Reborn in 08, a heretical cultivator starting a business

Chapter 133 Major Upgrade of E-commerce Empire, Snatching Alibaba CEO Successor!
The next day, Feng Lu and Tang Zhi officially joined Vipshop.

Tang Jinghe and her team of employees warmly welcomed them, saying, "Welcome to Vipshop!"

"Thank you."

After the welcoming ceremony, Tang Jinghe led the two to their respective offices:

"Tell us what you need. If you don't like the office, we can change it, or we can renovate it according to your requirements."

"Thank you so much." Both of them were deeply moved; they had never received such treatment before.

"It's all as it should be. Our boss is still investing in the US and will be back tomorrow. He'll be officially appointed to the new position then, so please bear with us."

"It's nothing, it's nothing." The two quickly waved their hands, but their expressions changed somewhat.

Feng Lu thought to himself, "A while ago, Vipshop was waiting for Tencent and Alibaba to invest, but now it's investing in the United States. It seems that Vipshop's development is even more impressive than I imagined."

Tang Zhi was in high spirits: "The business has expanded to the United States. It seems that the group's business empire has expanded again."

The next day, Wang Junshan returned to the capital with 15 top-notch engineers from the company, including Horst and Perrin.

Tang Jinghe had already arranged everything.

Riot Games' Beijing branch is also ready.

Although it hasn't been renovated, the office environment is excellent, and the surrounding amenities are even better—ten times better than the US headquarters.

Even Riot Games employees are full of praise for it:
"I knew I made the right choice coming here. Look at this workstation, the floor-to-ceiling windows, the environment—it's much better than headquarters."

“That’s right, this is what a tech company should look like. I’m not going back, I’ll stay here.”

"Everyone says that Beijing has a lot of delicious food, as well as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, but I don't want to go back."

Wang Junshan smiled and said, "That's no problem. Your accommodations have already been arranged. You've just arrived in the capital, so there's no rush to start working."

"I'll arrange for staff to take you back to your accommodations, drop off your luggage, and then we'll go out for a meal and have some fun for a couple of days. If there's anywhere you'd like to go, just let me know, and I'll reimburse you for everything."

"Thank you, boss. You're much more generous than Mark!"

"That's right, I guess my other colleagues regret not coming to Beijing."

The group was thrilled, feeling that Wang Junshan was a kind and generous boss.

But no one realized that it was all just a sugar-coated tactic!
If proper arrangements aren't made, how can we expect these top-tier American engineers to be so happy and willing to serve Wang Junshan?
To cultivate talent for Wang Junshan?

Even if we discover it, it doesn't matter.

This is Yang Conspiracy.

After settling everyone in, Wang Junshan returned to his office.

At noon, we met another visitor, Gao Yang, an architect from IBM!
Another key talent that Wang Junshan had his eye on was the former technical director of Vipshop!

Tang Jinghe and Gao Yang talked twice. Gao Yang neither agreed directly nor refused.

Instead, he said he would talk to Wang Junshan first.

Upon learning that Wang Junshan had returned to the capital, Gao Yang rushed over at noon.

"Your decisive and efficient style is in line with the geek spirit!" Wang Junshan said with a smile.

He has met many people like this and admires them.

It's definitely not going to work out if they're appointed as COO or CEO.

But they're perfectly capable of being R&D directors or chief architects, leading teams to tackle technical challenges.

“Mr. Wang, I came to see you because I found that you are different from other entrepreneurs. You also have a geek spirit, and you are a top architect, even more capable than me!”

Gao Yang got straight to the point.

"Because of YouTuan.com's architecture?" Wang Junshan was not surprised.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

When others look at YouTuan.com, they only look at the revenue and profit.

But Gao Yang is different; he looks at the structure!

"Yes, I have studied the architecture of Vipshop's website and also the architecture of YouTuan.com. I can only say that it is advanced, very advanced."

"In a sense, they are not the largest in scale, but their architecture is the most advanced!"

"It's more advanced than the architecture of the vast majority of e-commerce platforms, both domestically and internationally!"

"Extremely efficient, with amazing processing power, I have never seen such a powerful architecture."

"If 12306 had your architecture, the Spring Festival travel rush wouldn't have crashed!"

"It must have been made by you!"

"Why can't they be my subordinates?" Wang Junshan said with a smile.

Gao Yang waved his hand: "President Wang, I am a top architect at IBM. I am familiar with all the experts in this industry in China, but none of them are at Future Technology."

"There's only one explanation: you developed it yourself."

Wang Junshan nodded: "That's right, it was indeed developed by me. Are you interested in joining us to build the world's most advanced platform and architecture?"

“Okay!” Gao Yang readily agreed: “But you need to give me some pointers. I don’t quite understand the architecture of YouTuan.com.”

Geeks are pure; as long as their skills can crush the competition, recruiting them is no problem.

"No problem, this is my innovative distributed architecture, which greatly improves efficiency. Actually, it's a complete system, and I'll break it down and teach you everything!"

