Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 183 Interview (Two in One)

From summer to autumn, the temperature turns from high to low.

The three months since Guahao.com started the money-burning war is a major event in the vertical field of online pre-diagnosis, but in this era of vigorous development, it is nothing more than some talk from insiders.

Even in cities like Shanghai and Lin'an, the proportion of online registration accounts for only 6% or 7% of the total. It just provides people with another optional registration method, and it is not considered a mainstream registration method.

But for Fang Zhuo personally, the pressure is great.

Shen and Yang fought in the two cities, and the consumption of funds was rising day by day, and competitors continued to follow up.

He looks at the comparison of website data and the feedback from front-line colleagues almost every day, and evaluates the duration of the account funds every three days.

Under such pressure, when time entered September, a sudden news from across the ocean woke up Fang Zhuo, who was busy burning money.

September is NO.11.

The world situation has undergone profound changes since then, but people are still discussing the process of the incident.

When Fang Zhuo went in and out of the office these two days, he could always hear words such as "aircraft" and "Middle East", and some people chatted and asked him his views on the situation in Iraq.

He stopped at such a time and patiently told the other party that it was a problem in Afghanistan.

Of course, the future of Iraq is not very good.

The world is changing on a predetermined track, but Fang Zhuo doesn't know whether his prediction of the competition of the three companies is accurate enough, and whether it is time for some kind of change.

The funds are burning.

This kind of subsidy competition even Wang Fengyi, who usually doesn't ask much about the company's situation, called.

He asked more tactfully: "Brother, you have never seen this kind of gameplay before. Isn't it a bit too tragic? If the three of you go on like this, which one will be better?"

Fang Zhuo replied calmly on the phone: "I don't know if they are good or not. Anyway, my side is not the worst. Brother Wang, don't worry, the situation is about to change."

"Really? Didn't I hear that your talks with the two companies didn't go well?" Wang Fengyi was skeptical because he had his own news channel.

"The change I'm talking about comes from the other party." Fang Zhuo smiled, "There is no problem with Sequoia. Besides, even if there is a problem with Sequoia, there is still Wang Ge's technology innovation."

When Wang Fengyi heard this kind of words, he laughed aloud, but didn't give any guarantee.

He can't guarantee that, the situation in front of him is incomprehensible, you really don't take money as money.

Fang Zhuo really felt this attitude, and couldn't help but think of a sentence he had heard for a long time-brother loyalty is not true friendship.

The phone call ended so he couldn't help but lit another cigarette.

It is not the first time that Wang Fengyi has made such a call. People from Sequoia have also made calls, but the latter does believe in his own judgment on the industry. Perhaps Sequoia also feels that this subsidy war is coming to an end.

dong dong dong.

The door of the president's office was pushed open by the assistant Yuan Zhen, she didn't come to report on business today.

"Mr. Fang, Auntie has already arrived at the hospital. I accompanied her for a physical examination before coming back."

Fang Zhuo extinguished the cigarette, got up and went to the window to let in fresh air, and said with a smile, "Have you registered with our website?"

"Yes, my aunt saw the promotional banner and asked me how to get the subsidy." Yuan Zhen replied.

Fang Zhuo was amused by imagining his mother's tone.

Yuan Zhen felt that the boss was in a good mood, and continued to say vividly: "I accompanied her for the physical examination, and she complained all the way that there was nothing wrong with her body, saying that it was a waste of money, and she didn't want to do it halfway."

"I pretended to be pitiful to her, saying that this is the work you assigned to me, and that if I can't finish it, I will deduct money."

"She was so angry that she called you, but she didn't get through after calling twice."

"I just said that you have been very busy recently, so she had to reluctantly finish the physical examination."

Fang Zhuo made himself a cup of coffee, took a sip, and nodded slightly: "I did it with her once during the Chinese New Year, and I didn't finish it at that time. Being a son can't control it, and I can't force it to go."

"Auntie has already got some of the physical examination results that are okay, and some of them won't be available until tomorrow." Yuan Zhen said the results, and then asked, "She asked me when you are not busy."

Fang Zhuo pondered: "There will be a meeting in the evening, and tomorrow there will be an interview that cannot be rejected, it will be from CCTV Finance, and there will be Yike's product briefing the day after tomorrow."

"How about tomorrow night? I'll pick up my aunt to come to the company, otherwise she will be sad after seeing her son all the time." Yuan Zhen tried to make arrangements.

Fang Zhuo actually made arrangements for tomorrow night, but after thinking about it, he agreed: "Okay. I'll call her later and talk about it. You can pick her up tomorrow afternoon, and I'll take her around the company."

