Rebirth 2006, creating a super consortium

"By the way, Weidong, how is the development progress of those three projects?"

A month ago, An Xin formulated a short-term development plan for the technical department led by He Weidong, requiring the technical department to complete the core framework development of the three projects: e-commerce platform, email, and game platform within three months.

After hearing An Xin's question, He Weidong looked hesitant, as if he had something to hide.

An Xin frowned when she saw this and said in a deep voice, "Just tell me if you have any questions. What's the point of being so fussy?"

He Weidong smiled awkwardly, then explained: "Boss An, among the three projects, only the development of the mailbox is going smoothly. It is estimated that all development work will be completed in a week, and then internal testing will be carried out!"

“But the development of the game platform and e-commerce platform is not going very smoothly. We have encountered many problems in the past few days!”

"For example, if it is a gaming platform like Tencent Games, from a technical point of view, the development difficulty is not great, and the technical department can complete all the development in three months!"

"But what you want is not a gaming platform like Tencent Games, but a platform like Steam, and you have proposed a bunch of new features that have almost never appeared before. Our technical department does not have the relevant technical reserves, so we can only explore and test slowly. In this way, three months of development time is really not enough, so we have to start at least half a year!"

"If the gaming platform only has technical reserve problems that can be solved over time, then the e-commerce platform not only has technical reserve problems, but also has a serious lack of professional technical talents!"

"The most outrageous thing is that even if we want to solve the talent shortage problem through recruitment, it will be difficult to find suitable technical talents in the short term, because these technical talents have almost been snatched up by peers such as Alibaba, Tencent, eBay, and JD.com. Unless we directly poach talents from peers, the only ones we can recruit are new graduates. It takes a lot of time to train these newcomers, and what we lack most at the moment is time!"

"Boss An, this is the situation of the three projects. What do you think we should do next?"

After listening patiently to He Weidong's report, An Xin fell silent.

Among these three projects, email is easier to deal with, after all, it is just a business supplementary project.

But the game platform and e-commerce platform are different. These are the core projects of Micro Era’s future industrial plan and must not be lost!

How great is the development potential of the gaming industry?

In 2023, the total revenue of the global game market exceeded 2000 billion US dollars!

This is only the direct revenue from the gaming market, and does not include the revenue from derivative channels. If all derivative channels were included, there would be no difficulty in breaking through 5000 billion US dollars!

As an Internet company, who would want to miss out on this piece of cake?

Anyway, An Xin doesn't want to!

Therefore, creating a comprehensive game distribution platform like Steam is his first step!

But I didn’t expect that the first step of the plan would get stuck right at the beginning!

Fortunately, the relevant technical difficulties can be solved, it just takes a little more time. Anxin is still patient enough for this!

The prospects of the e-commerce industry are broader than those of the gaming industry!

In 2023, global e-commerce sales exceeded 8 trillion US dollars and are still growing rapidly at a rate of 20% per year!

An Xin not only doesn't want to miss out on this super big cake, but also wants to get the biggest piece of it!

But we have just started and we have run into the problem of talent shortage. There are only two solutions to the problem of talent shortage: either spend money to poach talents from the same industry, or slowly cultivate our own talents!

Both methods have advantages and disadvantages.

The disadvantages of poaching talents from the same industry are obvious. It will definitely offend people, make you prone to being scolded, and have some impact on your reputation.

But the benefits are more obvious. The recruited talents can be used directly, which can greatly shorten the development time and create the desired platform as soon as possible.

If you choose to slowly train your own talents, it is not impossible, but it will take a long time. Don't expect to train the urgently needed backbone talents within one or two years. This is too slow!

After figuring out the twists and turns, you can feel at ease and realize that there is actually no need to look ahead or behind, you can do two things at the same time!

As for poaching people, will it offend colleagues?

What a joke. We are in the same business now, so who the hell cares about offending others?

After thinking it through, An Xin looked up at the company's financial director Huang Tao and asked, "Huang Tao, how much money is left in the company's account?"

Huang Tao blurted out: "7.65 million RMB!"

7.65 million is okay, enough for now!

An Xin directly instructed He Weidong: "Weidong, do both!"

"On the one hand, poach talent from other companies, whether it's the gaming industry, e-commerce industry, or other industries. Anyway, as long as they are the talent we need, don't hesitate, don't be afraid to spend money, poach them all!"

"On the other hand, we will intensify our efforts to recruit talents from various universities and colleges. After recruiting them, we must do a good job of training them to enrich the relevant talent pool of the technical department!"

This was equivalent to increasing the authority of the technical department. He Weidong certainly had no objection and assured with a smile: "Boss An, don't worry. From now on, as long as it is the technical talent we need, I will definitely not let it go!"

An Xin nodded after hearing this, and then asked, "Does anyone have any suggestions?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Rui immediately said, "Boss An, I have a little idea!"

"Oh?"

An Xin looked at Zhao Rui with some curiosity: "Just speak freely, tell me!"

Zhao Rui nodded, sorted out his thoughts, and said, "The e-commerce industry is full of competition. There are countless C2C, B2B, and B2C platforms. Why don't we just buy a suitable platform?"

"We can't acquire the three giants, Taobao, Eachnet, and Paipai, but aren't there a lot of second-tier platforms?"

"As long as we quickly acquire one of them, we can not only get a platform with complete business, but also quickly solve the problem of talent shortage. It's a win-win situation!"

An Xin immediately became interested: "It seems you have a specific goal?"

"Have!"

"Which one?"

“Jingdong!”

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