Internet moguls are being held hostage by the entertainment system!

Chapter 47 From this day forward, Douyin's surname is Chen!

Inside the CEO's office at ByteDance, in the Yingdu Building.

"Dingle bell! Dingle bell!"

Hearing the noise, Zhang Yiming, who was flipping through a research report, looked up at the landline on the table.

After the call connected, the secretary's voice came through the landline: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Chen has arrived via Didi. He says he needs to speak with you."

"Chen Xiu?"

As Zhang Yiming muttered the name, he glanced sideways with his right eye and stared at the landline phone with his left eye raised.

After hesitating for two seconds, he replied, "Tell him I'm busy..."

"You're not going to say you're busy in meetings, are you?"

Chen Xiu's voice came through the landline, helping Zhang Yiming come up with the excuse he had just come up with.

Then, before Zhang Yiming could react, Chen Xiu continued, "This young lady is very professional. I used rough methods to snatch the phone from her."

"Hiss~~, then come in!"

After saying that, Zhang Yiming hung up the phone, shaking his head with a reluctant tsk.

About two minutes later, the office door was pushed open with a "whoosh," followed by the sound of incessant footsteps and the voice of Zhang Yiming's secretary.

"Mr. Chen, please take it easy..."

Zhang Yiming looked up at the door and was about to greet them when Chen Xiu came in, went straight to the sofa, and plopped down on it.

The female secretary looked at Zhang Yiming nervously and said, "Mr. Zhang, I..."

"That's all for you, get out! Order me two meals."

After giving instructions to his female secretary and watching her close the office door, Zhang Yiming got up from his seat and walked to the sofa.

"What's going on? You weren't this annoyed when Lü Chuanwei declared war on you last time."

Has ByteDance considered expansion?

Chen Xiu cut straight to the point. After obtaining the "layoff list" from Su Xiao, he began to consider how to find new jobs for these 20-plus programmers.

Tencent is a large and powerful company, large enough to accommodate these 20-plus programmers.

However, Chen Xiu's current relationship with them is merely one of cooperation; even after the equity swap is completed, he still won't have much say at Tencent...

After much deliberation, Chen Xiu could only set her sights on Zhang Yiming's ByteDance.

As a startup, ByteDance recruits a batch of new employees every year, so the demand has already emerged. Furthermore, Chen Xiu himself is a shareholder of ByteDance, holding more than 4% of the shares.

Therefore, it seems that the best solution is to have the 20-plus programmers currently employed seamlessly transition into ByteDance after being laid off next year.

Especially after hearing his question, Zhang Yiming gave a positive response.

"Of course we're expanding! As a shareholder, you're well aware of our company's strategic plan, aren't you?"

"The report you gave me was so vague, how am I supposed to understand it! Never mind, that's not important. I have a department of programmers on my hands, could you arrange something for them?"

Chen Xiu looked up at Zhang Yiming, her eyes eagerly awaiting a positive answer.

Under his gaze, Zhang Yiming, with an unchanged smile, lifted his still-warm bottom and took two steps at a time, back to his desk.

"What are you doing?"

Zhang Yiming, who had just sat down in a chair, heard the sound and movement so close by and immediately looked up. He then saw Chen Xiu standing to his side, arms crossed and leaning against the table.

Seeing Zhang Yiming's awkward expression, Chen Xiu sighed, putting on her acting skills.

"Sigh~, Lao Zhang, you've changed. Back in Jinqiu Garden, I'd always bring you a late-night snack after finishing my business. Now that I'm bringing people to rely on you, you don't even give me a straight answer about whether you want them or not?"

"It's not that I'm avoiding the question, it's just that your question is difficult to answer!"

Zhang Yiming sat in the chair and said earnestly, "I still trust your character. These people should all be highly skilled and ready to work right away, right?" "Yes, they all fought in that tough battle in May."

"That's right! ByteDance is in its early stages right now, and the only things we can offer to incentivize our employees are stock options and positions. Stock option rewards are limited, and senior positions are extremely limited. We don't even have enough for our own programmers. If you guys come over, won't it cause internal strife and chaos?"

After saying that, Zhang Yiming shrugged and put his hands on the table, indicating that he had no other choice.

No matter how big a company eventually becomes, those who are truly given important positions and nurtured are mostly the people from the early stages of the company.

Chen Xiu's original intention was to help the people she recruited into Didi find a relatively bright future.

It now seems that even if a company is willing to take them in, they will most likely only be offered entry-level positions, and their chances of promotion will certainly not be as good as those of the original inhabitants.

If that's the case, Chen Xiu doesn't need to worry. These people can find regular programmer positions within six months of leaving...

However, when she thought about how she had promised them a future, Chen Xiu couldn't really just abandon them.

The workplace is a melting pot, involving a great deal of communication, rewards and punishments, and human nature mechanisms.

Chen Xiu was able to personally lead the team to do front-line work and achieve remarkable results, which means he had a good relationship with the people under him!
After all, everyone has their own needs and a brain. Even if they are a little slow to process things, after spending some time together, they will be able to figure out whether others are genuinely treating them well.

Chen Xiu must have put in genuine effort and done things that these programmers highly appreciated, which is why Cheng Wei was so wary and started planning to lay off these people early on.

Therefore, it is understandable that he is now going to great lengths to help these people find a good future.

Upon learning of Zhang Yiming's predicament, Chen Xiugang was about to try to persuade him, but when his eyes swept across the table, he first saw the research report spread out on the table, titled "4G Network Penetration Rate".

Staring at the report and quickly skimming through a few key points, Chen Xiu's expression gradually became more meaningful.

"Old Zhang, is your next strategic move to bet on the video sharing sector?"

"How did you figure that out?"

"In the 2G era, the medium of internet communication was text; in 3G it was images plus text, and some animated GIFs. Looking at the number of 4G users and monthly active users, what do you think the medium of communication for 4G will be?"

Chen Xiu exchanged a meaningful glance with Zhang Yiming, and then the two of them laughed at the same time.

"Hehehe!" *2
Zhang Yiming pointed at Chen Xiu: "What you can think of, everyone else has thought of too, but if you want to achieve results, you still need to find a way to implement it and differentiate your products..."

"For example, ByteDance's big data push algorithm?"

Chen Xiu stared at Zhang Yiming, the deep meaning in her eyes had somehow turned into a smile.

Having his thoughts exposed, Zhang Yiming nodded smugly: "You're right."

Chen Xiu's lips curled into a smile, and the joy in her heart began to materialize.

"Old Zhang, the money ByteDance just raised shouldn't be enough to start another company, right?"

"There are indeed difficulties, but strategy is for the future."

"I'm leaving Didi next year, you know that."

"Um……"

Realizing what Chen Xiu was about to say, Zhang Yiming's eyes began to dart around.

"After I leave Didi, I will have a considerable amount of capital, a team of programmers, and an operations and finance team that can help me quickly set up a management structure..."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Zhang Yiming's expression turned serious as he frowned and stared at Chen Xiu.

At this moment, Chen Xiu stood in front of him and put her hand on his shoulder: "While having these conditions, I am also a shareholder of ByteDance."

Chen Xiu paused for a moment, stared at Zhang Yiming, and stated her ultimate goal.

"Let's collaborate! Let's create a video sharing app."

(End of this chapter)