Two months later.

Beijing, Zhongguancun, a new company that has been established for less than half a year.

Inside the CEO's office.

You read that right, it's the "CEOs", because this is a grass-headed company with two co-founders, and neither can completely subdue the other party to work for them.

This company, which has not even completed the "centralization of power", still pays attention to "collective leadership". However, there is also a person who represents the company externally, so one of the CEOs is called "CEO", and the other can only be called "co-CEO".

Now, the two CEOs are furious, looking at a core technical backbone in front of them who could have been promoted to CTO, and submitted a resignation application.

The science and engineering man's name was Lu Dong, and he said with a very sincere and self-reproachful expression:

"Mr. Yu, Mr. Chen, I'm very sorry, you know, I'm not in it for money. I want to be the first person in Korea to be able to recite e-books with emotion on my mobile phone. Feng Jianxiong there, user data and feedback are more abundant, I can only ......"

"Lu Dong! Feng Jianxiong is a despicable and shameless plagiarist! He has plagiarized the creativity of our Himalayas! How can you bear to help the abuse?"

The CEO, known as Mr. Yu, bitterly criticized the bad industry atmosphere, and while saying, he did not forget to use the words that can arouse the sense of justice of the technical men to bring the rhythm,

"Think about it, we've been friends for a few years, who didn't spurn Ma Teng's shameless dog thing at the beginning? Now are you going to turn your back on your former beliefs? Feng Jianxiong may have been well disguised, but now it seems that he is a shameless guy like Ma Teng!

Today, he can use the 50 million existing users of Station N to suppress our Himalaya, which started from scratch, across the bank. Tomorrow, when Ma Teng comes back to his senses, he will also use hundreds of millions of users to copy him for the second time! The initiator will have no aftermath! The murderer will die by the knife! He will not end well!"

Lu Dong was attacked by Mr. Yu so righteously, and sure enough, he couldn't hold his face and was even more ashamed.

Science and engineering men are not too thick-skinned? If you change to a liberal arts student who has been in the workplace for the same number of years today, you won't be able to deal with Mr. Yu.

Seeing that the persuasion of his accomplices seemed to be effective, Mr. Chen, the female co-CEO on the other side, also took the opportunity to stay: "Brother Lu, this matter has to look at the long term." Our Himalayan is also constantly adjusting, do you have to look at the problem from the perspective of development?

Originally, we felt that domestic counterparts couldn't understand this track, and they couldn't figure out the future monetization model of this track, so no one grabbed it and no one followed up. Only then did we decide to do it slowly, not in a hurry to expand, and to be a 'slow company' first.

But now that Feng Jianxiong looks so ugly, if he wants to grab business, it's a big deal for us to sell one or two stages in advance - it's good to join the giants, there may not be no chance - I'm in contact with Tengyun now, and I'm willing to sell 40% of the shares at one time in the A round, and as long as Tengyun has a small amount of money, I just expect them to give an 'audio/audiobook' drainage button in WeChat in the future.

After Tengyun invested in us, are you still afraid that when you make an 'audiobook with tone/emotion', there will not be enough user feedback data and insufficient test environment?"

Mr. Yu quietly listened to the assistance of his comrades, and was not in a hurry to speak. He knew that what he could say and what he could run on had already been said.

The persuasion at the level of "righteousness" belongs to him, and the persuasion at the level of "profit" belongs to Chen Mei.

After hearing this, Lu Dong did not immediately refute, and the scene was silent and embarrassing for a while.

He seemed to know how to refute, but he was just embarrassed to say it.

"However, as far as I know, Luo Shuohan rejected you—the company can't sell it if it wants to. ”

After hesitating again and again, Lu Dong reluctantly exposed his boss.

Mr. Chen was shocked.

What Lu Dong said is of course true.

However, she always thought that the science and engineering men were not very well informed, and it was easy to deceive.

Of course, Tengyun's CTO Luo Shuohan rejected her, but it was only a matter of the past two days, how could it spread so quickly?

"Who did you listen to? Don't be taken advantage of, the negotiations are still ongoing. Mr. Chen hurriedly covered up, and there was no flaw in his expression.

Feng Jianxiong told me. "Lu Dong can't hide his words.

