Reborn, back to a small county town to become a wealthy family

Chapter 671: Avoid Being the Last One in the Game of Passing the Flower

After spending a day inspecting the industries in Yang City, I returned to the Magic City on Tuesday morning.

After arriving at the company, he immediately called Wen Wan into the office.

"This week's work schedule will be reported in the afternoon. I will take care of two things first."

Luo Yang explained: "The first thing is to find a few programmers to create a company-specific OA program and put some processes that require offline signatures into the computer. This program can help me save a lot of time."

"Okay, boss."

"The second thing is to commission a headhunting company to recruit several people who are familiar with the internal organizational structure of the world's top 500 companies. I want to reorganize the industries under my name."

"Boss, what is the general content of the architecture you mentioned?"

When the OA procedure was mentioned earlier, Wen Wan did not ask any extra questions, which showed that she also knew the company's internal online approval process, but she did not know about the second thing Luo Yang instructed.

Luo Yang patiently explained the dual-sequence career development system and the new holding model.

“This structural reconstruction is very important, so the team selected must have rich experience in this area.”

"Understood, boss."

Wen Wan responded immediately and then paused, asking after a while: "Does this adjustment only involve industries in the Magic City? Or does it include all industries in your hometown?"

“My idea is to be together.”

Luo Yang thought for a moment and said, "But this is not absolute. Whether we gather all of them into one group company or divide them into two or three groups, we must listen to the opinions of professionals."

Wen Wan nodded immediately to show that she understood.

"Boss, the first thing you arranged is that I will try to get professionals to come up with a feasible plan within three days."

After Luo Yang finished talking about the two things, Wen Wan began to respond to her boss: "The second thing may take longer. One way is to find professional talents through headhunting companies. We can also look for them in universities, especially universities like Fudan University, Jiaotong University, and the School of Finance and Economics. Professors in these universities may be willing to become consultants for the company and guide us to complete the structural adjustment."

Director Wen has a relatively broad mindset.

Just when Luo Yang nodded and was about to give a word of praise, Song Wan came over.

When she walked in, she was holding a stack of documents in her hand.

"Boss, if there is nothing else you need to tell me, I'll leave first."

Wen Wan tactfully said goodbye, then said hello to Song Wan before leaving the office.

"You are well-informed. I have been back to the office for less than half an hour and you are here."

"What a coincidence! My secretary just came back from doing some work and saw your car in the basement parking lot."

As Song Wan spoke, she walked over to sit down opposite Luo Yang's desk.

"What's up?"

Luo Yang signaled with his eyes the information that Song Wan had casually placed on the table.

This bound document is as big as an A4 paper and judging by its thickness, it must have at least forty or fifty pages. I wonder what kind of investment report this is.

"Recently, the company has allocated more resources to the Internet business. I asked the department to sort out the information of some innovative companies that can complement Pinxixi or Station C."

As Song Wan spoke, she pushed the information to Luo Yang.

"Well, I'll spend two or three days looking at it and try to give you my opinion this week."

"It doesn't have to be so fast."

Song Wan smiled and said, "I know you'll be busy recently, so just take your time to read the information. It's okay if you give me feedback next month."

She was not wrong. Luo Yang would indeed be very busy in the near future.

The first thing is the fund matter. In early July, this fund will be closed. In the next period of time, Luo Yang will have to keep an eye on the US crude oil futures market. The second is the second quarter financial reporting meeting. There are more than a dozen companies in Shanghai and Yang City combined. This item alone will take a week.

In addition, the shared bicycle A round of financing is imminent, and Song Wan can only control the specific details. The overall situation still depends on Luo Yang. After all, the outside capital recognizes him.

These are all known matters. There are many things that Song Wan doesn't know, such as the adjustment of the company's structure. Even if a professional team is found, Luo Yang needs to participate in the whole process.

"yes."

After listening to Song Wan's words, Luo Yang said with emotion: "At least in the next three months of July, August and September, I will be very busy, and the third quarter is very critical to the company's future development. If it is handled well, there will be a long period of stable and healthy development. If it is not handled well, there will be a lot of trouble in the future."

Whether it is the gains in the U.S. crude oil futures market, the company's structural adjustments, or the A round of financing for shared bicycles, each one is related to the future prospects of Luoyang's entire industry and must not be taken lightly.

Especially the first two items, one can supplement the cash flow that is most lacking at this stage, and the other is related to whether the company can operate healthily.

