“The future must be promising, but don’t open the champagne half-time. After debugging the product, there are basically no problems. I am confident in this, but it still needs to be tested by the market.”
Lu An looked around the employees present and said methodically:
“In less than 2 months, the 2013 International Rehabilitation Assistance Conference will be held. The equipment exhibition is about to be held, and our next core task is to participate in the exhibition. "
"Then everyone will have to work hard for a while to make a batch of bionic prostheses."
"Now the company's conditions are limited, the funds are limited, and the equipment is limited. It is basically made by hand, and the efficiency is not high. It will take a while for everyone."
"When the company generates revenue and its financial situation improves, we will expand manpower, add new equipment, and build a more complete production line. By then, everyone will be relaxed." Listening to the boss's speech, He Liang, Zhang Wenjie and other employees also nodded.
Lu An smiled and finally added: "As long as the company's financial situation improves, no, I can be more direct and clear. Starting from next year, the salary of everyone present will be increased by 50%, and the previously promised stock options and allotments will also be included."
A wage increase is definitely what workers love to hear.
At this moment, everyone became more and more convinced that they were following the right person, and that the boss was not playing tricks. Although everyone had been treated as cattle and horses in the past few months, the boss also gave real money.
· Originally, the salary in Jianing City was higher than that of peers. After the year, the salary will be increased by 50%. Then everyone’s monthly salary will be over 10,000 yuan.
Furthermore, the boss said that the allotment of shares will follow suit.
The most important thing is that when everyone sees the bionic prosthetic robotic arm on the table, they believe that the company can survive more than when they joined the company, and the pie drawn by the boss has become a real pie.
Lu An continued to say a few words to everyone and then dismissed the meeting. He arrived at his office and everyone performed their duties.
After a while, Meng Qiuyan came to Lu An's office and closed the door.
“The company has less than 800,000 yuan left in its account, which is barely enough to pay wages for three months, not to mention a 50% salary increase for employees next year. Moreover, you plan to produce a batch of prosthetics, but now you have no money to purchase materials.”
Meng Qiuyan moved a chair and sat down next to him, and then said: "You should have asked Qin Yiyun for 10 million before, so that the funds would not be so tight now."
Lu An smiled and said: "No, I have already planned it. The company's current book capital situation is pretty much within the range of my estimate."
Meng Qiuyan looked at him puzzled: "What is this? "What's the situation? "
Lu An said in a deep voice: "Now that these employees are recruited, as members and veterans of Metaverse Intelligent Control's founding team, it's not a big problem if their abilities are lacking. We just need to spend some time cultivating them."
“But they still need to be put through a disguised test. Only after they pass can I regard them as the core backbone and promote and train them as appropriate in the future.”
Meng Qiuyan was slightly surprised when he heard this: "Is there still such a consideration? What are you going to do?"
Lu An smiled and said: "It's very simple, isn't the company just short of money? Didn't I promise them before joining the company that I would share the results with everyone? Ming? There will be a general meeting tomorrow, and I plan to honor my promise and use part of the equity as option allotment, but it will not be allocated for free. They have to spend their own money to buy the options. "
This operation is equivalent to an internal financing for employees within the company, and the investors are the 30 employees of the start-up team.
In this way, not only has the original promise been fulfilled, the company can also solve the current problem of tight funds.
In fact, this is not Lu An’s first initiative. Hua Wei has also conducted similar operations before, also due to lack of funds, but did not want to seek external capital financing, and finally scraped together a sum of money through this method.
Lu An said solemnly: "This matter must be strictly compliant. Don't turn it into an illegal fund-raising, and strictly follow the formal procedures."
This operation not only solves the company's current funding problem, but also provides a disguised test for the start-up team.
If Lu An proposed this option plan a few months ago when the product had no trace, it would be a bit rogue.
Unless you have great trust in him and know his abilities, at that time, no normal person would spend money to exercise options on the company.
But it is definitely different now.
The bionic prosthetic prototype has been built and employees are involved in the process.
Whether it can be successfully sold depends on the verification of the market.
At this time, Lu An came up with the option plan, so it cannot be said to be a hooliganism.
And the issue of option allotment must be carried out before the product is tested by the market.
Because it has not yet been tested by the market, it means that there is still a certain amount of suspense. It may sell well, but it may also fail, so there are still certain potential risks.
If the option plan is given after the sale is really big, it cannot be called a test, but a split of money.
When everyone knows that this is a risk-free and guaranteed profit, and it is definitely a business that makes money without losing money, even if it takes a loan or even a loan shark, it is still necessary to exercise the option and buy up the allotment quota.
Obviously, Lu An wanted to test their courage and courage, as well as their basic vision ability.
The product has already been made, but if you don’t even have this courage and courage, you don’t have this vision and judgment, and you’re not willing to take any risks.
That also means that if you have a big job in the future, you don’t need to spend too much energy on training. You can just be a grassroots employee and get a normal salary. In the future, you can at most climb a few levels based on your qualifications and become a middle-level department manager.
On the contrary, they can be trained and promoted to higher positions for reuse.
If you are willing to spend money to exercise your rights during the company's difficulties and can accept the potential risks involved, then it is appropriate to share more dividends from the company.
After all, while having the courage and courage, he has actually made a greater contribution to the company than others.
Meng Qiuyan asked: "How many option shares do you plan to issue?"
Lu An thought for a moment and then said: "The company's overall valuation is 500 million for option allocation, the total share capital is 100 million shares, and the exercise price At 5 yuan per share, each person can exercise up to 100,000 shares, with a minimum of 20,000 shares. In other words, Lu An has given the 30 people in the start-up team a maximum of 100,000 shares to exercise, with a minimum starting price of 20,000 shares.
Employees can choose between 20,000 and 100,000 shares based on their own economic situation. The company's total share capital is set at 100 million shares. If an employee exercises his rights to acquire 100,000 shares, it is equivalent to using 500,000 yuan to obtain 0.1% of the original equity of Metaverse Intelligent Holdings.
If all 30 employees are employed, that will account for 3% of the company's total equity, and the company will raise 15 million yuan from them.
However, in reality, not everyone will spend 500,000 to buy 100,000 shares. This must be a small number of people. It depends on how these 30 employees choose.
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