You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 389

Davis walked into Yiku.com with a smile on his face, greeted the employees of Yiku.com warmly, and then prepared to give a small speech to calm people's hearts.

In recent times, Yiku.com can be said to be in a precarious and turbulent state.

However, things have not been peaceful at Yiku.com since its inception. There have been constant frictions between the technical team of founder Chen Guangxia and the management team sent by Microsoft, leading to fierce internal struggles at Yiku.com.

During the hottest period of video website development on the entire Internet, Yiku.com was so busy with internal strife that it forgot about development.

Later, the conflict finally intensified, and the founder Chen Guangxia left, taking his direct technical team with him. It can be said that Yiku.com was seriously damaged.

For a time, the entire company seemed to be on the verge of collapse, and the employees were in a state of panic and began to look for new jobs.

Perhaps good times will come after bad times, as Yiku.com was suddenly acquired by YouTube, and YouTube now has Microsoft as its backer.

Yiku.com suddenly transformed itself into a subsidiary of Microsoft.

Before the employees could breathe a sigh of relief, the triumphant management team felt they had won and launched a major purge within the company.

The employees recruited during Chen Guangxia's period were demoted or fired, and the entire company was in a panic.

The management team from Hong Kong and Taiwan took the opportunity to promote and place their own confidants in positions.

It was during this chaotic period that Davis arrived.

The management team also stopped what they were doing at this point, and the employees felt refreshed.

The imperial envoy has arrived, and we have justice!

Davis doesn't know what happened to Yiku.com, and even if he did, he wouldn't necessarily care.

But he knew that there would inevitably be some confusion in the period following the acquisition of the company.

Both in terms of management and ideology.

After all, with a new boss, there will definitely be changes in the management. Whether the company's strategy, employee salary system and KPI will change in the future are issues that employees are concerned about.

Davis' speech to employees was just a routine reassuring gesture.

The speech was brief. Davis didn't really like to brag to his employees, perhaps because he felt it wasn't worth wasting his breath.

Davis simply said that Yiku.com would become a subsidiary of Microsoft, and everyone would have to abide by the rules and regulations, and there would be improvements in salary and benefits. You all had to work hard and there would be opportunities for promotion.

After drawing the pie, Davis did not call a meeting of the entire management team, but instead prepared for interviews one by one.

Fan Wencheng was the first to be called into the office. He came to Davis with a stack of documents and reports and said respectfully, "Mr. Hansen, this is a summary of the company's recent information. I made a PPT. Please take a look."

Davis glanced at Fan Wencheng and gestured for him to sit down.

Fan Wencheng quickly placed the information in his hand in front of Davis and sat down on the chair carefully.

Davis casually flipped through the documents in front of him, with no expression on his face.

Fan Wencheng was getting more and more unsure. He said tentatively, "Mr. Hansen, the company had a period of management chaos. The former CEO neglected management before the company was acquired. The website situation fluctuated to a certain extent, causing considerable losses."

Davis asked: "What kind of losses, and how much exactly?"

"It's mainly due to the loss of users that the data of Yiku.com is somewhat different from before." Fan Wencheng explained quickly, "But we are actively remedying it and trying to recover the losses as much as possible, but the current data..."

Is there any problem with Yiku.com’s data?
Of course, Davis knew better than Fan Wencheng that there was something wrong with the website data.

But he had to pretend he didn't know.

If you don’t know, you have no responsibility. Besides, he was only recently appointed as the CEO of YouTube. Does the previous data problems have anything to do with him?
Even if Microsoft wants to hold someone accountable, it will be the management of Yiku.com.

Davis's eyes suddenly became stern, staring at Fan Wencheng closely, "How big is the range of data fluctuations? Will it affect the company's next strategy?"

"This..." Fan Wencheng gritted his teeth, "The data before the acquisition was a little more than 50% different."

Davis snorted coldly, "Your management team must restore the situation of Yiku.com as soon as possible. The company will make big moves next. We want to open up the Chinese Internet market."

"Okay, Mr. Hansen, I will try my best." Fan Wencheng quickly agreed, but he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although Davis' tone was stern, the implication of his words was that the matter would be handed over to him to handle, which meant that he would not be touched for the time being and would even be given more responsibilities.

Fan Wencheng glanced at Davis's expression and took out another document. "Mr. Hansen, this is a report on the market research of Internet video websites in the mainland that I recently made. Please take a look at it."

