that time, except Google was profitable, the other exception was eBay. .

Even in the era of the dot-com bust, Google is still in a state of strength, continually consolidating its position as the 'king of search'.

Not surprisingly, its stock price will climb to about $ 200 at the end of the year, and its market value will break through $ 50 billion.

Because Google ’s performance report is too dazzling, revenue is 3.19 billion US dollars, profit is 399 million US dollars, and the revenue has increased by 118%. The key is that Google ’s profit has reached nearly 400 million US dollars in the case of large-scale diversified investment. It shows its ability to make money.

After watching related news reports for a while, Luo Sheng closed the page and the time was almost up. It was time to work.

Since Silicon Valley and Wall Street are now chasing for Google's listing, Luo Sheng is not only emotional, because he firmly believes that the value of Bluestar Technology under his own control is bound to be better than Google.

The major Internet companies at home and abroad have successively entered the IPO stage, and this track seems to be getting hotter.

However, Luo Sheng is not in a hurry. Bluestar Technology is still a while away from the IPO stage. Although he can get the company listed in the United States this year as long as he wants to go public, he does not want to go public so soon.

On the second day, that is, August 21st, Bluestar Technology ’s another heavyweight product streaming video service this year, the domestic version of Bluestar Video and the international version of BluestarVideo were officially launched.

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