When Lu Yunhao started busy setting up his office and building his own team, Li Mu had already made clear requirements to the Ele.me Shanghai team: "Within fifteen days, Ele.me must be online on the Shanghai stock market and cover the entire city. .”
This also means that the front-end business team must sign as many restaurants, dessert shops, cake shops and other catering businesses within the urban area of Shanghai as possible within fifteen days, and help them achieve their goals. Arrangement of dishes.
In addition, the rider team must develop systematic working capabilities within fifteen days.
Fortunately, Ele.me has already started its first-tier city layout in advance. Although the business has not yet been officially launched, the preliminary work has been quietly started, so it is not a difficult problem to meet Li Mu's requirements in fifteen days.
The news that Lu Yunho received 20 million US dollars in investment caused an earthquake in the English training circle and the Internet circle.
To be honest, both groups were very dissatisfied when he got 20 million.
The English training circle thinks, what’s going on? This guy can also get 20 million US dollars to invest in the Internet? Does he understand the Internet? Why can he get 20 million US dollars, but he is still struggling to teach students
Internet circles think, are you kidding? This guy can also get 20 million US dollars to invest in the Internet? Why? He is a layman, how can he be better than me
However, Lu Yunho is very satisfied.
In his office in Shanghai, overlooking the Huangpu River, whose scenery is much worse than that of the Bund, he sighed in his heart: "Brother, I am really not a creature in the pool. This step across the border is absolutely amazing!"
While he was satisfied, he began to look for a core team for himself.
He knows that the finance team is from IDG and cannot be trusted; the technical team is also brought by IDG from the United States and cannot be trusted; his top priority is to first build a core team that he can trust.
So, he hired one of his colleagues from Southern English to come over.
That buddy usually likes to follow him around and talk loudly with him every time he drinks too much. Both of them have great ambitions but their ambitions are unfulfilled. Lu Yunhao feels that this buddy has certain ambitions, a certain vision and structure, the key is This guy listens to himself.
Later, he gave the other party a salary that was double that of teaching at the current stage, and poached him from Yanjing to become his first vice president.
Then, he recruited a few people from Southern English who, although he was not very familiar with them, thought they had pretty good abilities.
These people are responsible for different positions. Some are in administration, some are in human resources, some are in marketing, and some are specialized in telemarketing.
Although the people at Southern English have never done anything on the Internet, they are really good at sales.
They are similar to the people who sell Amway, they are good at cheating.
Therefore, Lu Yunhao felt that in addition to technology, the company's future business, public relations, promotion, and sales could be handled by these veterans of Southern English, and they would definitely do a good job.
Because of the promise of high salary, Lu Yunhao hired more than a dozen people from Southern English in a short period of time.
Lu Yunho, who has one or two billion in his hands, is not worried about money at all. In his opinion, a person's annual salary of hundreds of thousands a year is simply drizzle in the drizzle.
These people never expected that they would suddenly encounter an opportunity to double their salary, so they all submitted their resignation applications to Southern English in the shortest possible time.
Because some people have important jobs, Southern English is reluctant to let them go for a while. If they are forced to leave, the company will have to compensate the company for certain economic losses according to the contract.
Faced with such a situation, many people were unable to get off the horse for a while.
Lu Yunhao simply offered to arrive at the post within three days and receive a signing fee of 200,000 yuan per person.
The signing fee is money paid when you sign the contract.
It is a way of spending money to dig out high-end talents.
Lu Yunhao’s idea is very simple and rude. Isn’t Southern English not going to let you leave your job? Then I'll throw money at it.
According to the contract, even if these people compensate Southern English, which is tens of thousands of dollars, I will pay them 200,000, directly forcing them to leave their jobs quickly.
This trick really worked.
A few days later, more than a dozen people from Southern English arrived in Shanghai and reported to Lu Yunhao.
The founder of Southern English made a special call to scold Lu Yunhao because of this. He felt that his grandson had such no professional ethics that he just left when he asked. He also poached other people, which caused huge losses to Southern English. .
As a result, Lu Yunhao replied calmly: "Don't tell me this kind of thing, okay? People are free to go wherever they want. What does it have to do with me? Why should I be responsible for you? If you have any questions , please contact the law firm that our company cooperates with directly. Oh, by the way, let me tell you that the law firm that we cooperate with is the most powerful law firm in Shanghai. If you are not satisfied, you can tell them slowly. "
Then, Lu Yunhao hung up the phone roughly.
Are you kidding me? I have more than 100 million in my pocket, will I be afraid of your moral condemnation? I'm afraid it's because I didn't take my medicine this morning.
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A few days later, Lu Yunho’s technical team was finally in place.
