Zhongguancun, 8th floor, Hailong Building office building.
Feigou.com is moving at the end of the year. As a joyful move, there are balloon arches at the door and a signature board with names densely packed on it.
The office area on the entire floor is filled with long chairs, covered with red and white cloth, and various refreshments.
All 86 employees were present, and no one was absent. While eating, they listened to Lu Fei's speech on the stage.
As the company grew bigger and stronger, the organizational structure and positions changed accordingly. Xu Lei became COO, Liu Edong became president, Wang Huiwen and Gao Tuan were both vice presidents of the business unit, CTO Fang Xing, and CFO Zhang Yong.
The other three among the 6 big O's are Xu Lei who also serves as CHO and Liu Edong who also serves as CSO.
As for the CEO, of course it is Chairman Lu Fei who shoulders the responsibility.
"The Long March has regiment commanders who are in their 20s, and Feigou also has commanders and army commanders who are in their 20s and 30s. The Internet's troops must maintain four vocationalizations: youth, knowledge, and professionalism, and one vocationalization, which is Innovative, new, from the moment we moved to Hailong Building, Yanyuan Resources Hotel has become a point in the past, the first step in a long march of thousands of miles..."
He spoke concisely and to the point, without lengthy speeches. He talked about the "Long March of the Internet" for 5 minutes. Finally, he raised his drink high and said: "The great pass is like iron, and now we are crossing it all over again. Cheers, everyone!"
"cheers!!!"
The faces of Liu Edong, Wang Huiwen, Gao Tuan and others were full of excitement, especially Liu Edong, who completed the second level jump in just over a year.
From a small boss in Zhongguancun, to a general assistant, and then to the president of a large Internet company with a valuation of US$1 billion, what will it be like in one or two years?
Equity incentives, billionaires, ten miles of red makeup, eight-carriage sedans to marry Gong Xiaojing, and then the rich and powerful return home, the little overlord returns to Suqian!
If the tea is not intoxicating, everyone will get drunk, and he will walk lightly.
Lu Fei saw it in his eyes and resigned as president, paving the way for Liu Dong's promotion to CEO.
Feigou.com's two generals, Xu Lei is in charge of stability and Liu Gedong is in charge of attack.
Now is the day to conquer the world and conquer the world. Liu Edong should be given the seal of General Da Sima, and Xu Lei should draw the vice chairman's cake early and pay homage to the General Da Sima.
As Emperor Wu, he can devote more energy to long-term strategic design and major decision-making and deployment.
"The next thing I think is nothing but giving out money. This is the best affirmation and the best stimulus. I will give out the year-end bonus immediately!"
"Oh! Long live Mr. Lu!"
"Thank you, Mr. Lu!"
In an instant, the crowd cheered, deafening, and thunderous applause. Fortunately, the floor was strong and did not collapse.
Lu Fei handed over the job to Liu Yudong and called Xu Lei to the office. The commander-in-chief wanted to hear the sound of the artillery but also stay away from the artillery fire.
"The spring recruitment plan is here. I have formed three teams. Two teams are recruiting locally in eastern Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. I will take one team to Yanjing, Shanghai and Tianjin to sweep up, and then sort out the list for deployment."
After Xu Lei finished speaking, he began to complain that he had too many things to do and wanted to step down from several positions, especially the human resources position.
"Have you found a suitable successor?"
Lu Fei readily agreed. Xu Lei laid the foundation for today's human resources system of Feigou.com, but he was not good at the HRBP model of major Internet companies. Let alone shaping corporate culture, he couldn't learn from Jingdong to create a "brother culture", right?
Can a capitalist have brothers? The old brothers who live their lives resting on their laurels, the little brothers who are unwilling to struggle, the ones who are just dawdling anyway, are not my brothers!
It would be better to learn from Huawei and develop a "struggler" culture, and develop Feigou's "chicken soup + wolf meat" culture.
Xu Lei said: "I've looked for several, and I've also hired headhunters to look for them, but I haven't found one that's particularly suitable. Do you have one?"
"Do you think I'm a Doraemon who has everything?" Lu Fei rolled his eyes.
"The Zhang Yong you found is pretty good. How did you find him?"
"Of course when you are executing it, I will spend enough time looking for people. At least 60% of the time will be spent on the resumes of the executives of each company."
Lu Fei brags shamelessly and hides that he is cheating. I, Mr. Lu, am not cheating!
Xu Lei said impatiently: "Hey, hey, I know you're awesome and you're doing your job properly, so tell me quickly."
Lu Fei took out a cigarette from the cigarette box, put it between his nose and sniffed it, and the names of General Electric's Guan Mingsheng, UTStarcom's Long Yu, and Microsoft China's Deng Kang popped out of his mouth.
"Of the three of them, I am most optimistic about Long Yu."
"Hey."
Xu Lei remembered it and took out a lighter to light his cigarette, "What time is Friedman's flight?"
…………
It’s around 5 p.m., Capital International Airport.
Lu Fei asked Wang Dawei for their flight numbers and drove to pick them up in person. There was no need to bring a translator. Wang Dawei was China Telecom.
After his introduction, the two shook hands and met.
Friedman saw this young face. Although he had collected information from all aspects and understood Lu Fei from the Internet, he still couldn't believe it.
