Rebirth of the Internet Overlord

On the morning of May 21st, a meeting was going on as usual in a large conference room at Yibo. Although this was the usual pattern for Yibo people, and even though Beibao participants Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Max Levchin

and David Sacks have also participated several times.

But for some reason, Peter Thiel couldn't lift his spirits today, and it seemed that he was letting his old buddy Hoffman beside him lose his temper.

"Jos, you have to understand one thing. Our Beibao International Station's plan cannot be to do any simultaneous issuance for your Yibei International Station. Because your damn decision-making efficiency is just like this lengthy meeting. It's supposed to be

Things that can be solved with just one phone call require a fancy ppt and a useless meeting that only lasts two hours.

Many of you were thinking 'this won't work' even at the beginning of the meeting, but as soon as we need to quickly skip the ppt of the current page, you feel like you are insulted. I don't understand your damn pride.

Where did it come from.

What's wrong? We have to wait for you to finish explaining your dozens or hundreds of pages of ppt before we can solve the problem? Can't we just list the problems in 123, and then directly prescribe the right medicine to discuss the solution?

Think about it, for all the problems you listed, can anyone give me a specific solution? If we need to spend several hours talking about how we can reduce efficiency to cooperate with you, then what is the point of participating in such a meeting?

?

Or some of you can simply tell me, who can tell me how long it takes you to decide on a problem?"

Hoffman slapped the table hard when he spoke, but his arrogant behavior did not cause any excessive reaction from the guys in the billion times. Some people even looked at him with a hint of drama.

Such a reaction made Hoffman feel that the current situation was terrible!

Since the sale of Beibao to Yibao was confirmed, Yibao applied their official-style management strategies to Beibao. Although Ning Zimo told Hoffman before leaving Beibao, although Hoffman

I have prepared myself.

But when he actually participated in the extremely boring Beibao meeting, he felt that the officials at Beibao were indeed hopeless.

You must know that even if Ning had not come to Beibao, they Beibao people would not be indifferent to good strategies in order to survive, and they could formulate a plan and implement it in almost a few minutes.

After Ning came to Beibao, he improved this efficiency to the extreme. He almost led the team to run forward. Although the team members would feel tired, everyone would feel all the outstanding results they could show later.

All the hard work has received its due value.

How about a billion times?

Three 2-hour meetings a week may not solve any problem.

Without a month of discussion, a decision will not even develop further.

How can a company that develops at this pace have a way out in Silicon Valley, a place where the pace changes rapidly?

Ning is right!

It's time to leave.

"Jos, you should find someone as soon as possible. I will leave Beiba as soon as the lock-up period of the stocks we hold is over." Hoffman raised his chin, stared at the person in charge of the meeting opposite, and gritted his teeth every word.

To put it bluntly, “I don’t want to stay here with you even for one more minute!!!

After saying that, Hoffman pushed his hand forward and walked out.

Who knew that his action was like the beginning of a chain reaction. After him, Levchin and Sax also imitated his example, raised their chins, pushed the materials forward and stood up.

"So are we."

As they spoke, the three of them looked at each other and smiled contemptuously, turned around and left the conference room. As for who the contemptuous person was directed at, it was naturally self-evident.

Joss Whedon, the person in charge of the conference, looked at Peter Thiel, who was still in his seat, and asked with a cold face, "Peter, those are your employees of Beibo, and you, the CEO, don't care about them?"

"Control? We Beibao people don't need to care about this useless meeting. If we didn't need to send a Beibao representative, I wouldn't even be here." Peter leaned on the stool comfortably, spread his hands and smiled, "In our case Beibao, there will always be real decision-makers and teams to do specific things, so I, the CEO, have always been the easiest to deal with.

Now, everyone should continue. After all, it is enough for our team to have me as a representative. Although my time is also valuable, it is better for me to waste time here alone than for everyone in the team to stand beside me and wait with me. You guys."

Peter looked so calm and even had his eyes closed, which made Joss Whedon very angry.

But this weird scene only happened for a short while, and I don’t know who started it. This deadly meeting is still going on at a slow pace.

Peter sat lazily on the stool and yawned idly.

Thinking about it, Ning should be boarding the plane soon, right?

It wasn't until he got into the car that Hoffman composed a message to send to Peter. Looking up, he suddenly asked Levchin, who had just started the car, "Ning should be getting on the plane soon?"

While they were talking, the cell phones of three people in the car rang at the same time. The three of them picked up their phones and took a look at them, with smiles on their faces at the same time.

"Wow, this guy escaped from the sea of ​​misery so quickly."

"Tch, we have already assigned them, and we are too lazy to waste time with them. In late July, we will reorganize several teams according to the plan last week and last week. At that time, we will have more troops and we will wait for Ning. Something”

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After Ning Zimo finished sending the message, he put down his phone and hooked his hand at Li Ying.

Li Ying glanced at the ticket in his hand and smiled, "Boss, the company benefits are very good. You can actually fly first class on a business trip?"

"First of all, don't call me boss like Jennifer did." Ning Zimo shook his finger and said with a straight face, "Secondly, our return to China this time is not considered a business trip, and we will only be considered a business trip when we go abroad in the future. Finally, I haven't I have flown first class before, so I have to experience it once.”

Li Ying looked at his serious face and wanted to laugh, but she still held back. After all, she had seen how serious Ning Zimo was when he was really busy at work.

