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In the next two days, Zhou Buqi and Kurian met with several vice president-level executives who were preparing to leave Autonomy. It was actually an interview.

Absorb them into Zi Weiyun's system.

Under the leadership of Kurian, this business has spent money like water and invested too much, but the returns have also been huge. It has developed extremely fast and has far left behind its main competitor Amazon Cloud.

Amazon Cloud is still working hard to explore the direction of IaaS, and it seems that it is not confident enough in the direction of cloud computing and is hesitant.

Here, Zi Weiyun has started at full speed.

In this industry where the general direction is full of confusion, Zi Weiyun rushed in... At this time, we can't waste the courage given by the big boss and the board of directors.

If you want to capture the European market, you need to focus on two core locations.

One, it’s the UK.

This is the hub of Silicon Valley and the European market. Winning the British market is equivalent to building a bridge across the Atlantic, connecting the business relations between the United States and Europe.

Second, it is Germany.

This is the master of the European continent. If you win Germany, you will win the European Union. You will be able to borrow many resources to quickly open up relations between European countries.

The previous acquisition of Lufthansa's IT infrastructure department has already broken into the German market. This time, with the help of Autonom's thunderstorm case, Ziweiyun will have the opportunity to break into the British market in one fell swoop!

Kurian has great talent, and Zhou Buqi trusts his judgment in the field of cloud computing. Ziweixing International basically spares no effort to support his judgment and business decisions.

In comparison, Ziweixing Digital Media is a little worse.

The main reason is the limitation of talents.

Douglas Merrill, the president of Ziweixing Digital Media, is also very high-level, but he is definitely not up to Kurian's level. Many things have to be decided by Boss Zhou.

Basically, Zhou Buqi attacks wherever he wants. They follow the orders of the big boss and rarely step out of the big boss's thinking and make some struggles based on their own ideas and judgments.

This way you can make fewer mistakes and cause less losses to the company.

But Zhou Buqi was disappointed.

Ziweixing Digital Media is not a traditional enterprise, it is a technology company.

Traditional companies are easy to talk to. They just need to find some subordinates who are obedient and listen to the big boss's requirements and get things done. Technology companies focus on innovation. The so-called "innovation" actually means destroying something, creating something different from the past, something that goes against public perception, and then succeeding.

This will inevitably lead to a phenomenon: people with strong innovative abilities are often "thorns" in the real society and "freaks" in the eyes of others.

Just like Jobs and Musk.

Another example is Dorsey, the founder of Twitter. This guy dropped out of school early. He didn't leave school voluntarily, he was expelled. He is just a little bastard with tattoos, a nose ring, and a white man with dreadlocks. He engages in gambling, gambling, strip clubs, and sex parties... He is a complete social scum.

But it is such a person who has founded several world-renowned technology companies.

A good boy who only accepts orders and compromises with reality must have little ability to innovate.

Zhou Buqi feels very good at Ziweixing.

He always encounters various people who constantly challenge him, and sometimes the orders he gives are dismissed by senior executives. There are even technical experts who continue to bombard him on the intranet, saying that he does not understand technology and makes blind decisions, and is ridiculously ignorant of cloud computing and artificial intelligence decision-making. This must stop immediately!

It doesn't matter whether you are right or not.

The important thing is that they dare to speak and express different opinions from the big boss. Questioning is the beginning of innovation.

Of course, if you meet such a "delinquent" in Yuanwei Group or Taizun Real Estate, you won't be polite and will definitely be fired.

Zhou Buqi has too many companies, and it is impossible for him to invest too much energy in Ziweixing Digital Media. This requires the management of Ziweixing Digital Media to have sufficient autonomy, just like Kurian and Tang Binchen. That way.

It's a pity that the current management lacks such enthusiasm.

This made Zhou Buqi very dissatisfied.

He was ready to go to war to see if it was necessary to replace Douglas Merrill as president.

But who can I replace?

This is a headache.

Zhou Buqi has a lot of direct soldiers, but they are all in China, and there are really not many overseas markets. They are all useful. Just arrange for anyone to come over, and Douglas Merrill may not be able to do it.

Trust is also a key factor.

Zhou Buqi is not the kind of big boss who sits in the office for a long time, participates in various meetings, and maintains supervision and management of the business. It can be said that he is an incompetent CEO.

Long term absence from the company.

It was fine in the early days of starting a business, but in recent years, he usually just set the direction, and then let the senior management team use their talents to do it themselves.

This requires a person who is trustworthy enough to sit in the center for a long time.

That night, Zhou Buqi called Shi Jinglin to the study room to chat about the matter and see if she had any good ideas.

Shi Jinglin shook her head, "I think your demands are too high!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi frowned slightly, "Am I too demanding?"

Shi Jinglin said: "People like Zhang Yiming, Lu Qi, Kurian, Mattrick, and Tang Binchen are all people you can meet but cannot ask for. If you ask every executive to meet their standards, you won't It’s no wonder you have a headache!”