Yuan Zhen should come down.

After a while, she saw that she had no other orders, and said thoughtfully: "Then I'm going out to work, Mr. Fang, you should smoke less, take care of your body, and don't stress too much."

Fang Zhuo nodded, feeling that the assistant was talking too much.

After a while, the door of the office was knocked again, and Su Wei, the personnel director, came in.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw Fang Zhuo smoking a cigarette and reading materials.

Su Wei approached the desk, reached out and threw the remaining half pack of cigarettes into the trash can, and pointed to the wall behind him: "I pasted the four big characters 'no smoking' in front of your face, are you Do you not support my work?"

Fang Zhuo smiled wryly: "My cigarettes are quite expensive, you are too wasteful."

Su Wei said forcefully: "Deduct from my salary! Deduct two boxes!"

"..." Fang Zhuo shook his head and stopped talking.

Su Wei glared at the boss, walked over and opened the window to the maximum, frowned and said: "People who have never smoked before, you will ruin your body if you are a company!"

"I'm a little flustered, and smoking a cigarette can divert my attention." Fang Zhuo smiled a little tiredly, "Xiao Yu asked me what I think about the subsidy war, and I told her that the critical point is approaching."

"Well, isn't Chen Xing in contact with IDG?" Su Wei knew about it.

"Yes, but I don't know if Chen Xing will continue to fight." Fang Zhuo was a little depressed, "It's hard to get off a tiger, it's not a fight, it's not a fight."

Su Wei comforted: "Even if you feel this way now, they must be even more so."

"Knowing is one thing, suffering is another." Fang Zhuo was both complaining and expressing pressure. He has been thinking about too many things recently and dealing with too many people. He feels like he is about to lose his hair.

"The fighting spirit of the people in the company is still very strong. Regardless of the middle management or the front line, everyone is holding back a fire and wants to suppress the competitors." Su Wei said with a good thing in mind.

Fang Zhuo said with a smile: "It doesn't cost their money."

"That's right, it's VC money anyway." Su Wei turned the words around and said.

Fang Zhuo was startled: "Two different things."

But regardless of whether it was a different matter or not, chatting with Teacher Xiao Su still made him feel a lot better.

"I took a look at your arrangement. Is there a reporter coming to the company to interview tomorrow?" Su Wei asked one thing.

"Yes, I didn't invite it, it was a spontaneous interview by CCTV Finance and Economics. They called me two days ago. I reckon it was because they were curious about the subsidy war." Fang Zhuo pursed his lips, "But there should not be many people watching now Well, they are all concerned about the international situation.”

Su Wei thought for a while and said, "You haven't got your graduation certificate yet. The school leaders want you to go back and get a certificate, and then give a speech. You can be regarded as a well-known alumni now."

Diploma?
Oh, I graduated.

Fang Zhuo was in a daze, and laughed at himself: "I didn't even take the exam, but I graduated smoothly."

"That's not good." Su Wei said with a smile.

"No, if you don't graduate and start a business after graduation, it will sound more legendary and more in line with celebrity deeds." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "When the subsidy war ends, when will I go back to Luzhou?"

Su Wei nodded.

The two had another conversation, the personnel director was still busy, and Fang Zhuo was the only one left in the office.

Registration online is busy up and down, or, if you count Yike, both sides are busy.

The former is busy with the subsidy war, and the latter has already begun to coordinate the launch and supply of M1 machines.

The M1 project has been built with dozens of prototypes, and the finalized machine is completely different from the original one.

More beautiful lines, more stable work, more reasonable details.

As an ordinary consumer, Fang Zhuo's problems were basically solved.

For example, press the key to find a song.

All the original design proposals were overthrown, and a roulette design submitted by a Jiaotong student was finally adopted, which successfully made the page turning of the small screen the best solution currently available.

Another thing happened in the middle.

The M1 machine decided to use Toshiba's 1.8-inch hard drive very early on. This is the best and most stable hardware available to global hard drive manufacturers today, and the two parties have also signed a supply contract.

However, in July, Toshiba said that a company in the United States also wanted to use this hard disk technology, and at the same time, the other party also wanted to sign an exclusive supply.

Fang Zhuo almost guessed who the American company was at this time, but he never expected that there would be a fight at this time.

He was very nervous to communicate with Toshiba in person. After two contacts, he found that the other party did not intend to break the contract, but just wanted to sell it...

As a last resort, the contract was revised to increase the cooperation period.

Fang Zhuo took the opportunity to inquire about the situation of another company, but Toshiba did not provide much information, it only supplies hard drives.

This incident accelerated the progress of the M1 project.

