Chapter 35: My Boss Has Gone Crazy
The matter of moving was just a small episode in Lin Yi's life that was not worth mentioning.
He still remembers the bet with Robin Lee, waking up every day and telling himself that if he didn't hurry up, the company would be owned by someone else.
"The $120 million that the company received in this round of financing has all arrived, and I specially asked the finance department to show you the account balance."
Liu Jianni has not yet agreed to be the CFO of Wanli Travel, and now the company's financial director is sent by Xiong Factory, because of such a large amount of money, Li Robin is not worried about letting them spend it indiscriminately.
Lin Yi didn't just talk about it, he really let the interface of the finance account open to his subordinates clearly.
The purpose of this kind of behavior is no different from taking a suitcase and dumping money on the table, which is to dazzle people and make their minds sway.
Sure enough, there are so many zeros on the screen that I can't count them for a while.
Whether in person or via video access, a distinctly heavy inhalation sound could be heard in the venue.
Seeing that the effect was achieved, Lin Yi ended this very deliberate performance, and then continued:
"The money is ready, it's our ammunition for the next six months, and it's at your disposal."
"But I also have my requirements, I need to see Wanli Travel enter 25 cities by the end of November, and 50 by the end of December."
"Yes, not long ago, the target was 20 and 40 respectively, and according to the size of the taxi market, we expect the next batch of cities to enter are: Gusu, Fengtian, Pengcheng, Bingcheng, Xidu, Jianye, Dihua, Jincheng, Luzhou, and Qindao."
"But now that we have more money, we're not thinking about how to spend it, but how to turn resources into strength for the company."
"This sounds like a lot, but the market size of most cities is equivalent to a district in Beijing, so it is not impossible."
"The next six months are going to be very, very hard, but please bite your teeth because this is the first time we have gotten a large amount of funding ahead of our competitors, and this is the closest we have ever gotten to the goal of starting a business!"
Lin Yi has learned from Liu Jianni that on the day of the announcement of the Xiong Factory's investment in Wanli Travel, Dudu Taxi and Kuaidu Taxi launched a new round of financing simultaneously.
To a certain extent, Lin Yi also helped them, because when they saw investors, they would say, "Wanli Travel has raised 120 million US dollars, and my market share is larger than his!"
Although the amount of the last round of financing between the two is less than a fraction of Lin Yi's, this situation will not last long.
And it's not all bad.
Lin Yi knew that although Li Robin had paid $100 million, he was still muttering in his heart, and when Dudu and Kuaidu both got the same amount of financing, they would not feel that they had lost.
"At the end of the day, I only ask of you for one thing, and that's market share! Market share! market share!"
Of course, the VAM clause in the financing agreement is not public, and only senior executives like Senior Sister and Wang Kai know that now he wants to transmit this pressure to everyone in the company.
Lin Yi used the way of saying important things three times to let everyone understand his determination, and his tone was full of the flavor of "wealthy".
After the meeting ended, he found CTO Wang Kai alone, who thought that he had come to ask about the docking and drainage with the Xiongchang map, and immediately patted his chest and promised:
"I know that our side is already on call 24 hours a day, as long as the bear factory does not drop the chain, it will definitely be able to be done before the end of December."
Xiong Chang is Wang Kai's old employer, he knows the other party's way of working very well, and is actually confident to complete the task, but he habitually expresses caution.
Unexpectedly, Lin Yi was not going to explain this at all: "I will communicate with the bear factory over there, you can just grasp it yourself, there is another important thing to do."
"I need you to increase the number of servers in the company to 1,000, and the hardware is good enough to say that there is money on the books now, but this scale may involve structural adjustments, and you will have to do it in December
Deliver the goods before the end, and if there are not enough people, they will be recruited."
Wang Kai was really surprised: "The company only has a few dozen servers now, and the carrying capacity has far exceeded the actual needs, how large are you going to deal with this number of orders?"
"You prepare according to the maximum of 10 million orders."
If it weren't for the fact that the person in front of him had just gotten $100 million from his old employer, which shocked the whole industry and boosted the morale of the whole company, Wang Kai would almost suspect that he would have gone crazy.
Mr. CTO had to dutifully remind: "Lin Yi, do you know how much the current order volume of Wanli Travel is far from 10 million? I can pull up the data and show it to you."
Lin Yi didn't care: "If you prepare the server, there won't be so many orders by then, and all the responsibilities will be borne by me."
"If there are so many orders generated by then, but the processing power in the background is not enough, then I can only ask you."
Wang Kai understood, this was an order, not a consultation.
He still thinks it's crazy, but since the boss has said so, he has only one choice.
I have to say that the recent success of this financing has also had a very obvious effect on Lin Yi's prestige within the company.
Wang Kai is a partner of the company, and he used to argue with him often, but now he does not dare to challenge his opinion easily.
Not to mention the employees below, like Zhang Xun, who brought out the members from the school, are now so optimistic that they have blindly worshipped them.
No matter what others do, Lin Yi is not blind.
After completing the crucial step of taking refuge in the bear factory and getting a large amount of financing, he is seriously preparing for the next step.
Lin Yi still gave his CTO a hint and patted the other party on the shoulder: "The largest financing scale in this industry was only $15 million before, and I asked for 100 million from the bear factory, guess how I explained the use of this money to Robin Li?"
Wang Kai didn't ask any more questions, as long as he knew that Lin Yi was going to make a big move. After receiving a new task, he wanted to go back to work, but he didn't expect Lin Yi to think of another stubble.
"How is Wanli Travel's investment in cyber security now?"
Wang Kai didn't know why he remembered this, and replied honestly: "It's decent, our current energy is mainly on business, and we haven't spent too much time on this, but it won't be worse than our peers."
Lin Yi asked, "Spend some money to improve our security level, if you can't find it outside, it's worth building a separate team."
Now the most important thing to travel is money, Lin Yi doesn't want to save this cost and give others the opportunity to do the trick, even if it is only an extremely small possibility.
Wang Kai was surprised: "Do you think someone will carry out a cyber attack on us?"
Lin Yi didn't say much: "The heart of defense is indispensable."
Especially your opponent is called Cheng Wei.