This is a technical team drawn from various companies in Silicon Valley.
The person in charge of almost every front-end and back-end architecture language program is a top talent in the industry.
After all these people arrived in Shanghai, they immediately became familiar with Lu Yunhao, and at the same time began to design their own food delivery platform website based on the model of Ele.me.
Lu Yunho named this takeout platform that was still on paper "Niu Takeout". In his opinion, the things he made were all very good, so he chose such a vulgar name.
Investors and the technical team protested against this name, thinking that the name had no connotation, but Lu Yunhao insisted, saying that such a name is easier to remember. You see, Li Mu’s Are You Hungry? It is also very colloquial, but everyone thinks Yes, then why are you so resistant to the name "Niu Takeout"? Aren’t we all half-measured
Seeing Lu Yunho's persistence, everyone gradually gave up their position.
Although the name is not very pleasant, Lu Yunho is right about one thing. The name is indeed easy to remember.
There are many problems to solve for cattle delivery, and the products alone are a lot of trouble.
Lu Yunhao only realized how laborious this thing was after the technical team arrived.
The technical team said that we must first refer to Taobao's Ele.me section to develop a similar front-end website so that consumers can browse the meals of various restaurants and order meals online.
Lu Yunho knows this. He has used Ele.me and knows what the Ele.me website looks like and what kind of experience it provides.
He said self-righteously: "I think we need to carry out certain product function innovations on the basis of Ele.me to make Ele.me more user-friendly."
The product manager of the technical team asked him: "Mr. Lu, what kind of functional innovation do you want to achieve? Do you have any ideas?"
Lu Yunhao thought for a while and said: "I haven't thought about this yet. It depends on everyone's collective efforts. My idea is that we must not be the same as Ele.me in everything, right? We must have someone more awesome than them. A place that is more ingenious than them.”
Technology masters expressed their embarrassment.
Everyone has this idea, but the key point is that your idea is too abstract and you can't give any substantive tips!
To put it bluntly, isn't it just a joke? We want to be awesome, we want to be the world’s strongest food delivery platform, but what’s the point of just shouting? At least give me a route, but if you don't have one, isn't this just a case of being blind
So, the product manager had no choice but to say: "Then let's develop one based on Ele.me. If Mr. Lu has any good ideas, he can communicate with us at any time."
Lu Yunhao touched his big belly and said, "It would be great if the platform could know what I like to eat and automatically recommend food that suits my appetite..."
The product manager said: "This is feasible, but it requires designing a logical algorithm, and the algorithm requires data accumulation. Only with a certain amount of data can the user's general preferences be analyzed."
Lu Yunho blurted out: "What do you mean?"
When the other party saw that he didn’t understand this, he couldn’t help but feel a bit confused and said: “For example, our platform is like falling in love with users. We can’t know what users like and want the first time we meet them.” What, it takes several times of understanding and contact to roughly judge this person’s preferences.”
After saying that, the other party continued: "It's the same on the platform. We first have to let the user freely use it a few times, and then analyze and judge what he likes through the content he browses, the content he pays attention to, and the content he places an order. What, further down the line, we can recommend him something he might be interested in.”
Lu Yunhao nodded and said excitedly: "Yes, yes, this is what I want. This must be implemented. It must be implemented."
Later, Lu Yunho said: "Our platform must be more user-friendly than Li Mu's Ele.me!"
The other party said: "Mr. Lu, our development tasks are too heavy at this stage. Before the algorithm is launched, I suggest not to develop it. We can take our time after it is launched."
"Why?" Lu Yunhao frowned and said with an unkind expression: "We have to rely on this kind of humanized and considerate service to catch up with Ele.Are you? If you don't develop it, how can we catch up?"
The other party had no choice but to explain: "At this stage, our development tasks are too heavy. We not only need to develop the front desk, but also develop the merchant backend and user backend. These are three sets. In addition, we also need to have an operation and management backend. , coordinating and managing the users, merchants and orders of the entire platform, so there are four sets. For these four sets alone, a team like ours works day and night. It will take at least more than a month to make a test version, and Half of the workload must be outsourced to other companies for development, otherwise it will take at least three months to go online."
As he said that, the other party added: "If you want to add the algorithm, even if more than half of it is outsourced, it will take at least two and a half to three months."
When he heard that it was so long, Lu Yunhao suddenly became anxious: "By the time you finish developing it, the day lilies will be cold!"
"There is no way." The other party said seriously: "If we want to go online as soon as possible at this stage, we must first abandon other things and push other needs to the back. Otherwise, we will not be able to go online in a short time."
Lu Yunhao could only nod his head: "Okay, let's launch the platform first, but we must do it as soon as possible, preferably within a month!"
(End of chapter)