Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 280: A Year's Plan Begins with Spring
As early as 2007, faced with the ever-increasing online shopping traffic, Alibaba clearly felt that its "brainpower" was insufficient, encountered technical bottlenecks, and urgently needed to build a new technical architecture.

In 2008, Alibaba determined its "cloud computing" strategy. In the same year, it recruited Dr. Wang Jian, former executive vice president of Microsoft Research, and appointed him as Alibaba Group's chief architect and head of the cloud department. Ma promised to invest 10 billion yuan every year in the research and development of cloud computing, and assured that he would accomplish this goal within 10 years.

At this time, people inside Alibaba were skeptical about the chief architect, especially because he could not write code and his major was psychology.

There were rumors within the company at the time that Dr. Wang had successfully fooled Boss Ma by using psychology.

In this way, Wang Jian gathered a group of young engineers and started the journey of Alibaba Cloud.
As time went by, huge amounts of money were spent but no results were achieved.

At the 2010 IT Leadership Summit, the two leaders of Baidu and Tencent discussed the topic of cloud computing. Li Ge, an Internet technology expert and the leader of Baidu, said, "To be frank, cloud computing is old wine in a new bottle. From the time the concept was proposed to now, there has been nothing new in the past four years. In fact, search and e-mail are inherently cloud computing models!"

Ma also agreed with this view. "If we can use cloud computing resources like water and electricity, there is indeed a lot of room for imagination, but it is too early for now. It will not be too late to talk about this topic in ten years."

This shows the attitude of industry insiders towards cloud computing. At that time, Amazon Cloud had already appeared, but it had not generated any profits, and outside voices were generally not optimistic about the concept of cloud computing.

As time goes by, there are more and more voices questioning Alibaba Cloud and Wang Jian, both in society and within the company.

Many big Vs on Zhihu have concluded that Wang Jian is a liar and that his ideas are unrealistic.

There has never been a lack of questioning voices in the company's internal forums.

Amid internal and external troubles, the Alibaba Cloud department, which has no achievements, works 375 days a year. Engineers in the department work hard every day, and their performance is at the bottom every year. That would be fine, but they also have to endure criticism and ridicule from colleagues in other departments from time to time. Many employees can't stand it and either choose to change jobs or resign.

Even at the board meeting a few years ago, someone cursed in front of Mr. Ma, saying, "Mr. Ma, don't listen to Dr. Wang's nonsense. This damn cloud computing is all bullshit, you know? There is a liar in the company, you know?"
Other directors also had complaints. At the beginning, Ma invited Dr. Wang to come and praise him to the skies, saying that Alibaba Cloud had a market potential of hundreds of billions in the future, and they were also very excited.

Taking 10 billion yuan from the group every year without producing anything in return made them suspicious and dissatisfied with Wang Jian. They thought Wang Jian was a "liar" and a "madman" and that Lao Ma had been "fooled".

Billions of dollars would be thrown into the water and would make a sound. If they were put into Taobao, the data and revenue would probably reach a higher level. But they were thrown into Alibaba Cloud and have been tossed around for several years, but no benefits have been seen so far. What's the point!
Faced with everyone's undisguised ridicule, questioning and attacks, the nearly 50-year-old, gray-haired Wang Jian was in a state of collapse at the Alibaba annual meeting not long ago, crying like a child.

Exhausted by the fact that his years of hard work were not understood, Wang Jian asked for a long vacation from the company, saying that he wanted to rest for a while.

Lao Ma approved it. This was also a means of protecting him. He always believed that Alibaba Cloud would achieve something. Now the opposition voices within the group were indeed a bit too loud. He wanted to wait until the storm died down before making another comeback.

In February 2012, the group's cloud computing was put on hold.

The railway ticketing system is not like other systems. It only requires large amounts of traffic during the Golden Week and Spring Festival travel rush. On weekdays, the traffic is actually not large. So even if there are so many servers, nearly 95% of them are idle and wasted every year.

Not every company can have an unfathomable server farm like the upstarts like Bi'an Technology.

Regarding the attack on the day of the Spring Festival Gala, he heard from his subordinates that even if some of the traffic reached the server, they still had not yet reached the bottom. They came to a conclusion that the opponent had at least tens of thousands of servers and the capital investment was at least billions!
Taking over 12306 is a double-edged sword. Only mature cloud computing can take over such a scenario, but unfortunately it is not now!

It just so happened that the progress of the Alibaba Cloud project hit rock bottom, so now Alibaba would not take over the mess of 12306 at all.

Lao Ma was looking at the comments on Weibo and was muttering to himself,

This little Chen on the other side is a little interesting.
I just don't know whether the other party's move to divert trouble was intentional or an accident.

During the rare days of rest during the Spring Festival, Chen Mo, who was called a little interesting by Lao Ma, did not have time to go to the streets to spread the happiness of men. He felt that it was only the happiness of a few people and the pattern was not opened.

Apart from getting together with his grandson Wei and his wife, and having a meal at Jun'er's house, he basically stayed at home.

I stayed in my own 500-square-meter apartment, thinking about the big picture of the other side this year.

