"Boss, actually the ICQ Show project is just about posting a few colorful pictures and animations, and I developed it within a week. I'm not comfortable taking this 100,000 yuan bonus."
Chen Dong smiled, then a regretful expression appeared on his face. "But this time, you're leading a project with five engineers and an art consultant. If you don't take this 100,000 yuan bonus..."
"Then the engineers who worked with you on this project shouldn't be awarded the prize alone, right?"
Chen Dong deliberately looked at Annie and asked in a negotiating tone, "Can we give these engineers other compensation?"
Annie understood Chen Dong's meaning and deliberately said, "For tech people, isn't the biggest compensation the work environment and salary?"
In order for other engineers to also receive their bonuses, it seems he has no choice but to take the 100,000 yuan bonus.
After thinking for a moment, Da Yu finally said, "I understand, boss. Longteng Company has a clear system of rewards and punishments, which is the only way to encourage engineers to actively participate in projects."
“That’s right,” Chen Dong sighed. “I don’t know what you went through at Tencent, or how Tencent treated you engineers, but now that you’ve come to Longteng, you have to follow our rules.”
"If you contribute to the project, you get paid; if you make mistakes, you accept the punishment! The rules are that simple."
Chen Dong put down the documents in his hand and asked Yu Wei'e, "Besides the bonus, what other rewards do you and your team want?"
"The test version of ICQ Show needs to be online for a while before we can get basic user preference data. Now is not the time to launch the official version. You and your team should take a break during this period."
Chen Dong then reminded them, "When you come back, there will definitely be new and more important tasks for you."
"clear."
Watching General Manager Yu's departing figure, Chen Dong frowned, and said with a sly smile to Lin Zhiyuan beside him, "This General Manager Yu, he's so quick-witted when it comes to technology, but how come he's so slow when it comes to interpersonal relationships?"
Lin Zhiyuan snorted and analyzed, "If he were more tactful in interpersonal relationships, he wouldn't have been ostracized by Tencent in the first place."
"Hey, do you think Mr. Ma will regret kicking out General Manager Da?"
Initially, Annie and Lin Zhiyuan were not quite in favor of poaching someone else's employee. However, after they managed to recruit Mr. Da, they discovered that Mr. Da was exceptional in both his skills and character, truly a treasure.
During this period, QQ's downloads in Europe and America did not surge.
The advertising is still going on—TV stations, multimedia, magazines, newspapers, billboards, large posters—almost all advertising projects are spending money one after another.
Penguin Technology has established a very wide range of promotional channels, including both online and offline advertising, covering almost every corner of Europe and America.
However, this kind of vigorous publicity worked at first, but it gradually aroused people's rebellious mentality.
A week later, the highest-rated sitcom in North America, "Happy Family," added an ICQ Show ad to its latest episode.
Because the audience for this comedy is very broad, ranging from 90-year-old seniors to 10-year-old children, the advertisements placed by ICQ Show quickly stirred up another wave of buzz.
With the combined promotion from television stations and sitcom production teams, ICQ Show quickly gained popularity among young people in Europe and America.
Many people downloaded the ICQ social networking app to experience the dress-up game in ICQ Show.
Some people were already ICQ users, but after the addition of the ICQ Show dress-up game to the software, the average time people spent on ICQ increased by more than two hours per person.
In Europe and America, ICQ has a conservative estimate of 10,000 regular users, and each person spends more than two hours a day on ICQ Show. What does this mean?
This means that Chen Dong has successfully tapped into the lower-tier market of social networks and smoothly expanded the target audience of ICQ.
Seeing that ICQ was not suppressed by QQ, but instead triggered an even bigger wave of cross-dressing, it became clear that ICQ was not suppressed by QQ.
The Freemasons couldn't sit still any longer and started contacting Mr. Ma frequently.
Currently, QQ's advertising is ineffective in Europe and America, resulting in a continuous loss of users in those regions. The Freemason think tank has suggested that Jack Ma copy ICQ's transformation show.
Mr. Ma heard these words on the phone and immediately refused.
"QQ is QQ, and ICQ is ICQ. I can compete with ICQ, but I absolutely do not want to turn the enemy's things into my own. That would be too shameful."
After hearing what Mr. Ma said, the Freemasons hung up the phone without even giving him a chance to explain.
Their investment in QQ was solely to make Tencent a tool to combat ICQ. Whether QQ was a good or bad product, or what kind of sentiment Jack Ma held for it, was none of their concern.
In terms of funding, Mr. Ma faced pressure from investors, and within the company, he simultaneously shouldered the pressure of several core departments, including the engineering department, marketing department, project department, and advertising department.
QQ has grown into a large and powerful company, and Jack Ma is no longer the small-time boss he used to be.
Mr. Ma opened the meeting room door and looked at the different faces inside—young, old, male, and female—and felt a deep sense of responsibility towards them.
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