RBCT Chapter 1389 Hopeless (4k)
Chapter 1389 Hopeless (4k)
Chapter 1389 Hopeless (4k)
Fourteen years after its establishment, Du Ji has finally found the meaning of its existence.
Of course, Li Yanhong was joking.
In other words, find joy in suffering.
However, his words made many executives who were already upset feel... hopeless, and two directors left within just three days.
However, not only the media were not surprised, even Li Yanhong himself was not too surprised. Everyone has their own aspirations, so let's go.
On January 1, when Li Yanhong was receiving his daily work report from Vice President Xiang Hailong, he was suddenly shocked by the other party's words.
"Robin, I need to rest for a while." Xiang Hailong submitted his resignation quite calmly after reporting his work.
Li Yanhong could accept that others had different ambitions, but he could not accept Xiang Hailong's ambitions. He looked at his powerful vice president in shock and said, "President Xiang, what do you mean? Do you want to take a vacation?"
Xiang Hailong said without any hesitation: "Robin, thank you for your training, but my body can't hold up during this period. I want to leave the workplace for a while."
Li Yanhong stared at the vice president in front of him and asked, "Who poached you? Where are you going? Alibaba? Penguin? Or... Yike?"
Xiang Hailong sighed and replied, "No, I don't plan to go to these three companies. I'm really, really... exhausted both physically and mentally. I need to rest. If I feel better, I might do some investment work. I don't have any other ideas for now."
Li Yanhong digested the first piece of news that shocked him in the new year. After a moment, he tried to persuade Xiang to stay, "Boss Xiang, if you are under a lot of pressure or you are not feeling well, then you can take a break for a while and adjust yourself. You don't have to resign. Once you have adjusted yourself, you can take charge of the business you are responsible for. Our company cannot do without you."
As a contributor to the development of Du Ji, a vice president with real power, and a member of the decision-making level, if Xiang Hailong leaves, it would almost be a repeat of the internal personnel turmoil in the middle of last year.
Li Yanhong didn't want to see such a scene, and he really didn't want to lose another capable person when Duji was under great pressure.
"Robin, I..." Xiang Hailong hesitated for a moment, but he was not hesitant about whether to resign, but whether to speak frankly. In the end, he said concisely and forcefully, "I have decided."
Li Yanhong looked at Xiang Hailong, who responded with a calm expression.
"Hailong, the company is at the most critical moment. I understand that you want to take a rest at this time, but, can't you come back to help the company after you have rested?" Li Yanhong changed his angle.
"I can't help you." Xiang Hailong became more concise.
Li Yanhong stood up and paced around the office, saying, "If you have any opinions about the company or me, just tell me. I think there is nothing we can't talk about."
"Robin, I really don't have any objections." Xiang Hailong did have an objection, but after making the decision, he didn't want to talk about it anymore. "I'm just unwell, and, to put it bluntly, if staying can help the company win the battle, then I'll grit my teeth and persevere, but..."
He felt somewhat helpless when he said this, and spread his hands: "The problem is, it's useless for the company to keep me. Now unless Fang Zhuo is brought into the company, the company's business can only be eroded bit by bit. This is a problem of overall strength. Yike is developing too fast."
In the past two years, Xiang Hailong has been like a brick that has been moved wherever it was needed. It has been responsible for search, group buying, and taxi-hailing, but it has been at a disadvantage in each of them.
Such repeated defeats will really shatter my faith in Taoism!
When Yike officially launched the brand name "Yisou", the two companies were already at the same level in the PC search market. The CTR click-through rate showed that Duji's market share was 43% and Yiso's market share was 37%!
Within a week, after changing its name from Sogou to Yisou, its market share increased by nearly 10 percentage points.
This was a move that shocked and even caused despair within Du Ji. They had guessed the brand value of Yi Ke, but had not guessed it would be so high!
On the mobile side, Sogou surpassed Duji by 12 points in early December last year, announcing a change in the number one spot in the mobile market.
PC+mobile, Yike is basically only a step away from Duji.
Xiang Hailong believes that we may see the end of a giant this month.
If it is only the second in search, how can Duji be called a giant? What else can it rely on to fight back?
Do you really want to rely on uncertainties abroad?
Although there is uncertainty abroad, Yi Ke is very certain in China!
