In the evening, Zhou Buqi talked to Shi Jinglin and finally persuaded her to stop. Let's rest for a day. Although the groom's job every night is exciting, this is too exciting.

Especially they are all foreign women.

Zhou Buqi always exerts one hundred and twenty percent of his strength to prove the strong physique of the yellow race. As the male head of the family, what if he is laughed at by the maids in private?

So he worked very hard.

It's time to take a day off.

However, you can take a break in life, but you cannot take a break in work.

In the evening, Lu Qi called first and reported the good news, "Yuan Zheng nodded and said he is willing to leave Cisco and cooperate with us."

Zhou Buqi was very happy, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Lu Qi said in embarrassment: "But he said that he has only one goal, which is to develop a product and defeat his old employer. He doesn't want to do other jobs."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I didn't expect him to have such a big difference with the Cisco team. Who is it?"

"CEO."

"No wonder."

"But it's more difficult for us to deal with."

"Um?"

"His level is too high," Lu Qi sighed. "If we just ask him to be in charge of a small cloud video conferencing product, I have asked, and we can provide him with an M4 position at the most. His level should be as high as

Only when the product scale becomes larger and larger can we improve step by step.”

This is the complexity of large companies.

Different levels must have corresponding powers and products.

One person manages a product worth 10 billion U.S. dollars, which is at the M7 level, and another person manages a product worth 1 million U.S. dollars, which is also an M7 level. This loses fairness and affects aggressiveness.

Another point is that the cloud video conferencing product Yuan Zheng wants to build is ultimately a cloud product and should belong to the cloud computer business group.

But Yuan Zheng and Kurian are at the same level, how to distribute power?

Purple Star International is actually still in the entrepreneurial stage, but it is no longer a startup company in terms of size and scale. It is a mature large company. It is unrealistic for senior executives to not care about personal honor and disgrace like a startup company.

For example, when Amazon's Bezos retired, he chose the president of Amazon Cloud to take over. The result was that several presidents of other major business groups resigned.

We are all on the same level, so why did you jump on me?

There is also the retirement of Disney's Robert Iger. He chose the president of the amusement park business to take over. Several presidents of large business units at the same level chose to leave. After one of them left Disney, he was poached by ByteDance to serve as TikTok

global CEO.

The distribution of power and positions in large companies must be done carefully.

Zhou Buqi thought for a while and said: "Tell him first to go through the resignation procedures. It's easy for us to talk here and everything can be discussed."

"good."

"By the way, how many users does helo have?"

"33 million. Spring is not the best-selling season for smartphones. The main reason is that summer and autumn are the best-selling seasons."

This was Lu Qi's achievement, and he was quite proud of it.

Ziweixing International now has three pillars: Lu Qi, Kurian and Tang Binchen.

The core product of Luqi Supervisor is the overseas helo. This is the flagship product of Ziweixing International and the most popular app on mobile phones. It does not need to spend money to promote it. It is recommended by major technology magazines and smartphones.

In the list, helo is a must-have product.

It can be said that the helo brand has been established.

Hello is "hello" in a sense. It is a way to say hello, strike up a conversation, and socialize. It goes very well with mobile phones. When talking on a mobile phone, the first sentence is often "hello?", just like an invisible advertisement.

In 2006, Ziweixing spent US$1 million to buy the global domain name helo. Now it seems that it is really a good deal.

Zhou Buqi was still not satisfied and asked: "What is your expectation for helo's future user scale?"

"Maybe..." Lu Qi hesitated, "500 million users within 5 years?"

"It's too small!"

"What is your goal?"

"Within three years, we will have 500 million daily active users." Zhou Buqi paused and added, "Does not include the domestic market."

"hiss!"

Lu Qi took a deep breath of air-conditioning. This was really a tall order!

Zhou Buqi said: "There are now more than 120 million smartphones in the world, but the number of Helo users is only 33 million. Brother Lu, you have to work harder. Kurian and Tang Binchen are working hard, and we are also

We can’t fall behind, right? I heard from Binchen that ucgram is doing well?”

"Well, the number of users has exceeded 5 million."

The land machine is really a bit embarrassing.

It is also a social product. Yikyak, which he led, has not made much progress in the European and American markets, but Tang Binchen has made this product dominate the Korean and Japanese markets.

