Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2060 Retain talents

The general meeting of shareholders is over, and the board of directors is also over.

For Zhou Buqi, the busiest period has passed. Next, just wait for the official announcement of one big event and arrange for one big event to be carried out according to the plan.

At this stage, there are 6 transactions on his follow list, namely——

1. Acquire Knol, a product that Google wants to give up;

2. Changyou acquired outfit7, the game studio of Talking Cat;

3. Personally acquire the Los Angeles Dodgers;
4. Yuanwei Group acquired Dongpeng Special Drink;
5. Jieyu Media acquired the Hong Kong government's East Asia Records and Gold Medal Gale;
6. Take the little secretaries to invest in Momo.

Among them, the acquisition of Knol and investment in Momo should be the easiest, as long as one shot can be done.It is only a matter of time before Yuanwei Group wins Dongpeng Special Drink.

The other cases are a little more complicated.

Especially the acquisition of the Los Angeles Dodgers, full of uncertainty.

This morning, he came to the office, sat down to drink coffee, and casually flipped through a brand new material on the desk.

It was the acquisition intent submitted by the President's Office—Ziweixing wanted to acquire Youmeng.

Zhou Buqi is still the chairman and CEO of Ziwei Star. According to the company system, every acquisition in the company needs to be approved by the CEO.

However, he has greatly delegated power. For acquisitions with a total scale of less than 1 million US dollars, Zhang Yiming can find a few small partners to study and make a decision.

Even so, for every acquisition that Ziweixing intends to initiate, the relevant materials will be reported to Zhou Buqi.If he wants to intervene, he can intervene; if he doesn't intervene, let Zhang Yiming and the others do it themselves.

Zhou Buqi briefly read this material, then became concerned, and wanted to intervene.

He really doesn't know what Umeng is. It's just a small company that has been in business for more than a year.

But the founder of Youmeng is famous-Jiang Fan.

He was later Ali's youngest partner, who took charge of the two most important business divisions of Tmall and Taobao at a young age, and was regarded as a young genius trained as a successor.

It's a pity that the relationship between wives and concubines was not handled well later, which also caused a public opinion effect.

Listed companies are most afraid of this, which directly causes strong fluctuations in stock prices.

After being punished by the company and criticized by public opinion, he became a frustrated person and was sent to take charge of overseas business.

I just don't know if this Jiang Fan is the Jiang Fan in memory.

Zhou Buqi picked up the phone on the table and called Zhang Yiming, "I have read about the case of Youmeng. What is the main business of this company?"

Zhang Yiming said with a smile: "Technical companies provide technical services."

"Which aspect?"

"Isn't the mobile Internet coming now? Many entrepreneurs and start-up companies have a good idea, but they lack the technology to realize it, as well as some product statistics and so on."

"Others are starting their own businesses, and Youmeng is helping them start their own businesses." Zhou Buqi nodded and said with a smile, "He's quite thoughtful and smart."

In fact, it means not following the crowd and walking through the narrow door.

Live broadcasting makes money, everyone is doing live broadcasting, the competition is too fierce, most of the anchors can't make any money.Especially for live broadcasting, it is better to teach others to do live broadcasting.

This is often the case. Even in the most competitive Red Sea market, a different way of thinking can still make a lot of money in the Red Sea market.

Zhang Yiming said: "The founder's name is Jiang Fan. I've met him before. He's an outstanding young man."

"young people?"

Zhou Buqi was a little funny.

Zhang Yiming smiled and said: "You are really young, several years younger than me, and about your age. He also has a relationship with Ziweixing. Zhang Xuhao knew him. Back then, they promoted Xiaonei in the university circle of Shanghai."

Zhou Buqi asked, "The university he studied in Shanghai?"

"Yes, Fudan's computer department."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

For enterprise material selection, it often has to go through several rounds of screening.The first round of screening is the college entrance examination.The college entrance examination is not just a report card, it is the first major test in every student's life.

Not only ability, but also mental strength.

Many people usually have good academic performance, but when it comes to the important moment of the college entrance examination, they are nervous because they don't have enough energy.In the workplace, this kind of person can't handle things, and it is difficult to take on stressful tasks.

Zhang Yiming went on to say: "I have read his resume, and every step is very steady. After graduating from university, he joined Google China. Well, Google China's appeal was stronger than Ziweixing at that time."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Understood, Ziweixing was not as good as Baidu at that time, right? It's normal to be inferior to foreign companies."

Zhang Yiming went on to say: "Last year, Google withdrew from the domestic market, and Google's employees were snatched away by domestic Internet giants, but he recruited a few small partners and chose to start his own business."

"last year?"

