Chapter 779
Faced with the unreasonable Audrey Morley, Xiong Minghua was also exhausted.
The two of them just didn't get along in the company and had disliked each other for a long time. Coupled with Bai Pi's unique arrogance, Xiong Minghua was very disgusted.
Now Lu Yiming has even offered him an olive branch, so he didn't indulge himself and said directly: "Since you think it's my fault, then I'll just resign."
When he said this, everyone in the office was shocked.
Chen Yongzheng looked at Xiong Minghua in surprise and advised, "Don't be impulsive. We can discuss anything."
Luo Chuan also said: "Yes, if you encounter a problem, just solve it. You don't have to resign directly. Failure is not terrible. At worst, you can just start over."
In their view, being able to serve as an executive at Microsoft is the ultimate form of employment. If they resign from Microsoft, they don't know how many years it will take before they can return to such a position.
After spending some time together, Chen Yongzheng still admired Xiong Minghua very much. He immediately came to Xiong Minghua and whispered, "You don't have to resign. At most, you will be blamed and punished. Don't be impulsive."
However, Xiong Minghua was determined. He didn't even think about it and blurted out, "Forget it. If I'm not happy with my job, I might as well change jobs. I won't stand this."
Chen Yongzheng said helplessly: "If you leave in such a hurry, how will you guarantee your living? Can you find a better job than the current one?"
"Yes." Xiong Minghua said without hesitation.
Chen Yongzheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are you so sure? Where do you want to go?"
"Yixun."
"ah?"
Chen Yongzheng was confused.
Not only Chen Yongzheng was confused, Luo Chuan also felt incredible.
"What do you mean? Isn't Yixun working on QQ? Do you think you can join because you can't beat him?"
Xiong Minghua was too lazy to explain so much, and immediately said: "If you think it is, then it is. Well, I'm leaving first, and I'll hand in my resignation report later."
“Hey you…”
Luo Chuan wanted to say something, but Chen Yongzheng stopped him and said, "Okay, stop talking. There's no point in saying so much. I guess it was Lu Yiming who came to him and promised him some benefits. Doesn't Lu Yiming like to do things like this?"
After a while, after sending Audrey Morley away, Chen Yongzheng contacted Lu Yiming through various channels, introduced himself, and then got down to business.
"Boss Lu, isn't this unfair of you? You come to me at this critical moment to poach my people?"
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "MSN will close down sooner or later anyway, and there is no use for Mr. Xiong to stay in Microsoft. Why not switch to Yixun Technology? That way everyone will have a bright future. Isn't that the best of both worlds?"
Chen Yongzheng was speechless at Lu Yiming's words. Although he was also unhappy with Audrey Morley's condescending attitude, he was still a senior executive of Microsoft and was still in charge of MSN, so he said unhappily, "Mr. Lu, isn't it too early for you to draw this conclusion?"
Lu Yiming said: "It doesn't matter. It's the truth anyway. It doesn't matter when you say it."
"you……"
Faced with Lu Yiming's shamelessness, Chen Yongzheng had no choice but to hang up the phone indignantly.
Luo Yunchuan knew from Chen Yongzheng's expression that nothing had been discussed. He said with a worried look on his face, "What should we do? This is a critical moment. Where do you think we can find another technical expert? Gong Xiaofeng, who was brought by Mo Li, doesn't understand technology at all. He thinks he can beat QQ by marketing. I don't know what to say. We can't beat the richest man Lu in marketing, okay?"
Chen Yongzheng shook his head and sighed, "Xiong Minghua has already changed jobs. I'm afraid MSN is doomed."
Chen Yongzheng has a clear vision of the market in Xiaguo. Today, QQ has become a popular platform that has crushed MSN in all social fields, whether it is work, life or entertainment.
Even if Microsoft is a big company and can drag it out for a few more years, what’s the point of keeping a half-dead project?
The key is that the people sent by the headquarters cannot solve the problem at all.
