Ten Years Against the Current of Rebirth

Time went back a few minutes, and Xu Xing ended his interview with Lei Wenyan. He was basically satisfied with the results of today's interview.

For him, what is most urgently needed at the moment is not the technical experts, but the ordinary programmers who can steadily execute his plans and type the code honestly.

Secondly, there is a shortage of experienced veterans in managing and promoting projects. Such people generally have been working as programmers for many years and have gradually accumulated talents with management and command capabilities.

Compared with the above two types of employees, the kind of technical experts are not the candidates that Tianshu Studio needs at this stage.

After all, lightweight games like Fruit Assassin use gameplay as the core driving force, and technical experts can only serve as icing on the cake at best. There is no need to waste high salaries to hire them at this stage.

So after interviewing for a whole morning and half an afternoon, Xu Xing had already checked almost half of the interviewees' resumes.

He Sitong and Lei Wenyan, who had just come in before, were top students from prestigious universities, so it was impossible to let them go.

But at this time, it depends on whether these people are willing to choose their company.

After all, Xu Xing is not so naive as to really think that people will come after the offer is made.

The only possibility that these people can come to our place for interviews is that the interview time happens to be staggered with the interview and job fairs of other major companies.

Otherwise, most people would simply ignore a small place like Tianshu Studio.

Only those with a little vision and market sense can get a glimpse of possible future development from Fruit Assassin, a popular overseas game.

The more courageous among them may choose such a small company with potential to take a chance on the future.

For example, He Sitong, who came for the interview earlier, although he has a relatively introverted personality, his thoughts are pretty much the same.

But Lei Wenyan, who came in later, was a bit weird. He actually came here with the intention of making a good game.

But as long as this guy doesn't insist on making games according to his own ideas, and just wants to make a good game, Xu Xing will have a lot of energy, and I'm afraid it will overwhelm him.

The master's students who came out of Min University and Fuzhou University have a relatively solid foundation. If they can be recruited, they can be regarded as a force that can be looked forward to.

Xu Xing sat behind his desk. After watching Lei Wenyan walk out of the office, he checked Lei Wenyan's resume and then stretched his body.

And when he picked up the resume at the bottom, turned to the first page, and his eyes fell on the name on it, his mind suddenly became confused.

Um?

Xu Yi?

How come you and your uncle are famous for each other?

While stunned, Xu Xing suddenly felt a thump in his heart. Just as he was about to look at other information on his resume, the office door was pushed open.

So he subconsciously raised his head and looked towards the door. When he saw the face of his uncle Xu Yi who walked in, his heart beat wildly!

"Xu Xing??!

"

"What the hell! Uncle?"

Oops!

It seems that the secret of becoming a billionaire is about to be exposed!

…

In the office.

At this moment, the two of them were standing and sitting, each other feeling shocked and disbelieving.

Xu Xing never thought that Xu Yi, who was still working at a certain degree, would come to a small company like him for an interview on the weekend.

Especially since his company has just started, and he has no plans to let his family know the details yet. After all, he has a huge amount of money, so it would be better to avoid it as much as possible if he can't deal with the nagging from his parents.

When he really makes this company famous and establishes a firm foothold in the industry, it will probably be the time for a showdown with his family.

But who would have thought that by such a coincidence, my uncle would come to apply for a job on his own initiative? What the hell?!

Uncle, if you don't spend the weekend with your aunt at home, why are you out wandering around?

While Xu Xing was complaining crazily in his mind, his mind began to race rapidly, thinking about how to rationally explain that he was the boss of a game company with a revenue of tens of millions.

While Xu Xing's thoughts were spinning, Xu Yi, who had just walked into the office from outside, also looked confused after seeing clearly that the interviewer turned out to be his nephew.

You know, before he entered the door, he was still guessing who the boss of this company would be.

The last possible situation is that a technical expert from a major manufacturer or a relatively famous game planner.

