Chapter 288 Not All Students Are so Lucky

"...Ah, I feel like I missed the whole world."

In a certain office of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Chen Yushan lay weakly on the table, with a look of lovelessness on her face.

It's been two weeks since New Year's Day, and the Spring Festival will be two weeks later. However, she still feels a little bitter about not being able to attend the Christmas party.

Compared with her master tutor at Yanda, the tutor at the University of Pennsylvania is almost Spartan strict with her students. Since she came here, there are always endless subjects waiting for her, and she will never be idle.

At the beginning, this kind of life made her feel very fulfilled, after all, she did learn a lot.

But as time went on, even her enthusiasm for working in management began to grow too much.

Chen Yushan believes that her own situation is definitely an exception, because most of the international students studying at Wharton Business School expressed sympathy for her experience.

Although everyone is also working as free labor for tutors, few people are as exaggerated as she is.

At this moment, the door of the office opened, and Ms. Michel Passy in a fur collar came in.

This exquisite strong woman cleaned herself up very well, and her professional makeup well concealed the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes.

Glancing at the students lying on the table, she said with a blank expression.

"I'm going to meet with a client in a while. Are you ready for the chart about Huaguo's market research on lithium battery anode materials?"

Chen Yushan, who was lying on the table, weakly opened the drawer and took out the USB flash drive: "It's basically finished."

Management is a very broad discipline, which means that its business scope can be very narrow or very broad.

Maybe we are still planning the company's organizational structure today, and tomorrow we will start collecting data for the research of Huaguo's lithium battery anode material market. According to the different requirements of customers, the types of services they provide will also be different.

Although the content outsourced by the AM firm is only the former, Ms. Passy noticed very keenly that the cooperation agreement between Starry Technology, which was established in the Cayman Islands, and Umicore, Belgium, does not include the vast Huaguo market.

For her, this was undoubtedly a surprise discovery. To conduct market research and formulate an intellectual property licensing strategy that maximizes the benefits, all these require the help of a professional like her.

Providing customers with "value-added services" in this form can be said to be one of the ways for her to expand her business scope.

After all, business will not come to you by itself. For an excellent Wall Street elite, what is needed is not only the ability to meet customer needs, but also the ability to help customers find what they need.

After taking the USB flash drive from Chen Yushan's hand, Ms. Passy put it into her bag and said with a blank expression.

"I will check your homework. As for now, you go to sleep first. By the way, say hello to Rose and me, and ask her to hand in the report as soon as possible. The deadline is tomorrow."

Of course, Chen Yushan would not take her words as sympathy for herself. The subtext of this sentence is nothing more than resting to work better.

"Okay professor, I'll go right away."

Responding weakly, she stood up from the desk and staggered towards the door.

...

Meanwhile, far away in northern California on the west coast of the United States, at a small research institute on the edge of Silicon Valley, Professor Sarot is facing the most difficult time of his life.

Facing the man sitting in front of him, the fifty-year-old man with his neck swollen red, argued fiercely.

"...Our team has a world-class level in the field of organic synthesis! Cornell University provides us with technical support, do you understand what this means? You want to buy my team for 10 million dollars, how do you Aren't you going to rob a bank?"

Sneering at the professor's statement, Woolf just smiled and said in a joking tone: "Of course I know that Cornell University, one of the Ivy League schools, has given birth to 54 Nobel Prizes, and there are as many professors there... ...but what does that have to do with you?"

Looking at Professor Sarot who was frozen there, Wulf continued slowly.

"And as far as I know, under normal circumstances, professors at Cornell University don't worry about funding issues, and they don't specially set up their companies in Silicon Valley on the west coast. Then, I would like to ask Professor Sarot, how much is the salary for this month? Yet?"

The psychological price given by the employer is 20 million US dollars. The lower the price can be lowered, the higher the commission he can get.

If it wasn't for the fact that there were still a few valuable devices, he wouldn't even want to pay a penny.

In the service of science?

No no no, that's just an ad.

AM Firm is of course serving the rich.

Sarot blushed and didn't speak.

If it is a person who is completely ignorant of Huyou, he can speak clearly and logically, and even fight with his peers at the MRS meeting in front of investors, he can not lose the wind at all.

But when encountering an investor like Woolf who knows something about this industry, his little cleverness will not work.

After all, when professional knowledge can't play a role, Woolf's negotiating ability is enough to blow up his "layman" in the business field.

In fact, Woolf did hit his soft spot.

The reason why the company is located in Silicon Valley, rather than Ithaca, New York, is because it is easier to get funding.

In materials science, those famous professors usually do not do this, because funding is not a problem for them, and many companies are willing to cooperate with them, and they need talents more than funding.

Unlike materials science and the computer industry, the talent density in Silicon Valley is definitely not comparable to that near universities such as Cornell University.

As for Sarot...

He could still get funding a few years ago. After all, it was the golden age of lithium-air batteries, and the heat was almost hot.

Microsoft jumped in, IBM spent real money, Tesla, a company that makes new energy vehicles, and even the US Department of Energy almost jumped in... This direction seems to never lack funds, and a local tyrant has been cheated , There will be new local tyrants queuing up to follow.

However, in recent years, the situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

In particular, the paper published by P.G. Bruce (P.G. Bruce) in the field of lithium-air batteries on "Natural Chemistry" two years ago was criticized by another big cow, and no one could repeat his results, which made the final This Professor Bruce was almost out of luck at the end of the day.

Although most people believed that it was an "honest mistake", they had already labeled Bruce an "old liar" in their hearts, and even the entire lithium-air field was hit hard.

Sarote is only a calf in the field of lithium and air. He could have a drink of soup with the big cows, but now the big cows are hard to protect themselves, forcing him to come out and invest by himself.

To be honest, with the current financial situation of his research team, not to mention doing experiments and publishing papers, even researchers' salaries cannot be paid.

"It seems that you still need to think about it for a while..." Seeing that Professor Sarot was still holding on, Woolf shrugged and stood up from the sofa, "I'll go around."

Seeing that the opportunity was about to slip away from his hands, Sarot changed several thoughts in an instant.

Finally, he couldn't sit still anymore and spoke out.

"Wait a moment."

After stopping in his tracks, Woolf turned around and asked in a relaxed tone, "Have you changed your mind?"

Sarot whispered: "You villain."

Woolf laughed: "Each to each other."