Chapter 936 Balance

Chartered flight back to Beijing.

When Zhou Buqi got on the plane, he put down the seat and turned it into a simple bed, and began to sleep. I was so tired last night. After tossing until 2 o'clock in the morning before returning to the hotel.

I took a shower and went to bed, it was 3 o'clock.

Woke up at 8:00 am, flight at 9:00 am.

While sleeping, Zhou Buqi had a dream. The gentleness and beauty, lingering and considerateness of Teacher Han Yan in the dream made people linger and forget to return.

When I woke up, I realized I was dreaming.

Shaking my head, I woke up from my stupor. It turned out that it was not a dream, but a dream come true.

Zhou Buqi stretched his waist, "Where are you?"

Wang Yaojin was at the side and handed him a glass of water, "It should be soon, 20 minutes at most."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "What time is the afternoon meeting?"

"1:30."

Zhou Buqi looked at the time and breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, we can have lunch.

This time I went back to the Northeast, regardless of business, family or personal affairs, I did a good job and I am generally satisfied.

Officially, the project of the cloud data center has been decided, and it will be constructed in April this year, and it will definitely be put into use next year. The project of the customer service center has also been negotiated, and the province and city will strongly support it. Relying on Jilin University, the school with the largest number of teachers and students in the country, it can be regarded as an explanation for the alma mater of the previous life.

In terms of family affairs, grandpa hasn't returned to Beijing yet. He is trying to persuade his uncle's family to let them go abroad. If this had been done last year, it would have been impossible. This year is very likely. Picking quarrels and provoking troubles and inciting the old men and women in the next village to "rob money" is enough for them to drink a pot. When the subprime mortgage crisis breaks out on a large scale, the pressure on loans will also increase sharply.

Private affairs are the most satisfying.

The white, tender and soft teacher Han Yan... Zhou Buqi shook his head again, to avoid his own imagination.

landing.

Have a meal.

Back to the company to prepare for a meeting.

Zhou Buqi glanced at the office of the secretary, and asked casually: "Ya Xian, what backgrounds do the three new secretaries come from?"

Ning Yaxian put on a little blush today, she looked extraordinarily energetic, and said with a smile: "I don't have any background, I'm just a college student, they are all excellent. Yang Xue is hosted by the broadcaster of Zhong Chuan Xue, and I can take it out in the future. Help you come forward and make some public responses; Ning Lu is from the Japanese Department of Beijing Second Foreign Language School, and since she wants to focus on developing Japanese business, she can be a translator by her side; Sun Wanran is from Zhongcai, and can help you manage your personal finances. By the way, she It's still your fellow villager, and also from Chuncheng."

"That's it..."

Zhou Buqi nodded, quite satisfied with her work, it seems that the three new secretaries are not vases.

Ning Yaxian tentatively asked: "Do you want to meet? But Sun Guanran has asked for leave. It seems that there is something at home, and she will go to work the day after tomorrow."

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "Let's talk about it later, get ready and go to the meeting."

The decision-making committee this time mainly discusses the field of instant messaging.

According to Internet survey data, the domestic communication software market reached 5 billion yuan last year. This output value does not include Internet advertising, mainly value-added services and SP business. That is, QQ members, skins, pets and other paid content, as well as Monternet business of mobile QQ.

You know, the size of the Internet advertising market last year was only about 8 billion yuan.

It can be seen that the communication software market contains huge profit space and growth value.

Topic one is Helo.

With the conclusion of the agreement between QQ and Helo, Helo has entered the fast lane of development. In the past month, the number of active users has doubled!

Registered users reached 98 million.

Active users reached 47 million!

This is much better than the expected results. According to the report of the Helo project team, it is speculated that at the end of February, after a wave of Spring Festival holidays, Helo will complete a breakthrough and reach 50 million DAU.

Now it seems that it is almost a month ahead of schedule.

With users and traffic, do you need to find new profit points? Helo is a completely free product, but data shows that many users are willing to spend money on communication products and purchase value-added services.

Fu Hongliang explained: "In the past three months, the daily activity of QQ has gradually decreased, from the peak of 90 million to the current 60 million. But from the analysis of data and market feedback, QQ has no way to drop, at least two In three years, they will still be the overlord in this market, and the user stickiness is extremely high. The daily activity of Helo is basically capped at 50 million.”