No matter how bad it is, it must at least be at the level of master's degree graduates from the two famous universities just now. If you are lucky enough to come up with a fruit assassin, it makes sense.

But no matter how hard you asked Xu Yi to rack his brains, he would never guess that Fruit Assassin, a casual mobile game that has become popular in North America, was actually created by his nephew who was just a freshman in college!

Outrageous!

It’s so outrageous!

No novel would dare to be written like this!

And judging from the information Xu Yi has learned and speculated so far, although the development cost of the Fruit Assassin game is only about 100,000 yuan, when including marketing and publicity costs, it is at least hundreds of thousands.

If this guy Xu Xing really created the game, where did he get the start-up capital?

Don't tell him it's New Year's money.

You won’t even believe it!

It's impossible that Xu Xing told his parents that he wanted to make games, and his brother and sister-in-law waved their hands proudly and handed hundreds of thousands of dollars to their son who had just finished the college entrance examination, right?

Xu Yi was shocked. After slowly calming down, the more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

You must know that although such a game seems simple to make, from planning to project establishment, and then to the execution stage and publicity stage, it does not look very simple, at least it cannot be played by a high school graduate.

Especially considering that Fruit Assassin was launched on August 20th, pushing forward the development time by two months, that is to say, Xu Xing had already started thinking about this matter around June 20th!

At that time, even the college entrance examination results hadn’t been released yet!

Is this kid so magical?

"Ahem..."

Xu Xing, who was behind the desk, didn't know how to face his uncle. Finally, he stood up and wanted to move a stool for his uncle.

But Xu Yi had calmed down temporarily and waved his hand to him to sit down. He carried the chair behind the desk at the door, came to Xu Xing's desk and sat down.

The uncle and nephew looked at each other for a long time, the atmosphere was strange and awkward.

After several minutes, Xu Yi sighed and asked quietly: "Did you make the fruit assassin?"

At this point, there was actually nothing to hide. Xu Xing nodded helplessly and admitted, "I did it."

"Tianshu Studio was established by you?"

"yes."

"Qunxing Company belongs to you too?"

"right."

Hearing this, Xu Yi felt a toothache.

Although the matter had already been concluded after entering the door, Xu Yi still felt a little surprised with a chill on the back of his head after thoroughly confirming the answer from Xu Xing's mouth.

An unreal illusion hung over his head, but the reality in front of him had to make him believe it.

After all, no matter how much Xu Xing played around, there was no way he could deceive him about this kind of thing.

But this is a game company that earns tens of millions of dollars a month just by relying on one mobile game!

Such a gold mine turned out to be the asset of his nephew. Xu Yi sat on the chair and felt that it was incredible. He couldn't help leaning on the back of the chair, inhaling and patting his head to confirm that it was not his.

A fantasy.

"What about that?" Seeing that his uncle did not continue to ask questions for the time being, Xu Xing couldn't help but ask in turn, "Uncle, why would you come to a small company like mine for an interview?"

"Small company... haha..." Listening to Xu Xing's words, Xu Yi didn't know whether to cry or laugh. He touched his head and sighed endlessly, thinking that being a boss is different. A casual sentence is an invisible pretense.

"Mr. Xu, of course I came for the interview because I want to find a job with better pay."

Xu Xing: "..."

"Uncle, don't be like this. You call me Mr. Xu and I feel uncomfortable all over. Can we be normal?" Xu Xing hurriedly said with a smile.

Xu Yi sighed, stood up and walked around the office, looking here and there, once again relieving his inner turmoil and straightening out his thoughts.

Xu Xing could only follow Xu Yi's figure with his eyes, and finally watched him sit back in his seat again, took out a cigarette, raised his head and asked, "Can you smoke here?"

"Okay, okay." Xu Xing didn't dare to disobey now. He quickly stood up, opened the window, and handed over an ashtray that he usually used to throw away trash.

After lighting up the cigarette, Xu Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, took a long drag, and finally his mind slowly turned around.

