You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 482 Secretary Xiao Chen wants to start a business

Qin Shaoyan's few casual words confused the secretary Xiao Chen. President Qin has too many tricks. Can he still play like this?
"This...will this work?" Secretary Xiao Chen was a little hesitant. It was not that she doubted President Qin, but she felt that this method was too simple and was afraid that the other party would not be fooled.

"Why not?" Qin Shaoyan asked, "Are you afraid that the other party won't be fooled?"

"After all... what I said just now was a bit harsh, and we've already fallen out..." Secretary Chen was a little embarrassed, "If I act enthusiastic now, it will seem fake."

"You don't need to show too much enthusiasm, just wait for her to come to you." Qin Shaoyan felt that he, as a secretary, was still a little naive.

"How could this be?" Secretary Xiao Chen was very confused.

"People like this will come forward when they see benefits, without caring about face. As long as their own interests are satisfied, a trivial verbal dispute is nothing." Qin Shaoyan explained to his secretary, "Just say that you are quitting your job to start a business, and you are tired of the oppression of your male boss. Not only do you want to start a business, but you also want to make achievements to prove that women can hold up half the sky."

"You package yourself as a radical feminist first, and then set up an all-female company, where the sisters can start a business and make money beautifully, without oppression or KPIs. You just need to punch in according to the schedule to make money."

"If there is such a company in front of you, would you be tempted?"

Secretary Xiao Chen thought about it and felt a little tempted.

"Salaries increased by 50%, year-end bonus of 18 months, seven days off per month, unlimited supply of cakes, desserts and milk tea, and working meals included." Qin Shaoyan said in detail, "Is this benefit enough?"

"Enough, enough, stop drawing, boss. I can't eat any more." Secretary Xiao Chen nodded desperately. Boss Qin was really investing too much money in fishing.

"Now you know what to do, right?" Qin Shaoyan asked back.

"I know, I know." Secretary Chen hesitated for a moment, "Then when should I start?"

"Wait until the eighth day of the first lunar month to go back to work. I'll ask the administration to handle your resignation procedures." Qin Shaoyan said casually, "For the rest, just follow my instructions."

"Oh, do I still have to go through the resignation procedures?" Secretary Xiao Chen was surprised.

"Of course, you have to do the whole thing." Qin Shaoyan glanced at the secretary, "Just finish this and come back to work."

Secretary Xiao Chen hesitated for a moment. She was a little worried that President Qin was looking for an excuse to fire her, but she was too embarrassed to say it out loud.

"Don't just stand there, deal with this matter quickly and come back to work quickly." Qin Shaoyan left after saying this.

Qin Shaoyan returned home and found food still on the table. The last program of the Spring Festival Gala, "Unforgettable Tonight", was still playing on TV.

Mingyue had fallen asleep on the sofa, her head nodding. She was startled awake when she heard the door open.

"You're back." Mingyue stood up and whispered, "Are you hungry? I'll heat up the food for you."

"No need, I've already eaten at the company. Where are my parents?" Qin Shaoyan took off his coat and handed it to Mingyue, asking casually.

"Already asleep." Mingyue looked at Qin Shaoyan sitting on the sofa, looking very tired, so she asked with concern, "How are you, are you tired?"

"Not bad, nothing went wrong tonight." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "I can see the report card on Weibo tomorrow."

"Don't work with me next time." Mingyue leaned her head on Qin Shaoyan's shoulder and said distressedly, "You've become the richest man, but you still work so hard."

"The title of the richest man is often just an empty shell. Besides, every day when I open my eyes, hundreds of people follow me to eat." Qin Shaoyan sighed, "Time waits for no one. The times don't give me a chance to rest. If I don't pay attention, I will fall behind."

"Besides, my employees are all working hard on the front line, it's not appropriate for me to lie down and rest in the back."

Mingyue didn't quite understand what Qin Shaoyan was going to do, and she didn't try to dissuade him. She just leaned on Qin Shaoyan silently, trying to pass on her strength and warmth to him.

……

"The rooster lays eggs, the fighter among roosters, oh yeah!"

"Your uncle is always your uncle, but this year's uncle is not as funny as last year's."

"Baiyun Heitu's pronunciation of 'Thank you XX Laobaigan' is more fluent than the host's New Year greetings. It is recommended that advertisers directly award language programs."

"Next time, just forget about writing the name of the show and read out the sponsors directly."

"The toad was lying on the road pretending to be a camouflaged jeep. Not only was it ugly, but it was also very fancy."

"Why do I feel that the Spring Festival Gala is getting less interesting every year?"

"The Spring Festival Gala is now just a background sound, to keep my parents entertained."

“To be honest, there are still a few shows I’m looking forward to.”

"What the hell is this year's Spring Festival Gala? What the hell is wrong with the director? The hosts were in a mess during the countdown and couldn't even memorize their lines."

