Chapter 707 Word of mouth is competitiveness

The banquet ends at two o'clock in the afternoon.

He drank a little too much, so Zhou Buqi slept when he wanted to take a bath. However, the young and beautiful female secretary recommended herself as a pillow mat, and she looked so pitiful to me.

There was no way, Boss Zhou could only take care of the emotions of his employees, and reluctantly accepted it.

After working for an hour, I didn't go to bed until three o'clock.

At four o'clock, a phone call woke him up.

"He Yang, what's the matter?"

"Good news, the penguin let go."

"oh?"

Zhou Buqi was still groggy, but when he heard this, his drowsiness disappeared immediately, and he became more awake.

He Yang said: "They paid back a price, 240 million."

Zhou Buqi said: "I've said it all, I won't lower the price. It's not tiring for such a big company to haggle over everything for such a small amount of money! This is a major issue related to the company's strategy. They are still chasing around here, the situation is too bad .”

He Yang smiled and said: "They just called and said that the offer of 300 million yuan is not unacceptable, but they put forward a condition."

"What conditions?"

"They require 100 technical talents with experience in open platforms. We can't get 100, but 70 are still possible."

"What?" Zhou Buqi was slightly taken aback, then laughed, "Is there such a good thing?"

He Yang couldn't help but laugh, "Yeah, I didn't expect that either!"

In the layoff plan, Friends.com is best able to lay off 150 people. If it is not good to lay off so many people at one time, you can lay off 100 people first.

But in the current situation, Ali needs 50 people, Sina 20 people, Sohu 10 people, Baidu does not want any. This made it difficult to deal with the remaining 70 places.

Zhou Buqi sat up, and said with deep emotion: "It seems that I misunderstood them. Brother Xiao Ma's structure is no worse than that of Lao Ma! Sure enough, he has pursuit! What is the most important thing in the 21st century? Talent is the most important thing. It seems that Penguin I deeply felt this, it really is the courage of a big company!"

He Yang said: "This is their only solution, the little trick didn't work."

"oh?"

"Don't you know? Didn't you read the email I sent you?"

"I didn't have time. I drank wine with the old horse all afternoon. After returning to the guest room, I fell asleep and didn't have time to check emails. Tell me, what happened?"

He Yang's tone was a little cold, but also a little arrogant, "The transaction on the open platform is not going well this time, and someone is behind the scenes!"

Zhou Buqi blinked, "What do you mean?"

He Yangdao: "In the past few days, several groups of headhunters have contacted Zhang Yiming, Tang Binchen, and Liang Rubo. Their chief human resources officers have all come here."

Zhou Buqi's face darkened, "What are you doing? Gouging my corner?"

"There are still a lot of digging. Zhang Yiming told me that they want to poach all the core team of the open platform. There are twenty or thirty people, and the highest salary has been increased by twenty times."

"Twenty times? Who?"

"Tang Binchen."

Zhou Buqi was angry and funny, "This is really underestimating people. Ziweixing is about to start financing. Tang Binchen holds 5 million stock options. How can he dig it? Can he afford it?"

He Yang said with a smile: "Zhang Yiming had a frank and honest talk with their people, and said that sharing is the soul of Ziweixing. He is willing to share advanced technology with his peers, and even willing to provide some technical talents with strong technical capabilities to help."

"Okay, then send the remaining 70 people there. Well, how is the personnel handling going?"

"The cost of layoffs has been cut."

"What's the meaning?"

"If you buy back their options at the financing price of the A round according to what you said, the cost of layoffs will be more than 50 million. Wang Haoyang disagrees, saying that their contribution is not that great, and the company will do their best to them and give them up to 10 million severance pay .”

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, "Is this not good?"

He Yang said: "Their options haven't been exercised yet, there's nothing wrong with that. Don't worry, this matter has been communicated. Once we lay off employees, they won't be able to find such a high-paying job again. Now the company will arrange for them the next job." Who wouldn’t be happy if the job, salary and benefits remain the same, and you can also receive a severance pay?”

Zhou Buqi pondered for a long time, and said slowly: "If there are no accidents, the A round may be over soon."

"ah?"

"I will meet Masayoshi Son tomorrow. His enthusiasm is much higher than that of Goldman Sachs and Sequoia Capital."

"Good thing!"

He Yang was very happy.

At this time, the fourth secretary Wang Yaojin on the bed had already woken up and hugged Zhou Buqi from behind.

If the person behind him was Wen Zhixia or Shi Jinglin, then Zhou Buqi would definitely lean back and relax.

But Zhou Buqi didn't want to be so intimate with this little secretary who didn't know much about her, so he turned his head and took a pillow, threw it under his feet, gave her his eyes, and asked her to kneel down.

Zhou Buqi did not let himself go. After thinking for a while, he said seriously: "The A round is about to be completed, but they buy back at a lower price. Even if they don't say it, they complain in their hearts. I think we should follow the rules Let’s go. You can’t be unscrupulous just because the company is not listed and lacks supervision. This is not a matter of money, but a matter of principle.”

