Rebirth Starts at 7 Million

This is actually normal, because the supercomputer of Penguin was mainly used as a server, and the mobile game Xu Jiale is in charge of is one of Penguin's ace mobile games, so it is natural to have a supercomputer as a server.

And that supercomputer is not only responsible for one game, but also the server for several other small mobile games.

The main function of Xingyuan's supercomputer is not a game server. Later, when Xingyuan's headquarters is built, Luo Fan will buy a supercomputer with similar performance as the one he has seen in his previous life to act as a game server.

The main function of this server is to carry out big data algorithms and cloud computing related services.

The programmers of the Nebula Cloud Service Center already knew about Luo Fan's arrival. They were waiting for Luo Fan's arrival at the door early.

Under their leadership, Luo Fan briefly toured the Nebula Cloud Service Center, and then came to the room on the first floor where the supercomputer was stored.

Luo Fan entered the core code of the voice assistant he completed into the supercomputer.

According to the general process, if you want to complete the voice assistant, you should collect voiceprints, and then use the characteristics of the voice assistant itself to be a growing AI to analyze a large number of voiceprints, so that the voice assistant will grow slowly until it is finally completed.

However, Luo Fan doesn't plan to collect any voiceprints. This thing is too laborious, and even needs to be purchased. Simply let the voice assistant grow like a big data algorithm by sifting through a large amount of data from Xingyuan Technology Co., Ltd.

After finishing all this, Luo Fan held a brief meeting for the 5 people. Because the supercomputer was here, the 5 people could not have holidays during the Chinese New Year, and three times the salary must be paid. Luo Fan also sent them a letter this time. Big red envelopes for encouragement.

After coming out of the Nebula Cloud Service Center, Luo Fan originally planned to contact Zhou Qingyun directly to chat with him about the job fair.

But Luo Fan just picked up the phone when Cao Shuai happened to make a call.

Luo Fan answered the phone, and Cao Shuai's excited voice came from the receiver: "Xiao Fan, many staff members in the good news 56.com have announced their resignation.

It is initially estimated that there are more than 70 people, accounting for half of the core team of 56.com. If we can dig all these people, then there will be no shortage of technical personnel on Neihan Duanzi. "

Luo Fan's eyes lit up when he heard the words, this is really good news.

56 is one of the earliest video websites in China, only slightly later than Tudou. The early 56 is also one of the best video websites in China. It has become the three major video websites along with Youku and Tudou. Unfortunately, 56 is now dead in name only.

As early as 2007, the market valuation of 56 was not less than 80 million US dollars. As a result, it took 4 years, that is, last year in 2011, before 56 sold itself for 80 million US dollars.

In Luo Fan's view, the decline of 56 is actually inevitable.

The early competition of video websites is mainly the competition of financing ability, public relations ability and integration ability of upstream and downstream of the industry chain.

56 has no advantage in these aspects, and can only actively marginalize itself.

This led to the inability to compete in bandwidth and copyright after 56, and gradually fell behind.

Coupled with last year's one-month closure event, 56's vitality was severely damaged, and there was no chance to turn over again, so he was forced to sell 56.

And some 56 employees must be unwilling to serve the new boss.

Luo Fan had previously thought that a group of 56 employees would definitely leave. According to his idea, he could directly recruit these experienced employees to himself, and then use these people to fill the vacancies of Neihan Duanzi and pull up the Neihan Duanzi team.

Then the connotation jokes can be separated from the daily headlines.

It has been half a year since the connotation jokes were added to the daily headlines.

Since the launch of Conan Duanzi in the middle of last year, it was only tested in small batches, and then gradually expanded its scope, and finally launched a full-scale push.

With the huge traffic of Daily Toutiao itself, plus the content is selected through big data to select classic funny clips, there are film and television clips of Xingye, there are funny TV series clips with bald heads, there are all kinds of beautiful dramas and sitcoms. In recent years, there have been some coercive clips of domestic dramas, as well as various funny variety shows at home and abroad.

However, the most popular content now is all kinds of original videos. Even if some imitate film and television clips, the original content will get higher traffic tilt, and the content creators will earn more money, which attracts outsiders and People who once relied on video cutting create their own content.

