Chapter 623 (1/2)
Simon dressed and went to the study next door. Aliya also brought a file bag.
She handed the file bag to Simon, who was sitting on the sofa alone in the reception area. Instead of sitting down beside him, aliya knelt down on the carpet beside Simon's sofa. Her soft body climbed up the armrest of the sofa, like a cat nestling next to the owner, and said, ”this is a piece of information that someone asked me to help introduce. Boss, the other party has a great influence in India, my father I can't refuse. You just have a look. ”
Simon felt aliya's care and just laughed. He didn't mind too much.
In fact, there are many similar things in my family. I was born in a human society, and I'm used to it. Simon's red line is that people around him should not hide from him. Once found out, he won't give him any leeway.
Although she is the top Brahman in India's caste system, aliya's family background is not prominent. Her father is only a law professor at Delhi University in India.
There are not many things in the portfolio, a letter and a beautifully bound Business Introduction Manual. A word on the cover of the manual slightly attracted Simon's attention: Wipro.
Wipro.
In my memory, this is one of the largest software manufacturers in India. Azim premki, the boss of Wipro, was later the richest man in the software industry in India, and once occupied the third place in India's rich list.
The other envelope was a letter from azim premki.
The entrepreneur, who is now one of India's famous tycoons, gave a brief introduction to the cause in his personal letter. The other party thought that the new year's software outsourcing bidding of igritte in March did not really consider Wipro's comprehensive strength. He hoped to get a presentation opportunity to Tim Berners Lee, CEO of igritte.
Later people mentioned India, a strong software industry is an indispensable topic.
In fact, this is a misunderstanding.
India's software industry is not strong, but the software outsourcing industry is strong. The difference is probably the gap between apple and Foxconn. Even many years after the new century, India's software industry is only providing the most basic software service support for the world's major technology giants, and has always been at the lowest end of the industry's food chain.
However, because of the huge demand, abundant and cheap human resources, and the greatest convenience of English as the official language, the export volume of India's software outsourcing industry at its peak was close to 80% of India's total export volume, and the total output value once reached the level of 100 billion US dollars.
In fact, these are all afterwords.
At the present stage, India's software outsourcing industry is still in the initial stage of development, and the services provided are also more low-end, often just simple data classification and content entry. In 1993, the total output value of India's software outsourcing industry was less than 500 million US dollars.
Simon remembers that the acceleration of India's software outsourcing industry benefited from the ”Millennium Bug crisis”.
At the end of 1990s, technology companies around the world provided millions of software outsourcing orders for India in order to modify the Millennium Bug loopholes in almost all early software. This crisis also made the whole world see the advantage of India's cheap software industry labor force.
The Millennium Bug crisis is just the beginning. The real outbreak of Indian software outsourcing industry is after 2000. The collapse of the
Internet bubble has made countless Western technology companies unable to wasteful. In order to survive, they have to find ways to reduce costs. The average salary of employees is only equivalent to that of Silicon Valley engineers, and India suddenly became popular.
At the present stage, igritte can also be described as rich and ambitious.
However, both Simon and several core executives of igrit attach great importance to cost control. Therefore, since 1992, igrit has been leading many other technology companies to cooperate with Indian software outsourcing manufacturers, mainly in the portal website, search engine, e-commerce and other businesses of igrit Content entry and other basic software service requirements.
This part is often just a simple job, such as tagging the search engine website or inputting the product information of Amazon website. If you hire professional software engineers, it will definitely not be worth the loss. Moreover, Silicon Valley can not find so many professionals at this stage. Reducing the standard or hiring part-time jobs can not meet the efficiency problem, and the salary cost is not low, so it is necessary to choose Outsourcing to India is undoubtedly the most important choice.
You know, this kind of seemingly simple job requires certain professional skills. If it's in the United States, even if it's not in Silicon Valley, where the labor cost is very expensive, the monthly salary of two or three thousand dollars can't run, while in India, the annual salary of the same type of employees is less than 1000 dollars.
Such a gap is not exaggerated at all.
By comparison, it is clear that China, which is adjacent to India in this era, has a better economic development. The average monthly salary of Chinese wage earners is only 300-500 RMB, even if calculated according to 5000 RMB annual salary, it is less than 700 US dollars.
This advantage of human cost makes Bezos and others attach great importance to the cooperation with Indian software outsourcing manufacturers from the very beginning. With the continuous improvement of Internet infrastructure and more convenient remote communication, this cooperation is also strengthening.After several years of explosive growth, coupled with the expanding talent gap in Silicon Valley, igritte's total software outsourcing volume in 1994 is expected to reach 300 million US dollars. Although the orders that can be delivered to Indian manufacturers account for only 70% of the total outsourcing volume for all reasons, the total output value of more than 200 million US dollars of software outsourcing orders in the past year is less than 500 million US dollars India's major software manufacturers, with a total of US $100 million, are fighting for the target at all costs.
After all, getting an order from igritte represents not only a huge amount of revenue, but also a potential gain in corporate popularity. With the label of ”partner of igritte company”, when soliciting business from other technology companies, the probability of reaching cooperation will definitely increase significantly.
In the study of Woodside villa.
Simon read azim premki's letter, while reading the other side's carefully prepared Business Introduction Manual, his mind began to spread.
If aliya introduced someone else, Simon would only deal with it a little and didn't intend to pay any attention.
Because of the limited time and energy, Simon is only responsible for controlling the general direction of igritte and many other companies within the westero system, and does not interfere in specific management decisions as much as possible.
However, since he can be the richest man in India's software industry in the original time and space, azim premki can make Simon an exception.
Over the years, one of the main secrets of the rapid development of the westero system is Simon's investment in people.
Whether it's the movie talents that danelis entertainment ”trained” in advance according to Simon's memory, or the executives of westero system such as Jeff Bezos and Raymond Smith, they are all the people who once shine brilliantly in Simon's memory. To a certain extent, these people have proved that they have the potential to lead the enterprise to glory. Coupled with Simon's rich resource support and the right direction of development, they finally created everything in the westero system.
Azim premki, obviously, has similar potential.
Making up his mind, Simon went on.
With the outbreak of the Internet industry, the total gap of science and technology talents in Silicon Valley has reached more than 300000 at this stage. The result of various science and technology companies trying to strive for talents is naturally a substantial increase in the industry's salary level. Igrit is currently recruiting software engineers with a minimum annual salary of $50000.
On the other hand, because of the strict immigration policy of the United States, a large number of excellent software engineers from many other countries in the world are kept out of North America.
The fact that these people can't enter the United States doesn't mean that they can't serve Silicon Valley. The biggest advantage of the information age is that they can pull in the distance between people in terms of communication. Moreover, since igritte has a large demand for software outsourcing, so should many other technology companies suffering from the talent shortage in Silicon Valley.
In this case, igrit may be able to create a specialized software outsourcing platform to build a cooperation bridge between Silicon Valley and potential partners around the world, which will definitely be a big business.
Most importantly, it can also create a huge number of jobs for the United States and the world.