What's wrong with me being a rich man?

Chapter 227 Ideal
Yu Xing felt that his work was not progressing particularly fast. The only routine procedures, such as computers, employees, offices, and company registration, had been completed. But Liu Jiankai came for a visit and left feeling a little dazed.

He found it funny and told Ge Zhijie, who had officially become the technical director of WeChat, that "a potential investor came to visit the company and was surprised at our achievements."

Ge Zhijie was bewildered: "Where are the results? We haven't even started yet."

Yu Xing smiled and said, "Indeed, I feel the same way."

However, it is not entirely true to say that it has not started yet. In addition to Ge Zhijie, the core team that was previously communicated with, he has now identified two people, one is a colleague from Baidu, and the other is from NetEase, which is also a large company.

There is one person from ZTE who is close to being confirmed, and three others have been screened but are still in the process of negotiation.

Yu Xing was satisfied with Ge Zhijie's work performance.

Because of this satisfaction and the necessary relationship maintenance in the early stages of working together, Dragon TV also invited the technical director to visit the scene for the recording of the latest episode of "If You Are the One" after the New Year.

Probably because of similar considerations, Ge Zhijie naturally agreed to the "team building".

Yu Xing hadn't come to record a program for a while. Coming here after the Spring Festival, he suddenly felt a little fresh.

The Lantern Festival is not over yet, but it is the beginning of the Lunar New Year. The program team has specially organized a special segment for this purpose, allowing each BOSS guest to choose a word to start the new year of 2010.

Yu Xing thought it was very interesting and after some hesitation gave his own lyrics.

“Peaceful.”

However, as soon as he finished speaking, there was obvious laughter at the recording site.

"Mr. Yu, are you serious?" the host asked directly.

"Of course I am serious," Yu Xing said seriously, "I hope that 2010 will be a peaceful year like this, for me and the company's development will also be peaceful."

Li Song, the boss of Zhenai.com who came to participate in the recording today, couldn't help but say, "Boss Yu, usually the more you lack something, the more you emphasize it. Stop pretending, and let Bai Xiaosheng reveal some information this year. The holiday has just ended, and everyone wants to see the paparazzi make a fuss."

Yu Xing was about to retort, but suddenly he remembered the words he had chosen, and also wanted to add some show effect, so he made a downward gesture with his right hand: "I won't argue with you, I want to be peaceful."

There was laughter again at the scene, and it was obvious that everyone didn't believe that Yu Xing could do it.

Yu Xing also proved with facts that everyone's vision was very accurate.

Halfway through the recording, the program mentioned the current entrepreneurial environment because of a job seeker's failed entrepreneurial experience.

As a young and successful entrepreneur, Yu Xing received such a topic and the audience fell silent as soon as he opened his mouth: "There is a saying in Korea that the three things that cannot be avoided in life are birth, death, and Samsung. I think it is similar when we talk about entrepreneurship now. There are also three things that cannot be avoided: birth, death, and penguins."

The host Zhang Shaogang had previously experienced a round of overwhelming criticism, but he was allowed to stay on the show because he apologized on stage afterwards.

After hesitating for two seconds, he said, "Mr. Yu, you said before that you wanted to be peaceful, but now you are not being peaceful. Be careful of the lawyer's letter."

"It's not that serious. I'm just talking about the objective situation." Yu Xing said disapprovingly, "Penguin has a lot of traffic and has entered many fields. During this year's Spring Festival, I saw that Penguin was forcibly pushing its QQ Doctor on my computer. I clearly remember that I was using 360 on my computer, but when I looked at it a few days ago, I don't know when it became Penguin's."

This is the latest news during this year's Spring Festival. Bai Xiaosheng posted the inside story afterwards. Penguin's Q Doctor was launched in December 06, and for a long time it was used as a small tool to detect and kill account-stealing Trojans. However, in late January this year, an updated version with an interface and functions similar to 12 was launched, and then it began to be forcibly promoted during the Spring Festival holiday.

As a result, some 360 ​​employees who were on vacation were urgently recalled and responded to the raid quickly.

Yu Xing only saw the gossip on the forum afterwards, but he knew that this was the beginning of 3Q's fateful battle.

It's a rare occasion for him to be on the show today. Considering that he is going to target Penguin this year, he is happy to write about the giants, which will naturally accumulate a little murderous intent.

"Also, last year Sogou sued Penguin, saying that the other party used destructive technical means to directly delete the shortcuts of users' Sogou Pinyin software. I guess we will see the verdict this year."

"Of course, Penguin also seems to be suing Sogou for unfair competition, and the reasons seem to be similar."

"Sogou is a company spun off from Sohu. It has the backing of a big company, but it also has to deal with Penguin's attack. I think Penguin doesn't need to rush to do everything."

"As a giant, it could be more dignified."

Yu Xing shared his thoughts.

"Mr. Yu, I don't agree with your point of view." Mu Yan of Baihe.com picked up the microphone and pointed out the problem. "Like you said, Sogou can do it, why can't Penguin? Since it is a commercial competition, if Sogou does it, Penguin's hands will be tied, then won't it lose money? From a business logic point of view, it can't just watch itself lose money."

