Chapter 17 Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes

Gu Cheng has been tired of all kinds of annoying things recently, and today he happened to take the opportunity to pick up Cheerilee and be discharged from the hospital, so he got off work early to relax. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After completing the formalities, Pan Jieying drove and sent the cherries back to her residence - Gu Cheng was fined for not taking a driver's license for one year because he was sent to the hospital without a license that night.

Although Cheerilee is now an insignificant small role, after all, Gu Cheng personally recruited it from Dongyi back then. A girl from someone else goes to a foreign country to work for you, and you can't leave anything wrong.

After getting into the car, Gu Cheng remembered a question: "Later, I didn't hear that you bought and rented a house, where did you live recently?"

Cheerilee has just recovered from her injury, and her face is still a little pale, but she looks very much like the appearance of those terminally ill girls in Yi dramas. The speech response is also a little slow:

"I still live in the company dormitory. There are still 4 people left in the house, a girl found a local boyfriend in the company, moved out, and there is ...... Kim Sung-taek was arrested. ”

It turned out that she had been living in the "Lakeside Garden" apartment she bought in the western suburbs of Qiantang when Legend Entertainment first opened. A house of less than 90 square meters is squeezed into four people.

In October last year, after Sun Zhengyi's money was in place, Gu Cheng bought a new office building in the Eastern Software Park, and the company had already changed its guns and moved places, and they had to catch the bus for more than half an hour every day to work.

It can only be said that she is relatively big in terms of life, and she is not very particular.

"It's been three or four months since the company moved, and you don't want to change places. In this way, there is a small house next to the company, which was originally lived in when my sister was studying, and I gave it to you. It's not big, but it's very convenient. ”

What Gu Cheng mentioned was naturally the house next to his cousin's school that he spent 200,000 yuan to buy at the beginning of his crossing, which was much closer to the company and more prosperous. Since Gu Cheng's family moved to the White Horse Apartment, this house has been empty and has not been treated.

With Gu Cheng's current worth, this kind of house is naturally not a big deal. When Kim Chengze was arrested, Gu Cheng rewarded half of the recovered illegal gains to Cheerilee, and the money was also more than a million, so Cheerilee couldn't refuse the house of more than 200,000 yuan without hypocrisy.

Pan Jieying kicked the accelerator and drove to the place, took Cheerilee upstairs to get to know her, and then handed the key to Cheerilee. The things in the house, except for a few personal belongings, were naturally left to Cheerilee. The electrical appliances and furniture are very complete, just check in with your bag.

As soon as Cheerilee saw it, she knew that this was Gu Cheng's "former residence", and her heart was warm.

After cleaning up everything, Gu Cheng saw that it was still early, so he proposed: "It's still early, let's go out and have a meal together, which can be regarded as congratulating Sister Che on her discharge from the hospital." ”

Cheerilee smiled and didn't object, anyway, what Gu Cheng said was what it was. Pan Jieying was still careful, and complained to Gu Cheng: "How can anyone who has just been discharged from the hospital eat and drink, take out and order a few light dishes, I'll buy something to make porridge." ”

After that, Pan Jieying put on a hat and sunglasses and went downstairs to buy vegetables. Gu Cheng chatted with Cheerilee in the house.

Both parties deliberately avoided awkward topics, and naturally talked about work.

Gu Cheng mentioned many details of Kim Sung-taek's case for the first time in front of Cheerilee: using the permission to modify the database, selling game equipment to collect millions of black money, and how to collude with Du Ming......

As he spoke, Gu Cheng couldn't help but sigh: "I always thought that there was only trouble in industrial 'supply chain management', and it was easy to get 'rebates for procurement'." I didn't expect that even the content industry could breed so much internal corruption. Sometimes it's quite powerless to think about, and I'm really not good at management. ”

The set of content industry management experience that Gu Cheng saw thirty or forty years later is not useful at all today. Because the thoroughness of data analysis today is fundamentally different from that of decades later.

If it hadn't happened this time, he wouldn't have thought of the problem at all.

In contrast, although Cheerilee does not know much about management, she has a deeper insight into the corruption within the content industry than Gu Cheng. She said lightly:

"This kind of thing is normal, and the 'supply chain' of the content industry will only be more difficult to manage than the industry. In my first year at WEMADE, I had seen countless project teams privately forming up with their bosses or the company's promotion team to get more resources.

In this world, there is almost no boss who bites a game operation like you and firmly believes that this game will definitely make money, and you have to bet right. But if you need to run several online games in the future, do you think they will be able to resist competing for the company's public resources without unspoken rules?"

Gu Cheng was speechless by this simple truth.

Indeed, in addition to a "prophet" like him, he knows that the "legend" will inevitably become popular, so he will unconditionally support the legend.

And what is the mode of doing business for normal people? It must be the shotgun method to test a few projects first, to see which one grows up and which one hits the street. If the growth is good, add resources, just like the angel round and ABC round of venture capital.

