How much money did Sun Peng spend on a dream factory?
Chen Muchen must know the best, but as the boss, Sun Peng can't remember it. He only knows that in the past few years, whenever the beginning of the year came, either DreamWorks would start a new project, or need to introduce a new product, or entrust others to develop it.
When building a large-scale software, I would spend a lot of money on it.
Sometimes tens of millions, sometimes hundreds of millions.
It was not until "Mulan" was released that DreamWorks received hundreds of millions in box office revenue, and subsequent peripheral and copyright dividends also continued to flow in. This money-splitting behavior stopped until this time it invested in Qingdao.
Lan Animation. Wanted to get 22% of the shares of Qinglan Animation, but DreamWorks didn’t have that much spare money. So Sun Peng once again invested in DreamWorks and took out the money.
Animation companies are basically the same as game companies, with the majority of costs being staff wages.
How much does it cost to pay for rent, water and electricity? It may be more to purchase equipment and software, but tens of millions a year is enough, right? The real money spenders are those employees with an average annual salary of more than 600,000!
DreamWorks currently has more than 500 employees, and its annual salary expenditure exceeds 300 million Chinese dollars!
Although most of them are ordinary painters with an annual salary of 300,000 to 400,000 yuan, there are also many elites with an annual salary of 700,000 to 800,000 yuan, or even over one million. Those who were hired by Chen Muchen from Japan and the United States with high salaries have an average annual salary of over 100,000 yuan.
Millions! And this is what gave them the confidence to make "Mulan" and at the same time go further on "Kung Fu Panda"!
Compared with the stronger DreamWorks, although the number of employees of Qinglan Animation exceeds 260, in Sun Peng's opinion, it is definitely far from enough.
And not only is it necessary to recruit aggressively, but it is also necessary to optimize the mix.
So Sun Peng not only transferred more than 20 elites from DreamWorks, including deputies from various departments, to let them support the skeleton of Qinglan Animation, but also brought his brother-in-law Zheng Hui over. Although
I don’t know much about animation, but Zheng Hui has worked in DreamWorks’ human resources department for several years, and he is the best at this aspect.
only……
"Brother-in-law, it's not that simple."
When we had dinner together in the evening, Zheng Hui drank a glass of beer and said with a wry smile: "When the two companies merged, there was already a problem of overlapping positions of heads of various departments. It took a lot of effort to solve it. But this time you are from
DreamWorks has brought over twenty elites... it’s troublesome!”
Hearing what Zheng Hui said, Sun Peng's eyes flashed and he smiled: "Haha, you mean they will fight for those supervisor positions?"
"Yes, that's it."
Taking a deep breath, Zheng Hui said helplessly: "If it's just a fight between the heads of various departments, as long as the orders from the top are suppressed, and some are appointed, some resign, and some accept their fate, the problem should be solved.
Not big, but now they are two... no, three companies have merged, and each has its own old subordinates or friends. I'm afraid it's not that simple to sort it out."
When he said these words, Zheng Hui looked helpless.
He knew that this job was not easy.
Is DreamWorks great? Zheng Hui often pays attention to the progress and production quality of "Kung Fu Panda". It is very clear that this animation has almost caught up with the production level of the previous "Frozen"! Although it is the production level of Hollywood a few years ago
, but it definitely stands out among the rest in China.
But as powerful as DreamWorks, there are still three factions within it.
Especially the two final big shots, Chen Muchen and Xia Qingqing, after experiencing seamless cooperation in the first few years, are now beginning to have subtle conflicts. Chen Muchen hopes that DreamWorks can make steady progress and develop one film at a time, while Xia Qingqing
However, Qingqing was not satisfied with being able to produce only one animation, and wanted to expand DreamWorks by half and produce two movies at the same time.
Below them, two groups of people naturally gathered.
Besides them, there are a large number of people who just quietly do their own thing with the idea that no one will support them and no one will be offended.
It's just that these contradictions do not affect the company's operation and are inevitable for any company, so Sun Peng doesn't bother to pay attention to them.
However, Qinglan Animation is a new company, and it can be regarded as "building on all wastes", so these contradictions have to be dealt with. Because if these three groups of people are allowed to fight, let alone making animations like DreamWorks, the company will probably do it every day
It will be as lively as the vegetable market!
As the deputy general manager in charge of human resources, finance, etc., Zheng Hui is naturally Alexander.
According to the task given to Zheng Hui by Sun Peng, it is to assist the newly appointed general manager to get the heads of various departments within half a year, to resign those who should be fired, and to poach those who should be poached. This is not just a matter of offending people.
Sun Peng also understood this, patted Zheng Hui on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, take your time! After the new general manager of Qinglan Animation arrives in two days, you just need to cooperate with him in the reorganization.
.I gave him three months. You should take a good look at the company to see who is suitable to be a supervisor, who is suitable to work hard, and who is dawdling around. Just open your eyes and see clearly!"
The general manager of Qinglan Animation was not from Penma or Lotus animation companies.
In fact, Sun Peng had high expectations for Qinglan Animation, so after consulting Chen Muchen, he directly hired a real elite from the outside who had worked in Hollywood. However, the general manager named Zhang Chun is still at the original company.
It will take half a month before I can come and take office.
"Hiss..."
When he heard this, Zheng Hui suddenly took a breath of air and looked at Sun Peng with something wrong in his eyes.
Zheng Jia also had an uncomfortable expression. She rolled her eyes at Sun Peng and said angrily: "Aren't you asking Xiaohui to be a villain? Aren't his reputations in the company going to be ruined in the future?"
"Evil? Reputation?"
After looking at his wife and then at Zheng Hui, Sun Peng suddenly smiled: "He is a deputy general manager, and he is also in charge of human resources. If you are afraid of offending people, why not just don't do it? A man worth billions
Is it so easy to be the deputy general manager of an animation company?"
"this……"
As soon as Sun Peng said these words, Zheng Jia and Zheng Hui, both siblings, fell silent.
Zheng Hui is not very old, he is only about thirty years old now, so he is indeed very young. Everyone knows what it takes to reach the position of deputy general manager of Qinglan Animation at his age.
But even if you have Lao Bai as your background, you must show your own value when you sit in a high position, right?
Otherwise, not to mention that the employees of Qinglan Animation are dissatisfied, even Sun Peng, the brother-in-law, may not be willing to do so. After all, it is a deputy general manager position. In addition to the annual salary, there may also be shares in the future.
Or pay dividends.
So after pondering for a moment, Zheng Hui straightened his expression and nodded: "Don't worry, brother-in-law, I will do a good job. But... even if there is no problem on my side, Zhang Chun will be a polished commander after he comes.
If we want to fully utilize Qinglan Animation in the future, I’m afraid there will be great resistance!”
"Well, I understand that too."
Smiling slightly, Sun Peng said lightly: "So after Zhang Chun comes, you cooperate with him to recruit people. As long as his old subordinates have the ability, let him recruit them! In addition, didn't I say it? I'll give you three months, three months
After "The Martian" is finished shooting, I will personally go to Qinglan Animation to work for a few days..."