Rebirth 2003: Dominate the Tech World

After lunch, Lin Qianxia and Yang Shuya went back to the dormitory to pack their luggage and make their beds.

Ye Yunzhou left Yanda and headed for the Yanjing Technology Building.

Yanjing Technology Building is only 1.1 kilometers away from the east gate of Yanda, and it takes only 15 minutes to walk. It is really close. I saw this advantage when I rented an office here.

Alphabet Company Meeting Room on the seventh floor of Yanjing Technology Building.

This meeting was mainly a supervisor-level meeting, and middle and low-level managers did not attend, so there were not many people in the meeting room.

“Everyone, before the meeting starts, let’s welcome Dr. Xu Liuyang with warm applause.” Before Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, warm applause rang out in the meeting room.

Xu Liuyang was the technical director introduced to him by Lu Qi. Just like his name, he is indeed a foreign student.

This guy has a very strong resume. He majored in mathematics at Yanda University, and is considered Ye Yunzhou’s direct senior. He studied for his master’s and doctoral degrees at MIT, majoring in computer science. After graduation, he joined Google, which had just been founded. He has many highly cited papers in the field of algorithms, and is considered one of the greats in the field of algorithms.

This time, Xu Liuyang was able to join Alphabet because of Lu Qi, with whom he had a good old relationship.

Second, when Lu Qi suggested that he join Alphabet, he studied Ye Yunzhou’s deeds seriously, especially tried the products developed by Ye Yunzhou. After using and studying them, he was immediately conquered by Ye Yunzhou’s technical strength. Moreover, after trying Facebook, he firmly believed that this product would be popular all over the world, and it would probably be the most original Internet product that Daxia has brought to the world.

So after thinking about it, he resolutely chose to resign from Google and join Alphabet.

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After everyone’s applause stopped, Ye Yunzhou continued: “Now I will announce the adjustment of the company’s management structure. From today, in addition to continuing to serve as the head of the company’s marketing department, Xu Lei will be promoted to vice president of the company.”

“The main responsibility is to assist me in formulating the company’s development strategy and business plan, and supervise the implementation. At the same time, when I am not in the company, he will be responsible for the company’s daily affairs.”

As soon as Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, warm applause rang out again. Xu Lei’s face was flushed with excitement. He did not expect Ye Yunzhou to trust him so much.

Because the adjustment of the management structure was not communicated to Xu Lei in advance, he felt a sudden surprise. Of course, after the surprise, he also knew that the responsibility was greater.

The reason why Ye Yunzhou made such a decision was that Xu Lei’s ability was indeed good, especially his marketing ability was the best in Daxia. Secondly, as a reborn, Ye Yunzhou knew this person’s character. This is a very flexible and principled person.

After everyone stopped applauding, Ye Yunzhou announced again: “From today, I will step down as the technical director, and Dr. Xu Liuyang will serve as the company’s technical director. He will be responsible for the planning and decision-making of the technical direction, ensuring that the technical strategy is consistent with the company’s business goals. At the same time, he will supervise and guide the technical development of large projects or product lines.”

After Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, Xu Liuyang stood up and greeted everyone, and everyone responded with warm applause.

“Okay, let’s report on the situation of Alphabet in the past two weeks. Well, let’s start with Xu Lei.”

Xu Lei nodded and began to report.

“Dear partners, our Facebook has developed extremely rapidly since its release on August 23rd. Currently, there are more than 6.5 million registered users, and it has become a phenomenal Internet product in China.”

After Xu Lei finished speaking, Xu Liuyang was shocked. You know, it’s 2003 now, and this product is currently only open for registration among Xiaguo colleges and universities, which means that one out of every three students in Daxia is using Facebook. This Facebook has the potential to become a god.

Ye Yunzhou nodded and said, “Well, let the technical department add a banner on the Facebook homepage to celebrate the Facebook user breakthrough of 10 million.”

Everyone was confused. Xu Lei just said 6.5 million, where did the 10 million come from?

“This is a marketing method, the purpose is to attract more users and let new users have fun together.”

Everyone understood immediately after hearing it. Anyway, the company is not a listed company now, it is normal to use some unconventional methods in marketing.

“One more thing, today is September 7th, put a notice on the Facebook homepage, we will open registration to all Internet users tomorrow, September 8th.”

After Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, everyone quickly took notebooks to record.

Seeing that everyone had finished recording, Ye Yunzhou looked at Xu Lei and motioned him to continue.

“According to the instructions of the president, we have already arrangedWe have arranged five partners to set up branches in the United States and Europe. The branches have not been registered yet. Once the branches are registered and the products pass the review of the United States and the European Union, we can immediately launch the products for promotion. ”

After Xu Lei finished speaking, he looked at Ye Yunzhou to see if he had any instructions.

“The United States and Europe are our two most important markets besides our home country. The development of these two markets is very important. You have arranged too few people. You must invest more resources in these two places as soon as possible.”

Taking a sip of the bottled mineral water on the table, Ye Yunzhou continued: “The United States and the European Union are very mature Internet markets. We must study the social preferences of local people and adjust our products in a targeted manner. At the same time, we must pay attention to legal compliance. ”

Ye Yunzhou knew that Western countries were still relatively friendly to Xiaguo now, and it was not the time for a trade war in 20 years. Now, as long as your product is good, your development in these countries will generally not be difficult, because the market of Daxia is also open to European and American Internet companies, such as Google, eBay, Amazon, etc., which have a very high market share in Daxia.

After Ye Yunzhou finished speaking, Xu Lei added: “After the product is approved, we plan to promote it in various universities in Europe and the United States first, just like our domestic marketing strategy. At the same time, we will continue to update and improve product functions based on user feedback and market changes. ”

Ye Yunzhou nodded, and finally added: “Because we are a real-name social software, we must protect the privacy of users. Our next step will be to consider building a data center locally to save local user data. At the same time, the data of our domestic users cannot flow out of the country. This is the bottom line. ”

Everyone nodded slightly, praising this approach.

After Xu Lei finished his report, Ye Yunzhou signaled Zhao Man to start. As the company’s human resources director, Zhao Man’s department is responsible for all personnel recruitment, initial training, and employee performance.

“Dear partners, as of yesterday, the number of employees in our Alphabet company has reached 118. Currently, there are 108 people at the company headquarters, and 10 people have been assigned to establish branches in the United States and Europe.”

After a pause, she continued to report: “Currently, our marketing department has the largest number of people, reaching 49 people, the technical department has 41 people, the customer service department has 13 people, the finance department has 5 people, and the human resources department has 10 people. ”

Ye Yunzhou nodded slightly. Being able to accurately report the number of people in each department shows that her work is in place. At present, the number of people in the Human Resources Department is a little more, but because the Human Resources Department is integrated with the Operations Department, the number of people is actually not large.

After Zhao Man finished speaking, Ye Yunzhou first praised her work, and then said: “Our current number of employees is still too small. The temporary number of people cannot support our rapid expansion, and the recruitment of personnel cannot be stopped. At the same time, at least 10 core personnel will be sent to the United States and Europe respectively, and these two branches must be established as soon as possible. ”

After taking a sip of water, Ye Yunzhou continued: “And quickly recruit some students studying law to start our legal department. ”

At present, Alphabet Company does not have a legal department. All legal issues are in cooperation with the law firm and entrusted to them. But after a period of time, Ye Yunzhou found that it was still a bit inconvenient, especially when it involved the company’s core confidential issues.

Zhao Man nodded and wrote down Ye Yunzhou’s request in her notebook.