"Yes, at the beginning of last year, we identified the direction of mobile Internet, but did not provide application services like most mobile Internet start-ups, but directly took the technical service route."

"good."

Zhou Buqi has basically decided that this Jiang Fan is the Jiang Fan in his impression.

It is difficult for ordinary people to be so good.

The college entrance examination is the first round of screening, joining Google after graduation is the second round of screening, choosing to start a business after leaving Google is the third round, and the direction of entrepreneurship is the mobile Internet is the fourth round.

After identifying the direction of the mobile Internet, what we are doing is the direction of technical services to help others start a business. This is the five rounds of screening.Every step is very correct.

The courage to start a business is not ordinary people.

The direction of starting a business is to help others start a business, which is even more powerful.When there are more and more start-up companies in the mobile Internet, starting a business is very risky, and choosing the direction of helping others start a business is the easiest direction to succeed.

Zhang Yiming went on to say: "He got Li Kaifu's angel round of 100 million US dollars, and now he seems to be talking about A round of financing. We originally wanted to participate in the financing, and then sent me an email with Zhang Xuhao, strongly suggesting that I Invite Jiang Fan over here. Later, I met him...on Friday night, and we talked until 6 pm on Saturday."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing, "Has it been all night?"

Zhang Yiming said: "Yes, he didn't sleep. I thought he was in good condition, but then I couldn't bear it any longer. I wanted to have dinner and went to bed quickly. But he told me that I was delayed for a day and had to go back to the company quickly. Go to work. At that time, I felt that this person was good, and I wanted to buy Youmeng. As for the project of Youmeng, it doesn’t really matter.”

Zhou Buqi took it seriously, "Well, a buyer."

This is often the case.

The best talents, big companies like Google and Microsoft, may acquire dozens of companies in a year.In many cases, you are not buying a company, but an entrepreneurial team.

If you can't dig it out, then just buy your company!

Entrepreneurship is often the most important screening link in the recruitment and selection of talents.

This is even more important than ability.

For example, a grassroots employee of M2 at Google couldn't get promoted no matter how hard he worked, so he went out to start a business with suffocation.Once the start-up company is acquired by Google, after returning to Google, it may be an executive of M6.

Because in many cases, it is heart and pressure resistance that determine the appointment of executives.Dare to go out to start a business, and have achieved certain achievements, which immediately possesses the basic qualities of an executive.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "If you fancy it, you should use it boldly."

"of course."

"Well... there is one more thing about UC Group."

"what happened?"

Zhang Yiming was a little strange.

UC Group is amazing. UC Browser dominates the mobile terminal with a market share of more than 65%.Together with the Micropoint browser, which is also owned by Ziweixing, the two browsers occupy more than 80% of the mobile phone browser market.

Zhou Buqi said: "You should pay more attention to see what outstanding talents there are in the UC Group. If there are any outstanding talents like Jiang Fan, try to transfer them to other big business departments as much as possible."

"what?"

Zhang Yiming was a little surprised and didn't seem to understand.

Zhou Buqi did not hide his thinking, "UC's product structure is too serious, and the fire is cooking oil. The general trend of mobile Internet is coming very fast. When next year, some big companies that are slow to move should be anxious."

Zhang Yiming suddenly thought of what Boss Zhou had expressed a long time ago, took a deep breath, "You want to sell UC!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Keep secret, don't tell anyone. In the next one or two years, you should do a good job in UC's internal talent research, and call out the most potential and best people. Sell the company and keep the talents. "

"okay, I get it."

Zhang Yiming was convinced, and threw himself to the ground.

Still the big boss is ruthless!

UC Group mainly has two core products in China, UC Browser and UC Mobile Assistant.The two products have very similar functions, both are traffic distribution tools, and both are heavy traffic products.

In China, UC Browser has 2.7 million users, and UC Mobile Assistant has more than 4000 million users.

In the field of mobile Internet, it has a decisive weight.

What kind of company would like it?

One is the continuation of traffic companies, such as Baidu.On the PC Internet side, Baidu has a strong traffic advantage, but it does not have this advantage on the mobile Internet. It is necessary to ensure Baidu's leading position in this field through acquisitions.

One is to flow to urgently needed companies, such as Ali.E-commerce is very profitable, but if e-commerce wants to increase transaction volume, it must have a steady stream of traffic.

As for other companies such as Netease and Sina, forget it, even if they need traffic, they can't afford it.

The most urgent and affordable companies are Ali and Baidu.

Not only that, UC Group also has overseas business.

UC Browser has 1.2 million users in overseas markets, and UC Mobile Assistant has more than 1000 million users overseas.If Baidu and Ali have little demand for overseas traffic, they might as well spin off UC and sell their overseas business to large companies in Silicon Valley.

(End of this chapter)