Zhang Yiming added: "It is the capping of the existing environment. In recent months, the new domestic infrastructure in terms of Internet facilities has achieved initial results. Broader and more broadband lines have been laid, and the submarine optical cables between China and the United States have also been connected. The foundation The further improvement of facilities will make it possible for broadband to go to the countryside. We have reason to believe that in the next one or two years, the number of domestic Internet users will increase sharply.”

In other words, judging from the current scale of Internet users, the bottom line for QQ users is 60 million DAUs, which cannot be reduced further. Helo's DAU is capped at 50 million DAU, which cannot be increased.

The next battle between Helo and QQ is not only to serve old users well and not let them switch platforms, but also to try their best to attract new users and let those new netizens join their camp.

On this point, Zhou Buqi deeply agrees, and his thoughts are flying.

The outbreak of the financial crisis has caused great harm to the world economy, and it has also had a great impact on the country. In order to cope with this crisis, the country launched a 4 trillion plan, mainly for large infrastructure and "home appliances to the countryside".

The big infrastructure is easy to understand. my country is the country with the best infrastructure in the world. Investing in large-scale infrastructure can stimulate domestic demand, create GDP, solve employment, and improve the country's infrastructure. Whenever there is a situation in the economy, a major infrastructure plan must be introduced.

"Home appliances to the countryside" is also a way to stimulate domestic demand and stimulate consumption.

Under the economic crisis, home appliances cannot be sold, and the enterprise is about to die. In order to solve this problem, the state starts with people's livelihood and helps ordinary people improve their lives. Rural households can receive large subsidies from the state to buy home appliances at a lower price. At the same time, the upstream and downstream channels of home appliances can also receive subsidies.

It can be said to kill three birds with one stone. It not only stimulates consumption, but also solves the corporate crisis and improves the lives of ordinary people.

JD.com rose at this time.

Zhou Buqi attaches great importance to this, and even has a feeling of light in his eyes.

Computers are also included in the subsidy!

Under the two major policies of "broadband to the countryside" and "home appliances to the countryside", the number of rural Internet users will increase greatly in the next few years.

Coincidentally, the relationship between Ziweixing and Lenovo has always been very good.

The computer knowledge of new netizens is relatively scarce.

If Ziweixing can reach a cooperation with Lenovo, Founder of Peking University, and Tongfang of Tsinghua University, so that their Lenovo computers, Founder computers, and Tongfang computers can all be pre-installed with their own Helo, then they will have a head start in competing with QQ in the field of new users. Advantage!

At this point in his thoughts, Zhou Buqi was startled and stunned for a moment.

He suddenly thought of one thing!

Last year, when Microsoft President Ballmer visited China, one of the most important things he did was to sign a cooperation agreement with Founder of Peking University, requiring Founder's computers to be pre-installed with Microsoft's search products instead of rival Google.

At that time, Zhou Buqi also laughed at Ballmer, thinking that he was stupid in making decisions and did not understand the national conditions. Looking at it now, it seems that this is not the case... Ballmer's decision-making was several months ahead of his own! He is also eyeing the new user market!

Sure enough, we should not underestimate the heroes of the world.

In the conference room, Fu Hongliang went on to say: "Currently, Helo has 47 million DAUs, which is basically at the top. The characteristics of the traffic transfer platform can already be reflected, and it has brought huge traffic to Friends.com and Toutiao. I think it can increase some value-added service."

Zhang Yiming disagreed, saying: "I think Helo should insist on free, at least within three years, to be free. Only free is the biggest motivation to attract users."

Zhou Buqi asked, "Da Liang, what is the value-added service you're talking about?"

Fu Hongliang said: "It has something to do with the cloud. Users pay a sum of money, and we can store their chat records in Helo's cloud server, which is convenient for them to look up after many years. This technology is very mature, and the company we use internally The version of super document has a similar function, and all documents and records are backed up in the cloud, which can be used as a reference for future teams.”

