Who are you calling powerful?

PPTV Headquarters

Sun Hai, the head of the technical department, hurriedly ran here with the documents, and happened to run into Wang Gan, the head of the overseas business department.

"Old Sun, why are you going?"

Wang Gan said hello, and the latter smiled: "Mr. Li asked the senior management to hold a meeting."

"There's a high-level meeting? I wasn't notified."

Wang Gan was confused. PPTV’s current trump card is sports, which involves many overseas sports copyrights. His overseas business department has a very high status. If there is a high-level meeting, it is impossible to do without him.

But soon, both Sun Hai and Wang Gan realized that this senior executive was not the other senior executive.

Wang Gan is from Suning's lineage, so he was directly ignored!

Realizing this, Wang Gan's face was livid, while Sun Hai was a little embarrassed. He was an old man from PPTV and just wanted to do his job well. He had no intention of getting involved in the dispute between the new boss and the old boss, so he made a haha ​​and walked away quickly. .

After Sun Hai left, Wang Gan could no longer control his temper and glared viciously at the conference room not far away.

"Li Ji, wait and see."

"Just wait and see."

In the conference room, a fair-skinned middle-aged man wearing glasses lowered the blinds of the window with a calm expression.

It is already destined to be impossible to live in peace, so why are you covering up? It is clear that the car and horse are targeting you.

It's best if you make some mistakes when you're angry and give them an excuse to act. I just feel like there are a few departments that should be taken back.

This person is exactly Li Ji whom Wang Gan mentioned earlier, the current chief operating officer of PPTV, who is just 35 years old.

This age is no longer considered young in the Internet industry. Before reaching the management level, you can start to prepare and consider optimization.

However, Li Ji does not have to worry too much about unemployment in middle age. After several years in the industry, he has reached a high-level position and has a very impressive resume.

He has worked for three video websites: Sohu, Tudou and LeTV. In the first two, he was still an employee or a middle-level leader. When he switched to LeTV, he was already a mainstay.

When LeTV was on the rise, Li Ji was a key figure when it defeated various websites with "My Love from the Star".

He is specially responsible for publicity and offline promotion work, and has made great contributions to the popularity of TV series and website traffic.

Also, from that moment on, this person came into Wei Yang's sight.

Afterwards, Blue Whale and LeTV had a honeymoon period, and the famous "Celebrating More Than Years" trilogy was also acquired by LeTV at this time.

During this period, Li Ji played a lot of roles, and even later became the person in charge of the conflict with Blue Whale.

This also made Wei Yang's impression of him deeper and deeper!

After acquiring PPTV, Wei Yang has no shortage of trustworthy subordinates to help supervise and even manage some of the company's affairs. He himself can also finalize some major development strategies.

But specific planning and implementation require professionals to take the helm.

For example, Wei Yang can instruct PPTV to acquire "Running Man 2", but how to maximize the impact of this program and attract traffic to develop the website requires knowledge.

In addition to these trump programs, how to arrange other sub-category projects, how to choose film libraries, how to use funds more effectively, how to compete with peer websites...

Regardless of whether Wei Yang has time to manage these things, he may not necessarily understand all the key points.

PPTV originally had many old employees, but Boss Wei didn't understand them and didn't necessarily trust them.

Therefore, Wei Yang could only build a team by himself, then train direct talents, manage and absorb old employees, and finally make PPTV completely named Wei.

Li Ji is the core leader selected by Wei Yang.

His position as COO was nominally lower than that of the chairman and CEO, but in fact, Wei Yang promoted him to the board of directors, gave him the title of executive director, and delegated some of his powers as chairman to him. Suppress Suning's line.

In other words, Li Ji is now Wei Yang's agent at PPTV. When Wei Yang is away, he is the actual leader.

Wei Yang also gave him a thorough explanation. If the website develops well and Suning is kicked out, if these two things are achieved, Li Ji will be a serious CEO, with no less power, status, salary, and shares.

It is precisely because of this that Li Ji chose to resign from his position as a senior executive of LeTV and join PPTV.

At LeTV Video, his upward path was basically blocked. No matter how great his achievements were, he could not be the boss. Even the third-in-command was in danger. When he came to PPTV, Li Ji had the hope of taking over the power under one person.

"Are you interested in becoming the head of a video website giant?"

This was Wei Yang's plan for Li Ji. Even though he knew that Suning was a formidable enemy and the future of the website was unclear, he still did not resist the temptation.

Of course, there are two other reasons.

