Zhongguancun, 8th floor, Hailong Building office building.
Feigou.com is moving at the end of the year. As a joyful move, there are balloon arches at the door and a signature sign with names densely packed on it.
The office area on the entire floor is filled with long chairs, covered with red and white cloth, and various refreshments placed on them.
All 86 employees were present, and no one was absent. While eating, they listened to Lu Fei's speech on the stage.
As the company grew bigger and stronger, the organizational structure and positions changed accordingly. Xu Lei became COO, Liu Edong became president, Wang Huiwen and Gao Tuan were all vice presidents of the business unit, CTO Fang Xing, and CFO Zhang Yong.
The other three among the 6 Big O's are Xu Lei who also works as CHO and Liu Edong who also works as CSO.
As for the CEO, of course it is Chairman Lu Fei who shoulders the responsibility.
"The Long March has regiment commanders in their 20s, and Feigou also has commanders and army commanders in their 20s and 30s. The Internet's troops must maintain four vocationalizations: youthfulness, knowledge, professionalization, and one orientation, which is
Innovative, new, from the moment we moved to Hailong Building, Yanyuan Resources Hotel has become a point in the past, the first step in a long march of thousands of miles..."
He spoke concisely and concisely, without lengthy speeches. He talked about the "Long March of the Internet" for 5 minutes, and finally raised his drink high: "The great pass is like iron, and now we are crossing it from the beginning. Cheers, everyone!"
"cheers!
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The faces of Liu Edong, Wang Huiwen, Gao Tuan and others were full of excitement, especially Liu Edong, who completed the second level jump in just over a year.
From a small boss in Zhongguancun, to a general assistant, and then to the president of a large Internet company with a valuation of US$1 billion, what will it be like in a year or two?
Equity incentives, billionaires, ten miles of red makeup, eight-carriage sedans to marry Gong Xiaojing, and then the rich return home, the little overlord returns to Suqian!
If the tea is not intoxicating, everyone will get drunk. He will walk lightly.
Lu Fei saw it in his eyes and resigned as president, paving the way for Liu Dong's promotion to CEO.
Feigou.com has two generals, Xu Lei is in charge of stabilization and Liu Edong is in charge of attack.
Now is the time to conquer the world and conquer the world. Liu Erdong should be given the seal of the General of the Hussars, and Xu Lei should draw the vice chairman's cake early and pay homage to the General of the Great Sima.
As Emperor Wu, I can devote more energy to long-term strategic design and major decision-making and deployment.
"The next thing I think is that there is nothing better than giving out money. This is the best affirmation and the best stimulus. I will give out the year-end bonus immediately!"
"Oh! Long live Mr. Lu!"
"Thank you Mr. Lu!"
In an instant, the crowd cheered, deafening, and thunderous applause. Fortunately, the floor was strong and did not collapse.
Lu Fei handed over the job to Liu Yudong and called Xu Lei to the office. The commander-in-chief wanted to hear the sound of the artillery but also stay away from the artillery fire.
"The spring recruitment plan is here. I have formed three teams. Two teams are recruiting locally in eastern Guangdong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I will take one team to Yanjing, Shanghai and Tianjin to sweep up, and then sort out the list for deployment.
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After Xu Lei finished speaking, he began to complain that he had too many things to do and wanted to resign from several positions, especially the position of human resources.
"Have you found a suitable successor?"
Lu Fei readily agreed. Xu Lei laid the foundation for today's Feigou.com human resources system, but he was not good at the HRBP model of major Internet companies. Let alone shaping corporate culture, he couldn't learn from Jingdong to create a "brother culture", right?
Can a capitalist have brothers? The old brothers who rest on their laurels and the younger brothers who are unwilling to struggle, who are just hanging around anyway, are not my brothers!
It would be better to learn from Huawei and develop a "struggler" culture, and create a "chicken soup + wolf meat" culture of Feigou.
Xu Lei said: "I've looked for several, and I've also hired headhunters to look for them, but I haven't found one that's particularly suitable. Do you have one?"
"You think I'm a Doraemon who has everything?" Lu Fei rolled his eyes.
"The Zhang Yong you found is pretty good. How did you find him?"
"Of course when you are executing it, I will spend enough time looking for people. At least 60% of the time will be spent on the resumes of the executives of each company."
Lu Fei brags shamelessly and hides that he is cheating. I, Mr. Lu, am not cheating!
Xu Lei said impatiently: "Dede, I know you are awesome and you are not neglecting your job, so tell me quickly."
Lu Fei took out a cigarette from the cigarette box, put it between his nose and sniffed, and the names of Guan Mingsheng of General Electric, Long Yu of UTStarcom, and Deng Kang of Microsoft China popped out of his mouth.
"Among the three of them, I am most optimistic about Long Yu."
"Okay."
Xu Lei remembered it and took out a lighter to light his cigarette, "What time is Friedman's flight?"
…………
Around 5 p.m., Capital International Airport.
Lu Fei asked Wang Dawei for their flight number and drove to pick them up in person. There was no need to bring a translator. Wang Dawei was China Telecom.
After his introduction, the two shook hands and met.
Friedman saw this young face. Although he had collected information from all aspects and understood Lu Fei from the Internet, he still couldn't believe it.