When he blew out the smoke from his mouth, he sighed again, pointed his finger on the table, and finally said: "You don't have anyone to interview after you, right? Let's have a nice chat between uncle and nephew?"

Xu Xing looked at Xu Yi's sudden serious expression, his expression became stern, his mind calmed down, he nodded and said: "Okay."

After saying that, Xu Xing stood up, took the other interview resumes except Xu Yi's, and came to the door of the office. After opening the door, he said to Peng Yuxuan outside: "Xiao Peng, we will talk for a long time in a while. You can go outside first."

Sort out these resumes and keep those with a check mark in the upper right corner."

"The salary and benefits are all marked on it. After sorting it out, show it to the finance manager Yao and ask her to send out the offer."

"After you're done, clean up the outside and then go straight to work. The office will be tidied up tomorrow morning when we get there."

After Peng Yuxuan listened carefully to Xu Xing's instructions, he quickly took the thick stack of resumes from his hand, nodded and said, "I understand, Mr. Xu."

After handing over the task, Xu Xing originally wanted to go back to the office, but he caught a glimpse of Yan Chiju working in the corner, so he paused when he went back, thought for a while, and said to his uncle in the room: "Uncle, I'll go first

Go and give me some instructions, please sit down for a while."

"Okay." Xu Yi sat on the office chair, his mood had basically calmed down, and he poured a glass of water and took a sip, "You go ahead, I'm free today."

It just so happened that Xu Yi was also sorting out his thoughts, and he would have a good discussion with Xu Xing later to see how this kid managed to build such a multi-million game company in one summer vacation.

Seeing that Xu Yi's mood was relatively stable, Xu Xing breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew his uncle very well. He was usually a very sensible and kind elder.

In his previous life, Xu Xing was always cared for by his uncle's family. In terms of computers, Xu Xing has been influenced by Xu Yi since he was a child.

It can even be said that the relationship between Xu Xing and his father Xu Jian is that of son and father by pure blood. However, apart from being an uncle and nephew, the relationship between Xu Xing and Xu Yi is because Xu Yi has often played with Xu Xing since he was a child, which has led to the inversion between them.

More like a father and son.

If the person coming for the interview today was Xu Jian, Xu Xing would probably be much more panicked right now.

But if it was Xu Yi, Xu Xing would be shocked and worried for a moment at most. Then as Xu Yi's mood calmed down, Xu Xing also relaxed. He believed in his heart that his uncle would definitely stand on his side. From Xu Xing's own

Angle thought about his nephew.

After closing the office door, Mr. Xu exhaled a breath, smiled helplessly and shook his head.

The door of the finance room on the side also opened in time. Yao Yuanyuan came out and saw Xu Xing, and immediately raised her eyebrows: "Hey, the interview is over?"

"Haha." Xu Xing twitched the corner of his mouth quietly, and looked at Yao Yuanyuan with a very resentful look, "Why didn't you let me take a good look at your resume before?"

"???" Yao Yuanyuan looked confused and couldn't help complaining, "Who was in such a hurry to go to the office with Jeanju that day to have a life together, and then just threw your resume here and said you didn't need to read it?"

"And didn't I ask Xiao Peng to read it for you in advance?"

"I specifically asked him to briefly mention it to you before the interview, but he didn't tell you?"

Xu Xing choked for a moment and was speechless: "Uh..."

"So what's going on?" Yao Yuanyuan glanced at him, "Did something go wrong in the interview?"

"There are no big problems ahead." Xu Xing held his forehead, "But in the end, the 45-year-old programmer named Xu Yi is my biological uncle...well...that is, my biological father's younger brother."

Yao Yuanyuan: "...?"

"Forget it, things have happened anyway, so I will just tell you something." Xu Xing waved his hand, and after talking to Yao Yuanyuan, he walked to Yan Chijuan and patted her shoulder.