He Yang froze for a moment, he didn't expect this big boss to be so stunned, he couldn't believe it, "Isn't it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The severance pay has changed from 50 million to 10 million, which is nothing more than saving 40 million. But I think we should spend this money, and it is worth it!"

"Um?"

"This is Ziweixing's first large-scale layoffs. All the employees of the company are staring at it. Our peers are also watching. We must do it beautifully, so that everyone can't speak. Not only to help them Find the next job, and give them the money that belongs to them in full!"

He Yang was slightly silent.

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Old He, you can change your mind and don't regard this dismissal of employees as layoffs. Just think that we have spent 50 million and sent 150 employees to major companies to respond !"

"Commercial espionage?"

"What kind of spies? I still need to send spies to spy on those broken companies in China? You need technology, but you need strategy... I know all about it, so it's not worth mentioning."

"Then this is... to help us promote?"

"That's right, it's propaganda." Zhou Buqi paused, coughed twice, as if trying to cover up something, and then said slowly: "Whether it's Taobao, Penguin, or Sina, Sohu, the open platform project must It will be their key project. These 150 employees will become their core employees, what do you think the consequences will be?"

He Yang blinked his eyes a few times.

Suddenly, I feel that Boss Zhou is really hurting!

Hurting others is not beneficial to oneself!

The average salary of these people is 26,000, but the real ability is more than 10,000.

Fortunately, for a short time, they went to the other company to participate in the open platform project. Because of the lack of relevant talents in the country, they received training from Ziweixing, and they belonged to the first wave of bonuses in the industry.

But after a long time, when newcomers come to the top, the situation of this group of people will not be so good.

No company will raise people with high salary, low ability and poor learning ability.

Salary cuts are out of the question.

Even if the employees accept it, the company will not accept it, and can only lay off employees.

At that time, how will Ali, Penguin, Sina and other companies deal with this group of people when laying off employees? Will it be as fair and magnanimous as Ziwei Star when laying off employees?

Even if he gritted his teeth and bled profusely, Ding Kemao paid enough compensation for dismissal, but what about work?

When Ziweixing laid off employees, it helped them find their next home and job!

Anything is afraid of comparison.

What's more frightening is that even if this group of people is laid off, they will become the hottest group in the industry. They have participated in the entrepreneurship of Friends.com, and participated in the construction of the Taobao open platform and the QQ open platform... They have completed so many large projects, and their resumes are very impressive, which will make some companies who don't know the inside information go crazy.

At that time, Ziwei Star's industry reputation will follow them in the industry.

It's hard to believe the headhunter's half-truths.

But the words of seniors in the industry are very convincing. Ziweixing released this group of people, which is equivalent to releasing a propaganda team.

"It's not worth spending more than 40 million for this little thing." He Yang sighed, still thinking that real money is better.

Zhou Buqi said: "The Internet has a memory. Many traditional companies did some immoral things in the past, and they may forget them in a few years. The Internet is different, especially the Internet giants, who are under the spotlight and use a magnifying glass to see. Don’t forget, we have Weizhi and Toutiao. Every once in a while, we will post similar hot posts to publicize this incident. Only with a good reputation will it be more attractive.”

The same is to make computers, and Xiaomi has to hire a project team from Lenovo, and it has to pay two or three times the salary. Huawei went to Lenovo to dig the core team, and the premium was doubled.

A good reputation is competitiveness.

Then, Zhou Buqi arranged the work simply, saying that Wang Haoyang and Zhang Yiming would come to Hangzhou tomorrow to meet Sun Zhengyi. He also talked about the school intranet contract.

After finishing the phone call, Zhou Buqi pulled Wang Yaojin to get down to business.

Unexpectedly, only ten minutes later, the call came again.

Shi Jinglin was very upset, "What's the matter with you? Why did you cut my advertising contract?"

"I'm busy..."

"no!"

Shi Jinglin also heard some movement, but she didn't care and was asking.

Zhou Buqi had no choice but to explain to her, "Xiaonei.com's contract with Taobao is too big, and it exceeds their budget. Xiaonei.com's annual advertising fixed income of 150 million yuan is not bad. A 4-year contract is 6 100 million!"

Shi Jinglin said sullenly: "The traffic on Xiaonei is getting higher and higher, but the income is getting less and less. This is the second time we have cut the advertising contract with Taobao."

"Talk to the marketing department later that you can recruit another advertiser for Xiaonei. If Taobao's budget is exhausted, it will advertise on other companies. As long as there is traffic, are you afraid that there will be no profit? Sweeping wool can't be a sheep Get up."

"That can't keep up with Moments."

"The positioning is different."

"When will you come back?"

"Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

"Oh, where are you with your secretary? Wang Yaojin?"

"right."

"How is it? Is it fun?"

"good!"