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Technology companies in Silicon Valley are more motivated than those in Europe, but in Zhou Buqi's view, the internal environment is still too relaxed. Especially the white employees, all of them are lazy.

It’s no wonder that most of Silicon Valley’s mid-level employees are Asians and Indians. These two groups are more hardworking and hard-working.

Ziweixing currently has 823 employees in the United States, of which 616 are of Asian and Indian descent, accounting for 75%. From this point of view, Ziweixing International has great advantages and is very competitive compared with other Internet companies in Silicon Valley.

But at the middle and senior management level, white people account for 50%.

Not bias, but ability.

The big boss of Ziweixing International, Zhou Buqi, and the president, Lu Qi, are both of Chinese descent, and there is no prejudice. It is entirely a matter of ability. The higher the level, the more important "creativity" and "imagination" are. In this regard, people trained under the European and American education systems will have an advantage.

But here comes another problem.

White executives do not like internal tensions, do not like to use performance to pressure others, and their management style is relatively relaxed.

These are actually two concepts.

One philosophy is to burst out energy in the midst of tension and competition, thereby creating better performance; one philosophy is to work in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere, which makes it easier to inspire and thereby design more creative products.

The representative company of the former is the famous Oracle. The representative company of the latter is Google.

Of course, Ziweixing respects the former, and they can only respect the former. This is what they are good at. When competing, you must exploit your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, not your weaknesses and avoid your strengths.

When Lu Qi worked at Yahoo before, he was just a vice president. He was only responsible for one business line and did not need to pay too much attention to corporate value and culture construction.

After joining Ziweixing, I didn’t pay much attention to it.

Only recently have I gradually come to my senses.

Something doesn’t feel right!

Ziweixing International is obviously divided into two factions.

One group is rushing, implementing a strong culture, allowing employees to unleash their potential under pressure and pursue performance growth;

One group is gentle and relaxed, encouraging everyone and allowing employees to grow in confidence through encouragement. The advantage is that the working environment is very good and everyone is happy, but the disadvantage is that the performance cannot be improved.

Now, Ziweixing International has two core businesses, one is Helo and the other is cloud computing.

Helo's business has a strong culture led by Asians. No matter what they do, they do it very resolutely and fight one good battle after another. This time they even had to hold a secret meeting to use shady tactics, which shows how strong their faith is. If white executives heard about this, they would probably resign in anger.

The cloud computing business is led by white people.

Because in Lu Qi's view, the technical difficulty of cloud computing business is very high. If there is too much internal tension, the employees' nerves may be broken. He had heard before that during the domestic cloud computing research and development process of Ziweixing, 30% of employees chose to leave because they could not bear the pressure.

Even the country can’t stand it, and Silicon Valley can’t stand it even more.

Therefore, Luqi appointed a white team named Louis Jesse to be in charge of Ziweixing International's cloud computing business.

Then Lu Qi became very angry!

Business is going too slow!

I thought that a relaxed cultural environment would allow technicians to solve more technical problems and make Ziweiyun's platform faster and stronger.

But the efficiency of these people is really low!

Lu Qi has been struggling with this issue for three months. Now, he plans to cut off his wrist.

Can't delay any longer!

Boss Zhou has given clear strategic requirements. The cloud computing business must be fast! Hurry up! Before the two giants Google and Microsoft officially enter the market, hurry up and grab this piece of land!

Even if we can't grab it completely, we still want to share the world equally with Amazon.

If it had been a few years later, when Microsoft and Google had reacted and officially entered the market, the difficulty of Ziweiyun would have increased exponentially.

Therefore, Lu Qi made up his mind. He would rather have his bonus and options reduced, but he would also stop the loss in time, make corrections in time, lay off Louis Jesse, and find someone else to lead Zi Weiyun's overseas team! Transform the relaxed culture into a strong culture and allow the cloud computing business to accelerate, speed up and develop rapidly.

After the secret meeting, Lu Qi invited Zhou Buqi to his office and focused on the matter.

Zhou Buqi was somewhat disappointed.

He was not familiar with people in Silicon Valley, so when it came to hiring people, he mainly trusted Lu Qi and let him build the team. I didn't expect that such a big mistake would happen.

The president of the cloud computing business is the senior vice president of Ziweixing International and an executive of M7!

It’s only been less than a year and he’s going to be fired?

Lu Qi saw the dissatisfaction of the big boss and explained bravely, "Stop the loss in time and the loss will not be too big. His performance has not reached the standard. If he is fired, he only needs to be given N+3 salary compensation."

Zhou Buqi said coldly: "Do I care about the compensation? The wasted half a year has delayed the development of the cloud computing business! This has affected the company's strategy!"

Lu Qi reflected: "This was a management mistake on my part. I voluntarily gave up my options over the past year."

"You don't need to give up, I just want a solution!" Zhou Buqi snorted coldly, "Since the problem was discovered three months ago, why are you thinking about solving it now?"

