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In the evening, Zhou Buqi talked hard with Shi Jinglin and finally persuaded her to stop. Let's rest for a day. Although the groom's job every night is exciting, this is too exciting.

Especially they are all foreign women.

Zhou Buqi always exerts 120% of his strength to prove the strong physique of the yellow race. As the male master of the family, what if he is laughed at by the maids in private?

So he worked very hard.

It's time to take a day off.

However, you can take a break in life, but not in work.

In the evening, Lu Qi called first and reported the good news, "Yuan Zheng nodded and said he is willing to leave Cisco and cooperate with us."

Zhou Buqi was very happy, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Lu Qi said in embarrassment: "But he said that he has only one goal, which is to develop a product and defeat his old employer. He doesn't want to do other jobs."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I didn't expect him to have such a big difference with the Cisco team. Who is it?"

"CEO."

"No wonder."

"But it's more difficult for us to deal with."

"Um?"

"His level is too high," Lu Qi sighed. "If we just ask him to be in charge of a small cloud video conferencing product, I have asked, and we can provide him with an M4 position at the most. His level should be as high as Only when the product scale becomes larger and larger can we improve step by step.”

This is the complexity of large companies.

Different levels must have corresponding powers and products.

One person manages a $10 billion product at the M7 level, and another person manages a $1 million product at the M7 level. This loses fairness and affects aggressiveness.

Another point is that the cloud video conferencing product Yuan Zheng wants to build is ultimately a cloud product and should belong to the cloud computer business group.

But Yuan Zheng and Kurian are at the same level, how to distribute power?

Ziweixing International is actually still in the entrepreneurial stage, but it is no longer considered a startup company in terms of size and scale. It is a mature large company. It is unrealistic for executives to be as careless about personal honors and disgrace as startups.

For example, when Amazon's Bezos retired, he chose the president of Amazon Cloud to take over. The result was that several presidents of other major business groups resigned.

We are all on the same level, why did you jump on me?

There is also the retirement of Disney's Robert Iger, who chose the president of the amusement park business to take over, and several presidents of large business units at the same level chose to leave. After one of them left Disney, he was poached by ByteDance and served as the global CEO of TikTok.

The distribution of power and positions in large companies must be done carefully.

Zhou Buqi thought for a while and said, "Tell him first to go through the resignation procedures. It's easy for us to talk here and everything can be discussed."

"good."

"By the way, how many users does Helo have?"

"33 million. Spring is not the hot sales season for smartphones. The main sales season is summer and autumn."

This was Lu Qi's achievement, and he was quite proud of it.

Now Ziweixing International can be regarded as a tripartite, namely Lu Qi, Kurian and Tang Binchen.

The core product of Lu Qi is the overseas Helo. This is Ziweixing International's trump card product and the most popular app on mobile phones. You don't have to spend money to promote it. Helo is a must-have product in major technology magazines and smartphone recommendation lists.

It can be said that the Helo brand has been established.

Helo is "Hello" in a sense. It is a way to say hello, strike up a conversation, and socialize. It is a perfect match for mobile phones. When talking on a mobile phone, the first sentence is often "Hello?" It's like an invisible advertisement.

In 2006, Ziweixing spent US$1 million to buy the global domain name Helo.com. Now it seems that it is a great deal.

Zhou Buqi was still not satisfied and asked: "What is your expectation for Helo's future user scale?"

"Maybe..." Lu Qi hesitated, "500 million users within 5 years?"

"It's too small!"

"What is your goal?"

"Within three years, we will have 500 million daily active users." Zhou Buqi paused and added, "Does not include the domestic market."

"hiss!"

Lu Qi took a deep breath of air-conditioning. This was really a tall order!

Zhou Buqi said: "There are now more than 120 million smartphones in the world, but the number of Helo users is only 33 million. Brother Lu, you have to work harder. Kurian and Tang Binchen are working hard, and we also We can’t fall behind, right? I heard from Binchen that Ucgram’s momentum is good?”

"Well, the number of users exceeds 5 million."

Lu Qi is really a bit embarrassed.

It is also a social product. YikYak, which he leads, has not made much progress in the European and American markets, but Tang Binchen has made this product dominate the Korean and Japanese markets.

This year, another photo social product called Ucgram was launched, and it really became a trend overnight.

You know, this product in the Japanese market is called UC Beauty, and it has not yet been integrated with the European and American versions of Ucgram.

Because there are many versions of UC Beauty in Japan, most of which are Java versions for feature phones and multimedia phones, the product upgrade speed is relatively slow. The unupgraded UC Beauty is just a picture modification software and does not have a picture social channel. Once there are more and more smartphones in Japan, and all the users of UC beauty function machines in the past are transferred to smartphones, there will be more than 20 million users.

This scale is no smaller than Helo.

Helo is Ziweixing International's strategic core product, and the company has invested a lot of resources and funds. Ucgram is just a product that Tang Binchen promoted on a small scale without spending much money and relying on pure creativity.