Xiang Hailong has lost confidence and does not want to play the role of "a link in curbing Yi Ke's monopoly" in the company.
"Hailong, are you really going to give up the market to Yike willingly?" Li Yanhong raised his voice, resting one hand on the desk.
"Robin, we never gave it to Yi Ke, it was Yi Ke who took it!" Xiang Hailong couldn't help reflecting when he said this, "Perhaps, it can also be said that it was our wrong decision to give in. With Yi Ke already eyeing us, we shouldn't have been in a hurry, we shouldn't have negatively optimized PC, we shouldn't have rashly entered the taxi market, we shouldn't have jumped into group buying... We were too impatient, and mistakes were made when we were in a hurry!"
Xiang Hailong shook his head and reflected, "But...any company that is targeted by Yike will probably be anxious. The pressure Duji has faced in the past two years is even greater than that of Penguin. It is difficult for us not to be anxious and it is difficult not to make mistakes."
Over the past two years, Yike has been advancing based on its strength, neither hastily nor slowly, neither arrogantly nor impatiently. Now the performance of the overall search market has proved that this is enough.
When the tide receded, Xiang Hailong almost overturned the company's past major decisions. He felt that if he had stuck to the search track two years ago, he might have been able to compete with Yike.
However, DuJi was very confident in search at the time, and believed that it could rely on its brand and traffic to expand in multiple fields and keep up with the expansion of popular giants, telling a capital story while also growing in size.
One is radical, the other is conservative, and only the final result can verify which one is correct.
However, Xiang Hailong himself was inclined to be radical at first, so what else can he say at this moment?
Just accept the defeat.
But even though Xiang Hailong admitted defeat, Li Yanhong was still unwilling to accept this catastrophic admission of defeat.
Du Kee still has 43% market share!
How can you be in first place and then give up and admit defeat?
"The taxis have been sold, and the subsidies for group purchases have been reduced. Let's take it slow. Doji Maps is still doing well. Combined with PC and mobile, we are still the number one search brand in the country. Hailong, Google didn't beat us back then, so do you think Yike can do it?" Li Yanhong encouraged Hailong.
Xiang Hailong just remained silent, the answer in his heart was self-evident.
Again, the international giants we are facing this time have grown up locally and are extremely patient.
In fact, he didn't want to say anything more discouraging. The company that Du Ji was fighting against was not the complete Yi Ke, but just a YMS business group of Yi Ke.
According to information leaked by Yi Ke, Mr. Fang of Yi Ke basically never asked about the competition in search, and it was Qi He who was dominating the competition behind the scenes.
Li Yanhong sat down again and said, "Hailong, do you have any problem with me? You can raise it. Or do you have any problem with Melissa? You can raise it."
Melissa is his wife's English name. Ever since the failure of Duji Taxi and being questioned face to face by senior executives in a meeting, Ma Dongmin gradually faded out of the management team.
But even so, the blood-letting in the online ride-hailing market still bothers many people, as that money could have been transferred to other projects.
Xiang Hailong shook his head and still said nothing.
"Hailong, I regard you as the future CEO of the company!" Li Yanhong put forward a hypothesis.
Everyone knows that Xiang Hailong is the powerful figure in Du Ji.
When Xiang Hailong heard this, he wanted to laugh but couldn't. Future CEO?
As a vice president with no financial power at all, many obviously asymmetric things have to go through CFO Li Xinzhe, and Li Xinzhe reports to Robin.
What future CEO, what prince of Duji, what number two person in the company.
Du Ji has never had any prince, number two person, or future CEO!
This is just Robin's own.
Xiang Hailong didn't say what was in his mind. He felt it would be better for both parties to be respectful.
"Robin, I will always be grateful for your respect for me and for Du Ji's training of me, but I have made up my mind. I want to take a break and spend more time with my family. You really don't need to persuade me anymore. I will arrange all the work that needs to be arranged." Xiang Hailong said as he stood up, leaving no room for dialogue.
Li Yanhong lamented, "Why did it come to this?"
Xiang Hailong moved his right hand, and seeing that Robin had no intention of shaking hands, he could only nod and quietly leave the office where he had visited many times over the years.
Goodbye, Robin, goodbye, Du Ji.
