Having convinced Su Jiajia, Zhou Chen no longer needed to worry about her slacking off at work.
Just as he was letting out a long breath,
Su Jiajia suddenly remembered something, and abruptly changed her tone, revealing something.
It turns out that a company created a similar game based on the popular online game "Happy Match". Not only that, they even went to the company's building to stake out and poach employees with high salaries.
Su Jiajia's words were filled with anger, expressing strong dissatisfaction with the despicable tactics of the game company that plagiarized her work.
Plagiarism, poaching?
Zhou Chen frowned. This was going too far.
"Fortunately, we made all employees sign confidentiality agreements and non-compete agreements, otherwise they might have succeeded."
Su Jiajia explained the offer from the company that attempted to poach her, which was quite substantial.
All staff members who have participated in the development of Happy Match are willing to be offered a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan.
What do the employees think?
Zhou Chen asked curiously.
To be honest, the temptation of a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan was still very strong. This wasn't twenty or thirty years from now, but in 2005, when purchasing power was very robust.
It's hard to guarantee that some people won't succumb to temptation and break the contract.
Mentioning this, Su Jiajia's tone immediately softened, and she said, "No one has resigned. Although our salaries are not as high as 20,000, the bonuses we give are just as good, plus various holiday benefits. All things considered, it's not a small amount. The most important thing is that they understand that 20,000 a month is not easy to earn. Once they don't generate corresponding value, they will be easily discarded."
Zhou Chen nodded to himself. It seemed he was lucky to have gathered a group of conscientious and intelligent employees who knew how to take a long-term view and were not short-sighted.
"In the final stages of a farm game, try to avoid any problems at this point."
"Tell the game team to make this game a success, and the rewards will still be substantial. The company will not forget the contributions of every employee."
Zhou Chen gave some instructions,
As for the game company that plagiarized, it's a perfect match for Su Jiajia's expertise. As a former lawyer, Su Jiajia can use legal means to protect her rights.
Of course, it would be time-consuming and laborious for Su Jiajia to do this alone.
Zhou Chen's plan is to hire a professional legal team to handle this matter. After all, everyone has their own expertise, and Su Jiajia can spare the time and energy, so the legal team can handle it.
In fact, Zhou Chen wanted to establish a legal department, but at present, the company is not large enough to meet that requirement, so he can only ask a legal team for help for the time being.
On the other end,
After putting down her phone, Su Jiajia contacted the law firm where she used to work. Previously, she was an employee, but now she would appear as the financier, bringing in several good friends from her old workplace to handle the game plagiarism issue.
When Su Jiajia called and learned of her intentions, her former colleagues, and the fact that she was now the general manager of a company, all had mixed feelings, but more than anything, they were happy for her.
They chatted for a while before hanging up.
Su Jiajia knew that her former colleagues at the law firm must be reminiscing and discussing her story right now.
Before she started working for Zhou Chen, some of her colleagues looked down on her and mocked her, thinking it was a waste of their time. Now that they know she not only manages the company but has also achieved results, they are slapped in the face. They probably have no face left to laugh at her.
Thinking of this, Su Jiajia felt a surge of relief.
"I haven't spoken to Wanying for several days. I wonder what she's been up to lately."
With a quick glance, Su Jiajia decided to chat with Sun Wanying. Ever since Sun Wanying started dating Zhou Chen, she had been neglecting her. She had to complain to Sun Wanying about how she could forget her best friend now that she had a boyfriend.
This is prioritizing romantic relationships over friendships.
The next day,
Before going to school, Zhou Chen went to the supermarket across the street and chatted with the supermarket owner for a while. Just the day before yesterday, the second issue of the "Three Years of College Entrance Examination, Five Years of Mock Exam Papers" was released. The sales were the same as the first issue, and it was quickly sold out as soon as it came out.
Lu Ye specifically called the printing factory and arranged for an extra print run overnight.
The boss had a very positive opinion of the test paper, saying he had never seen a set of questions so popular before, and hoped that Zhou Chen could produce a few more issues.
Zhou Chen not only sought feedback from supermarket owners about the test questions, but also from students.
The students gave positive feedback and said they would continue to support the program.
On this day,
Lu Ye once again delivered the pure profit from these naive test papers.
It's a bit more than before, reaching over 30,000. The reason is simple: now both sets of past exam papers are being sold together.
This time, Lu Ye insisted on not distributing dividends yet, because the previous 14,000 yuan was still quite a lot and enough to last for a while. Secondly, he knew that Zhou Chen had been taking money out of his own pocket. The copyright fees for the questions he had purchased these days were far from enough with the previous 14,000 yuan; Zhou Chen had been paying for it himself.
He had no right to continue dividing the money, because it wasn't about dividing shared money, but rather dividing Zhou Chen's money.
Zhou Chen saw through Lu Ye's thoughts and smiled, "Okay, then let's put it into the company's account first, and keep it for the purchase of the copyright fee."
"Old Lu, we need to speed things up regarding collecting past college entrance exam questions. You should get the copyright first. Money is not a problem. I plan to get all the remaining issues of the exam questions out as soon as possible to prevent others from copying us, which would make us lose our advantage."
Even games get copied, so the business of exam papers is also likely to be copied. He had previously overlooked this and planned to do it little by little until the college entrance exam, but now he has changed his mind.
He needs to finish in the shortest time possible, leveraging the advantage of a large number of test papers to completely establish his reputation. Afterwards, when he creates new questions, there's no need to rush; he can slowly build up his reputation.
The most urgent task is to seize the market and gain a first-mover advantage.
Hearing that others might also be interested in this lucrative project and come to compete, Lu Ye's heart tightened. He knew that this matter had to be taken seriously, and even if it meant working harder, he had to get it done as soon as possible so that no competitor would have a chance.
The two chatted about this matter for a while longer.
Zhou Chen received another call from Su Jiajia.
"It's me, what's the matter?"
"Mr. Zhou, Manager Qi said that we can consider putting our game on Tencent Space, but he must experience the game first before making the suggestion to the higher-ups."
"Okay, farm game, how many more days until it's completely finished?"
"We are currently in the final stage, internal testing, which should take place in the next day or two."
Zhou Chen nodded. "I understand."
The call ended.
Seeing Lu Ye staring at him in astonishment, Zhou Chen touched his face and asked, "Old Lu, is there something on my face?"
Lu Ye shook his head, then asked uncertainly, "Brother Chen, what game are you talking about...?"
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I also own a game company."
Zhou Chen suddenly realized and said with a smile.
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