One is that Li Ji has doubts about the development of LeTV. As a company executive, he knows a lot and can still see some problems. LeTV's development is obviously abnormal. It's okay to survive it. Once a thunderstorm breaks out, it will be fatal. land.

There was no way out, and there was nothing Li Ji could do if he was worried, but now that he was safely ashore, he naturally didn't want to gamble with Boss Jia.

The other is that Li Ji has dealt with Wei Yang. Boss Wei was deeply impressed by him, and he was even more impressed by Boss Wei.

No one knows better than him how much contribution Wei Yang has made in the rise of LeTV. He has seen with his own eyes Boss Wei's dramatic changes.

My brother may be exaggerating, but Li Ji really admires Wei Yang very much, and even worships him a little.

Li Ji will never be optimistic about other people's video websites, because the market has been almost divided now, and it is difficult for new websites to break out.

But Wei Yang was different. Li Ji believed that he could create miracles and was optimistic about the development of PPTV. Therefore, based on the above reasons, he resolutely came to join Wei Yang.

Wei Yang also lived up to his trust!

In addition to formulating some general directions and related requirements, he has delegated a lot of power. Putting aside Suning, he basically has the final say on the entire website.

A scholar dies for a confidant!

At Li Ji's level, he is not so emotional and naive, but he is still somewhat touched by Wei Yang's trust.

At the same time, he also understood that Wei Yang's power and trust were not given in vain, and he had to make some achievements.

If he does it well, everyone will be happy. If he doesn't do it well, Wei Yang may replace him at any time.

Li Ji, who had dealt with Wei Yang, knew very well that the young man was not only powerful, but also ruthless enough, possessing the advantages and ruthlessness of a mature businessman.

Therefore, since taking office, Li Ji has worked conscientiously, rectifying the website, recruiting old employees, and cracking down on Suning's group to seize power. At the same time, he must implement Wei Yang's plan and layout.

Fortunately, he was not alone. He was not the only one poached by Wei Yang, and there were also Wei Yang's confidants, who were all his helpers and comrades-in-arms.

After a while, there were more than a dozen people sitting in the conference room, mostly heads of various departments.

Li Ji sat in the first place, surrounded by people from Wei Yang's group, and the remaining few were PPTV seniors like Sun Hai. It could be said that all non-Suning executives were here.

"No one from the variety show department came?"

Seeing that the meeting time was about to come, Li Ji found that one person was missing, so he asked the female executive second to his right, who was in charge of administration.

Although he made no secret of suppressing and ostracizing Suning's group, he did not ignore anything. At least when it came to specific matters, the person in charge still had to be present.

"Manager Yan seems to be feeling unwell..."

It's understandable that what he said was a refusal. What Li Ji did was really unethical, and people would inevitably hold back their anger or avoid suspicion.

"If you don't feel well, take a rest. I'll grant you a long leave later and ask the deputy to come over for a meeting."

What Li Ji is least afraid of is Suning's team playing this trick. He wishes everyone would leave, just kill the matter and let his deputy take over.

Naturally, the people from Wei Yang's group supported Li Ji to the death, and the old people from PPTV were too lazy to care and just watched the fun.

Although Li Ji seemed aggressive, he only targeted the Suning team and placed the struggle at the top. As long as the middle-level people were honest, he didn't care, let alone the bottom level.

So it seems lively, but it doesn't have much impact on the internal operation. Just like now, if you dare to give up, I will directly let people take over and seize power.

It looks ugly, but it works!

Taking advantage of the prestige and good situation left by Wei Yang, Li Ji held the power of the board of directors and the help of many senior executives, pulling in groups to defeat Suning, and completely squeezed out Suning.

After a while, when the deputy from the variety show department came over, Li Ji directly called for a meeting.

"Today we'll talk about "Dad Is Back". This is the first key project of our website..."

…

During the meeting at Li Ji's side, Suning and others also learned the news, and Manager Yan, who had been deprived of power, almost exploded with anger.

Others were also very dissatisfied. Several people, including Wang Gan, went directly to CEO Lu Yan, hoping that he would come forward to suppress Li Ji.

"How can he manage the company like this and blatantly create divisions? His surname Wei's equity has not yet reached the point of absolute control."

"Yes, whether it is convening a board of directors or using other methods, Li Ji's arrogance must be suppressed."

"PPTV is not Wei Yang's, let alone Li Ji's. This kind of COO should be fired."

"..."

Suning's group was very excited, and Lu Yan had a headache. Of course he was not happy with Li Ji doing this, but he couldn't help it.