Zhou Buqi nodded lightly, "Well, that makes sense."

Shi Jinglin rolled her eyes at him, "Is that Douglas Merrill trustworthy?"

Zhou Buqi said: "There is no problem in this regard. He used to be a senior executive at Google and later switched jobs to EMI Records. When I was at a low point in my career, I brought him to Ziweixing Digital Media, which was a timely help. The business development of Ziweixing Digital Media , and the recruitment of these employees were all run by him.”

Shi Jinglin was angry and funny, "That's enough. Isn't this good enough?"

"I think he can do better."

"not necessarily."

"Um?"

Zhou Buqi raised his eyebrows.

Shi Jinglin said softly: "Radicality has radical benefits, and being conservative also has conservative benefits. This Douglas Merrill is a conservative thinking, which has advantages and disadvantages. The innovation is a bit lacking, but Ziweixing Digital Media operates well How great, isn't it going to be listed next year? The company doesn't have much control over it. He started it from scratch and then immediately took it to the market. Isn't that bad? "

Zhou Buqi was silent for a moment and said "Yeah", "That's true. They are all large companies with a valuation of more than 10 billion pounds, and their achievements are already great."

Shi Jinglin hummed: "It's like you play with women. In the beginning, you wanted any beautiful woman. You slept with a lot of those messy entertainment stars, right?"

"It's not too much..."

Zhou Buqi touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.

This is really the case. When he first came into contact with the entertainment industry a few years ago, even though he pretended to be calm, his heart was already flying. He saw a beautiful female star and chatted with her until he went to bed.

It's obviously gotten better in the past two years.

Xu Baihui recommended a popular actress like Ni Ning several times but he never got involved. The so-called goddaughters around her are still the four she received two or three years ago: Yang Mi, Jiang Bingjie, Li Xinwan and Dili Reya, and there are no more additions.

Shi Jinglin continued: "The more you play, the more demanding you become. This is normal, just like a gift I gave you. If it were a few years ago, you would have jumped in."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was confused, "What gift?"

Shi Jinglin glared at him fiercely, "Originally I wanted to give you a gift since I was pregnant, but it turned out to be postponed for several months.

"Oh, but I didn't see the gift."

"Wang Yanan."

"who?"

Zhou Buqi was stunned.

The manager of the newly opened branch of Aunt Xue's beauty salon?

The mother of Shi Jinglin’s half-sister?

Sure enough, Shi Jinglin was heard talking about her family treasures: "Wang Yanan, and her daughter Wang Yihuan; Chen Yan, and her daughter Chen Yutong."

Zhou Buqi's face changed slightly, "Nonsense!"

Shi Jinglin curled her lips, with a look of contempt on her face, "Who is fooling around? You've played too much and your tastes are weird. Why are you pretending to be a gentleman? I don't know you?"

Zhou Buqi said nonchalantly: "I'm really not pretending. I went to the beauty salon to meet Wang Yanan. We just talked for a while and nothing happened. As for her daughter, Chen Yan and Chen Yutong, I have never met her. "

Shi Jinglin said calmly: "I have made all the arrangements. I bought a house, a car, a private school, and a beauty salon. It's only natural that they give you something in return."

"No, not really."

Zhou Buqi waved his hands repeatedly, feeling that this Shi Jinglin really had some family background and had inherited some of her parents' cold personality.

My half-sister can also do it.

She could do it, but Zhou Buqi couldn't.

Shi Jinglin got a little angry, stood up, pinched her waist, as if she wanted to fight with him, "I am your wife, and I will be your wife even if you are divorced. Why are you pretending to be with me?"

Zhou Buqi pulled her over and sat down on his lap, and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, let's talk about your mother's family later. My head is getting big. Let's discuss the CEO of Ziweixing Digital Media first."

Shi Jinglin knocked off his hand that was digging into her blouse and hummed: "I've said it all. You have seen too many high-level talents, so you think Merrill is not good enough. I don't know Merrill, but I know that he took a company like Ziweixing Digital Media to the market right away. Isn’t this good enough? Isn’t this a good enough result? Looking at the entire UK, how many people can build a technology company with more than 10 billion pounds? Autonomy relies on Due to financial fraud, it barely reached 10 billion pounds. You are just a hands-off shopkeeper, and Mr. Merrill must know more about the company than you do."

"Well, it's true."

"This is just like choosing a woman. It's not that Wang Yanan is not good-looking, she has such a good temperament, it's that you have played too much, and you are arrogant and deliberately raise your own standards too high. Why, there are only people like Mai Feixue Only a yellow flower girl deserves to be in your eyes?"

"What's the matter?" Zhou Buqi bit her face and said with a smile, "She and I are innocent."

"Look at the look in her eyes," Shi Jinglin pouted, having already seen through everything, "If you can withstand it, she won't be able to, it's only a matter of time!"