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As soon as Boss Zhou made a move, it was like a broken bamboo.

Not only did Yang Zhiyuan feel shocked, he returned to the company to report the good news, and the executives felt the efficiency and decisiveness from the big boss.

That's not enough, Zhou Buqi is going to take a trip with Kurian next, going north to Vancouver, and buying Shopify, a cross-border e-commerce platform that provides Saas services!

It doesn't cost a lot of money.

From the current point of view, cross-border e-commerce is only a relatively small field in the e-commerce industry, and the momentum is quite strong. In fact, the scale is not large, and it is incomparable with the wave of group buying in previous years.

After all, cross-border e-commerce itself has extremely high operating thresholds, and it is not easy to really do it.

The company Shopify has been around for seven or eight years, and it was very inconspicuous in the early days.

In the past two years, the C-end business of cross-border e-commerce has gradually improved, and Shopify has just emerged and attracted the attention of the capital market. In 2010, the valuation reached $2800 million and $700 million was raised.

Last October, the valuation hit $10 million and another $9000 million was raised.

The current market valuation is estimated to be around $1.5 million.

It will not exceed $2 million.

However, before going north to Vancouver, Zhou Buqi called Xu Liangjie first, and did not discuss Yahoo.Xu Liangjie's Yahoo president is part-time, and his more important position is the chief human resources officer of Ziweixing International.

He is in charge.

The two were not in the company, and went to a coffee shop outside to have a secret conversation.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's the situation in the company? Everyone has opinions on Kurian?"

"Huh?" Xu Liangjie glanced at him, "Which aspect?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Don't be vague, Tang Binchen told me last time that many Chinese executives are very critical of Kurian. It seems that it is my fault that I value him."

Xu Liangjie didn't take it seriously, "It's okay! Some people are just narrow-minded!"

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "This is the United States, with so many cultures, and so many differences in race and skin color. It's not the same as in China. Some things, you think it's okay, but others don't."

Xu Liangjie was very surprised and said: "No way? Tang Binchen complained?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Of course he doesn't, he is just speaking for others. Those Chinese executives seem to have some opinions."

Xu Liangjie nodded, "To be precise, they are of Asian descent. Among the 23 core executives at Ziweixing International, 5 are Chinese, 1 is Korean, and 3 are from the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. There are 9 people, which can be regarded as a relatively integrated Asian group. Others, there are 8 white people, 1 black person, 1 Arab person, and 4 Indian people. Basically, this is the distribution."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia are all similar, and they are all Confucian cultural circles."

Xu Liangjie said: "This is Silicon Valley, generally there will be no such racial prejudice, unlike Wall Street."

"What happened to Kurian?"

"It should not be aimed at him as a person, but at some of his employment styles."

"Ok?"

"He seems to be a bit nepotistic when it comes to employing people." Xu Liangjie is also very helpless, "For this matter, I also talked to Kurian. But he also has a reason. After all, the performance of the cloud business group is there. Then It's a real achievement. He said he was using people on merit, and he couldn't fault it."

Zhou Buqi asked, "Why do you use nepotism?"

Xu Liangjie said: "When an executive employs people, he must strike a proper balance and not go too far. For example, if a white executive appoints all the core positions of his subordinates to white people, he will be easily criticized. Asia The same is true for people of ethnic origin, just like me. In several departments of the personnel department, it is impossible to arrange all the people in charge to be Chinese. Good relations between the various races."

Zhou Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, "Political correctness."

Xu Liangjie said calmly: "Political correctness is not a derogatory term. It is the best solution left after the market chooses the survival of the fittest. In the commercial society, this should be the most efficient management strategy in the current society. Especially in many countries like the United States. ethnic, multicultural immigrant country.”

Putting himself in the shoes of others, and having a stake in his own interests, Zhou Buqi pondered for a while, and it seemed that this was really the case.

Just like Xu Liangjie said.

If the directors of those departments in his personnel department all choose some Chinese compatriots... even if these Chinese compatriots are extremely capable, they are far superior to others, and it is easy to cause major troubles.

It seems that they are trying to squeeze out!

It's cronyism!

Even racism!
Employees of other ethnicities see it, since you Chinese executives like to play like this, then don't fight at all.Anyway, no matter how hard you try, you can't get promoted because of your own racial differences, so why work harder?Lie flat!

As a result, it will lead to slack in the working atmosphere within the company.

Many people will even make trouble and protest aggrievedly, triggering collective resignation.

In order to deal with the disputes between such diverse races, political correctness is the best solution.

