Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1835 The Dilemma of 2 People
The trip to Germany went as smoothly as expected, and Zhou Buqi strived to return to China before Christmas, so the next itinerary was relatively full.

First went to Belgium, France, Spain, and finally to the UK to participate in the completion ceremony of the second phase of the London cloud data center project.

Unexpectedly, I received an invitation from Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, in London.

He is also in the UK at the moment, and seems to want to acquire some kind of project.

Ziweixing has a competitive relationship with Google, and it has become more acute in the past few months, but Zhou Buqi has a very good relationship with Larry Page in private.When Ziweixing first went to the United States to develop its business, Larry Page showed a very positive attitude to welcome him and helped a lot.

Zhou Buqi took an afternoon to visit the London headquarters of Google, accompanied by Paul Kona, Gary Ward, Ross Lee and others from Ziweixing International.

The scene is friendly.

There is no gunpowder smell of the needle tip against the wheat awn.

Google, as always, has shown an open attitude to its peers, visiting and watching at will, except for some confidential projects, basically answering all questions, and doing anything.

Zhou Buqi's main concern was a Google browser team, which attracted his attention.

Seeing that he was very interested, Larry Page smiled and said: "The market performance of this product is not bad, and the word of mouth is also good. It is estimated that within two years, it will surpass Microsoft's IE and become the market leader." Supreme browser."

Zhou Buqi praised: "I believe this is definitely the best browser in the world."

Larry Page said angrily: "This team is working on some new standard designs, and will focus on the direction of H5 next."

"H5?"

How could Zhou Buqi understand such a professional term.

Larry Page laughed: "Html5, a way of expressing web content, may be a bet in the mobile era. This is the root cause of Google's determination to spend huge sums of money to develop this browser product."

"bet?"

Zhou Buqi's English is actually very good, but because of cultural differences, he still can't understand some American metaphors very accurately.

Larry Page said: "Yes, the trend of the mobile Internet is unstoppable. It may come in 10 years, or it may only take 5 years. At least it can stand on par with the PC Internet. The mobile Internet The form of expression, one is App, and the other is H5. H5 is an application based on browser rendering."

What will happen in the future, no one in the world will know except Zhou Buqi.

The world is chaotic, especially the Internet industry, which is unpredictable.Penguin started with a paging system, Ali started with enterprise yellow pages, Shanda started with communities, Sina started with forums, 360 started with search, and NetEase started with post office services. ...

For a super giant like Google, it is necessary to find order in disorder.

How to do?
Bet it all!

There are several development paths that may exist in the future. Don’t make a choice, just go through them all!
There is always a way out.

Regarding the application method of the mobile Internet, there are mainly two judgments, one is App, and the other is H5. App mode requires Android system; H5 mode requires Google Chrome.

At this moment, Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

He even laughed at Google at one point, saying that Google made a huge strategic mistake and spent huge sums of money to develop Google Chrome without any profit prospects.

Looking at it this way, I still underestimated Google.

Wrong is wrong, people are betting on full coverage.

Buy big or buy small?

Answer: Buy them all!

Unless it is the foresight of Zhou Buqi, Google's model is undoubtedly the most correct.

Baidu was not much worse than Google in the PC Internet era, but it was quickly widened in the mobile Internet era.This is a decision-making mistake, because Baidu did not buy big and small at the same time, Baidu made a unilateral bet, and chose the direction of H5, which is a big mistake.

Zhou Buqi is very clear that H5 is not an option for the future. In the future, mobile applications will all appear in the form of Apps, and some of them will be App applets. The significance of browsers for smartphones will become less and less, let alone based on The browser's H5 is applied.

However, he didn't know much about H5, so he gave his attendants a look and said half-jokingly: "When we get back to the company, let's discuss whether we should follow up in the direction of H5."

After a brief visit, Larry Page invited Zhou Buqi to his office, and he did not dwell on the frictions that had occurred between the two parties in the past few months, and sighed, "Google's management is now in some trouble. "

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's the matter?"

Larry Page said: "In June of this year, the total number of Google employees exceeded 6, and the per capita revenue dropped significantly. The management and organizational structure of the business have encountered great challenges."

It turned out to be management troubles, Zhou Buqi nodded, "For technology companies, 2 people is indeed a threshold."

Larry Page asked, "Is there anything you can do?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Ziweixing only has 6000 employees in China, and it is expected to expand to 1 employees when new graduates enter the job next year. I haven't encountered such troubles yet, but... I have learned at this level and made some preparations.”

