Rebirth of the Wild Age

The headquarters of Etang.com is located in Shenghai, so they sent the lawyer's letter very quickly, and it was sent to China Technology Corporation the next day.

Immediately, Yitang.com held a press conference to severely condemn Song Weiyang's discrediting, and said that if Song Weiyang does not publicly apologize, Yitang.com will prosecute the rumors.

Song Weiyang immediately smiled and admitted, and asked Sohu, Sina and NetEase to help publish an apology letter with the following content: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't talk nonsense, Etang is not useless, Etang Mail is actually pretty good..."

E-Tang mailbox is really good. When it first went online, it always had problems, but gradually it got done and became an e-mail mailbox with the same name as NetEase.

But that's all, except for the mailbox, Yitang can't do anything. With an investment of 50 million US dollars, only 5 million RMB can do a good job.

Song Weiyang also said in the letter of apology: "By the way, out of good intentions, I will analyze the seven MBAs of Etang.com. Your business positioning of "Minghuang e Generation" is wrong. You want to introduce Western high-end fashion brands and life into China. This idea is feasible, but the customer group must not be Chinese young people aged 18-35. Perhaps, for the seven of you, that high-end life is commonplace, but Chinese young people do not have such high spending power. A pair of shoes that cost thousands of dollars at every turn is not a fashion item but a luxury item in the eyes of Chinese young people... Your website is too mixed, greedy, and lacking in features. Copy a little from the east and a little from the west. More and more complicated, more and more chaotic... One word of advice, it is better to make a good mailbox, maybe you can get rid of NetEase mailbox."

The CEO of Etang.com quickly replied: “Mr. Song has always lived in China, and I am afraid he does not understand Western life. Our business concept is a very cutting-edge and high-end Western-style concept. China is integrating with the world, and Chinese young people are also It is in line with the world, and Yitang is here to build a bridge between the eastern and western lifestyles. China’s economy is developing rapidly, and the living habits of young people are also changing rapidly. Ten years ago, there were not many private cars in China, but Now you can see it all over the streets. I believe that in two or three years, China’s e-generation family will grow up, and Etang.com will be the leading company in China’s e-generation life!"

Song Weiyang replied: "You only need to be happy, good luck!"

This open letter back and forth has attracted the attention of netizens, and it has actually led to the bullish traffic of Yitang.com.

The CEO of Etang.com also stopped suing Song Weiyang. Baba wrote an open letter to Song Weiyang again, discussing the topic of the Internet e-generation in a very serious way, just to use Song Weiyang to attract more attention. However, in addition to the increasing number of users of Yitang mailbox, other services of Yitang have been sprayed **** by netizens.

"Why do you bother with them?" Ma Xiaoyun smiled.

Song Weiyang said, "It's boring."

Ma Xiaoyun has decided to cut staff globally and is considering the removal of the US headquarters. But this involves too much, almost tantamount to breaking your legs and arms, you must make proper plans in all aspects.

The spirited Ma Xiaoyun on the West Lake Lunjian held a company meeting at the end of the Lunjian, announcing that Alibaba had entered a six-month state of emergency: "The next six months will be a very severe six months, and all employees are ready to work overtime at any time!"

Under normal circumstances, Ma Xiaoyun prohibits shareholders from viewing Alibaba's specific operating documents, and never shows timidity in front of anyone. In the words of an Alibaba executive, even if Ma Xiaoyun only has one dollar left in his pocket, he feels like he has one hundred million.

However, Song Weiyang repeatedly spent money to support him at critical times. This kind of infinite trust has been regarded as a true friend by Ma Xiaoyun. Now that Alibaba is facing difficulties, Ma Xiaoyun is also the first to talk to Song Weiyang, even before Cai Chongxin and others know about the layoff plan.

After the West Lake Discussion on the Sword, Song Weiyang was directly invited by Ma Xiaoyun to his home, took out many specific documents for him to look through, and then discussed Alibaba's strategic contraction together.

Song Weiyang flipped through the file and said, "Your management is a mess."

Ma Xiaoyun smiled bitterly: "These files are all kinds of problems that have been found out. I don't know a lot of things until I find it too naive. Take the English website as an example. I naively think that American English is better. The English website should be located in the United States, and preferably in Silicon Valley, to facilitate technical management. As a result, after the website was built, it was discovered that Silicon Valley is full of technical talents, and the trade talents needed for e-commerce must be airborne from San Francisco and New York to work. And many projects have to go back to New York and San Francisco to discuss, the cost is inexplicably high. In addition, the ideas of the talents in Silicon Valley and the talents in New York are completely conflicting. An ordinary decision will have to be arguing for half a month, and I must fly. It can only be done by going to the United States."

