“Acquire a company?”
Lang Hongjun was taken aback by Ye Chen’s words and spoke, “Mr. Ye, if we were to acquire a communications company with a sufficient base, its cost would be at least one billion dollars, would the investment be too high and I’m afraid it would be difficult to achieve profitability ……”
Ye Chen shook his head and said, “Profit is not the most important thing, how to solve our urgent needs at the moment is the most important thing.”
Saying that, Ye Chen added: “Our biggest pain point at the moment is the time constraint, not to mention a year or a month, even if it’s a day or an hour, we have to try our best to get it, time is far more important than money.”
Ye Chen gave a slight beating and continued, “If you want to develop quickly at a speed beyond normal, you have to change the mindset of only solving immediate needs, without people, or unable to recruit people, if you are still stuck on how to solve the problem of recruiting people, it is basically difficult to make great things;”
“To do great things, the premise is that the pattern must be big enough, those big enterprises when faced with the same problem, will not think about how to build a team from scratch and then develop a product, the first solution they will think of is to directly buy the right product on the market.”
Saying that, Ye Chen added: “Elon Musk won’t waste precious time and energy to build a Twitter by himself, buying it directly is the most economical for him, in fact the same goes for us, if we still need to recruit employees one by one, the variables in this are too big, even if you expect to solve the problem in two years, but once there is a change in personnel That time becomes a long way off.”
“First of all, the recruitment period is definitely longer than expected, originally planned for three months to recruit enough people, but in reality it may take at least six months or more;”
“The second is the lack of stability of the staff. ”
“Also, employees are not stable alone, the prerequisite for stability is that they have to be competent enough to cope with their work, which will also require us to invest in unknown trial and error costs, in case we choose the wrong person, everything will have to start all over again as well.”
“In that case, even three years may not achieve what we want to achieve.”
“Moreover, doing things has always been about making a start, if we stumble and stumble at the beginning, it will take more than imaginable toll on our heart and confidence, and it will definitely be difficult to grow bigger and stronger.”
Speaking here, Ye Chen looked at Lang Hongjun and said seriously, “Although you have high morale now, if you really encounter all kinds of difficulties in the preliminary personnel stage, after a year or two, you yourself will not have the same energy now.”
The more you think about it, the less confidence you will have, and the more you will have to spend, the more you will lose. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to find a job.
The first thing that I did was to go from being a high-minded communications expert to being a seafarer willing to go to Mexico to do hard work ……”
Ye Chen smiled faintly and asked, “Older brother, the job you had when your salary was the highest, which company was it in?”