After being reborn, I also want to fall in love

Chapter 360 Why did you mess with Chen Shuo?

ByteDance was later renamed Douyin Co., Ltd., whose founders include Zhang Yiming, Liang Rubo, etc., and its current flagship app is Toutiao.

Douyin, which later became a huge hit overseas and has no equal in China, has just been born.

Take the short video track for example. Nowadays, there are really no old big companies paying attention to it. Although the earliest Kuaishou APP also made money, the little money it earned obviously did not catch the attention of the big companies.

Chen Shuo, who is regarded as a dark horse on the Internet, is currently running Miyin, which has a good momentum, but it seems to be just so-so.

So when ByteDance announced the launch of a short video platform, and its name was extremely similar to Miyin, a group of Internet giants treated the matter with an attitude of watching the show from the other side of the river.

Why are you fighting with that guy Chen Shuo for food? When he gets mad, he will even confront Teacher Ma.

Capital, Xiaomi Technology
In the office, Lei Jun was drinking tea with his chief financial officer Zhou Shouzi.

Lei Jun admires this young talent very much, and there are even rumors that he is training Zhou to be his successor.

Everyone knows what happened later. Zhou Shouzi left Xiaomi and joined ByteDance, becoming the CEO of TikTok.

However, for now, the cooperative relationship between the two remains stable.

"Chen Shuo's plane just landed and is heading to the company."

Lei Jun took a puff of cigarette and said to Zhou Shouzi with a smile: "I guess the purpose of his visit is to find relevant people here to find out the truth about ByteDance. If there is no one behind him whom he cannot afford to offend, then he will start to deal with Zhang Yiming."

Zhou Shouzi himself is an elite trained by the typical Western education model. He is quite familiar with some of the actions of Chen Shuo, a young talent who emerged out of nowhere.

"Kuaishou has been rectifying itself, and it will take more than a month to go back online."

Zhou Shouzi held the coffee and said to Lei Jun: "Chen Shuo can't repeat his old tricks. Zhang Yiming is definitely well prepared."

"Mr. Lei, are you really not interested in short videos?"

Lei Jun waved his hand and said: "For now, I still want to focus on my work on mobile phones. Besides, Shunwei Capital has already strongly supported Chen Shuo, so let him go ahead and make his own way."

"ByteDance also hopes to get your attention." Zhou Shouzi was obviously entrusted by someone.

Lei Jun pondered for a moment and said, "It's not impossible. I am optimistic about Zhang Yiming, but my investment in him will definitely not exceed that of Chen Shuo. You can reply to him like this."

"Okay, I see."

Zhou Shouzi got up and left.

After seeing his chief financial officer off, Lei Jun put out his cigarette, put his hands in his pockets, walked to the window and looked out at the city view.

He is a little worried about Chen Shuo's entry into the short video field.

It’s not that they are afraid that Chen Shuo will lose money. At present, it seems that during the period when Kuaishou was reported and removed from the shelves, Miyin has grown very rapidly, and its content is very different from Kuaishou.

Miyin focuses on exquisite youthfulness, hot dance, technical flow, gesture dance, etc., plus the many music copyrights purchased at a high price, which are his outstanding features.

"What I'm worried about now is, what if Chen Shuo and Zhang Yiming get really angry?"

Lei Jun said to his secretary: "He is a young man, and a young man with personality and temper. Young people have no scruples when they get excited."

Lei Jun is really worried about this.

This is not like before when Chen Shuo took down Bilibili, and his name could no longer be famous in the two-dimensional world. Bilibili is small, and the two-dimensional world is also small. To put it bluntly, it is just a circle of people for their own entertainment, and it cannot affect any overall situation.

Chen Shuo would just take it, and it didn't matter if he didn't give Chen Rui any chance to survive. After all, Chen Rui had already become financially independent after working at Kingsoft for so many years, and this kind of ending was nothing more than his unfulfilled ambitions.

But if Mimi Technology and ByteDance start fighting, the scene will be very different.

After listening to this, the secretary smiled and replied, "Boss Lei, everyone has been young before. Didn't you also have a fight with the red-clothed brother? I think even if Boss Shuo is young and energetic and wants to have a fight with Boss Zhang, Boss Zhang probably won't show up."

"That's true. I know Zhang Yiming well." Lei Jun nodded with a smile.

Lei Jun is not young anymore, and he is about to turn 3. Most of the other bigwigs have also reached the age of knowing the destiny. Although they are still in their prime and never stop moving forward, they will never do things like fighting in the square or the Q war like they did in the past.

Even if they wanted to do it, their superiors wouldn't agree, which is really disgraceful.

Downstairs, Zhou Shouzi's car drove out of the Xiaomi campus and headed straight for ByteDance.

Zhang Yiming and Zhou Shouzi also knew each other and had a good personal relationship, which also laid the groundwork for his future job switch to ByteDance.