The super document of the enterprise version is the product that is randomly named "No. 1 in the world" internally. It is a bit like Google Docs, a bit like the enterprise version of Helo, and it is very powerful.

At present, it is mainly used internally by Ziwei Star, and it will not be commercially operated outside at least this year.

A very important reason for not operating externally is that Ziweixing's cloud computing platform has not been built.

If you just upload text, this is no problem, the text size is very small.

But the document is not good, many documents are very large, including video files, audio files, various pictures and so on.

Once it is commercially operated, a simple cloud server cannot store it at all.

We have to wait for the cloud data center to be built and use the cloud computing platform to do it.

Helo can help users store chat records, mainly text. As long as it is not video, voice and various large pictures, it is fine.

Through cloud services, you can also earn a value-added fee.

Just like taking notes.

What Fu Hongliang meant was to make money quickly.

Zhang Yiming disagreed, thinking that instead of rushing to make money, delay gratification.

Then everyone expressed their opinions, basically half and half.

Zhou Buqi pondered for a long time.

I think this should be handled with caution.

Fu Hongliang is the person in charge of Helo, and he needs to report to Zhang Yiming. This matter has been brought to the decision-making committee, which shows that there are great differences. If it is not handled well, there will be cracks in the working relationship between the two.

The current disagreement... is that Fu Hongliang wants to make money, and Zhang Yiming wants to do it for free first, and polish the product to attract users.

It is likely to be determined by their respective positions.

Fu Hongliang's class is relatively low, only M4. His immediate goal should be to make Helo a success as soon as possible. It is best to make a lot of money, come up with amazing financial reports, and get promoted quickly.

Zhang Yiming has a high rank and is the second shareholder of Ziwei Star. He has no desire for promotion, but only wants to make the company better and stronger. He must start from a long-term perspective and consider the future.

Zhou Buqi quickly sided with Zhang Yiming, wanting to maintain his authority.

Moreover, Ziwei Star has just raised 3.5 billion US dollars, so there is no shortage of money at all, and there is no need to rush to make profits through Helo.

Before the cloud computing platform is officially launched, all cloud services are immature. Zhou Buqi made his own decision, and said with one word, "Let's do it, let's operate it for free first. After two or three years, when we have the strength to store pictures and voice, we will charge for it. QQ needs to be a member to be able to store in the cloud. Chat history, right? Helo has an advantage and insists on free."

Zhang Yiming smiled.

It seems that he has made up his mind early on.

On the decision-making of many major issues, he and Boss Zhou often have a high degree of agreement.

Fu Hong nodded, "Okay, I accept."

Said yes, but the look on his face was not so happy.

Zhou Buqi smiled and asked, "Da Liang, how long have you been promoted to M4?"

"Ah?" Fu Hongliang's heart skipped a beat, "I was promoted in March last year, about 10 months."

Zhou Buqi said: "Helo is in your charge. We have seen the achievements of the past few months. Although it is still a little short of the 50 million DAU expectation, the current achievements are enough for an extraordinary promotion. I suggest that promotion pay The red light is M5, what's your opinion?"

He Yang smiled, "Of course, it should be, I think I should have been promoted last month."

Xu Liangjie praised: "Da Liang is good."

Shen Xiangyang nodded, "I agree."

Shi Jinglin was naturally the happiest. Fu Hongliang was a soldier who walked out of her hands. He said happily, "Da Liang is capable, responsible, and good at uniting colleagues. He deserves it."

Next, Guo Pengfei, Ji Zian, Wang Xiaochuan, Han Leshui, Nie Caijun and others expressed their opinions one after another, and they all agreed.

Fu Hongliang's eyes lit up, and he immediately became excited.

The disappointment that was rejected just now is gone.

Zhou Buqi continued to grasp the balance, and continued: "Helo now belongs to the social business group, so I don't think there is any need for it. The deployment and personnel adjustments will be made here. Zhang Yiming will no longer be the president of the social business group, and Liang Rubo will be promoted. M6, as the president of the business group, reports to Zhang Yiming. At the same time, Helo is spun off to become an independent business department, which is in charge of Fu Hongliang and reports to Zhang Yiming."

Looking at He Yang, he nodded in agreement.

There is no need to vote, so as to avoid factional differences, just make a decision.

