Chapter 448

Before the fourth round of auditions, Sonya had to go to Silicon Valley. He met Dilai and Samuel who came from Chicago and went to palm company first.

"Delay is not very concerned about the business of non-A + audio right now. You should pay more attention to it."

He took the same car with Linda, who had just finished the legal documents and officially joined the company. "Palm and Wanyan invested in the name of my a + copyright and investment management company. He was pure help, so you should not bother him with many things. He is in charge of the two major booths of the synthetic music copyright library and DTS, as well as the preparation of the Americana music website. Ben is very busy

"I understand..."

Linda kept flipping through the files in her hand to get familiar with the business. "I didn't expect that you made more than mchammer. He was the pioneer of hip-hop singers' own record companies Wow, your contract with Sony Columbia is great. How do you do it? Motura is by no means so good at speaking

"If you look at my 91 year fight with Sony Columbia, you can see that I took a lot of risk. And it's going to be a lot of trouble in the future, and you'll soon find out. " Song Ya doesn't want to talk about it now. Anyway, she can't hide the secret of meeting Maria Kelly. She will know about it later.

"Mr. aplus, welcome."

Palm's founder, Jeffrey Hawkins, personally welcomed him. He saw a sweat on the forehead of Samuel and his Yongdao staff. "Please follow me. The documents are ready."

At present, the atmosphere in palm company is solemn and dignified. Many work stations and even the front desk are empty. When some employees see a large group of people following song ya, they immediately show a look of panic. They bury their heads deeply and clatter on the keyboard, and they are eager to get into the computer monitor in front of them.

"Ha ha, I just laid off some people." Jeffrey Hawkins explained.

"Are you going to start the winter?" Samuel asked.

"It's not that bad, it's not that bad." Jeffrey Hawkins said he did not know whether to believe it or not, "we are going to transform into a pure software company, providing tool software services for PDAs and similar micro operating systems."

"You cut all the hardware department?" Asked delay.

"Some have been cut, but I want to keep a little hope." Jeffrey Hawkins took Samuel and them into the office reserved by the auditors and instructed the financial department to cooperate. He led Sonya, delay and Linda into his office and made coffee by themselves.

"Fxxk, I'm even more flustered by you." Song Ya looked at his busy back in front of the coffee machine and scolded.

"You are an investor. I did burn more than one million of your money, but after all, this is my own business." Jeffrey Hawkins skillfully handed them three cups of coffee. "Trust me, your investment won't be in vain, er, it won't be completely wasted." He took out a prototype of palm PDA from the drawer and distributed it. "This is our product. Compared with Apple's Newton PDA, we also have our own unique advantages."

"I don't see any advantages, and Apple's products are very difficult to use." Song Ya took out his own Newton PDA from his pocket. In fact, the functions are almost the same, but they are far less delicate than apple. The screen is smaller but heavier. "People won't buy this just by looking at the brand."

The rainbow Apple logo is very popular with the American people, and palm's products are the four printed letters. He felt very desperate and instantly realized the mood of Jeffrey Hawkins.

"Not so bad, not so bad."

Jeffrey Hawkins scratched his messy head. "You try handwriting. It's better than apple. Did you see the Simpsons laughing at their handwriting?"

"I don't watch cartoons." Song Ya immediately took out a pen to test. The Simpsons are fox's hit animated series.

"Cartoons don't have to be made for children. You Well, forget it when I didn't say it Jeffrey Hawkins half explained, see song Ya dare not interest, take the initiative to end the talk.

However, he said that handwriting function is better than apple is not deceptive, accuracy is higher than apple, "how do you do it?" After experiencing it personally, song Ya felt better and asked.

"Apple made things complicated Well, I don't want to explain it in detail. Anyway, we have relevant patents. " Jeffrey Hawkins replied, "there are a lot of companies interested in our handwriting recognition technology now."

"So there are new investors in round B?" Song Ya stopped writing. Now he only cares about how much his investment can bring back.

"No, ha ha, not yet. As I said before, we will separate the technology accumulation of PDA, sell software, and maintain the company. The PDA market has been depressed by apple, but it is still widely optimistic. The only problem is that the technology is not advanced enough. There is no shortage of new players in this industry. " Jeffrey Hawkins smiles.

Every punctuation mark song Ya in his words can't believe it now. "Anyway, the business is yours. I'm a venture capitalist with only 20% shares. Since it's a venture capital, I'm ready to take risks, as long as you don't spend my money indiscriminately.""No, No Jeffrey Hawkins glanced across the glass wall of the room at Samuel's office.

At the end of the interview, he came out from palm company. "The accounts are clear. There are some small problems, but I don't recommend you to go into it." "Founders like Geoffrey Hawkins, who have a technical background, generally have a lot of affection for the company and don't want to pit investors' money," samour said

"I understand. That's the only way." Song ya, Samuel and others went to a + pedal company again, and they were warmly welcomed by Riise. The market of pedal products was very stable. As the general manager, Riise also planned some attempts to open up new markets. However, in the electronic musical instrument industry, he did not have the confidence to make great efforts to compete with a large number of high-quality and low-cost products, so he stopped planning. The most valuable assets of a + pedal company are the land and plant owned by the company and the 25% shares of a + clothing company.

