Rebirth of the Wild Age

The headquarters of Yitang.com is located in Shenghai, so they sent the lawyer's letter very quickly, and it was sent to Shenzhou Technology Company the next day.

Immediately afterwards, Etang.com held another press conference, severely condemning Song Weiyang's smearing, and said that if Song Weiyang did not apologize publicly, Etang.com would sue for this rumor-mongering behavior.

Song Weiyang immediately admitted his cowardice with a smile, and asked Sohu, Sina and NetEase to help publish an apology letter, which read as follows: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be talking nonsense, Yitang is not useless, Yitang mailbox is actually quite good..."

Yitang mailbox is really good. There were always problems when it was first launched, but it gradually got better and became an e-mail with the same reputation as NetEase.

But that's all. Apart from the mailbox, Yitang has nothing to offer. With an investment of 50 million US dollars, only 5 million RMB can be done well.

Song Weiyang also said in the letter of apology: "By the way, out of good intentions, I will analyze it for the seven MBAs of Yitang.com. Your business positioning of 'Minghuang e-generation' is wrong. You want to introduce Western high-end fashion brands and life into China. , this idea is feasible, but the customer group must not be Chinese young people aged 18-35. Perhaps, for the seven of you, that kind of high-end life is common, but Chinese young people do not have such high spending power. In the eyes of Chinese young people, shoes that cost thousands of dollars a pair are not fashion items, but luxury goods... Your website content is too complicated, greedy for everything, and has no special features. It's getting more and more complicated, more and more chaotic...A word of advice, it's better to make a good mailbox, maybe you can kill the Netease mailbox."

The CEO of Yitang.com quickly replied: "Mr. Song has been living in China, and I am afraid he does not understand Western life. Our business concept is a very cutting-edge and high-end Western-style concept. China is connecting with the world, and Chinese young people are also It is connecting with the world, and Yitang is here to build a bridge between the East and the West. China’s economy is developing rapidly, and the living habits of young people are also changing rapidly. Ten years ago, there were few private cars in China, but Now you can see it all over the street. I believe that in two or three years, the e-generation family in China will grow up, and Yitang.com will be the leading enterprise in the life of e-generation in China!"

Song Weiyang replied again: "As long as you are happy, good luck!"

This open letter back and forth has attracted the attention of netizens, and it has actually led to an increase in the traffic of Yitang.com.

The CEO of Yitang.com stopped making a fuss about suing Song Weiyang, and Baba wrote an open letter to Song Weiyang again, discussing the Internet e-generation topic in a serious way, just to use Song Weiyang to attract more attention. However, in addition to the continuous increase in users of Yitang mailbox, other services of Yitang have been sprayed bloody by netizens.

"Why do you have to make trouble with them?" Ma Xiaoyun said with a smile.

Song Weiyang said, "It's boring."

Ma Xiaoyun has decided to lay off employees globally and is considering removing the US headquarters. But doing so involved too much, almost tantamount to cutting off both legs and arms, so proper planning must be made in all aspects.

Ma Xiaoyun, who was in high spirits at the West Lake Sword Competition, held a company meeting after the sword competition, announcing that Alibaba has entered a six-month state of emergency: "The next six months will be a very severe one. All employees are ready to work overtime at any time!"

Under normal circumstances, Ma Xiaoyun prohibits shareholders from viewing Alibaba's specific operating documents, and never shows his timidity in front of anyone. In the words of an executive at Alibaba, even if Ma Xiaoyun only has one yuan left in his pocket, he feels like he has 100 million yuan.

However, Song Weiyang repeatedly spent money to support him at critical moments. This kind of unlimited trust has been regarded by Ma Xiaoyun as a true friend. Now that Alibaba is in trouble, Ma Xiaoyun is also the first to talk to Song Weiyang, and even knows about the layoff plan before Cai Chongxin and others.

After West Lake Discourse on Swords ended, Song Weiyang was directly invited by Ma Xiaoyun to his home, and he took out many specific documents for him to look through, and then discussed Alibaba's strategic contraction together.

Song Weiyang flipped through the documents and said, "Your management is in a mess."

Ma Xiaoyun smiled wryly and said: "These documents are all kinds of problems that have been found out. There are many things that you don't know without doing it. It's too naive when you do it. Take the English website as an example. I naively think that Americans have better English. The English website should be set up in the United States, preferably in Silicon Valley, which can facilitate technical management. After the website was built, it was discovered that Silicon Valley is full of technical talents, and the trading talents needed for e-commerce must be parachuted from San Francisco and New York to work. And many projects have to go back to New York and San Francisco to negotiate, and the cost is inexplicably high. In addition, the talents in Silicon Valley and the talents in New York have completely conflicting ideas. An ordinary decision will quarrel for half a month. I have to fly Go to America to get it done.”

