Fight to the third generation

John Zhou just said that he wanted to help, but now he was so distracted that he didn't dare to get involved.

Although I think Roger Cruyff is a capable old colleague, but it is related to the position of senior executives. If he recommends the wrong person, it will implicate his old Zhou. Therefore, I still think it is better to give Su Yehao full power to make the decision .

Roger Cruyff glanced at John Zhou, sighed softly, and explained: "In November last year, my wife had a car accident and spent six days in the hospital. It's a huge blow, but I still have two sons with me, I have to cheer up and take care of them, Mr. Su, don't worry about my state."

"I'm very sorry."

Su Yehao said he was sorry, but he didn't regret exposing someone's scars. This kind of possible problem should be asked clearly.

If the wrong person is selected, the wrong executive is selected, and the impact on TVT is directly related to its development, wouldn't it be asking for trouble.

Until then.

John Zhou chimed in and said: "Mr. Roger Cruyff used to be the vice president of the business department at Microsoft. He has very strong personal ability and rich management experience. Although his subordinates, my former boss, In the end, I chose to lay off my previous project team as a whole, but I have to say that the layoff was actually correct and could not create enough benefits for the company.”

heard.

Su Yehao nodded. Rather than looking for a melon egg that just talks about it on paper, of course a talent like Roger Cruyff is more in line with TVT's current needs.

The expansion of TVT is so fast that there are mistakes one after another. Not only are there bugs, but the server is also paralyzed for several hours. These all indicate that there is something wrong with the management.

Of course.

Su Yehao also knew that he had to bear the blame himself.

Draining traffic from ICQ, which has millions of users, is simply equivalent to stuffing a few cans of milk into the mouth of the baby TVT, and it is no surprise that it is spit up.

When there were three to five thousand users, we could still talk about testing. Now that we serve hundreds of thousands of users, the fewer times the program fails, the better.

This is also the reason why he was willing to spend a full 1000 million US dollars to upgrade the company's data server. In fact, such a good database will not be used in the short term. Out of consideration for a rainy day, he gritted his teeth and made it in one step.

Su Yehao was silent for a few seconds, and then asked: "I don't know what position you want, sir?"

"I heard that the company doesn't have a CEO now? Just call me Roger. I was inclined to the management position before, and I managed more than 600 employees at most. I have confidence in this aspect. In fact, AMD has agreed to let me do product vice. Director, but I want to strive for higher achievements."

Roger Cruyff took out his briefcase while talking, took out a document he had prepared in advance, and continued:

"These are some opinions I wrote after researching ICQ and America Online's development model. My eldest son likes your product because seeing him using this product gave me the idea of ​​giving up entering AMD..."

AMD, that is, the semiconductor manufacturer that was crushed by Intel.

Although the benefits and benefits offered are good, it is just a good job with extremely limited room for advancement.

People without special skills always like to hold on to their jobs, worrying that they won't find other good jobs in the future, and muddling along.

For Roger Cruyff, who has no shortage of food and drink, it is not unacceptable to gamble according to his preferences...

Chapter 356 Returning to Silicon Valley

After looking through the documents written by Roger Cruyff, I found a little way.

In addition to the expansion of channels, Roger Cruyff even thought of certain profit points, such as charging members, and advertising in personal space, etc., which coincided with Su Yehao's ideas.

Being able to hold a senior management position in Microsoft is mostly nothing to say in terms of ability, and the CEO of TVT Network Company has been undecided for a long time. With the continuous recruitment of new employees, there are indeed few who can both show their faces in public and Comprehensive talents with rich experience.

So after Su Yehao asked how much annual salary he wanted, he made an excuse and said that he would hold a meeting to discuss it, and give an accurate answer three days later. In just over ten minutes, the conversation came to an end.

Go out and get in John Chow's Jaguar.

Lao Zhou smiled and said, "Only an annual salary of 40 US dollars? At Microsoft, it was more than a million dollars. Could it be that the semiconductor company that produced chips gave you a very low salary?"

Roger shrugged:

"AMD gave me an annual salary of 70 US dollars, but so what? I joined Microsoft in 1985 when it was too late, and I didn't get an option award. I believe AMD will not give me too many stocks. If I don't seek workarounds, Always a worker."

"...That's right, my boss said that the shares will be transferred before going public, but he invested a lot of money in the company, unlike ordinary start-up teams, maybe he won't give us too many shares."

John Zhou is in his 40s and just wants to be safe.

The current annual salary is 25 U.S. dollars, and he is quite satisfied. Compared with the previous years, the current life is as chic as a fairy.

Although he attaches great importance to the company's shares, he will not be black-hearted, because he knows that his ability is mediocre, and his position is easy to be replaced now. Being the chief operating officer is already regarded as Su Yehao's nostalgia.

In this case, if you are greedy, you may be kicked out.

Roger nodded and said:

"He was not surprised at all when he saw the document I wrote, as if he already knew it. Before you said that he was 20 years old, I thought he would be very impetuous, but this performance is completely different from what I imagined. He is a very calm person. If I If you choose to join other small teams, you can exchange your connections and abilities for 20% of the shares, but the company has no prospects, and these shares are worthless. Your company is different, it has opened the door to victory.”

