Yitang.com's headquarters is located in Shenghai, so they sent a lawyer's letter quickly and sent it to Shenzhou Technology Company the next day.

Immediately, Yitang.com held a press conference to severely condemn Song Weiyang's smear, and said that if Song Weiyang did not publicly apologize, Yitang.com would prosecute the rumor-mongering.

Song Weiyang immediately smiled and confessed, and asked Sohu, Sina and NetEase to help issue an apology letter, which reads as follows: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be talking nonsense, Yitang is not useless, Yitang mailbox is actually quite good......"

Yitang mailbox is really good, there were always problems when it was first launched, but gradually it was done, and it became an email address 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 yuan can do well.

Song Weiyang also said in the apology letter: "By the way, out of good intentions, I will analyze the seven MBAs of Yitang.com. Your 'Ming Huang e-generation' business positioning is wrong, you want to introduce Western high-end fashion brands and life to China, this idea is feasible, but the customer group must not be 18-35 years old Chinese young people. Perhaps, for the seven of you, that kind of high-end life is commonplace, but young people in China don't have that much spending power. In the eyes of young Chinese, shoes that cost thousands of dollars a pair are not fashionable, but luxury...... The content of your website is too miscellaneous, greedy for perfection, featureless, copying a little bit from the east and a little from the west, becoming more and more miscellaneous and confusing...... As a word of advice, it's better to make a good mailbox, maybe you can kill NetEase mailbox. ”

The CEO of Yitang.com quickly replied: "Mr. Song has been living in China, and I am afraid that he does not understand Western life. Our business concept is a very cutting-edge and high-end Western-style concept, China is connecting with the world, and Chinese young people are also connecting with the world, and Yitang is here to build a bridge between the East and the West. China's economy is growing rapidly, and the living habits of young people are changing rapidly. Ten years ago, there were few private cars in China, but now you can see them all over the streets. I believe that in two or three years, China's e-generation family will be able to grow up, and Yitang.com will be the leading enterprise in China's e-generation life!"

Song Weiyang replied again: "Just be happy, good luck!"

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

The CEO of Yitang.com didn't make a fuss about suing Song Weiyang, and Baba wrote an open letter to Song Weiyang again, discussing the topic of the Internet e-generation in a matter-of-fact manner, just to attract more attention with the help of Song Weiyang. However, in addition to the increasing number of users of Yitang mailbox, other services of Yitang were sprayed bloodied by netizens.

"Why are you messing with them?" said Ma Xiaoyun with a smile.

Song Weiyang said: "It's boring. ”

Ma Xiaoyun has decided to lay off employees around the world and is considering removing the US headquarters. But this is too broad, almost equivalent to cutting off both legs and arms, and it is necessary to make a good plan in all aspects.

Ma Xiaoyun, who was in high spirits on the sword in West Lake, held a company meeting after the end of the sword, announcing that Alibaba had entered a six-month state of emergency: "The next half year is a very severe half year, and all employees are ready to work overtime at any time!"

Under normal circumstances, Mr. Ma forbids shareholders from viewing Alibaba's specific operating documents and never shows his timidity in front of anyone. In the words of a certain Alibaba executive, even if Ma Xiaoyun only has one dollar left in his pocket, he gives people the impression that he has 100 million.

But Song Weiyang has repeatedly thrown money at critical times to support, and this unlimited trust has been regarded as a true friend by Ma Xiaoyun. Now that Alibaba is in trouble, Ma Xiaoyun is also the first to talk to Song Weiyang, and even knew the layoff plan before Cai Chongxin and others.