"This is normal." Song Weiyang said.

Ma Xiaoyun said: "It's too abnormal. The person in charge of Silicon Valley thinks that technology is the most important, because Silicon Valley is the center of the world's Internet, so this kind of technology superiority theory has been supported by many employees. And the person in charge of the US headquarters is me from the world's top 500 companies. The vice president hired by the company, who has been sitting in the port city for a long time, believes that Alibaba should develop into the capital market. Now the technical talents and business talents in the United States have quarreled, resisting each other, and dislike each other. I also did it in China. Don't know who's right."

Song Weiyang said: "Don't listen to them, ask yourself."

Ma Xiaoyun said: "I don't know either. It only took one year for Alibaba to develop into a multinational company. The employees come from 13 countries around the world. I don't know how to manage it. I hired the vice president of the world's top 500 companies to come here. , was to let him manage overseas affairs, but in the end he couldn’t even handle American affairs well.”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "You said that you want to lay off employees and withdraw the US headquarters, so let's do it, and simply cut down all the overseas branches."

Ma Xiaoyun said: "There is no way to start. Take the Hong Kong office as an example. They are all very good employees. There are MBAs from prestigious schools, senior investment bankers, and vice presidents and senior consultants from large companies. They abandon stable jobs. When I came to Alibaba, I hoped that the company would gain something after going public. In order to recruit these people, I also gave away a lot of company shares. When I fired them, I had to buy back the company shares. The price of this stock is not easy to negotiate. .”

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Ask your heart, what was in your mind when you founded Alibaba?"

"Be an e-commerce platform to help companies circulate their products." Ma Xiaoyun said.

Song Weiyang said: "That's right. If you want me to say, all the overseas branches will be cut off, leaving only an office in the United States. The branch in Hong Kong City and the domestic office will also be cut off, and the headquarters will be cut directly. Move back to Linzhou and rely on hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises along the coast to develop.”

Ma Xiaoyun said: "I have this idea, but I can't make up my mind. This means that all the achievements of the company in the previous year have been wiped out, and Alibaba has directly returned to the state of last autumn."

"Early death and early rebirth." Song Weiyang persuaded.

"I'll discuss it with Lao Cai again." Ma Xiaoyun hesitated. Historically, it took him half a year to make a decision.

Song Weiyang said: "It's up to you. If it were me, I would cut down the overseas organization now. You can't become a big fat man with one bite. Have you ever seen a Fortune 500 company that took a year to become a multinational company? Step by step The stride is too big, and it is easy to pull the egg."

After two times of persuasion by Song Weiyang, coupled with his own thoughts, Ma Xiaoyun finally made up his mind. He turned around and appointed a new executive who was responsible for layoffs. This time, he would directly lay off more than 70% of the company's employees. There were originally 40 foreign employees in China, but only 5 were directly laid off; 30 people in the Hong Kong office were laid off, and only 8 were left; the US side was even worse, with only 3 left.

This is actually better than in history, because when Ma Xiaoyun decided to lay off employees, the winter of the Internet was even colder, and Alibaba did not have much money. Even the top 100 old employees (including Ma Xiaoyun and Eighteen Arhats), Alibaba has directly laid off 50, and now it is laying off ahead of schedule, at least keeping these old employees.

Song Weiyang didn't have to worry about it at all. This kind of thing can be handled by an old horse. He turned around and called Zhang Chaoyang and said, "I sent a fax, some suggestions for Hinaren."

Hinaren is the alumni record that Sohu has just acquired. The small suggestion given by Song Weiyang is actually a relatively complete business plan, which is roughly based on faebook. Even Song Weiyang thought that hinaren was too awkward and the alumni record was too stingy, so he directly asked Zhang Chaoyang to change the name to "Renren".

As for the current Xiaonei.com, don’t worry about it, just keep calling it by this name. If it doesn’t work, people can switch to Meituan Food Delivery.

At the same time, due to the small friction with Yitang.com, Song Weiyang also asked Zhang Chaoyang to add a function, so that users can find information about the English CET-4 and CET-6 on the website. This thing is the future service content of Yitang.com. It has not been done for the time being, so just cut it off, but it needs to get in touch with major universities.

The reason why Song Weiyang remembers this clearly is because Doudou's English CET-6 results were found on Yitang.com, and the two had just started dating at that time.