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In fact, everyone understands the current situation.

Ziweixing International has been listed.

The most critical step has been taken.

In the next few years, the company will definitely have a major organizational adjustment. It is just a small matter to squeeze Yang Zhiyuan out of the company's board of directors, to completely eliminate Yahoo's "old guard", and to let Yahoo set sail with new blood under the leadership of Zheng Xiaoli.

In fact, there are more important changes.

That is Lu Qi's position.

There is no doubt that Lu Qi is the top executive in the technology industry. Looking at Silicon Valley, he is no worse than anyone else.

However, he is outdated and belongs to the executive of the previous era.

Now, the core social business based on mobile Internet under Ziweixing International is under the charge of Tang Binchen, senior vice president.

Even the jurisdiction of Helo has been adjusted.

Originally, it was directly managed by Lu Qi, but now it has been adjusted to Tang Binchen.

Lu Qi certainly knows that he has entered the countdown to retirement.

Judging from his age, it should be like this.

He is 53 years old this year.

If Zhou Buqi is the CEO of Ziweixing International and Lu Qi is the president, then there is definitely no problem, he is very suitable. But the problem is that this CEO is very incompetent and is often not at his post. Most of the time, the president needs to make decisions.

This is a bit too difficult.

Lu Qi has been prepared. Even if Boss Zhou does not push him, he will choose to retire within a few years.

In his opinion, the "prince" who takes over must be Tang Binchen!

First, the core positioning of Ziweixing International is the mobile Internet business, which is now in charge of Tang Binchen;

Second, Tang Binchen started a business with Boss Zhou and fought all the way. From domestic to foreign countries, they are brothers in the trenches;

Third, there is also a clear division in the organizational structure.

In the board of directors, in addition to Zhou Buqi as the chairman, there are only three executive directors, one is Lu Qi, one is the chief financial officer, and the other is Tang Binchen. He is a core executive who can be directly responsible to the board of directors!

The so-called being responsible to the board of directors is actually a greater right.

You cannot report across levels in the workplace.

For example, Kurian has to report to Zhou Buqi or Lu Qi, and he cannot report to the board of directors because this is skipping the level.

Only Zhou Buqi and Lu Qi, who hold the title of "director", can report to the board of directors.

The significance of reporting to the board of directors means that there is more room for decision-making.

For example, Kurian wants to spend $5 billion to acquire a company. He has no right to decide and needs to report to Lu Qi. If Lu Qi refuses, the matter will be ruined. If Lu Qi also agrees, Lu Qi needs to propose to the board of directors, and the board of directors will make the final decision.

Such a big project must have the consent of the board of directors.

If Tang Binchen, the executive director, encounters such a thing, he has to report to Lu Qi. Lu Qi refuses... Humph, the refusal is invalid! Because as an executive director, Tang Binchen can be directly responsible to the board of directors, he can directly report the project proposal to the board of directors, and the board of directors will decide.

This is equivalent to bypassing Lu Qi or even Zhou Buqi, and can directly connect with the board of directors, which is equivalent to having greater power.

Therefore, Tang Binchen, who holds the titles of executive director and senior vice president, is the candidate for the "crown prince" in everyone's eyes.

He is the candidate for the next president of the company!

Unexpectedly, Boss Zhou changed his mind.

He wants to adjust the board seats.

He wants Tang Binchen to withdraw from the board and let Kurian replace him.

Doesn't this mean that Kurian replaced Tang Binchen and became the new crown prince?

Lu Qi was shocked.

Tang Binchen, the person involved, was relatively calm. He laughed and said, "Really let him come? He has a lot of problems."

Zhou Buqi said, "Who doesn't have some problems? Old Lu, tell me, how is Kurian?"

"Very capable in business."

Lu Qi told the truth.

In the past three years, Kurian has been able to compete for the company's "Best of the Year" award almost every year. In fact, he has won the award for two consecutive years. Last year, he just lost to Zheng Xiaoli, who led Yahoo to a successful transformation and created brilliant results.

In terms of performance alone, he is much better than Tang Binchen.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "To be honest, I never expected that Ziwei Cloud would achieve such success today, no matter how ambitious I was at the beginning. I thought Ziwei Cloud could follow Amazon Cloud and be on par with Microsoft Cloud. I never thought it could be the world's number one. Kurian really created a miracle for me in business. The current market value of Ziwei Cloud is 260 billion US dollars, and at least 100 billion US dollars is related to him."

Tang Binchen took the lead in expressing his attitude, "Whoever has the stronger ability will be promoted, whoever has the better performance will be promoted, it is fair and just, and it is natural. Moreover, his education, qualifications, influence, etc. are much higher than mine."