"Thank you so much, boss!"

Gao Yang was overjoyed.

Wang Junshan sighed with emotion, saying that geeks are pure and simple, which is great.

When would be a convenient time for you to start work?

"It'll be fine in a minute. I'll go back and resign right away. With the financial crisis, IBM is going to lay off people too. My fat, white-skinned boss is always trying to find fault with me. Perfect, I'm not putting up with this anymore!"

"Okay, you can come to Future Technology as the technical director of the e-commerce division, with double the salary, and you'll report directly to me. No one will be able to cause you any more trouble!"

"Great!" Gao Yang was in high spirits. He got a promotion and a raise, and he was even given the most advanced architecture to learn.

It would be an injustice if they didn't come!

So, Gao Yang completed his resignation from IBM that afternoon and immediately joined Future Technology.

During the global financial crisis, all companies were laying off employees; no company was willing to go to great lengths to retain staff, let alone use non-compete agreements to prevent them from doing so.

nonexistent.

They all wish their employees would resign voluntarily, so as to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Later that afternoon, Wang Junshan convened a high-level meeting:

"First of all, let's give a warm round of applause to our three new colleagues who are joining Future Technology!"

Wow!
There was thunderous applause.

"Next, we will begin the formal appointment process."

"Feng Lu serves as the Marketing Director of Future Technology's E-commerce Business Unit, responsible for all marketing plans for Vipshop, U-Tuan International, and U-Tuan Group Buying."

"Gao Yang serves as the Technical Director of the E-commerce Business Unit at Future Technology, responsible for the architecture and technology development of platforms such as Vipshop and YouTuan.com."

"Tang Zhi serves as the Operations Director of Future Technology's E-commerce Business Unit, responsible for the supply chain, warehousing, and logistics construction of Vipshop, U-Tuan International, and U-Tuan Group Buying."

The appointment shocked the other senior officials.

For example, warehousing and logistics were originally the responsibility of Vipshop and YouTuan International, and YouTuan Group Buying, respectively.

Now, Wang Junshan has directly established a major e-commerce business unit, handing over all three business segments to Operations Director Tang Zhi, who oversees everything, with other managers assisting him.

The goal is to integrate resources and unify the procurement, warehousing, and logistics of all product supplies.

For example, Vipshop needs to purchase and sell categories such as daily necessities, beauty and personal care products, and 3C small appliances. Similarly, YouTuan Group also needs to purchase and sell these products.

In the past, each region operated independently, resulting in a fragmented and disorganized system. Now, with centralized procurement directly from the brand and unified scheduling across eight warehouses, costs can be significantly reduced and logistics faster.

With the addition of these three individuals, the senior management teams of Vipshop, U-Tuan International, and U-Tuan Group Buying have all achieved a qualitative upgrade.

Before long, a tremendous improvement will inevitably occur!
The only pity is that Huang Zheng was not recruited!
Some people are destined to be heroes.

The only time to work is when you first enter the workforce, to accumulate experience, capital, and connections.

Once you've identified the right direction, you'll only continue to start your own businesses; there's no way you'll continue working for someone else.

Without a doubt, Huang Zheng belongs to this category.

After leaving Google, Huang Zheng founded Ouku.com.

With limited prospects, Huang Zheng sold Ouku.com in his previous life, but instead of being acquired, he chose to take his technical team with him to continue his entrepreneurial endeavors.

Although he started several small businesses in the following years, he never worked for someone else again.

Until 2015, when he founded Pinduoduo, his success was unstoppable, and he became a super big shot.

Similar people include Da Qiangzi and Wang Xing.

Although they did not achieve great success and become super tycoons like Chairman Ma and Chairman Li in the early 2000s.

But he continued to start businesses and work hard, eventually reaching the top.

Recruiting such people is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

But it doesn’t matter.

Since you enjoy starting a business, then keep trying even after repeated failures!

For example, JD.com's annual transaction volume is only a few billion yuan, and the main product category is 3C products. It is unlikely that it will take off.

Encountering Wang Junshan's Vipshop + YouTuan.com, JD.com's success became ten times more difficult than in its previous life.

Meituan was outmaneuvered by YouTuan Group Buying, and Wang Xing will likely suffer a similar fate.

As for Huang Zheng...

If he joins Future Technology, Wang Junshan will make him the CEO of PDD, enjoying immense prestige.

If they won't come after repeated invitations, then there's no need for them to come at all.

PDD is no longer necessary.

YouTuan Technology will handle the rest for him.

Without PDD, it remains to be seen whether Huang Zheng can rise to prominence again.

They say gold always shines.

Then Wang Junshan will see how JD.com, Meituan, and PDD can survive in the face of the overwhelming power of future technology and his strong moves.

How can Daqiangzi, Wang Xing, and Huang Zheng rise to power again?
This, in turn, added even more fun to Wang Junshan's rebirth.

However, future technology still needs a leader of this caliber.

Professional people do professional things.

