Huayu started as a substitute director

Chapter 379 Swan Castle
The purpose of this Chang'e Technology middle and senior leadership conference is to establish Zhang Yiming's image, and various leaders will appear and get to know each other.

Those low-level coders don't need to participate, they just need to do their own jobs well.

Ideological decisions are made by the top management, executed by the middle management, and done by the bottom management. Even if Fang Hong treats people as human beings, he knows that decisions only require a few people to discuss in a room.

If there are too many people talking to each other, it will be chaotic and not conducive to development.

The most effective way is for the majority to give suggestions, discuss with a few people, and then one person makes the decision.

Fang Hong also attended the first Chang'e Technology Conference. There were not many people, only about a dozen.

Operations officers Zhang Nan and Zhang Lidong; technical department members Yang Zhenyuan, Hong Dingkun and Xie Xin; finance members Gao Zhun; human resources members Hua Wei; and server system maintenance members Yin Xin, etc.

In addition, there are people brought by Zhang Yiming, such as Liang Rubo, Chen Lin, etc.

Liang Rubo is Zhang Yiming's classmate and co-founder of ByteDance. He is responsible for product development; Chen Lin is the product manager.

Mao Wenchao and Qu Fang, the heads of Xiaohongshu, were also present, as they also needed technical support; the gaming department did not come, as this meeting had nothing to do with them.

There are not so many middle and senior leaders in Chang'e Technology now, most of them are grassroots staff.

In a medium-sized conference room, Zhang Yiming first talked about his development goals for Chang'e Technology.

“The business world is made up of flows of people, goods, capital and information, and what we want is the rivers and oceans of information flows.

However, search engines are only a dam on the information flow, not the upstream of the information flow. The upstream of the information flow must be people. Where the users are, that is the upstream of the information flow.

On the surface, everyone is fighting for content access, but in essence, what they are fighting for is users’ time.

A person’s time is limited. If you spend time browsing WeChat and Taobao, you will have less time to watch videos, and vice versa.

Where are people? In the social relationship chain; who takes up the most time of users? Those big Internet companies. "

There is a whiteboard behind Zhang Yiming. When he speaks, he likes to write key words on the whiteboard, writing them densely.

He paused for a moment when he said this, letting everyone present digest it. This theory is quite new. Others are competing for people, terminals, and traffic, but for him, it is about competing for users' time.

This has set a clear strategic direction for Chang'e Technology's strategy. Before, user experience has always been on their mind and all major companies are working on it.

Even WeChat is now super easy to use, super simple and very user-friendly. What makes you have an advantage over others?
So this sets a clear goal for the team, which is to seize user time.

The people present had expressions of realization and thoughtfulness, looking at the baby-faced man with bright eyes.

Zhang Yiming spoke again: "I asked Mr. Fang a question before. I asked him whether he would seek investment from those big Internet companies and obtain their resources.

He said no, he said we are competitors and rivals. Have you ever seen anyone looking for a rival to invest in? Looking for them to invest in means being dependent on them, and you will have to sacrifice something, which is not advisable.

I share the same view as Mr. Fang. Those Internet giants that occupy users’ time are our competitors.”

This means that Chang'e Technology has found its competitors, which are all Internet companies.

Because they take up user time.

Before, the entire company had no rivals, and everyone was just working step by step according to Fang Hong’s ideas.

The people on site gradually became passionate, had a work direction, and a goal to surpass their competitors, which gave their work a different mission.

"In the future, we need to adjust our organization to have less reporting, fewer levels, and more sharing, and use the extra time to improve work efficiency." Zhang Yiming put on the pen cap, indicating that he had finished speaking.

"If we share more, does that mean technology should also be shared?" Xie Xin raised an objection.

"Keeping technology confidential is not very meaningful. There are always several ways to implement a method. No technology can be kept as confidential as the formula of Coca-Cola. Therefore, retaining talent is the key to retaining technology, not keeping the technology itself confidential." Zhang Yiming sat back in his seat.

"Clap, clap, clap!" Fang Hong led the applause.

The attendees at the scene also applauded, and the applause was quite enthusiastic.

This is a very good point. Technology will always become outdated. If you keep it secret and don't share it, you will be complacent and will sooner or later be eliminated by the outside world.

Only by keeping technology in a shared state and allowing others to continuously improve and extend it based on your work and learn from it, can you maintain your competitiveness.

Looking at these people applauding, Zhang Yiming was a little shy: "I'm not talking about sharing it with the outside world, but sharing it internally, and it still needs to be kept confidential.

Also, the sharing I’m talking about doesn’t necessarily mean sharing technology, but also work and life. For example, you can share wherever you travel, and we need to maintain a relatively harmonious atmosphere.”

