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Xu Liangjie returned to China.

Officially joined Ziweixing as Senior Vice President.

Because what was signed was a 4-year labor contract, the law stipulated that the probationary period was up to 6 months. Therefore, Xu Liangjie followed the highest standard and had a trial period of 6 months.

In fact, for executives at this level, the 6-month trial period is a bit short.

The higher the position, the longer the adaptation time. Many airborne executives fail to achieve any results in the first year. A large part of the reason is that they spend a lot of time on research, understanding employees, and familiarizing themselves with the business.

Therefore, when dividing options, progressive arrangements must be made.

For example, Xu Liangjie belongs to the introduction of special talents, and has an option award of 10 million shares, which can be exercised in 4 years. It's not 25% every year, but a "1+2+3+4" system. That is, 10% in the first year, 20% in the second year, 30% in the third year, and 40% in the fourth year.

The first year is a probation, if you fail to meet the standard, you will be dismissed directly. In the second year, I will get my grades. If the results are not good, I will be dismissed. If the recruitment fails, the company will not lose too much.

Zhou Buqi thought that the great master from Silicon Valley had joined the job, so he could discuss Ziweixing's strategy with him.

As a result, Xu Liangjie kept silent.

He also stated that within 3 months, he can perform some specific tasks without participating in any decision-making in the company. The position of senior vice president was also suspended first, and He Yang continued to lead the class.

Work style is more cautious.

And very hardworking.

While in Silicon Valley, he was known for his diligence in the industry. Get up at 5 o'clock every day, run and exercise, read newspapers and news, eat breakfast, and arrive at the company an hour earlier. There is no entertainment, life is monotonous and boring, all energy is in work, must work overtime every day, and leave the company at 10 o'clock in the evening.

Some colleagues thought that he was only passionate for three minutes and couldn't hold on, but they didn't expect that he was like a day for ten years.

Zhou Buqi sent an e-mail full of enthusiasm and anticipation to all employees, announcing in a high-profile manner: Mr. Xu Liangjie, former global vice president of eBay and one of the top executives in Silicon Valley, returned to China and joined Ziweixing!

Ordinary employees may not feel it yet.

Their contact surface is relatively narrow, and they don't understand what this means.

But there was a sensation in the industry.

Qihoo's Zhou Hongyi: "Xiao Zhou, is the news true?"

Ali's Sun Tongyu: "Xu Liangjie? How did you do it?"

Ding Sanshi from Netease: "Mr. Zhou, you are digging a wall, you are not authentic!"

Baidu's Li Yanhong: "Sneakily set off a big thunder, and the hidden is deep enough."

Village head Duan of the Mount Tai Society: "Young people are formidable."

Zhang Chaoyang even went downstairs directly to Zhou Buqi's office, and was inexplicably surprised: "Damn it! Did you really make it happen?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I still rely on your guidance."

"Did you watch the football game last night?"

"I don't have time, just read the score."

"Oh, that's such a pity, Zidane is really a generation of football champions, playing around with the five superstars in Brazil."

"Now your Sohu report has earned a lot of traffic, right?"

Zhang Chaoyang smiled, "It's okay, how about it, do you want to go to Germany to watch the final? Sohu is a partner and can get tickets."

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "No time, I'm going to Pengcheng in a few days."

"What are you doing?"

"Go to Huawei for research, and I have to deal with some other things. You can take Yuanyuan with you. By the way, you two haven't broken up yet, have you?"

"without."

Zhou Buqi looked at him strangely, "Old Zhang, what do you do?"

Zhang Chaoyang coughed lightly, "Last month, we launched an input method, you know?"

"Really? Didn't pay much attention."

"Will you pretend to be me?"

"Who pretended to be with you?" Zhou Buqi was a little amused, "I am too busy with my own affairs, who cares what you do."

Zhang Chaoyang said angrily: "You made the micro-point input method, and we launched the Sogou input method. Are you a competitor? Didn't you pay attention?"

Zhou Buqi said indifferently: "I never pay attention to competitors."

Zhang Chaoyang almost choked to death, "You can really pretend."

Zhou Buqi said very wronged: "Who pretended to be with you? Okay, I know now, you made a Sogou input method. What do you want to say?"

Zhang Chaoyang sighed, "Fighting hurts peace."

Zhou Buqi was puzzled, "Who fought with you? Let's develop independently, and the well water will not interfere with the river water. Don't be like colleagues who do one thing in front of the other and do one thing behind the other, trying to discredit the other party."

Zhang Chaoyang was speechless.

What the hell!

This is a mess!

Last year, the Sogou input method project was established. The result is good. Before there is any movement on my side, the micro-point input method is launched first, and the banner is also very amazing. It is called social input method.

Relying on the strong stickiness of college students and the strong promotion of Weidian security guards, the number of users has exceeded 10 million.

Sogou input method has been online for a month, even if Sohu exhausts its resources, the number of users is only more than 300,000.

too difficult.

What's more troublesome is that Friends.com has launched an advertisement push service in the information flow on the homepage. It is said that the best advertisement is YY, relying on the promotion of Friends.com, added 2.9 million new users in one month, which shocked the industry. There are even rumors that MSN cannot beat QQ, but YY can become a strong opponent.