Li Yanhong sat in the office for a long time, unable to let go.
As for the current Du Ji, he felt that Xiang Hailong was almost second only to him. It was not an exaggeration to say that he was "powerful and influential". How could he leave like this, even in a somewhat irresponsible way?
After a long time, Li Yanhong began to think about how to reduce the controversy caused by Xiang Hailong's resignation.
At a time when Du Ji is facing life and death, the resignation of such a high-ranking executive will definitely hit the confidence of employees again. To be frank, Xiang Hailong's communication and low-keyness will be much better, at least, better than last year's shock.
Li Yanhong was considering candidates to replace Xiang Hailong, but no matter how hard he thought, the executives that came to his mind always seemed a little off.
As it was getting close to noon, he was becoming more and more confused. He almost wanted to call Xiang Hailong again, but when he thought about the other party's determined expression, he gave up the impulse.
Li Yanhong picked up his phone with extremely complicated feelings, but before he even took a second look, he saw a similar repost in his circle of friends.
It is worth mentioning that Li Yanhong once gave up using YiXin due to competition with YiKe. However, since so many internal employees and people around him were using YiXin, he started using it again. The reason was simple: there was no competition between DuJie and YiKe in communication software.
At this moment, Li Yanhong opened the update in his circle of friends and found that it was a reposted video from a new video software called “Tik Tok”.
As soon as he clicked on the video, he frowned and saw Fang Zhuo, the head of Yike.
Fang Zhuo in the picture was filmed from someone else's perspective. He was holding a mobile phone with a smile on his face. He first laughed a series of "Hahahaha" and then said something to invite the other party to visit Shencheng.
Then, after Fang Zhuo finished speaking, he released his finger from the screen and suddenly realized that he had not pressed the record button for his previous voice message, so he had to send the "Hahahaha" and invitation again.
However, the first time it was a very natural voice reply, but when he tried to repeat it again after it failed to be sent, his laughter always sounded unnatural.
Finally, Fang Zhuo looked at the shooting angle helplessly, waved his hands, and said, "Stop shooting, and don't post it even if you do. This is too embarrassing."
A small scene of using YiXin in daily life, but the protagonist of the video is the head of YiKe.
Li Yanhong himself has encountered similar situations when using YiXin. If the message failed to be sent the first time, he would feel it was strange to use voice for the second time, and would often choose to type instead.
After watching this video, he couldn't help but smile.
When I casually clicked on another video in the circle of friends, it was still a scene of Fang Zhuo using YiXin. This time, he sent the voice message and then listened to it again to his ear.
Li Yanhong suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. What was going on? Wasn’t this him?
Did Mr. Fang install surveillance cameras around him?
Li Yanhong turned off the video and suddenly found that there were a lot more shares from "Tik Tok" in his circle of friends. He was shocked. Is there a large-scale diversion between this new APP and YiXin?
Such collaborations are uncommon.
Li Yanhong had previously caught a glimpse of the launch of Douyin, and it was said that it had received investment from several well-known companies including Fengtou and Yike, but the specific scale was not disclosed. The founder came from Yike.
He frowned, quickly flipped through the relevant information, confirmed the important traces of Yi Ke's existence, and then some thoughts came to his mind.
A short video platform?
It looks like a video version of Weibo.
Does YiKe want to use YiXin’s traffic to launch a video version of Weibo platform for the 4G era?
Should Du Ji follow up?
Li Yanhong subconsciously had an idea.
Then, he began to think, since Yike provided the manpower and money, if short videos were important, why didn't they embed them directly into Yixin? Does this prove that they are important and not that important?
Li Yanhong's questions are also the questions of several other companies.
Yike's name is a golden signboard. Although it did not do it directly this time, the entrepreneurial team and capital start-up undoubtedly came from its control, and the project logic is also relatively clear, which makes many people think about related changes.
Nowadays, more and more mobile phone users have upgraded to 4G, and faster network speeds seem to be able to support changes in the form of mobile videos. The text version of Weibo is an important social media platform. Is the "video version of Weibo" a new social media platform based on the 4G era?
However, the industry is still analyzing that many people who have received shares on Yixin and WeChat Moments have already flocked to Douyin as a trial and have discovered a new world.
(End of this chapter)