Top of the Great Era

Chapter 3076 Utilitarianism

This time, Zhou Buqi returned to China to deal with the outsourced employees, which made him deeply understand the model innovation of the domestic technology industry in human resource management. Although human resource outsourcing has various shortcomings, it also truly reflects the characteristics of the industry.

Especially the Internet.

The so-called high-tech industry is actually not that mysterious. Except for a very small number of businesses, the technological content of most of them is not that high. Even at Google, most of the employees are engaged in "low-end" technical work to maintain the stable operation of products.

It can be said that Zhou Buqi now has a better understanding of the development status of the domestic technology industry.

From the perspective of human civilization, of course innovation is necessary!

Only innovation can bring about change, make the current science and technology industry better and stronger, and push human civilization to higher heights.

The core soul of the entire Silicon Valley is innovation.

this is necessary.

Because talents from all over the world are flocking to Silicon Valley, funds from all over the world are flowing into Silicon Valley, and the best scientists in the country are also working in science and technology in Silicon Valley... It can be said that Silicon Valley is a gathering place for global resources.

Having benefited from the whole world, Silicon Valley must of course innovate and contribute to human civilization.

This is Silicon Valley's responsibility.

The domestic science and technology industry is different. The top talents have all gone to the United States. The few people left in the country rely on some marginal funds and social resources... and it is already very good if they can make some decent achievements at the application level.

  Do we really have to compete with Silicon Valley in terms of innovation with such pitiful resources?

Being able to copy some of the products made in Silicon Valley and make them perfect in application is already a huge achievement. At least in the world, only China's technology industry can do this. If you ask Europe, South Korea and Japan to copy and imitate, they don't have the ability to do so.

While the country is powerless in terms of technological innovation due to limited resources, it has shown tremendous wisdom in innovating business models.

The once mainstream A model and J model are now inferior to the current C model (China model) in terms of market competitiveness.

The main logic of the C model is "low innovation + strong stability".

To put it bluntly, it is utilitarianism.

Innovation cannot create value.

Especially for Internet innovation, which doesn't even have a copyright, it can be copied at will. Many new projects will even proactively open source it, so that others don't have to copy it at all, but can use it directly as is.

What can create value is the stable promotion of innovative products at the operational level.

Only innovations that have been certified by the market are profitable innovations.

  Zhou Buqi founded Ziweixing International not to contribute to the United States, nor to shoulder the ideals and responsibilities of Silicon Valley. He did it to reap the world through the transit point of the United States. He did it to make money! He did it to gain fame!

He is different from companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. He has no obligations.

People like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Page were raised in American society. They have ideals in their hearts as well as the moral obligation and responsibility to innovate.

Zhou Buqi is different.

He was raised by his parents.

Zhou Buqi said: "Google is famous all over the world, not because of how many innovations it has made, but because of Google Search, YouTube, Android, and Google Mail. What changes the world is the results at the application level, not the original intention of innovation. Without results, it is useless to have an innovative spirit; even if you have results, without an innovative spirit, the outside world can exaggerate and glorify you and worship you."

Lu Qi laughed and said, "To be honest, I have never had any idea of ​​changing the world. I don't have any obsession with innovation. In fact, Chinese and Indian people don't have any obsession with innovation. It's the white people who like to be high-profile, always talking about think different and changing the world."

Zhou Buqi said: "So we should pay special attention to Chinese and Indian employees, which is the cornerstone of a company's stability. In China, Ziweixing is working on a new human resource management model, which has improved the existing outsourcing model. Ziweixing International does not have many outsourced employees. In terms of business operations, we still have to rely heavily on Chinese and Indians."

Lu Qi said: "The entire Silicon Valley is very dependent on it."

"They haven't done enough!" Zhou Buqi shook his head and snorted, "They don't pay enough attention to Indians and Chinese. They all think that innovative talents are more important than stable talents responsible for operation and maintenance. We have to do the opposite!"

In fact, it’s not just Google, what’s even funnier is Facebook.

In the past, Facebook could be said to be the king of traffic, equivalent to QQ and WeChat in China.

However, as the king of traffic, Facebook has no way to deal with some emerging small companies.

