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Xu Bin is a little clever.

He cleverly took advantage of the fact that both Haobo Technology and Sina were eager to get the former QQ technical team, and used Haobo Technology as a bargaining chip in front of Sina to negotiate high salaries for individuals and the team. He also felt that compared with Haobo Technology, Sina was more willing to spend money, and Sina was in the dark while Haobo Technology was in the light. He could easily achieve results by threatening Sina with Haobo Technology. But if he used Sina to threaten Haobo Technology, and Haobo Technology used this as an excuse, and Sina knew that their products were leaked to competitors by him, he would probably become enemies with Sina.

So he felt that only by using Haobo Technology to threaten Sina could he get the best treatment from Sina, so no matter what, he had to sign with Sina, and he had to bring his team with him.

After deciding to cooperate with Sina, Xu Bin took advantage of everyone's resistance to Haobo Technology and combined it with the treatment offered by Sina to portray Haobo Technology as looking down on the former QQ technical team. This easily made most of the team members make the choice they wanted.

After Xu Bin returned to Shenzhen and met with his former QQ team, he received explicit expressions of interest from 85 people on the spot. They wanted to follow Xu Bin and join Sina without hesitation. This made Xu Bin secretly happy, as it seemed that the signing fee of 500,000 yuan had been secured.

If he brings his wife and children to Beijing, he can buy an apartment directly. He has not saved any money in these years in Shenzhen after deducting various expenses, so this 500,000 is indeed a large sum of money for him. What's more, he has a guaranteed base salary of 400,000 + quarterly bonuses, year-end bonuses and other benefits. As long as he stays in Beijing for a year, he will definitely earn a million yuan a year.

The next day, Sina's human resources director flew to Shenzhen with 85 contracts and signed labor contracts with Xu Bin and 84 other people.

Sina couldn't wait any longer, and these former employees who were fired by QQ had had enough of idleness, so after signing the contract, they decided that 85 people including Xu Bin would officially start work at the company on the first Monday of June.

After the contract was signed, Sina's human resources director reported the news to the headquarters. Sina's CEO excitedly convened a meeting of senior executives and department heads to formulate Sina's subsequent operation plan. At the meeting, Sina's CEO had high hopes for UC, believing that as long as Sina UC could get close to Haobo Technology in terms of products, it would be successful in the future, because Sina is currently one of the top Chinese portals in the industry with a huge number of users. If it can use the portal to divert traffic and win the market in the instant messaging field, it will greatly increase the company's stock price.

Investors like to hear stories. The bigger the story, the more confident they are, and the higher the company's stock price and valuation will be. Sina has been on NASDAQ for two years, and it is very clear about this. Therefore, the most important thing right now is to take steps to develop UC and make it the flagship product of Sina's portal.

Nie Yuan is the vice president and the person in charge of the entire portal website, so UC's future strategies cannot be separated from his support. Also because of his huge success in the portal, the CEO feels that Nie Yuan's product and operation ideas are very clear and he will definitely be able to provide UC with very good advice.

But unlike everyone else at the conference table, Nie Yuan was not excited or expectant at the moment. As early as when Haobo Technology had not launched PP, Nie Yuan felt that UC could not beat QQ because Sina did not have the social networking gene.

Sina currently has two major business segments. The first is the portal, and the second is the wireless department which was just established this year. There is a big difference between these two segments. The portal is a platform that provides online news and consultation, and a platform for users to understand current political hotspots and the content of each major section. The wireless department mainly cooperates with the two major operators, thinks about value-added services on mobile phone wireless terminals, and directly makes money from the majority of mobile phone users through channels. The former's model is very healthy, while the latter is just taking shortcuts.

In 2002, mobile wireless value-added services did not have much connection with mobile Internet. The current wireless value-added services mainly refer to various value-added services developed for mobile phone users. The most representative one is the ringback tone. Although the ringback tone business is considered healthy, many of them use the gimmicks of fortune-telling, money-gathering, and name-guessing to induce users to order various value-added services through text messages, which is to deliberately set various fee-sucking traps for users.