"Yiming spoke very well. Let me add a few words."

Fang Hong stood up and stood at the head: "An open culture is valuable. Although risks also exist, these risks have been predicted. Chang'e Technology is willing to pay this price for this goal.

If one day it is proven that this approach is wrong, we will be prepared to suffer losses and regard this loss as a tuition fee for our management team to mature and explore management methods. Some things must be paid for.”

This is so true. No wonder others can start their own businesses. Who can compare to their broad-mindedness?

This meeting gave people a sense of belonging to Chang'e Technology and made them feel that working for this company is valuable.

Zhang Lidong didn't say a word the whole time. He had nothing to say. His job had always been clear: to commercialize the company's products.

“Some people say that Alibaba itself has no traffic and Tencent lacks e-commerce, so what about Chang’e Technology?
Content is Chang'e Technology's advantage. We accumulate users through accurate and personalized content recommendations, while leveraging the social chains behind users."

Fang Hong spoke on the stage about the advantages and competitiveness of Chang'e Technology. The meeting lasted a full day.

Of course I won’t go into the details. We will discuss the details at the department meeting later.

The organizational structure and division of labor of each department will be further refined. Anyway, Chang'e Technology now has money and basically enough people.

Of course, we need to continue to expand.

Next, Chang'e Technology donated 2 million yuan each to ten domestic universities, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Fudan University, Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, and Harbin Institute of Technology, for a total of million yuan, which is very generous.

The money is used for scientific research and talent training.

Of course, this figure has not been announced, and the details of the donation have not been disclosed to the public.

Donating in the name of an enterprise is equivalent to making an appointment, which can connect with professional high-tech talents from major universities and provide an additional way to acquire talent.

Some of those who graduate from school may be very successful, but some of them have already shown their talents in school.

These talents can be selected and invited first, which is the most important thing.

After the donation, Chang'e Technology received a bunch of certificates and thank-you letters, some of which were very beautifully made, while others were just a piece of paper.

This was the largest donation Fang Hong had ever made, 2 million yuan in one go. He could show off to Liu Tianxian.

"Honor of Kings" will hold the global finals in Las Vegas from September 9 to October 26. Producer Li Min and e-sports director Hou Miao have already led the team to Las Vegas.

The budget for this competition is 1000 million US dollars, about 20 million RMB, and it will last for nearly days.

The total prize money of the competition is 205 million US dollars!

There are 14 teams, from North America, South Korea, China, Southeast Asia, Europe and other regions, gathered in Las Vegas.

Held overseas, it is intended to give people the impression that "Honor of Kings" is an international game.

Remove the localization label!
In addition to the live broadcast page of "Honor of Kings" itself and the "Honor of Kings" mobile app, the overseas live broadcast platforms for this competition also include YouTube, Twitch and other world's largest video platforms and e-sports video platforms.

In China, the live broadcast will still be on the main site of the small broken station, and there will be jump pages on Chang'e Video, Xiaohongshu, and Toutiao.

There will be a small window, and you can choose to click in to view it, or you can choose to close it.

Other major live streaming platforms such as Huya, YY, and A站 will have free broadcasts, and social platforms such as Weibo and Tieba will also have hot topics.

All major anchors are also paying attention to and reporting on the "Heroes of Glory" global finals.

It can be said that the event is unprecedented, and the game itself is very popular.

Zhang Yiming was not allowed to take over the gaming department because he believed that playing games was a waste of time and therefore he would not be able to make good games. So Fang Hong was in charge of the department himself.

When the global finals of "Heroes of Glory" were in full swing, Fang Hong also adjusted the game department and operated it independently.

And changed its name to: Swan Castle!

This is to commemorate a fan organization of Liu Tianxian. The name of this closed website was reactivated by him.

Of course, it was Fang Hong who came up with the name without permission, and no one objected. No one in the senior management of Chang'e Technology was a fan of Liu Tianxian, and they had no feelings about the name. After all, games need to establish a brand!
However, some programmers who are fans of Liu Tianxian find it quite novel.

"Did you know? Swan Castle was once a fan organization of Liu Tianxian."

"Ah! Really? The principal really has a special liking for Liu Tianxian!"

"Our principal is a romantic."

"Will there be a Yifei Xianju in our company in the future?"

"Hahaha, it's possible!"

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Such discussions and ridicule only occurred within Chang'e Technology, because the name had just been changed and had not been announced to the public.

However, it is conceivable that in the near future, as long as you open any game under Chang'e Technology, the four artistic fonts of "Swan Castle" will appear at the beginning.

For example, when you open "Honor of Kings", "Swan Castle" will appear.

(End of this chapter)