Chapter 2977 Recruitment

There are only a few days between Christmas and New Year's Day, and it's the time to relax at the end of the year. Many people choose to travel and vacation with their families and friends at this stage.

So do many executives.

Zhou Buqi received requests from senior executives above the vice president level to take annual leave, including eight people, including Kurian.

Executives are different from ordinary employees.

Here in the United States, you cannot assign tasks to an ordinary employee during vacation. This will irritate them and even lead to complaints or even prosecution. The situation is different for senior executives. They must assume more important responsibilities. Even during vacations, many people have to hold frequent video conferences to handle some work matters remotely.

Zhou Buqi approved the leave application of these executives, but made a request that during the leave, they should consider the company's next strategic structure, especially the possibility of the merger of Ziweixing International and LinkedIn.

Ziweixing International is a social giant.

So, do you want to do business networking?

If you want to do business networking, should you do it yourself, or is it better to directly acquire LinkedIn?

What are the benefits of acquiring LinkedIn?

Zhou Buqi is not an American. It’s not interesting if he can’t celebrate Christmas. The main thing is work. Things have to be done one by one. Recently, the acquisition of Reddit was finalized. The acquisition was completed at a total consideration of US$21.81 per share and a total value of US$185 million.

To this end, Ziweixing International paid a total of 8.3 million shares to Reddit shareholders.

8.3 million shares seems like a lot.

But the reality is that after many rounds of spin-offs and adjustments, the headquarters of Ziweixing International has reached 8.25 billion shares, and these 8.3 million shares are simply insignificant. The reason why so many shares are split is mainly for the convenience of issuance. The more shares there are, the lower the stock price will be, which can promote active trading.

The stock price is too high, and one lot may cost tens of thousands of dollars. This is too unfriendly to retail investors and they cannot afford it.

Therefore, many large companies will continue to split their shares.

Keep the stock price low, thus promoting the circulation of the stock.

Because Netflix is ​​developing so well, it is already planning a third round of stock splits.

Reddit's transaction was completed smoothly.

After Christmas, the official signature was signed.

Done!

For an industry giant like Ziweixing International, the acquisition of Reddit is just a small case and is easy to operate.

What Zhou Buqi doesn't care about is the company's interim CEO, Sam Altman.

Because both parties were in a hurry, they didn't have much rest on Christmas. Zhou Buqi rented a private island in Southern California and invited him to take a day off with him. There are tracts of islands there, and you can buy a private island for a few million dollars.

Most of it has not yet been developed.

Really good islands have long been bought by American wealthy people, and many places have been transformed into tourist attractions.

Vacation is fake.

Recruitment is real.

At the same time, there were many people in the industry, such as Netflix CEO Hastings, Changyou CEO Mattrick, LinkedIn Chairman Hoffman, PayPal CEO Schulman and others, as well as two Hollywood celebrities. The female stars... to be precise, they are two TV drama actors, "Game of Thrones" "Emilia" and "Three Idiots" Sophie Turner.

There is only one day off.

Go in the morning and come back in the evening.

If you are not busy, you can stay there overnight and come back the next day. Zhou Buqi rented it for three days, fully considering the guests. After all, there are female stars present. If anyone sparks some romance with the actress, they must be given more time to get along.

Reed Hoffman was a fat man. He was already very old. He had long passed the age of enjoying beauty, so he jokingly said: "I really envy you. Wherever you go, you have big Hollywood stars to accompany you." ”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I invited them here not for myself."

"After the last party, I discovered a little secret."

During this period, Hoffman was very close to Boss Zhou, and they often exchanged emails and phone calls. He would talk mysteriously when he came over.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What secret?"

Hoffman yelled, "Musk, when he left last time, the actress in the red dress got into his car and left together."

Zhou Buqi was not surprised at all and said with a smile: "Maybe they are all friends! By the way, do you know that Ultraman Sam?"

"I know him, he is a great young man." Hoffman spoke highly of him, "He has a very high vision and pursues great things."

Zhou Buqi said: "Then do me a favor. Go over and have a chat with him later and say something nice to me."

"say good things?"

"Well, I'm planning to do a big project, but I'm missing a person in charge. I'd like to ask him to come and help."

"Who would refuse you?" Reed Hoffman couldn't help but laugh, "He accepted your invitation to come over. Isn't it obvious? I have already heard that he has resigned from YC Investment. ”

This guy has a great status in Silicon Valley, and is a bit like the "Bai Xiaosheng" of Silicon Valley.

Is an important member of the "PayPal gang".

Zhou Buqi said: "He should be motivated now, but my project is a super project, which is very difficult and may not produce results in ten years. If you want to accomplish this, you must have a stronger sense of belief."

"What project?" Hoffman was surprised.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "The direction of artificial intelligence is very risky. But I hope he can work with me to create a new era and make greater achievements than Jobs and Bill Gates. This is a great goal, which inevitably means great difficulties."

"Surpass Gates and Jobs?"

"Yes."

"Yeah." Hoffman nodded, "If someone else said that, I would definitely think he was a liar and an egomaniac. But you are different. If anyone can do it, I believe only you can. But... do you really believe that kid?"

Zhou Buqi coughed, "He is not a kid. He is one year older than me."

Hoffman laughed, "Okay, I know, you are of the same age, and you do have more common language."

Some things, Zhou Buqi said himself, and if he said too much, it would be a bit like bragging, a bit like brainwashing PUA.

So he had to restrain himself.

Find some helpers and let them take turns to go into battle, and through the introduction of a third party, further inspire Sam Ultraman. It is not enough to let him join the project, but he must also have a firm belief.

Everyone was sunbathing on the island beach. The temperature here is very suitable in the subtropics.

They were all wearing swimsuits.

Hoffman's fat appearance was really ugly.

Actresses in sexy swimsuits are more pleasing to the eye.

After a while, actress Sophie Turner, who showed off her hot body in a white bikini, came over and sat down next to him with her legs hugged, "Mr. Zhou, are you looking for me?"

Zhou Buqi asked, "Do you have a boyfriend?"

"Ah?" Sophie Turner was a little surprised, her eyes flashed, "No! I'm still single."

Zhou Buqi pointed in the direction of Sam Altman, "That guy doesn't like watching movies, but he has watched a lot of American TV series, and his favorite is "Game of Thrones". Among them, his favorite actress is you, he told me secretly."

"Oh."

Sophie Turner covered her mouth and laughed secretly. At first, she thought Mr. Zhou was interested in her.

However, it's also good to know his friends.

Zhou Buqi said: "But, he is gay..."

"Huh?"

Sophie Turner was disappointed.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "You can go and tease him, and make friends with him, what do you think?"

"Okay!"

Sophie Turner felt it was a pity, thinking that these rich people were really weird.

Zhou Buqi then casually asked: "By the way, how is your career going? Game of Thrones is so popular now, do you have the opportunity to develop in Hollywood? Have you got a film contract?"

Sophie Turner said excitedly: "I'm trying to get a role recently! Sir, can you help me say something?"

"What role?"

"Phoenix in the rebooted X-Men."

"X-Men..." Zhou Buqi was a little embarrassed, "X-Men is not a Marvel movie, it's 20th Century Fox. But it doesn't matter, I'll go and say something for you. You have such a good image and such good acting skills, you can definitely be competent for this role!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Sophie Turner didn't dare to have any whimsical ideas about having an intimate relationship with the big boss Zhou in front of her. She was satisfied to have some basic social contact.