"Three minutes of darkness. The Spring Festival Gala has never had such a big mistake before. This year's Spring Festival Gala is the worst in history!"

"You're wrong. This year's show is not the worst in history. The third Spring Festival Gala was the worst. But this year's show is really bad. How did the director arrange it?"

"I like Invisible Wings. This year they should invite more singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan to perform. They should embrace trends and fashion."

"We should invite Jay Chou."

“Why didn’t you invite Chris Lee?”

“Why didn’t you invite Bibi Zhou?”

“Why didn’t you invite Jane Zhang?”

"..."

After one night, Weibo on the first day of the Lunar New Year became even more lively, and netizens all became active, even more popular than on New Year's Eve.

Weibo users have found that this new social product is really easy to use. It is easy to browse, reply to and forward, and it is much more fun than blogs.

Moreover, there are a lot of Weibo users, and everyone is willing to actively interact, which is much more interesting than browsing forums or reading blogs.

People on Weibo speak nicely, are all talented, and frequently come up with golden sentences and jokes, so more and more people are actively engaging in the fun of browsing Weibo.

After a night of tension, the Weibo programmers discovered that Weibo on the first day of the New Year was even laggier than on New Year's Eve, which scared them so much that their hearts, which had just relaxed, were tense again.

When Qin Shaoyan returned to the company, the server had just crashed. The programmer on duty had finally solved the problem. When he looked up and saw President Qin appear, he was so scared that his face turned pale.

"It's okay, it's okay. Just do your own thing." Qin Shaoyan waved his hand casually. "The server is down again. It seems that our users are too active. I still underestimated their enthusiasm."

"I've discussed with Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li that it's time to upgrade the server to save you from the hassle."

Zhang Pingyi also rushed over at this time and said with a smile: "It's time to upgrade. I'm inexperienced. I designed it based on 80 million users before. It seems that I have to calculate it based on 100 million users."

CTO Li Xiaoxiao echoed: "It is indeed our responsibility. I originally thought that we would be great if we had 30 to 50 million users."

"But I was really shocked last night. Hey! Guess what? There were nearly 10 million Weibo posts in total. These users are so talkative. One guy posted more than 200 in one go."

"Activity is a good thing. Is the data from last night out?" Qin Shaoyan became interested. "Show me the big data. Have you done the user statistics?"

"Wait a minute, we'll make a table for you to see." Li Xiaoxiao opened the backend and retrieved the data. "Surprisingly, 60% of users send text messages to post on Weibo."

"Hey, then we can make some money from the commission from text messages." Zhang Pingyi was also surprised, "We can see the return of money on the first day of the new year." Qin Shaoyan smiled but didn't say anything. He glanced at the data analysis report.

Big data is not popular yet, so the data provided are just various data, without the kind of simple and easy-to-understand PPT charts.

But it doesn’t matter, Qin Shaoyan is best at making PPT.

He immediately turned on the computer and started working on it on the spot. After some beautification and modification, various bar charts, pie charts, line charts, and radar charts were put on the PPT.

Things like the number of users increased by 300% compared to last month, the activity level increased by 600%, the daily activity level exceeded 800%, and the number of Weibo posts increased by 1000%.

After finishing the PPT, I sent it directly to the shareholders’ email addresses, and then sent a text message to each person to notify them.

After that, we just have to wait for the shareholders to reply.

Half an hour later, Xiong Xiaoge was the first to call and asked, "Qin Shaoyan, did you inflate the data again?"

Qin Shaoyan's eyes widened and he retorted: "How can you slander someone's innocence out of thin air? How could I do such a thing!"

"Stop talking nonsense. I don't know you well enough." Xiong Xiaoge said bluntly, "Tell me the truth. What is the real situation?"

"If you don't believe me, I can show you the server background data. No one can fake this, not even the CIA or MI6." Qin Shaoyan said righteously.

"Then why are the numbers in your PPT so exaggerated?" Xiong Xiaoge questioned, "Weibo has only been online for a little over a month, and it has achieved such results?"

"That's because you don't understand the basic principles of Internet social products." Qin Shaoyan said with a smile, "Social 2.0 is the future of the Internet, and Weibo is the trend."

Xiong Xiaoge paused for a moment and said, "Very good. Weibo is developing very well now. Congratulations, Mr. Qin. You made the right bet again this time."

"What do you mean by gambling?" Qin Shaoyan retorted, "I used a vision that was ahead of my time to make an accurate analysis of Internet trends, and then relied on my keen intuition to create miracles. My success is entirely due to my own efforts."

"Okay, okay, you're awesome!" Xiong Xiaoge said perfunctorily, "I see that a lot of your Weibo posts are from text message channels. How much can you make this time?"

