Chapter 268 20 million stolen? Cheng Wei: I would rather not have this traffic!
June 10th, 11:30 pm.
Hong Jun, the head of marketing, Zhou Xia, the head of R&D, and Xie Rui, the head of testing group, who all live near Kuaidi Taxi's headquarters, rushed to the company immediately after receiving text message notifications of risk control alerts.
At this time, Zhang Yunni also knew that she had made a big mistake and looked worried.
Generally speaking, if a functional module has not been tested, it can be taken offline as soon as possible as long as it is discovered in time.
However, there was a delay of ten minutes, and the number of participating users in the Yanjing area had already exceeded 15,000.
“Why are there so many users opening the App so late at night?” Zhang Yunni looked bitter. Q2 was about to end. Not only would she lose her quarterly bonus, but even her promotion in the second half of the year would be in jeopardy.
"What's the situation now?" Hong Jun was the first to arrive and asked Zhang Yunni.
"The activity was hidden first. I thoroughly checked the red envelope distribution, collection, and use processes in the test environment and found no bugs. There was no compatibility issue either. It can run normally on mainstream mobile phone models, browsers, and operating systems."
From ten to eleven in the evening, Zhang Yunni did not sit there in a daze, but first hid the "Quick Red Packet" activity in the production environment, and then took the time to do the test.
If the functionality and compatibility are normal, her responsibility will be much less.
"What is the total number of red envelopes distributed and the number of users participating in the event?" Hong Jun continued to ask.
"The duration of the configuration error was 11 minutes and 39 seconds, the total amount was 124,000, and 15,000 users were affected, including 3,400 new users." Zhang Yunni replied quickly.
"Is the effect of attracting new customers so good?" Hong Jun was stunned for a moment, his brows relaxed, and the big stone that was pressing on his heart finally fell.
It’s good as long as there are no BUGs, and the accident level can be reduced by one level.
To put it bluntly, this matter can be big or small. On a big scale, Zhang Yunni's illegal operations caused the company's asset loss of 124,000 yuan, and it is not excessive to fire her; on a small scale, the event that was originally scheduled to be launched on June 12 was only moved forward by two days.
At this time, Zhou Xia and Xie Rui also rushed over. They didn't have time to blame Zhang Yunni. They sat down and started to contact people online to conduct a full range of functional, boundary and compatibility tests on the "Quick Red Packet" activity.
Gao Qiang, who was in charge of the business of the Yanjing branch, reported to Cheng Weixing immediately after receiving the news, and then rushed to the company.
Fortunately, the risk control system discovered the incident in time and did not cause too much loss.
As soon as Gao Qiang arrived at the office, he waved to Zhang Yunni and took her to the meeting room.
This may have been an unintentional act, or it may have been done on purpose.
In Internet business wars, it is not uncommon for commercial spies to be planted in competitor companies.
"Mr. Gao, I'm sorry, this is my problem." Zhang Yunni lowered her head, her face filled with an uneasy expression.
Gao Qiang stared at Zhang Yunni, who looked tired, with bloodshot eyes and a nervous and frightened expression.
"The test environment and production environment use different backend links. Why did you mismatch them?" Gao Qiang asked in a cold voice.
"The links are different, but the background UI styles are exactly the same. I logged into both backgrounds at the same time and didn't pay attention when I switched." Zhang Yunni defended weakly.
Gao Qiang frowned, pushed the door open and shouted, "Xie Rui, bring one over here."
"Okay, Mr. Gao, I'll be right there!" Xie Rui responded and walked into the meeting room carrying a computer.
"Set up the production environment and test environment of the system background separately." Gao Qiang ordered.
Xie Rui nodded and tapped his fingers quickly on the keyboard. In less than twenty seconds, he logged into the backend of the production and test environments on the browser.
Gao Qiang took the computer, stared at the screen, and kept switching between the production and test environments.
Except for the suffix 'test' on the link, the page UI style, including the function menu, is exactly the same, which is indeed easy to confuse.
"Okay, I'll help you explain to Mr. Cheng. The final decision on how to deal with it will depend on the headquarters."
Three minutes later, Gao Qiang stood up, sighed first, and then said helplessly.
He knew clearly that the colleagues in the product department had not had a rest for two weeks recently because they were competing with Didi Taxi over subsidy policies.
It is understandable that there are omissions in work, but a mistake is a mistake and punishment is inevitable.
After all, the company's overtime pay is calculated at 1.5 times or 2 times, not a penny less.
"Thank you, Mr. Gao." Zhang Yunni said gratefully.
"Go back and rest first." Gao Qiang waved his hand. The tiredness on the other's face could not be faked.
