Since they are reborn, they must be supported by the school beauties.

Chapter 229 Super Frankenstein

The success of Xiaonei.com on Singles' Day has made IDG and a host of other investment institutions eager to invest in this excellent target.

Currently, apart from Li Dong of IDG, no one knows who the owner of Xiaonei.com is.

Although Li Dong's boss really wanted to meet Chen Cheng, Li Dong felt that with the current cash flow of Xiaonei.com, it was perfectly capable of meeting the company's rapid development. Unless there were any major changes or a need to expand its scale rapidly, Chen Cheng would not seek financing at all.

Li Dong guessed correctly; Chen Cheng did indeed want to postpone the financing matter.

Xiaonei.com's cash flow is indeed much better than he expected, and he has already figured out the next development path for Xiaonei.com.

He wants to turn Renren.com into a Frankenstein's monster, and a behemoth-level Frankenstein's monster at that.

The future of Renren.com is not only the Renren.com of the past, but also the integration of Weibo, blogs, Taobao, QQ Zone, QQ Music, and even QQ Games from the past.

Even Facebook.

In addition, WeChat should be developed when the mobile internet is just emerging.

Although Renren.com has not yet implemented cash payments, users have already begun to get used to using Renren coins to purchase virtual goods and value-added services.

This is a great start. Alibaba's Taobao won't be launched until next year, so I can prepare in advance and incubate a Taobao on Renren.com.

Moreover, he has already figured out how to break free from the shackles of being a college student—a lifelong success or failure—on the campus internet.

He doesn't plan to rename Renren.com to Renren.com. He plans to wait for the right time to add the Facebook domain and then remap all the Renren.com pages to the Facebook domain. However, all the underlying data and user data will be the same.

It's like a shop with two doors and two different signs. One door is called Renren (校内), and the other is called Facebook (Facebook). If you come in using the Renren domain, this is Renren; if you come in using the Facebook domain, this is Facebook.

The doors of Renren.com are naturally mainly open to university students, while Facebook's doors are open to all groups outside of university students.

This way, the awkward situation of changing one's name to Renren and betraying college students on the school's online platform can be avoided.

Only in this way can this product achieve the same level of popularity as QQ on the Chinese internet.

Then, before Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he directly introduced the Chinese word "Facebook" into English and promoted it to the world.
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As the hype surrounding Singles' Day gradually subsided, Chen Cheng's company registration was completed.

Jiangcheng Campus Network Technology Co., Ltd. was officially established.

The company's legal representative is Chen Cheng, who holds 100% of the shares.

However, given that there are currently no relevant management regulations or registration systems for websites, Chen Cheng did not immediately transfer the domain name of the school's intranet to the company.

Subsequently, the company's corporate bank account was successfully opened.

The sales revenue of over 30 million yuan from Singles' Day has been gradually settled from distributors to the company's bank account.

Chen Cheng took out ten million yuan to complete the first and second phases of cooperation with Inspur, and then took out two million yuan to start improving the hardware of the 800-square-meter office building.

It's not that I don't want to spend the remaining money, it's that I don't know how to spend it anymore.

Starting a company requires a lot of help to spend money.

For example, if Facebook is to be launched in the domestic market, it will need an operations team to invest money everywhere, including soft and hard advertising.

If we want to develop more product features, we need a stronger technical team, and even a large amount of R&D funding.

So, he thought of that recruitment trip to Yanjing again.

He wanted to take advantage of the time before SARS arrived and make a trip to Beijing to set up his team.

What he needs now is not only a mature technical team and a mature operations team, but also a mature finance team.

Xiaonei.com should become a large company with annual revenue of several hundred million or even more next year. Once it raises funds, it will definitely be on the scale of over 100 million RMB. Under such circumstances, if we randomly hire an accountant or cashier from Jiangcheng now, their abilities will soon fall short of the company's needs. Moreover, due to their lack of experience, they will definitely leave many problems for the future.

Therefore, Chen Cheng plans to go to Beijing to build up the technology, operations, and finance teams. If that doesn't work, he'll poach existing talent from large companies.

Although he wasn't planning to discuss financing with IDG yet, Chen Cheng privately asked Li Dong for a favor, hoping he could introduce him to a few headhunting firms in Beijing.

These days, there are three channels for recruiting recent graduates or for general positions: campus recruitment, job fairs, and social recruitment advertisements.

However, none of these points are easy to implement if you want to recruit high-end talent.

Highly skilled professionals are generally employed and do not seek employment through job fairs or social recruitment advertisements. Even if they have the idea of ​​changing jobs, they mostly rely on referrals from friends at other companies and do not enter the social market.

For those looking to recruit top talent, headhunters are an excellent channel. High-end headhunters typically specialize in a single industry, possessing extensive networks within that sector. Regardless of the company or position you're looking for, they can connect you with the right candidates and submit your information accordingly. Many currently employed, highly skilled individuals may not be considering changing jobs, but given a sufficiently good opportunity and high enough salary, they might be tempted to switch careers.

