The first thousand and ninety-seventh chapters are indeed favored over the other
At the end of the meeting, the news that the company was going to build a new headquarters quickly spread throughout the company, and the company immediately became lively. Everyone gathered together to discuss their own headquarter design plan.
More people were very interested in the concept of amusement park proposed by the boss at the conference, especially the suggestions of the pixel block building of "Minecraft" discussed later made everyone feel interesting.
Buying land, design plans, and modular buildings takes less than a year, or even half a year, it may be possible to move into a new headquarters, which makes the coders who have long had enough of the crowded working environment very happy.
The employees of the app mall next door, who also received the news, were chattering with envy and jealousy. Everyone was crowded in a broken building, so there was definitely nothing to compare with, but they were about to spend money to build a headquarters, and the software mall, which also had good money-making ability, was a little tired of it.
Not only ordinary employees felt depressed, but a group of executives also squeezed into EO Michael Wright's office and strongly demanded to get involved. They also knew that if they had money, they would definitely not be able to compare with the game company that was like running 12 money printing machines to make money. They did not expect to build a headquarters building alone, but their software mall could jointly build a headquarters with the game company.
Michael Wright pondered for a while, feeling that the idea was very feasible, and immediately ran to the office of the big boss upstairs next to the building and asked to cooperate with the game company.
"Blair, our two are strategic alliances. We will pay $100 million to cooperate with you to build a headquarters park. We will use it together and continue to be neighbors!"
"Michael, we really don't lack money..."
Andy looked down at the financial statements of the two companies, ignoring the eOs of the two companies sitting opposite him, and it was not appropriate to favor either with his left or right hand.
However, he really doesn't want the Free City app mall to get involved in the construction of the headquarters park. For the app mall, he will sooner or later raise funds, and even sell it to Google to win over the other party, and directly ask the other party to give up setting up an app mall alone.
Once he chooses to raise funds, although he is still the boss, there will be many more shareholders. He doesn't want this group of shareholders to take advantage of the game company.
"Boss, look..." Blair was a little moved by Michael's trick. Of course he was willing to spend less money. Moreover, they were both big boss companies, and the relationship between the two companies was very close. When the headquarters was built, there would be nothing wrong with the two companies working in the same building.
Andy looked up at Michael, who was eager to look at him, pondered for a moment and said, "The software mall can spend 100 million to help the game company build its headquarters. After the headquarters is completed, you will leave two floors for you to design your own design, but you will pay a little rent every year and deduct it directly from that 100 million. If there are any changes in the future, the rent will be discussed separately."
Hearing the boss's words, Michael Wright immediately understood the boss's mind. He knew that this was the boss's guard against future financing. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, glanced at him and looked sorry. I loved Blair who could not help but complain in my heart.
"Sure enough, we are never as good as our own son! We are completely partial!"
"That's it. By the way, Michael, how are you preparing for the consumption lottery event?" Andy made the final decision. He didn't want to continue to discuss the issue of headquarters, but asked about the software mall's promotional lottery event.
"The plan has been basically completed. This event will be many. For example, every $10 spent, you can get a lottery opportunity. The lowest prize is also a five-dollar shopping mall coupon. There are also the 10,000 customers and the 20,000 customers who consume after the event starts... Users who download the consumer in units of tens of thousands will get a 1,000 US dollar shopping mall coupon. For this event, we have customized a large number of limited edition products for the event, such as game peripheral T-shirts, dolls, mouse pads, headphones, mice, etc., which can be purchased with the use coupons or redeemed with consumption points."
Hearing Michael's report, Andy couldn't help but lit up his eyes, nodding with satisfaction and said, "A good plan, we need to handle copyright issues well. With so many peripherals, don't have copyright disputes, don't owed copyright fees, and let all developers understand one thing, that is, our software mall is a sales platform that is safe, reliable, trustworthy, and can bring them a steady stream of benefits."
"I understand, we also hope that through this promotion activity, our customers can improve their personal information, analyze their preferences based on their consumption records, and prepare for targeted pushing game advertisements in the future..."
Hearing this, Andy couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. These guys were all humans and began to pay attention to the big data information database.
After thinking for a while, Andy stood up and said to Michael: "Let's go and go to your side to see. I will not favor one or the other when it comes to the construction of the headquarters of Mockingbird Games. When building, it will be built according to the standards of the two companies. When it is right, it will be rebuilt the headquarters for you."
Michael understood the boss’s plan for the boss, so he naturally would not have any objection, “I understand the boss.” ...
If you want to build a headquarters, you naturally need a large enough piece of land. For Mockingbird Games, which is not short of money, the cheap land price is at the bursting period of the US real estate bubble, so you will naturally choose the bigger the better.
Although a company headquarters building that can carry 5,000 people is built, the area required is larger because it is a low building building.
When the San Francisco city government, who learned that the newly-rise Andy Smith's game company was going to build a company headquarters, naturally supported and welcomed the implementation of this project in San Francisco, after all, it could solve many jobs.
However, in the face of the 50-acre park land area required by the game company, the San Francisco city government, which has given the green light all the way, was a little confused. Damn, is this going to build a spacecraft?
A company headquarters with a capacity of 5,000 people has a dozen acres of land. The problem is that Andy will not miss this opportunity to take advantage of the situation and will not give discounts. Sorry, at worst, we can choose a county and city that can give preferential prices for land.
As for building the headquarters on the current company's original site, everyone, including Andy, never thought that the land price in downtown San Francisco is not cheap, and it also involves demolition issues. Damn, the cost is too high.
Want to solve the jobs, leave high-quality taxpayers, and drive regional consumption... The San Francisco city government sold a piece of land in the suburbs of the city to Mockingbird Games, and the city council quickly passed the deal.
The land has been settled, and the next step is to invite several large design companies in the United States. Those design companies still attach great importance to the design bids for Mockingbird headquarters, which are already well-known game companies in the United States.
Mockingbird Games has been so famous in the past year or more. Whether it is the sandbox game "Minecraft", which is popular all over the world and has made many architectural designers very popular, or the series of "Plant", "Anger Birds" and "Fruit Swordsman" that all have a lot of sales and download rankings, they have made this game company, the youngest billionaire Andy Smith, famous.
It is definitely an attractive thing to design a headquarters for such a company. The headquarters design plan of a well-known company will undoubtedly improve the designer's reputation in the industry.
After the design invitation was sent out, this matter had nothing to do with Andy for the time being. He had already expressed his concept and perfection was the work of the designers. There will be several rounds of screening and competition. Whether it is the first round of auditions or the second round, Andy will not participate. He will only make decisions in two to three plans in the last round, so that he will not be determined by preconceived preferences.
Chapter completed!