"Average annual average of 50,000 US dollars is the most basic. This is still the case of not considering equity incentives. If you don't give shares, you can't keep more than 100,000 US dollars if you don't give shares.

Moreover, many listed network companies are currently expanding rapidly, and programmers have become scarce resources.

The technical development team composed of more than 30 people from "Macro Media" has been accumulated slowly in five years, and team building has never been achieved overnight."

said Charlie Jackson, a senior programmer and angel investor.

It turns out that "Macro Media" does not have a hundred programmers.

Wait, even if there are thirty, the average person is 50,000 yuan per person, and 1.5 million yuan will be burned a year. With other expenses, Bai Quinn feels that even if he can make money, he will not be able to fill such a deep pit.

Bai Quinn began to regret rashly rushing into an industry that he was completely unfamiliar.

But his unyielding character in his heart prompted him to never give up until the last moment.

When the original owner was a football quarterback, his habit of doing things had been affecting him, observing, observing carefully, seizing opportunities, and then attacking.

Since you are not familiar with the technology industry, please ask more questions and let the "Future Box Six" become your own eyes and ears, collect information, and then make a decision.

So Bai Quinn asked: "So how does 'Macro Media' support so many programmers?"

He had read the financial data of "Future Wave" before investing. It is free for users to download and install the FSA playback plug-in, and this is how 2 million users come.

Since MSN is the default homepage of many people's IE browsers, when they want to watch the animation pushed by the MSN page, they need to click the play button and agree to download the FSA plug-in. Fortunately, the size of FSA is very small, and most users are willing to accept the time to wait for download and the installation process.

It can be said that MSN. contributes to the vast majority of installation customers.

Since FSA's animation production software has not been fully improved, it does not burn the CD or provide downloads online. Instead, it relies on Michelle and Ralph in the "Six Group" to recommend it to previous customers, install it step by step, and teach users to use it.

When the customer is not proficient in using production software but is in urgent need of updating animations on the web page, it is Adam Grovesick, the artist in the "Six" who completes the animation production on behalf of the customer.

The current "future wave" profit method is these two parts: selling software and making animations, earning tens of thousands of yuan a month is not enough to earn a salary.

Jonathan had some knowledge of "Macro Media" and explained: "They have a set of digital typesetting software that many newspapers and magazines use."

"FreeHand, but their market coverage is not as good as Adobe Il's strategy, so they spent two years developing the HTML web design tool Dreamweaver. I have used a trial version of this thing, which allows people who don't understand code to design web pages. "Macro media" may even go public with it." Charlie Jackson is obviously more familiar with "Macro media".

Bai Quinn continued to ask: "If we get two million shares of 'Hong Media' and wait for it to go public, how much profit can we make?"

"From the financing of "Macro Media", its market value is estimated to be between 80 million and 100 million US dollars. Dreamweaver may double after it goes public. Normal people will take the opportunity to go public under good conditions.

Holding Dreamweaver and Diretor, "Hong Media" will have strong profitability and is one of the few profitable technology stocks and will definitely be sought after by the market.

Our stocks will be closed for sale, and it depends on how the performance of the "Macro Media" during the exercise of rights. If the situation is good, it will be about 4-8 times..." Programmer Robert blurted out and analyzed it well, obviously it had already calculated.

"It's a good deal, kid..." Charlie Jackson persuaded.

He has invested in the "Future Wave" for three years and it is time to harvest.

"Wait!" Bai Quinn got a prompt from Robert's words.

"Netscape has been on the market for more than a year, right?" Bai Quinn asked.

"That's right!" everyone replied.

Technological hero Mark Anderson is the goal of most programmers, and he knows all the big and small things about Netscape.

“Is it profitable?”

"No!" Bai Quinn replied himself without waiting for the others to speak.

"At least I can't make a profit by selling it!"

This refers to Netscape's recent reliance on purchasing some software companies similar to "future waves" to show shareholders a bright future prospect.

Jonathan obviously misunderstood what Bai Quinn meant and said: "A year ago, our software was just in the prototype, and they rejected it. The request to bundle and install our plug-in was also rejected."

Bai Quinn stood up, waved his arms, and said in an excited tone:

“No, I didn’t mean to sell it to Netscape!

I mean, since our software is industry-leading, why don’t we take advantage of the fact that our customers like it and take advantage of the fact that they are crazy about occupying the market?

When our market share is large enough, we can choose to go public or sell the company.

At that time, there were naturally people like Netscape who were not short of money, waving a lot of money and begging us to sell the company to them. Anyway, they would turn their heads and immediately double the money in the stock market.

How many can we sell then?

If we possess the browser of every American netizen, how much do you think they are willing to pay?

Two million?

joke!

Two hundred million!

Even more people are willing to go out!

