Chapter 166 Big news: UC sold itself?
In this case, openness and transparency is the best solution.
Zheng Kaige took out Xu Guanghong's materials from many evaluation results and announced them. He only got more than 40 points, which was even far from passing.
Xu Guanghong was even more angry: "Why is my score so low!"
"First of all, your honors are all social honors, not professional or academic honors, which means that you haven't achieved very good results in your studies. Secondly, the questions you answered today were not close to the correct answers, and there were even some common sense errors. Everyone's questions are the same, do you have any questions?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent. Since he couldn't answer, it was normal for him to be eliminated. In fact, there was another important reason why Xu Guanghong was eliminated, and that was his personality.
This person used the admission into the selected program to prove his excellence. In fact, he was taking advantage of the information gap. Other college students didn't know about this opportunity, so he got the chance.
If the family members are knowledgeable, it will help the children avoid many detours. It is obvious that Xu Guanghong's family has some knowledge.
But he passed the exam but did not go there. Judging from the place he was admitted to, it was a remote and poor place.
Xu Guanghong gave up the selected candidate and chose Jiyue, not because of any technology that would change his life, but to change his living environment. He couldn't stand the hardship of going to remote areas.
It’s not that some people have directly said that they are attracted by Ji Yue’s conditions, but Lu Shan didn’t take it seriously because it was a manifestation of honesty.
Xu Guanghong said many high-sounding words, proving that this person is too hypocritical.
If someone with such a personality enters the company, the internal atmosphere will be spoiled and it will be too bureaucratic!
The reason was not mentioned. Lu Shan gave him face and just talked about the matter.
"If anyone still thinks it's unfair to be eliminated, you can say it now. We have other questions of the same difficulty. You can still enter the next round if you pass them! Does anyone want to try?" Lu Shan threw out the inducement at this time, and immediately shattered the unreliable alliance of the opponents.
Wang Ping was somewhat excited by such insightful operations. At least he was following a smart boss and had a future!
All the unsuccessful candidates left, the interview went smoothly, and finally ten people were admitted.
According to the prior plan of Lu Shan and Zheng Kaige, the company is divided into four departments: Technology R&D Department, Market Development Department, Office, and Finance Department. There is no department director for the time being.
Zheng Kaige is the company's legal representative and general manager, Qiao Weiwei went to the technical research and development department, and Ma Lijuan went to the market development department because of her cheerful personality and sweet mouth, to check and balance Zhang Dong. In fact, this is not bad, Ma Lijuan has a good foundation in mathematics and will not make random product requirements. Wang Ping was sent to the finance department to check and balance Ou Ping.
The rest of the people will be stuffed into the department first, and assigned tasks according to their abilities and specialties. Let them familiarize themselves with the environment for the time being and then see what happens later.
The first open recruitment of Jiyue Company ended, but the matter was not over. Xu Guanghong became more and more angry when he returned home, so he went to the vice president of the School of Computer Science to complain.
"Dean Fang! The interviewer from Jiyue rejected me without even looking at my resume! You were the one who recommended me for the school scholarship. This is simply denying the school's evaluation of me..." Xu Guanghong found Vice Dean Fang and started to complain, saying that if Lu Shan did not admit him, that would be a disrespect to Vice Dean Fang.
After all this, Vice President Fang felt ashamed. In addition, due to some special relationships, he decided to help Xu Guanghong.
Vice Dean Fang was still thinking, isn't it just a company started by students? As the leader of the college, it is very easy for him to control Lu Shan.
"Ji Yue has just been established. Are you sure you want to go?" Dean Fang asked seriously.
In his heart, Xu Guanghong certainly wants to go, after all, the salary is high, but he cannot say that, otherwise it will seem as if he is reluctant to give up this position.
Xu Guanghong said: "I think this is a project that our school has supported, and it is also a company started by students of our school, so I still want to learn about it."
Dean Fang nodded.
"Hello, Dean Zhou. The thing is, our college has an outstanding student named Xu Guanghong..." Vice Dean Fang called Dean Zhou Wei, asking Lu Shan to recruit Xu Guanghong.
After hearing the request, Zhou Wei politely refused: "This is an internal matter of the company, we can't interfere. Besides, I know Lu Shan as a student. He is calm and orderly. I believe his recruitment process and vision will not be wrong..."
Since Vice President Fang suffered a setback, Xu Guanghong naturally suffered a setback as well, and felt extremely depressed.
New employees are hired shortly after joining the company.
IDG announced a piece of news to Jiyue.
Zheng Kaige reported a piece of news to Lu Shan that IDG and Sequoia Capital sold 1600% of UC's equity to Ali for US$20 million, and now he has become a member of the Ali system.
Lu Shan found it funny. Ke Xiaopeng did the same thing in his previous life, but this time it was done much earlier. In his previous life, UC completed three rounds of financing and was valued at 100 million yuan before it was sold to Ali.
After thinking about it carefully, Lu Shan found that his appearance had advanced the development of Xia Country's Internet by more than ten years. Algorithms, big data, accurate push notifications, self-media articles and other forms of things were not supposed to exist until ten years later.
