On the side of Hatsune Network Technology, Gu Mojie played a set of combination punches, recruiting programmers, renting office buildings, and finding friends in the media to spend money on public relations and promotion, and the speed of spending money was almost the same as not asking for money.

At the same time as the momentum of Hatsune Network, Ahri Group is not idle, and Taobao's main technology research and development public relations direction this year is smashed on the "Find the same function based on the in-depth search of graphic materials". Zhou Lixin was almost working overtime during the Chinese New Year. As one of the newly promoted deputy technical directors of Taobao.com, he has little qualifications and weak ability, and has never stood at such a height to coordinate a large project with hundreds of millions of development costs, so he can only rely on diligence to make up for his shortcomings and speed up the running-in.

Theoretically, being a project manager in R&D and being a technical director in an Internet company are all about the nature of the work, and the difference is only in the depth and breadth, the breadth of knowledge, and the ability to dispatch resources. Zhou Lixin has been a project manager for a year, and now as long as he works overtime every day, he can also work out quickly.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, all the Ahri Group was still on vacation, and Zhou Lixin naturally couldn't go to work, but this did not affect him to deal with some work at home, and take stock of the current allocation of resources.

"The team of programmers of the engine ...... Well, it's all in place. Do ...... related to depth algorithms Okay, Applejack's manpower and source code resources are enough...... Operational planners, barely enough. Tsk, can you see this project? Or is it selling clothes with the idea of selling mobile phones and electronics online, how can this be done? ”

AFTER TAKING STOCK OF THE EMAILS AND FEEDBACK ON THE MACBOOK, ZHOU LIXIN FOUND THAT HIS TEAM STILL LACKED A SHORT BOARD.

It's enough to be a programmer for traditional search, and Gu Mojie has also allocated him for a programmer in terms of new deep algorithms, but only those who propose demand planning are a little insufficient.

In an Internet company, the technical director is not only a programmer, but also a person who asks for a product. The people who make the plan, these people are the planners. Many people who play games, after clearing the explosion, often see the ending song pull out a list of "making zuò group acknowledgements". "Program" and "planning" are separated.

The planners need to know a little bit about the program, so that they can know "what kind of requirements to put forward, and the programmer can do it", otherwise. If you only understand the requirements and don't understand the procedures, you will often put forward imaginative and infeasible requirements.

For example, if you pull a novice, you know that you should put forward to Google that "you should develop a new generation of artificial intelligence-based machines" and "you should spend money to develop unmanned vehicles and virtual reality". However, this kind of demand has no guidance and help for the development of enterprises, and there is no operation.

At the same time, the planner must not only understand the program, but also fully understand what the customer wants to serve in the future. Demand based on market orientation. The core of planning is to seek a balance between "what the company's technical strength can provide" and "what customers want".

However, Zhou Lixin took a look at the team that his subordinates are now allocating, and this part is really not a good job. The reason is that as he just said to himself:

Ma Feng sent some planners who were originally engaged in mobile phone and electronic product e-commerce to plan how to sell clothes and accessories online.

These planners don't know how to serve customers who need fuzzy search and non-standardized products.

To put it more thoroughly, the original planners on Taobao did not understand women enough.

They get it. It's all men who "I need to buy something, and then go directly to the name of the store on Baidu, rush in and buy it with a single knife". Man is an animal with a strong sense of purpose when shopping, what do you want? Just look at what.

And women are in the "shopping" to trigger business opportunities and trigger purchases. Before shopping, I didn't know what I was going to buy, and I was completely aimless. Only women will enjoy the process of shopping.

Later generations began in the 2010s, Taobao's middle and senior managers. The proportion of women began to increase significantly, because since the shopping festival culture of Double 11 was rendered, Ma Feng has paid more and more attention to the factor of "understanding women" to help his career. In Ahri's R&D planning team, the weight of "understanding women" began to gradually increase higher than that of "understanding technology".

It's a pity that it's still early 2005, and the planning team of Taobao is still a group of big men.

Zhou Lixin summarized slightly blankly, and typed a few lines of requirements on his computer:

First, we must understand women.

Second, you need to know how to search.

Third, it is best to do both the R&D planning of the search project and the operation after the R&D is completed.

Planning and operation actually have something in common. Sometimes, the person who planned a project during R&D will move to operation after the R&D is completed and the long-term maintenance phase is completed. The operator does not need to come up with a subversive plan, but only needs to assess the situation and propose some tinkering according to market changes. But people who have done a lot of tinkering are obviously helpful for the initial top-level design ability.

