Chapter 275: Internal Fighting
Qubao.com has become famous since the acquisition, becoming the number one Internet concept pursued by venture capital.
After all, it took three months to soar from US$12 million to US$300 million, which is extremely rare in the history of the Internet.
Even when the Internet bubble was at its peak, we had never seen such an exaggerated Internet star.
As the investment leader of Kuaibo.com, Xiong Xiaoge strongly recommended this project, and because of his sharp eyesight, he was praised by insiders.
As the earliest venture capital investor in the country, he didn't pay much attention to these false names, but he still couldn't resist the joy of success.
Every time he meets a colleague, the other person will mention Qvod.com and give him a few compliments, which makes him feel particularly happy.
The good mood made Xiong Xiaoge pay attention to the outside world of Qvod Network, and took people to inspect the network in person.
When Qin Shaoyan heard that Xiong Xiaoge was going to Kuaibo.com, he paid great attention to it. He rushed to Kuaibo.com even though he was sick to prepare for the arrival of investors.
Although investors are not leaders, Qin Shaoyan still asked Kou Hongfei to lead everyone to clean up and at least tidy up the things on the desktop.
The sleeping bags, folding beds, etc. were neatly placed under the feet. At least from the perspective of appearance, Qvod.com had the appearance of an Internet company.
Qin Shaoyan looked at the brand new office environment and said with satisfaction: "In order to keep up with the company's cultural construction in the future, first of all, the spiritual outlook must be highlighted."
"We are not just one person. Internet companies will also become cultural companies and film and television companies in the future. They can no longer be like the otaku and hacker Internet cafes you used to have."
Kou Hongfei said quickly: "I made a note of Mr. Qin, and the month will start in a few days. I’ll mention it to everyone and let them be more conscious.”
“I’ll mention it tomorrow,” Qin Shaoyan warned, “Don’t take it seriously, you programmers are used to this kind of thing. Not caring at all.”
"Now Kuaibo.com is no longer the Caotai team it was three months ago, but a world-renowned video website, a company that even YouTube dares to reject."
"Quaibo.com has attracted a lot of attention. You guys You have to put on a show and dress up Qubao.com to look like an elite IT company. "
"What do you mean by asking your programmers to stop wearing plaid shirts?"< br>
Kou Hongfei was a little puzzled, "What should I wear without a plaid shirt?"
"Buy a few fashion magazines and learn how to dress." Qin Shaoyan thought for a while, "Forget it. I’ll have someone order some sets of clothes for you later.”
"Ah, you want custom-made products?" Kou Hongfei was shocked. This was the first time he heard that an Internet company still had a dress code.
Programmers only need to do their own technical work. Why does Mr. Qin also give advice on dressing?
Is this a wrong way?
Qin Shaoyan naturally has his own reasons for this. As the first Chinese video website and a benchmark company, Qvod.com will definitely be imitated by subsequent competitors.
He wanted to see if he could take other people's styles astray.
Of course, this is not the main reason. Now Kuaibo.com has become a company that attracts everyone's attention, with a valuation of more than 300 million US dollars.
Of course the company cannot be as rough as it was when it was first founded, at least it has to look glamorous on the surface.
Don’t underestimate superficial skills, which will affect the company’s image and even further affect the company’s valuation.
Qin Shaoyan has seen with his own eyes before that the entrepreneurial team made their company look too much like a black Internet cafe, which made investors doubt the professionalism of the team, resulting in investment failure.
The formalization of company management must be done step by step, but the mental outlook of employees and the internal environment of the company are the easiest to solve, so we should start with the superficial work.
"I heard that several people in the company have resigned. Has it affected the development progress?" Qin Shaoyan asked.
Kou Hongfei hesitated for a moment, he wanted to complain.
Because Chen Guangxia left, the people he encouraged to leave were naturally the backbones with strong technical skills, which naturally led to a shortage of manpower in the development position.
