I was reborn and stayed in school to lie down. I really don’t want to roll anymore!

"How many people were poached in total? How is the development of the female commentator at Huya?"

Jiang Hao just came back. He was busy with household chores during the New Year holidays and didn't pay much attention to the specific changes in the live streaming industry today.

At this moment, he quickly got into the state and quickly learned the latest situation from Zhan Liang and Hu Sen.

"Since the beginning of the year, Huya has poached seven anchors from our platform who had signed exclusive broadcasting agreements. As for other small anchors, many have also gone there."

"That's not right! I had a brief chat with Mr. Hu on WeChat before, and he said that more than seven anchors were poached from the platform!"

Listening to what Zhan Liang said, Jiang Hao turned his eyes to Hu Sen beside him.

Could it be that Brother Hu had misunderstood it before? Or was his memory a little confused?

Two days before the Lantern Festival, when Brother Hu talked to him on WeChat, he clearly remembered that 19 anchors had changed jobs!

"Mr. Jiang, I told you that nineteen anchors were poached, but Huya did poach seven of them."

"Then there are twelve more?"

“They were all poached by small platforms.”

"Small platform?"

Jiang Hao frowned, feeling a little confused about the current situation of the live broadcast industry.

Fortunately, Hu Sen has been following this work very closely and has continued to explain it to him.

"Two of them went to Penguin Esports, two went to Douyu, and the other eight went to various small platforms."

"Penguin Esports is online?"

"It's online. It's officially online on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year!"

Listening to Hu Sen's explanation, Jiang Hao silently calculated in his heart.

He doesn't need to worry about Penguin Esports, as Tencent has invested so much money in this internal project line.

It has already taken two years, it would be unreasonable not to put it online.

Anyway, this project line is probably just an attempt within Ma Ge’s own group, and it will be fine as long as it can provide a backup option for Totoro.

To Jiang Hao, the threat is not great.

"What about Douyu? How is their development now? How many rounds of financing have they received?"

After putting aside thoughts related to Penguin Esports, I paid more attention to the Douyu platform mentioned by Brother Hu just now.

After all, it was the leading live streaming platform in later generations. Although it was later defeated by platforms that mainly focused on short videos, it still dominated the live streaming industry for a period of time.

In his heart, he had already given up on paying attention to Douyu. After all, he had already walked the old path of Douyu, and it was smoother than that of Douyu in his previous life.

It stands to reason that it would be difficult for Douyu to make any progress, but he didn't expect it to appear in his ears again.

"Douyu has now reached its B round of development and received investment from Sequoia Capital at the end of December last year."

Seeing Jiang Hao still staring at him, Hu Sen continued to talk about the situation of Douyu.

"But the valuation is not high. The valuation after the B round is only 200 million RMB. It is estimated that all the money raised was spent on recruiting anchors."

"According to the information I received, we spent 5 million for one anchor and 3.5 million for another one just to poach anchors from our platform."

“Although it has developed well among the small platforms, it is still just a small platform.”

Hu Sen spoke very domineeringly. After all, in his eyes, there was no one like Jiang Hao, who viewed Douyu with the filter of the future number one live streamer.

With a valuation of just RMB 200 million in the B round, it was considered a standard small company in the eyes of the Totoro platform.

Based on this valuation alone, we can guess that the company's working capital after financing will definitely not exceed 40 million.

Recently, we have spent at least 10 million just to recruit anchors, and we also have to promote the streams and operate the business, including the salaries of a number of other anchors.

Without the support of Tencent, the cost of this part of the investment would be much higher than that of the Totoro platform.

In Hu Sen's opinion, the money spent on the Douyu platform will probably be almost gone in half a year.

If there is no new round of financing by then, we may not even be able to pay salaries.

Listening to what Brother Hu just said, Jiang Hao had the same conclusion in his heart.

It is true that heroes are made by the times. I am afraid that Douyu can only be an ordinary small platform in this life.

Even though it has reached Series B, its potential is limited.

Forget about challenging Totoro’s current position. It would be good enough just to survive in the upcoming industry war!

Thinking of this, Jiang Hao began to rethink the current development status of chinchillas and continued to ask Brother Hu.

"You mean, our platform is now under siege by a group of small platforms?"

“You all want to follow Huya to share our meat and bring down our platform?”

A single dominant enterprise will face this kind of situation where it is attacked by many.

Especially since this is still an emerging industry, it has never experienced industry chaos and consolidation.

I'm afraid that in the eyes of many small businesses, their chinchilla business is just started earlier, but it actually has no outstanding core.

Daydream about having the opportunity to replace Totoro at any time!

Brother Hu loosened his black turtleneck sweater.

The air conditioner in the company was on, and it still felt stuffy even after taking off my coat.

Especially in the crowded office area downstairs, it even feels a bit smelly and stuffy.

Fortunately, the new office building has been moved there in stages, otherwise the employees would really be dissatisfied if they continued to operate in this place for a long time.

"Boss Jiang, Huya shouldn't be considered as being with them."

"Oh?"

“Aren’t those small platforms led by Tiger Fang?”

Brother Hu nodded firmly.

“No, although Huya has poached anchors from our platform, they have been poached by smaller platforms for even more anchors.”

“I heard that their platform is communicating with the law firm and preparing to take legal measures!”

"How is this possible? Doesn't Huya's platform give us a revenue share that's three percentage points higher than ours?"

The more Jiang Hao listened, the more confused he became. It was clearly just the Chinese New Year, and there was only a little over a month left.

It feels like the entire live streaming industry has entered into complete chaos.

Huya was the first to start the poaching campaign, but its own platform was poached first?

Moreover, Jiang Hao is planning to use the legal weapon in two months, but Huya is planning to use it earlier than him?

“It is three points higher, but their platform seems to say that they will delay wages. This issue has been exposed on the Internet recently.”

“Only the top anchors get paid on time. Although the rest of the anchors get a higher share, they still haven’t received their wages.”

"Many of them even get paid every six months, and only go to small platforms when they can't afford to eat."

"There are also some anchors who I think are doing well, and they are now contacting our platform and want to develop on our platform."

what is this?

Shooting yourself in the foot?

Their Totoro platform is huge and powerful, and the fact that 20 anchors have jumped ship will only cause some disturbance.

It's still too early to get any serious injuries, but Huya himself is a little overwhelmed.

This made Jiang Hao speechless, not to mention the feeling of punching cotton.

He hadn't even thrown a punch yet, but his opponent was already almost unable to hold on.

"What about the female anchor who changed jobs? How is her career going?"

When Zhan Liang heard Xiaoyan mentioned, he immediately blurted out.

"Xiaoyan is very popular and is currently the top star promoted by Huya."