With the virtuous circle, the daily traffic provided by Neihan Duanzi for Toutiao is also increasing. That is to say, at this time, Neihan Duanzi can be completely independent and become another core product of Toutiao.

Neihan Duanzi is liked by a large number of netizens just like the previous life. In just a few months, it has become the section with the largest daily headline traffic, and the previous accumulation has basically been completed.

At this time, it is more appropriate to let Neihan Duanzi and Daily Toutiao separate.

The only problem is that Neihan Duanzi lacks a professional technical team, and it may not be able to operate well if it is separated now.

For Luo Fan, the large number of 56 employees leaving the office is like giving him a pillow.

"Brother, how many of these people can you dig?" Luo Fan asked.

"With our company's conditions, at least 50 people can be brought in."

"Okay! Then aim for 50 people, the more the better, brother, I'll leave this to you."

"Well, I'll do it right now."

Because of the staff of 56.com, Luo Fan did not plan to stay in his hometown for a long time. He explained the job fair to Li Jingyi and Gao Meng, and left Zhou Qingyun's phone number with them. On the sixth day of the sixth day, I returned to Shanghai.

Three days later, on the ninth day of the lunar new year, Cao Shuai brought representatives of some employees of 56.com.

Except for Li Jingyi and Gao Meng, all the senior management of Xingyuan came to the conference room.

The employee representative on 56.com is a woman with short hair in her early 30s. She wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a well-cut black women's suit, which is the standard dress for female white-collar workers in the workplace.

"Boss, this is Zhou Yuqing, the original deputy general manager of 56.com." Cao Shuai pointed at Zhou Yuqing and said.

"Hello Mr. Zhou."

"Hello, Mr. Luo."

After a simple greeting, Luo Fan went straight to the topic and asked, "Mr. Zhou, you should have seen the sincerity of our side, can you tell us what you think?"

Zhou Yuqing heard the words and said: "Mr. Cao has already negotiated with us in terms of positions, funds, and career development prospects.

However, many technicians of 56.com have settled in the imperial capital, and many of them are reluctant to come to Shanghai. This time I came here on behalf of them to ask Mr. Luo if he could establish a branch or a technical department in the imperial capital, so that the Can they work nearby? "

As the former vice president of 56, Zhou Yuqing also has a lot of affection for those who fight with her, and naturally she doesn't want her team to be disbanded.

Moreover, the conditions offered by Xingyuan are not bad. She has also done research on the project of Neihan Duanzi, and the potential is indeed very good. It is very suitable for Zhou Yuqing to be the vice president of this project.

In addition, Cao Shuai has said in secret that this vice president is only a vice president in name.

The leader of a department of Xingyuan is more powerful than the president of 56.com.

But as Zhou Yuqing just said, many of her subordinates have settled in the imperial capital, and many people are unwilling to let them come to Shanghai now.

Luo Fan frowned when he heard this. In his opinion, Zhou Yuqing and these 56.com employees added up to only 70 people. The cost of moving to Shanghai is not high. At this time, moving the team to Shanghai is for the convenience of internal cooperation in the future. sex.

Which one is more convenient, two separated or in the same headquarters, you know with your butt?

However, I can understand what Zhou Yuqing said about Luo Fan. After all, 56.com has always been based in Yanjing, and most of its employees have already established their families and businesses in Yanjing. It is indeed a bit troublesome to let employees go to work in Shanghai.

However, at the current scale of 56.com, a headquarters is sufficient, and establishing a branch will not only increase costs, but also cause difficulties in cooperation between departments.

Thinking of this, Luo Fan said, "Mr. Zhou, it's unnecessary to waste time for such trivial matters.

You can tell your employees that Neihan Duanzi is the core project of Xingyuan in the future, and the technical staff of 56.com will have a brighter future after joining Neihan Duanzi.

For this future, they must give up their family for a period of time, and they cannot have both.

Of course, the time to give up will not be too long. Xingyuan will not build a branch in the imperial capital now, which does not mean that it will not in the future.

After Neihan Duanzi is stable, we will definitely set up a branch in Imperial Capital, and they can go back.

If you don't agree, you can only give up some people who don't want to come.

Mr. Zhou, you must know that time is money, because it is not worth it to waste a month or two on such trivial matters.