Of course the happiest was Fu Hongliang.

Once he broke away from the social business group and was no longer restrained by Liang Rubo, he was free.

Zhou Buqi instructed again, "Da Liang, cooperate with Zhang Yiming's work well."

Fu Hongliang smiled and said, "Of course, we have cooperated very well in the past few months."

Then, it's the next topic.

Li Xiaoyu, deputy director of the gold coin wallet system, was poached by Baidu.

The internet can't hide secrets.

Baidu will officially enter the field of instant messaging!

An announcement has been made to the outside world, the name is Baidu Hi, and it is very aggressive.

Media campaign.

It is said that the entry of Baidu will make the instant messaging market more violent, and it is very likely that QQ, Helo and Baidu Hi will form a situation where the three powerhouses compete for hegemony.

The purpose of poaching Li Xiaoyu is to build a platform similar to the gold coin wallet system.

This is the main topic of today.

All highly valued.

Another giant enters the arena, which should not be underestimated!

Zhou Buqi was a little funny, very relaxed.

For the benefits of foresight, Baidu Hi will definitely fail, so don't care about it at all.

In fact, last year, Baidu stated that it wanted to create an instant messaging software, and publicly called on netizens to help name it. It had a name of "Baidu Xiaosheng", which was highly praised by Li Yanhong.

Zhou Buqi had good intentions, and once during a meal, he mentioned that Baidu didn't need to go through this muddy water. The QQ family dominates and cannot be stopped.

Sure enough, Baidu stopped for a while.

Then, Helo was born, and with the momentum of thunder, it crazily snatched the QQ market.

Li Yanhong was furious, so she went to Ziweixing again to poach someone. This is judging the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, thinking that Zhou Buqi is a big liar, playing tricks.

Baidu is not allowed to do it, but he is secretly doing it.

Then eat the market yourself!

too dark!

Zhou Buqi obviously had good intentions, but he couldn't speak out about his suffering. Even in the eyes of many senior executives in the decision-making committee, they felt that Boss Zhou's trick was really amazing and brilliant!

Turn Mr. Li around.

If Baidu also entered the market at that time, the competitive environment facing Helo would be even more complicated.

At this meeting, I wanted to discuss how to guard against Baidu Hi and retaliate against their poaching behavior.

Zhou Buqi waved his hand, "No need, everything remains the same, just pretend it didn't happen."

He Yang frowned, thinking that he valued his relationship with Mr. Li, and persuaded him: "Business belongs to business, this is normal. You blocked Baidu's instant messaging plan last year, which is beyond reproach."

Zhou Buqi was annoyed and funny, "Do you think I care about this matter? I originally... Forget it, I have my own opinion on this matter. Baidu wants to make chat software, which has something to do with their e-commerce business. If QQ wants to block it, let them resist it. Helo does its own thing and doesn’t care about competitors.”

Xu Liangjie also felt that his methods were a bit soft in order to balance the relationship, "We poached Li Xiaoyu, this is to build a platform similar to the wallet system, so don't be careless."

Zhou Buqi shook his head and said: "Even if it is built, so what? Baidu doesn't have the money to provide tens of billions of subsidies. That's fine, I'll take this matter arbitrarily! No one can trouble Baidu. On the contrary, if Baidu Hi Promotion requires the use of our platform and traffic, and we accept them all! As long as money is given, we will provide services, traffic, and resources, and no resistance is allowed.”

"this……"

Everyone stared at each other, a bit incomprehensible.

That's Baidu!

Not worried at all?

...

At the end of the meeting, Zhou Buqi returned to the office very tired, intending to lie on the sofa and squint for a while, but found a text message in his mobile phone, which was sent by Teacher Han Yan: "Little villain, I can't get out of bed. It hurts, it's hot Yes, they are all swollen."

Zhou Buqi became interested and texted her: "Painful and happy."

Han Yan should still be lying on the bed with nothing to do, so she quickly replied to the text message: "Bad guy."

Zhou Buqi replied again: "Mr. Han, thank you so much this time, it can be regarded as helping me realize a childhood dream."

I don't believe it this time.

After a long time, she responded: "You're welcome."