"This is Silicon Valley," the car sped down the avenue of Stanford Industrial Park, and Rosemary looked at the scenery outside, with some emotion: "It's much more comfortable than Detroit, and even the air is fresher than Detroit." ”

It's not that Rosemary lamented indiscriminately, but the air quality in San Francisco is indeed better than that of Detroit, not only because the air in coastal cities is more humid, but more importantly, the air in San Francisco is not as permeated with the unique smell of a heavy industrial city as Detroit.

Speaking of which, although the United States at the end of the seventies has begun to pay attention to environmental protection, but the importance of environmental protection is far less than twenty or thirty years later, compared with San Francisco, which takes high-tech and computer technology as the economic pillar and core, Detroit's air quality is indeed a little worse, if you add the signs and advertisements on both sides of the highway that are not flashed such as IBM, and the apple that has been bitten by people, San Francisco's B is indeed a little higher than Detroit in an instant.

But Rosemary is a senior professional manager of Fernandez after all, and after a while, she suddenly turned her head to look at her boss: "Boss, there should be many entrepreneurial companies here in Silicon Valley, right?"

"Well, it's quite a lot, almost more than 50% of the high-tech companies and computer technology-related companies in the United States are here, even if they are not here, they also have branches here, according to Silicon Valley, almost 70% of the 'garage-type' small and micro computer technology research and development companies in the United States are gathered. Chen Geng nodded, he was a little curious, why did Rosemary suddenly say this?

What is a "garage" company?

It's the kind of micro company that one or several people spend a few dollars to register a company, and they don't have a venue, and they engage in technology research and development in their own garages, and they may go out of business in a few days, but don't look down on this kind of garage company, almost all computer high-tech companies, such as Dell, such as Apple, such as Compaq, such as Commodore, such as 3com...... These high-tech and computer technology companies, which were famous in the early stage of the development of computer technology and network technology, and even became important influence in the world in the future, came out of the garage.

Rosemary said with great interest: "Since it is a start-up company, I believe that their financial situation must not be very good, in the case of tight funds, these start-up companies must be more interested in cheap used cars, so, boss, I think we should use this as a key expansion area for our car repair business and used car business in the future." ”

Without waiting for Chen Geng to speak, she said with a twinkle in her eyes: "Well, there is also our bank! We must complete the acquisition of United Credit Bank as soon as possible, and then drive the bank here, when the time comes, these companies in Silicon Valley will buy the cars from us, and the loans will be taken from us, and we can shear the sheep from them again and again......

Rosemary was immersed in the happiness of shearing sheep from these start-up companies in Silicon Valley, Chen Geng sighed that his general manager was not wrong, and said with a smile: "The loan to them is only worth a few dollars, if you want me to say, we will do angel investment, even if one of the ten companies can finally come out, we will make a lot of money...... Just look at Wang An's computer, you can see that the computer is really profitable. ”

"Angel investment?" Rosemary's eyes lit up, but after hesitating, she still shook her head: "That's true, but I don't know anything about the computer industry......"

"It's okay, isn't there still me," Chen Geng pointed at himself with a smile: "I'm in charge of this piece." ”

Just kidding, others don't know what companies can develop, what companies burp before they get out of the garage door, but can they not know?

"You?"

Looking at her boss, Rosemary was a little skeptical: "Boss, I don't mean to doubt your vision, but angel investment is a great test of an investor's vision......"

"Speaking of which, you still doubt my vision," Chen Geng didn't mind Rosemary's suspicion of himself, he just nodded: "That's it, this money doesn't go out of the company's accounts, I'll go back and use my personal money to set up an investment fund to be responsible for this matter." ”

"OK, the money is yours, you have the final say. Rosemary shrugged helplessly, the boss said so, what else could he do? Although he was not optimistic about his boss's move, the money was the boss's own, even if it was all lost, it had nothing to do with him.

"Do you want to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to join in the shares?" Chen Geng asked casually: "I don't dare to promise you, but 20 years later, I promise that even if you leave the company, relying on this money, you will still be a billionaire envied by countless people...... Rich. ”

"Forget it," if Chen Geng didn't say what he said, Rosemary might still vote a little, but now, the boss has simply blown the cow to the sky, where can she dare to believe it? ”

"Well, that's a shame. Chen Geng felt a little sorry for Rosemary: what a good investment opportunity, the real opportunity for her to lie down and eat was missed by her.

It is also because of this move that Rosemary, who has become the world's most well-known and highest-paid professional manager for more than ten years and for a longer period of time, will let out a long sigh when she is interviewed by reporters countless times and asked by reporters about the thing she regrets the most in her life: "The thing I regret most in my life is that I don't have 100% trust in my boss." ”

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What if you want to find some well-known local companies in an almost completely unfamiliar place? Is there any good way to do it?

It's simple, find a headhunter.

As long as you find a well-known local headhunting company, all these problems are not a problem.

As the center of computer technology in the United States and even the world, there are not too many headhunting companies that rely on the headhunting business to live, don't think that headhunting companies are doing the work of professional intermediaries, it is a big mistake to think so, in addition to intermediaries, for example, Chen Geng wants to visit some of the more famous software development companies in Silicon Valley, which is not a problem at all, these headhunting companies in Silicon Valley have a complete company directory, address, telephone, business scope, and direction of expertise...... There is no shortage of anything, as long as Chen Geng is willing to pay.

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PS: I still owe you 1000 words, and I will make up for it tomorrow.