Rebirth declares war on the honest

"Hi, Mr. Gu, I've known you for a long time, and I use almost every product of the Paradise Group."

Early the next morning, at the headquarters of Ele.me in Shanghai, Zhang Xuhao, the founder of this unicorn company that will become popular all over the country in the future, stood at the door of the company, shaking hands with Gu Yun cordially, with a big smile on his face.

The two company bosses together have an average age of just over 20 years old. They are both in their prime and vigorous age, so they naturally have some similar traits.

"This is Mr. Wen, right? I've heard that the vice president of Coffee Justice could have debuted as a star, but was blocked by one of his own entrepreneurial dreams. Today, it is indeed the case."

Zhang Xuhao took Gu Yun and Wen Ju into the reception room, and Sun Jiajun, who had been waiting for a long time, brought in three steaming cups of coffee.

"Come, come, we don't have a big place here, so just sit here."

"In the past, what we killed were small local websites. Suddenly, one day, I found out that Wang Xing of Meituan followed my Weibo, and the big boss of Paradise Group came to visit me. This feeling is really strange."

Zhang Xuhao, who just received a new round of financing at the beginning of the year, is in a period of rapid expansion together with his team. He is full of energy and seems to have countless energy.

As a college student who started his own business, he was not as tough as described in later interviews and news, and he seemed very active in the process of chatting with Gu Yun.

"I think you're quite nervous at your desk, aren't you?"

Gu Yun sat on the sofa and asked casually.

"It's true that we've been expanding, and that's something we didn't think about before."

Zhang Xuhao nodded.

Not only now, but long before Ele.me moved to its new home, the office space was already seriously tight.

The meeting room, which was originally not spacious, has become a huge desk full of computers, crowded with more than a dozen office workers from the marketing department without distinction.

Upstairs in the public coffee shop of Qidian Entrepreneurship Camp, the employees of Ele.me almost "occupied" this floor. In the lobby of the coffee shop, employees who came for interviews sat in twos and threes, and the public meeting room of the coffee shop was repeatedly held. Staff presentations and meetings.

"For example, in the hotel opposite, the company has reserved ten rooms all year round for employees who stay up all night and work overtime."

Zhang Xuhao pointed to the hotel next door to the office building and sighed.

Before the expansion, first-tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai only had 50 or [-] people, and small cities only had a few people. If there is any matter or order, a phone call can solve the problem.

When suddenly expanding from a small team of 300 people to a large company with more than 2000 people, how to manage it becomes the top priority.

After all, sales is a team that can expand to thousands of people in the short term, while products and technologies are difficult to expand in a short period of time.

This is also the reason why Zhang Xuhao's visit to Gu Yun is particularly caring.

As we all know, the Paradise Group has countless employees, and Coffee Justice, a company spread all over the country, has countless derived jobs. Among them, the internal OA system that can support multi-threaded management is absolutely indispensable.

Gu Yun is here to visit this time, can he ask him for scientific management and technical support?
Along with business expansion, the stability of the background from the server to the system is also under greater pressure.

The founding team of college students, everything is crossing the river by feeling the stones, and everything has to be learned from scratch.

These are the problems that the management internally expects to arise from expansion. In the words of Zhang Xuhao: Expansion is something that will never be ready.

"Mr. Gu, I've always been curious about how you survived the rapid growth period when you started your business?"

In the middle of the chat, when Zhang Xuhao was complaining about his difficulties, he finally cleverly found an opportunity to interject and asked what he had wanted to ask for a long time.

Similar to Xiaole Learning, which originated in colleges and universities in the early days, with the increase of staff, Ele.me has also acquired some non-technical manpower. For example, a unified material procurement department has been specially set up to be responsible for activities, posters, takeaway boxes and other materials. purchase.

"In the early days of our business, we found the technical masters of Jiangcheng University to stabilize the technical background, and we have always planned the number of future personnel in stages. If you have needs, you can introduce technical guidance from the Paradise Group to prevent the expansion of transactions and the number of personnel. There was a problem."

Gu Yun understood Zhang Xuhao's implication as soon as he heard it. It turned out that his development was too fast and his soft power could not keep up.

"Really? Mr. Gu, then we are very grateful. It just so happens that we will continue to expand in the next two months, which happens to be the time for all staff to exert their strength."

Zhang Xuhao clenched his fists, he didn't expect Gu Yun to be so eloquent even though he was young, he seemed very excited.

The decision to expand at this time is also related to Ele.me's "college strategy".

The free time after the end of a semester is just right to prepare for the freshman admission season.

Ele.me, which is deeply involved in the student market, will start a new competition in the new round of school season.

After all, Ele.me is a food delivery website for students established on the basis of Shanghai Jiaotong University, so it has a lot of experience in promoting the school.

"You guys are doing pretty well in Jiangcheng. I see that Manager Sun in Jiangcheng District really has a lot of research on how to open up the market."

Sun Jiajun's expansion strategy in Jiangcheng is a typical Ele.me route.

When you first arrive in a city, the city manager will mark the schools in advance on the map, focusing on the number of restaurants near the school. For example, a school has 5 people, but there is only one restaurant around it, so it is not suitable for takeout. .

If there are 1 people in the school, and there are [-] nearby restaurants that deliver food, this area can do it.

After delineating the area, she began to discuss cooperation with each other, did a good job of market research, and also marked the priority of the community to be expanded. If there are many people, she can expand multiple areas at the same time.

Compared with schools, white-collar areas are more scattered.

For example, in the Optics Valley Software Park, there are more than 100 restaurants in the park alone, and they usually ride electric bicycles to discuss cooperation.

The restaurants in the Nanhu University area are relatively concentrated, such as Beiyuan and Time Square, which are basically on the same street. It is very convenient to talk about running one by one.

"Manager Sun is a rare female general in our company. She dares to fight and fight hard. Many men don't have her drive."

Zhang Xuhao raised his eyebrows at Gu Yun, sat on the boss chair and raised his legs.

"By the way, I don't know that Mr. Gu and Mr. Wen are here this time."

Ele.me is a start-up company, and almost all employees are more accustomed to drinking coffee than tea.

Seeing that the coffee on the table had been drunk long ago, but he hadn't gotten to the point, Zhang Xuhao took the initiative to ask.

"Is the Paradise Group intending to acquire Ele., I wonder if Mr. Zhang can accept it?"