my return 2002

Chapter 331
In the meeting room, just after the new year, everyone is in a good mood, talking and laughing.

It wasn't until Shen Lang entered the meeting room that it became quiet.

"It seems that everyone is having a good time this year." Shen Lang teased.

There was a chuckle in the conference room. Last year, the company's performance was good, and the year-end performance was released a lot. Everyone had a fat year, and they had money to go home with a strong waist.

After the joke, Shen Lang said solemnly: "Okay, this year is over, and everyone should put their minds to rest. This year will be a crucial year for us."

Glancing at everyone present, Shen Lang continued: "To tell you the truth, this financial crisis will have a huge impact on the global financial market. Asset-light industries such as the Internet must bear the brunt, and the harm it will bring will even exceed that of the United States in 01." Stock market crash."

There was a lot of discussion in the meeting room. All the people here are the company's senior management. Those who can get into this position have some information channels. Naturally, they have heard about the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.

"No way? Is it so serious? Isn't the United States already formulating a rescue plan?"

"More than the stock market crash in 01? Is this unlikely?"

No wonder they don’t believe it. Judging from the current capital market information, the subprime mortgage crisis involves too many industries. Once it breaks out completely, the entire American economy will be hit hard, and even Wall Street will be affected. Will definitely save the city.

Zhang Yong knocked on the table, and then asked Shen Lang in a low voice: "Mr. Shen, you mean that the company will shrink its business this year?"

Everyone has a sad face. When the financial market is bad, shrinking business is also a routine operation of Internet companies. I am afraid that they will have to cut salaries and lay off employees. Thinking of this, the joy of just celebrating the new year has disappeared.

However, Shen Lang shook his head with a smile and said, "No, on the contrary, starting today, the company's business will expand rapidly."

After Shen Lang finished speaking, everyone was a little dumbfounded. If they hadn't been with Shen Lang for so long and understood his temper, they would probably think that what he said was ironic.

Suddenly Zhang Yong's eyes lit up: "Mr. Shen, you haven't moved the more than 80 billion in the company's account, just for the preparation now?"

The more than 100 billion raised last year, except for the more than 20 billion spent on the construction of the industrial park, has been lying on the company's account. Many people did not understand this before, and Shen Lang just said "the time has not come".

At this moment, everyone understood that Shen Lang had been making arrangements for today since last year, and they couldn't help but be a little puzzled. Last year, when the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States hadn't emerged, how did Shen Lang judge it?

Shen Lang also ignored everyone's surprised gazes, but began to assign tasks.

"The focus of the company's development in the next ten years will revolve around AI and cloud computing. Mr. Wang, you should seize this opportunity. The subprime mortgage crisis will inevitably reduce the salaries of many outstanding technical personnel. It depends on your means to dig it out."

Wang Xiaochuan immediately beamed with joy when he heard that. Before that, his intelligence research institute belonged to the marginal department of the company. Except for an intelligent voice system, he had no other achievements, and artificial intelligence and cloud computing are extremely expensive research. It's not that Shen Lang has been transfusing blood for the research institute, it would have been impossible to continue.

Now Shen Lang directly named the Intelligence Research Institute at the meeting as the focus of the company's future development, which undoubtedly gave him a shot in the arm, and he immediately patted his chest to assure him.

"President Shen, don't worry, we promise to complete the task."

Shen Lang nodded at Wang Xiaochuan: "After the meeting is over, you can stay for a while, let's talk about the specific situation."

After finishing speaking, Shen Lang said to everyone: "Everyone, don't worry, the Institute of Intelligence will not occupy the company's funds. You can report any projects you have."

The meeting room was full of joy. 80 billion RMB, although it is the pool of funds of the three companies, it is not impossible to borrow. The key is to see who submits a project with more market prospects. Such a good opportunity, executives They are naturally gearing up one by one.

After the meeting, the executives had almost left. Shen Lang was about to chat with Wang Xiaochuan about the Institute of Intelligence, but found that Liang Han and Wang Xing hadn't left.

Shen Lang couldn't help but asked curiously: "Is there something for you?"

Wang Xiaochuan said tactfully, "I'll go to the bathroom first."

After Wang Xiaochuan left, Wang Xing spoke to Shen Lang and said, "Mr. Shen, did we still make an agreement before?"

Shen Lang was stunned for a moment, and then he came back to his senses: "You want to do it alone?"