Once the other party is interested, the headhunter will arrange a meeting between the two parties. If they reach an agreement, the other party will go back to complete the resignation process and then come back to join the company, and the matter will be settled.

This recruitment method is direct and efficient. The only drawback is the high cost. The headhunter's service fee is at least 20% of the agreed annual salary, and sometimes it can even reach 40%. To recruit a high-end talent with an annual salary of one million, the headhunter's service fee may be as high as four hundred thousand.

However, this didn't matter to Chen Cheng. He was rich and willing to spend money. Spending money to buy efficiency was very worthwhile for him.

Li Dong also knew that Chen Cheng's Renren.com was developing so quickly that formalization was an inevitable process. He thought that Chen Cheng would continue to operate it as a personal website for a while, but he did not expect it to start formalization so quickly.

So he gave Chen Cheng the contact information of several headhunters he knew, and told him to talk to the headhunters in detail about his needs.

Chen Cheng made appointments with several headhunters over the phone to meet them over the weekend, clarify his needs, and then they would immediately start looking for suitable candidates for Chen Cheng to confirm. If Chen Cheng felt that the resume was fine, the headhunters would find a way to arrange a meeting with him.

Chen Cheng explained his needs to the other party and listed several large companies, hoping that the headhunter could start with these companies.

The first one is Lianzhong, because it is currently the largest online game platform in China. Chen Cheng plans to work in this direction next, so he wants to explore Lianzhong's technical side.

Another option is Baidu. Although this company is not good at anything except search and advertising, Chen Cheng wants technical talent in search. Next, the topic square of Renren.com will be gradually developed into an in-site search engine, and then we will find a way to cover external sites.

In addition, he also plans to meet with media operations talent from Sina and Sohu this weekend.

The headhunter was very efficient and immediately started screening relevant talents for him. He could arrange to meet and talk with a few people over the weekend.

Chen Cheng also booked a flight to Yanjing for the evening of November 15th. However, one weekend would definitely not be enough time. If necessary, he would ask his advisor for leave next week.

So he told Yan Ruoxuan about his plan to go to Yanjing for the weekend, and asked her to cover for him if he couldn't come back next Monday.

Yan Ruoxuan looked bewildered: "If you don't come next week, how am I supposed to explain it to the counselor?"

Chen Cheng said, "Just say that something came up at home and I have to go back temporarily. Also, please tell me a lie and say that I received a call from home when I was having dinner with you over the weekend. I'm in a hurry to leave, so I asked you to help me ask for leave."

Yan Ruoxuan said, "The teacher will definitely call your home. When you enrolled, didn't they ask you to leave your parents' contact information and your home landline number during the registration?"

Chen Cheng laughed and said, "I'm very shrewd. I gave a fake phone number when I enrolled. Anyway, they won't call to verify it unless they have to."

Having lived two lives, Chen Cheng knew that leaving his home phone number when enrolling in school would definitely be a hassle, so he simply left several fake numbers.

Yan Ruoxuan was astonished and asked him, "How are you so smart..."

Chen Cheng chuckled and said, "I wouldn't call myself smart. I'm just afraid of being called to school by teachers all the time, so I simply don't give the school a chance to find my parents."

Yan Ruoxuan covered her mouth and chuckled a few times, then asked him, "So what are you going to do in Yanjing this time?"

Chen Cheng said, "I need to recruit some people and build up the company's full-time team."

Yan Ruoxuan asked, "They're hiring people from Yanjing? Can't they do it in Jiangcheng?"

"No."

Chen Cheng shook his head: "There are too few technology companies in Jiangcheng. There aren't many job seekers here to begin with, so there are even fewer talented people we can recruit. Let's try our luck in Yanjing instead."

Yan Ruoxuan nodded slightly and asked him, "Are you still considering the investment? My dad asked me at noon if you were interested."

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Let's wait a bit before we start discussing financing; it's not the right time yet."

Yan Ruoxuan rarely seemed so decisive, and said, "Okay, then you just go ahead and do your thing. I'll do my best to smooth things over with the counselor."

Chen Cheng nodded: "Then I'll have to trouble you, squad leader."

After finalizing the itinerary, Chen Cheng told Liu Shiyu about his trip to Yanjing.

Liu Shiyu had settled down in Yanjing and officially started working with the Philharmonic Orchestra. Since it was the weekend, Chen Cheng decided to go and meet her, have a meal together, and ask her how she was doing lately.

Liu Shiyu was overjoyed to learn that he was coming to Yanjing on Friday. She said on the phone, "I'll pick you up from the airport on Friday night and then take you out for a late-night snack!"

Chen Cheng said, "Having a late-night snack is fine, but don't bother picking me up. I can just take a taxi to the city."

Liu Shiyu smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll rent a car on Friday. I don't have anything to do over the weekend anyway. Aren't you busy? I can be your driver!"

(End of this chapter)