"How can Feng Jianxiong's words be believed! He is the one who can deceive people the most on earth!" Mr. Chen and Mr. Yu scolded in unison.

Lu Dong defended: "But he showed me Tengyun's internal information, I don't know who he bought off and stole this internal decision from Luo Shuohan." But I have my own appraisal and judgment, which I know is true. ”

Mr. Yu and Mr. Chen were unwilling to confirm it for the last time, and then their faces were like ashes.

It seems that Feng Jianxiong expected that Ma Teng would not understand the track of the audio market (and also expected that other bigwigs who were willing to respond to the call of the country would not understand this track).

Therefore, I have been waiting for a long time to spy on the channels that may be used to sell myself in the Himalayas, and they have been shattered one by one.

He even thought that the company would look for Ma Teng at a critical juncture.

Feng Jianxiong is not the leader of the first echelon of technology companies in terms of user volume in China. It's not even the first echelon of "high-sticky users" in China.

But if you get rid of other people who can't understand the track, he's number one.

"I'm sorry," Lu Dong finally said bitterly, "I'm really trying to realize my technical ideals." According to the traditional technology, reading e-book documents by voice can only reach the level of Taipower MP3 at most.

If you want to make the reading aloud have tone and feelings, you can't just ask Lin Zhiling to record the voice material library. What's more important is enough big data training on deep learning artificial intelligence. All this progress requires the number of users and data to feed the ......"

With that, he left his boss's office and entered the handover period.

He is not yet the CTO, and the company is not big, so he can leave after a two-month handover period. If you are promoted to an O-level executive in C, in the Internet industry, it is customary to leave a six-month handover period for the boss. Otherwise, if you coldly follow the "Labor Contract Law" and hand over the person in only one month, it will leave a stain on your personal resume in the future.

No new tech company would use someone who is irresponsible for this kind of handover as an executive.

……

"It's done, the team of Himalaya is wasted, and the only irreplaceable core technical talents in the end have been hollowed out by us. ”

After receiving Lu Dong's letter, Feng Jianxiong transferred the news to Zhou Tianyin as soon as possible.

is doing business, daily management and operation, Feng Jianxiong is definitely not as good as Zhou Tianyin, who has been trained for many years.

But when it comes to digging pits, dividing and disintegrating, digging people into the corners of the wall, and other broker-type old yin beepping business, then Feng Jianxiong is still proud of the world.

Whoever made him a spicy yin.

What does it matter if you don't master the technology yourself?

It is enough to know what technology is most needed in this field and what things are irreplaceable core talents, and then kill someone's old employer.

However, Zhou Tianyin is not so optimistic.

The preparation of the audio version of station N has been busy recently, and now she has just made the smallest product and launched the grayscale test, and Feng Jianxiong has a new function, which really overwhelms her.

"But didn't you start by saying that you should focus on the distribution of talk shows, music, and other audio genuine content? Why did you put your energy into 'reading audio e-books' again in a blink of an eye? Will you not be doing your job? Will it infringe on the copyright of text content?"

To this question, Feng Jianxiong's answer was very simple: "There will not be any copyright problems, wouldn't it be better if we don't provide pirated e-books? In our resource library, we only put expired public edition books, such as ancient classics."

As for those who want to use the 'N station audio version' to read the Internet, wouldn't it be good to let them go to other pirated websites to download e-book resources? This model, in the final analysis, is that those pirated websites are infringing copyright, we just read out the TXT text file that the user has already gotten in their hands and read it out with a voice reader. If we want to investigate the responsibility for piracy, we will not be able to hit us with eight rods. ”

As for the next doubt, Feng Jianxiong's explanation is as follows: "Regarding whether or not to do a proper job, I think it is very positive to add this function. When any new service model is first born, it is necessary to use all kinds of methods to cultivate user habits.

Now some users are disgusted with bumpy rides on the bus, inconvenient to read e-books, and bad eyesight, so we will provide them with audiobooks. And it's more realistic than Taidian MP3' where 'all the same word, no matter what context the pronunciation and tone are exactly the same', why don't users choose us?

As for the fact that after they downloaded the TXT file and listened to it with our app for two or three years, they didn't want to do it anymore, and they wanted to learn something serious when they started working, and the user inertia could be inherited. ”

In the technical environment of 2011, it is not uncommon to rely on software to read TXT files by audio, in fact, Taipower's MP3 was done two or three years earlier.