Wang Xing nodded solemnly.

Shen Lang is not surprised by Wang Xing's decision. Wang Xing is from the rich second generation and has a personality that likes to toss around. The reason why he joined Zhulang Technology is mainly to accumulate experience. In addition, Lei Jun's founding of Xiaomi was a great success. Wang Xing was itchy The impatience is also understandable.

Shen Lang pondered for a moment and said: "Mr. Wang, you have done a good job in the past three years. YY Diary and YY Space have achieved today's scale. You have contributed a lot. I hope you can stay. The company's stock option rewards you too. I just got it, so it would be a pity to leave now, of course, if you have already made a decision, I will also give you an angel investment as agreed."

Liang Han who was on the side couldn't help persuading in a low voice: "Yes, Mr. Wang, you just got the option reward last year, and you just got a dividend, so it's just a waste of time to walk all these years now."

At the beginning, Liang Han was really afraid that Wang Xing would threaten his status, but after a long time, he couldn't help but be impressed by Wang Xing's ability. YY Diary and YY Space were all created by him, and he has such a general under his command , saved him a lot of trouble.

Wang Xing also had some struggles. Option rewards are different from shares. You can only enjoy dividends when you are on the job. Once you leave the company, the company will buy back this part of the options, and you will no longer be able to enjoy the company’s dividends. Judging from the momentum, it is definitely not worthwhile to withdraw now.

"President Shen, I've made up my mind."

However, Wang Xing finally nodded firmly.

Shen Lang didn't talk anymore, but turned to Liang Han and said, "You arrange someone to take over Mr. Wang's position. After Mr. Wang leaves, you have to pay more attention to it. Don't let the business of YY Diary and YY Space go wrong. We But it’s hard to overwhelm the competitors here.”

The competitor here is naturally Penguin, Liang Han quickly said: "Mr. Shen, don't worry, I will make arrangements."

After Liang Han left, Shen Lang asked Wang Xing curiously.

"Mr. Wang is in a hurry to leave. Do you have any good business goals?"

Wang Xing didn't hide it either: "Shen is always like this. Aren't there many merchants in the advertising alliance? I found that many of their offline merchants have a great demand for online traffic, and the soft advertisements on the Internet alone are far from satisfying them. flow requirements."

"I was wondering if I could build a dedicated website to attract traffic to these offline merchants."

Shen Lang couldn't help feeling secretly that the power of fate in the dark is really magical. At this time, Groupon, the originator of the group buying website in the United States, had not yet been born, and Wang Xing still chose this model to start a business.

"So how do you ensure that you can attract enough online traffic?"

When Wang Xing heard that Shen Lang seemed to be interested in his entrepreneurial project, he immediately regained his energy.

"Mr. Shen, I think so. The profits of these offline businesses are often relatively high, especially in some entertainment and catering industries. They only need to offer some special items for discount activities, and they can attract enough users to go online. offline experience, and there are many other value-added services in these offline stores, the impact on their profits will not be too great.”

"Customers get real discounts, we get commissions, and merchants make small profits but sell more. This is a three-party win-win business model."

Shen Lang patted Wang Xing's shoulder in admiration: "Well, this idea is very novel, but have you ever thought about one question, how can we accurately guide online traffic to offline?"

"For example, I saw a restaurant at your place and thought it was pretty good. I wanted to try it, but I haven't been there. If I took a taxi, wouldn't the money saved be taken again?"

Wang Xing couldn't help scratching his head when he heard the words, yes, he really didn't think about this question.

Shen Lang smiled: "Let's do this, don't resign first, get in touch with Gao De to find out what's going on."

Wang Xing looked at Shen Lang in shock.

Seeing this, Shen Lang couldn't help laughing and scolding: "What are you thinking, the company's future mobile business will definitely be inseparable from map navigation, I just made the layout in advance."

Wang Xing scratched his head with a smirk, and then left.

After Wang Xing left, Wang Xiaochuan couldn't wait to walk in.

Shen Lang joked: "Don't be so impatient, don't worry, your budget is indispensable."

Shorting the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, the money must not be fully recovered. Otherwise, even with the mediation of Bridgewater Fund and News Corporation, it will be difficult to block the rumors. A large part of them must be invested in the United States. And AI artificial intelligence and cloud computing are good choices.