Our opportunity now is once a lifetime, without competitors, and IE's homepage is promoting us again, which is when we are crazy about occupying the market.

free!

We also have free software production. We want everyone who makes websites to use our software to make animations. In this way, if you want to browse those web pages, you must install our plug-ins!

And I can be sure that as long as we can add MP3 audio tracks, countless people will be willing to use our software to create animations and match them with sounds, which is a real cartoon!

What a big market that is!

If tens of millions of netizens across the United States, even hundreds of millions of netizens around the world, use our software, how much do you think our company can sell?

Two hundred million are less, doubled!

No! Multiply by ten!

As for profit?

Let those big companies find a way to make a profit from Fxxk!

At that time, we were already driving our own yacht and having a party with young models on the sea like Mark Anderson!”

Everyone was shocked by Bai Quinn's vision of planning. At first, I felt whimsical, but when I thought about it carefully, it was not a day-to-night talk. Examples were everywhere:

Cisco's acquisition of Strata cost four billion to see the big deal of these tech companies.

Apple spent 400 million to acquire NeXT.

Microsoft's acquisition of Vermeer, which developed FrontPage, is said to have paid at least $200 million in cash.

It is really too early to sell the company now. When you make the cake bigger, you will get dozens or even hundreds of times the profit when you sell it in the future.

Bai Quinn smiled, and it seemed that the programmer was like a rugby player, and he rushed forward with red eyes and red eyes when he was slightly cheering.

Charlie Jackson is the only person who calms down a little. He is not that he does not believe in Bai Quinn's "view", but considers more reality. "Sorry, QB, I want to say that whether it is expanding market share or iterating new products, we need money. With the current situation, we cannot get rid of our competitors..."

Bai Quinn patted his chest and said, "Isn't it just money? I'll make money! My album has just sold platinum lines, and there is no shortage of money! I can also introduce more influential investors to let more websites use our animations.

Don’t ‘Macro Media’ have thirty programmers? We hire twenty!

Well... no, ten should be enough, right?

First make the FSA client software and download it for free! Then optimize the plug-in to support MP3. Once these two functions are implemented, we will have no competitors, and no one is willing to develop the same products as us without making money!”

Jonathan also said that as long as there is enough manpower, the development progress can be greatly accelerated and product iteration can be achieved quickly.

Charlie's attitude was that as long as he was not allowed to continue to invest, he could wait and see for a while.

Bai Quinn is also considering the instability of how to squeeze out Charlie Jackson.

After the general direction was determined, after a fierce discussion, the development strategy of two steps was finally determined.

In the first step, Bai Quinn immediately invested another million dollars to use it as fund for team expansion, while Jonathan was responsible for leading the team to improve product functions.

At the same time, Bai Quinn took out another million US dollars in cash to buy Jonathan's team and Charlie will jointly transfer 21% of the shares, making him the largest shareholder of the "Future Wave".

The second step is, before the two-month time node, if Jonathan's team completes product development on time, Bai Quinn will receive 5 million investment funds for website construction and server construction. At the same time, Jonathan's team will also get a chance to bet, and after the next development stage is reached, it will repurchase part of the equity and the conditions will be discussed at that time.

The purchase of 21% of the shares in one million cash is significantly higher than the valuation of "Macro Media", which is a negative impact caused by Bai Quinn's "inciting skills".

In this way, both sides were satisfied. Jonathan and the others saw cash and kept their dreams to go further.

If he didn't control the shares, Bai Quinn would rather sell the "future wave" to "Hong Kong Media". He has lost trust in the "Six-man Group". He doesn't want to come again for this "out of control" feeling. It is his attitude that ultimately allows the two sides to reach an agreement.

Bai Quinn could do it immediately after taking out two million dollars, but he had to find another way to spend the next five million dollars, even if he had money, he could not burn it like this.

If the development goes well, he plans to find a guy who can act in line with his own actions and be rich to share the risks, and also lay the foundation for selling the "future wave" in the future.

Naturally, these cannot be told to the "Six-man Group", and Charlie Jackson in the "Six-man Group" still owns 12% of the "Future Wave" even after being diluted, and needs to find a way to kick him out...

Thinking of this, Bai Quinn, who had just signed the agreement drafted by Jerry, smiled unconsciously.

"QB, what are you laughing at?"

Jonathan, who took the document, asked casually.

"Nothing..." A thought flashed in Bai Quinn's mind, so he continued: "I just thought of a new name for our animation software."

"Oh? What?" Jonathan asked.

"FutureSplashAnimator is really hard to remember!" Someone echoed.

Bai Quinn wrote "FutureSplash" on white paper, crossed out the middle part with a pen, leaving only "Flash".

“Flash!”

"This name is good! It is simple and easy to remember, and it can also highlight the characteristics of our products. It downloads quickly, loads quickly, and makes animations quickly!" Everyone praised it.
Chapter completed!