This year, another photo-based social product called ucgram was launched, which really became an overnight trend.

You should know that this product in the Japanese market is called uc beauty, and it has not yet been integrated with the European and American version of ucgram.

Because there are many versions of UC Beauty in Japan, most of which are Java versions for feature phones and multimedia mobile phones, the product upgrade speed is relatively slow. The UC Beauty that has not been upgraded is only a picture modification software and does not open a picture social channel.

Once there are more and more smartphones in Japan, and all the users of UC beauty function machines in the past are transferred to smartphones, there will be more than 20 million users.

This scale is no smaller than helo.

Helo is the strategic core product of Ziweixing International, and the company has invested a lot of resources and funds. Ucgram is just a product that Tang Binchen promoted in a small way without spending much money and relying on pure creativity.

One Kurian and one Tang Binchen put a lot of pressure on Lu Qi.

If Yuan Zheng also joined and made achievements...

Lu Qi quickly expressed his stance and said in a deep voice: "I believe that helo can have greater room for development!"

After finishing the call with Lu Qi, Zhou Buqi held a brief video conference with China, which was mainly about vicious competition in anti-virus software and other aspects.

Fu Sheng said that Penguin's attitude is relatively friendly and it is willing to compete moderately and not take drastic measures. Baidu is unmoved. Not only does it not accept mediation, it also intensifies its efforts.

Previously, Baidu only used the search engine to play some forced jumps, and now it has begun to play with the Family Bucket package. Just download and install any Baidu software. If you are not careful during installation, it is very likely that Baidu’s Family Bucket will be used.

The software is all installed, including Baidu Input Method, Baidu Browser, Baidu Antivirus, Baidu Security Guard, etc. Once bundled and downloaded, it will cause friction with the original micro-point products, thus inducing users to uninstall.

Zhou Buqi appeased Fu Sheng and warned him not to use a reciprocal approach to fight back, but that he must care about Weidian's brand and not affect the brand image for temporary gain.

This competition will not happen overnight.

These software are not very profitable, and the business model is still based on attracting traffic. In the end, the focus of monetization must be on the search channel.

The competition for the scale of these free products cannot affect the brand, thus affecting the recognition of the search business.

Zhou Buqi was afraid that Fu Sheng would take drastic measures, so he repeatedly warned, "Baidu's strategy is wrong. We must exercise restraint and not follow them astray."

Fu Sheng was dissatisfied, "Then let's just forget it?"

He Yang obviously supported Boss Zhou's point of view, and said with a smile: "Competition does not have to be entangled in one point, or even one line. Ziweixing has a very complete ecosystem. This is Ziweixing's largest compared to Baidu

Competitive advantage.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, use ecological multi-dimensional attacks. Friends.com, Weibo, Weizhi, Xiaonei.com and other products to block all promotions related to Baidu. When it comes to the use of content, Baidu's crawlers must also be rejected."

Zhang Yiming suddenly said: "Baidu recently launched a new project."

"Um?"

"Baidu has integrated its video channels into a new independent subsidiary called Qiyi.com."

“Oh, video website!”

Zhou Buqi knew this very well.

Qiyi.com changed its name a few years later and became the famous iQiyi.

Zhang Yiming said: "Baidu attaches great importance to this project, and they hired Gong Yu."

"Well, I know."

Zhou Buqi was somewhat helpless. He was actually quite optimistic about Gong Yu.

Gong Yu was Sohu's coo before, the second-in-command after Zhang Chaoyang. Later, the two had a falling out. Why? Because Zhang Zhang traveled around every day, the company's business was left to Gong Yu to handle.

This is nothing, this is basically what big bosses do.

But Gong Yu was somewhat cautious. When he was being interviewed by a financial reporter, the reporter asked Lao Zhang questions. He always asked about sightseeing and other messy things about female celebrity scandals. When he asked Gong Yu questions, he repeatedly

What was mentioned was Sohu's strategy and business development, all business matters.

This made Lao Zhang very angry.

The reporters' questions were all arranged in advance and reviewed by Sohu. However, these questions obviously put Gong Yu in a higher position and really did not take Lao Zhang seriously.

Zhou Buqi originally wanted to recruit Gong Yu to work at Ziweixing, but he had a good relationship with Lao Zhang and was embarrassed, so he gave Baidu a chance.
To be continued...