Zhang Yiming, who was born in a middle-class family, received a good education and is a typical high-IQ talent. Later, he chose Zhou Shouzi as the CEO of Tiktok in the hope that this elite with a Western education background could influence the Western political and business circles.

As everyone knows, Lao Zhang's knees went weak and he knelt down.

Zhou Shouzi arrived at ByteDance and told Zhang Yiming the good news that Lei Jun was willing to invest in TikTok: "Mr. Zhang, it will be a tough battle next. I hope you are mentally prepared."

Zhang Yiming, who looks like a programmer, said calmly, "I'm not afraid."

He shook his head while speaking, with no expression on his face.

Zhou Shouzi felt like he had seen this expression and tone somewhere, and after thinking for a long time he finally remembered that this was the character in Stephen Chow's "Kung Fu".

The reason why Zhang Yiming is so confident is that he took advantage of the months when Kuaishou was taken off the shelves by Chen Shuo and used Volcano Video to quickly grab users, and soon increased the daily active users to tens of millions.

What followed was a massive investment, led by Sequoia Capital and CCB International, which invested a total of 1 billion U.S. dollars!
Just this one transaction directly increased the market value of ByteDance to US$110 billion. How can Zhang Yiming not be confident?

"I know Chen Shuo's methods. Most of them are not worthy of being shown on the stage. I am not one of those people on Kuaishou. I have been in the Internet industry for many years. What tricks have I not seen?"

Zhang Yiming smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter."

Seeing Zhang Yiming so confident, Zhou Shouzi didn't say anything. Before leaving, he still reminded him: "In short, President Lei also asked you to be careful and not to go too far. If you annoy Chen Shuo, he will definitely not turn the page easily."

After seeing Zhou Shouzi off, Zhang Yiming said to his secretary on his way back to the office, "Is a college student so scary? Do I need President Lei to send someone to personally remind me?"

"In short, our plan is proceeding as usual. Kuaishou has collapsed. Now short videos are the battlefield between us and Chen Shuo. Let's decide the winner!"

As he was speaking, Zhang Yiming's cell phone rang.

"Hello. Who is this?"

"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm Chen Shuo." A clear voice of a young man came from the other end of the phone.

Chen Shuo?

Zhang Yiming stopped and motioned for his secretary to go ahead. He walked to the corner of the corridor and said, "Boss Shuo, what can I do for you?"

Chen Shuo smiled and said, "I asked a few passers-by on the main streets of the capital, and it seems that Mr. Zhang doesn't have any particularly strong backers."

What does this mean?

Zhang Yiming narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is this a threat?"

"no."

"Then what do you mean?"

"It's meaningless. Since you have come out to challenge me, I will definitely accept the challenge. The Internet is all about data. See you in the arena."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

There was a busy tone in the receiver, and Zhang Yiming suddenly felt it was ridiculous. At this moment, he really wanted to find someone who was familiar with Chen Shuo to ask, has he always been so arrogant?
This is too arrogant!
Originally, Zhang Yiming thought it was no big deal. Everyone was on the same stage, and winning or losing depended on their own abilities. What's the point of threatening others?
Who doesn’t have a few good brothers?
The subsequent situations made Zhang Yiming horrified.

First, several big names in the technical department of Douyin resigned one after another and were poached for large sums of money. Even the threat of non-compete agreements from HR was useless, as they were determined to leave.

Then the top team of Red Circle Institute stepped in to help those big shots. At first, Zhang Yiming thought it was Chen Shuo's doing, but who would have thought it was Kuaishou who was behind it.

"what happened?"

In the office, Zhang Yiming questioned the HR department: "They didn't stay in the company and went to Kuaishou. Are they crazy? Don't they know that Kuaishou has collapsed?"

"Mr. Zhang, please be patient."

The HR director stepped forward to comfort him, then analyzed: "I have tried to find out through various channels. If I am not mistaken, Chen Shuo should have reached some kind of agreement with Kuaishou."

"What agreement?" Zhang Yiming asked angrily.

"Join forces against us."

Zhang Yiming: “.”

"Could it be like this?" Zhang Yiming slammed the table and spoke angrily, "Kuaishou was ruined by Chen Shuo. How long has it been since they shook hands and made peace? The losses Chen Shuo caused them before are immeasurable."

The HR director smiled bitterly and said, “But Mr. Zhang, if Kuaishou doesn’t agree, they will only lose more.”

Zhang Yiming waved his hand irritably and asked everyone to leave.

"In that case, I will also poach people."

Zhang Yiming was angry in the office for half an hour, then he called the human resources director into the office and gave him orders.

“Dig them all, whether it’s from Mimi Technology or Kuaishou!”

As a result, the three companies launched a vigorous war to poach people, with people leaving and joining every day.

But only one month later, Zhang Yiming noticed something was wrong.

The people they recruited were inactive and didn't do their job properly. Several departments have complained about them.

