“Acquire a company?”
Hugo was taken aback by Charlie’s words and spoke up, “Mr. Wade, it would cost at least one billion US dollars if you want to acquire a communication company with a sufficient foundation. Wouldn’t the investment be too high? I’m afraid that it’d be difficult to achieve profitability...”
Charlie shook his head and said, “Profit is not the most important thing. How we can solve our immediate needs is the most important thing.”
With that said, Charlie said again, “Our biggest pain at present is that we are short of time. Not to mention a year or a month, but even if it is a day or an hour, we have to try our best to fight for it. Time is far more important than money.”
Charlie paused for a moment and continued, “If you want to develop at a speed beyond ordinary people, it’s necessary to change the mode of thinking that only solves the immediate needs. It is basically difficult to achieve great things if you’re stuck on how to solve the problem of recruiting people if there is no one or if you can’t recruit people.”
“The prerequisite for doing great things is that the structure must be large enough. When those big companies face the same problem, they will not think about how to build a team from scratch before developing a product. They will think of the solution, that is to buy the right products on the market directly.”
Having said that, Charlie added, “Elon Musk would not waste precious time and energy to create Twitter by himself. Instead, he bought Twitter directly as it is the most economical for him. In truth, we are the same. If you still need to recruit employees one by one, there would be too many variables. Even if you expect to solve the problem in two years, once there is a change in personnel, the time will also become longer.”
“First of all, the recruitment cycle is definitely longer than expected. You can originally plan to recruit enough staff in three months, but it may actually take at least half a year or even longer.”
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