I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 298 Wang Xin: Compensate each person with half a month's basic salary and send them away!
"Hey, what's the point of that! There's a base salary, social security, and high pay per unit, just do it!" The Meituan delivery rider scratched his head and said with a smile.

"Brother, take a look at the main road. With all these cars coming and going, can you guarantee you'll never have an accident in your entire life?"

The Kuaipao rider curled his lip in disdain.

"Are you still hiring?" The Meituan delivery rider looked towards the roadside, swallowed hard, and turned to ask.

"Of course we're hiring! Take my advice, take off your clothes and come with me to the station to report for duty. Beijing has just opened, and we need to recruit at least 10,000 more people. Join Kuaipao early, and you'll get a stock option bonus after three months."

The Kuaipao rider offered his advice with great enthusiasm.

Inviting a Meituan delivery rider to join KuaiRun offers a cash reward of 150 yuan, which is the main reason why he actively struck up a conversation with them.

“Okay, I’ve heard that Kuaipao has high pay and good benefits, but I didn’t expect the insurance to be so comprehensive. You’re right, brother. Who can guarantee that they will never have a traffic accident in their life? If you hit a luxury car, you can’t afford to pay for it even if you sell everything you own.”

The Meituan delivery rider answered in agreement.

"Come on, I'll take you to the station!" The Kuaipao delivery rider said with a smile as he saw that the 150 yuan was about to be credited to his account.

Before leaving, he called out to the remaining Meituan delivery riders, "Brothers who are interested, come with me."

The group looked at each other, unsure how to respond. Were they to just pack up and run away on their first day of work?

To be fair, aside from the lack of certain insurances, Meituan offered a base salary, social security, and sales bonuses. In Beijing in 2012, that would have been considered a pretty good job.

In the end, only one person switched jobs on the spot.

On its first day of operation, Meituan Waimai (Meituan Takeout) achieved over 1800 orders thanks to a 15 yuan discount for new users.

Although the trial was successful, Meituan's order dispatch system, route planning, and order module all had many bugs, which infuriated the riders.

After all, this thing was rushed out with overtime work, a product of the effort to seize the market.

It works, but it's not very good.

Meituan's entry into the food delivery market has attracted attention not only from Pei Yi, but also from Li Yanhong, who recently acquired Lashou.com.

He wanted to learn from Gaode Maps and embed travel, food delivery, and group buying services into the navigation field, thereby completing the strategic layout of Baidu's local life services and forming a positive cycle of traffic and commercial monetization.

"Shan Jiawei first betrayed Ali, and then he betrayed Meituan. I don't trust people like that. After discussion by the board of directors, we have decided to hand over Lashou.com to the two of you to take charge of."

"Zhenbing will be in charge of the group-buying business, and Zhongpu will be in charge of developing the food delivery market. Is there a problem?"

Inside the office, Li Yanhong gave instructions to his two subordinates.

Although from the perspective of working people, Shan Jiawei's actions are understandable. If he encounters a better company with better benefits, why can't he switch jobs?
Everyone curses Lü Bu as a traitor who served three masters, but no one criticizes Liu Bei, who switched jobs countless times. Isn't that because Liu Bei was the boss and Lü Bu was the employee?

If everyone emulates Lü Bu, who would still be willing to serve the boss!

"Okay, no problem," Gong Zhenbing replied with a smile and a nod.

He joined Baidu in 2003 and is definitely considered one of Li Yanhong's "insiders". He has extensive experience in the industry and is skilled in internet sales operations and channel development.

In Li Yanhong's view, he is the only candidate to become the CEO of Lashou.com.

Wang Zhongpu is intelligent, pragmatic, and down-to-earth in his management style. He has a strong sense of the big picture when it comes to the pace of business development.

"Thank you for your trust, boss." Wang Zhongpu, who was called upon by Li Yanhong, quickly responded.

Taking charge of a new project independently is a great opportunity for a promotion, a raise, and entry into the core decision-making level of Baidu, but it also comes with great risks.

If he succeeds, everything will be fine; if he fails, he might keep his job, but his career at Baidu will probably be over.

A boss's trust is extremely valuable and usually only comes once.

"Get to work, I want to see the product launched as soon as possible," Li Yanhong said, waving his hand.

Even Meituan's Wang Xin has extended his reach into the food delivery market, so Baidu has to speed things up.

Gong Zhenbing and Wang Zhongpu exchanged a smile, then left the office satisfied, each going their own way to monitor the project's progress.

However, Shan Jiawei's situation was not so good. After being labeled a 'traitor,' he was clearly not well-liked on Baidu.

Since Lashou was sold to Baidu, Li Yanhong has only met him once. The work reports of the regional directors of East China, North China, South China and Central China always skip him and go directly to Li Yanhong.