"Huh?" Yan Chijuan was typing code. When he saw Xu Xing coming over, he immediately raised his face and asked, "Is the interview over?"

"Theoretically speaking, it's over." Xu Xing shrugged his shoulders, reluctantly put away the helplessness on his face, and looked at Yan Chijuan's progress, "Can you handle it this weekend?"

"Well, we are already finishing the work." Yan Chijie nodded seriously, "We should be able to enter the testing phase tomorrow."

"Okay, then you should be busy first and don't come to the office for the time being." Xu Xing sighed, "I have to have a good talk with my uncle."

"Ah? Uncle?" Yan Chijiu was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"Well." Xu Xing looked at the girl's cute expression of surprise and couldn't help but reached out and touched her head again, explaining, "The last person who came for the interview just now was my uncle. I didn't expect such a coincidence.

…”

"Ah!" Yan Chijue reacted at this moment, covered his mouth and screamed, "Just now, he came over to ask me something just now."

That uncle just now turned out to be Xu Xing’s uncle?!

Yan Chijuan was a little panicked. He quickly recalled what happened just now. After confirming that he was not too rude, he relaxed a little.

Then she thought about it, that uncle was Xu Xing's uncle, and Xu Niannian was Xu Xing's cousin. Couldn't that uncle be Xu Niannian's father?

ah!

Isn’t Sister Niannian also working in the studio?

And they don’t seem to know that the boss of the studio is Xu Xing...

However, Yan Chijiu felt that the boss would have thought of this, so he didn't say much.

"Anyway, you can work here first. I'm done talking to my uncle, and we'll talk about the follow-up later."

"Oh." Yan Chijiu nodded in agreement. When she felt Xu Xing's warm hand on her head was withdrawn, she felt a little disappointed, "It's okay, I can be alone here."

"Well, if my uncle and I chat late, please order an extra lunch box to be delivered later."

"Yeah, I understand."

After talking to Yan Chijie here, Xu Xing returned to the finance room.

Yao Yuanyuan was taking over the recruitment list compiled by Peng Yuxuan. When she heard the door open, she looked up and saw that it was Xu Xing. She couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't you going to accompany your uncle?"

"I forgot to mention something just now." Xu Xing said to Yao Yuanyuan, "Since we have made money from the game, it's time to give bonuses to a few members."

"Oh? You're not stingy this time?" Yao Yuanyuan teased.

Xu Xing rolled his eyes at her, and then said: "Li Zhibin gave him a bonus of three thousand to show his appreciation. You and Yu Youjia each have five thousand, Xu Niannian has ten thousand, and Yan Chiju has fifteen thousand."

"By the way, is there any cash in the company?"

“The bonus is more rewarding than cash.”

"Yes." Yao Yuanyuan nodded and said, "I still have tens of thousands of yuan in cash."

"Okay, keep Li Zhibin's share for now and give it to him when I wait for National Day. You can wrap the rest in red envelopes and I'll give it to him personally then."

"You also give me my share?" Yao Yuanyuan said with a smile.

"It's a ritual, it's boring if you just take it."

Xu Xing finished the instructions he had originally given after the interview. After finishing them, he finally walked out of the finance room, returned to the door of his office, and took a deep breath.

…

It was approaching four o'clock in the afternoon. Xu Xing and Xu Yi, uncles and nephews, sat opposite each other in front of and behind the desk.

Xu Yi put a few pieces of white paper in front of him, holding a pen in his hand, tapping his fingers on the table from time to time, and writing and drawing on the paper with the pen.

After finally sorting out his thoughts, Xu Yi finally looked up at Xu Xing and asked questions one by one: "When did you start making this game?"

"Mid-June."

"Where's the planning plan? Is that when I started thinking about it?"

"That's not true." Xu Xing silently thought of ways to patch up his behavior, "I thought about it when I was bored in high school, and then I played with my mother's new Pineapple phone."