One Kurian and one Tang Binchen put a lot of pressure on Lu Qi.

If Yuan Zheng also joined and made achievements...

Lu Qi quickly expressed his stance and said in a deep voice: "I believe that Helo can have greater room for development!"

After finishing the call with Lu Qi, Zhou Buqi held a brief video conference with China, which was mainly about vicious competition in anti-virus software and other aspects.

Fu Sheng said that Penguin has a relatively friendly attitude and is willing to compete moderately without taking drastic measures. Baidu was unmoved. Not only did it not accept mediation, it also intensified its efforts.

Previously, Baidu only used search engines to play some forced jumps, but now it has started to play with the family bucket package. Just download and install any Baidu software. If you are not careful during installation, you are likely to install all Baidu Family Bucket software, including Baidu Input Method, Baidu Browser, Baidu Antivirus, Baidu Security Guard, etc. . Once they are bundled and downloaded, there will be friction with the original micro-point products, thereby inducing users to uninstall.

Zhou Buqi appeased Fu Sheng and warned him not to use a reciprocal approach to fight back, but that he must care about Weidian's brand and not affect the brand image for temporary gain.

This competition will not happen overnight.

These software are not very profitable, and the business model is still based on attracting traffic. In the end, the focus of monetization must be on the search channel.

The competition for the scale of these free products cannot affect the brand, thereby affecting the recognition of the search business.

Zhou Buqi was afraid that Fu Sheng would take drastic measures, so he repeatedly warned, "Baidu's strategy is wrong. We must exercise restraint and not follow them astray."

Fu Sheng was dissatisfied, "Then let's just forget it?"

He Yang obviously supported Boss Zhou's point of view, and said with a smile: "Competition does not have to be entangled in one point, or even one line. Ziweixing has a very complete ecosystem. This is Ziweixing's largest compared to Baidu Competitive Advantage."

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, use ecological multi-dimensional attacks. Friends.com, Weibo, Weizhi, Xiaonei.com and other products will block all promotions related to Baidu. When it comes to the use of content, Baidu's crawlers must also be rejected."

Zhang Yiming suddenly said: "Baidu recently launched a new project."

"Um?"

"Baidu has integrated its video channels into a new independent subsidiary called Qiyi.com."

"Oh, video website!"

Zhou Buqi knew this very well.

Qiyi.com changed its name a few years later and became the famous iQiyi.

Zhang Yiming said: "Baidu attaches great importance to this project, and they hired Gong Yu."

"Ok, I know."

Zhou Buqi was somewhat helpless. He was actually quite optimistic about Gong Yu.

Gong Yu was previously the COO of Sohu, the second-in-command after Zhang Chaoyang. Later the two fell out. Why? Because Lao Zhang traveled around every day, the company's business was left to Gong Yu to handle.

This is nothing, this is basically what big bosses do.

But Gong Yu was somewhat cautious when he was interviewed by a financial reporter. When reporters ask Lao Zhang questions, they always ask about messy things like traveling and scandals involving female celebrities. When asking questions to Gong Yu, Sohu's strategy and business development were always mentioned, and they were all business matters.

This made Lao Zhang very angry.

The reporters’ questions were all arranged in advance and reviewed by Sohu. But these questions obviously put Gong Yu in a higher position, and Lao Zhang really didn't take it seriously.

Zhou Buqi originally wanted to recruit Gong Yu to work at Ziweixing, but he had a good relationship with Lao Zhang and was embarrassed, so he gave Baidu a chance.

However, Zhou Buqi suddenly thought of something and asked: "Gong Yu's level is very high. What level is he in Baidu? How did Baidu arrange it?"

Zhang Yiming said: "He is not working at Baidu, so it is considered an internal entrepreneurship. Baidu provides money and resources, and Gong Yu serves as the chairman and CEO, and manages the subsidiary in the form of a startup."

"What about the equity? How much?"

"Baidu has reached an agreement with Providence Capital in the United States. They will invest US$50 million in Qiji and get 20% of the shares. By then, Baidu will own 70% of the shares and Providence Capital will hold 20%. , Gong Yu’s team holds 10%. The website has not been launched yet, it is expected to be at the end of this month.”

"That's it..."

Zhou Buqi's idea became clear immediately.

Gong Yu's level is too high, but the positions within Baidu are already full, with every carrot and a pit. If only the position of vice president of Baidu was provided, Gong Yu would definitely be dissatisfied.

This internal entrepreneurship model can indeed solve Yuan Zheng's problem.

This is not what Zhang Yiming is thinking about. "I have inquired about it. Recently, Qiyi.com is actively cooperating with copyright parties such as China Film, Huayi, Mango Channel, and Capital Channel to purchase copyrights."

Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "What copyright do they have? But most of the streaming media rights have been bought out by Jieyu Media."

Zhang Yiming said happily: "Yes, this is the competitive advantage of ecology over single points. It is said that half of the US$50 million raised by Qiyi.com will be used to purchase copyrights."

Zhou Buqi knew what he meant, "No problem, I'll take care of it!"