Not to mention that the board of directors was overwhelmed by Li Ji, the key point was that Wei Yang's previous series of operations had left Li Ji with a great situation.

Basically all the middle and lower-level employees and the elderly at PPTV have returned home and are very supportive of Li Ji's work.

Although Sun Hai and several other PPTV seniors kept saying that they did not take sides and only watched the show, they listened to Li Ji's orders and cooperated in all meetings, which invisibly showed which side they were on.

Li Ji has the support of the board of directors at the top, and the popular support of the grassroots at the bottom. Most of the middle and high-level leaders also lean towards them, and their orders are as clear as their fingers.

On the contrary, Lu Yan, the CEO, encounters weak points from time to time. How can you ask him to fight with Li Ji?

More importantly, Wei Yang and PPTV are ready to reach an agreement.

PPTV settled the payment as soon as possible and transferred the money to Blue Whale. After clarifying the tax and other matters, Wei Yang came forward to raise funds and put in the second investment as soon as possible.

This is done to keep PPTV with enough funds for development as much as possible.

Under normal circumstances, a cooperation of this magnitude would not be settled so quickly, but now that Wei Yang is operating in the middle, both parties give the green light.

As a result, Wei Yang's next capital investment was faster than expected.

But the key is that Wei Yang is left-handed and right-handed. As long as the financial speed is fast, it will be fine, but Suning is paying for real money.

The first payment of 500 million was a pleasure because Suning had already prepared it, but the second payment was not expected by Wei Yang so quickly.

Coupled with Wei Yang's saucy operation, there was some dissent within Suning, who felt that this was too much of a loss, which directly led to the second tranche of funds being slower than Wei Yang's.

This is a good thing for Wei Yang. He hopes that Suning will be slow and not pay for it. If there is no money, the shares will be diluted.

But Suning doesn’t want to dilute. Therefore, Lu Yan was instructed to find ways to delay.

What can Lu Yan do?

But I can only scold the headquarters for being a bad person while trying to think of a way to deal with it. It's hard to say whether it will work or not, but I certainly can't easily conflict with Li Ji, otherwise Li Ji will definitely start to adjust the shares immediately.

Lu Yan even suspected that Li Ji was so arrogant and domineering because he knew that he might give in.

But regardless of whether this is the case or not, Lu Yan really needs to appease his subordinates and avoid escalating conflicts when the headquarters is not sure when the second tranche of funds will be invested.

"Don't worry, if God wants him to die, he will surely go crazy. Li Ji has made drastic changes and made a lot of changes to the website and the company. We are not the only ones who have objections to him."

"The newly revised website will be launched soon, and projects such as "Dad Is Back" will also be launched one after another."

"We don't have to rush to fight with them now. When Li Ji's arrangement is frustrated, that's when we will attack."

"..."

Lu Yan tried his best to persuade his men. Although everyone was not satisfied with his "weakness", they agreed to stay put for the time being and wait for Li Ji to overturn to cause trouble.

What will happen if Li Ji succeeds?

They subconsciously didn't think about it. They were almost being squeezed to death. If Li Ji did it, PPTV would have no chance of survival for them.

Afterwards, Lu Yan still came forward to consult Li Ji about Manager Yan, but he was pushed back neither softly nor hard.

"I didn't fire him. That's the right of the board of directors. I just asked him to take leave. He's not in good health. Our company needs humane management. If an employee gets tired and something goes wrong, we'll be in trouble."

Lu Yan's face was not very good when he left, but Li Ji's face was sarcastic.

As CEO, if Lu Yan was really tough with him and confronted him in everything, Li Ji would actually have a lot of headaches. After all, Suning has a lot of shares, and he does not have an absolutely overwhelming advantage in terms of senior management.

But he chose to stop quietly and strike later. No wonder Li Ji launched a massive attack.

Lu Yan was right about one thing. Li Ji's current strength and domineering attitude was due to him.

It’s no wonder that Suning has not made any progress after taking over PPTV for half a year. On the one hand, it is due to the wrong development route, and on the other hand, it is also related to the mediocrity of the management staff.

As long as they had some ability, Wei Yang would not have acquired the website so easily before, and even accumulated huge internal prestige in a short period of time.

In Li Ji's mind, Lu Yan and others would not be his opponents unless they received Suning's support at all costs.

He didn't take the opponent too seriously. In contrast, he was more concerned about PPTV's first battle after being reborn.

On April 20, 2014, PPTV was newly launched after certain rectifications, which also marked the arrival of another fierce tiger in the field of Internet video websites...