I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 456: 214-215: The third hand of Hillhouse's big entertainment strategy! (4000 words)
As Hillhouse's new software, the short video platform was also a software development that was personally requested and tracked by Gao Huaijun, so Hillhouse Technology naturally attaches great importance to it.

A special project team has been set up for the development of the entire software project, and it is expected to invest about 3 to 5 million yuan in dynamic funds.

Hillhouse Artificial Intelligence also transferred some company members to this special project team.

This entire investment is only the initial start-up capital, which does not include the later operational part and the algorithm improvement part.

All added up, it is estimated that it will be a large-scale investment project of more than 1 billion yuan.

This is not to mention in China. In this era of the bursting of the Internet bubble, even abroad it is a huge investment!
You should know that the 3A games, which are known as the top of the contempt chain in the gaming industry, have an investment of between 1500 and 2500 million per hour. Generally speaking, the total investment of a 3A game is between 4 and 6 million.

For example, Weixin was originally an independent software created by Zhang Xiaolong, and the investment amount was not high before it became popular.

Now Gao Huaijun has approved 1 billion yuan of funds in one go and attached so much importance to an ordinary short video software. Naturally, Hillhouse Capital has also smelled something different, and some staff members who are willing to enter the Internet industry have applied to join!

Hillhouse now has over 100,000 employees, and there are tens of thousands of R&D personnel alone. Naturally, the personnel situation with different ideas will be different.

"Brother Dachui, do you think this software will work? It's a short video software, and there has never been a successful case in China before!" A young man nearby asked Wang Dachui.

"If it was a project led by someone else, I would definitely not even consider it. But you have to know that this is a project led by Mr. Gao Huaijun, so of course I'll go for it with my eyes closed!" Wang Dachui said slowly with confidence.

Like other projects of Hillhouse, for this new project, Hillhouse draws employees from other departments and companies as the backbone, and then fills in the details from the outside.

The purpose is to maintain Hillhouse’s engineering cultural genes!

"Oh? Is Mr. Gao really that amazing?" The young man immediately became interested.

"That's natural."

"Since the electric fan era, other projects may have made losses or profits, but none of the projects led by Mr. Gao have made losses! Basically, every project has made a direct profit, and the profits are from hot sales."

"You may not believe what you see, but please believe in Mr. Gao!"

When Wang Dachui spoke the latter part, he spoke with a tone that was that of a devout believer of a mad priest.

The young man looked at Wang Dachui in shock, "So, this project is very promising?"

He came to Hillhouse at the beginning of this year and had just finished the intern probation period and became a newbie. Coming to Hillhouse was like a huge army crossing a single-plank bridge.

After submitting my resume, taking a written test, and going through eight rounds of interviews, I finally got into this company!

Even so, he still couldn't enter Hillhouse.

They also need to go through a one-month internship!

During the internship period, there is a elimination rate of nearly 50%.

But even so, the number of people who submit resumes to Hillhouse for campus recruitment is still exaggeratedly high: there is only one intern for every 100 applicants.

Anyone who can stand out from such an environment must be quite capable.

It is natural to fantasize about being able to leave your own footprints on a high-end mobile phone!

but. . .

He never expected that he, together with some newcomers, would be assigned to a short video platform project which seemed completely uninteresting or just a trivial thing to them!
He suddenly felt aggrieved.

What project is not good? Even a low-end mobile phone project like Honor Magic is good!

"Actually, I don't know whether it will work or not, but I believe in Mr. Gao's judgment." Wang Dachui didn't know what this young man was thinking. His face turned red, but he still said it fearlessly.

Now the internal framework of Hillhouse has been formed. It is far from the time when Hillhouse first started to develop mobile phones and cars, when there were many positions and vacancies to fill.

During the peak period, we launched a new project every year, and the difficulty of getting a position there is incomparable to what it is now!

Hillhouse Capital pays high salaries.

Unless it is Hillhouse's optimization, basically not many people will resign voluntarily, so naturally there will be fewer pitfalls and more people!
Under such circumstances, now that a new project has been launched, naturally there are many old employees who want to join the department and want to try it out. Wang Dachui is one of them.

