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When colleagues in the group heard that Sina wanted to poach an entire team, and that it was going to be in their old business, they were all very excited. They asked Xu Bin in the group about the details, including Sina's project progress and how they planned to deal with Haobo Technology, a newcomer that dominated the instant messaging field.

Xu Bin said: "I don't know too much about the details. The project is still in the confidentiality stage and not many specific details have been revealed. But they can have a face-to-face meeting, so I plan to go to Beijing next Monday to talk to them in person."

Someone asked: "Mr. Xu, if our entire team goes there, what kind of treatment can they give us?"

Xu Bin said: "I am not sure about this. They only said that they can provide good salary and benefits, but the specific standards will only be known after the interview."

Immediately afterwards, Xu Bin sent another message: "Have you all found jobs now? If Sina's project is reliable, who is willing to go?"

There are more than 60 people in the group now, and more than 40 are online. Most of them replied that they want to determine the salary and benefits first, and then consider whether to go to Beijing, after all, Beijing is too far away.

Xu Bin said, "Let's discuss this after I come back from Beijing. I'll tell you the details and we can discuss whether we should go together. Although this is a suitable job opportunity, if they don't have a clear positioning, I'm afraid they won't be able to withstand the pressure of PP. If we go all the way and bother to go, it won't be long before they give up instant messaging, and then we won't gain anything."

Xu Bin's words were very realistic, and everyone agreed that it was okay. Xu Bin even @ed Lu Nan in the group, "Anan, I'm going to Beijing next Monday and will probably stay for a few days. Do you have time to have dinner together?"

Lu Nan said, "Okay, Mr. Xu, please contact me when you arrive. 1380371xxxx, this is my cell phone number."

"Ok, I'll contact you in Beijing."

Lu Nan said, "By the way, I have to go to Shenzhen on a business trip tomorrow. If you are free, we can get together."

Most of the colleagues in the group said that it was no problem and that they could contact Lu Nan at any time when he arrived in Shenzhen. Everyone was free now and had plenty of time.

After Xu Bin finished talking to everyone about Sina UC, he went offline. Lu Nan did not continue chatting with everyone in the group, but was thinking about notifying his boss about Sina's matter as soon as possible.

Lu Nan didn't know that Sina had been planning to launch UC a long time ago. The original plan was to launch it in July 2002. Sina's original plan was very good. They started developing UC when Tencent was on the rise. When they saw that Tencent started charging user registration so early, they wanted to take advantage of Tencent's messing around to launch UC. However, when they saw that the conditions for launching were met, Haobo Technology suddenly appeared.

Sina had been planning to launch a major war for a long time, with all the guns loaded and ready to go, but its opponent was defeated by someone else. Sina then discovered that there were even stronger opponents hidden in this industry, much stronger than QQ.

But the difference between Sina and Tencent is that Sina's core business is the portal website, and users and traffic are its core. As for UC, it is also because it wants to conquer the world in the instant messaging industry, rather than defending the world like Tencent. No matter who holds the current share of the instant messaging industry, Sina is starting from scratch. So for them, they will conquer as much as they can, and every little bit they conquer is equal to a victory. The worst result is failure, which is nothing more than losing some money.

It was with this mentality that Sina adjusted its strategy before UC went online. They wanted to slow down the pace of UC's launch, redevelop and upgrade the product, maximize the product's strength, and then compete with Haobo Technology.

Like Zhou Hao, Sina also set its sights on Tencent Xuncai's team. If it could poach the entire team and invest in a new round of UC development, it would be a huge boost to UC's development capabilities. It might be able to compete with PP. Even if it can't compare, it doesn't matter. At least it can enter the instant messaging software market through UC, and then use Sina's existing users to occupy a certain market share.

Since Lu Nan didn't have Zhou Hao's phone number, he told the news to his superior Han Cheng. Upon hearing this, Han Cheng immediately reported it to Zhou Hao.