Within large game operators, there will definitely be ambiguous public advertising resources and channel resources. At this time, whoever the channel is given will inevitably produce corruption. Just like some unpopular fiction websites, the gods have to treat them several times in order to get a recommendation of "not a mistake in principle to any of the candidates" at critical moments.

(Of course, more regular big websites are still very clean, don't think crooked.) )

Gu Cheng's company has been open for a year and a half, but he has not firmly tied the fence of the internal discipline inspection department, and there has been no accident, and it is all thanks to the fact that he only has one cash cow so far - if there were several of them who were robbing each other of resources, Legend Entertainment would have been tossed by internal friction a long time ago.

Gu Cheng heard that a cold sweat trickled down.

Talking about this, Pan Jieying has already returned from buying vegetables. washed and cut it, threw it into the pot to boil porridge, and then added the topic of Gu Cheng and Cheerilee.

Pan Jieying is an MBA student, and her brain is active in management, and under mutual inspiration, she quickly thought of a hidden danger in the current business: "By the way, Ah Cheng, what you said, the game field should not be obvious at present, after all, we are one game, and we don't need to 'compete for favor'." But what about Dingdang.com? Will there be a ...... between the management of the website and the independent musicians affiliated with it? What's going on underneath the table?"

Gu Cheng's expression was solemn: "Let's be specific." ”

Pan Jieying cut her sideburns, took out her laptop, and opened the website to point out to Gu Cheng: "There is one of the biggest problems in the sales of independent music, which is display. Because music is not like books and television, it can't be described in words, and if you don't let the audience listen to it first, you can't know if you like it or not.

But at present, we do not provide the 'online audition' function on the public version of Dingdang.com, because the current domestic Internet speed is generally relatively slow, and it is not suitable for listening while buffering. Moreover, it cannot be directly provided for MP3 format download, so as not to affect sales.

So far, we still rely on more than 30,000 Internet café owners across the country to promote independent music - on the machine pre-installed with the Internet café owner payment platform client, we provide an encrypted local music library, which cannot be copied or copied, and all the songs of independent musicians who have signed contracts with Dingdang.com are placed in that music library.

Every day when the owners of Internet cafes are doing business, they use the loudspeaker to loop the records that are currently being recommended. If netizens who go to the Internet café to consume think it is good, they will ask the owner of the Internet café for the name of the record and the name of the singer and decide whether to buy it. ”

This kind of sales method is actually very primitive. Just like in the past, when video stores sold records, they also relied on the store owner to put a loud speaker at the door and play the songs at the maximum volume to attract others to buy them. It's just that now because of the construction of the Alipay system, tens of thousands of Internet café owners across the country have played the role of audio-visual store owners three or four years ago.

Gu Cheng didn't think there was any problem with this channel publicity model, but after experiencing Kim Sung-taek's analysis of cherries, when he heard this passage again, Gu Cheng's feelings were different:

"Do you think there may be a conspiracy between independent musicians and website editors to adjust the order of the music library, or use other means to interfere with the probability of tens of thousands of Internet cafes across the country 'which music is usually played more'?"

Pan Jieying nodded knowingly: "That's what it means - in the era of traditional video stores, the playback behavior of all store owners across the country was random, or spontaneously felt that which fire was set off." And now they get the library of music, which we provide to them, unified. If someone does something in this......"

Gu Cheng suddenly got up and asked resolutely: "Quick, immediately check the sales list of Dingdang.com in the past few months! Dig out all the top 50 independent musicians in sales, and I will personally listen to them one by one, if there is any obvious level that is too bad." ”

Pan Jieying glanced at him resentfully: "What are you anxious about, treat Sister Che's family as a company." It's not a matter of a day or two, let's talk about it after eating!"

Gu Cheng called Gao Dasong and asked him for a report, and then the three of them waited while drinking porridge and eating vegetables.

After drinking the porridge, Gu Cheng turned on the computer and saw that the email had arrived. He listened to some of the most popular songs a little and thought that there might be a problem.

There are a few musicians who are not well-known and do not seem to be very good, but their sales are significantly higher than those of the same level.

However, before he caught the real evidence, Gu Cheng couldn't say anything.

Pan Jieying saw Gu Cheng's ugly face and persuaded: "Why don't you do this first: in the future, all independent singers' works, no matter how popular they are, must get an average recommended trial amount." If they do sell well and deserve more promotional resources, let them apply out of their own pockets, or wait for our data monitoring methods to be further upgraded......"

Gu Cheng nodded and temporarily agreed with his cousin's idea.

However, he knew that these were all trivial technical treatments, and the key was that he needed to operate on the company's internal management.

Boss Li himself is so affectionate, but in the end, Du Niang became a seller of counterfeit drugs, and even the vice president was rotten in batches - the example 20 years later can be described as a negative teaching material of "poor management of the content screening industry".

Ma Feng needs Peng Lei, and Gu Cheng also needs such a virtuous help.

He thought about it for a while, and discussed weakly: "Sister, I don't think you know much about operations, so why don't you concentrate on human resource management in the future." I need someone to help me get rid of the flies in the company. ”