Chapter 177: I'll Talk Personally
Baidu Mr. Li was angry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Through the office door, you can hear Mr. Li slapping the table inside, scolding a few heads of the marketing department, and even occasionally bursting out two dirty words.
Baidu's employees were stunned.
Although Mr. Li is resolute in their impression, and sometimes he will train people with a straight face, his temper has never been out of control as it is today, and he has never seen Mr. Li scold.
Leaders of cutting-edge Internet companies like Mr. Li generally have high personal qualities, and most of them are influenced by Western thinking, and in their daily work, they can generally control their emotions well and communicate in a civilized way.
A situation like this today is too rare, up and down the company, from a few vice presidents to ordinary clerks at the bottom, all of them have a heart that slips away, and they don't even dare to walk too loudly, for fear of getting angry.
A very small number of old employees vaguely remember that the last time Mr. Li had such a big fire was in 2000.
At that time, Baidu's main business was to provide services for large domestic portals, and the vast majority of income also came from this, and Mr. Li insisted on transforming into an independent search engine, which was unanimously opposed by investors, shareholders and old employees.
It is precisely because of Mr. Li's 'fire' three years ago that Baidu did not fall down with those portals in the Internet winter, but on the contrary, became the largest search engine in China, the engine of Internet traffic, and the darling of the industry.
Therefore, in the eyes of Baidu's senior management, Mr. Li's anger means that Baidu has encountered huge challenges and entered a new turning point.
"What are you all doing for food, pig brains?!"
Mr. Li threw a stack of reports on the ground: "I don't stare at Zeyue and Zhao Zejun, and your marketing department doesn't keep an eye on it? Baidu Tieba's biggest competitor cooperates with Tencent, and our Baidu is actually the last to know? Or when I was in a meeting, I only knew when I saw the QQ pop-up window?"
In front of him stood a row of marketing executives, these people who have heads and faces in the mainland Internet industry, but at this time, they are like children who have made mistakes in kindergartens, standing in a row with their heads bowed, and they dare not come out.
"Mr. Li, in order to cooperate with our Tieba online, the marketing department has recently deployed most of the forces to promote......" The leader of the marketing department took a moment and said cautiously.
"I don't listen to your explanations!" Mr. Li interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
Because the arm was swinging so much, the back of the hand hit the computer monitor, and the monitor was about to fall off the table.
The person in charge of the marketing department was quick to see and hold the monitor, and then asked nervously: "Are you okay with your hand?"
Mr. Li glared at him fiercely, shook his hand, loosened his tie, and his tone softened slightly, saying: "I said hello to you when the song QQ Love came out before, right?
"Yes, yes, it's all our carelessness, and we do a deep review. Who would have thought that Zhao Zejun, a big and small company, would have a way to get in touch with Tencent, and Tencent is also strange, willing to cooperate with them for the sake of a song?"
Mr. Li's anger had already gone down a bit, but when he heard him say this, he suddenly became angry again, and slapped the table: "What kind of small company? What's wrong with the small company? Look down on the small company? Don't forget, Baidu was originally a small company, and it couldn't even afford to rent an office building, and lived in the old Liu's house." The first salary of your marketing department was borrowed, and for this money, Lao Liu and I went to ask for a whole afternoon!"
With a bang, the solid wood table was slammed and shook.
Mr. Li's face became a little weird, and he couldn't help but shake his hand again.
"Mr. Li, don't be angry, we will find a way to remedy it immediately. The person in charge of the marketing department sneaked a glance at Mr. Li's twice-'injured' hand.
"What can you do?" Mr. Li swept his eyes over the faces of several people in front of him one by one, and said: "Ze read the post bar up, this is not what I am most worried about, after all, the post bar can't shake the foundation of Baidu." But seeing you like this, I'm really scared. It's only been a few years since we've had enough to eat? Baidu is not invincible in the world, and there is a Google outside, but what about us inside?
Don't forget, what we do is the Internet, this is an industry that can have miracles overnight! Baidu took three years, Zhao Zejun used one year, and then, there are more geniuses and miracles, if we have been like this internally, I don't think we will wait for others to fight, Baidu itself will rot from the pot first!"
Several people were scolded by Mr. Li so much that they didn't dare to say anything, and nodded vigorously.
After scolding fiercely, Mr. Li's anger finally vented, sat down again, and asked, "Tell me, how are you going to remedy it?"
To be honest, the heads of the marketing department didn't think of any good way to remedy it.
Although it was unexpected, Zhao Zejun used an upright conspiracy, and joined forces with Tencent to bypass Baidu's traffic support and find another way. The number of Tencent users is there, and the results of the cooperation between the two sides are also very good, what can Baidu do?
It is nothing more than to deal with it by conventional means, strengthen the publicity of Baidu Tieba, and compete head-on.
"Alright, you go. Mr. Li listened to the report for a while, and rubbed his temples with a tired face, "Oh yes, is Mr. Liu back? ā
After a while, Mr. Liu, the CTO of Baidu, appeared in the office.
"Lao Liu, you sit. Mr. Li stood up and closed the office door, personally brought Mr. Liu a glass of water, and the two sat opposite each other on the sofa before saying: "It's been hard all the way, and these things shouldn't have been done by you, the CTO, but you have dealt with Tencent Zeng, and it is more suitable for you to go than others." How's the talk?"
"No, I can't. Mr. Liu shook his head and said: "Tencent is reluctant to cooperate with Baidu Tieba instead, firstly, because they have a contract with Zhao Zejun and exclusively cooperate with the circle of friends." Second, the development speed of the circle of friends is too fast, the current situation is very good, and the scale of Zeyue Tieba is larger than the newly launched Baidu Tieba, Tencent is unwilling to make extraneous branches, and suddenly changed partners, affecting the current situation; ā
"Who doesn't appreciate talents, if Zhao Zejun is willing to come to Baidu, I ......" Mr. Li subconsciously wanted to say, I can give him a small amount of shares, but after thinking about it, this is tantamount to a fool's dream.
Just like if the world's giant companies such as Microsoft and Telecom come to poach him at this time, saying that they will give him millions or even tens of millions of shares and let him give up Baidu, he will also refuse without hesitation.
"Mr. Li, don't be too angry, the marketing department has tried its best, Zhao Zejun's hand is too whimsical, and no one can prevent it in advance. Mr. Liu persuaded and continued: "Let's go back to our post bar and think about how to compete." ā
"I can't fight. Although Mr. Li doesn't want to admit it, he is like a mirror in his heart, the adhesion of Tencent users is too strong, there are two stickers, and Tencent users of course choose the one with their own circle of friends.
To put it simply, Tencent users can be equated with all mainland netizens.
Baidu Tieba continues to compete with Zeyue Tieba, not to mention winning, it is difficult to maintain even a draw, and a lot of manpower and material resources have to be invested.
Zhao Zejun's move has been made, Baidu is no longer competing with Zeyue, but fighting with Tencent, and it is still Tencent's strength: user adhesion!
"Let's talk to Zhao Zejun again, Tieba is an infinitely extended project, and the two will do it, obviously there is too much overlap, and no one can get better. Mr. Li paused and said, "This time I will talk to him personally." ā