"Equity rewards are in sight, and Riise won't do anything." In order to show his trust in Riise, Sonya did not let Samuel conduct an in-depth audit, and on the surface, there was no big problem. Samuel said, "your investment is very successful." He comforted song ya, who was a little depressed after leaving palm, "it's normal for VCs to make losses and make profits. Don't take it too seriously."

"Do you know what happened to apple?" He asked Samuel that Apple's share price has been floating between 80% and 90%. According to ogletti, if the company's management continues to do so, it is estimated that it will be very difficult to return to the buying price of 1.8%, which is really holding back.

Samuel Smiles and shakes his head. "I don't understand that."

"Don't you still make money by investing in the stock market in general?" Linda asked, looking through the papers.

"As soon as I lose money, I will It's hard for me Song Ya beat his heart. There are two apple products in the Apocalypse movie tomorrow

"Aplus, you and mchammer are totally opposite personalities." Linda said with a smile: "he never cares if he invests money, and he won't be as clear about the company as you are. You don't act like an NGO at all."

"Don't always compare me with him, will you? Linda. "

Song Ya replied unhappily, "he's going bankrupt now, and he's the most unsuccessful part of the singers, and I'm of Chinese descent."

"Sorry, boss." Linda made a surrender with both hands and closed her mouth.

In the next part of the trip, Samuel and others will go to a + clothing company in San Francisco, Songya and Dilai, and Linda for a little later. Before that, they have to deal with the matter of hoarding land by using the Americana music website.

"We've got a license from Americana magazine for a very low price. The main expenses for setting up the website are server rental and programmer's remuneration. It's OK to find young people in the university to do part-time jobs. They are happy to contribute to the World Wide Web now... "

"After the website is set up, the rest is the manual work of moving the magazine to the Internet, which is rather cumbersome."

"Is it feasible to outsource to China?" Song Ya asked.

"It's all in English..." Daley turned a corner and refused, "Silicon Valley is one of the areas with the most left political outlook, and the programmer family is also the most inclusive of dual employees. We can hire some wife of programmers with low computer skills to do this, and do it slowly. Anyway, our goal is to get land. Oh, by the way... " He told Linda, "don't let slip when you see Mr. John ariraga."

"I understand." Linda nodded.

This time, I want to meet John arilaga, the biggest landlord in Silicon Valley. He owns 1100 square kilometers of land in Santa Barbara County. Most of the land has been converted to commercial real estate. He catches up with the explosion of Silicon Valley's technology industry and makes a profit by lying down and collecting rent every year.

"Hello, Mr. arilaga."

Song Ya sat down at the appointed place. Soon after, John arilaga arrived on time. Song ya got up with a warm smile and shook hands with him. Knowing that the other party was a Spanish immigrant, he also made a special display of Spanish language he had learned from Shakira.

"I'm Basque." Unexpectedly, the fat white man in his fifties immediately turned pale. He did not have much national pride in Spain. In fact, Basque and Catalonia have always had a tendency to be independent and have been in conflict with the main Spanish nation for a long time. Even now, ETA organizations of Basque people are still engaged in violent activities in Spain.

"Well, I'm sorry, I just Just to be friendly. " Song Ya said, holding his hand awkwardly.

"Ha ha..." "It doesn't matter. I don't care much about it. It's all American people. Ha ha, American dream, right? It was America that made me rich. "

"Yes, yes." Song Ya nodded frequently and both sides sat down.

"I don't usually run out for this business. I'm interested in aplus. Your investment in DTS is very beautiful. I've seen Jurassic Park, Spielberg, David Geffen, wow That sound effect is DTS technology, right? " He asked as he tidied up his napkin.

"Yes, some of my records also use this technology, but it's not as good as the cinema. It's better than nothing." Song Ya replied, "I still have..." Now that the other party is interested in himself, he takes out his investment in Silicon Valley, a + pedal and palm, and gives himself a blow."All here?"

"Yes, they are."

"So you want to put that Er, what... " He closed his eyes and recalled.

"Americana music website, Mr. arilaga." Dilly reminded.

"What websites are on Sunnyvale?" "It's better to put it in Menlo Park. My land is basically over there," he said

"I come here a lot and don't want business to be too fragmented." Song Ya replied.

"Well, I'm too lazy to move."

As far as the topic is concerned, it's not pleasant for both sides to talk about buying land.

"You study at the University of Chicago? In fact, you should go to Stanford. I'll go to Stanford. Let's settle down here. The development prospect here is very good. Stanford's computer major is better than the University of Chicago. Is that right? I don't really understand. " The big landlord touched his bulging belly. "Recently, there are many people hoarding land with high-tech gimmicks. You won't do this, will you, aplus?"

"Of course not."

Song Ya said with a smile: "my investment is down-to-earth. You know, DTS and other things have been proved by the market."

"This is the best. My property is surrounded by powerful technology companies, not those who speculate on concept and hoard land." He said, "you haven't answered Stanford's question yet. Don't you really think about it?"

"Well, Chicago people generally think that the University of Chicago is the best in the world, except Columbia University..." Song Ya jokingly declined.

"Ha ha!"

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