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Chapter 3079 Pragmatic

"what?"

Kurian had vaguely guessed something.

Zhou Buqi said: "I have decided to recommend you to join the board of directors as executive director."

Kurian was of course very happy, but he was too embarrassed to show too much excitement, and said: "Then I will definitely be able to perform my duties at work better."

Zhou Buqi added: "You replaced Tang Binchen."

"what?"

Kurian immediately understood what this arrangement meant.

This state of excitement is really hard to conceal.

His fists were clenched tightly.

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "Next, the board of directors may make a series of adjustments, including the positions of several directors. Tang Binchen and Xu Liangjie will both withdraw from the board. Yang Zhiyuan will most likely withdraw as well. I hope you can replace Tang Binchen and become the executive director representing the company's business."

Kurian asked: "Is the company's strategy going to undergo a major adjustment?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "There will be no strategic adjustments, it's mainly about the atmosphere. The current atmosphere in Silicon Valley... you know, our board of directors needs to be more diverse, and we need to introduce two or three new female directors."

Kurian agreed and said, "That's right. This is the trouble Nadella has encountered recently!"

"Oh?"

"Many women in Microsoft are protesting, saying that their salaries are lower than men in the same positions. Many external women's organizations are also responding, demanding equal pay for equal work at Microsoft."

"How did they do it?"

Half a year ago, Zhou Buqi had already promoted equal pay for equal work in Ziweixing International, Ziweixing Global, and Ziweixing Digital Media.

In fact, it is impossible for companies of the level of Microsoft, Google, and Ziweixing to pay women lower wages because of discrimination against women.

Because of work output.

Women have maternity leave and menstrual leave every month. When they have menstrual leave, their working state will be bad and their workload will often be reduced. When companies assign work, they will try to take care of female employees for many stressful emergency tasks, which undoubtedly increases management costs.

If a man is lazy at work for a quarter of the time every month, his salary will inevitably be lower than that of other male employees doing similar work.

However, modern civilization cannot differentiate the social value between men and women based on physiological reasons.

Equal pay for equal work has become a trend.

In the past few years, Microsoft has been led by Ballmer, whose ideas are a bit old-fashioned and traditional, and somewhat incompatible with the current social trends.

Kurian said: "Nadella has been publicly apologizing and saying that Microsoft will resolve these issues as soon as possible. Microsoft's temperament is a bit old. If Nadella wants to lead Microsoft to new vitality, he has to address all aspects."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "So being a CEO at Microsoft is much harder than being a CEO at Ziweixing International!"

"It really is."

Kurian is in a good mood and has made it to the board of directors, which means he has taken the lead in the competition for the position.

The next step should be...

Zhou Buqi didn't let him guess, and asked in a consulting tone: "How about it? Do you want to accept this challenge?"

"Challenge?" Kurian was slightly stunned. "What challenge?"

Zhou Buqi said: "CEO of Ziweixing International."

"what?"

Kurian was shocked.

He thought about promotion.

After all, Lu Qi is not young anymore. After promoting the listing of Ziweixing International, he has accomplished his mission and it is time to consider retirement. However, Lu Qi is only the president of the company, and Boss Zhou is the CEO.

Kurian thought that at most he could win the competition and replace Lu Qi as the president of the company. But he didn't expect that the position offered by the big boss was CEO!

Zhou Buqi said: "Next summer, Lu Qi will retire. At the same time, I will give up the position of CEO. Aren't you competing with Nadella? He is already the CEO of Microsoft. I have no reason not to support you. In my opinion, you are more powerful than him! If you want, you can be the CEO!"

"You...what about you?"

Kurian was a little bit unbelievable.

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I am the chairman. I will not leave the company. I will still participate in discussions on important matters as before. I just hope that you can take on more responsibilities so that we can use a more pragmatic concept to drive the company forward."

In this regard, Indians and Chinese are similar, both are pragmatic.

Unlike those white Americans, who talk about ideals, aspirations, and changing the world all day long... It's a good thing to have ideals, but you can't just focus on ideals and ignore the balance between ideals and reality.

It can be said that many giant companies have very strong foundations and unimaginable business cornerstones.

The reason why stock prices cannot take off is often because they are too "virtual".

By replacing the CEO with an Indian, we can steadily extract the maximum value from the existing business.

Ziweixing International’s existing business is already strong enough.

Helo, Ucgram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Bitcoin trading platform Bitpay, Yahoo, Rotten Tomatoes, Fandango, Twitch, Shopify, Reddit, Quora, Steam, and the "Ever" series of products such as EverNote, EverBook, EverDrive, EverZoom, Eversite, etc.

There are also two core businesses: cloud computing and artificial intelligence!

Add to that the two online education websites that were just acquired: Coursera and Lynda.

These products still have huge potential to be further explored.

Zhou Buqi has already built the early stage framework perfectly.

In the next ten years, apart from the short video business to be won and the long video business to be explored, there is almost no need to promote other businesses. We can operate these existing businesses stably, develop them, and show their existing value...

Given this business mix, it would not be surprising if the market value reaches US$2 trillion in ten years.

Kurian said: "If you are willing to give me such an opportunity, I... Of course I am willing! I can give everything I have, and I will never let you down!"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I have a few questions I'd like to ask you about. In my opinion, the core strategy of Ziweixing International in the next ten years is pragmatism. What do you think of pragmatism?"

"Yeah, pragmatic." Kurian nodded. "In fact, I have been paying attention to Nadella recently. I am analyzing his strategy for Microsoft's transformation. In my opinion, his core spirit is pragmatism."

This touched Zhou Buqi's heart. He had not studied Nadella's strategy, but this was the result of his analysis. "What do you think?"

Kurian said: "After he became the CEO of Microsoft, he made a lot of personnel changes. These personnel changes basically had one direction, which was pragmatism. He did not use those controversial and creative people, but chose a large number of mature and stable executives."

"Ah."

"I think Nadella's strategy is to use a more open spirit to unleash the potential of Microsoft's past businesses. He is not in a hurry to find new changes or new businesses. He wants to tap the potential of past businesses through new ideas."

“I think this line of thinking is correct.”

Zhou Buqi recognized Nadella's ideas and knew that Nadella's strategy was right. Nadella's choice weakened Microsoft's innovation and research capabilities, and it even couldn't develop artificial intelligence on its own and had to rely on openAI.

This behavior is really embarrassing.

Microsoft is such a big company, but it can't do it on its own and has to rely on an external company.

But what’s the use of face?

This is the advantage of Indian executives. Don’t pay attention to those empty words. The pragmatic spirit explores the value of their own business, and the innovation point joins openAI, which makes Microsoft sit firmly on the throne of the world’s number one.

Zhou Buqi said: "Microsoft was too closed in the past, operating with the philosophy of a traditional software company, and the value of many businesses was not tapped. In fact, Ziweixing International's business also contains huge value. If we can do a good job of business combination and coordinate the relationship between different businesses, we can also have greater room for growth."

Kurian said confidently: "I believe our growth potential will be greater than Microsoft's! Apart from anything else, I have calculated that according to our growth model, Ziwei Cloud's revenue will reach 1000 billion US dollars in eight years, and Microsoft Cloud will only be 30% of ours at most."

Zhou Buqi said: "Now many people are criticizing that Silicon Valley is dead. What do you think?"

Kurian said: "That must be the remarks of some critics who are caught in the whirlpool of idealism, not entrepreneurs. Providing jobs and creating wealth are the most important responsibilities of entrepreneurs."