On the one hand, this thing is very expensive, on the other hand, domestic scientific researchers are still a few grades behind the United States in terms of cutting-edge technology, and they just took advantage of this opportunity to gain a certain leading edge.

"Hey." After Wang Xiaochuan got Shen Lang's promise, all he could do was giggle.

Before Shen Lang transferred him from the search engine project, he was still a little unwilling. After being exposed to AI artificial intelligence for these years, he found that the pool in the field of search engines was too shallow. Not necessarily.

Of course, all of this is based on Shen Lang's unremitting support. If you change a boss and spend as much money as he does, there will be no results before it explodes.

After the executive meeting was over, Shen Lang was not idle. He went to Sichuan and Sichuan to attend the school's inauguration ceremony in late February. The only pity was that the school was inaugurated at an embarrassing time. The new semester had already begun, and there was no time to move to the new school building.

Shen Lang could only negotiate with the local education department to hold a county-wide sports competition on May 5th. For this reason, Shen Lang also allocated 12 million as competition funds.

"Starting in April, a batch of supplies will be delivered to these schools every other week. Food, mineral water, and first-aid medicines will fill up every classroom, but the process must be kept secret, understand?" Shen Lang told the company. The person in charge who went to supervise the construction ordered.

"Okay, I understand Mr. Shen." The person in charge quickly responded and said yes, who would dare not to carry out the orders of the big boss.

When Shen Lang stepped on the plane back to Shanghai, he couldn't help but sighed deeply. There was only so much he could do.

As soon as he arrived at the company, Wang Xing came to the office and reported eagerly.

"Mr. Shen, I have contacted Mr. Cheng of AutoNavi, and he is willing to accept our investment."

Seeing his eager look, Shen Lang couldn't help being a little amused, as expected, he was more motivated to start his own business.

"Okay, you can arrange for me to meet Mr. Cheng."

Wang Xing was overjoyed: "Then, about ten o'clock tomorrow morning, is that okay?"

"Well, yes."

A few days later, Cheng Congwu followed Wang Xing to Shen Lang's office.

"Mr. Cheng welcomes you. I've wanted to chat with you for a long time, but unfortunately I haven't had the chance. We fellow villagers will have a good drink." Shen Lang enthusiastically held Cheng Congwu's hand.

Cheng Congwu didn't expect Shen Lang to be so enthusiastic, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with emotion: "I also wanted to visit Mr. Shen for a long time, but unfortunately I didn't have the right opportunity. I heard that Mr. Shen is always the leader of our Jingchu merchants. Seeing it now is really a well-deserved reputation."

Cheng Congwu’s and Liu Qiangdong’s experiences are a bit similar. His family was very poor since he was a child. As long as he can remember, he and his brothers and sisters have been going to the mountains to cut firewood, go to the fields to hoe the fields, and also work part-time to herd cattle. He is a veritable cowherd boy.

Similarly, he later changed his destiny by being admitted to a university, which shows that the saying that knowledge changes destiny is not empty talk.

Shen Lang pulled Cheng Congwu to sit down, and made tea for him himself, which made Cheng Congwu feel a little nervous, after all, the size of Gaode map at this time is much smaller than that of Inspur Technology.

Cheng Congwu would not believe that he was so warm to him just because he was a fellow of Jingchu.

However, Cheng Congwu didn't feel anxious for long, so he heard Shen Lang say.

"Mr. Cheng, I believe that Mr. Wang has talked with you before. AutoNavi Maps needs funds, and some of our businesses just need the navigation support of AutoNavi Maps. The cooperation between us should be a match made in heaven. What does Mr. Cheng think?"

Cheng Congwu didn't answer immediately after hearing the words, but asked cautiously: "Mr. Shen, with all due respect, if it's just the new business Mr. Wang said, it doesn't need investment, and we can also provide paid services."

"In fact, this is the case. Mr. Cheng should know that we are promoting the star system on the mobile terminal, so we also hope that we can transplant the AutoNavi map to mobile hardware such as mobile phones." The importance of hardware.

However, Cheng Congwu shook his head when he heard the words: "Mr. Shen, I'm afraid this won't work. We have signed navigation agreements with many car manufacturers."

Cheng Congwu’s worries are not unreasonable. At this time, AutoNavi’s main source of income comes from car navigation value-added services. Once mobile phones have navigation functions, who will buy value-added services from car manufacturers? This is not digging their own grave.

(End of this chapter)