Is he the one who made eBay CEO Meg Whitman fall down the stairs in shock?
Did he let the Bertelsmann family and the group CEO have internal strife break out because of the Chinese business?
He just said "the world is flat"? No way, no way!
Wang Dawei glanced at him, it was him, it was him, it was him.
Friedman exchanged a few pleasantries and immediately took a test of his true talents and knowledge. If he had no useful information, he left immediately.
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You say the world becomes flat, how do you do that? "
"Because of the Internet, Thomas."
Lu Fei opened the door and got in the car with a mysterious smile.
Friedman curled his lips and got into the car, "Lu, you said that the Internet will wipe out the world. That's too general."
Lu Fei said: "Thomas, the Internet has formed a flat world network platform, and everyone has become a point on the Internet to participate in the world..."
"Wait a minute." Friedman rummaged through his briefcase and took out his voice recorder. "Can you be more specific?"
Lu Fei rolled his eyes and simply talked about the journalism industry, saying that the Internet would destroy the news industry's information monopoly of "you will listen to whatever I say".
Friedman listened with great interest, and couldn't help but laugh when he heard the new term "media voice". He liked this term so much.
"You said that the power of agenda setting will be transferred to the Internet platform?"
"Not just the media, Thomas, the history of the development of the Internet will be a history of competition for the right to speak, just like Microsoft and Netscape."
"hold on."
When Friedman heard about Microsoft and Netscape, he became even more interested. He took out pen and paper from his briefcase, just like a student who listened carefully and took notes.
As the saying goes, if you don’t know the true face of Lushan Mountain, it’s just because you are in this mountain.
He was in the chess game of the West, and the authorities were confused. Now Lu Fei was like the sage master of the East, a bystander who could answer questions clearly.
"But the Internet is still in the cold winter, and the collapse of Nasdaq stocks is expected to evaporate US$5 trillion in market value."
Lu Fei said optimistically: "Spring is coming soon, and next year I expect the Internet will be fully restored."
"real?"
Friedman collected various financial newspapers and read them. He really didn't see any signs of recovery and moved out of Amazon, which is similar to Feigou.com. At the end of 2001, Amazon's stock price fell by about 95%, falling to less than $5 per share.
"Thomas, it's not because I do e-commerce that I support Amazon."
Lu Fei squinted his eyes. This was an opportunity that even Buffett regretted missing. Of course he would not miss it. He bought it with US$800,000.
He confidently predicted that Amazon would rebound and gave many reasons, but the most important one was "China's accession to the WTO."
"China's powerful productivity has been freed from constraints. It can be said that China can produce as much as the global market requires. The world is not only flat, but also connected. In ancient times, China had two trade routes between the east and the west."
Wang Dawei translated Chinese into English and helped Friedman popularize the Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road. He suddenly had an epiphany:
"Lu, what do you sell to us, and what do we sell to you?"
"These 'shallow' commodities, such as shirts, socks, toys, and solar panels, are all sold to you. What you sell to us are 'deep commodities,' such as computers, chips, etc."
When Lu Fei thought about "800 million shirts in exchange for a Boeing", he was filled with hatred, but he pretended to be calm and relaxed because of his acting skills.
Friedman is very sober: "Sooner or later you will create more and more 'deep goods' and you will compete with us. We may not use your technology at home and in our businesses."
"Hey, we are a developing country. How can we have the money to build an aircraft carrier? If we don't have this capability, how can we have the money to buy chips?"
Lu Fei secretly hid his ambition to make software and hardware, pretending to be like a cute flower-planting rabbit. He has nothing, and we only love small money.
Friedman was fooling around and always felt something was wrong, but he said what was wrong.
"And you won't use our things? I don't believe it. We are friends. We have a common enemy, don't we?"
"you're right."
Friedman's doubts disappeared, "China and the United States are friends, and our enemies are terrorism."
"Wearealsobrothers, we are half-brothers."
Lu Fei was full of enthusiasm and added in his heart: Your two sons call me daddy!
Wang Dawei rolled his eyes, mmp, Mr. Lu, you want to embarrass me, the translator!
………………
Late at night, Yanjing Hotel.
Lu Fei specially came to give Friedman a clean break. After three rounds of wine and five delicious dishes, Friedman finally got the follow-up manuscript of "The World Is Flat" as he wished.
His face turned red, and he breathed out a faint breath of alcohol. He could not conceal his inner excitement, and he flipped through the manuscript eagerly. He had to catch up to the last page of the manuscript before he stopped, and he only reached one or two points as soon as he flipped through it.
It’s gone again!
After watching the movie, I felt empty inside, but my brain was extremely active and excited, especially under the influence of alcohol.
Sitting in front of the computer, typing away, I sent an email to Arthur Sulzberger, the head of the New York Times:
“Before I actually came to China, I was still worried about this trip, and I was prepared to come back with regrets.
But the result was far beyond my expectation. In my career, I have not come into contact with many Chinese people, like Li Kashing, but I have come into contact with many successful people. I have rarely seen someone of this age who has A wise man with amazing vision, this guy, like Steve Jobs, wants to change the world...
The 'New Wave of Globalization 3.0', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Made in China', etc. that he talked about are all invaluable to me personally and in my career. I even almost agreed to co-write a book with him...
So, I decided to stay a little longer and continue my trip to China. "