"At that time, my mother was cutting fruit, so I thought it might be interesting to implement this function on my mobile phone."

"But I just thought about it at the time. At that time, I was boring and self-taught programming in private. I was not very proficient yet, and I had to prepare for the college entrance examination, so I didn't think much about it."

Xu Yi tapped the pen on the paper, reluctantly accepted Xu Xing's setting, and then asked: "What was the division of labor among the six people in the initial team?"

"Six people?" Xu Xing blinked, a little confused, "Uncle, where did you get this data?"

"Your employee told me."

"Uh..." Xu Xing thought for a while and guessed that it was Yan Chijiang who said it, and that Li Zhibin, Yao Yuanyuan and foreign art aid Yu Youjia were all included, so Xu Xing simply walked down the slope and said, "Three of them

Programmer, two artists, and one accountant.”

Anyway, just try to rationalize the matter a little bit in such innocuous details, so that it will be easier for uncle to accept it.

Xu Xing hoped to make his uncle feel his talent in this area, but not too outrageously.

For example, it takes a few days to complete the game planning plan, and there are almost no changes during the production process. All advancements go straight to the final product effect. It is terrible no matter how you think about it, and it is completely inconsistent with the laws of the birth of a game.

"Then where did you get the money?" Xu Yi asked, "This salary expenditure, excluding yourself, will be around 60,000 in two months, right?"

"Do you want so much?" Xu Xing blinked, giving his uncle Xu Yi a rare lesson. "In the beginning, there was actually only one artist. Because I was a college student, I only needed 1,500. Later, I found another artist in the second month.

The total cost of advancement is only 4,500 yuan."

"The other two programmers, one is a classmate I know, works for me for free, and is now a student at Beijing University. The other has the most expensive salary, 3,000 yuan per month, which only costs 6,000 yuan."

"The remaining finance department belongs to the second generation of the rich family. I was hired to help register the company. There was no salary at all for the first two months."

"So the salary is only more than 10,000 yuan."

Xu Yi: "..."

I never expected that my nephew actually has the potential to be a vampire.

Can the labor force still be used for free?

However, Xu Yi felt relieved when he thought that many entrepreneurial teams initially generated electricity for love.

But then he quickly asked: "What about the company's equity? Does the ownership of the studio and the game belong to you alone, or is it shared equally among the six of you?"

"I am the only one investing, so the company is all mine," Xu Xing said honestly.

"Hiss..." Xu Yi was really excited and envious when he heard this reply.

Just now, he heard Xu Xing say that the person in charge of finance was a rich second generation, and he thought that the funds were actually provided by this rich second generation. Xu Xing was just a game planner, and he felt a little bit in his heart.

Unexpectedly, Xu Xing provided the starting capital for this studio all by himself.

"Then even if the salary expenditure is only 10,000 yuan, and there are other expenses such as food expenses, rent of office space, water and electricity bills, etc., there must be 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, right?"

"Ahem..." Xu Xing felt a little embarrassed at being asked, and replied in a low voice, "That rich second-generation family owns an Internet cafe. The private room upstairs was lent to the studio for free for two months, and the rent and water and electricity bills were all free."

"And the two artists work outside by themselves, so they don't have to pay for food. The rich second generation and another programmer are both at home to solve the food problem. I only need to pay for myself and the other programmer's food expenses."

"So after two months, it will only be about three to four thousand, including salary expenses of about fifteen thousand."

The dullness in Xu Yi's eyes flashed away. Looking at his nephew's eyes, he didn't know whether to express admiration or show some other expression.

Needless to say, this ability of free prostitution and exploitation is really suitable for being a boss.

"Wait a minute." Xu Yi complained in his mind, but it didn't stop him from continuing to calculate and ask, "Even if the development cost is reduced to fifteen thousand by you, you don't have that much money yourself, right?"