As a seasoned veteran in the workplace, he knew that Li Yanhong probably wanted to replace the CEO of Lashou with a veteran of Baidu.

After figuring things out, Shan Jiawei started to slack off, spending all his time on his own private affairs.

Ah Li can't go back, and Meituan is out of the question.

Therefore, he set his sights on companies such as Tencent, Senlian Capital, JD.com, and Suning.

Tencent was preparing to sell QQ Group Buying, Paipai.com, and YiXun.com as a package, and since there was no business for Shan Jiawei, they explicitly rejected him.

Zhang Jindong of Suning shares a similar view with Li Yanhong, placing great importance on the stability of socially recruited employees. He might barely accept someone like Shan Jiawei, who has changed jobs three times in two years, if he were to interview for a low- or middle-level management position.

Senior management? Don't even think about it!

That's reserved for our own people!

Only Liu Qiangdong of JD.com expressed his willingness to accept him.

The problem is that JD.com's salary and stock option incentives are only considered average among major internet companies.

Shan Jiawei thinks the money isn't enough!

Left with no other option, he obtained Chen Yansen's phone number from Zhu Xiaohu of Jinsha Venture Capital.

After some hesitation, Shan Jiawei still dialed the number.

the other side.

Chen Yansen had just finished a meeting with Pei Yi and Kang Guodong when his cell phone rang. He glanced at it and saw it was an unfamiliar number from the Beijing area code.

He thought for a moment and then pressed the answer button.

"Mr. Chen, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm Shan Jiawei, the CEO of Lashou.com."

Dan Jiawei carefully introduced himself, afraid that his rash actions might offend the other party.

Shan Jiawei?
What do you want from me?
Chen Yansen frowned slightly and asked casually, "Is there something you need, Mr. Shan?"

"Mr. Chen, I'd like to ask if your company's 'Chopsticks Delivery' business is still short-staffed?" Shan Jiawei took a deep breath and asked directly.

He didn't dare to beat around the bush with Chen Yansen; although the other man was young, he was a real internet mogul.

Big-name entrepreneurs generally don't have much patience.

If he does have any, it's all an act. He's worked at Alibaba, Meituan, and Baidu, so he knows these people's true character very well.

"Is Mr. Shan unhappy at Baidu?" Chen Yansen asked rhetorically.

"President Li has his own strategic plan, but I'm not part of it," Shan Jiawei replied tactfully, a fleeting hint of embarrassment crossing his face.

“Kuaipao’s group-buying business line is short of a head of the business development team, at the general manager level, with a salary that should be similar to what you had at Meituan,” Chen Yansen said without hesitation.

Currently, Kou Zhen manages both the group-buying and food delivery business unit's sales teams at Kuaipao.

It might work in the short term, but it's likely to cause problems in the long run.

"Thank you for your appreciation, Mr. Chen. I will definitely work hard." Shan Jiawei was deeply moved and thanked him with a touch of gratitude.

"You are a veteran of Ali, and you understand the operating models of Meituan and Lashou.com. You have mature operational experience in the group buying field. I should be thanking you. Welcome Mr. Shan to Kuaipao."

Chen Yansen said lightly.

As for the negative comments about Shan Jiawei being a "traitor to three masters," he had actually heard about them, but he scoffed at them.

It's just a job; I didn't sign a contract to sell myself into servitude.

99.9% of companies can't survive for three years, yet they expect their employees to never change jobs. Isn't that just being a scoundrel?

Shan Jiawei has outstanding business development skills. It was after he joined that Meituan rose from seventh or eighth place in the market to become the number one group-buying company.

After Shan Jiawei joined Lashou.com, he boosted its monthly transaction volume by more than 30%, and the final acquisition price of Lashou.com rose from US$3.2 million to US$4.2 million, which shows his remarkable ability.

There's no need to condemn someone outright!

In fact, Liu Qiangdong's idea was similar, except that Liu Qiangdong's profitability was poor and the conditions he offered did not meet Shan Jiawei's expectations.

"Okay, Mr. Chen," Shan Jiawei replied readily, without asking too many details about salary and benefits.

The shadow of the tree, the name of the person.

Senlian Capital's subsidiary is known for its generous compensation, even offering up to three times the normal overtime pay in the internet industry. How could they possibly mistreat him?
Asking too many detailed questions would only make him seem clueless and lacking in perspective.

"I'll have Pei Yi discuss the specific salary structure with you personally." Chen Yansen couldn't refuse to tell anyone else unless asked.

People will only work hard if they are paid properly.

After a brief conversation, Chen Yansen hung up the phone, shook his head with a smile, and thought to himself: Li Yanhong is really an idiot. He didn't take such a good henchman, but pushed him to him instead.

But he also understood Li Yanhong's thoughts. People are divided into close and distant, and of course, it is more reassuring to use "one's own people".