Lu Qi said: "I talked to him three months ago, hoping he could improve. He also promised to change. During this time, I am also looking for a suitable replacement."

"did you find it?"

"Found it, it's Thomas Kurian, Oracle's vice president of product business and head of cloud business."

Lu Qi looked solemn.

Said he would never be wrong this time.

This person can definitely do it!

The concept of cloud computing was proposed by Google in 2006. Many technology companies have followed suit, including Oracle, to learn from Google's model to develop their own cloud business.

However, the direction of this cloud computing business is following Google, which is a bit biased. The focus is on the "computing" of the cloud rather than the "storage" of the cloud.

The direction of "computing" is relatively high-end and can demonstrate Google's strong technical strength. Google is synonymous with technology. If Google does this, other companies will follow suit.

The direction of "storage" is relatively low-end. Currently, there are only two companies in the world that focus on cloud computing in this direction, one is Amazon and the other is Ziweixing.

This is also the reason why Amazon Cloud became a blockbuster in the previous life, but Google, as the earliest practitioner and technology promoter of cloud computing business, lags far behind in market share. It is going in the wrong direction.

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly, "Thomas Kurian? Let one white man replace another white man?"

"He's not white."

"Um?"

"He is of Indian origin."

"Indian?"

"To be precise, he looks more like a black man. Skin color is the biggest advantage of strong management."

"Black person?"

Zhou Buqi was quite surprised, and then he could make a simple judgment from a macro perspective. The possibility of Thomas Kurian being qualified for this position is very high!

Yes, black skin has advantages!

Silicon Valley and Hollywood are the strongholds of the Democratic Party and the world of the white left.

If white executives say harsh words to employees and exert too much pressure, trouble may easily occur. If you have black employees, you may be accused of being racist and deliberately suppressing people of color. This is one of the reasons why most white executives are advocates of a relaxed corporate culture.

The same cannot be said for black executives.

Black people are politically correct. Even if they are a little cruel and harsh to their employees and put a lot of work pressure on them, others can't say anything.

Anyone who dares to say that is racist.

Therefore, in Silicon Valley, executives of color are generally representatives of a strong culture.

Why will the CEOs of many large companies be replaced by Indians in the next few years? In addition to their strong abilities, they also have dark skin.

If your skin is dark, outsiders will not dare to criticize you. Criticism is politically incorrect.

They can be stricter in corporate management, stronger in negotiating with labor unions, and more severe in dealing with employees, which will be more beneficial to the company's interests and thus strongly drive performance growth.

Lu Qidao: "Oracle promotes a strong corporate culture, which is in line with Ziweixing's corporate value positioning. Secondly, Oracle is a software company, and cloud computing is more about Internet technology. The investment in Oracle's cloud business is very low, and the technology It’s also very average, and the gap with Google is too big.”

Zhou Buqi's face looked much better, "He agreed to change jobs?"

Lu Qidao: "He is very optimistic about the direction of cloud computing. When he was at Oracle, he pushed Oracle to focus on investing in this project. But with investments of billions or tens of billions of dollars, Oracle's board of directors is very cautious. Just As a result, he was unable to fulfill his ambitions at Oracle."

Zhou Buqi said: "The soul of the industrial Internet is the Internet, not the industry. Cloud computing is the same, and the same is true for mobile phones, cars, TVs, air conditioners, real estate, Hollywood, and football."

These words were too big and needed time to be digested. Lu Qi kept them in mind and then continued: "Ziweixing International's plans and ambitions in the cloud computing business make him very motivated. In the past three months, I have talked with him 14 times and he is looking forward to finding new challenges."

"Shall I go see him?"

"It's the best."

"Okay, you make arrangements!"

Zhou Buqi was quite satisfied now.

People need experience to accumulate experience and grow. Previously, there was a mistake in the appointment of the person in charge of the cloud computing business, which was a big blow to Luqi.

Now he also understood the truth. Strong culture looks for black people or Indian executives who are similar to black people.

This can be regarded as a lesson to Zhou Buqi. No wonder Indians are so popular... It's not accurate. It's not Indians who are popular, but low-caste Indians who are popular in the United States.

Because the upper castes are white and the lower castes are black.

Note: Google’s market value has surged in recent years, mainly due to two Indians, one is the newly replaced CEO Sundar Pichai, and the other is the newly replaced cloud computing business CEO Thomas Kurian. After Kurian came to power, he changed Google's loose corporate culture and promoted a strong culture. In just three years, more than 30 vice president-level executives resigned. The business result is that Google Cloud, which has been losing money for more than ten years, has finally made a profit, and its performance has soared. It feels like it will dethrone Alibaba Cloud from its third position in the world. ByteDance’s overseas business has given up cooperating with Alibaba and switched to Google Cloud. Then, Google's stock price took off.