Chen Yongzheng pinched his brows and said, "Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, I have no other choice."
Luo Chuan said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "You've made me want to change jobs."
What the two did not expect was that because of Xiong Minghua's departure, several technical product and marketing backbones were soon poached by Yixun from MSN's project department.
Originally, these talents were the top elites that Microsoft had painstakingly recruited in Xia Country over the years. Each of them was one in a million.
After absorbing this group of talents, Yixun quickly made major revisions to QQ, making the style simpler and adding functions such as teasing animations, making the product functions even better.
The news that Xiong Minghua had switched jobs to Yixun was quickly picked up by the sharp-eyed media reporters. They were all very interested in it and rushed to interview Xiong Minghua.
"Mr. Xiong, it's really hard to imagine that you gave up your position as a senior executive at Microsoft and jumped to a company like Yixun. Although Yixun is a company owned by Mr. Lu and has created popular products like QQ, Yixun's size cannot be compared with Microsoft. What prompted you to make such a definition?"
Xiong Minghua smiled and answered the reporter's question without hesitation: "Every company has its own characteristics. Blindly pursuing large companies or multinational companies is actually very undesirable. Moreover, I believe that Yixun Technology will become a world-class platform in the near future. I can even boldly predict that Yixun will become the world's largest social software company."
One reporter, whether intentionally or unintentionally, asked directly: "I heard that Mr. Xiong was in charge of the MSN project at Microsoft before. Now that you, the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, have chosen to change jobs, do you think MSN is finished?"
This question was so simple and direct, and full of gunpowder. Although Xiong Minghua has now switched to Yixun, he still feels very annoyed by this question. He feels that MSN is a project he has handled after all, and saying this is equivalent to denying the value of the project. But he thought of Audrey Morley's face, and gritted his teeth and said, "In my opinion, MSN is indeed dead."
The reporter was stunned by the answer.
It is said that men in science and engineering are straight. If someone digs a pit for you, would you really jump into it?
The reporter became even more excited and asked, "Boss Xiong, why do you say that? Do you have any basis for that?"
Xiong Minghua said calmly and expressionlessly: "There is no basis for this. Facing QQ's all-round attack, MSN's defeat is only a matter of time. Now it is just a last-ditch effort. Moreover, in my opinion, MSN's death is actually unjust."
With one big piece of news after another, the reporters' hands were shaking with excitement, and they couldn't wait to give a cigarette to Xiong Minghua, a big shot who dared to say anything.
It’s really brave!
However, the reporters were not satisfied. They continued to ask Xiong Minghua: "MSN is dead. Who is to blame? Is it the technical staff or the company's top management?"
Xiong Minghua said: "For a giant like Microsoft, MSN is not about chatting and social networking, and its products in this field cannot become a core system platform that leads the entire IT industry. From the beginning to the end, MSN is just a small chess piece in Microsoft's many plans for the future. Microsoft has never invested enough resources and attention in MSN."
In front of the reporters, Xiong Minghua began to review the whole incident seriously. He did not want to pass on the blame, but pointed out the details of the mistakes Microsoft made in the MSN project. He said: "The careless attitude and rigid operating mechanism made MSN, which once had the opportunity to enter a glorious era, unable to escape the fate of extinction. Moreover, Microsoft's authorization of MSN is very problematic."
This topic immediately puts all the responsibility on Microsoft.
Once again, the reporters were shocked. After all, how could Microsoft, such a large company, make a mistake?
In the eyes of ordinary people, big companies are good in everything. They have the most forward-looking vision, lots of cash, and countless talents. Logically, they are always at the forefront of technological innovation, are perfect, and would never make mistakes.
In fact, the probability and frequency of large companies making mistakes is much higher than that of small companies. Every year, there is no telling how many projects are scrapped. It is just because the company is large enough, so there is enough cost of trial and error, and those projects that are stillborn have no chance to meet consumers. And those small companies are very small and can't withstand any storms, so they are very cautious in project selection, which makes them less likely to make mistakes.