"According to a survey we commissioned by a professional organization, there are nearly 400 video websites on the market, most of which are small websites that have been established for less than half a year and have little competitiveness."

"There are more than a dozen relatively large video websites, and the top ten account for more than 90 percent of the market share."

"In general, the market is very chaotic and full of disorderly competition."

"The No. 50 website is Qvod. They are the first video website and they occupy more than 56% of the market share. The rest are Tudou, Youku, Yiku, 6 and Ku."

Davis flipped through the report and put it down casually. "What is your conclusion?"

"Uh." Fan Wencheng carefully looked at Davis's face and said tentatively, "I think the biggest threat to us in the market right now is Qvod."

"From the current market share, Qvod has already severely squeezed the living space of several other websites, and its advantage is still expanding."

"If we let this go on, other websites will probably go out of business within one to two years, which will have a serious impact on Yiku."

"At present, Yiku.com is not strong enough to fight against Qvod alone..."

Davis knocked on the table impatiently. "Just state the conclusion."

"I think... we should form an alliance with larger websites like Tudou and Youku to fight against Qvod." Fan Wencheng said quickly, "As long as we defeat Qvod, we can divide up Qvod's market share."

Davis looked at Fan Wencheng with a strange expression and asked, "Do you have any specific plan to fight against Qvod? For example, how to attract users?"

"Uh, this... we are still researching." Fan Wencheng was a little embarrassed. "We currently think that we can improve the quality of the video and increase the clarity..."

Davis interrupted Fan Wencheng and asked, "What will you do if you find that you can't beat Qvod?"

"Then we can eat up the market share of other small websites." Fan Wencheng replied immediately, "In the competition, these small websites are the first to be eliminated. We can absorb their blood to supplement our strength."

Davis looked at them with a hint of disdain, and asked, "Then why don't we first eliminate those small websites to improve our strength?"

"What good will it do us to compete directly with Qvod?"

"Uh..." Fan Wencheng was speechless for a moment.

Logically speaking, it is better to do the easy things first and then the difficult ones, swallowing up small websites to expand its own strength and market share, and then competing with Qvod. This plan has a high success rate and is easier to achieve results in a short period of time.

As long as he can achieve results quickly, he will naturally be promoted. As long as he can be promoted quickly and transferred away from here, what happens afterwards will have nothing to do with him.

This program is most suitable for these career elites.

But no matter how reasonable one is, the facts often don't make sense to you.

Because there is no benefit in speaking the truth.

Only by cooperating with Tudou.com and Youku.com can Fan Wencheng reap the benefits.

However, it seems that this plan does not suit Davis's wishes. Fan Wencheng began to think quickly about how to convince the other party. Davis said slowly: "The company's next strategy has been decided. We will form an alliance with Qvod and Sohu Video to deal with other video websites together."

"Your task is to come up with a plan and study carefully how we can swallow up those small websites, including larger competitors such as Tudou and Youku, and strengthen our own strength as soon as possible."

"Ah?" Fan Wencheng was stunned.

How did you form an alliance with Qvod?

Isn't this right?

This happened too suddenly. Wouldn't it be aiding the enemy to form an alliance with Qvod?

Qvod is already the dominant player. If it helps it defeat other competitors, Qvod will become even stronger. By that time, when Yiku.com goes to deal with it, it won't even have an ally, so how can it fight back?

The correct approach is for Yiku.com not to form an alliance with anyone and to take advantage of both sides.

But since Davis had spoken, it meant that the matter had been settled. Fan Wencheng, as a senior employee and not the boss, could not change the other party's decision and could only obey orders.

"One more thing." Davis suddenly said, "Find someone to move the high-quality content from YouTube to Yiku.com's servers. This will help us attract users."

"Oh, okay. I'll tell someone to do it right away." Fan Wencheng nodded in agreement.

This is a correct decision. Yiku.com is already a subsidiary of YouTube, so it is only natural to move all the content from YouTube over.

Moreover, one of the secrets of Qvod's traffic growth was to move content from YouTube, which attracted a large number of users in the early stages.

After all, browsing the YouTube website will be a bit laggy, so it will be much smoother to watch it directly on QVOD.

"Okay, you can go." Davis waved his hand impatiently.

"Okay, Mr. Hansen." Fan Wencheng stood up respectfully and left the office.