Is he the one who made eBay CEO Meg Whitman fall down the stairs in shock?
He asked the Bertelsmann family and the CEO of the group to have internal strife break out because of the Chinese business?
He just said "the world is flat"? No, no!
Wang Dawei glanced at him, it was him, it was him, it was him.
Friedman exchanged a few pleasantries and immediately went to school to test his talents and knowledge. If he had no useful information, he left immediately.
"Lu, you said the world becomes flat, how do you do it?"
"Because of the Internet, Thomas."
Lu Fei opened the door and got in the car with a mysterious smile.
Friedman curled his lips and got into the car, "Lu, you said the Internet will wipe out the world. That's too general."
Lu Feidao: "Thomas, the Internet has formed a flat world network platform, and everyone has become a point on the Internet to participate in the world..."
"Wait a minute." Friedman rummaged through his briefcase and took out his voice recorder. "Can you be more specific?"
Lu Fei rolled his eyes and simply talked about the journalism industry, saying that the Internet would destroy the news industry's information monopoly of "you will listen to whatever I say".
Friedman listened with great interest. When he heard the new term "media voice", he couldn't help but laugh. He liked this term so much.
"You said that these agenda-setting powers will be transferred to the Internet platform?"
"Not just the media, Thomas, the history of the development of the Internet will be a history of competition for the right to speak, just like Microsoft and Netscape."
"hold on."
When Friedman heard about Microsoft and Netscape, he became even more interested. He took out pen and paper from his briefcase, just like a student who was listening carefully to take notes.
As the saying goes, if you don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, you just live in this mountain.
He was in the chess game of the West, and the authorities were confused. Now Lu Fei was like the sage master of the East, a bystander who could answer questions clearly.
"But the Internet is still in the cold winter, and the collapse of Nasdaq stocks is expected to evaporate US$5 trillion in market value."
Lu Fei said optimistically: "Spring is coming soon, and next year I predict that the Internet will be fully restored to its full strength."
"real?"
Friedman collected and read various financial newspapers, but he really didn't see any signs of recovery, so he moved out of Amazon, which is similar to Feigou.com. At the end of 2001, Amazon's stock price fell by about 95%, falling to less than $5 per share.
"Thomas, it's not because I do e-commerce that I support Amazon."
Lu Fei squinted his eyes. This was an opportunity that even Buffett regretted missing. Of course he would not miss it. He bought it with US$800,000.
He confidently predicted that Amazon would rebound and gave many reasons, but the most important one was "China's accession to the WTO."
"China's powerful productivity has been freed from constraints. It can be said that China can produce as much as the global market requires. The world is not only flat, but also connected. China has opened two trade routes between the east and the west in ancient times."
Wang Dawei translated Chinese into English and helped Friedman popularize the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road. He suddenly had an epiphany:
"Lu, what did you sell to us, and what did we sell to you?"
"These 'shallow' commodities such as shirts, socks, toys, and solar panels are all sold to you. What you sell to us are 'deep commodities', such as computers, chips, etc."
When Lu Fei thought of "800 million shirts in exchange for a Boeing", he was filled with hatred, but it was all due to his acting skills that he pretended to be indifferent.
Friedman was very sober: "Sooner or later you will create more and more 'deep goods' and you will compete with us. We may not use your technology at home and in our businesses."
"Hey, we are a developing country. How can we have the money to build an aircraft carrier? If we don't have this capability, how can we have the money to buy chips?"
Lu Fei secretly hid his ambition to make software and hardware, pretending to be like a cute flower-planting rabbit, with nothing, we only love small money.
Friedman was fooling around and always felt something was wrong, but he could tell what was wrong.
"And you won't use our things? I don't believe it. We are friends. We have a common enemy, don't we?"
"you're right."
Friedman's doubts disappeared, "China and the United States are friends, and our enemies are terrorism."
"We are also brothers, we are half brothers."
Lu Fei was full of enthusiasm and added in his heart: Your two sons call me daddy!
Wang Dawei rolled his eyes, mmp, Mr. Lu, you want to embarrass me, the translator!
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Late night, Yanjing Hotel.
Lu Fei went out of his way to give Friedman a clean break. After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, Friedman finally got the follow-up manuscript of "The World Is Flat" as he wished.
His face turned red, and he breathed out a breath of wine. He could not conceal his inner excitement, and he read eagerly, insisting on reaching the last page of the manuscript before he gave up. He only reached one or two points in one flip.
It’s gone again!
After watching it, I felt empty inside, but my brain was extremely active and excited, especially under the influence of alcohol.
Sitting in front of the computer, typing away, I sent an email to Arthur Sulzberger, the head of the New York Times:
“Before I actually came to China, I was still worried about this trip, and I was prepared to come back with regrets.
But the result was far beyond my expectation. In my career, I have not come into contact with many Chinese people, like Li Ka shing, but I have come into contact with many successful people. I have rarely met someone of this age.
A wise man with astonishing vision, this guy, like Steve Jobs, wants to change the world...
The ‘New Wave of Globalization 3.0’, ‘Artificial Intelligence’, ‘Made in China’, etc. that he talked about were all invaluable to me personally and in my career. I even almost agreed to co-write a book with him...
So, I decided to stay a little longer and continue my trip to China."