Then just fire him. Not long after the dismissal, news came that he had happily returned to his old employer to continue working. Not only were all his travel expenses reimbursed, but he also received additional subsidies.

Not only that, Chen Shuo remained silent throughout, while Kuaishou angrily criticized ByteDance, saying that they were the ones who made the malicious report in the first place and also poached many of their popular anchors.

Zhang Yiming immediately asked someone to refute it, saying that Miyin had dug the most.

Miyin said: What's wrong with me digging the most? Come and hit me.

This is just a small episode. Various commercial behaviors and covert online means are emerging one after another, and all departments are overwhelmed.

Zhang Yiming was depressed in the office for a long time that day and didn't get off work until after ten o'clock. Before he even reached the elevator, he saw from afar a cleaning lady watering the potted plants in the corridor with boiling water.

"No, he must be sick!"

After two months of all the farce, Lei Jun finally came to visit.

"Mr. Lei, please sit down."

Zhang Yiming personally made a cup of tea for Lei Jun, asked him to sit down, and rubbed his temples.

Lei Bushi looked at Zhang Yiming with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, you look a little haggard. Didn't you get enough rest these days?"

Zhang Yiming was just looking for someone to talk to, but after hearing what Lei Bushi said, he felt a surge of grievance and started to complain: "Boss Lei, Chen Shuo is sick, I'm telling you."

After listening to Zhang Yiming quietly, Lei Jun raised his hand and said, "I asked Zhou Shouzi to remind you at the beginning that you only need to take over the shares after Kuaishou's collapse and don't provoke Chen Shuo. You didn't listen."

"But this is a normal business behavior. Who would want to stay in a corner?" Zhang Yiming felt more and more aggrieved.

"You are no longer isolated, but what is the result?"

Lei Bushi said with a smile: "So, people should be content with what they have."

Zhang Yiming thought to himself, why do you start asking me to be content with what I have? Why aren’t you content with what you have? If you wanted to be content with what you have, why would you have founded Xiaomi?
Not only did Lei Jun come to persuade him, but shareholders such as Sequoia Capital also sent people to persuade Zhang Yiming to give in, and the matter would be over.

Sequoia Capital also invested in Chen Shuo, and the results are very good. Today, they came to act as a peacemaker.

"Boss Lei, what a coincidence."

Lei Jun smiled and stood up to shake hands with the representative of Sequoia Capital: "Mr. Li, long time no see."

Li Mingan from Sequoia sat down and said, "Boss Zhang, why are you arguing with that kid Chen Shuo?"

Child?

Zhang Yiming widened his eyes, which were already small to begin with. "He's a kid. What kind of kid is he? He bribed the cleaning lady to water my plants with hot water. How can there be such a kid!?"

"He also used adult methods, and you couldn't resist it."

Li Mingan was quite direct in his words: "You saw the result. The youngsters don't care who you are. If they don't obey him, they will do it. In the end, we adults who have many concerns are the ones who suffer."

Zhang Yiming slammed the table and stood up: "Why? He does things without scruples and you don't care, but when I want to do something you come to my house to persuade me, what kind of logic is this!?"

"Oh, he's still a child." Li Ming'an stood up and advised, "Besides, facts have proved that every time Chen Shuo bullies others, he will get a big reward, just like you this time."

This is the main point why you protect him, because it can make money for you.

I can do it too!

Zhang Yiming was very unconvinced: "If you give me half of the support you give to Chen Shuo, I will also have the potential to become a leader in the Internet!"

"This is absolutely impossible!"

"?"

Li Mingan cleared his throat and continued to comfort him: "If you want to become a leader in the short video industry, you will face off against Chen Shuo. I think you have discovered that he is not afraid of a fight to the death. Why? Because he is young and can afford to lose."

"What about you? Can you afford to lose?"

These words made Zhang Yiming silent.

During this period of time, Zhang Yiming also realized that Chen Shuo was really not afraid of ruining the company. No matter who tried to persuade him, it was useless. As long as he set his mind to something, he would do it to the death.

Moreover, he is not afraid of being replaced. Although this guy is young, he holds the control of the company firmly in his hands. If anyone dares to come to investigate, he will die together with them.

He is not afraid of exercising his shareholder rights. In short, it can be summed up in one word: crazy.

Are you afraid if I go crazy?

Afterwards, when he got the result he wanted, he would come to your house again and say shamefully, "I'm sorry, big brother. I was young and hot-tempered and didn't know better. I sincerely apologize to you."

This was the trick Chen Shuo used to deal with Teacher Ma.

The bet is that Teacher Ma will not lower himself to deal with him.

"So, I'm just going to endure it like this?" Zhang Yiming looked at Lei Bushi and Li Ming'an.

Li Ming'an and Lei Bushi looked at each other and laughed awkwardly.

The meaning is obvious, yes, you have to endure it.

(End of this chapter)