I suggest you investigate; this person doesn't seem to be a first-time reborn individual.

By 7 p.m., all 108 people had gradually arrived.

Lin Ran posted a message in the group chat: "Come to room 108 for a meeting when you get to school." More than a dozen people filled the originally spacious office to the brim.

Lin Ran stood in front of the whiteboard: "The holiday is over, everyone should get back to work."

"Boss!" Xia Chan was the first to raise her hand.

"Shut up." Lin Ran knew that Xia Chan would mostly just spout nonsense when she opened her mouth.

"Oh." Xia Chan lowered her hand somewhat reluctantly. She had originally wanted to say that it was something only a teacher would say to get students back on track.

"Let's report on the work progress. Wu Chenhao will go first this time."

Wu Chenhao took out his notebook and quickly organized his thoughts: "Momo's virtual gift function has been developed and tested twice without any major problems. It can be launched at any time. The Message in a Bottle and Shake feature are still under development and are expected to be completed by the middle of this month."

Lin Ran nodded, mentally reviewing the functional schedule: "Ye Li."

"The VIP subscription rules are basically finalized, including increased daily matching opportunities, read receipts, and information on who has viewed my content. The initial price is 10 yuan per month. The advanced VIP privileges are still being customized, and the complete plan should be available by the middle of the month."

"In addition," she paused, "we have already covered 12 colleges and universities in Jiangning. The rest, including vocational colleges, will take about another month and a half."

Lin Ran frowned and remained silent for two seconds.

Tang Chen.

Tang Chen pushed up his glasses: "The development of Yunxin is progressing a little slowly right now. It should be ready for launch by the end of the month, but the voice messaging function will have to be delayed a bit more."

Yunxin is a new development project that Lin Ran assigned to him. It is also a communication tool, but it has far fewer functions than Momo. Its only highlight is its simple interface, which leaves no trace and focuses only on core communication functions.

He didn't know why the boss, who already had a communication tool, wanted to develop a second chat application.

Lin Ran frowned slightly: "What's missing?"

Tang Chen sighed helplessly, "We're short-staffed. The team is really short-handed right now. Even our tech team members were working overtime during the National Day holiday..."

"Summer Cicadas!"

"Boss!" Xia Chan was prepared. "We currently have three candidates for Human Resources, all students from Jiang University. The interviews are tomorrow morning!"

"Alright, let's assign tasks."

"First, Xia Chan, select someone from your team to be the promotion ambassador for Jiangning City. He will be fully responsible for the remaining schools in Jiangning."

Xia Chan paused for a moment, then nodded emphatically.

"Secondly, Zhuge and Sima, you two will come with me on a business trip tomorrow afternoon. We need to make a name for ourselves in the three cities of Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. We can't stay in Jiangning any longer."

"Third, Xia Chan, after the interviews tomorrow, quickly familiarize yourself with the HR team and recruit people as soon as possible—business, technology, and product teams are all needed. Also, we can start the process of setting up the company."

"Are there any problems?"

"Boss." It was Ye Li who spoke.

"explain."

Xia Chan secretly rolled her eyes. Others could speak up if they had a problem, but when she had a problem, her boss would tell her to shut up.

"Are we going to start a company?"

Lin Ran nodded.

Momo is essentially a college student startup project. It was registered with the Administration for Industry and Commerce through the school, which can be considered the basic prototype of a company. However, many things become inconvenient once you leave the school.

Especially now that Momo is expanding nationwide, no one will be interested in a college student startup project that doesn't even have a business license when it comes to collaborations in other cities.

But there's an even deeper reason: Lin Ran needs to make them understand that this is just the beginning.

The word "company" is more effective than any mobilization meeting.

Lin Ran had seen too many teams fail after they made their first fortune in his past life. Once the money was distributed, their morale collapsed, and everyone went their separate ways. They felt they had experienced entrepreneurship, their resumes were gilded, and it was time to become cogs in a big machine.

He didn't blame them. At that time, he himself didn't know how to keep people around.

But he found out later.

Money alone cannot retain people. When they have better opportunities, they will still choose to leave. Money can only keep people from leaving temporarily.

What truly makes people stay is their identity.

It's the difference between "I work on a startup project" and "I am a founding employee of Momo".

One day, when they introduced themselves to others, they said they were "members of the founding team of Momo Technology" instead of "participated in entrepreneurial projects during their school years".

When classmates ask you where you did your internship at the graduation dinner, they don't have to feel guilty and say "just messing around at school," but can calmly say, "There's an internet company in Jiangning. You should have used the products they make."

The employees in room 108 exchanged glances, all somewhat excited.

After more than a month of hard work, they are finally about to become a regular army.

"The rest of you will remain on the same work schedule for now. The boss is treating everyone to dinner tonight!"

"The boss is so generous!"

"Can I order, boss?"

"Where should we eat?"

Lin Ran had a headache from the noise and waved his hand: "That lamb spine hotpot place that just opened in Ximen." He'd been craving it all day.

……

After the meeting, Xia Chan didn't leave immediately. Instead, she habitually did a debriefing. She flipped through her notebook, her gaze growing increasingly serious with each page.

The boss first had Ye Li report on the progress of Jiangning University in order to lay the groundwork for the conclusion that "we can't stay stuck in the local area forever."

Then they asked Tang Chen what he needed, and Tang Chen said he needed people. So the hole was dug.

Then he asked himself to report on the recruitment progress, and the candidates he had interviewed were exactly the ones Tang Chen had set up.

Then, taking advantage of the situation, I offered the position of "Jiangning Promotion Ambassador" and pulled someone from my own team, which solved the manpower problem and also freed me from Ye Li's remaining tasks of promoting the university.

The company was only announced at the very end—all the previous tasks pointed to one word: expansion.

The boss never wastes time in meetings, and when assigning tasks, he makes sure everyone knows what their role is.

How did that idiot boss manage to link all these things together like that?

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After the dinner party ended, Xia Chan, along with Zhuge Zhuangshi, helped Lin Ran walk back to the dormitory.

It's all Lin Ran's fault for being so cheeky. With the company about to be established, he painted a huge picture for everyone, telling them that they would all be company veterans from now on, and they started calling each other "General Manager X".

"General Manager Tang", "General Manager Ye", "General Manager Xia", "General Manager Wu"...

And you know what? This atmosphere made the group start to dream, and they got more and more excited, unable to stop pouring drinks for Lin Ran.

Before his rebirth, Lin Ran had no problem with alcohol tolerance, but he hadn't experienced so much alcohol yet, so he ran to the toilet and vomited violently, almost bringing up his bile.

Xia Chan looked at Lin Ran, who was still defiant, and pouted, "Boss, you're already throwing up like this, so don't try to be brave..."

"I didn't throw up, I just couldn't hold that much alcohol in my stomach, so I flushed it down the toilet."

Xia Chan looked helpless. The boss was completely limp, but he was still stubborn.