The Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

When Ferrari shifted its attention away from Maserati and paid more attention to its own company shares, Tommaso started negotiations with Yang Dongxu after hesitating for two days.

100% control of the shares is the premise. Under this premise, the only thing that hinders the acquisition is the amount. Tommaso packaged and sold all the shares in his hand and offered a price of one billion US dollars.

This price is undoubtedly inflated. After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Maserati is going downhill. Since Tommaso wanted to get rid of this burden at this time, he still offered such a high price, which undoubtedly made people feel insincere.

However, Tommaso has his own considerations for expelling the price. First of all, Maserati has more than 300 engineers and nearly 500 workers, and there are still many patents on automotive technology. Of course, compared with Ferrari, these technical patents may be behind. A grade, but for China, it is absolutely high-tech.

With the current technical barrier policy adopted by Europeans against China, Tommaso has already shown his sincerity by offering a price of one billion US dollars.

"If you insist on this price, you can keep these technologies and production lines that you think are very valuable. I only need Maserati's engineers, as well as workers on the car assembly line and company management. Let's calculate the prices of these things." After talking for three days, after Tommaso insisted on the price and refused to back down, Yang Dongxu directly threw out this sentence.

The expression on his face was a little impatient, as if you would sell it or not, and if you didn't sell it, you would be knocked down.

To be honest, some of Maserati's automobile technologies are indeed what Yang Dongxu wants, but he is not so urgent about these technologies. He has almost emptied all the databases of a large automobile and a heavy industry from the Soviet Union. What does he want now? No technology?

He chose to acquire Maserati because he mainly wanted to use this shell. He has dug a large number of engineers from the Soviet Union, but not all the workers. That is to say, he has no production lines and technology, but no skilled workers.

If we cooperate with domestic automobile companies, there is a gap in technology after all. It takes a long time for domestic automobile companies to digest these technologies, and he doesn't want to wait.

Therefore, he hopes to buy Maserati at a certain price, use Maserati's mature production line and management to form his own car company, and then let Maserati's engineers and the engineers he dug a strong alliance to digest the manual in a short period of time. The technology here pushes the company to a new level.

Before the acquisition, he had already made a plan. One-third of the engineers and technologies he dug out would be placed in Italy, and the other two-thirds would be placed in China, and Maserati would be the parent company to cooperate with domestic auto companies. , while digesting these technologies together, use the shell of a Sino-foreign joint venture to expand the domestic market as soon as possible.

To be honest, if he hadn't had no confidence in domestic auto companies, he wouldn't have gone around and found a foreign auto company to take the initiative.

This lack of confidence is not because Yang Dongxu, who is a Chinese, looks down on his own country, nor is it because he is adoring foreigners and thinking that Maserati can digest technology that domestic car companies cannot digest.

But the facts are right in front of our eyes. Now that the Soviet Union is about to disintegrate, all kinds of technologies in Ukraine are like Chinese cabbages that don’t cost money.

In the previous life, there was no talented person who took a fancy to the car and dug advanced technology and talents from the Soviet Union? Obviously there must be some. When Yang Dongxu was digging these talents, he met several compatriots who were worth a lot of money.

Since the previous life also dug up these automotive technical talents and production lines, then the problem came. With the Soviet Union, a superpower that can compete with the United States, there are many technologies to support it, so why did the domestic automobile companies develop in a mess in the previous life?

Such a huge automobile market cake allows various foreign automobile brands to gallop. When Yang Dongxu is reborn, domestic automobiles will not be able to lift their heads in their own territory?

What is the specific reason for this? Yang Dongxu didn't study it in his previous life, so he doesn't know. But as long as he is not blind, he knows that this pit is a bit big, so he tried hard to avoid this pit by acquiring a foreign car company that is not bad.

Otherwise, he is not stupid, he has enough US dollars in his hand, whether he wants talents or technology, or even some heavy industrial equipment to go to the Soviet Union, he will go to Italy to buy Maserati when his brain is convulsed.

A Chinese doesn't even want technology!

Aren't they willing to pay a high price for any technology, no matter how many years it has been eliminated? Why is this Chinese person I met so strange?

The confused Tomasot asked about Yang Dongxu's origin, although he didn't find out anything specific. But now, as long as the whole world is capable, they are sharpening their knives to pull the Soviet Union's wealth. The other party does not want their own technology, and their country is so close to the Soviet Union. Thinking with his ass, he also understands the reason for this.

Now Tommaso is a bit on the wax. Ferrari’s acquisition of Maserati’s price is not high, because the two companies have too much overlap. If these overlaps are removed, Maserati’s own bright spots will not be many, so Ferrari naturally does not want to buy Maserati. What high price will be offered.