If it weren't for this phone call, Zhou Hao almost forgot about UC. UC's fate in its previous life was quite miserable. Originally, Sina wanted to take advantage of Tencent's deviation to rush out and compete for the market, but Mr. Ma was too mobile. When he discovered the crisis, he immediately changed his strategy and directly suppressed UC. In this way, UC was completely ruined before it even became popular.

However, the defunct UC did not withdraw from the market. Sina continued to operate it. In the end, it was basically just for its own entertainment, and their external users had all been lost.

Zhou Hao carefully deduced the situation of UC and basically understood UC's mentality, which was the same as Tencent's mentality when it created Q Bar and QQ Fishery. As long as its core business was not affected, it could make other attempts and compete with other companies for the market.

Zhou Hao was wondering, Tencent came to me with this mentality, but failed to make any progress after several attacks, and was instead attacked by me. Even their home site was taken down, so Sina didn't care? It's just a portal site, what's so great about it? It's fine if they want to steal my market, but now they want to steal my team.

So Zhou Hao called Gao Sihui and said, "The original 20% salary premium has been raised to a maximum of 50%. No matter what, we cannot let Sina succeed."

Gao Sihui immediately promised: "I will do my best to recruit as many people as possible at the lowest cost."

Zhou Hao nodded and reminded, "You decide for yourself." Then he hung up the phone and called Lu Yatong again.

Lu Yatong had just finished taking a shower and was about to go to bed when her cell phone screen suddenly lit up, followed by a ringtone and vibration sound. The first thing Lu Yatong saw was Zhou Hao's name on the screen. She happily answered the call and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhou."

Then Zhou Hao said, "Yatong, pay attention recently and find a senior editor-in-chief for Haobo Technology."

Lu Yatong knew that Zhou Hao must have called for work, so Zhou Hao went straight to the point without making her feel disappointed, and immediately got into work mode, "Editor-in-chief of which field?"

"PP portal." Zhou Hao said: "It is time for us to build our own portal. The specific plan should refer to traditional portals such as Sina, NetEase, and Yahoo. We must be more detailed than them."

Lu Yatong didn't understand why Zhou Hao suddenly wanted to recruit an editor-in-chief to build a portal, but she knew Zhou Hao's work style. He would do it as soon as he thought of it and would never drag his feet. If Zhou Hao wanted to build a portal website, he would definitely find a way to do it as soon as possible.

The portal website was originally in Zhou Hao's plan, but it was something he would do in the second half of the year. His current focus is on the pp product ecosystem and Taobao, and he doesn't want to launch a portal website so early.

The main domain name is reserved in advance for the future portal website, but a portal is different from a product. When making a product, we should focus on functions and experience, but when making a portal, we should focus on content. We need a strong editor-in-chief to take the lead and a large number of editors to follow up to produce high-quality content that users like. This work is relatively heavy and requires accumulation over time.

However, since Sina wants to go against me, I absolutely cannot let it get away with it. I welcome you to do instant messaging, but as a response to Sina, Zhou Hao must also start the portal project immediately. This is called "not reciprocating".

At the same time, Zhou Hao also thought of hao123. Now hao123 has a lot of traffic. Before Baidu confiscates it, he should find a chance to take it down first. In this way, the traffic of URL navigation will be in his hands. In addition, pp has such a huge number of users. Once the pp portal is launched, he can divert traffic from pp and hao123 to the pp portal, and keep the source of traffic in his own hands. Only then will the future of the pp portal be worry-free.

For Zhou Hao, taking over the navigation website not only means having huge traffic, but also has the important meaning of curbing opponents.

In the previous life, hao123 was in the hands of Baidu, which already had a dominant position in the search field, so its containment characteristics were not obvious. But if hao123 was in the hands of Sina or other companies, they would definitely use hao123 to contain competitors. The simplest way is not to give competitors any display opportunities, not to include any competitors' content, and directly cut off competitors' traffic.