John Zhou heard him praise Su Yehao's calmness, and at first he felt that it was not suitable, but when he thought about the whole process of starting a business until now, it seemed that there were really no disturbances. He had been clearly arranged by the small boss, and he would listen to all kinds of opinions with an open mind.

When you think about it this way, it's really amazing.

"That's right, Roger, even if you only get 1% of the shares, it is more valuable than many start-up companies. There have been evaluation agencies that have issued a latest valuation of 1 million US dollars. Doesn't 100% mean [-] million US dollars?"

"It can't be calculated like this. It depends on the performance after listing. It is easy to die in the entrepreneurial stage. There are many such examples."

After Roger Cruyff finished speaking, he added: "It's too early to think about these things. It's hard to say whether I will be hired. Give me an answer in three days... Maybe you want to investigate me?"

Lao Zhou didn't comment, but only echoed: "Maybe, it's normal."

"I understand that if I am easily persuaded without any assertiveness or prudence, then I will doubt whether I should join your company..."

……

After they left, Su Yehao contacted ICQ's personnel director as soon as possible to let them know about Roger Cruyff's situation as soon as possible.

Compared with TVT, ICQ's structure is more comprehensive, and its executives are more capable.

The acquisition was completed some time ago, and everyone sat down and held several meetings. Su Yehao and ICQ's executives have met. Although they don't have much contact with each other, he has contact information, and it is not a problem to handle these small matters.

I originally wanted to go to the ICQ headquarters, but my biological clock was out of order, and I was always in a state of dozing off at any time.

Calculated according to the time difference, it was still night in Hong Kong City, just at the time when he was going to wash up and go to bed, which always made him lose his energy.

After being dazed for a while, I simply went upstairs and continued to squint for a while...

Sleep until two o'clock in the afternoon.

Su Yehao got up and went downstairs to find that Nong Qingying was sitting in the garden in the backyard, drinking black tea in a daze.

He smiled and said, "Why are you so stupid, what are you doing?"

"Just sit down, otherwise what can you do?"

Nong Qingying broke away from the state of Buddhism and complained: "You were awake when I was sleeping, and you were sleeping again when I woke up. From 09:30 in the morning to now, I only had lunch and did nothing else, so boring what."

"Oh, woman, you said yesterday that you wanted to live here, and your mind changed so quickly."

Su Yehao had just finished brushing his teeth, and when he drank black tea, he always felt that it smelled like toothpaste, so he simply rinsed his mouth with tea and spit it directly into the flower bed, treating it as artificial watering.

Nong Qingying then told:

"The last time I came, I bought a house and acquired a company. I had a lot of things to do. Today, when I was free, I realized that I didn't know much about English TV. There are often words that I don't understand in the books on your bookshelf. I was planning to go to the supermarket. , I heard it’s two miles away, so it’s really inconvenient to drive there.”

"There is a nanny at home, people who live in this neighborhood, who would go to the supermarket?"

After Su Yehao finished speaking, he said, "Wait a while, I will go to the ICQ headquarters around three o'clock. I haven't seen enough of the companies that have been acquired with so much money."

"By the way, how is this company?"

"What else can it do? There are more and more competitors, and the market is a bit saturated. Generally speaking, there is not much change. We will not know whether we can stand out until the update is completed."

heard.

Nong Qingying nodded: "As soon as your TVT came out, you took away so many users, which shows that other companies also have the opportunity to seize market share from ICQ. It can only be said that the product itself is not interesting enough."

"That's right, that's the reason. Otherwise, why would the former shareholders run away like they were running away? It only took a few days from the end of the negotiation to the signing of the contract. How refreshing."

Su Yehao smiled happily, and said again: "It doesn't matter, save as long as you can. If it really fails, then just pack up ICQ users and force them to transfer to TVT. Not to mention keeping all old users, even If I only keep [-] to [-]%, I won't lose money."

Just chatting, Nong Qingying doesn't think she has the ability to intervene in this level of business.

Su Yehao even helped to pick out the investments that she made on her own, which already explains a lot of things.

After a while.

Su Yehao drove that rare Mercedes-Benz supercar and slowly walked out of the courtyard, even going the wrong way once on the way.

When he came without warning, the new and old employees in ICQ company were startled, caught off guard, and quickly sat back at their workstations, pretending to start working.

This kind of scene made Su Yehao's cheeks twitch, and he thought that he should stay in Silicon Valley for a longer time and keep an eye on it...

Chapter 357

After ICQ's original management collectively chose to cash out and leave, Su Yehao personally selected two executives to take the positions of CEO and CFO respectively.

As for the chief operating officer, he changed from deputy to full-time. Until now, there are still several vacancies being recruited, and the manpower is barely enough.

The best positions were basically absorbed internally, mainly because they were worried about recruiting people from the outside. The departure of the founder team had already caused people's hearts to fluctuate in the company.