Directors of some departments in the personnel department can't just select people based on ability.

It is necessary to take out some positions and appoint some people from other ethnic groups to form this politically correct compromise.In other words, disadvantaged ethnic groups can obtain some preferential treatment by virtue of their skin color.

In Ziwei Star International, Asians and whites are the powerful ethnic groups, and the others are disadvantaged ethnic groups. The stronger ethnic groups have to give a slight tilt to the weaker ethnic groups in terms of resources.

Even if their ability is not the strongest, we must promote them and reuse them.Only in this way can the company's atmosphere be better and the internal work enthusiasm be stronger.

This is a completely different concept of employing people from China.

Ziwei Star in China really employs people on their merits.

This is not so good in the United States. On the basis of meritocracy, there must be certain considerations of political correctness and skin color.Ziweixing International is just a company, which is probably the epitome of the entire American society.

Zhou Buqi sighed, "So, the efficiency of the overseas business can never surpass that of the domestic business. Only punches can have strength. Separate all five fingers, and then go to palm, the strength will definitely be greatly reduced. .”

Xu Liangjie said with a smile: "There is no cultural identity here in the United States, and it is difficult to gather together. Relying on politically correct strategies, it is not bad to be able to make palms."

Zhou Buqi said: "The power loss will be huge."

Xu Liangjie said: "Fortunately, there are many talents here, and the world's elites are running here. The environment is attractive. A giant's fist will be more powerful than a child's punch."

Zhou Buqi nodded, thinking that what he said made sense, "The United States is definitely the most wasteful country in the world, not only in funds, minerals, energy, food, but also in talents."

"As for Kurian..." Xu Liangjie was very helpless, but fortunately, Boss Zhou is one of his own, so he can tell the truth without any scruples, "Inside the company, many people say that Kurian is nepotism, but this is only in name On. I talked to Kurian, and actually... I would say he is the purest meritocracy in our company."

Zhou Buqi also understood what was going on here, "In the cloud business group, Kurian hired a large number of Indians?"

"Yes." Xu Liangjie helped to explain again, "But there is absolutely no problem in employing people. Everyone is excellent. They are all rushed over the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops and horses. They are all top Internet elites."

This point, in fact, does not need to have too many doubts.

It is extremely difficult for an Indian to study and study all the way from a country where there are layers of exploitation and oppression in India, and come to the United States for further study and work.

It is much more difficult than studying at Tsinghua University and Peking University in China and then studying in the United States.

Indians who have gone through so many hurdles and came to Silicon Valley to find a job, absolutely every one of them is a dragon and a phoenix.

In the past, the level of Chinese and Indians in Silicon Valley was similar, and even higher.

But it won't work these years.

Going abroad is getting easier and easier.

Once it is easy to go abroad, many ordinary people in China can also go to the United States to study, and then go to Silicon Valley to find a job.

The appearance of so many ordinary people has greatly lowered the average level of Chinese in Silicon Valley.Unlike in the 90s and [-]s, almost every Chinese who went to study abroad from China was a top-notch talent.

It is difficult for Indians to go abroad, so they can always maintain the high-density talent advantage of such an Indian ethnic group, and it will not be too bad to pick any one.

Zhou Buqi said: "Perhaps it is not only nepotism, but also meritocracy."

"Almost." Xu Liangjie smiled, and then sighed, "But political correctness is the way of the mean. Whether it's cronyism or meritocracy, it doesn't meet this standard."

Zhou Buqi didn't think so, "There are too many criticisms like this, it's not good."

Xu Liangjie said: "Yes, many executives have criticisms, which are actually aimed at this point. In other business groups, everyone must consider political correctness and make appropriate adjustments in the selection of personnel. Only Kurian's cloud The computing business group is a bit paranoid in employing people, he is a little... a little too pursuit of performance."

"I go!"

Zhou Buqi really didn't know what to say.

Is it wrong to pursue performance too much and lead Ziweiyun to defeat Amazon Cloud wholeheartedly?
This kind of wonderful concept is also in the United States.

Regardless of whether Kurian employs meritocracy or nepotism, it actually makes sense.Only when you are virtuous can you have good ability; only when you are close can you have more cohesion and work more reliably.

Zhou does not attach great importance to the use of Xu Liangjie, which also has the factor of "employing nepotism".

But the problem is that Kurian's actions can easily cause controversy. The significance of making money exceeds ideology, and it is easy to cause confusion on the larger ideological level.

Doing management is really not an easy task.