"Minister Peng, you need to give me a list of these people in the next two days. Those who need to be laid off should be laid off, and those who need to be replaced should be replaced. The company doesn't want to support a bunch of lazy anchors for nothing."
"Director Zhao, I will expedite the implementation of this matter and report the list as soon as possible."
Minister Peng, a newcomer to the live broadcast department, immediately looked at Zhao Xukun and gave a serious reply to the question he had just mentioned.
"Also, Minister Zhou, Minister Peng, the three young men I specifically asked Manager Shen and Director Li to recruit a few months ago, their results should be out by now."
It happened that the mobile game Honor of Kings had become completely popular across the country at this time. Previously, Zhao Xukun had specially spent a lot of money to poach these three future top anchors who would broadcast the Honor of Kings game from various platforms at an annual salary of one million. Now it was their turn to truly demonstrate their due value, so Zhao Xukun deliberately mentioned it.
"Director Zhao, I really admire your ability to judge people. Since last month, the top anchors in my live streaming department have been gradually replaced by these three people. Now, Jiang Haitao, Chen Wang, and Zhang Hongfa each have at least 1.5 million followers on their live streaming accounts."
"Among them, Chen Wang has the most fans. He used to be on Kuaishou. Although he didn't have many fans before, a considerable number of them followed him to our Mammoth TV live streaming platform. Now he has the most fans, almost two million."
"Then next up are Zhang Hongfa and Jiang Haitao. They each have over 1.5 million followers. In December of last month, Chen Wang gained over 1.9 million followers, Zhang Hongfa gained 1.09 million, and Jiang Haitao gained 1 million followers for the entire month."
After Minister Peng reported on the achievements made by the three of them in the past two months, Minister Zhou from Mammoth TV's operations department also stood up to report.
"Mr. Zhao, since December of last year, our Mammoth TV downloads have seen a significant increase, reaching over 55 million, an increase of over 3500%. Our peak daily user base reached over 30 million, and now we have nearly 23 million users online every day."
Zhao Xukun nodded with satisfaction, then he looked at Director Zhang of the Finance Department and asked.
"Minister Zhang, last time I asked the bank to transfer the money to the company's account, how much have they recovered so far?"
"Also, what was the company's revenue for the entire year last year? Once you've compiled this data, please leave it in my office."
"Okay, Mr. Zhao!"
After saying that, Zhao Xukun looked at Li Zefang again and asked.
"Director Li, how are the recruitment of those anchors on the list I gave you last time in the company going? Are all of them in?"
Li Zefang was stunned at first. She was basically not prepared for Zhao Xukun's sudden question. Fortunately, Li Zefang had a lot of things to deal with before. Regarding the matter of recruiting anchors from other platforms, she and Manager Shen did it together at the beginning. In the end, both Li Zefang and Manager Shen handed this matter over to Minister Cai of the Human Resources Department to handle. After all, she was in charge of the company's personnel affairs.
"Director Zhao, I've already asked Director Cai from the Human Resources Department to take full responsibility for the list you gave me. Later, I'll be talking to clients and the company's live streaming business, so I'll have Director Cai report back to you."
"Okay, Minister Cai, how are you handling this matter?"
Zhao Xukun immediately turned his attention to Minister Cai who was sitting in a relatively remote corner.
Minister Cai was also asked this question by Zhao Xukun. She was stunned for a while, but soon she adjusted her mood. Fortunately, she had made some preparations before coming to this meeting. She flipped through the documents on the table, smiled slightly, and said.
"Director Zhao, the list of artists you gave me for signing contracts has a total of 58 people on it. Director Bai from the agency department and I have discussed with these artists that the company originally wanted to sign, but in the end, only 27 were signed. Of the remaining 11, no one wanted to join our company."
"They're not very convinced by the company's contract terms. They say some of the terms in the contract are like a contract to sell their bodies. If they sign and join the company, they will completely lose their personal freedom. That's why they don't want to join our company."
"Of the remaining sixteen people, nine have already been pre-hired by President Wang's Maomao TV, and the remaining seven have already been signed by other major platforms. Director Bai and I went over to talk to them about our company's benefits and salaries, but they had no plans to join us. However, only the Korean artist, Ms. Yi, on this list, seemed to be planning to sign with our company, but she was ultimately stopped by Maomao TV's HR department."
"It's said that Miss Yi once said that if either Mammoth TV or Cat TV offered her the highest signing bonus, she would go to that platform. Minister Bai and I have always adhered to your suggestion, Director Zhao, not to overspend the company's funds on signing these artists."
"So, I finally discussed with Manager Shen and the others what the most appropriate annual salary would be for Miss Yi. We offered her 550 yuan a year, and she could have signed with our company. But in the end, Xiao Wang actually had someone offer Miss Yi 10 million yuan a year, which exceeded the upper limit of the annual salary you allowed us to arrange for them. So, we didn't successfully sign Miss Yi, and now she's working at Maomao TV."
"As for the eight artists on the list, Xiao Wang used the same method. We've already raised their salaries to 35% of the upper limit you gave us, but Xiao Wang's annual salary is still higher than ours."
"So, we want to sign these nine female artists, but we can only say that we have no power. The upper limit is already there."
While listening to Minister Cai's report, Zhao Xukun cursed Xiao Wang countless times in his heart. Their Wang family was really rich. When signing an artist, they didn't even consider how much profit they could bring to their company. They dared to spend such a huge price to sign them.
At the same time, Zhao Xukun was also feeling fortunate in his heart, as the bankruptcy of Xiao Wang’s Maomao TV would largely be related to the artists whose goods did not match the price.
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