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

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

Ma Xiaoyun smiled bitterly: "These documents are all kinds of problems that have been found out. I don't know a lot of things if I don't do them, and I realize that it's too naïve to do them. Take the English website as an example, I naively think that Americans are better in English, and the English website should be located in the United States, and preferably in Silicon Valley, so that it can facilitate technology management. As a result, after building the website, I found that Silicon Valley is full of technical talents, and the trade talents needed for e-commerce have to be parachuted from San Francisco and New York to work, and many projects have to go back to New York and San Francisco to negotiate, and the cost is inexplicably high. In addition, the talents of Silicon Valley and the talents of New York are completely in conflict with each other's ideas, and an ordinary decision will have to be quarreled for half a month, and I must fly to the United States to solve it. ”

"It's normal. Song Weiyang said.

Ma Xiaoyun said: "It's too abnormal. The head of Silicon Valley feels that technology is the most important thing, because Silicon Valley is the center of the world's Internet, so this kind of technical superiority is supported by many employees. The person in charge of the U.S. headquarters is the vice president I poached from a Fortune 500 company, and this person has been sitting in the port city for a long time, and believes that Alibaba should develop into the capital market. Now the technical and business talents in the United States have quarreled, resisting each other, looking at each other unpleasantly, and I can't figure out who is right in China. ”

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

Ma Xiaoyun said, "I don't know either." It took only one year for Alibaba to grow into a multinational company with employees from 13 countries around the world, and I didn't know how to manage it. I poached the vice president of the world's top 500 company to come over, and I was going to let him manage overseas affairs, but he couldn't even handle the affairs of the United States. ”

Song Weiyang said with a smile: "You said that you want to lay off employees and withdraw the US headquarters, so take action and simply cut all the overseas branches." ”

Ma Xiaoyun said: "I don't know where to start." Take the Hong Kong City office as an example, they are all very good staff, with MBAs from prestigious universities, senior investment banking practitioners, and vice presidents and senior consultants of large companies. They left their stable jobs to come to Alibaba, hoping that the company would gain something after it went public. In order to recruit these people, I also gave out a lot of company shares, and when I fired them, I had to buy back the company's shares, and the price of this stock was not easy to negotiate. ”

Song Weiyang smiled: "Ask your heart, what did you think when you founded Alibaba?"

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

Song Weiyang said: "That's right. If you want me to say, just cut off all the overseas branches, and only leave one office in the United States. The branch and domestic office of Gangcheng were also cut off, and the headquarters was directly moved back to Linzhou, relying on hundreds of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises along the coast to develop. ”

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

"Early death, early superbirth. Song Weiyang persuaded.

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

Song Weiyang said, "Whatever you want." If it were me, I would cut the overseas organization right now. Which Fortune 500 company have you ever seen become a multinational company in one year? ”

After Song Weiyang's persuasion twice, coupled with the fact that he himself had this idea, Ma Xiaoyun finally made up his mind completely. He turned around and appointed a new executive to take charge of layoffs, this time directly cutting more than 70 percent of the company's workforce. On the Chinese side, there were originally 40 foreign employees, but only 5 were laid off, 30 people in the Hong Kong City office were laid off, and only 8 people were laid off, and in the United States, only 3 people were directly left.

This is actually better than in history, because when Ma Xiaoyun decided to lay off employees, the Internet winter was colder, and Alibaba didn't have much money. Even the former No. 100 old employees (including Ma Xiaoyun and the Eighteen Arhats), Alibaba directly laid off 50 of them, and now they are laying off in advance, at least keeping these old employees.

Song Weiyang didn't have to worry about it at all, Lao Ma could handle this kind of thing, he turned around and called Zhang Chaoyang and said, "I sent it a fax, some small suggestions for chinaren." ”

Chinaren is the alumni directory that Sohu has just acquired, and the small advice given by Song Weiyang is actually a relatively complete business plan, roughly based on Facebook. Even Song Weiyang was too embarrassed to talk about chinaren first, and the alumni directory was too stingy, so he directly asked Zhang Chaoyang to change his name to "Renren".

As for the current intranet, then don't worry, continue to call it this name, if it doesn't work, people can also change careers to do Meituan takeaway.

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

The reason why Song Weiyang remembers this very clearly is because Doudou's English test results of Level 6 were found on Yitang.com, when the two had just started to fall in love.