He didn't pay much attention to factions, but he was annoyed that it affected product project development work.
But Chen Guangxia's matter is too sensitive. There have been rumors within the company that it was the boss's former confidant CEO who pissed off the boss and was ordered to be kicked out of the company.
Moreover, he left the house without a clean bill of health. Not only was his stocks and options gone, but all the benefits he had received from the company were also given out.
Not only is Chen Guangxia gone, but his direct subordinates are also leaving one after another, which makes everyone in the company feel insecure, fearing that they will also be kicked out.
"The development progress will be affected a bit, but we can overcome it." Kou Hongfei said immediately, "HR has been recruiting new people recently, so the talent gap is not a big problem, and there are no big functions to be done recently."< br>
Qin Shaoyan was noncommittal and said calmly: "Now that you are the CTO and concurrently the vice president of the company, you will take up the responsibility of Qvod.com, and I will parachute a CEO later."
Kou Hongfei asked cautiously : "Is Mr. Zhang coming over?"
"No." Qin Shaoyan denied, "Mr. Zhang still has campus network matters to take care of and will not come to Qvod.com."
"But if you have anything to do, you can go to him directly. If I'm not around, he can." "I have full authority to handle it."
"Understood." Kou Hongfei was a little disappointed. He knew how much he had, and it was okay to be a CTO.
Qubao.com is now worth 300 million U.S. dollars. He is afraid that he will not be able to bear the responsibility if something goes wrong.
Qin Shaoyan also has a headache. He is now in a state where no one is available.
It was a carrot and a pit before, but now Chen Guangxia ran away, leaving a pit for him.
Fan Xiaoqian also needs to be in charge of the game company, where he needs to keep an eye on several projects.
What's more, the game project is Qin Shaoyan's key concern. It is his future cash cow, so there must be no mistakes.
Don't think that nothing will happen if you let it go for a year or two. A certain fox thought the same way back then. As a result, the game department collectively changed their profession to spiritual mages. It took several years for Mr. Zhang to find out.
The campus network is the flagship of Qin Shaoyan's business. Naturally, Zhang Minyi, a close general, is required to take command, and he will not be able to do so for at least two years.
Looking at the scene on Qvod.com, Qin Shaoyan wanted to capture Edward to fill the hole.
While Qin Shaoyan was thinking about new candidates, Xiong Xiaoge took his deputy Zhou Dao to Qvod.com.
"Mr. Xiong came so early." Qin Shaoyan greeted him with a smile.
Xiong Xiaoge patted Qin Shaoyan's shoulder enthusiastically and asked with concern: "How is it? Is your illness better?"
"It's okay. It's not as serious as before. I still have a slight fever. "Qin Shaoyan raised his left hand and showed the pinhole left by the intravenous drip on the back of his hand, "I still get injections every day."
"You should take a good rest if you are sick." Xiong Xiaoge warned, "I just came here to take a look, and you even came here specially, so I don't feel tired."
"You can't fall ill, campus network and fast The broadcast network requires you to hold on."
"It's okay, I'm young and in good health." Qin Shaoyan patted his chest confidently, and then coughed violently.
Xiong Xiaoge reluctantly criticized Qin Shaoyan, but in his heart he labeled Qin Shaoyan a workaholic.
Although those who work hard may not necessarily succeed, many successful people are workaholics.
Next, Xiong Xiaoge, accompanied by everyone, walked around the Qvod Network, looked at the backend data with his own eyes, and listened to the work report of Qvod Network's management.
Xiong Xiaoge is quite satisfied with the recent development of Kuaibo.com, encourages everyone to keep up their efforts, and promises that the financing funds will be available soon.
After sending Kou Hongfei and his group out of the conference room, Xiong Xiaoge looked at Qin Shaoyan, "How do you plan to spend the funds after they are in place? Buy copyrights, invest in film and television dramas?"