"The lawsuits between these two companies must be based on the final judgment. I will not comment on right or wrong in this matter." Yu Xing said seriously, "I will just talk about the objective situation. From my own experience, when I was raising funds, the investor asked me directly, she asked, if Penguin does the same project, what can I do?"

"This question is not just for entrepreneurs like me. Why is Penguin singled out among so many big companies?"

"From this perspective, Penguin's expansion is very successful, and the brilliance of success is a bit blinding."

"There is another objective situation, that is, the development of the Internet in recent years has proved that the speed of issuing regulations often lags behind the actual development. For the same thing, if new regulations are issued tomorrow, this thing will not comply with the regulations tomorrow, but it is still happening today, and we still feel the same, that it is not in fact compliant."

"Business development is a comprehensive process. It requires policies, environment, and the actions of the companies themselves. I just want to talk about it. Forget about ordinary companies. Can a giant that is already profitable be more dignified? This may be better for everyone."

Yu Xing told the story slowly and leisurely.

Li Song laughed and said, "How do you think it made money and became a giant?"

There was a burst of laughter at the scene, even the bosses were laughing.

"Mr. Yu, you are too idealistic. I understand what you mean, but I think it's difficult." Mu Yan waited until everyone had finished laughing before saying, "You want big companies to voluntarily give up their interests and pay attention to business ethics. Well, I don't think it can even be called ethics, it's business manners. This is too idealistic."

Another boss also concluded: "Mr. Yu just wants the giants to do certain things and not do certain things. I feel that waiting for another ten years is not a good idea, because, I think if I were in that position, it would be hard for me to resist the desire to make more money."

Yu Xing nodded and acknowledged being described as "idealistic."

He turned his thoughts and said, "I am just giving you good advice."

The host pretended to be surprised: "Mr. Yu, you are still giving good advice? What does it mean if you don't give good advice?"

The first recording session after the New Year seemed particularly relaxed, and everyone laughed again.

Yu Xing shook his head and did not answer the question with words.

He just said with emotion: "My chat may be idealistic, but what I want to say is that idealism is good."

“If we don’t talk about ideals, it’s a bit bad.”

"If you talk about your ideals and are laughed at, the situation is already very bad."

"Which level do you think our discussion about this nationally and even globally famous company should belong to?"

Yu Xing asked another sincere question: "Just a few seconds ago, I suddenly had a big question in my mind, does Penguin have any ideals now?"

"Let business be business, and let ideals be ideals." Li Song said humorously, "If you want to choose business, choose business, and if you want to choose ideals, choose ideals. But I think that what Mr. Yu said will not have any effect on Penguin. It will not be sad because of Mr. Yu's disapproval."

Yu Xing shrugged, not angry, and said calmly: "It's just a discussion. I talked a little too much. I have time to think during the New Year holiday. I am amused when I think." Li Song actually knew what new projects Yu Xing wanted to incubate through his wife Xu Xin, so he said meaningfully: "If possible, I would also like to see the ideal come true, but reality is reality."

He was also not optimistic about the challenge Yu Xing was trying to launch.

Yu Xing spread his hands and did not add any further discussion.

But no matter what, such casual chats actually made the atmosphere at the recording site better. The show "If You Are the One" was not just focused on job hunting and recruitment from the very beginning.

The recording lasted until the evening. Yu Xing finally sighed: "I haven't been here for a while. The bosses here have changed a lot. Mr. Li from Ku6.com has also been very busy recently."

A boss chimed in: "Mr. Li is busy fighting a video copyright war."

Yu Xing nodded in understanding.

Since the third quarter of last year, when Sohu sued Youku for copyright infringement, domestic video websites have been embroiled in a legal war. Tudou, Ku6, Xunlei, 56 and other websites have filed lawsuits or countersued, setting off a legal war.

The entire online video industry has hardly been spared.

After the program was recorded, Yu Xing still had an idea in his mind: when the company makes money this year, he will buy "The Legend of Zhen Huan" before his old employer LeTV.

He saw Ge Zhijie stand up from the audience, walked off the stage and asked with a smile: "Mr. Ge, how was it? Was the variety show recording fun?"

"It's quite interesting, and different from what I've seen before." Ge Zhijie commented, and then asked thoughtfully, "Mr. Yu, do you think Penguin has an ideal?"

"Ah?" Yu Xing didn't expect Ge Zhijie to still be thinking about this, and laughed, "I don't know if it has any ideals, but it must be under pressure. Look, everyone is powerless to resist and has acquiesced to its actions."

Ge Zhijie nodded deeply. This was also what he felt from the previous discussion.

"Let's go to a restaurant. I'll treat you." Yu Xing had been exhausted from recording the show and was now starving.

Ge Zhijie followed his boss's footsteps and chatted about his ideas on the development of WeChat.

"Mr. Yu, I think when we develop instant messaging software, we can actually consider applying new things to share the technical pressure, such as system architecture. If we do some cutting-edge design, the follow-up may be very good."