"Really? What should I do?"

Larry Page humbly asked him for advice. With the achievements and status of Boss Zhou today, he is qualified to be a teacher to anyone.

Zhou Buqi said: "Alibaba had more than 2 employees last year. At that time, they dismissed all [-] founders collectively, and then re-applied, so there was a kind of..."

"Always Day One?" (Amazon's tagline, Always_Day_One.)
"Yes, that's what it means."

"Does it work?"

Larry Page frowned slightly, feeling that this set was a bit formalistic.

Zhou Buqi said: "It works. Ali's method is simple, and he learned it from Huawei. Huawei, do you know? It is also a great technology company in our country."

Larry Page nodded, "Well, I know."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Huawei took many years and took many detours to solve this problem. If you are interested, you can study Huawei's method. But... the way we do in China may not be good in foreign countries. use."

Larry Page obviously has no interest in Huawei and Ali. "I think you are too modest. I have been paying attention to Ziwei Star for several years. I think the organizational structure you built for Ziwei Star is the best."

"is it?"

"Correct."

"Haven't you been paying attention to Google's innovative projects?" Zhou Buqi was a little amused, "Why do you care about such a boring issue?"

Larry Page sighed and said helplessly: "Google's troubles are not small this time. It's been several months and there is no solution. Schmidt is getting old, and I plan to let him take a backseat , I will be the CEO to lead Google's structural reform."

Although he is the founder of Google, due to his lack of management experience, he recruited an outsider, Schmidt, as the chairman and CEO. He has been working on some innovative projects and has been learning and growing.

Now, Google is in trouble, and Schmidt can't solve it, so he has to do it himself.

When Zhou Buqi heard it, he immediately became interested.

This is good!

The top leader of Google is about to be replaced!
Schmidt is a queer old guy who has been with him a few times without leaving a good impression.The friction between Ziweixing and Google in the past few months was actually led by Schmidt.

Once Schmidt retreats to the second line and Larry Page steps up to the front line, the relationship between Ziweixing and Google has a great possibility of easing.

Zhou Buqi did not cherish his broom, and said frankly: "Many large companies have hundreds of thousands of employees, such as Wal-Mart, Toyota, Lufthansa, Foxconn, and General Motors. They are all well managed. The reason is that the employees of these companies are mainly front-line assembly line workers. , as long as you live according to the standard actions, it is easy to manage. But Internet companies are different, and they have different models.”

Larry Page nodded. "The Internet is an innovative industry."

Zhou Buqi said: "The Internet is an intelligence-intensive industry."

"Ah."

"The Internet industry encourages everyone to break through themselves, so what is needed is coordination rather than management. This type of business itself is the pursuit of equal rights and decentralization, and everything must be discussed, gamed, and compromised."

"Yes."

Larry Page thinks so.

Google in particular is such a company.

In many traditional industries, the distinction between superiors and subordinates is very obvious.Generally, the superiors make the decisions, and the lower ones are the walking corpses who don't need to use their brains, and just do it according to the requirements of the superiors.

It's a proper zombie employee.

The Internet giants all recruit the best people from the world's top schools, how can they make these people zombies?This requires a form of decentralization, giving them a lot of power space to discuss and discuss, and even refuse to follow orders, go their own way, and even contradict the boss.

This will inevitably cause great internal friction and resistance.

Therefore, the more people there are, the difficulty of internal management will increase exponentially, and it will be very troublesome when the threshold of 2 people is reached.

Although Ziweixing has less than 2 employees, Zhou Buqi relied on He Yang from Lenovo and Xu Liangjie from eBay, and their experience in managing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of employees, and has long established a strong organizational structure. Adjustments have been made and preparations have been made.

You can't just think about solving problems when you encounter troubles like Google, then you will inevitably encounter heavy pressure from internal and external troubles.

Larry Page said: "One is internal friction, and the other is resistance."

Zhou Buqi said: "To solve the problem of internal friction, the method adopted by Ziweixing is the form of centralization; to solve the problem of resistance, the method adopted by Ziweixing is the form of BU."

BU is the structure of business groups/departments.

Ziweixing currently has several major business segments in China, including new media business group, WeChat business group, cloud computing business group, micro-dot business group and China Taiwan business department, to solve the collaboration dilemma between different businesses.

This gets to the point, Larry Page said with a smile: "Yes, China-Taiwanization, this is a genius concept, can you talk about it in detail? Learn from you."

(End of this chapter)