"But then again, judging from the early training and the rules of the game of the algorithm department, this short video app is completely a customer-selected content."

"As long as your content is of interest to others, it can be recommended to an increasingly broad customer pool. This method is, in a sense, the survival of the fittest, a standard dark jungle law!"

"I have never seen this kind of pure C-end thinking, rather than the idea of ​​recommending whatever the leader wants."

“I am cautiously optimistic about this project!”

Wang Dachui murmured.

The young man standing by was speechless after hearing this.

But then he thought, isn’t this kind of research and development idea the same as the college entrance examination?

After layer upon layer of selection, those with the most learning talent will be admitted to Peking University and Tsinghua University, while those without learning talent will be divided into 55 groups and may end up doing screw work in junior high school.

The idea is fine, but if there is not enough content to fill it, it will definitely discourage the enthusiasm of the original creator of the short video!

Wang Dachui seemed to know what the young man was thinking, and said with a smile, "Another reason why I am optimistic about this project is because its original videos are all required to be fifteen seconds long!"

"Think about it, if this is like those long videos, which take one or two hours, how can ordinary people shoot it?"

"That is naturally an industry with high barriers to entry, and it is controlled by professionals just like movies and TV series!"

“Then the source of the content is very problematic.”

"But what if it's only fifteen seconds?"

"Then an ordinary person can just go to the fields and take some random shots, and it will be a complete video."

"Based on a large number of these grassroots videos, it will definitely be easy to produce a large number of videos that are easy to go viral."

“Don’t underestimate the creativity of ordinary people. They just lack the tools to express themselves.”

"And our short video app is the biggest performance opportunity for them."

Wang Dachui seems to have studied the ideas of this product for a long time, and he actually pointed out the core point of why short video apps are so popular!
Society is actually like Hillhouse, with too many people and too little porridge. Most of them actually lack opportunities. Now give them a chance to light up themselves, and it is really possible that a spark can start a prairie fire!
After the young man thought for a moment, the irritability on his face faded away and he nodded slowly.

What kind of results a software built on the wisdom and creativity of the people can achieve in the future is something we can really imagine and encounter.

This is totally incomparable to the so-called taxi-hailing software, search software, and online group buying software!

It is really possible that it could become a "national" level product as Gao Huaijun said.

Although he is still skeptical about this product, thinking that the pie is too big and too difficult to catch, after all, the goal has appeared, and his mentality has completely changed, "Great! Great! Great!"

He said "yes" three times in a row and then excitedly said, "It seems we are not without a chance!"

"More than a great opportunity, following President Gao, we will definitely have something to gain this time! Who knows, this software could become a landmark product like Hillhouse's recently popular The Wandering Earth, and it could even be used to export culture to developed countries like the United States."

Wang Dachui said jokingly.

The young man grinned and burst into laughter!

Wang Dachui couldn't help laughing as well.

Senior Wang Dachui is really good at making promises.

This product has a certain prospect and status in China, and now he has some confidence.

But now you say that this product can export culture to developed countries such as the United States, which is a bit unrealistic.

In this world, or even in this era, there is no country outside of the Beautiful Country that dares to carry out reverse cultural exports to the Beautiful Country.

On the contrary, Hollywood is unscrupulously exporting its culture to other countries every day.

"Wang Dachui, what are you talking about! The meeting is about to start, and you are still slacking off!" A roar came from behind them.

"Coming! Coming!" Wang Dachui replied quickly.

. . . . . .

When Hillhouse Technology was actively entering the actual research and development stage of the short video APP, Gao Huaijun did not sit idle after they got on the right track. Instead, he had dinner with some big directors and bigwigs in the Chinese media circle.

Hillhouse's short video platform serves as a tool for Hillhouse to enter the entertainment industry and become an entity that holds the right to speak in the hands of the people. Naturally, it needs to establish good relationships with these relevant bigwigs in advance.

If you don’t prepare well in advance for some auditing stuff, others will definitely teach you a lesson!

However, Gao Huaijun was very happy because he had a good relationship with this group of people.