At that time, he was able to lead a group of engineers who were 5 or 6 years older than him, and those engineers were very convinced of him. This kind of belief was all based on his strength and hard work.

Li Ying followed Ning Zimo onto the plane, and with the help of the stewardess, they put down their luggage and sat down. She was still thinking about the lively scene she saw last Sunday, that day at the home of Beibao Senior Vice President Hoffman , Beibao’s engineering team is almost gathered there.

Those people will gradually switch jobs to corresponding projects in the [bing ecological chain] in the next three months, and that will be the day when the plan is actually launched.

It's just that this doesn't leave him much time.

After thinking about it, Li Ying bumped Ning Zimo with her elbow and asked softly, "There are so many projects, can you be busy enough to come here?"

"Don't worry, I've been prepared for it. Last year, I asked the Huazhonghua team to develop three productivity tools for our programmers. These three projects not only brought us 150,000 US dollars in fixed income and 1.2 million US dollars in funds every month, but also

It is our team that can improve to higher efficiency.”

Adjusting his sitting posture, Ning Zimo continued, "Just like at Beibao, in addition to the search engine, I will design corresponding interfaces for these projects to make the team's goals clearer. In this way, it can help the team to achieve clear goals.

, shorten the project development cycle.”

Li Ying frowned when she heard this. She suddenly realized that there was another detail, so she asked again, "Hoffman is in charge of [Professional Social Networking Site], Chen Shijun is in charge of [Community Social Network], and Pan Yu is in charge of [Cloud]

, [Blog] Evan is in charge.

Even Jennifer is in charge of your [Influencer Plan], and she also supervises the [Blog]. But after thinking about it, I haven’t thought of who would be in charge of the [Search Engine]?”

"Don't worry," Ning Zimo smiled, "I hired someone from Mr. Yang to be in charge of the [search engine]."

"Mr. Yang from Dumb Tiger?"

"Yeah," Ning Zimo nodded.

"Won't you make Mr. Yang angry?" Li Ying frowned.

Ning Zimo shook his head and smiled softly, "No, Brother Lu Qi, I got it in exchange for the b2c e-commerce project planning book. Currently, Mr. Yang is busy discussing the launch of this project with the team. Although we can't talk about it,

Let him be grateful to me, but at least he will not put any restrictions on us regarding Brother Lu Qi's job-hopping."

"Oh..." Li Ying drawled a long note.

Seeing that she was still looking at him, Ning Zimo understood that she still had concerns. So he moved to the left, turned his head and whispered closer to Li Ying:

"The most important thing I gained from this year's hibernation is the team of Beibao partners. Their joining is the biggest support for our team building. Because of their relationship, we don't need to worry about the initial project at least in terms of personnel. This is

Our first advantage.

Beibao people have a habit. They like to find like-minded people in the circle, but it happens that building a team in this way is the fastest in the early stage. And the team of Beibao founders is already quite famous in Silicon Valley, and it has a certain influence on people outside the circle.

Not a small attraction, this is our second advantage.

In this year of Beibao, whether it is [Nuwa], [Pangu] or [Quieqiao], this group of partners has developed the habit of using efficient production tools. We also talked about this last weekend

, so the ultimate team efficiency guarantee has become our third advantage.”

Counting three fingers, Ning Zimo listed the advantages one by one to Li Ying.

Li Ying thought about these things and realized that they existed, so she nodded unconsciously.

Seeing her response, Ning Zimo continued, "The composition of the team and efficiency have been solved. Then the pressure of the direction is on me in the early stage. I know this is what you are most worried about. But I will analyze it for you one by one.

You will understand that this worry does not exist."

Li Ying actually knew Ning Zimo's detailed planning for his projects early on, but she had never seen any company do it as openly as he did in the early stages of the project. Now that Ning Zimo took the initiative, she was relieved.

Make the intention to ask questions and listen attentively.

"Because of you, although we have a heavy task after we return to planting flowers, I can spare 30 days from now to late July to devote myself fully to the planning of the [Bing Ecological Chain] project. This stage is very important because the team

The initial direction was all determined by me.

And when I used [Nuwa] to deliver the initial goals of the project, the data structure, and the program part were the team's business. At this stage, I needed to devote less than 10% of my energy to each project.

Therefore, as long as you make good use of the initial period and choose the right direction at the beginning, the rest can be rolled out by relying on the team. When appropriate, I will take time to prepare the next step of the project, but at that time the project is not intensive.

Naturally, it won’t be as stressful as it was at the beginning.”

Ning Zimo analyzed it in detail, which indeed made Li Ying less worried. But now that he was close to Li Ying's face, it was inevitable that some breath would be contaminated on Li Ying's face when he spoke.

This kind of close distance made Li Ying feel her ears were a little hot, but the first-class cabin of the plane was not very spacious, and the conversation was all about work, so there was no place to hide.

Li Ying saw that Ning Zimo was still looking at her and seemed to have something to say, so she quickly brought her distracted attention back to the topic.

After thinking for a while, Li Ying asked softly, "Then the first thing you have to do when you return to China this time is still related to the [bing ecological chain]?"

"Of course!" Ning Zimo raised the corner of his mouth.

The next project is an important link in the [bing ecological chain] that connects various projects. Without this part, all plans will lack soul.

Ning Zimo's voice increased even more, "We need to capture this person at all costs!"