But this thing was not popular in China at the time. Even those who have a good daily fitness running/walking habit are said to spend 1 hour or more a day not looking at their phones, only wearing headphones to listen to something, but still not listening to e-books.

At the end of the day, there are two bottlenecks. ONE IS THAT MP3 HAS LONG BEEN BEHIND IN 2011, AND ALMOST NO ONE WILL BUY MP3 in order to listen to songs, even if they want to buy it, it is to pretend to be forced, and then buy IPOD like that.

And if you don't even need to listen to songs, just to listen to books, the probability of buying MP3 is even smaller.

Another major trouble that leads to the lack of popularity is that Taipower's voice effect is really bad.

To take the simplest example, it doesn't even solve the problem of polyphonics. It is impossible to "read" which sound of a polyphonic word in a sentence should be pronounced in context.

Polyphonic words can't be solved, let alone "sound and emotion".

At the end of the day, the technology of the past was based on traditional architecture. In order to solve the problem of "sound and emotion", what is needed is to redo everything from the perspective of deep learning artificial intelligence.

The original technical route of the old era must be abandoned.

Of course, to do this big thing, without hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, don't think about how much you can achieve.

But fortunately, "deep learning" can slowly evolve and gnaw slowly, spend a little money, optimize a little algorithm, and feed some big data, you can see a little results.

The whole optimization can be gradual, and you can see a little success by spending a little money at the beginning.

So at least the money will not be spent in vain, but can improve the user experience silently.

Feng Jianxiong poached Lu Dong, and he could also make faster progress than letting him stay in a small fish tank like the Himalayas, which is still difficult to finance.

……

Luo Fatzi, who was persuaded by Feng Jianxiong, has always felt very apprehensive recently.

Seeing that those peers who have signed relatively loose contracts can operate their own WeChat public accounts to attract fans, but he is bound by the agreement and cannot move, anxiety is inevitable.

Fortunately, after only a month of anxiety, the comprehensive revision of Station N was launched as Feng Jianxiong promised.

Station N has upgraded the new mobile APP, and also upgraded the desktop client on the PC side.

After the upgrade, the APP of station N can not only watch videos, but also post textual blog posts and pictures in your own space, and you can also upload audio works.

And as long as fans follow a certain UP master, they can see all the updates of this UP master.

Whether it is an updated blog post, a picture, a video, or an audio, all of them can be notified, and it is convenient for users to directly click on the notification SMS and send it to the target resource to watch it directly.

At the moment, there's nothing wrong with this setting. Because now the UP owners are not familiar with these new features, they can't think of how to harass fans in a fancy way, and the push on the fan side will not be saturated.

However, even if in the future, everyone will update too much fancy and too frequently, resulting in the N station being too short and too dense, and becoming as untimely as Weibo, then there is no problem.

Because station N has already left a back hand in advance, it has done a good job of batch PUSH and priority PUSH algorithms for short feed flows.

These techniques were originally Sina Weibo's PUSH flow grading and deduction strategy that was not thought of until 2015 or even 2016 - in fact, it was not the first invention of Weibo, Weibo was only the first to use this in China, and it was FACEBOOK2013 to 2014 that it had begun to try so. BECAUSE FACEBOOK IS FACING THE SITUATION OF "YOU FOLLOW TOO MANY PEOPLE TO SEE THE DYNAMICS", WHICH IS EVEN MORE SERIOUS THAN WEIBO.

None of these things are technically difficult to implement, and the code is very simple. The key is for operations to get this direction of effort.

In 2011, when "APP push is not yet saturated", Feng Jianxiong thought in advance of the problem of saturation after FACEBOOK2013, and he was prepared. I believe that this trick can also improve a wave of user experience in the future.

That's all for later.

At present, what Luo Fatzi is most concerned about is that he can finally post all kinds of his own dry goods on other WeChat sites.

E-books, talk show audio, success studies disguised not like successology, chicken soup texts disguised not like chicken soup essays...... So many fans are waiting for him.

He immediately put the "knowledge planning" of the fresh graduate he hired from the People's University, the chicken soup essays and success studies that he prepared for him in the past month, and put them into his classified channel.

Then, just wait for the test of time.

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