Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 149: I have a friend

　　"A meeting?"

　　Orion, who was holding his mobile phone in a cafe in Philadelphia, froze slightly after hearing Woolf's words.

　　Woolf had a helpless look on his face, "Yes, I helped you press the price down to $10 million, and the other party agreed to my offer. However, he said that he couldn't entrust the future of his team to a boss that he hadn't even met, and insisted on meeting with you before signing the contract. How about ...... I arrange for him to come over?"

　　To be honest, Woolf had no other thought than to roll his eyes at that guy's reasoning.

　　Don't talk about the future of the team, there was no future for a research team without funding. The researchers on his team would rather have a new boss and make up for the two months of salary owed to them first.

　　Orion pondered for a moment and said, "No, it's better for me to go over there. It's just as well that I need to see what the equipment over there is really like."

　　Woolf smiled and said, "OK, it's naturally best if you're willing to make the trip yourself."

　　The matter of the experimental equipment had to be taken seriously, and to be on the safe side, Orion still decided to go over and take a look in person.

　　Compared to the researchers themselves, the equipment was what he really needed.

　　In Silicon Valley, where high-tech talent is dense, an annual salary of 100,000 US dollars is more than enough to hire a PhD in the direction of carbon nanomaterials and organic synthesis, and then hire a few lab assistants and interns to do the auxiliary work, so that the research group is well organised, and it is only a question of whether they are skilled or not.

　　However, the equipment is different, it is often millions or even tens of millions of investments.

　　A slightly better SEM scanning electron microscope will cost millions of dollars. Another example is the CVD vacuum tube furnace for the preparation of carbon nanotubes, as well as the vacuum arc chamber commonly used in the preparation of fullerene materials, etc., a full set of equipment down, $20 million is barely enough at best.

　　For cost-saving reasons, ordering new instruments from instrument manufacturers is definitely not as cost-effective as acquiring a ready-made institute.

　　Without spending a particularly high price, he can get a number of inexpensive second-hand equipment, compared to other research institutions out of the second-hand equipment or from unknown sources, these equipment is undoubtedly much more reliable.

　　Not only that, he could also get a group of "skilled workers" who could be directly employed without the need for staff training.

　　After explaining things down, Orion hung up the phone, and immediately looked over at Professor Michelle Pasi, who was sitting across from him, and smiled slightly apologetically.

　　"Sorry to keep you waiting for a long time with the business call."

　　"That's fine, time is a precious thing for a distinguished scholar like you." Michelle Pasi beamed, not mincing her compliments, and continued, "May I begin?"

　　Orion nodded readily, "Of course."

　　One had to admit that the University of Pennsylvania was indeed worthy of being the incubation base for the world's business elite, and both the students and professors here were quite high-level.

　　With her explanation, Orion already had a general framework for the organisational structure of Star Technology's North American branch.

　　Including the functions of the company's various departments, which positions required which types of talents, the employee compensation system, and other things that he needed to think about, she had already taken them into consideration for him.