Lu Qi raised another angle, "Microsoft's CEO is Nadella, which is a huge attraction for Indian talents. After Nadella took office, there was a very obvious feeling on the human resources side, that is, we have fallen behind in the competition for top Indian talents. At least we can no longer compete with Microsoft. If we want to restore our attractiveness to Indian talents, we can only pin our hopes on Kurian. He needs an identity that is strong enough to compete with Nadella."

Zhou Buqi said: "When I returned to China this time, I discussed with the domestic team the relationship between innovation and stability in a company. Innovation is very important, but stability is even more important. For a large company like ours, we would rather sacrifice innovation than It affects stability. The Internet is a big problem. This is the attribute of the Internet and it is also the advantage that we must focus on! "

Many people are against plagiarism and plagiarism.

This is the moral aspect.

From a business perspective, plagiarism is the only correct answer.

Zhou Buqi continued: "There is no copyright in the Internet industry. This is really a privilege of the Internet giants. I even doubt whether the early sages of the Internet had designed it long ago. This was intentional!"

This statement was a bit out of context, and Lu Qi didn't understand it, "What's the purpose?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Open source! There is no intellectual property rights! The Internet industry has a lot of copycats in the world! Which industry can be like the Internet, where there are no restrictions on each other, you copy me, I copy you, and you copy each other happily? "

Lu Qi laughed and said, "Not really!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, this is the advantage of Internet giants! If there are restrictions on intellectual property rights, Internet giants are not allowed to plagiarize... Then over time, giant companies will be short of creativity for a long time, and there will be Many startups and small companies rely on their intellectual property and patent advantages to become bigger and stronger, defeating the Internet giants and replacing them. If you look at the communications industry, the software industry, and the mobile phone industry, they are also IT industries. The giant companies in those industries have too little sense of security. That’s bad. If a small company comes up with an amazing product and has patent protection, it can wipe out all the industry giants!”

"I'll go!"

Tang Binchen was startled.

Now that I understand what Boss Zhou means, this theory is really a bit sensational.

Lu Qi was also stunned, "You are talking about a conspiracy theory! Internet people engage in open source because Internet people are the most elite type of human beings and have higher pursuits. It is not to restrict others like you said. logic."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said: "Yes, that's what I'm talking about. If you make money for the sake of making money, you won't make money; if you work hard for your ideals, you will easily become a rich man. In fact, it's the same thing. In traditional industries, big people In order to prevent their own interests from being infringed by small and medium-sized enterprises and to consolidate their position, companies have set up various patent and copyright restrictions to prevent them from surpassing themselves. However, because of patent and copyright restrictions, it is easy for small companies to fight against large companies. Let generations of small companies become large companies, and then be defeated by new small companies. Internet people do have higher pursuits and do not want to use copyrights and patents to restrict the development of others, so they give up copyright and actively promote open source. , This is idealism. But the reality is so strange. Behind the idealism, small companies no longer have the opportunity to compete with Internet giants. The opposite is the way. also'."

"Well, that's the truth."

Lu Qi took a deep breath.

I feel that Boss Xiao Zhou is getting better and better, and his understanding of the Internet industry is getting deeper and deeper.

Zhou Buqi said: "So I think Internet people in Silicon Valley are a bit shallow. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Gates, Page, and Zuckerberg all fail to recognize the reality of the Internet. They fail to recognize the reality of the Internet." The relationship between industry giants and start-up companies has failed to grasp the balance between innovation and stability. The fact that the domestic Internet industry is doing so well and developing so fast shows that the country’s top Internet talents are right. So few, maybe not even one thousandth of those in Silicon Valley. So what? The domestic Internet industry relies on a group of very ordinary programmers to achieve the same results as the world's top technology giants! There are some hidden truths.”

Lu Qi smiled and said, "Can you tell me?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Simple, innovation and stability must be balanced. In other words, there must be a balance between 0-1 and 1-100. In other fields, 0-1 is more important. But the Internet is different , the Internet is open source, there is no copyright or patent, 1-100 is more important! Start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises can provide a lot of ideas to the industry, large companies only need to bring over the ideas, do a good job, develop stably, and put 1- It’s enough to carry out 100 projects.”

Tang Binchen followed Boss Zhou's thinking and said: "If something unexpected happens and a small company really grows, it will be easy. Just like LinkedIn, just buy it at a high price. The Internet in Silicon Valley is innovating and Stability tends toward innovation; the domestic Internet industry tends toward stable development. From this point of view, many large companies in Silicon Valley are actually doing a lot of work, especially Google.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes! That's what it means!"

Lu Qi also followed Boss Zhou's theoretical system, "So Kurian must be reused! One of Kurian's greatest talents is mergers and acquisitions! He has a unique vision, and what he is best at is going to the market. Continuously acquire small and medium-sized companies with potential! ”