Davis glanced at Fan Wencheng's back, sneered, and wondered what was going on in his mind.

After Fan Wencheng left the office, he felt a little uneasy. Things were not going in the direction he had expected.

After Davis came to the mainland, he did not even discuss with his people and directly decided to form an alliance with Qvod.

Apparently, they contacted Qvod as soon as they got off the plane. It's very abnormal that they had no news of such a big thing before.

Apparently, the entire Yiku.com team was left behind and no longer trusted by Davis.

This is a dangerous signal for Fan Wencheng. The most important thing for professional workers like them is the trust of their boss. Without the trust of their boss, their career will be in danger.

It was obvious that Davis had always valued them and would entrust them with any tasks.

These people can be considered Davis's trusted followers, otherwise they would not have been sent to the mainland to monitor Chen Guangxia.

But now the wind is clearly blowing in the wrong direction.

What went wrong?

When Fan Wencheng was puzzled, his cell phone rang.

He glanced at the caller ID, was shocked, and quickly found an empty office, went in, and answered the call.

From the other side came the hearty laughter of Gu Yongqiang, the boss of Youku.com, "Brother Fan, is everything going well?"

Damn it, it’s not going smoothly at all.

Fan Wencheng said with a stern face: "Boss Gu, please don't call me during work hours. It will have a bad influence."

"Also, we are not familiar with each other, so don't call each other brothers. We are just ordinary friends."

Gu Yongqiang was stunned. You wanted to become my sworn brother when we were drinking before, how come we are not familiar with each other anymore?
You received all the gifts.

Fan Wencheng said coldly: "For the sake of our friendship, I will give you a piece of good news. Yiku.com has officially formed an alliance with Qvod."

"Don't call me again. I'm afraid Mr. Hansen will misunderstand me."

"goodbye!"

After hanging up the phone, Fan Wencheng took a deep breath, pretended nothing had happened, and walked out of the meeting room, then casually called Yiku.com's interim CTO He Zhiyuan.

"You need to prepare. YouTube will send some user videos to you, and then you can upload them to the server."

He Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, but then he understood that copying YouTube videos was normal communication. After all, they had been acquired by YouTube.

However, this was the first time that such a large number of videos had been transferred, so he asked, "How should these videos be classified? Should they be released through the company's official account, or through other accounts?"

"You can handle these yourself." Fan Wencheng said with a frown.

"Should we add subtitles to the videos?" He Zhiyuan continued to ask, "After all, the videos are all in English, and many users won't understand them."

Fan Wencheng was very impatient, "Why add subtitles? We are YouTube. YouTube itself is an English website. What's wrong with the video content being in English?"

"But we are targeting domestic users." He Zhiyuan was a little surprised, "There will be language barriers."

"Why would there be a language barrier when watching a video?" Fan Wencheng became increasingly impatient. "Why do we need to add subtitles separately? YouTube is for users all over the world. Do we have to add French, Japanese, etc.?"

"If you don't understand, don't read it! Why don't those users learn English well?!"

After saying this, Fan Wencheng walked away, leaving He Zhiyuan standing there in a daze.

What's wrong with this guy?
Does he know what he is talking about?
……

Gu Yongqiang was also confused. What the hell was this idiot Fan Wencheng talking about?
We were chatting nicely yesterday, why did you turn against each other today?
Also, why the hell did Yiku.com form an alliance with Qvod?

Do you think you are not dying fast enough?

How could you be so desperate to form an alliance with Qvod?

Do you know that you and Qvod are competitors?

Wang Wei from Tudou.com was also puzzled, "Mr. Gu, do you think Fan Wencheng is joking?"

Gu Yongqiang glared at Wang Wei, "Do you think this is such a joke?"

Wang Wei was puzzled. "What on earth happened? What on earth was Yiku.com thinking? They actually formed an alliance with Qvod.com. Isn't this courting disaster?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?" Gu Yongqiang said unhappily, "What the hell is there for these two websites to form an alliance?"

"Qvod still relies on YouTube content to attract users. Yiku is a subsidiary of YouTube. It is unbelievable that YouTube uses its own content to cultivate competitors."

"That's not right." Wang Wei shook his head. "There is a fundamental contradiction between the two websites. What exactly caused them to join together?"

Soon, the two knew the reason.

Because Sohu Video was the first to fire at other video websites.

(End of this chapter)