As soon as colleagues in the group heard that Sina wanted to recruit a team and that it was still in everyone's hometown, they all seemed very interested. They asked Liu Xuebin in the group about the specific situation, including Sina's current plans and progress, and How are they going to deal with Makino Technology, a new player dominating the field of instant messaging
Liu Xuebin said: "I'm not very clear about the specific things. They are still in the confidentiality stage of this project and haven't revealed much about the specific content. However, they mean that interviews can be conducted, so I plan to go to Yanjing next Monday. Talk to them face to face.”
Someone asked: "Mr. Liu, if our entire team goes there, what kind of treatment can they give us?"
Liu Xuebin said: "I'm not sure about this. They just said that they can provide competitive salary packages, but the specific standards will only be known after the interview."
Immediately, Liu Xuebin sent another message: "Have you all found jobs now? If this matter in Yanjing is reliable, which of you is willing to go?"
There are now more than 60 people in the group, and more than 40 people are online. Most of the people's replies are that they hope to determine the salary first, and then consider whether to go to Yanjing. After all, Yanjing is too far from Shenzhen City. The distance of more than two thousand kilometers is almost equivalent to crossing half of China.
Liu Xuebin said: "Then let's discuss it after I come back from Yanjing. At that time, I will tell you the specific situation, and we will discuss whether we should develop together in the past. Although this is a good counterpart employment opportunity , but if their strategic positioning is not clear enough, I am afraid they will not be able to withstand the pressure of YY in the future. If they go all the way, they will give up instant messaging soon, and then we will lose more than we gain."
What Liu Xuebin said was very realistic, and everyone said there was no problem. Liu Xuebin specifically @Chen Hui in the group and said: "Ah Hui, I will arrive in Yanjing next Monday and will probably stay for a few days. Do you have time to have a meal together?" ?”
Chen Hui said: "Okay, Mr. Liu, contact me when you arrive, 1380101XXXX, this is my current mobile phone number."
"OK, I'll contact you in Yanjing."
Chen Hui said: "By the way, I am going to Shenzhen City on a business trip tomorrow. If everyone has nothing to do, we can take time to organize a party."
Most of the colleagues in the group said it was no problem. Chen Hui could contact him anytime he came to Shenzhen. Everyone was free now anyway and had a lot of time.
After Liu Xuebin told everyone about the situation of Sina UC, he went offline first. Chen Hui did not continue chatting with everyone in the group, but wanted to quickly inform the leaders about Sina UC.
Chen Hui didn't know that Sina had been planning the UC project for a long time, and the original plan was to launch it in mid-July 2002. Sina's plan was originally very good, and they had already started it when Tengxun was gaining momentum. When developing UC, when they saw that Tengxun had started charging for user registration so early, they wanted to launch UC while Tengxun was messing around. However, the project seemed to have the conditions to go online, and the result suddenly happened. A Makino Technology was killed.
It had been brewing for a long time to launch an attack on a powerful enemy. The guns and cannons were all built and they were about to take action. However, the opponent was killed by others. It was only then that Sina discovered that there was a more powerful enemy hidden in this industry. The opponent is much more powerful than QQ.
But the difference between Sina and Tengxun is that Sina's core business is the portal website, and users and traffic are its core elements now. As for UC, it is also because it wants to conquer the world in the instant messaging industry, not like Teng Xun also defends the world. No matter who holds the current share of the instant messaging industry, Sina will start from scratch, so for them, they can fight as much as they can. Every time you win a bit of share, it is equivalent to a victory. The worst result is a failure, which is nothing more than a loss of a little money.
It is out of this mentality that Sina adjusted the development strategy of UC before the launch of UC. They want to slow down the pace of UC launch, re-develop and upgrade the product, maximize the strength of their products, and then go Compete with Makino Technology.
Like Li Mu, Sina is also eyeing the team that Tengxun laid off. If the entire team can be recruited and invested in a new round of UC development, the strength of the UC development team will be greatly improved, perhaps. It can compete with YY, even if it is not comparable, it doesn't matter. At least it can enter the instant messaging software market through UC, and then use Sina's existing users to occupy a certain market share.
UC's positioning is originally that of a jackal with its mouth. Even if he is faced with an elephant, he is willing to give it a try. The elephant has a lot of meat, and every bite will make a profit.
Chen Hui did not have Li Mu's phone number, so he immediately told his superior Sun Qian the news. Sun Qian heard about it and immediately reported it to Li Mu.
If it hadn't been for this phone call, Li Mu would have almost forgotten the existence of UC. UC's fate in his previous life was quite tragic. Originally, Xinlang wanted to take advantage of Tengxun's positioning deviation to compete for the market, but Mr. Ma's mobility It was too strong. When it found a crisis, it immediately changed its strategy and directly suppressed UC until it could not get up. In this way, UC was completely destroyed before it became popular.
