"Mr. Benjamin is very welcome, please sit down."

In the meeting room of the Microsoft headquarters, Redmond, Washington, a group of well-dressed negotiators walked into the house one after another. As a representative of Microsoft, Gates immediately stood up and asked the delegation leader and marketing director Benjamin to sit down.

After Benjamin sat down, he smiled at Gates, the chief of the long table, and said, "Mr. Gates, we originally thought that it would take a long time for you to make a decision. But if I remember correctly, it seems that it will only be three days since we submitted the cooperation proposal. This project is not simple, and your company's efficiency is really amazing."

As he said that, he looked at the conference representatives on Microsoft's side.

Chairman Gates, Paul Allen, who is also the founder, and Steve Ballmer, whom Benjamin is familiar with, led by the three of them, Microsoft sent a total of five people.

"There is still a chair here. Are there still people not here?"

Benjamin was also very surprised when he raised his hand like Gates. It was opposite Paul Allen, the first position on the left side of the chief. There is no doubt that it is the third person in Microsoft's management who is qualified to sit down. But he looked at the current number of attendees and knew all the time. Has he known new investors from Microsoft appeared?

Gates crossed his hands and smiled calmly: "Ms. Wang's flight was delayed due to the weather, so she may be half an hour late. But it doesn't matter, we can start directly."

Benjamin was even more surprised. On the one hand, the "Ms. Wang" that the other party suddenly said was definitely a stranger, and judging from the pronunciation of the surname, it might be Chinese. Moreover, what does it mean that the flight was delayed? Although it is 1:00 pm now, is it because the other party rushed over in the morning for such an important cooperation meeting?

He said with a slight smile: "It seems that this Miss Wang must be a busy man. Since Mr. Gates has said that, let's start."

Benjamin is full of confidence in this cooperation. In his opinion, of course, it is also an objective fact that the reason why Microsoft has risen is entirely dependent on early cooperation. If its computers are not bundled for the platform, Microsoft's system will definitely face serious market problems. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is Microsoft's guide.

Recently, Microsoft's new products have been recognized by the board of directors. Although the ns10 is not the industry's first graphical user interface operating system, it is much better than the product of that industry. Moreover, with Gates' promotion a year in advance and a strong company base, its market share expansion speed is also extremely gratifying.

It can be said that the potential is unlimited.

The results of cooperation with a company with unlimited prospects are of course expected, but there must be some adjustments in the distribution of interests. After all, compared with its strength, although Microsoft currently has nearly 100 engineers, it is still far from the Blue Giant. If the other party was not really the industry leader in the software field, and this is exactly the weakness, I am afraid that the so-called cooperation would be unnecessary from the beginning.

But now, although the talks are moving in a very good direction, Benjamin can't help but want to look at the chair that has been empty.

"Since it's a cooperative development, we plan to call out about 100 engineers to develop our system. So, Mr. Gates, how many people can Microsoft do?"

Gates did not answer immediately.

His eyes were drooping, as if he was looking at the empty desktop, and even the documents submitted by Benjamin were just placed aside. During this period, Benjamin quietly looked at Paul Allen and others, feeling something was wrong.

He had long heard that Gates had a habit of leaning forward slightly when he was thinking and shaking. In the conversation just now, Gates did make such moves whenever he needed to think. Allen, Ballmer and others were waiting for him to speak silently.

But now, Gates "should" not be thinking because he was not shaking. And a group of Microsoft executives seemed to want to speak but stopped. Obviously, they were also a little puzzled about Gates' "abnormal" behavior.

Benjamin could guess what was going on with this puzzle: Is Gates thinking or waiting for someone to speak?

However, Gates obviously didn't ask everyone to wait too long. After this abnormal situation lasted only half a minute, he could be considered speaking.

“A group.”

"We'll send people to form a group," he said.

Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief: "Mr. Gates, of course we have to form a group, but the question I want to ask now is how many people are you going to take out."

“The number of people doesn’t matter.”

"What matters is professional ability, isn't it? For our industry, an elite is definitely stronger than a hundred freshman students, isn't it?"

Benjamin suddenly felt a sense of laughter and crying: "Mr. Gates, no matter how strong the manpower is, it has its limit, right? You, are you kidding? Why did you suddenly tell me about the elite problem?"

While saying this, Benjamin also noticed that the executives of Microsoft all looked for granted, and even looked at himself with a look of wanting to be laughed at.

It was very wrong. Benjamin instinctively noticed that just as his eyes never ignored the empty chair from the beginning, he had long noticed that Microsoft's senior executives were extremely confident in this cooperation. Indeed, Microsoft's strength is very strong, and companies with annual turnover of US$100 million are not ordinary people, but they are now at least the number one in the industry, Blue Giant, how could they be so confident?

"Mr. Gates, please tell me the specific number of people. After all, I have to submit an assignment to the board of directors after I go back."

Benjamin said with a slight smile: "Or, the company really can't get a team of the same size? If this is the case, we don't recommend taking more work. After all, cooperation is about helping each other."

So, this sentence is the point.

What is the concept of a team of 100 people?

Industry is not a labor-intensive industry. There is too much wealth that a hundred engineers can create. You should know that this is not just a "one company with a scale of 100 people", but a real one hundred engineers, the most core member of a company.

It can be said that if a company can really produce such a number of engineers, the number of employees in the entire company will definitely be no less than 200.

So, what is the scale of a company with a number of more than 200, or even 300 or 400 people?

Microsoft currently has only one hundred people, and only sixty or seventy engineers can do it. It is impossible to be unclear about this. Therefore, in the cooperative relationship of obvious unequal strength and weakness, the proportion of dividends will be expanded in the future on the grounds of uneven numbers. This is the wishful thinking.

However, Gates looked at each other with his colleagues, and everyone raised the corners of their mouths and smiled in a hidden way.

"Mr. Benjamin, this question is easy to talk about. We can set it like this in the contract."

He still lowered his head, stared at the empty tabletop for a long time and was silent for a minute this time. Just when Benjamin felt a little impatient, Gates raised his head confidently.

"We speak directly according to the results. If Microsoft's progress can be consistent, then the future distribution of benefits will be a number. If it cannot be consistent, we will naturally reduce the share. Prepare the share and progress standards in advance and write it into the contract. What do you think?"

"Oh my God, Mr. Gates, what are you kidding?"

Benjamin felt something was getting worse: "What kind of profit distribution is reduced? How can we let you suffer a loss? Oh, at most, we are just responsible for more work, what should we say to reduce it?"

"That's the case, Mr. Benjamin."

Gates held the table with his hands on his face and smiled and showed his big white teeth: "My second largest shareholder and technical consultant of Microsoft, although Ms. Wang was late, but because she knew she was late, she had a phone call with me earlier. In other words, this resolution was passed by the entire Microsoft board of directors."

Benjamin's eyelids really jumped up, and he looked at the members of the delegation and someone immediately answered for him.

"Speaking of this, Mr. Gates, you feel that Miss Wang said frankly, does she really exist? We have never heard of the reorganization of Microsoft's board of directors. If you say that this resolution was proposed by her, then she should be there at least, right?"

This sentence makes sense, after all, the reason for being late is too unreasonable. Even if the flight is delayed by the weather, such as meetings that must be notified many days in advance, can the participants not have time to check the weather forecast?

Just then, the phone rang in the middle of the conference table.

Gates' eyes lit up: "Ah, just right, Miss Wang called me, let's see what she said."

Benjamin's eyes suddenly widened.

Not for any other reason.

But he noticed the phone when he first entered the house

There is no connection line. To be continued.
Chapter completed!