"Not much, only about two or three million." Qin Shaoyan said lightly, "It's an insignificant part."

"How can this be said to be insignificant?" Xiong Xiaoge immediately criticized, "Weibo started making money only one month after its launch. This is very meaningful and shows that Weibo has great commercial potential."

Although he didn't make much, compared with the Weibo marketing and cost investment, this amount of money was indeed just a fraction, but Xiong Xiaoge was very excited. The investment was necessary, and making money was completely unexpected.

In his estimation, it would take at least half a year for Weibo to start making money, and maybe even a year.

I never expected that I would see my return on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

"The revenue from SMS business can only be said to be a supplement that is better than nothing." Qin Shaoyan seemed very calm, "In the future, advertising and membership will be the main source of income."

"We still need to pay attention to text messages." Xiong Xiaoge doesn't care about membership advertisements. Now that text messages can make money, we need to work hard in this area.

In 2000, China Mobile and China Unicom successively launched SMS services.

By 2001, in just one year, the number of text messages sent nationwide reached a staggering 189 billion, bringing operators approximately 20 billion yuan in revenue.

In 2006, 4296.7 billion text messages were sent, and the number is still increasing.

The three major portals in the early days relied on the SP business of value-added SMS to catch their breath and survive the Internet bubble period.

Penguin's first money-making business also relied on Mobile Dream Network's SMS value-added service.

It is hard to say whether the first batch of Chinese Internet companies would have survived the bursting of the U.S. stock bubble if there had been no SMS, whether they would have been able to launch WeChat and Weibo ten years later, or whether they would have been able to kill SMS that once saved them.

China Mobile can earn 40 to 50 billion yuan just by relying on its SMS business. This is a huge market, and countless SP businesses survive around this market.

"Sure, sure." Qin Shaoyan agreed with a smile. Anyway, his current goal is to continuously improve the data and make as much money as possible.

"By the way." Xiong Xiaoge suddenly raised his voice, "Have you released the Weibo data to the public?"

"Not yet. I only showed it to you shareholders." Qin Shaoyan hesitated for two seconds. "Do you want to announce it to the public?"

"Of course we have to announce it!" Xiong Xiaoge said in a tone of regret, "We should publicize this great achievement more and let everyone know the good news."

"Now that we are a listed company, it's different from the way we made a fortune quietly before."

If it is not announced to the public, how will everyone know that Weibo is awesome? If everyone does not know that Weibo is awesome, how will the stock price go up?

If the stock price doesn’t go up, how can we make money?!

"Okay, I'll find someone to write an announcement and release Weibo's performance!"

After Qin Shaoyan hung up the phone, he immediately began to instruct his secretary Xiao Chen, "Please remember, I will make the following arrangements."

"Contact the editors of the portal websites, media reporters, and notify Xiong Jiajia to prepare the draft and soft articles as a general reserve team."

Zhang Pingyi was very surprised. "It's only the first day of the Lunar New Year and you're already bragging. You should wait until the Spring Festival holiday is over before you start talking."

"Shareholders can't wait. Internet users across the country can't wait. American stockholders can't wait even more." Qin Shaoyan said righteously, "Twitter in the United States is also waiting for the good news of our victory. Otherwise, how can investors continue to invest money?"

"Weibo is full of vitality right now, and I don't believe they won't be tempted!"

"Also, Xiao Chen, remember this. When you go to work on the eighth day of the first lunar month, remind me to arrange an interview with a few reporters."

Secretary Xiao Chen said a little aggrievedly: "I can't remind you of this."

"why?"

"You fired me on the eighth day of the New Year. Should I still work?" asked Secretary Xiao Chen.

"Oh." Qin Shaoyan slapped his forehead, "I almost forgot about this."

Zhang Pingyi was confused as he listened to this. "Why did you fire Xiao Chen for no reason? What did she do wrong?"

"Nothing, she is going to start her own business!" Qin Shaoyan replied.

"Hey, are you going to start a business?" Zhang Pingyi was a little surprised. "Have you thought about what project you want to do? Do you need funds?"

"I..." Secretary Xiao Chen hesitated, not knowing what to say.

"Oh, it's not a big project, just opening an all-female company." Qin Shaoyan replied.

"What is an all-female company?" Although Zhang Pingyi is well-informed, he was still confused by the term. "New concept?"

"Yes, New Concept." Qin Shaoyan replied, "Don't worry about it. I'll ask Microsoft Davis to invest in Xiao Chen. He will definitely be happy."

"Oh, then congratulations, Mr. Chen." Zhang Pingyi said jokingly, "I wish you success in your career."

Secretary Xiao Chen was almost crying. She felt that working was so difficult.

I just wanted to be a secretary, so why was I forced to start a business?

It’s an investment from Microsoft. It sounds so impressive. I’m so panicked. What should I do?
(End of this chapter)