Zhang Yunni opened her mouth, but swallowed the words back. She wanted to wait for the accident analysis report to come out before leaving get off work, but she knew that it would take a while to handle it.
As for going back to rest?
She never thought about it at all. After walking out of the meeting room, she went straight to the area where the testing group was located and consciously joined the testing work.
One o'clock in the morning.
"Mr. Gao, there is no problem with the red envelope function. The customer team is also trying to appease the users. The current problem is that this batch of red envelopes will be effective at midnight on June 12."
Hong Jun walked up to Gao Qiang and explained softly.
"Give each of these affected users a 10-yuan taxi voucher with no threshold as compensation. Well, it's getting late, and everyone has worked hard. Let's go home first."
Gao Qiang raised his hand to check the time and hurriedly urged.
"Hong Jun, Xie Rui, Zhou Xia... I'm sorry for making you work overtime. I'll treat you all to KFC tomorrow." Zhang Yunni looked guilty and bowed repeatedly to apologize.
"Well, it's just after get off work. It's not like I don't get overtime pay. When I was in Ali, I often worked overtime until the early morning." Zhou Xia waved his hand and comforted him casually.
Although I was already lying in bed and was called back to the company to work the night shift, I felt a little unhappy, but we were all workers and no one said anything harsh.
Hong Jun and Xie Rui smiled at each other, then yawned and walked towards the elevator together.
The next morning, Cheng Weixing opened the accident investigation report.
Gao Qiang did not fool Zhang Yunni. He attached Zhang Yunni's clocking-in and clocking-out records in the email, which showed that she had worked overtime for ten consecutive days. In addition, the backend UI styles of the test and production environments were indeed highly similar.
“First, adjust the background UI style of the test environment;”
“Second, lower the upper threshold of risk control alerts and develop a rollback plan;”
“Third, add a second confirmation button in the production environment to prevent such accidents from happening again…”
At the end of the email was the optimization plan proposed by Gao Qiang and the penalty for the accident against Zhang Yunni.
The Q2 quarterly bonus will be cancelled and the other party will be removed from the promotion list in the second half of the year.
Cheng Weixing frowned slightly. This punishment was a bit too harsh. After a moment's thought, he understood what Gao Qiang meant.
"This guy wants to beg for mercy, but he's beating around the bush."
Cheng Weixing shook his head and cursed inwardly.
Zhang Yunni is an extremely capable and hard-working person. She is also an old employee who was transferred from Hangzhou to Yanjing. It would be disheartening to deny all her previous efforts just because of a mistake she made at work.
Who can guarantee that they will not make any mistakes at work?
Cheng Weixing thought about it and cancelled the second penalty, only giving Zhang Yunni a 50% discount on her Q2 performance.
However, the new user-attracting effect of "Kuai Hong Bao" far exceeded his imagination.
Since the effect is good, why wait another day? Cheng Weixing immediately decided to go online.
The other side.
Yanjing Kuaidi taxi branch.
Gao Qiang opened Mr. Cheng's reply email, took a quick look, and after seeing Zhang Yunni's solution, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
That afternoon, Kuaidi Taxi’s red envelope service was officially launched.
The product manager divides users into four types in the background: new users, registered users who have not placed an order, old users who have not placed an order within 7 days, and old users who have not placed an order within 30 days.
This activity can only be initiated by old users, who can share a 100 yuan cash red envelope by opening the red envelope.
The maximum fee for new users is 8 yuan; for users who have registered but have not placed an order, the maximum fee is 5 yuan; for old users who have not placed an order within 7 days, the maximum fee is 5 yuan; for old users who have not placed an order within 30 days, the maximum fee is 8 yuan.
Once the passenger completes the order, the money will be deposited into Orange Payment’s balance.
On the one hand, it can compete for Yanjing's online car-hailing market share, and on the other hand, it can enrich Orange Pay's offline payment scenarios and improve user stickiness.
The gameplay of taking a taxi for free and also receiving cash rewards instantly disrupted the market of Didi Taxi.
The driver didn't run away, but all the passengers went to Kuaidi Taxi.
At the end of the day, Didi Taxi only had more than 40,000 orders per day.
Cheng Wei didn't have time to think too much. He intensified the activities and urged product development and research and development to copy the gameplay of "Kuai De Hong Bao".
It doesn’t matter whether you copy or not, just keep the market first.
Fast red envelopes have expanded rapidly with the help of QQ, WeChat, Renren, and BBS forums. This kind of social fission red envelope has natural interactivity and spreadability, and is far more effective than sending coupons to new users before.
The number of registered drivers for Kuaidi Taxi increased by more than 3,000 in just a few days, totaling 17,000, accounting for 25% of the Yanjing taxi market, and the average daily order volume soared to 600,000.