"Hehe." Xu Xing scratched his head a little embarrassed, "My mother gave it to me, about 50,000 yuan, and my grandfather gave me 10,000 yuan after the college entrance examination. Counting the pocket money I usually save,

There could be more than 60,000 in total."

Xu Yi opened his eyes wide and asked, "Does your mother know you play games?"

"have no idea."

"Then why did she give you so much fifty thousand yuan?"

"You know her Taobao online store uncle, right? I recommended him at the beginning." Xu Xing said honestly, "At first, my mother didn't believe that this thing could make money, so I made a bet with her. If it made money, I would

Give me half of the profits as dividends."

"As a result, I made more than 100,000 yuan in June, and my mother didn't break her promise, so she gave me 50,000 yuan."

"Actually, I didn't plan to do this during the summer vacation, but after discovering that online stores can make money and having a source of funds, I couldn't help but start thinking about it."

After listening to Xu Xing's sharing about the early days of entrepreneurship, Xu Yi fell silent, digesting the information in his heart.

The text and graphics on the paper also became richer. Xu Yi looked at the information on it and tapped his fingers on the table.

From this point of view, the cost of game development is 15,000 yuan, and after deducting this part of 60,000 yuan, there is still 45,000 yuan left.

"So you only spent 45,000 on promoting your game?" Xu Yi asked curiously, "Are the bloggers on YouTube in the United States so cheap?"

"That's not true." Xu Xing explained, "I signed a stepped contract with them that was settled based on advertising results, so I only had to pay a small deposit at the beginning. More than 20 bloggers spent a total of four

It’s about 10,000 yuan, and the average deposit per person is almost 300 US dollars.”

"Then you are really brave." Xu Yi took a breath, but he didn't expect Xu Xing to be so radical in this regard.

But judging from the results, this radical approach brought an almost perfect result.

Last month, Fruit Assassin's income was more than two million, and the subsequent fees that need to be paid to these two dozen bloggers are not even a fraction of more than two million.

It can be said that he made a lot of money.

Thinking of this, I looked at the paper full of information I had recorded, which completely analyzed the entire process of Xu Xing starting his business from scratch.

Every step was perfect, including the members of the prostitution team, which became an important cornerstone for the Fruit Assassin to ascend to the throne.

Xu Yi couldn't even find any obvious faults.

It’s hard to imagine that Xu Xing managed all this alone.

But the facts are before us, and it’s impossible to believe them or not.

However, after understanding this part of the initial stage of entrepreneurship and confirming that Xu Xing made no omissions, Xu Yi's focus immediately shifted to another direction.

"Then what are your plans next?" Xu Yi asked, "Do you have any ideas for a new game? The success of Fruit Assassin is difficult to replicate. You'd better be mentally prepared for the results of the new game so as not to fall too far behind.

Leading to mental imbalance."

"Yes, yes." Xu Xing nodded, knowing exactly what his uncle was worried about.

Especially after facing such sudden wealth, people are likely to have unbalanced judgments about the amount of money.

If Xu Xing was just a normal young man, after suddenly facing such huge success, he would probably fall into a state of blind confidence or even arrogance.

Once the new game cannot collect money like Fruit Assassin, it may lead to mental problems.

Others may look at it and find it strange that this guy has made so much money, why is he still not satisfied?

But it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. Many times, after experiencing it once, the psychological threshold will suddenly rise.

If you don't have a strong ability to regulate your mentality, suddenly getting rich is often not a good thing.

Xu Yi has seen and heard various deeds in the Internet field over the years.

Under the wave of Internet gold rush for more than ten years, how many people have gone up and down. Xu Yi has seen many people and things, so he will naturally worry about Xu Xing's current situation.

"This is the planning plan for the new game. Uncle, if you are not in a hurry, you can take a look."

Xu Xing took out a recently printed document from the drawer and handed it to Xu Yi.

After Xu Yi took it, he lowered his head and looked at the planning title on the document. There was a line of large characters written on it——

[Secret escape planning plan]