"Copyrights must be required. Go ahead and buy it." Qin Shaoyan replied seriously, "The investment in the film and television drama will not use the funds of Qvod. I will raise it myself through other channels." "Self-financing?" Xiong Xiaoge said. Surprised, "Actually, it doesn't have to be like this. The funds raised this time are so abundant, you can invest in a few movies to test the water, but don't have high expectations."
"That's not how investors' money is spent." Qin Shaoyan shook his head and said, "I won't take risks with my own money on such a high-risk matter, and it's not difficult to raise funds by myself." Seeing Qin Shaoyan say this, Xiong Xiaoge didn't even think about it. I kept insisting, "It won't take so much money just to buy the copyright."
"I am considering a plan to support original videos and give them to the video publishers with the highest number of views every day. Some rewards." Qin Shaoyan pondered for two seconds and said, "The amount of the bonus varies from a few thousand to tens of thousands of dollars depending on the quality and playback volume of the video."
"We can also recruit a group of newly graduated directors. College students come to take some photos and make good friends in the circle in advance.”
“The next biggest activity is to cooperate with the “International College Student Summer Camp” on the campus network and let college students who go out to study to take some personal photos. Videos from different perspectives are posted on the website to allow domestic netizens to see the situation abroad. ”
"Then we invite celebrities to register for accounts. Isn't there a popular blog now? We can start a video blog."
"Try to create a group of internet celebrities to attract netizens."
Xiong Xiaoge There is no comment on the quality of these plans, but Qin Shaoyan can throw out several plans so quickly, which seems to be after consideration and planning.
This is much better than more than 90% of entrepreneurs. They basically have no plan, take it step by step, and even wait to copy their peers.
Xiong Xiaoge suddenly asked: "I heard that the CEO of Qvod.com has resigned."
"Yes." Qin Shaoyan replied calmly.
Xiong Xiaoge frowned, "Why did you leave your job? I never heard of you mentioning such a big thing."
"This is an internal matter of Kuaibo.com, not a big deal." Qin Shaoyan Said lightly.
“Isn’t this a big deal?” Xiong Xiaoge said displeasedly, “The CEO of Qvod.com is worth less than ten thousand people. I also heard that this person is the veteran of the campus network.”
“The resignation of such an important person will have a very bad impact on Qvod.com and may cause heavy losses to the company. How could you not notify shareholders?”
"Why did he resign?"
"It was just a personal reason." Qin Shaoyan still acted calmly, "The public statement was that he needed to recuperate due to physical reasons, but in fact it was because of the disagreement in business philosophy. After a small disagreement, I decided to leave."
"This is not a trivial matter," Xiong Xiaoge said seriously, "Now many people are watching every move of Qvod.com, and you just finished financing here. The CEO of Qvod.com has been replaced, which can easily lead to unnecessary speculation."
"Then let me make a small statement to the outside world." Qin Shaoyan pondered for two seconds and said slowly: "Comrade Chen Guangxia is due to health reasons. He is no longer able to perform his duties as president. From now on, Vice President Kou Hongfei will take over his duties. At the same time, he announced the establishment of a Qvod Network Emergency Committee to jointly deal with the daily operations of Qvod."
"..." Xiong Xiaoge's face turned dark." You change the word.”
"Then I will let Chen Guangxia come out and issue a resignation statement on his own." Qin Shaoyan said helplessly, "Then the company will make another announcement to thank Mr. Chen Guangxia for his hard work on Qvod.com and hope to cooperate again in the future."
Xiong Xiaoge glanced at Qin Shaoyan, "How did I hear that he resigned and started a business?"
"Hey, Mr. Xiong is quite well-informed." Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised, "He did start a business. He started a video website called Yiku.com.”
“Video website?” Xiong Xiaoge was shocked, “You just let him go. Why didn’t you start a non-competition agreement? Him?”
“There’s no need to kill them all, Mr. Xiong,” Qin Shaoyan persuaded, “They are all working on the Internet. It’s unethical to use competition agreements at every turn.”
