My Age of Investment

Jack Ma returned to China, accompanied by three employees of the Liqiu Fund, including Yabo.

The three of them are going to Ali in Lin'an to carry out a series of tedious due diligence work.

Xia Jingxing did not go back to the country with him, he asked Zhang Chenguang to drive to the Android company.

Android has completed all due diligence, signed a formal acquisition agreement with Vision Capital, and completed the equity change.

In addition to paying 50 million US dollars for equity acquisition, Vision Capital also injected the first development funds into Android, which also amounted to 50 million US dollars.

The reason why more funds have not been injected is because of the limited scale of the current Android company and the need for a gradual development process.

Fifty million US dollars is actually quite ample for the current Android.

With this money, Android company also moved out of the old, small and remote office, and moved to a new office space of thousands of square meters.

The new office is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, less than three kilometers away from Facebook and Vision Capital. The transportation is very convenient and the environment is good, which is also conducive to attracting more talents to join the company.

When Xia Jingxing got out of the elevator, he saw the green Android robot logo on the front wall at a glance.

Andy Rubin had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw Xia Jingxing arrived, he hurried up to greet him with a smile on his face.

"Daren, this new office is amazing, the staff love everything about it!"

What Andy Rubin said is also true. In the past two years since founding Android, their founding team has bet almost all of their wealth.

After unsuccessfully seeking investment everywhere, Android's operating funds quickly bottomed out.

Their team can't wait to break a penny in half, and save all expenses if they can.

Moving to such a good office, and changing them to the previous ones, I dare not even think about it.

After Xia Jingxing acquired Android, he injected 50 million US dollars with a wave of his hand, settled all the wages owed to the employees, and rented a brand new, spacious and bright office for Android.

It also adjusted the salary levels of employees to help Android expand its R\u0026D team.

All in all,

All of them show that this is a very generous and ambitious boss.

Andy Rubin has nothing to dissatisfy with meeting such a good boss.

In addition, Xia Jingxing also promised to give their team 10% stock options.

And promised that if the capital injection is within 500 million US dollars, the 10% option will not be diluted.

Converted according to the amount of capital injection, this 10% option package is worth 50 million US dollars.

But capital injection is not equal to the company's valuation and market value. As long as Android develops well, the future value of this 10% option will be far more than 50 million US dollars.

Therefore, he and the team are particularly motivated when working together, and feel that life has a bright future.

Xia Jingxing didn't know Andy Rubin's rich inner drama, everything he did, including improving the working environment, raising salary, issuing stock options, and expanding the workforce...

They are all running for the same purpose: to develop and launch a mature Android operating system as soon as possible.

The small money spent now is all for the big money in the future.

"Let's go. After moving to the new office, it's the first time I've come to Android. Take me for a tour."

Andy Rubin nodded repeatedly, and took Xia Jingxing to visit Android, introducing him while visiting.

Zhang Chenguang was wearing a suit and followed behind with a blank expression.

"At first we counted the founding team, there were only six people in total."

Andy Rubin pointed to the less than half-filled workstations in the open office area, and said with a smile: "After we moved here, we recruited more than 20 people, and the staff size suddenly expanded to 30 people.

Next, the recruitment work will not stop, at least another 30 people will be recruited.

It's a good thing you sent a chief human resources officer, otherwise we wouldn't know how to recruit and manage so many people.

In fact, I don't want to be dragged down by these management tasks, and I want to devote more time to research and development.

Traveling in the vastness of computer code, that is the most exciting thing for me. "

Xia Jingxing glanced at Andy Rubin a few times, seeing the sincerity on the other's face, which did not seem to be fake, he felt relieved a lot.

After the acquisition of Android, Vision Capital recruited and dispatched a chief human resources officer and a chief financial officer.

In the words of the duck neck, both the money bag and the official hat must be seized.

Originally, Xia Jingxing was worried that Andy Rubin and his team would resist this.

But it seemed that the other party didn't think there was any problem and obeyed the arrangement very much.

The two executives dispatched there also reported that they got along very well with the technical team led by Andy Rubin.

"Where's Ricky? Are you planning to retire?"

The "Ricky" Xia Jingxing said was Ricky Milner, one of the four founders of Android, and the original chief financial officer of Android.

Before Vision Capital decided to dispatch the chief financial officer, when the acquisition agreement was signed, Ricky indicated that he wanted to cash out.

Because Ricky is not a technical person and is not particularly indispensable, Xia Jingxing allowed the other party to withdraw.

Andy Rubin didn't quite understand why the boss suddenly asked his old buddy, did he go back on his word? Want to keep Ricky?

With the doubts in his heart, Andy Rubin answered 1510: "No, he is looking for a job recently, and maybe he wants to return to his old business and do venture capital."

Xia Jingxing remembered that after Android was acquired by Google in his previous life, Ricky joined Google Ventures and led many successful foreign investment cases of Google. He is a talent.

Just asking the other party to be an Android CFO is actually a bit inferior.

"Ask him, would he like to work at Vision Capital? I can give him control over a fund."

Andy Rubin's eyes lit up, someone in the court is easy to be an official, if he didn't know that Ricky was very assertive, he would have agreed to help the old man.

"Okay, let me ask him, is it a VC fund or a PE fund?"

Xia Jingxing thought for a moment and replied, "He has been a VC before, so let's continue to manage the VC fund!"

"Okay, I see, I must tell him!"

Andy Rubin smiled.

Although Vision Capital is not a well-known investment institution with a huge asset management scale, even the fund is still in its infancy.

But I can't stand the strength of the founder!

In addition, Andy Rubin also feels that precisely because the fund is in its infancy, there are more opportunities.

This is the same reason as joining an early Internet startup.

He took Xia Jingxing around the company for a few more times, and after visiting every corner, Andy Rubin led the boss into the meeting room, ready to report on the recent work situation.

Xia Jingxing asked Andy Rubin to call the other two founders of Android, Chris White and Nick Sears, together.

The four of them discussed the next development policy of Android together.

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