Wang Junshan doesn't have time to personally oversee the e-commerce business from start to finish, and he also needs a capable leader like Huang Zheng or Wang Xing to lead YouTuan.com and Vipshop to conquer the world.

Unfortunately, neither of them was easy to tame.

But it doesn't matter, there's a third talent for leadership—Jiang Fan!
Jiang Fan, whom Jack Ma considers to be Alibaba's successor!

His abilities are comparable to, or even surpass, those of Wang Xing and Huang Zheng!
Jiang Fan's abilities are beyond question.

I graduated from Fudan University with a degree in Computer Science in 06 and joined Google China, where I participated in the research and development of core businesses such as Google Maps and Google Search.

In his previous life, in 2010, Google withdrew from the Chinese market, and Jiang Fan left Google to found the mobile analytics company Umeng, which received investment from investors such as Li Kaifu.

In 2013, Alibaba acquired Umeng for over 5 million RMB, and Jiang Fan subsequently joined Alibaba.

He then took charge of the mobile business and successfully developed Taobao's mobile platform.

He became the president of Taobao in 2017.

In 2019, he served as the president of both Taobao and Tmall, a "double president" at the peak of his power, during which GMV continued to surge!

Such outstanding strength and performance shocked the industry, and he was successfully promoted to Alibaba Partner!
He's hailed as the successor to Alibaba's CEO!
Everyone knows that once Jack Ma retires, Jiang Fan will inevitably take over.

Alibaba's future will continue to be one of rapid growth.

Jack Ma made it clear that he wanted Jiang Fan to take charge of the two most core business units, Taobao and Tmall, and that he wanted to use Jiang Fan to take down Pinduoduo!
In response, Wang Xing posted a comment on this matter on his WeChat Moments in the first half of 2019:

The next few years will be a fascinating time to see how two very smart people, PDD Huang Zheng and Taotian Group Jiang Fan, compete!

If Jiang Fan can win this battle, he will be the undisputed successor to the Alibaba CEO position! If he's interested!

The big shot's WeChat Moments is full of big shots, which instantly caused a huge uproar.

Everyone thought it was perfectly reasonable.

Taotian vs. PDD is like Jiang Fan vs. Huang Zheng!

Everyone wants to see if PDD can rise to the occasion or if Jiang Fan can defeat PDD.

Dong Ge couldn't get involved in this battle.

As for who will win and who will lose, no one can say for sure.

However, just as everyone was preparing to witness this epic battle, a comical scene unfolded.

Jiang Fan's house collapsed!
Despite Jack Ma's appreciation for talent, he couldn't afford to defy public opinion amidst the uproar.

At this critical juncture, they dared not allow Jiang Fan to continue serving as the dual president of Taobao and Tmall, nor could they allow him to become an Alibaba partner.

However, Jack Ma did not fire Jiang Fan directly. Instead, he stood up against the enormous pressure and forcefully protected Jiang Fan!
He was transferred to a peripheral business unit to serve as the president of Tmall Global e-commerce (AliExpress, Lazada, etc.).

The epic battle between Jiang Fan and Huang Zheng ended almost as soon as it began.

But gold will always shine.

Even the peripheral business units were thriving under Jiang Fan's leadership.

Tmall Global's e-commerce business is growing rapidly, quickly becoming the fastest-growing segment within the Alibaba Group.

With such outstanding achievements, three years later, Jiang Fan made a triumphant return, being promoted to Alibaba Partner and returning to the core management team.

In 2024, Meituan launched Flash Sale, encroaching on Alibaba's territory. PDD launched a series of attacks, leaving Alibaba besieged on all sides.

With no one else available at Alibaba, Jack Ma brought Jiang Fan back to serve as CEO of Alibaba's e-commerce business group.

He integrated businesses from Taobao, Tmall, Xianyu, 1688, Fliggy, Ele.me, and other platforms, becoming the "Number One Person in Charge" of Alibaba's e-commerce!
The power is greater than before!
As expected, a series of operations led to a major business integration and a rapid surge in performance.

Launching flash sales, investing 500 billion yuan to compete with Meituan.

Before long, Wang Xing was beaten to tears, and Meituan Waimai's market share dropped from a 71% monopoly to 40%!

However, misfortunes never come singly.

Following that, Gaode launched street sweeping, aiming at Meituan's other core business, Dianping, and trying to cripple Meituan again!
All I can say is that Jiang Fan is an absolute talent.

They didn't act until they did, and then they almost took Meituan down with them.

Meituan's market value has plummeted from HK$1.2 trillion to HK$600-700 billion, nearly halved.

Alibaba's market value soared from HK$1.9 trillion to HK$3 trillion!

Jiang Fan's strength is self-evident.

If he hadn't gotten into trouble back then, PDD would probably have suffered heavy losses.

What's even more interesting is that Jiang Fan is currently a senior executive at Google China.

I haven't started a business yet!
They are not like Huang Zheng or Wang Xing, who are determined to start their own businesses.

They completely hijacked Alibaba and brought it under their wing!
(End of this chapter)