Seeing the messy scene just now, Su Yehao was reflecting on whether he was too careless.

After decisively getting an affirmative answer, he walked through the office area silently and walked directly to the office where the senior executives were. There was no one around, and no one even greeted Su Yehao, the new boss.

COO Ryan Allen, in the office at the moment, is on the phone with a friend, happily talking about going to the ball game tonight.

He heard a knock on the door unexpectedly, and said casually, "Come in!"

With an inadvertent glance, Ryan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly put down his legs on the desk. Before he could say hello to the other end of the phone, he hung up the phone in a hurry, got up and smiled, "Su! Long time no see, I heard You have returned to Hong Kong City, and you are considering taking a suitable time to report to you about your recent work, it is great to see you!"

What he said was good, but he obviously didn't mean it.

Su Yehao sighed in his heart. Of course he was dissatisfied with the company atmosphere, but he didn't show his emotions.

Executives like Ryan Allen also held a small amount of shares in the company before, and Su Yehao took them back when he bought them. Money, it is inevitable that there will be some slack.

For example, there are several Ferraris parked downstairs in the company. This kind of car can be bought in the United States for as little as $[-], which is not a big pressure on many executives who have cashed out.

Moreover, the competition among Internet companies is fierce, and the result of the competition for talents is that wages continue to rise.

In the early days of Silicon Valley Internet companies, everyone lived a hard life. With the advent of the Nuggets era, waving banknotes to raise prices crazily, and private equity investors who want to get original shares abound, causing the atmosphere to gradually change. It's exaggerated.

All the equity in ICQ was in the hands of Su Yehao, who was reorganized through a shell company registered in the Cayman Islands, and had the absolute right to speak.

But after getting the equity, he hasn't won the hearts of the people yet, so Su Yehao doesn't want to confront these remaining executives for the time being, and of course he won't offend anyone rashly.

After hearing Rui En's words, Su Yehao said with a smile: "Yes, I just arrived in Silicon Valley yesterday, and I heard the noise outside in the elevator. What are the employees outside doing?"

Keenly aware that something was wrong, Ryan, the chief operating officer, replied calmly:

"At this point in time, let's drink afternoon tea. The Internet business is different from other businesses. If you always let them work, they will be exhausted, and the efficiency of combining work and rest will be higher. This is a job that requires brains."

Su Yehao was overwhelmed by the word "afternoon tea".

But I have to admit that what Ryan said makes sense. An excellent office atmosphere can indeed create high efficiency, but... the question is why it seems so unreliable?

If the balance is not well grasped, easy office work will become lazy, passive and slack.

Not counting these executives, ICQ's annual average employment cost is as high as more than 8 US dollars, and it's not just for people to come to the company for afternoon tea.Su Yehao has already regretted his promise not to lay off employees or raise wages within two years. When he first visited ICQ, the mental state of the employees was not so uplifting. Recently, they have been well-raised.

English is not Su Yehao's native language. After organizing the language, he said to Ryan: "Now is the critical moment of transformation. You should be stricter. Find someone to set some work progress goals. I hope to see them within two months. A brand new ICQ instant chat product."

"Two months? A little too tight?"

"There are only a few people in TVT, and it only took more than a month to develop the TVT software. Could it be that the elites recruited by the company can't even compare with a small team?"

Su Yehao deliberately changed the concept secretly. TVT is improved on the basis of TAT, and the workload is not that big.

But ICQ revision development, is not also based on the current basis.

He felt that the people under his command were too idle. He was too busy playing around before, so he didn't put any pressure on them. He could only hope that it was not too late to make up for it. Otherwise, it might be possible to completely cut off ICQ and merge with TVT directly.

As an executive, taking salary from Su Yehao, Ryan Allen certainly wouldn't be so stupid as to fight against his immediate boss in order to make the employees more comfortable.

With an embarrassed smile, Ryan told: "Okay, I will discuss it with Sturridge later and make arrangements as soon as possible."

"Well, I'll go shopping first, and have a meeting around 04:30..."

Su Yehao has an independent office in the company.

When he passed by large and small offices, people were busy with something, but he didn't see anyone who was immersed in work, but a few seemed to be playing games.

This atmosphere can really be said to be in decline, as if after the company was acquired by him, the entrepreneurial spirit disappeared all of a sudden.

After coming to the chairman's room and sitting down, Su Yehao let out a long sigh. Su Yehao asked Nong Qingying who followed in: "Did you observe and see anything?"

"lazy?"

Nong Qingying said with a smile, and added: "I can also see that you have a word of worry written on your face, which makes you wander around all day long. If you spend more than 3 million US dollars to acquire a company, if it goes wrong, I will feel sorry for you. .”

"Hey, I only take half of this scapegoat, and I have to throw the rest to the management. If I knew I should have been more ruthless at the time, I would have found some energetic newcomers who were short of money. Now it is not easy to make adjustments. , think about what to do."

Following Rui En's example, Su Yehao also put his feet on the desk, and the chair can be tilted backwards. This posture is really comfortable.