But Lu Shan didn't find it strange at all. The further back in time it got, the more likely it would be ahead of time.
Zheng Kaige was still reporting: "Ali bought the equity of UC and has announced that he will increase investment to build UC into a new generation of browser, which is lighter, more convenient and more accurate. This is obviously to compete with us. Moreover, Ali has opened up channels with Nokia, Samsung and Motorola. UC will become the factory browser of these mainstream high-value mobile phones on the market." Even though Lu Shan was steady, he almost laughed. Ali really knows how to find mobile phone partners! In a few years, these mobile phone manufacturers will not be able to keep up with the era of smart phones and will be eliminated.
"What should we do? Ali's actions will have a significant impact on us. Most of the Jiyue browsers are pre-installed on domestic mobile phones, and there are even many knockoffs. The level of users is not as good as that of Samsung, Nokia and Motorola customers." Zheng Kaige saw Lu Shan smiling, and was really puzzled. Could it be that Lu Shan had a solution?
Seeing Zheng Kaige's puzzled expression, Lu Shan calmed down and said, "First observe the situation and continue to analyze the market. Don't panic. The specific impact has not come yet."
"it is good!"
Lu Shan knew what was going on.
Domestic products are still synonymous with backwardness now, but within ten years they will occupy most of the mid-to-high-end market. So what if they are copycat phones?
In the future, someone with the unstandard English name AreYouOk will promote the Shanzhai mobile phone market and eventually become the king of the low-end and mid-range market. By then, foreign brands will be squeezed out.
At this time, UC was in jubilation. Ke Xiaopeng and Feng Yun held a celebration meeting in a restaurant by the West Lake. With Ali's investment, the company was alive and might even be listed on the stock market. With the shares in their hands, everyone became financially free.
This is the most realistic idea, everything else is bullshit.
After raising a toast to celebrate, Ke Xiaopeng took the opportunity to hold a small meeting with the senior executives present and announced the UC Browser update strategy after reaching a technical cooperation agreement with Ali.
"The technical team worked overtime to update the browser! There are three updates. The first is that the browser itself should be smaller, faster, and consume less data. If someone is not worried about data usage, we will enable full browsing mode for such customers and let them play to their heart's content!
The second update point is push consultation. We must surpass Jiyue in algorithm, otherwise the user stickiness will not be enough! "
As soon as the second point was mentioned, the technical department looked grim. If the algorithm could surpass Jiyue, would UC be forced into a dead end?
Only they themselves know how much knowledge they have. There are two ways to surpass Jiyue's algorithm efficiency. One is to come up with a new algorithm, and the other is to rely on the power of the server to defeat Jiyue.
As if he had seen the technical team's doubts, Ke Xiaopeng gave them a shot in the arm: "Ali connected us with the Amazon AWS team through SoftBank. I don't need to introduce how powerful this team is, right?"
The technical department was shocked, then relieved.
Otherwise, how can we say that it is good to lean on a big tree for shade? Ali has a lot of connections, and with the AWS team joining, the big data algorithm service will begin to take shape.
Ali originally planned to develop Ali Cloud Technology on his own, so he had already secured the AWS team. This time he was just allocating a portion of his resources over.
Whether there is a UC project or not will not hinder Ali from looking for the AWS team.
Ali is very ambitious and quick to react. After seeing Jiyue's algorithm ideas, they immediately set up a project and have been paying attention to Jiyue.
After careful consideration, I finally invested in UC.
Ali wants to be the overlord and will never agree to Lu Shan’s conditions. The more obedient UC is more suitable for him.
As for the technological gap, it can be made up by other means. If the marketing is done well, a lot of customers can be attracted.
In addition to the Amazon AWS team, Ali is also working on the Azure team. By then, Ali will be involved in every corner of the Internet. UC is on a huge ship.
"Everyone, please be quiet. The third updated content is the free novel service. The novel community is very large. If we make it free and have rich content, we can attract enough users!" Ke Xiaopeng announced the third content.
The novel world was already very prosperous at that time, and all college students read novels. Many classics also appeared at this time. To be honest, they were all fast food products. Even the most classic ones were just things that people would not want to read after they had chewed them.
But people live for the pursuit of pleasure. After enjoying this novel, there is no need to look back. Just look for the next work.
Ke Xiaopeng's intention is to push paid items to people with purchasing power through algorithms, and to use free novels to attract many poor groups, so that they can increase the number of daily activities and maintain a large user base. By then, the advertising revenue will be considerable.
"But we didn't discuss copyright..." The technical department was very embarrassed.
Ke Xiaopeng was very disappointed: "We can just scrape the information from the entire Internet and redirect customers to it! There are so many pirated websites. If they make the surface look perfect, people will think it is made by UC! How dare pirated websites ask us for copyright?"
The technical department suddenly realized that the boss was indeed smart. When a robber robs a thief, the thief has no choice but to suffer.
After the UC update, it really caught the needs of customers. People were enjoying reading novels and news on their mobile phones. Although the push notifications were not so accurate, the quantity was large and there was always something they liked.
For a time, Jiyue's market share began to decline.
(End of this chapter)
