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Chapter 550: Programmers want to make progress so much!
This is really forcing someone to do something they are not prepared for!
At this moment, Chen Ran was indeed in a passive position.

Not only his cousin Zhu Xiaoli, the technical director, and some key programmers, they all want to achieve great things and do something big.

These guys want to improve so badly.

Young people of this era are still very enterprising and don't want to just lie down and give up.

If it were in the future, most people would be paid above the industry average but doing such an easy job, and they would not even have time to be happy about it, so how could they possibly ask their boss to "give me more workload?"

What a vibrant era.

"Zhu Bo, do you think so too?" Chen Ran turned around and asked the programmer named "Zhu Bo".

He was very impressed by this guy. When he came out, he said that the reason he chose the "Golden Slam" company was because his girlfriend liked to play tennis.

This reason made Chen Ran very satisfied. He just waved his hand and passed it in one round.

"Boss, I think this is a good thing." Zhu Bo pushed his glasses and said seriously, "Besides, I want to buy a house in Shanghai and stay in this kind of city, so I also want to make progress."

"Yes, yes, boss, we also want to make progress. We all want to buy a house in Shanghai." A group of programmers shouted.

"You all want to improve so much, why don't you learn a foreign language as well?" Chen Ran cursed in his heart.

Of course, this group of programmers who have not watched "In the Name of People" certainly cannot understand what Chen Ran means by "learning foreign languages", so Chen Ran did not say it out loud.

This is difficult to handle.

Faced with the uproar in the entire company, Chen Ran, as the boss, was in a difficult situation.

Indeed, he holds absolute power and can veto decisions.

But doing so will dishearten many backbone members in the company, and it will even affect the company's morale.

It may not be long before a wave of resignations occurs.

And his cousin Zhu Xiaoli, it seems like she also wants to challenge her limits.

They are all good employees. After all, they all care about the company. What else can Chen Ran say?

I can only say that employees of this era are very simple and honest. They truly treat the company as their own home and are willing to work hard for it.

It's not like in later times, where employees are employees and companies are companies, with clear distinctions. I don't care whether a company is good or bad, I'll just change jobs after getting a few years' salary.

Of course, it may be because housing prices in this era have not yet risen to a desperate level, even in Shanghai.

So these programmers thought that if they worked harder and made more progress, they would be able to afford a house in Shanghai. However, a few years later, the housing prices in Shanghai had risen to such a high level that the programmers shook their heads and sighed.

As a person who has been reborn, Chen Ran sometimes appears to be unable to adapt to this era and seems to be at a loss.

The more crucial point is that the penguin has done me such a big favor, it would be a bit awkward for me to refuse it.

What's more, Pony Ma has also promised that you guys should focus on research and development first, and when Penguin has free time in the future, they will come to help.

After all, our two companies are no longer separate from each other and are now one family.

Indeed, the current cooperative relationship between "Golden Slam" company and Penguin is closer than that between JD.com and Penguin in the previous life.

"Let me think about it..." Chen Ran rubbed his eyebrows.

Frankly speaking, even an emperor whose words were law would be helpless in the face of opposition from all the civil and military officials in the court.

Think about how great the Ming Dynasty founder Zhu Yuanzhang was, but after the "Southern and Northern Lists" case, he still chose to compromise. Because no matter how strong you are, you can't go against everyone.

Chen Ran really didn't want to develop a PC game, but he never expected that one day he would be forced to abdicate by all the civil and military officials in the court, as well as Brother Ma!

After a long while, Chen Ran replied, "Mr. Ma's kindness is irresistible. Okay, I will only be responsible for supervision. You will be responsible for the game design and creativity and make your own decisions. Since you want to improve so much, I will see what kind of game you can make."

"If you lose, don't even think about making progress in the future!"

Damn it, just think of it as earning less money as the agent of "World of Warcraft".

Chen Ran knew clearly that even if he really wanted to develop the game independently, a large part of the profits earned from the operation of "World of Warcraft" would have to be invested in the independent development of the game.

If it fails, the R&D costs will be wasted.

How can that be possible?
Penguin’s stock is more valuable than gold, and Chen Ran will never touch it.

Ms. Zhang Nara from Goryeo next door has already pointed out a way for Chen Ran. If he is short of money, he can just go to North America and the Middle East. Especially in the Middle East, the rich people have plenty of money, and they are just afraid that you will not take advantage of them.

However, Chen Ran knew very well that the possibility of failure and loss was very low.

First of all, "Zhu Xian" itself is a popular IP, and QQ has a strong drainage effect. As long as the game is not terribly bad, there will definitely be people playing it.

Do you know what the previous Perfect World game Zhu Xian was? When Chen Ran was playing it, he found that it was a copy of their other game, Swordsman. Except for the name change, the content was almost the same.

Even though Perfect World was so lazy, "Zhu Xian" was still a huge success.

So how could they fail?

However, Chen Ran lamented that “things in this world are unpredictable” and many things did not develop as he expected.

By 2008, could he really sell the company as he wished?

It is the agent of "World of Warcraft" and is about to operate three "Web Games". It has also invested in Qidian.com and acquired Qianqian Jingting.

It seems that as I was doing it, it has grown bigger and bigger unintentionally.

It's like when someone is working undercover and suddenly finds out one day that he has become the boss. The feeling is similar.

Chen Ran thought of something, found a bunch of pictures from the album, and said to several technical backbones: "Have you found out what is the biggest difference between you and other programmers in Internet companies?"

"What's the difference?" several technical backbones asked in unison.

Chen Ran pointed to the picture and said: "You have thick hair, while many of them are bald."

Several technical backbones immediately said: "Boss, it doesn't matter. As long as we can become stronger and make progress, we can be bald."

"..." Chen Ran: "You guys said that. Give me 996."

"Boss, what is 996?"

"It is a work system where you start work at 9 am and get off work at 9 pm, take a one-hour break at noon and in the evening, work a total of more than 1 hours, and work 10 days a week."

"That's it? No big deal!" The programmers looked unimpressed. "Brothers, for our first 996% self-developed PC game, we will immediately implement the work system. Come on!"

"come on! Come on!"

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(End of this chapter)