Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3075 Plagiarism is the only correct solution

In fact, everyone understands the current situation.

Ziweixing International is already listed.

The most crucial step has been taken.

In the next few years, the company will definitely have a major organizational restructuring. It is only a small matter to squeeze Yang Zhiyuan out of the company's board of directors, completely eliminate Yahoo's "old guard", and let Yahoo set sail with new blood under the leadership of Zheng Xiaoli.

In fact, there are more important changes.

That is the location of Luqi.

There is no doubt that Lu Qi is one of the top executives in the technology industry. Looking across Silicon Valley, he is no worse than anyone else.

But he is out of date; he is an executive from the previous era.

Now, the core social business based on mobile Internet of Ziweixing International is managed by Senior Vice President Tang Binchen.

Even the jurisdiction of Helo has been adjusted.

It was originally directly managed by Lu Qi, but now it has been adjusted to Tang Binchen.

Of course Lu Qi knew that he had entered the countdown to retirement.

That's how it should be, considering her age.

He is 53 years old this year.

If Zhou Buqi is the CEO of Ziweixing International, and Lu Qi is the president, then there is no problem, he is very suitable. But the problem is that this CEO is incompetent and is often absent from his post. Most of the time, the president needs to make decisions.

This is a bit too difficult.

Lu Qi was well prepared. Even if Boss Zhou didn't push him, he would choose to retire within a few years.

In his opinion, the successor to the throne must be Tang Binchen!

First, the core positioning of Ziweixing International is the mobile Internet business, which is now managed by Tang Binchen;

  Second, Tang Binchen started his business with Boss Zhou and fought his way to the top, from domestic to overseas, and they are brothers in the trenches;

Third, there is also a clear division in the organizational structure.

In the board of directors, besides Zhou Buqi as the chairman, there are only three executive directors, one is Lu Qi, one is the chief financial officer, and the other is Tang Binchen. He is a core executive who can be directly responsible to the board of directors!

The so-called accountability to the board of directors is actually a greater power.

You cannot report to a higher level in the workplace.

For example, Kurian has to report to Zhou Buqi or Lu Qi. He cannot report to the board of directors because this is skipping the level.

Only people like Zhou Buqi and Lu Qi who hold the title of "director" can report to the board of directors.

The significance of reporting to the board of directors is that there is greater room for decision-making.

For example, if Kurian wants to spend $50 billion to acquire a company, he has no right to decide and needs to report to Lu Qi. If Lu Qi refuses, the deal will fall through. If Lu Qi also agrees, Lu Qi needs to propose it to the board of directors, and the board of directors will make the final decision.

Such a large project must have the approval of the board of directors.

If Tang Binchen, as the executive director, encountered such a thing, he would report it to Lu Qi. Lu Qi refused... Humph, refusal is invalid! Because as an executive director, Tang Binchen can be directly responsible to the board of directors, he can directly report the project proposal to the board of directors, and the board of directors will decide.

This is equivalent to bypassing Lu Qi or even Zhou Buqi and being able to directly connect with the board of directors, which is equivalent to having greater power.

Therefore, Tang Binchen, who holds the positions of executive director and senior vice president, is the candidate for the "crown prince" in everyone's eyes.

  He is the candidate for the next president of the company!

But unexpectedly, Boss Zhou changed his mind.

He is going to adjust the board seats.

He wanted Tang Binchen to quit the board of directors and replace him with Kurian.

Doesn't this mean that Kurian replaced Tang Binchen and became the new crown prince? Lu Qi was shocked.

Tang Binchen, the person involved, was relatively calm. He laughed and said, "Are you really going to let him come? He has a lot of problems."

Zhou Buqi said, "Who doesn't have some problems? Old Lu, tell me, how is Kurian?"

“Strong business capabilities.”

Lu Qi told the truth.

In the past three years, Kurian has competed for the company's "Best of the Year" award almost every year. In fact, he won the award for two consecutive years. Last year, he lost to Zheng Xiaoli, who led Yahoo's successful transformation and created brilliant results.

In terms of performance alone, he is much better than Tang Binchen.

Zhou Buqi nodded. "To be honest, I never expected Ziwei Cloud to achieve such success today, no matter how ambitious I was at the beginning. I thought Ziwei Cloud could follow Amazon Cloud and be on par with Microsoft Cloud. I never thought it could become the world's number one. Kurian really created a miracle for me in business. The current market value of Ziwei Cloud is 2600 billion US dollars, and at least 1000 billion US dollars is related to him."

Tang Binchen was the first to express his attitude, "Whoever has the strongest ability will be promoted, whoever has the best performance will be promoted, it is fair and just, it is only natural. Moreover, his education, qualifications, influence and so on are much higher than mine."