That's what our condition is, and it won't change. "

After listening to Luo Fan's words, Zhou Yuqing thought for a moment and asked, "Mr. Luo, how long is the period of time you are talking about?"

"Three to four years."

"That is, in 15 to 16 years, will Xingyuan set up a branch in the imperial capital?" Zhou Yuqing asked.

"That's right, and I said 3 to 4 years, including the time to build the Xingyuan North Headquarters in the imperial capital."

"Okay, Mr. Luo, I agreed on their behalf." Zhou Yuqing said through gritted teeth.

"That's great, Mr. Zhou, when can you bring someone here?" Luo Fan asked.

"Mr. Luo, I still have some 56 shares to deal with. It may take about 2 weeks, but they can come at any time." Zhou Yuqing replied.

"Mr. Zhou, in my opinion, you are more important than your employees, so let's go! Let's buy the shares of 56.com directly in your hand, and leave the mess with 56.com to the financial and legal affairs of our company. You don't have to worry about it, just concentrate on the work of Neihan Duanzi."

"But...but Mr. Luo, I have a 12% stake in my mobile phone, and it costs 9.6 million yuan."

"This amount of money is nothing, and the shares will be transferred to our mobile phone. It is estimated that it will be sold in a few weeks. We have no interest in 56.com, we just want to save your time as much as possible. President Qin, you are responsible for handling this matter. Right?" Luo Fan turned to Qin Beibei and asked.

After thinking about it, Qin Beibei said: "Boss, our acquisition of the shares of 56.com may cause some trouble. Although 56.com is not listed, like other Internet companies, there are many shareholders behind it. Now 56 shareholders are cashing out and leaving the market. , the news cannot be concealed.

Not to mention, for such a domestically registered company, changes in shareholders also need to be reported.

If we let the media know that we hold the shares of 56.com, it is likely to over-interpret it, and it will have some impact on the market value of 56.com. "

"It doesn't matter, let's announce it. No matter whether this part of our mobile phone shares rises or falls, we will just shoot it." Luo Fan said.

"The boss is right, compared to 56.com, the follow-up division of Neihan Duanzi is the most important, and even some losses in other aspects are acceptable.

And it's not necessarily a loss. President Qin, with our current size of Xingyuan, buys shares in 56.com, which is likely to give the market a signal that we think 56.com has a future.

At that time, people's focus will not be on Mr. Zhou's cashing out and running away, but on Xingyuan's takeover of the 12% shares. Mr. Qin, how do you think the market will react to this? "

After listening to Cao Shuai's words, Qin Beibei suddenly realized that if he thought so, he would not necessarily lose money if he bought 12% of the shares.

"Mr. Wang, how is the preparation of the Nei Duanzi app?" Luo Fan turned to Wang Jing and asked.

"Don't worry, boss, we were preparing this last year. The APP of Conan Duanzi has passed the internal test. As long as it is released, Daily Toutiao will gradually drain traffic, and a large number of users can be migrated over."

"How long will it take to migrate users?" Luo Fan continued to ask.

"Boss, the migration of users is a slow process. We must first advertise on the daily headlines, and then gradually attract users to download the APP with high-quality content. During this process, the daily headlines will also decrease. The content and exposure of funny videos, and finally transfer these users to the new Connotation Duanzi APP, which will take about half a year to conservatively estimate.

At that time, not only the original users, but also a lot of new users should be attracted. "Wang Jing replied after thinking about it.

"Half a year? It's alright! Mr. Wang, you should also know that Neihan Duanzi and Daily Toutiao, like games, will be another core application of our Xingyuan in the future. There must be no problems with user transfer, understand?"

"Don't worry, boss! I know."

"Well! There is also the person in charge of Neihan Duanzi. President Zhou, I believe in your ability. As the vice president of 56, you have more experience in the video field than everyone here. It's not suitable for us, do you understand what I mean?" Luo Fan said.

"I understand, I will follow the boss's instructions."

Luo Fan nodded with satisfaction. For now, Neihan Duanzi is only half a short video platform, which is different from Kuaishou Douyin in later generations.

Neihan Duanzi's current attributes are very single, and it is based on funny videos, so the follow-up development direction is very important. Luo Fan trusts Zhou Yuqing's ability, but does not trust her experience, so the problem of the decision-making direction of Neihan Duanzi must be decided by him Come on board.