Fang Zhuo didn't know how far the other party had achieved, so he could only let his side complete it as soon as possible and rush to release the music player in front.

The release date is tentatively set for October [-]st. At the same time, the five cities of Beijing, Shen, Peng, Yang, and Lin'an have selected store locations, and are undergoing intensive renovations, planning to open at a certain time.

Originally, Fang Zhuo planned to buy stores directly in several cities, but he was flustered by burning money in the subsidy war. Even with the investment from IDG and Capital Today, he did not choose to buy. The borrowed funds can be transferred back.

Both companies are busy with important matters, and Fang Zhuo has had an extremely fulfilling summer.

In the blink of an eye, the next day, reporters from CCTV Finance and Economics came to the company early to conduct interviews.

Reporter Song Xixi and Fang Zhuo witnessed the scene of the first employee of Guahao.com going to work.

Then, she asked the first question of the interview: "Mr. Fang, what do you think of the situation in Afghanistan?"

Fang Zhuo: "..."

Song Qianxi made a joke: "Boss Fang seems to have no idea, I just don't want to make our interview so nervous."

"You ask me that, I feel nervous." Fang Zhuo shook his head, "I'm not nervous, think about it, if someone like me is nervous, can I take away the champion representing 1000 million investment from your stage?"

Song Qianxi felt that this was reasonable.

While gesturing to the camera to continue taking pictures of the employees entering the company, she asked, "Mr. Fang, let's let go of the chat today. I'm here to know the strategic intentions of your industry's jaw-dropping subsidy price war." .”

"Competition in an industry is nothing more than overwhelming our opponents." Fang Zhuo said calmly, "And, as a passive responder, we belong to the one that doesn't want to be overwhelmed."

Song Xixi asked: "But as far as I know, it is Guahao.com that has upgraded its subsidies to expand competition in the industry."

"This is a normal business competition. It's impossible for an opponent to slap me. I'll just slap me back." Fang Zhuo smiled, "It's not wrong to give me two slaps. Turn-based is childish."

Song Qianxi saw that the photographer took a lot of pictures, and asked, "Mr. Fang, can I go to your office to have a look?"

"Welcome."

A group of three people walked into the president's office of Guahao.com.

Song Qianxi entered the door, looked around, and saw the slogan on the wall: "I have interviewed many entrepreneurs, and most of them smoke. This is the first time I have seen such four characters in the boss's office."

"Smoking is harmful to your health." Fang Zhuo didn't know what expression to make, and his words brought him to this point.

"How long do you think the price war in the industry will last?" Song Qianxi returned to the topic.

Fang Zhuo said calmly and firmly: "As long as the opponent wants to fight, our price war will continue for as long. Unless the opponent gives up first, otherwise we will not take the initiative to stop this competition."

"After all, it is the opponent who comes to our business area to challenge."

Song Xixi said sharply: "But I heard that Guahao.com has sent a team to the capital?"

Fang Zhuo was surprised: "How did Reporter Song know?"

"Our news is very well-informed." Song Qianxi smiled slightly.

"It's also a kind of counterattack. Our second round of financing is close to being negotiated. Sequoia, which invested tens of millions in the last round, has always been optimistic about the runway of online medical care. They are willing to see us expand our business scope."

"Moreover, it is no exaggeration to say that our Guahao.com team is the most experienced team in China, and we believe that we can bring the best services to hospitals and patients."

Fang Zhuo talked eloquently, very confidently, and he didn't look like he was under too much pressure recently.

For today's interview, he went to get a haircut, shaved, and took a shower yesterday, so he wanted a radiant face.

"What do you think of the market order in the online registration industry?" Song Xixi asked seriously.

Fang Zhuo fell silent.

After a few seconds, he opened his mouth and said: "The online registration business is a combination of the Internet and traditional medical care. The market order requires all companies to work together to maintain it. Similarly, the market size also requires everyone's joint efforts to expand."

"The price subsidy is not only the competition among enterprises, but also the cultivation of user habits, so that more people know that there is such a channel."

Song Xixi was dissatisfied with this answer, and asked directly: "Will the sudden price subsidy disrupt the normal development of the market?"

"Subsidies will only benefit users. As for regular development, who will decide this routine?" Fang Zhuo asked rhetorically.

Song Xixi said: "The subsidy will not last forever. When the subsidy ends, won't the enterprises that make profits in the end compensate themselves from the fees?"

She frowned and said, "As the old saying goes, the wool comes from the sheep."

Fang Zhuo showed a subtle smile, and said "Yes", it makes sense.

Song Xixi waited for a while, what are you "um" for?Rather!

(End of this chapter)