Lu Qi raised another angle, "Microsoft's CEO is Satya Nadella, which is a huge attraction for Indian talents. After Nadella took office, the HR department had a very obvious feeling that we have fallen behind in the competition for top Indian talents. At least we are no longer able to compete with Microsoft. If we want to regain our appeal to Indian talents, we can only place our hopes on Kurian. He needs an identity that is strong enough to compete with Nadella."

Zhou Buqi said: "This time when I returned to China, I also discussed with the domestic team the relationship between innovation and stability in a company. Innovation is important, but stability is more important. For a large company like ours, we would rather sacrifice innovation than affect stability. The Internet is a big copy, this is the attribute of the Internet, and it is also an advantage that we must focus on utilizing!"

Many people are against plagiarism.

This is the moral level.

From a business perspective, plagiarism is the only correct answer.

Zhou Buqi went on to say: "The Internet industry has no copyright, which is really a privilege of Internet giants. I even suspect that the early Internet pioneers had already designed it, and this was intentional!"

This was a bit out of place, and Lu Qi didn't understand. "What do you mean by intentional?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Open source! There is no intellectual property! The Internet industry is full of plagiarism! Which industry can be like the Internet, where there are no restrictions on each other and you copy me, I copy you, and we copy each other happily?"

Lu Qi laughed and said, "Really not!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, this is the advantage of Internet giants! If there are restrictions on intellectual property rights, Internet giants are not allowed to copy... Then over time, the giant companies will be short of creativity for a long time, and many startups and small companies will rely on intellectual property rights and patent advantages to become bigger and stronger, defeating the Internet giants and replacing them. Look at the communications industry, software industry, and mobile phone industry, which are all IT industries. The giant companies in those industries have a very poor sense of security. Any small company that makes an amazing product and has patent protection can destroy all the industry giants!"

"I go!"

Tang Binchen was startled.

I understood what Boss Zhou meant. This theory is really a bit sensational.

Lu Qi was also stunned. "You are talking about conspiracy theories! Internet people are doing open source because they are the most elite group of people in the world and have higher pursuits. It's not the logic you say to restrict others."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Yes, that's what I'm talking about. If you make money just for the sake of making money, you won't make any money; if you work hard for your ideals, you'll easily become a wealthy man. It's the same principle. In traditional industries, large companies set up various patent and copyright restrictions to prevent small and medium-sized enterprises from infringing on their own interests and to consolidate their own position, so as to prevent them from surpassing themselves. However, due to the restrictions on patents and copyrights, it is easy for small companies to fight against large companies, allowing generations of small companies to become large companies, and then be defeated by new small companies. Internet people do have higher pursuits. They don't want to use copyrights and patents to restrict the development of others. They give up copyrights and actively promote open source. This is idealism. But the reality is so strange. Behind idealism, small companies no longer have the opportunity to fight against Internet giants. The commercial society is so wonderful. 'The opposite is the movement of the Tao'."

"Well, that's the truth."

Lu Qi took a deep breath.

I feel that Boss Zhou is getting better and better, and his understanding of the Internet industry is becoming deeper and deeper.

Zhou Buqi said: "So I think the Internet people in Silicon Valley are a bit shallow. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Gates, Page, Zuckerberg, they all failed to recognize the reality of the Internet. They failed to recognize the relationship between industry giants and start-ups, and failed to grasp the balance between innovation and stability. Now the domestic Internet industry is doing so well and developing so fast, which shows that the domestic thinking is correct. There are so few top Internet talents in China, maybe not even one thousandth of Silicon Valley. So what? The domestic Internet industry relies on a group of very ordinary programmers to achieve the same results as the world's top technology giants! This is enough to explain some hidden truths."

Lu Qi smiled and said, "Can you tell me about it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's simple. Innovation and stability must be balanced. In other words, there must be a balance between 0-1 and 1-100. In other fields, 0-1 is more important. But the Internet is different. The Internet is open source, without copyright or patents. 1-100 is more important! Startups and small and medium-sized enterprises can provide a lot of creativity for the industry. Large companies only need to take the creativity, operate well, develop stably, and carry out the 1-100 project."

Tang Binchen followed Boss Zhou's thinking and said, "If something unexpected happens and a small company really grows up, it's actually easy. Just like LinkedIn, you can just buy it at a high price. The Internet in Silicon Valley tends to be innovative over stable. The domestic Internet industry tends to be stable. From this point of view, many large companies in Silicon Valley are actually a bit thankless and are doing a lot of useless things. This is especially true for Google."

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes! That's what I mean!"

Lu Qi also followed Boss Zhou's theory, "So we should make use of Kurian! Kurian's greatest talent is mergers and acquisitions! He has a unique vision, and what he is best at is to continuously acquire potential small and medium-sized companies in the market!"