Chen Yansen sometimes acts this way. For example, Yuan Wei, Ye Qiuping, and Gao Weilin were his "own people" in his previous life; Zhang Wenbo, Xiang Pengfei, Zhuang Rui, and Hu Yun are his "own people" in this life.

However, unlike Li Yanhong, he will still employ outsiders when the abilities of his "own people" do not meet his requirements, showing no mercy whatsoever.

Chen Yansen then called Pei Yi and discussed Shan Jiawei's matter with him.

"Boss, this guy has a bad reputation," Pei Yi whispered a reminder.

"Old Pei, why are you acting like those idiots outside? Who can stay in one job forever? Shan Jiawei has top-notch execution skills. Once he joins Kuaipao, he'll provide you with entirely new management ideas regarding ground sales structure and organizational structure..."

Chen Yansen cursed in annoyance.

For example, JD.com has an implicit "three-five principle" in its recruitment: employees must have worked for no more than three companies in the past five years, with each job lasting more than two years on average, or having one job lasting more than three years.

In practice, however, the 'three-five principle' can be broken at any time as long as the candidate is strong enough.

To put it bluntly, rules are tools to constrain the weak, not to restrict the strong.

Chen Yansen is the boss, and he makes the rules.

"Boss, may I recommend Zhang Xuhao to be the head of the group-buying business?" Pei Yi was overjoyed and asked boldly.

He deliberately used the name 'Shan Jiawei' to test Chen Yansen, and only when he saw that the boss did not mind his subordinate's frequent job-hopping experience did he bring up the real business.

"Zhang Xuhao gave you money?" Chen Yansen narrowed his eyes and teased softly.

"After talking with Zhang Xuhao, I felt that his management skills were not bad. The reason he lost to Kuaipao was because he suffered a great loss in terms of funds and traffic."

Pei Yi answered carefully, choosing his words precisely.

"Let him start as a regional manager first. We'll see if he's capable in a year or two."

Chen Yansen politely declined Pei Yi's suggestion.

Zhang Xuhao and Pei Yi are both from Shanghai, and he needs to balance the various forces within the company.

Furthermore, it's a fact that Zhang Xuhao lost to Kuai Pao. Giving him the title of head of a business unit out of thin air makes his subordinates think, and how can they be convinced?

The reason Shan Jiawei was able to become the general manager of the investment promotion department was because he had made a name for himself in the industry; Meituan's ground sales force was renowned.

However, even Shan Jiawei failed to become the head of the group-buying business, and Zhang Xuhao wanted to be parachuted into a high position as soon as he arrived. He's dreaming!

Let's show results first!
“Okay, boss.” Pei Yi’s heart skipped a beat as he realized that his recommendation of Zhang Xuhao seemed to have crossed the line.

After thinking for a moment, Pei Yi did not offer any further explanation.

Some things are easier to explain than to clarify.

After giving his instructions, Chen Yansen tossed his phone aside and continued working on the underlying architecture of Aurora Future OS. He planned to adopt a hybrid microkernel design, combining the advantages of QNX and L4 microkernels.

Orange phones have a domestic sales volume comparable to Shanxing phones, and the time is ripe for them to develop their own operating system.

Although the open-source parts of the Android system can be used for free, the initiative is in Google's hands. Who can guarantee that Google will not restrict or change the usage rules, licensing methods, and charging policies of the Android system for some reason?

Chen Yansen didn't want to be a stepping stone for Google, and the 2012 timeline was just right.

With smartphones still in their infancy and shipments far from peaking, entering the market now, leveraging Orange Technology's market influence, could potentially turn the tide in the mobile operating system landscape.

Otherwise, if we wait a few more years and the Android and iOS app ecosystems become dominant, it will be much more difficult to change users' habits.

The difficulty is so high that it's like asking someone who has been a vegetarian all their life to immediately switch to eating meat.

Habit is a very powerful force.

at the same time.

More than 30 delivery riders were gathered downstairs at Meituan's headquarters, but were stopped at the door by security.

"You son of a bitch, Wang Xin! Come out here if you dare, and I'll smash your head in!"

"The contract was canceled just like that! No base salary or social security, and they still want to compete with other companies? Bah!"

"This is disgusting! Brothers, let's go to Kuai Pao instead, they just happen to be short-staffed anyway."

The delivery riders, dressed in Meituan delivery uniforms, were cursing in a chaotic manner.

The reason is simple: Meituan changed its policies frequently, abolishing the full-time rider system and switching to an outsourcing model.

All benefits were canceled, and permanent employees were turned into temporary workers. Who can accept this?

Wang Xin stood by the window, glanced down, and said to Wang Huiwen, "Compensate each of them with half a month's basic salary and send them away."

(End of this chapter)