"Oh, by the way, there is something I almost forgot to report to you."

Song Wan seemed to have suddenly remembered something and asked Luo Yang, "On Monday, Ms. Liang and I had a phone conversation about business development. She said that you told her last week to focus on the market in the Pearl River Delta, but she thought that she couldn't completely ignore business development in the Yangtze River Delta or other regions, so she asked me to research small e-commerce companies that are worth acquiring."

As she spoke, she pointed to the bound materials that Luo Yang had placed aside and said, "Since we mentioned e-commerce platforms, I simply checked out companies related to video websites. The content is basically all there."

"You have a strong sense of initiative."

Luo Yang sighed and said, "But have you ever thought about whether Alibaba and JD.com will ignore it if we extend Pinxixi's tentacles to the Yangtze River Delta region now?"

“No matter how powerful Taobao and Tmall are, they can’t have 100% market share, right?”

Song Wan also has her own logic: "We only want the 5% that slips through their fingers. I don't believe they can occupy all of it."

"There are some things you can ask about. I heard that Alibaba is preparing to build its first data center?"

"The chairman is talking about Alibaba Cloud, right?"

Due to her interest in the Internet industry, Song Wan is not unfamiliar with this concept.

In addition, her family is engaged in the investment business, and she is quite familiar with the current hot industries.

Song Wan nodded and replied: "The so-called Alibaba Cloud is called cloud computing in the standard sense. It uses a sufficiently low-cost and commercial model to solve big computing problems."

"You actually know something about this?"

Luo Yang was immediately surprised and asked: "Then you must know what big data is?"

"When we think of big data, we used to think of supercomputers, but they have high operating costs and slow response times."

Song Wan replied with a hint of pride: "When these large Internet applications really develop, such as Taobao under Alibaba, hundreds of millions of merchants put forward purchasing needs, and the real-time information matching is behind it, it is the calculation of big data."

Although Song Wan's work has a taste of dogmatic imitation, there is nothing wrong with the concepts she discusses.

This shows that Song Wan has researched this industry very seriously. Without such careful exploration, he probably would not be able to express such a complete concept.

"Yes. Cloud computing is a solution for large-scale computing of massive data using a distributed approach."

Luo Yang sighed and said: "Without computing power, we can't talk about the era of big data, let alone the efficient application of massive data." In the future, whether it is Alibaba or Penguin, these big companies will establish their own big data centers.

It is hard to imagine that large Internet companies can survive and grow to such a scale without their own data centers.

Although the investment in building a data center is very large, this data center can not only serve its own business, but also serve many other fields such as manufacturing, finance, government affairs, transportation, medical care, telecommunications, energy, etc.

Some small and medium-sized enterprises often come to rent, and the rent is not cheap.

The reason why he mentioned Alibaba Cloud to Song Wan was because in his memory, there had been a rather hot publicity about Alibaba Cloud in his previous life.

In 2014, Alibaba Cloud helped users resist the largest DDoS attack in the history of the global Internet, with peak traffic reaching 453.8Gb per second.

In the CloudSort project of the Sort Benchmark 2016 sorting competition, Alibaba Cloud broke the AWS record of 1.44$/TB with a sorting cost of 4.51$/TB.

In Sort Benchmark 2015, Alibaba Cloud used its self-developed distributed computing platform ODPS to sort 377TB of data in 100 seconds, breaking the world record of Apache Spark of 1406 seconds.

All in all, it just means he is greedy too.
However, the construction investment of a data center is on a scale of tens of billions, which Luo Yang cannot afford at least at this stage. As for whether he will be able to do so in the future, it depends on whether Luo Yang can make enough money by taking advantage of the mobile Internet wave.

"Chairman, you don't want it either."

Seeing Luo Yang's expression, Song Wan was no fool and immediately guessed what his boss was thinking.

She was surprised and said, "With our current small size, we have to sell everything to have the money to build this thing."

"I'm just imagining it, okay?"

Luo Yang felt a little embarrassed to be exposed by his subordinates, so he could only be stubborn and said, "And don't you realize that Shanghai, a financial center and a megacity, is actually a desert for Internet companies? Look at the well-known Internet companies in China now. Which one has its headquarters in Shanghai?"

Song Wan: “.”

What does this have to do with whether you build a data center or not?
"If there are many Internet companies in Shanghai, we can find other companies to cooperate with and raise funds to build a data center."

Luo Yang justified himself by saying, "With our company's current capabilities, we can't do this kind of thing alone. I know that."

