Xueba's computing system

Chapter 217 Lin Yuan's Prospect

Haotuan does not intend to sit idly by in the face of its sharply plummeting stock price.

When the stock market bubble was burst, Haotuan's top management had to accept being forced to return to real value - Haotuan still believed that it had a great advantage in delivery algorithms, and therefore it was a dimensionality reduction attack on blue label factories in terms of delivery costs.

Of course, this is wishful thinking on the part of the top management of the group.

Although this is just their wishful thinking, it is understandable.

Because in recent months, Haotuan’s internal research institute has achieved continuous results, delivery algorithms have been continuously iterated, and delivery costs are also claimed to be continuously decreasing.

When the stock market is booming, no one cares about these things, but when the group faces difficulties, problems soon emerge.

The top management of Haotuan originally hoped that they could still beat the blue label factory by virtue of their distribution cost advantage. They believed that the current loss was only short-term profit, and the future would still be on their side.

Therefore, when the blue label factory offered the same treatment to the riders, the top management of Haotuan did not take it seriously. They thought that the blue label factory was just taking advantage of the situation to give subsidies. They could not continue to burn money with subsidies, so they were waiting for the day when the blue label factory could no longer hold on and canceled the subsidies.

As a result, the Blue Label Factory released an additional financial report, which showed that it had turned losses into profits and its takeaway business had returned to its original normal track.

Originally, 2025 had just begun and the first quarter financial report was still a long way from being released. The Blue Label Factory was in a hurry to release the financial report obviously because there had been some major changes in its own business.

At first, the top management of Haotuan did not believe the financial report of Blue Label Factory, but after organizing people to carefully investigate it, they had to accept the reality - the distribution cost of Blue Label Factory was already on par with their own, and their own distribution cost advantage no longer existed.

The top management of Haotuan was immediately furious because their own internal research institute had always been win, win, win, claiming that their delivery algorithm was several orders of magnitude ahead of their competitors, and claiming that their competitors had no hope of catching up within five years.

But now, the Blue Label Factory seems to have caught up overnight.

The first reaction of Haotuan’s top management was that there was a traitor in their own research institute, so a top-down review was immediately launched within Haotuan.

The results of the review were shocking - there was no traitor in the internal research institute. As for why the Blue Label Factory was able to catch up in such a short time, it was because the internal research institute had been working in circles for the past few months.

The so-called iterative upgrade of the delivery algorithm by Haotuan’s internal research institute is nothing more than tinkering with the original draft algorithm from beginning to end.

It's like an upgrade of a Boeing aircraft - more advanced displays, upgraded decoration, updated instructions and operating manuals, but the foundation of the aircraft has not been touched for decades.

This kind of tricky operation can often fool laymen.

For example, Boeing 737-800 and MAX have various derivative models, and laymen think that the aircraft has been greatly modified and upgraded. As for the truth? Reality has given a cruel answer.

Similarly, the same was true for the work of Haotuan’s internal research institute in the past few months. Several senior executives in charge of the institute were afraid that performance would be affected, so they instructed their subordinates to reframe the draft algorithm multiple times.

As a result, the various supporting tools of the algorithm have been updated to N versions, the UI and user experience have also been improved a lot, and the version of the algorithm has soared from 1.0 to 3.X. However, the core code of the algorithm has never been changed, and even the core algorithm logic has not been changed at all.

During the internal review, it was found that the institute’s greatest achievement was translating the first draft of the algorithm several times.

To put it simply, a person named Zhang San was renamed: Nicholas-Guduyev-Christina-III-Zhang.

The internal research institute of Haotuan is not full of good-for-nothings. Many of them want to digest the first draft of the algorithm carefully, and then introduce the most popular Feng Shui AI concept to reconstruct the first draft of the algorithm, in order to thoroughly understand and master this algorithm.

But the management can't accept it. Why can't the management accept it?

After Lin Yuan was fired, the work could not be carried out? Does that mean that the layoffs were a major one? As a mature listed company, does someone need to take responsibility for this?
Obviously no one wants to take responsibility for this matter.

Therefore, the research institute must create an atmosphere that the earth will continue to turn after Lin Yuan is gone.

Mr. Wang, the boss of Haotuan, was reluctant to believe the results of the internal review. His research institute, which had invested heavily in the company, was systematically slacking off. What he couldn't accept even more was that the delivery algorithm was created by a former unknown research institute engineer who had been fired.

Although Lin Yuan was considered a senior engineer at the research institute when he was in Haotuan, he was not qualified to appear in the work log of the big boss, Mr. Wang.

Mr. Wang was speechless to find out that he didn't even know who Lin Yuan was.

At this moment, Mr. Wang is like a helpless parent with a naughty child. The trouble caused by his child has already fermented, and people have come to his door. Only then did he realize what kind of trouble his child has caused.

What’s even more infuriating is that President Wang discovered that the treatment of Lin Yuan was completely in line with the internal regulations of Haotuan Company.

Lin Yuan showed great potential, and the management offered a suitable salary. However, Lin Yuan refused to cooperate, and the management started to take action, and then Lin Yuan was kicked out.

There is absolutely no problem with this set of procedures, and it does not violate the group's internal work regulations at all.

The formulation of this set of work regulations naturally cannot be separated from the hand of General Manager Wang.

President Wang had to accept that it was his company's overbearing style that drove Lin Yuan to the rival company. As for the subsequent tricky behavior of the research institute, it was just an episode derived from it.

Now that things have come to this, what else can we do?

Mr. Wang immediately expressed his goodwill through Lin Yuan’s old colleagues at Haotuan, saying that as long as Lin Yuan was willing to come back, all conditions could be negotiated.

Lin Yuan found it very funny when he received the invitation from Mr. Wang. Although he had not worked in Haotuan for a long time, his first contact with the boss of Haotuan was several months after he was fired from Haotuan.

Lin Yuan was very disdainful of Mr. Wang's invitation. The main reason was that he was tired of the takeout industry now. He did not intend to spend his whole life in the takeout industry.

So Lin Yuan did not save face for Mr. Wang. He replied with a simple email: [Thank you Mr. Wang for your kindness. I have already taken back what Haotuan owed me. Riders have a hard life. You should earn the money you deserve. This is the way to make a living.]

How could Lin Yuan be qualified to teach a veteran who had been immersed in the Internet industry for many years and whose net worth had already exceeded 100 billion yuan a lesson, but he was still angry after all.

The food delivery industry originally had an extremely simple business model, but now it has become something special.

The purpose of various coupons, red envelopes, activities, etc. is nothing more than to mess up the pricing rules. Only by messing up the pricing rules can they fish in troubled waters.

But what actual value is created in this process? And what is the point of using algorithms to do this?

Food delivery is an extremely simple industry. How much should my meal be sold for, how much is the delivery fee for the rider, and how much commission should the food delivery platform take? All it takes is a clear and concise display.

Lin Yuan had an impulse in his heart - he wanted the takeout industry to return to what it should be like.

(End of this chapter)