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…So you combine to one business development organization, 80=ish people. Yeah. We had Mark Liu in charge of the advanced, and C.C. Wei in charge of the question of who’s going to be in charge of what. Well, you need only one for the combined operations. You only need one person. The truth is that we had a lot of operational talents. Operation meaning manufacturing, taking developed technology from R&D and converting into mass production. We had a lot of talents there, business development or marketing there, and neither Mark nor C.C. had any real previous experience in marketing business development. That was my main worry now. We combine the two groups. We need a combined operations manager. Even more importantly, in my mind, we needed a combined market business development manager. I first offered the marketing business development job to the guy who was in the bigger job events technology, Mark. I explained to him that I did not think he had had any significant marketing experience in the past. This new job, if he takes it, would give him the op opportunity of being professioned in the area. He declined it. He said, my goodness. I have 10,000 people reporting to me now. You want me to take a job that has only 60 or 70 people in it? That was the end of that conversation. And your goal was for him to become a well-rounded executive, in hopes of leading the company after he did that tour of duty.…

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