Often, users send a text message in the heat of the moment, and will have to pay several or even dozens of yuan on their bills every month thereafter. Today, when mobile phone charges are still very expensive, most users do not noticeably feel the increase in monthly expenses of several or dozens of yuan, so there are very few user complaints, and the profits are very high. This borderline model is the most profitable in the wireless value-added service.

Nie Yuan believes that the real core of Sina at present is still the portal website, and the quality of portal website users is far inferior to that of pp users. The dependence of pp users on pp has reached an indispensable level, but for Sina users, there are too many portal websites now, and the content surrounding current affairs is generally similar, so Sina users do not have much stickiness to Sina. It is really unwise to devote so much energy and manpower to go against pp.

But the top management didn't care. They just thought that the instant messaging field was a treasure trove. Regardless of whether Sina had a chance or not, they would give it a try. The more they could gain, the more successful they would be. The worst that could happen was a failure. If they failed, they would just give up. Such a small cost was nothing to Sina. Even if the new business line failed, it would not affect the stock price.

Facing this strategy of the top management, Nie Yuan expressed his concerns: "Haobo Technology's style has always been weird and tough. Their understanding of Internet users and products far exceeds ours. And Xu Bin also said that Haobo Technology has been keeping an eye on their team and wants to absorb them into the PP team. In this case, if Xu Bin brings the nearly 100-member former QQ team to Sina, Haobo Technology will probably get the news immediately. By then, this team has not yet become familiar with Sina and has not written a code for Sina UC, and we will become the mortal enemy of Haobo Technology."

The CEO smiled and said, "Old Nie, don't be afraid of Haobo Technology just because they are so powerful now. We are just trying social networking. If it succeeds, everyone will be happy. If it fails, it won't cause us too much loss. So even if we compete directly with Haobo Technology, what's the problem? Will no one dare to make instant messaging software in China in the future because of the strength of Haobo Technology and PP?"

Nie Yuan said: "Boss Geng, that's not what I meant. I just think that Haobo Technology is too aggressive. Tencent copied its forum and farm, and it directly created a PP to kill QQ. Now we rush to compete with it, we must be very cautious. What if it turns around and also builds a portal? What should we do?"

The CEO waved his hand and said, "Old Nie, if everyone has your mentality, we will still be just a portal website in another 20 years."

Another vice president at the same level as Nie Yuan also nodded and said, "Old Nie, we all admit that you are a good operator, but you can't be too cautious about new businesses. If you are worried that the company will develop new businesses and become an enemy of Haobo Technology, it will force Haobo Technology to bring the war to the portal you are responsible for, then it is unnecessary."

Nie Yuan comes from a content background and is also an idealist. The biggest obsession of such a person is not to make money or to achieve fame and success, but to make the best products, provide the best services, and build the best brand. However, at the moment, his well-intentioned reminders were mistaken by others as fear of being implicated, which was hard for him to accept.

Nie Yuan responded pointedly, "Old Zhao, you are going too far. I am not worried that the portal will be implicated. I just think that we are all thinking too simply and too optimistically, so I put forward some suggestions to make everyone slow down a little."

The vice president known as Lao Zhao is Zhao Yongde, who is in charge of Sina.com's revenue and new business development. He has always been at odds with Nie Yuan, and deliberately took the opportunity to embarrass Nie Yuan, "Lao Nie, you are right to ask everyone to slow down a bit, but according to what you said, all those who are dragging their feet are also helping everyone to slow down? Everyone present here today, except you, supports UC, and we have products, teams, and resources, and the chances of success are very high. What do you mean by always being so negative?"

Nie Yuan was about to retort, but when he saw that everyone else also agreed, he knew that no matter how much he said, it would be useless. What Zhao Yongde said was deeply rooted in people's minds. They must now think that he was afraid that the portal would be implicated by Haobo Technology in the future, so he would rather let the company stop expanding new business to ensure the safety of his own piece of land. If he opposed it again, he would probably become a public enemy.

So Nie Yuan gritted his teeth, waved his hand and said, "Alright, I take back what I said just now, and I agree with it with both hands."