Compared with traditional page advertisements and search advertisements, the information flow advertisements of Youyou.com are really novel and advanced.

The conversion rate is much higher than the former two.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "At least there must be fair treatment, right?"

"What's the meaning?"

"The micro-point input method can advertise on Friends.com, but the Sogou input method can't. What does this mean? If customers come to your door, you don't want it?"

"This is also impossible."

Zhou Buqi really didn't know about this, but this result was predictable. It is impossible for Friends.com to advertise to competitors, right? If you want to push, you must push your own products.

Zhang Chaoyang said with a stiff face, "Xiao Zhou, we can be considered friends..."

Zhou Buqi interrupted him, "Old Zhang, it's meaningless for you to say that. Personal friends are personal friends, and business is business. You are a senior, you must know better than me."

"So there's no room for accommodation?"

"Let me tell you the truth, your Sogou input method...is useless. I am the chief product manager of our micro-point input method, and most of the functions are designed by me. You know the memory lexicon."

"Um."

"You can create an exclusive thesaurus based on the user's past typing habits. This will be addictive. The longer the user uses it, the higher the accuracy of the memorized thesaurus, and the harder it is to change the input method."

"The micro-point input method only has more than 10 million users?"

"That's not enough?" Zhou Buqi was a little amused, "This basically covers the main user group of pinyin typing. Do you want to recommend it to the low-end group? They may still use two fingers to type Microsoft Shuangpin. .”

Zhang Chaoyang was sullen, not very happy.

This method of using its monopoly position to squeeze out competitors is really abhorrent. However, he didn't have much to say. Everyone did this, and Sohu itself wasn't clean.

"Oh, let me tell you..."

"Say it?"

"Well, what is the market share of Sogou Search?"

"Three points."

Zhang Chaoyang was even more unhappy, which pot was not opened and which pot was lifted. The competition in the search market is too fierce, there are several international giants, and Baidu is still standing in the way in China, which is really too difficult.

"It's hard!"

Zhou Buqi sighed for him.

"Do you have an idea?"

Zhang Chaoyang squinted at him.

Zhou Buqi said: "Why don't you just pack and capture Sogou's business for me. Sogou input method merged with Weidian input method, not to mention Sogou search. It has been online for two years, and there is no market effect at all. "

Zhang Chaoyang almost died of anger.

He came here because he wanted to establish a relationship, let this kid be flexible, and include Sogou Input Method in the advertising list of Youyou.com. The result was good, this kid wanted to take a bite back and fell in love with the entire Sogou business department.

"Okay, let's talk about it later." Zhang Chaoyang waved his hand, a little irritable, then squinted his eyes, and said with a smile, "You really don't want to watch the World Cup finals? Let me tell you, if you make an appointment with Xu Qing, I will take it with you." Shang Yuanyuan, let's go to Munich for a while."

"I don't have time." Zhou Buqi shook his head resolutely, and said, "Miss Xu and I are ordinary friends, and the influence of this lonely man and widow traveling is not good."

Zhang Chaoyang twitched the corners of his mouth and was speechless.

I feel that this kid is shameless.

Just get up and leave.

Zhou Buqi shouted: "Old Zhang, if you really can't hold on, just hand it over." Don't worry, I will definitely give you a satisfactory price!

After the person left, Zhou Buqi made arrangements immediately.

The first thing is to order and require all businesses to stop all exchanges and cooperation with Sogou, and focus on suppression and competition. Second, specially notify the micro-point business group to set up a "beating dog office", that is, "attack Sogou office", and fully squeeze the market space of Sogou input method.

Then, Xu Liangjie was found.

"How about doing a search?"

"ah?"

Xu Liangjie was a little surprised.

Zhou Buqi said: "We have a batch from Qihoo, and another batch from Baidu, and we have a talent search team. Try to recruit more, should it be enough?"

What Baidu abolished was the enterprise software business unit, which includes information retrieval for enterprise business, which also belongs to the direction of search.

Xu Liangjie shook his head, with the same attitude, "I just joined the company, and I don't know much about the company's business framework and strategic direction, so it's hard to make such a judgment. Let's discuss it in a few months."

Zhou Buqi nodded, thoughtfully.

Xu Liangjie thought for a while, then smiled and said: "I checked, and there are at least twenty or thirty search companies in China. Looking at the situation... by the beginning of next year at the latest, the domestic search pattern will be settled. By then , Many companies will definitely go bankrupt. If you want to recruit talents, you can wait and see what happens."

"Well... well, I'll arrange a secret mission for you."

"What?"

Zhou Buqi pointed upwards, "Upstairs is the oldest Internet company in China, which has recruited a group of big names in the industry. Many of them have left, but there are still a group left. You can contact in private if you have nothing to do. I don't It is easy to move, you have a bright brand, great influence, and strong appeal, so you can try it.”

Xu Liangjie twitched the corners of his mouth, "Poaching? Isn't that bad? We're all neighbors, so we can't see you when you look up."

Zhou Buqi said: "There's no need to dig. They have talents they are looking for, and they don't want to stay in such an unmotivated company like Sohu. They will take the initiative to apply for resignation. When the time comes, we will just take over."

"Okay, I'll try."