After these requirements were written, Zhou Lixin suddenly found that his heart was hot, and a shadow jumped out.

"Can you poach Baidu's Liu Feitong? She obviously understands women's consumption psychology very well. She also did the demand planning of Baidu bidding search that year, and she must have a lot of say in how a search engine product caters to customers; After the PPC was launched, I did PPC operation for another year or two......"

Moreover, the search for graphic materials based on deep learning algorithms is a technology that is more biased towards Baidu. You don't see, in the United States, it is a company like Google that does it, but after coming back, Baidu has no spare money, and has to give up this piece for the sake of profitability before listing. But in any case, the introduction of a Baidu planner must be more professional than Ahri's own planners.

Baidu doesn't do this business, so let's dig people from Baidu to do this business!

This kind of idea, if it was a year ago, Zhou Lixin would not dare to think of it.

He is just a second-year programmer who graduated from Qiantang Institute of Electronic Engineering, and he is a technical nerd. Although Liu Feitong returned to China without finishing his master's degree, he is still from Stanford, and he has been in Silicon Valley for a while. As soon as Zhou Lixin thought of the other party, his homely spirit would attack, and he would retreat in shame.

Although he was already rich at that time, he didn't think that was his own ability: in his cousin's company, no matter how much money he made and how high his management status was, he would not be tough when he said it, and others would treat him as a relation.

But now, he has also achieved a certain high position within the Ahri Group. Although Ma Feng did this, there were also considerations to win people's hearts and strengthen cooperation, but Zhou Lixin's self-esteem and self-confidence obviously exploded by several levels.

Boss Ma values me so much, which means that we are also a talent! Soon to reach the peak of life! Boss Ma's number of coffee positions is not lower than that of your Boss Li, right?

Zhou Lixin plucked up his courage and called Liu Feitong. When he listened to the ringtones, his heart was beating a little faster.

"Hey, hello Mr. Zhou, do you need any help?" Liu Feitong's warm voice came from the other end of the phone, and the tone was still like treating Zhou Lixin as a customer.

Zhou Lixin didn't answer immediately, and Liu Feitong on the other end naturally followed with a compliment: "I heard that you have become the deputy technical director of Taobao.com, and I have been afraid of disturbing, so I haven't had a chance to congratulate you." ”

Liu Feitong's treatment of people is still so professional, and he will not let the topic cool down at all.

"Manager Liu, I have a reluctant request, I don't know if you want to consider it."

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a while, obviously Liu Feitong needed to digest this abrupt request.

"You're welcome, let's talk about it first."

"I wonder if you're not interested in joining a 'graphic search engine' type of project? You know, Boss Li will definitely not compete with Google in this field in order to report profit margins before going public. If you stay at Baidu, you may not have the opportunity to join a similar project in the future. ”

Liu Feitong was taken aback: "Mr. Zhou, can I understand it this way: are you trying to poach me to change jobs?" I'm doing a good job in Baidu, and Boss Li appreciates me, I can't ......"

Zhou Lixin couldn't wait for Liu Feitong to finish saying this, so he immediately interrupted her and continued to persuade: "However, when you gave up your master's degree and returned to China to join Boss Li, didn't you just want an opportunity to join the search engine development team and change the world?" Isn't it just to provide Chinese with products that they couldn't enjoy before?

Now this thing that Boss Ma is doing is not only another such opportunity, but we know women better than Boss Li, and we know how to serve women. If you come, you can help women all over China to raise their demand for online shopping and transform online shopping into what modern women want. Let the girls who want to shop online know what to shop, don't you think this matter is more meaningful than making money? ”

With these words, Zhou Lixin had made countless drafts in his stomach in advance. It is also thanks to Gu Mojie that after he carried out some careers in Silicon Valley, Zhou Lixin also got some opportunities to go to the United States for investigation.

Subconsciously, in order to complete this persuasion, Zhou Lixin tried his best to disguise himself as "what kind of mentality was Boss Li when he was young, and now we are also that mentality".

"Let me think about it."

Liu Feitong did not refuse immediately, but left an opening.

This kind of big event, if someone else makes a phone call, you just agree directly, that is unwise.

But obviously, the big cake painted by Zhou Lixin is very attractive to Liu Feitong. Think about it, you can teach women across the country how to shop online in the future, and induce them to shop more efficiently online. This kind of thing is difficult for a woman to refuse.

What's more, Liu Feitong is a woman who wants women to live more conveniently. (To be continued.) )