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Chapter 42: Company expansion! (recommended)

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Since the October 1 issue of "Popular Electronics" magazine, Li Zetian and Zhang Yan have been so busy answering the phone that they didn't even have time to eat dinner. At 8 o'clock in the evening, the two decided to rest.

Zhang Yan took two sips of water and said, "Boss, I've said all my words, let's recruit some people! For things like answering the phone, just recruit two female customer service staff!"

Li Zetian smiled and said: "I want to chat with customers in person, so that I can get accurate feedback from users and find out their potential needs! This will help us develop Apple's second-generation personal computer! As for recruiting, Don't worry, I've already advertised in the newspaper and asked them to meet tomorrow, including customer service, engineers, front desk, etc... After dinner, I'll take you to a place!"

"Um!"

The two then went to the restaurant near the garage to have a big meal. After eating, Zhang Yan asked, "Boss, where are we going now?"

"Go to our company's new office location!"

Hearing this, Zhang Yan was overjoyed, "Boss, do you mean that we are going to move out of the garage?"

Li Zetian nodded, "Yes, that's right! We are going to expand, and the garage is no longer enough for us! Go and bring the car over, we'll set off immediately!"

"Okay, boss, wait a minute!!!"

Zhang Yan quickly walked to the parking lot of the restaurant.

Li Zetian smiled, Zhang Yan almost became a full-time driver, but who told me that the boss didn't have a car!

Half an hour later, the black Ford stopped in front of an office building on the outskirts of San Jose. The whole office building is 4 stories high and covers an area of more than 500 square meters. There are two large oak trees planted in front of the door, and flowers and plants are planted around it. The environment is pleasant!

"No, boss, this building is ours?"

"What are you thinking? When did I become so rich? Look aside!!!"

Zhang Yan looked at the place pointed by Li Zetian, and next to this building was a small red brick house. Although it was only one storey high, its area was four or five times larger than the garage.

Li Zetian said: "The surrounding environment is good. We temporarily moved the company headquarters to that small house. When we make money, we will occupy the next office building!"

"Definitely! I like this place so much!! It's quiet, the air is good, and there is a gurgling river behind the house, how pleasing to the eye! By the way, you can go swimming in summer!!!" Zhang Yan said excitedly.

Li Zetian smiled and said, "You can swim, but remember to wear swimming trunks. There will definitely be many female employees in our company in the future! Well, let's not talk about this, let's take you to see our new headquarters!!!"

"Um!"

Pass under the two large oak trees, then turn right, walk up a meadow, and come to the new headquarters.

Li Zetian took out the key to unlock it, and then pushed open the door.

The decoration style inside adopts the more popular and cost-saving decoration style after the 21st century (saving money is the key), as soon as you enter it is a reception desk, and then go forward, it is an open office, no doors, no partitions, and employees' desks. Integrate the entire office into one. In addition, there is no ceiling treatment on the roof, and objects such as water pipes and air conditioners are directly exposed to the outside. Some graffiti enthusiasts are invited to paint some paintings for free on the walls, and ceramic tiles are used on the ground. Of course, senior staff have independent offices, and glass screens are used, which not only have good visual effects, but also increase indoor brightness.

"Oh, boss, you designed this?!" Zhang Yan exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes! How do you feel?"

"It's amazing!!! The design of this office is simple and beautiful, which is very consistent with the design concept of our Apple company, and it is worthy of being made by the boss!!!"

Li Zetian smiled. In the 21st century, there are many such designs, which are commonplace and not surprising.

"Boss, when did you rent this place?"

"More than half a month ago, Apple-l entered the test. While contacting the accessory manufacturer, I took the time to choose a new company headquarters. At 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, all applicants will come here for interviews. If I go to the garage, That shows how shabby our company is!!!”

"Oh, yes!" Zhang Yan nodded.

Afterwards, the two stayed here for about ten minutes before leaving.

The next morning, Li Zetian and Zhang Yan arrived at Apple's new headquarters early.

After the publicity of "Popular Electronics" yesterday, Apple is no longer an obscure small company, but a very innovative technology star. Hundreds of applicants have come one after another, and many of them are very skilled computer experts. The developers of Apple-l admired and thought that a company that could develop a product like Apple-l must be extraordinary. This is the company they want to join!

Excellent companies select talents, and equally, excellent talents are also selecting companies!

Apple has undoubtedly become the most innovative new company of the moment, and naturally attracts a lot of ideas.

Li Zetian attaches great importance to technology, so the corporate culture will naturally tend towards the engineer culture, so this time the talent recruitment is mainly to recruit engineers.

In order to ensure the quality, Li Zetian is personally responsible for the recruitment process, and strictly controls it. In line with the principle of preferring shortages rather than excessive use, not only outstanding talents, especially in the early stage of the company, must be carefully selected, because these people come to the company first and will develop into the mainstay of the company in the future!

At 9 o'clock, the recruitment activity started, but it almost made a big joke.

All the candidates were stunned when they saw Li Zetian sitting in the chair of the interviewer.

Who is this young man

Isn't he the interviewer

Unexpectedly, Li Zetian shocked everyone when he opened his mouth.

"Hello everyone, I'm Apple CEO - Chronos Lee!"

Is he the CEO of Apple? !

Everyone looked at each other! I'm afraid he hasn't graduated from high school yet

Li Zetian said lightly, "Since I'm sitting here, I'm the CEO of a fake. If any of you don't believe me, you can leave now!"

Seeing that everyone did not speak, Li Zetian announced: "Apple's recruitment activities have officially started. Those who apply for engineers will take a written test here. Those who pass the written test will be interviewed in the afternoon. The applicant company's customer service and front desk will follow me to the other room. …”

Zhang Yan felt depressed. His title was Apple's chief technology officer, but he went to recruit customer service MM and front desk lady...

Seeing Zhang Yan's reluctance, Li Zetian couldn't help but feel amused, and thought to himself, are you still unwilling to let you deal with sexy and beautiful customer service MM? How many people want to go without this opportunity!

Zhang Yan stood up and took more than a dozen young and beautiful girls to another room.

Since Apple's scale is not large, Li Zetian can hold several positions such as CEO, human resources director, financial director, sales director, etc. In fact, he only needs customer service, front desk and engineers now! There are only a few people in the company, can Li Zetian still manage it? When the company develops and grows, it is not too late to go to other companies to poach people!

At the end of the day, Li Zetian only recruited 7 people: 2 customer service MMs, 1 front desk lady and 4 engineers.

These four engineers are all top students of the Ivy League schools in the United States, and graduated from Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.

"Although I dropped out of college, thousands of Ivy League students will work for me in the future!!!"

Li Zetian couldn't help but the corners of his mouth rose and he laughed.

After dinner, Li Zetian asked Zhang Yan to count the orders for Apple-l in the past two days. In the end, there were 150 orders in total!

"Each Apple-l computer costs $2,000, and 150 is $300,000! Boss, in two days, we made $300,000!!!" Zhang Yan couldn't help shouting excitedly.

Li Zetian calmed down a lot, thinking, this is just the beginning, and he will earn more in the future!

Apple's products in previous lives have always been highly profitable, and this one is no exception.

The hardware cost of an Apple-l is actually less than $500, and the profit can be as high as $1,500! Of course, the reason why it is so expensive is because it mainly sells technology, innovation and taste! Apple does not have its own factory yet, otherwise, the manufacturing cost can be reduced! However, as long as the funds arrive, Li Zetian will definitely start to build his own factory!

PS: Tomorrow is Monday, the last time to hit the new book list, as long as there are votes and rewards, the update will not be slow