"This is normal." Song Weiyang said.

Ma Xiaoyun said: "It's too abnormal. The person in charge in Silicon Valley thinks technology is the most important thing. Because Silicon Valley is the world's Internet center, this kind of technology victory theory is supported by many employees. And the person in charge of the US headquarters is from the Fortune 500. The vice president hired by the company, who has been in Hong Kong for a long time, believes that Alibaba should develop into the capital market. Now the technical and commercial talents in the United States have quarreled, resisted each other, and disliked each other. I also do it in China. I don't understand who is right."

Song Weiyang said, "Don't listen to them, ask yourself."

Ma Xiaoyun said: "I don't know. Alibaba has developed into a multinational company in just one year. The employees come from 13 countries around the world. I don't know how to manage it. I dig into the vice president of the world's top 500 companies. , That is, he was going to let him manage overseas affairs. As a result, he couldn't handle the affairs of the United States well."

Song Weiyang smiled and said: "You said you want to lay off employees and withdraw the US headquarters. Then act and cut down all overseas branches."

Ma Xiaoyun said: "There is no way to start. Take the Hong Kong City office as an example. They are all very good employees. They have a prestigious MBA, senior investment bank practitioners, and vice presidents and senior consultants of large companies. They abandon stable jobs. When I came to Alibaba, I hoped that the company would gain something after it went public. In order to recruit these people, I also allocated a lot of company shares. When dismissing them, I have to buy the company stock back. The price of this stock is not easy to talk about. ."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Ask your heart, what did you think in your mind when you founded Alibaba?"

"To be an e-commerce platform to help companies circulate goods." Ma Xiaoyun said.

Song Weiyang said: "That's right. Let me just cut off all overseas branches, leaving only one office in the United States. The branch and domestic offices in Hong Kong City are also cut off, and the headquarters is directly removed. Moving back to Linzhou, relying on hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises along the coast for development."

Ma Xiaoyun said: "I have this idea, but I can't make up my mind. This is equivalent to saying that all the results achieved by the company in the previous year have been lost, and Alibaba has returned to the state of last fall."

"Die early and overtake birth early." Song Weiyang persuaded.

"I'll discuss with Lao Cai." Ma Xiaoyun hesitated. Historically, it took him half a year to make a decision.

Song Weiyang said: "It's up to you. If you change to me, you will cut off overseas institutions now. You can't make a big fat man with one bite. Which of the world's top 500 companies have you seen that took a year to become a multinational company? If you step too far, it’s easy to pull the egg."

After two persuasion by Song Weiyang, plus his own thoughts~www.readwn.com~ Ma Xiaoyun finally made up his mind. He turned around and appointed a new executive to be responsible for layoffs. This time, he will directly lay off more than 70% of the company's employees. There were originally 40 foreign employees in China, but only 5 were laid off; there were 30 employees in the Hong Kong City office, but only 8 were left. In the US, it was even worse, with only 3 employees left.

This is actually better than in history, because when Ma Xiaoyun decided to lay off employees, the Internet was even colder and Alibaba didn't have much money. Even the top 100 old employees (including Ma Xiaoyun and Eighteen Arhats), Alibaba directly laid off 50, and now they are laying off ahead of schedule, at least keeping these old employees.

Song Weiyang didn't have to worry at all. The old horse could handle this kind of thing. He turned back and called Zhang Chaoyang and said, "I sent the fax, some tips for Chinaren."

Chinaren is the alumni list just acquired by Sohu. Song Weiyang’s tips are actually a relatively complete business planning book, roughly based on facebook. Even Song Weiyang was too stubborn to talk about Chinaren, and the alumni record was too stingy, so Zhang Chaoyang was directly renamed "Renren.com."

As for the current school intranet, don’t worry, just keep calling it this name. If you don’t know how to use it, you can switch to Meituan takeaway.

At the same time, due to the small friction with Yitang.com, Song Weiyang also asked Zhang Chaoyang to add functions, allowing users to find information about the English Test Band 4 and 6 on the website. This thing is the future service content of Etang.com. I haven't done it for the time being. Just cut it off, but you need to get in touch with major universities.

Song Weiyang remembers this very clearly because Doudou's CET-6 results were found on Yitang.com, when the two had just started dating.