However, the scrapped UC did not withdraw from the market immediately. Sina continued to operate the software for a long time. In the end, it was basically just for their own entertainment. They had lost all their external users, and finally settled on a According to internal requirements, internal employees are not allowed to use QQ during working hours, and can only use UC to communicate. So UC has become Sina's internal communication tool, which can be regarded as waste.
Li Mu took a closer look at UC's broken leg and basically understood UC's mentality. It was the same as Tengxun's mentality when he started Q Bar and QQ Fishing Farm. As long as his core business was not affected, he could go as far as he wanted. Make other convenient attempts to compete with other companies in the market.
Li Mu was puzzled. When Teng Xun came to the door with this mentality, he tried several attacks to no avail. Instead, he made a surprise attack and his hometown was taken away. Couldn't Xinlang be more cautious? Isn't it just a portal? What do you want? Forget it if you want to compete with me for the market, now you still want to compete with me for the team.
So Li Mu called Zhang Xiaodi: "The original 20% salary premium has been increased to a maximum of 50%. No matter what, we cannot let Sina succeed."
After hearing this, Zhang Xiaodi immediately made a promise: "I will go all out and try to poach the most people at the minimum cost."
Li Mu hummed and said, "You make up your mind." Then he hung up the phone and called Lin Qingya again.
Lin Qingya had just finished taking a shower. A thin bath towel was wrapped around her chest. She was blow-drying her hair and looking at the mobile phone on the sink. What she thought of unconsciously was her boss Li Mu. If Lin Qingya was thinking about it at the beginning, Qingya still has feelings for Li Mu, and now she basically regards him as a beacon of life. She still has a crush on him, but it has reached the point where she just likes and admires him, but does not expect to possess him. Lin Qingya thinks that she has been sublimated. If she lets go In the past, when I even dreamed, there were all kinds of clips with Li Mu, but now, when I dream about him, he is basically directing the employees of Makino Technology to attack various major areas of the Internet. Village.
While she was thinking wildly, the screen of her mobile phone suddenly lit up, followed by ringing and vibrating sounds. Lin Qingya saw the words on the screen immediately and was so happy that she couldn't believe it. How could his phone sound when she was thinking about him? Just called.
Lin Qingya answered the phone as happily as a girl and said hello to Mr. Li. Then Li Mu said, "Qingya, I'll be paying attention recently to recruit a senior editor-in-chief for Makino Technology."
Lin Qingya knew that Li Mu's call must be because of work, so Li Mu's implantation of the topic did not make her feel disappointed. Instead, she immediately got into work mode and asked him: "Which editor-in-chief is in charge of which section?"
"YY Portal." Li Mu said: "It's time for us to build our portal. The specific planning generally refers to traditional portals such as Sina, NetEase, and Yahoo. We will definitely be more detailed than them."
Lin Qingya didn't know why Li Mu suddenly wanted to recruit an editor-in-chief to be the portal, but she understood Li Mu's style of doing things. He would do whatever he thought of and never delay. If Li Mu wanted to build a portal, he would definitely find a way to implement it as soon as possible.
The portal website was originally in Li Mu's plan, and he would only pay attention to it after the second half of this year. His current energy is basically concentrated on the YY product ecology and Taobao, and he does not want to launch the portal website so early.
The main domain name is reserved in advance for future portals, but portals are different from products. Products should focus on functions and experience, but portals should focus on content, which requires a strong editor-in-chief and a large number of editors. Follow up and create high-quality content that users like. This work is relatively arduous and requires accumulation over time.
However, since Sina wants to confront him, he must not take advantage of him. It is no problem for you to do instant messaging. Li Mu welcomes Sina with both hands, but in response to Sina, Li Mu will also start the portal project immediately. It's not polite to call someone to come but not to go back.
At the same time, Li Mu also thought of hao123. Now hao123's traffic is already very powerful. Before Baidu confiscates it, he might as well find an opportunity to get it first. In this case, the traffic of the website navigation is in his hands. , and YY has such a huge number of users. Once the YY portal is launched, it can immediately divert traffic to the YY portal from YY and hao123. The source of the traffic is in your own hands, and the future of the YY portal will be worry-free.
For Li Mu, in addition to having huge traffic, winning the navigation website also has a very important strategic significance, which is to curb competitors.
In the previous life, hao123 was in the hands of Baidu. Baidu was already the dominant player in search, so its ability to curb competitors may not be too obvious. But if hao123 was in the hands of Sina or other companies, then it would definitely Hao123 will be used to curb competitors. The simplest way is not to give competitors any opportunity to display, nor to include any competitor content, and directly cut off the opponent's traffic from here.
(End of chapter)