Originally thinking that Yang Dongxu had nothing here and wanted to sell it at a high price, but now his technical reserves are not bad. Compared with technical people, they seem to value front-line workers and middle-level managers of the company more, and they can even set up their own without even the production line.

Excluding all kinds of unnecessary technologies and fixed assets, although Yang Dongxu's demands are bigger than Ferrari's, it is obviously impossible to sell the company at the price he expected before.

With this understanding, Tomasu seemed to be more sincere in the next negotiation. After all, removing those technical reserves and engineers, Yang Dongxu had too many car companies to choose from. The other car companies I have contacted are stronger, but the strength is limited.

Yang Dongxu chooses other car companies, at most it is a waste of time to digest. If this time only costs a little money, Yang Dongxu will definitely be willing to pay to save it. If it costs too much, then he would definitely rather waste a little more time.

So after talking back and forth for two days, I roughly figured out how much Yang Dongxu was willing to pay for this time. Tommaso held on to the 750 million US dollars and did not let go. Yang Dongxu agreed to the purchase amount after thinking about it for a day.

The acquisition amount has been negotiated, and Yang Dongxu will have nothing to do next. The technical and personnel acceptance, the transfer of the company's various assets, and the specific details of the technical transfer, there is no need for him to worry about professional people.

What he has to do now is to go to the R\u0026D department with Zhou Ya to gather all my engineers for a meeting, and then raise everyone's salary by 10%, and at the same time, come up with a few good technologies The data are kept in the research room.

With such a double insurance, if there are still engineers who want to leave, then he will readily ask someone to go through the resignation procedures for him. He lacks everything, but at the moment there is no shortage of engineers. At worst, he can dig some from the Soviet Union. Although these engineers must have a process of adaptation, he can afford this time.

The R\u0026D room settled down and went to the factory again. The same salary increase, and the promise of options for workers and middle management at the same time, as for the company's top management, Yang Dongxu is still in the process of investigation.

In order for the company to be stable and excessive, the top management must retain a certain proportion of the number of people, but absolutely not all of them, whether it is the possibility that these senior management may appear to ostracize Yang Dongxu as an old man, or they must reserve a lot of positions to train themselves It is impossible for all of these people to stay.

But before cleaning up those people and leaving those people behind, Yang Dongxu called these people together for a meeting.

"What kind of technology and capital do I have? After more than half a month of negotiations, you all know more or less. Since I bought the company with full rights, some of you high-level people must leave. "Yang Dongxu said directly without beating around the bush.

Such Chiguoguo words caused some commotion in the conference room, and many people looked a little unhappy. To be honest, leaving aside the uncomfortable point that a Chinese has become his own boss, none of the seven senior executives present here is willing to leave Maserati.

It would be bullshit to talk about feelings, but reluctance is certain. Because just as Yang Dongxu said, what capital does he have? The high-level executives here don't talk about Men Qinger, but at least they can see the possibility of Maserati's glory again.

Working in a very promising company, whether it is your future salary or development prospects, there is no doubt about it, so naturally no one wants to leave.

"I won't talk about the people who left, but let me talk about the conditions for those who stay. First, I hope that people who are related to the government can recommend themselves. After all, the company's development in the future will definitely be inseparable from the support of the government.

Second, I hope that the people who stay have certain contacts and resources in the industry. After all, if the company wants to develop, it is impossible to produce everything by itself. We need the perfect cooperation of the upstream and downstream industrial chains.

Thirdly, I want market talents. I don’t need you in China, but I need a talent who can expand the market in Europe. We will not give up the Italian market, but it is not necessary for the company to go out and compete with Ferrari. Wise choice. "

As soon as Yang Dongxu's three requirements came out, the meeting room fell into silence. Everyone frowned and thought about which of the three conditions they were suitable for staying. The three conditions are very euphemistic, but the meaning expressed is very direct.

"Okay, that's the end of today's meeting. Who here wants to stay, please decide which condition is suitable for you. Then we can make an appointment to have a good talk in private." Yang Dongxu stood up, smiled and left meeting room.

After Yang Dongxu left, several high-level executives of the company did not leave. Everyone stopped thinking and looked at each other instead.

"Cunning Chinese." A big-nosed person sitting on the top left couldn't help but snorted.

Firing top managers is sure to please middle managers because they see room for improvement, but it's sure to be painful for the company to leave at the top.

But now Yang Dongxu kicks the ball left behind by whoever goes away, directly back to the feet of these high-level executives, which will undoubtedly simplify the pain to the weakest. At the same time, those who stay can be sure that they can use it, at least for now useful.