"Chairman, just be clear in your mind."

Song Wan smiled and blinked: "Modu is not a desert for the Internet industry. I had a dinner at home some time ago and heard my dad and his friends talking about a company called Xunlu Group. They are working on the concept of Internet+."

"Xunlu Group. Shi*Xiang?"

Luo Yang looked at Song Wan in surprise: "Your family won't have any investment in his project, right?"

"Yeah, I put some in."

Song Wan smiled and replied, "I didn't expect the chairman also knew about this company. From your tone just now, I guess you don't think highly of them, right?"

"Everyone has their own opinion."

Luo Yang deliberately reminded: "Anyway, I think this unreliable guy will explode sooner or later!"

"Oh?"

Song Wan asked with interest: "Chairman, can I hear your analysis?"

"Have you forgotten that our group has a company called Guobao Films, which I founded two years ago?"

Luo Yang explained: "In fact, I have been involved in film and television investment for two and a half years. Although I have no shortage of money, I have only invested in two or three movies and a few TV series so far. Even though they have all been successful, I can only say that I have just got half a foot in the door."

He did not directly elaborate on the Internet, but instead started with the analysis from the perspective of film and television entertainment.

Luo Yang first briefly discussed the current development status of Guobao Films, and then expressed his own views: "This circle looks open to outsiders, who think that anyone with money can come in, but this circle is actually extremely narrow and closed, and it is difficult for outsiders to truly step into its core circle."

Although Song Wan is currently in charge of the investment department and is fully responsible for the shared bicycle business, she is going to take over Guobao Pictures in the future, so she has been learning about this industry in all aspects recently.

She agreed with what Luo Yang said.

In fact, it is not just the film and television industry that is closed, it is the vested interests that are closed.

We all make the cake, you have a piece, I have a piece, and it’s all cut. Why should outsiders share the profits?
"What did Xunlu do before?"

After laying the groundwork for the previous points, Luo Yang began to talk about the core things.

He raised his lips and sneered, "Real estate, cables, hotels, financial management. How do they have anything to do with the film and entertainment industry? This guy is playing with concepts, using financial methods to play with this."

Hearing this, Song Wan seemed to be thinking about something.

"But who can guarantee that every TV series he invests in will make money?"

Luo Yang said disdainfully: "Moreover, the profit must be higher than the rate of return promised to the financiers. Not to mention the outsider Xunlu Group, even the seven major Hollywood film companies dare not make such a guarantee!"

"This and the Internet?"

Song Wan asked uncertainly: "Isn't Xunlu using the Internet to crowdfund? Crowdfunding?"

Having said this, she suddenly paused.

The reason why he was quiet was that he seemed to understand something.

"Trickery!"

Luo Yang gave a direct conclusion: "There is nothing to analyze. His project has nothing to do with the Internet. It is just a disguised fundraising. Once the millstone cannot be pushed forward, it will collapse!"

Song Wan: “.”

"It should be just starting now. The snowball hasn't started rolling yet, so your first investment should not be risky. Get out now while you can make some money."

Luo Yang boldly commented: "Just wait and see, some big bosses in Shanghai and East Zhejiang have a keen sense of smell. They will definitely invest in the early stage and withdraw after making money. In the end, the only ones who are trapped are retail investors, just like retail investors in the stock market, who are destined to be ripped off!"

He smiled and flicked the ash off his cigarette.

"This is a game of passing the parcel. Who is willing to take the risk of not being the last one to pass?"

"Greed is endless, and there will always be someone who thinks he is not the stupidest one."

Song Wan also sighed: "But Zhang Wang's people are those who think they are smart. Chairman, I will mention this matter to my family. Thank you for your warning and analysis."

"Don't underestimate your elders either."

Luo Yang smiled and said, "Those who have managed to survive the 1990s and continue to grow to the present are not simple people. Maybe they have already seen through the tricks and just want to make a quick buck before leaving?"

Yes, few big guys are fools.

Just like the subprime mortgage crisis that broke out in 08, didn’t those big institutions know that this was a game of passing the parcel?
Don’t they know that the storm will come sooner or later?
They all know it!
So before the storm came, they all evacuated quietly and safely after making enough money.

As for whether others are unlucky or not, what does it have to do with them?

When thinking of this, Luo Yang couldn't help but think of the shared bicycle project
How can I pretend to be a "poor" character who was kicked out by capital and finally forced to cash out?

We need to design it well.
(End of this chapter)