Xiong Minghua's words made the reporter feel unbelievable: "No way? Ordinary people would try their best to avoid these mistakes. How could such a large company like Microsoft make such a low-level mistake?"
Xiong Minghua said calmly: "Microsoft is a company, and the people who run this company are real people, so Microsoft will certainly make mistakes. Why do I bring up the issue of authorization? This authorization is not only about the localization of management authorization and marketing, but the most important thing is product localization, giving local product teams enough authority to modify the product."
"Just last Wednesday, an employee wrote an email about the location and format of the ad. The email was later forwarded to Hong Kong (where Microsoft Greater China is located), then to London (Microsoft Asia Pacific headquarters), and finally to the headquarters. After a week, the email almost went around the world, but the problem was not solved. In the end, we could only find a way to compromise."
"With such efficiency, how can we compete with the united QQ?"
Nowadays, there are not many multinational companies in Xia Country, and it is even more difficult for ordinary people to get in touch with these things. In the eyes of ordinary people, these world-class companies and super-scale multinational enterprises have a beautification filter. It's like many people mention the United States, and they say this place is good or that place is good.
In the eyes of ordinary people, if I, an ordinary person, know how to do something, don’t multinational companies know how to do it? There are so many top talents in their companies, can’t they see it?
In fact, being able to see and being able to do are two completely different things. Just like the example Xiong Minghua mentioned. Don’t you know that the Internet is changing rapidly and opportunities are fleeting? In fact, everyone knows. The key is that those who can do things don’t have the right to do them. By the time they get the authorization, the opportunity is already gone.
Xiong Minghua's words stunned countless reporters. It was the first time they knew that the internal management of multinational companies was so bureaucratic.
No wonder they say it’s hard to turn a big ship around. This kind of process that requires approval on everything is obviously unable to cope with the complex market situation in the Internet industry.
Soon, Xiong Minghua's interview content appeared in newspapers, and people got their first glimpse into how large companies operate through newspapers.
Very unreasonable and very inhumane. This is what everyone thinks of these so-called big companies after reading the report.
As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss. Many people who read the report felt that they could be in charge of such a stupid management team.
On the other hand, after the newspaper was published, it somehow ended up on Bill Gates' desk. After reading the report, Bill Gates was immediately very upset and called Lu Yiming directly: "It's fine if you poached my people, but you also wrote about me in the newspaper. Isn't that a bit too much?"
Facing Bill Gates, Lu Yiming also felt very helpless and said with a wry smile: "You have to believe me, those words were really what Xiong Minghua wanted to say, not what I instructed."
However, Bill Gates felt that he knew Lu Yiming quite well, so he naturally disdained Lu Yiming's defense: "You are a man with bad intentions, and you still want to wrongly accuse Xiong Minghua?"
When Lu Yiming heard this, he was immediately unhappy and immediately shouted in defense: "What you said is meaningless. How could I have such bad intentions? I have always used high moral standards to demand myself, okay?"
Bill Gates scoffed at this: "Do you believe this yourself?"
Lu Yiming said, "Okay, I know you're unhappy, but you just lost to me again, what's the big deal? You're the richest man in the world, you should be more generous, how come you don't have a big picture at all?"
Bill Gates was anxious: "Who said I lost? MSN hasn't lost yet, okay? At worst, I won't go to Xiaguo to compete with you. Anyway, your QQ can't enter America. Then we can divide the country and rule separately. Your QQ will be rampant in Xiaguo, and my MSN will be circulated throughout the Western world."
Lu Yiming smiled and said, "My QQ is indeed not doing well, but I'm afraid that the social software market will not end up in the hands of MSN."
Bill Gates' scalp suddenly tingled, and he said angrily, "How can you say that? Except for the time when we were tricked by your schemes in Xia Country, MSN has no rivals in other parts of the world!"
Lu Yiming couldn't help but laugh: "Are you so confident?"