With this powerful weapon, we have channels and paths to export our information, so it is naturally not easy for others to control us.

The trial run of "The Wandering Earth" has already made the bigwigs in the cultural and media circles aware of Hillhouse's ability to reshuffle the entertainment industry, but as the person involved, what he is thinking about in his mind is the further deepening of Hillhouse's large-scale entertainment layout!
"The Wandering Earth" is Hillhouse Entertainment's first-hand layout. In the future, its layout in the film and television industry, especially science fiction, will be more in-depth. It is a very important handle to link science fiction, a future scene, with Hillhouse!

When people think of Hillhouse, they imagine a future life based on technology. This is a chess move with a long-term vision.

Then the short video platform being incubated by Hillhouse Technology is second-hand.

The control of public opinion by short videos would make even a powerful country like the United States tremble and have to use small tricks off the stage to deal with it!

The cultural output capacity of this product is terrifyingly strong.

Gao Huaijun didn't want to grab the small amounts of money from other businesses like taxi drivers, search engines, group buying, and selling vegetables, but he absolutely had to get his hands on this short video.

Products like TikTok use big data and algorithms to train customers. As long as you plan to develop such products ahead of ByteDance, ByteDance will never be able to catch up.

Artificial intelligence and algorithm-related positions are extremely capital-intensive. Gao Huaijun doesn't believe that ByteDance dares to compete with him in terms of capital spending, even if the financial backers behind it also join in!

He dares to set this flag now because he is very confident that the dual industrial complex of automobiles and electronic technology can completely strike at a dimensionality reduction level in this era!
Gao Huaijun now flew to Pengcheng with Tang Ying and Li Yinxin. He feels that the third-hand layout of Hillhouse's large-scale entertainment strategy is now mature.

"Hello! Mr. Gao, it's a pleasure to meet you here." Feng Ji and Yang Qi shook hands with Gao Huaijun sincerely.

"Hello!" Gao Huaijun smiled and shook hands with both of them.

Feng Ji and Yang Qi looked at each other, wondering what the meaning of Gao Huaijun, a big shot in the technology industry, suddenly coming to visit them was.

GameLearning is a very small company in the industry.

You said that their background as coming from Tingxun made Gao Huaijun look up to them, but the market value of Hillhouse Group controlled by Gao Huaijun is now higher than that of Tingxun, and it is a T0-level company in China's technology industry.

In other words, Gao Huaijun's influence is simply incomparable to that of Ting Xun!
The Dajiang Company in Pengcheng was originally lukewarm.

But now after receiving investment from Hillhouse Capital, the company has already accepted the third round of investment. The internal personnel configuration of the company can be described as a complete upgrade.

I guess there are probably a mountain of investment opinions piled up inside Hillhouse Group hoping to get investment!
Feng Ji and Yang Qi's game company Kexue once submitted a game plan due to lack of money, hoping to get a lucky chance, but to no avail.

They originally felt there was no hope.

But now people from Hillhouse informed them that Gao Huaijun would personally lead a team to inspect the next day.

This made both of them feel a little buzzing in their heads.

This beautiful dream is so real that it seems a little unrealistic!
It took Gao Huaijun less than ten minutes to tour the entire office area of ​​Youxikexue, and then he shook hands with the excited employees of Youxikexue. Then he walked into their office with Feng Ji and Yang Qi.

Feng Ji's hands trembled slightly. He poured a cup of tea for Gao Huaijun and said, "Please enjoy your meal, Mr. Gao. We are a small company with a small capital. We can't provide you with good tea."

Gao Huaijun smiled and nodded, then took a sip and said, "Mr. Feng, you are too polite! In my opinion, Youxike is not a small company! Mr. Feng has strong management ability and has the demeanor of a general! In my opinion, Mr. Yang's understanding of Chinese culture is at the forefront."

"I have carefully read the investment applications you two sent me. I am very interested in the project Black Myth: Wukong."

Feng Ji and Yang Qi couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard this!

In China, no company has ever taken stand-alone games seriously.

Never!

(End of this chapter)