"There is a company called Netflix abroad whose business is film and television broadcasting. What it is doing now is to split the traditional monolithic architecture and transform it into more fine-grained services, which makes it easier to cope with the complexity of large-scale distributed applications."

Yu Xing walked and listened, but he didn't quite understand, so he asked, "Is this a good idea? Are there any companies doing this in China? Who are they benchmarking against?"

He began to have some mature experience as a product manager.

"In China... Alibaba's thinking is somewhat similar." Ge Zhijie thought, "Its Taobao business has adopted the Dubbo framework this year, splitting the business into services. In other words, it has separated the shared service layer such as the user center, so that different business systems can easily call the services of the user center, and can also ensure the performance, reliability and scalability of service calls."

He added: "This is a high-performance RPC framework. It is said that Alibaba plans to open source it next year. I think it does have many advantages."

Yu Xing looked at his technical director and asked, "Can we learn from him?"

Ge Zhijie frowned and thought, and did not give an answer until he finished his meal.

However, Yu Xing seemed to be able to feel the spark of wisdom in the technical director's mind, and that evening he happily shared his impressions of this talent with Xiaoying.

"I think Ge Zhijie must have made the right move. He can take out a little more of the options later, thus giving up a small amount for a big one."

Liu Wanying heard Boss Yu mention Ge Zhijie these days, and said with a smile: "You two are quite compatible, it seems that you have entered the honeymoon period."

Yu Xing laughed and thought that this statement could be used.

The next day, at ten o'clock in the morning, in the president's office of Bai Xiaosheng's headquarters, the honeymoon period seemed to have come to an end.

Yu Xing looked at Ge Zhijie in front of him in astonishment, and asked in confusion: "What do you mean by resigning?"

"I don't think I can do it." Ge Zhijie's face was full of pain, scratching his head, "Mr. Yu, I'm not suitable for this job."

Yu Xing pursed his lips and asked seriously: "Boss Ge, are you dissatisfied with your treatment? We can talk about it directly. It won't get in the way."

"It's not the salary, it's the technology. I don't think I can be a design leader of a distributed architecture." Ge Zhijie answered, and then denied himself, "No, it's not just the technology. Mr. Yu, I barely slept last night. You're right. Penguin can feel the pressure! I can't do it. I'm here to resign today!"

Yu Xing thought it was ridiculous. He probably understood why the technical director wanted to run away, so he quickly comforted him: "Boss Ge, the distributed architecture you mentioned is not the only solution, right? You said yesterday that Alibaba is the best in China. Does that mean that other companies cannot do without it except Alibaba? Penguin is still a giant. We don't have to use cutting-edge technology. We can take our time."

"Also, I will take care of the competitive pressure from Penguin. Just take the money. I will never pass this pressure on to you, and I will not deduct your money or anything like that. Don't worry or be nervous."

He persuaded Ge Zhijie like this for a long time and finally calmed him down, as he was about to resign just a few days after joining the company.

After Ge Zhijie left, Yu Xing reviewed the situation while drinking tea. He had a trace of doubt in his mind: Was this the technical director's way of negotiating his salary in disguise?

But he changed his mind and realized that it was unreasonable to discuss salary so soon after joining the company.

Perhaps this is why Director Ge has high technical requirements for himself.

Yu Xing changed his perspective and thought that this should be considered a good thing.

Another day passed, at three o'clock in the afternoon, still in the president's office, Yu Xing saw Ge Zhijie pushing the door open, and saw the pain on his face similar to yesterday, and suddenly he had a bad premonition.

"Mr. Yu, I'm here to resign!" This was the first thing Ge Zhijie said.

Yu Xing felt his back suddenly become red with sweat.

He quickly stood up and asked, "Boss Ge, why? Are you dissatisfied with your treatment, or do you have a technical problem that you can't solve?"

Ge Zhijie shook his head: "No, Tan Ruize and I had a quarrel. We can't work together. Our opinions are too different! This job can't be done!"

"Boss Ge, you..." Yu Xing controlled his emotions and soothed him, "What exactly is it? Oh, Boss Ge, you are the leader, you have to... Forget it, I'll go downstairs and talk to Tan Ruize, we can discuss it calmly."

He hurried downstairs and spent half an hour comforting Tan Ruize, then went upstairs and spent another half an hour comforting Ge Zhijie.

That night, Yu Xing was faced with a table full of delicious food, and he was so worried that he could hardly eat.

"Oh no, Ge Zhijie might not be emotionally stable!" he said in distress, "How can someone resign when faced with such a problem..."

Liu Wanying looked at Boss Yu's expression and almost burst out laughing: "I found a treasure before. Oh my, half a treasure is still a treasure. He resigned, you comforted him. He resigned again, you comforted him again, hahahaha."

Yu Xing was helpless.

On the third day, as soon as he left the community, he saw Ge Zhijie standing downstairs of the company with a bitter face. Although he didn't know whether he was going to resign again, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

This person was indeed recruited by myself, he was not fired by Baidu, right?
No wonder... there is a reason why I can't get promoted...

(End of this chapter)