WhatsApp appeared in the market, and Facebook quickly imitated and launched a similar product, but it didn't make any splash, and finally had to spend a whopping $190 billion to acquire WhatsApp. Later, Instagram appeared, and Facebook also copied and imitated it, but still didn't make any progress, and couldn't beat the other party at all, so it finally had to pay a high price to buy Instagram.

Then Snapchat came along, and Facebook used similar tactics, but still couldn't beat it, so it had to offer to acquire it. But this time the acquisition failed, and Snapchat was not sold, so Facebook never made any achievements in the market of self-destructing messages.

Not even plagiarism.

This is because the operational level is not enough.

With the most traffic and the most powerful technical team, Facebook has been defeated again and again... This is simply unimaginable in China. It is too easy for giants to attack emerging similar companies. Everyone can plagiarize, but how to make the plagiarized product better than the original?

It is easier said than done, which requires breaking the "preconceived" market perception.

This tests the product's market operation capabilities.

The marketing operation of an app is more of a “physical job”, just like assembly line work in a factory.

You need to constantly conduct market research, constantly understand your competitors' confidence and design accordingly, constantly try and error, constantly make modifications, do more dirty work than your competitors, pay more effort and pay a greater price, and even put aside your moral self-requirements and do it shamelessly!

Those who are "arrogant" and claim to be top industry geniuses simply disdain to do these elements.

I won’t do it either.

It just so happens that Silicon Valley giants such as Google and Facebook always entrust important tasks to the top talents in these industries.

It’s different in China.

Who didn’t grow up in the countryside, go to college, and enter the computer industry? Hard work, effort, and struggle are written in everyone’s genes, which will give them the most powerful advantages in product market operations.

In this respect, Chinese and Indians are similar.

In Silicon Valley companies, the dirty and laborious work of operating, maintaining, updating, and iterating products, which does not involve any innovation, is basically done by Chinese and Indian people. The white technical geniuses in the United States are all dreaming about changing the world, and are full of ideals to innovate and invent, and they simply disdain to do such repetitive and low-tech work.

Zhou Buqi suddenly turned the topic to "innovation" and "stability", mainly to show the importance of Kurian and Indian employees.

As well as Ziweixing International’s main strategies in future industry competition.

I hope Tang Binchen, the "old prince", can understand.

Tang Binchen smiled and said, "In that case, Kurian is more suitable. With Kurian's personal reputation, we can recruit more suitable Chinese and Indian employees. His excellent vision and merger and acquisition capabilities can also make up for his lack of creativity to a large extent."

Zhou Buqi said bluntly: "I don't have any brilliant ideas anymore. My creativity is almost exhausted. If I were asked to design new ideas like Helo and Ucgram, I wouldn't have that many ideas. If the company wants to develop in the long term, it still needs to design well from the system. It can't rely on me alone."

Tang Binchen nodded, "One hand to copy, the other hand to acquire. This is enough to improve the possible lack of creativity in the future from the institutional level. If there is not enough internal creativity, we can look for it outside. As you said, the biggest advantage of the Internet industry is that there is no copyright or patent, so we can play with open source and copy. This is really the best way for giant companies to consolidate their position, and we must make good use of this utilitarian advantage."

Zhou Buqi asked: "So how is Kurian?"

"I'm OK!"

Tang Binchen was decisive.

"Indeed, in many ways, he is braver and more courageous than me." Lu Qi sighed, then smiled slightly, "Others are really not good enough. When it comes to plagiarism, those white leftists are a bit pretentious, but Indians don't have such psychological barriers. After Nadella became the CEO of Microsoft, the changes he made were very practical. He didn't have any lofty pursuits at all. He even took the initiative to seek cooperation with his old enemy Apple. If it were a white leftist, it would be difficult for him to do such a thing. He might even be like Ballmer, maintaining his proud self-esteem!"

"Then appoint him as executive director?"

"can!"

"can!"

"Then..." Zhou Buqi paused, looked at Lu Qi, and then asked the more crucial question, "Then next summer, will you retire? Let Kurian give it a try?"

Lu Qi seemed to feel relieved and smiled, "I accept."