He has now figured it out. If he doesn't want his employees to be treated like slaves, the leaders have to work like slaves and think of everything in advance. Otherwise, neither the employees nor the leaders are slaves. He can't treat his customers like slaves, right?

Otherwise, wouldn't the law of conservation of energy not hold true?

However, there was a phenomenon that broke this rule on the surface, that is, live streaming! Merchants sell goods at low profits and high volume, and advertise at the same time, anchors make a lot of money from the slot fees, the platform earns money quietly from the commission, and consumers think they buy things cheaper than the market and free shipping. Hey, at first glance, everyone is a winner, which is outrageous.

At the end of last year, the company's size reached 800 people, and this year we are aiming for a goal of 3,000 people. If we want to make 3,000 people the same as 800 people, the difficulty level will increase exponentially.

The team is too big and it’s hard to lead.

Being able to manage 800 people does not mean that you can manage 3,000 people. The same goes for 30,000, 300,000, and 3 million people in the future. Uh~ you’re overthinking it. My name is not Chen Sheng.

The company's vision, rules and regulations, personnel organizational structure, echelon training system, business and technology growth, etc. are all areas that need to be considered.

There is no other way. If you don't want to make your employees suffer, then make yourself and these executives suffer. After all, they are earning hundreds of millions of dollars a year, so isn't it normal to be tired?

Money can make the world go round, and this is not just talk.

He heard from the human resources department that many employees in the company voluntarily work overtime at home on weekdays, and the early launch of many projects in the company is the result of everyone's hard work.

After all, people are all made of flesh and blood. Only when the company is doing well can everyone be better off. The hard-earned working environment and benefits we have now should be well maintained. They are all adults and understand this truth.

Of course, the main reason why Chen Mo kept himself busy during the Chinese New Year was that he was alone and only when he was busy would he not think about these trivial things.

My grandson Weidunima has found a partner and they live in a big villa. They are living a very comfortable life together. This guy can be considered a prodigal son who has turned over a new leaf.

Chen Mo looked at the bustling world outside the floor-to-ceiling window. It seemed that he had to collect more beauties from the first to the seventh day of the New Year, so that he would have no time to feel sad.

It's definitely too late now. Those teachers who like to play mahjong can't help. Sister Zhiling has a family. It's a bit unethical to parachute in during the Chinese New Year.
Although he is a scoundrel, he is not a scumbag. He pays every penny he should and never compromises on the effort he should put in. He focuses on getting what each party needs and does not resort to money or temptation.

However, Chen Mo's mind did have a beautiful figure. She was not bad looking, although her breasts were a little small. However, her status and temperament were plus points. Who wouldn't want to try being a celebrity?
He took out his phone, opened WeChat, and watched the polite greetings on it. After thinking about it, he gave up because it violated his principle of not taking the initiative and not refusing. If he took the initiative, it would not be a business deal. Let's talk about it another day. Chen Mo stretched his body and started to work.
The national statutory Spring Festival holiday is 7 days, from New Year’s Eve to the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Generally speaking, employees will use their annual leave saved for a year at this time. Non-local employees of technology companies in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will take a leave of no more than three days before or after the holidays in order to spend more time with their families and have a good new year.

For employees who live far away, it often takes three or four days to travel back and forth. If they do not ask for leave, they can only stay at home for a short vacation in a year. Without leave, they cannot even stay at home during the Golden Week.

Why not more than three days? In the eyes of some company bosses, more than three days will delay work and affect the interests of the company. If there is no special reason for not approving, then what are the special reasons? For example, the employee gets married, a direct relative dies, etc.
There is no such thing at Bi'an Technology. Ordinary employees go back to work directly on the Lantern Festival, which is the 16th day of the first lunar month.

The management of the other side went to work on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, which happened to be Monday, so there was no problem of adjusting the day off.

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year, at the headquarters of Bi'an Technology.

A dozen employees who were on duty were surprised to find that their bosses had come to work.

Didn’t they say it would be valid until after the Lantern Festival? I was told that it was only valid for employees.

After hearing this, they were secretly shocked. Leaders are leaders, and their work is so hard!
Although they look very hard-working on the surface when they are on duty, they are actually very happy inside. There is not a lot to do every day, so they just make sure there are no problems with the online business, fix minor bugs occasionally, and use the rest of the time to work on projects and learn.

Overtime pay is three times the salary, but unfortunately due to the shift system each person can only work three days at most.

Otherwise, after these seven days, you can earn a month's worth of money by working a week.
All the senior executives from the other side have arrived, young and old.

Li Jianchao returned from overseas, Zhang Changfa also made a rare appearance here, and the heads and deputy heads of various departments were all here.

Chen Mo took a quick look and saw more than a dozen people. Wow, what a big scene!

The generals on the other side all had their notebooks open, and it was obvious that their "homework" had been prepared. Seeing this, Chen Mo smiled slightly, "Let's get started, one department at a time!"

From company-level development such as company rules and regulations, personnel echelon construction, talent development planning, to business planning, WeChat, mobile games, Zhiyan, and assistants are swept one by one
In the following days, this group of people held brainstorming meetings at work. Everyone was in pain and joy, either challenging others or being challenged by others.
(End of this chapter)