Under the strategy of "spending money to occupy land", Yanjing started the latest, but became the first city to exceed 500,000 orders.
Two days later, Didi Taxi's "Share a 108 yuan cash prize" event was launched, but what Cheng Wei did not expect was that just three hours after it went online, WeChat and QQ banned the Didi Taxi event link.
"Damn you! Damn Ma Wenteng, can your butt be a little more crooked?"
Cheng Wei was so angry that he started cursing.
Therefore, the activity link of Didi Taxi can only be spread in products such as Qiandu Tieba, Renren, and Weibo, and the effect is far less than the red envelope fission activity of Kuaidi Taxi.
But there are many people who are even angrier than Cheng Wei.
Wang Jianwei, the founder of YoYo Taxi, sat in his office with a dejected look on his face. What was more painful than failure was being completely ignored.
Before the rise of Didi Taxi, Yaoyao Taxi was the pioneer of online ride-hailing services in Yanjing, but there are differences in their operating models.
The partners of Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache are taxi companies, while the partners of Yaoyao Taxi are car rental companies.
From May to June, the price war between Didi and Kuaidi Taxi took away all the market share of Yoyo Taxi.
Wang Jianwei was so frustrated that he couldn't say a word. Didi and Kuaidi Dache did not target Yaoyao Taxi, but Yaoyao Taxi was about to close down.
The monthly car rental fee weighs on his shoulders like a mountain.
At this moment, he remembered to contact investors and asked for more money to transform into the taxi business, but it was too late.
As angel investors of YoYo Taxi, Sequoia Capital and Zhen Fund both refused additional investment.
After seeing the advanced nature of Didi and Kuaidi’s taxi-hailing models, who would still be willing to invest in YoYo Taxi?
Even if Wang Jianwei transformed immediately after getting the money, order matching, positioning system and merchant resources still needed to be accumulated.
Investing money in YoYo Taxi is just a waste of funds.
Wang Jianwei held on for another two days, and on June 14, he announced that the YoYo Taxi service would be discontinued, and the company began the countdown to closure.
But until this point, Cheng Wei and Gao Qiang had not noticed Yaoyao Taxi, a small company with only 1,000 orders a day, which was no different from weeds on the roadside.
However, several wild ride-hailing services like YoYo Taxi went bankrupt at once, but failed to make any splash in the industry.
The market share of Kuaidi Dache and Didi Dache gradually stabilized at 7:3. No matter how Cheng Wei struggled, he could not make any further progress.
The C round of financing raised 200 million yuan, and it took only more than 20 days to consume 60 million yuan.
The investment counterparts of Baidu, Capital Today, Sustainability Asia and Hillhouse Capital felt dizzy after seeing the weekly financial report.
It’s really expensive to take a Didi taxi! Little do people know that 20% of the funds are taken away by gray production studios.
Didi Chuxing’s newly established risk control department quickly discovered the existence of the wool party and reported the situation to Cheng Wei.
"You mean to say that we have 20 million yuan in funds and someone has taken it away?"
Cheng Wei came from a business background and didn’t understand technology, so he hadn’t realized the importance of anti-cheating mechanisms.
"Yes, Mr. Cheng, the technical department has strengthened the IP and device restrictions, and banned a group of drivers who used virtual machines or virtual positioning software to fake orders."
Wang Zhigang, the newly appointed director of Didi’s security department, replied.
"Call the police!" Cheng Wei was almost mad with anger and gave the order directly.
at the same time.
In a private house in Yanjiao, Brother Hui's face turned pale. After discovering that his accounts were blocked one after another, he immediately reacted.
He quickly called a few brothers, took the cat bed, computer and other equipment, and fled Yanjing in a hurry.
In the past two months, the five of them have embezzled more than three million yuan. Once caught, they will definitely not escape the fate of operating sewing machines and making umbrellas for heaven.
When the inspector arrived, the room was already empty.
Brother Hui and his companions ran fast enough, but some people who were slow to react were still busy changing their phone cards and preparing to register a new batch of accounts.
Naturally, they were caught red-handed! The next afternoon, news about Didi Taxi being fleeced made the headlines on Toutiao, NetEase, Sohu, and Weibo.
"20 million yuan was stolen in one go! Didi Taxi issued a warning: If you don't return the money before the 25th, you will be held criminally liable!"
With the highly topical number of 20 million, Didi Taxi topped the hot search list.
“I’d rather not have this wave of traffic!”
Cheng Wei was in tears. He didn't expect that the first hot search for Didi Taxi would be in this way.
(End of this chapter)
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