"If you do this, who will start a business in the Internet industry."
"Aren't you afraid that he will become your competitor?" Xiong Xiaoge frowned and asked.
“There are so many competitors, and he is the only one missing.” Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, “What’s more, Microsoft is the one who invested in Yiku.com. We have tricked Davis, so we must give people some compensation. "Absolutely."
Xiong Xiaoge quickly figured out the secret and asked, "Is he going to do business with Yiku.com?"
" Almost" Qin Shaoyan gave an affirmative answer. .
"Tell me the truth, are you and Davis singing a double act?" Xiong Xiaoge asked.
"Absolutely nothing, I have nothing to do with Yiku.com." Qin Shaoyan quickly clarified, "Although Chen Guangxia wanted me to take part of the shares, I refused."
Xiong Xiaoge asked with suspicion on his face: "There is really no insider trading?"
"Absolutely not." Qin Shaoyan assured, "Can you still not believe in my character?"
Xiong Xiaoge He sneered and did not comment on Qin Shaoyan's character.
"How do you plan to solve this Yiku.com?"
"How to solve it?" Qin Shaoyan asked pretending to be confused, "Are you talking about competitors?"
"This is good. No, it won’t live for five years, so there’s no need to worry.”
Xiong Xiaoge snorted, “Really, I don’t believe it.”
“Then let’s make a gambling agreement. Qin Shaoyan said dissatisfiedly, "Do you dare to bet on equity?"
"Forget it." Xiong Xiaoge gave up immediately.
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After Qin Shaoyan returned to the campus network, he and Zhang Pingyi complained about Xiong Xiaoge, "Old Xiong, what pot is this?"
"Originally I was very sad when Senior Brother Chen left, but he kept making excuses about it.”
“I felt so miserable!”
Zhang Pingyi was speechless and said awkwardly: "Chen Guangxia came to see me yesterday."
"Huh?!" Qin Shaoyan frowned, "Why is he looking for you? Isn't he trying to poach someone?"
"That's not true." Zhang Pingyi shook his head, "Senior Brother Chen looks older than before, complaining to me."
"Complaining?!" Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised, "At this time, he It’s time to show off your talents, what’s there to complain about?”
“Microsoft sent him a dozen directors, and they were arguing every day, which made his head hurt.” Zhang Pingyi. He seemed to want to laugh a little, "A newly established company doesn't even have a website online, so why would it send so many directors?"
Qin Shaoyan smiled, "Did Microsoft send a group of management from Hong Kong and Taiwan?"
Zhang Pingyi was very surprised, "Hey, how did you know?"
Qin Shaoyan smiled He smiled and said nothing, and then suddenly said: "It's broken."
"What's broken?" Zhang Pingyi was startled.
"I told Xiong Xiaoge before that Yiku.com could not survive for five years, and it looks like it will not survive for three years." Qin Shaoyan regretted, "If I had known, I would have forced Xiong Xiaoge to sign a gambling agreement."
"It's not that exaggerated, is it?" Zhang Pingyi was shocked by Qin Shaoyan's evaluation.
“If you don’t believe me, let’s wait and see.” Qin Shaoyan said with emotion, “It’s not easy for Davis to gather so many sleeping dragons and phoenix chicks.”
“It seems that he is very interested in art. Kuwang does have high hopes, but it’s just a bit too strong.”
With such a group of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Gaohua coming, nothing can be done except internal fighting, let alone fighting with competitors. , you may cause trouble yourself.
When Qin Shaoyan was gloating about his misfortune, his secretary knocked on the door and poked his head in. "Mr. Qin, there is a guest named Liu Mingzu looking for you outside, but he has not made an appointment."
"Hey." Qin Shaoyan became happy, "This is a distinguished guest, please come in."
Zhang Pingyi was a little surprised, "Who is Liu Mingzu?"
"The son of a coal boss." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "The money we invested in film and television dramas has been secured."
(End of this chapter)