Yang Ruoqian stared at the chat box for a long time, then silently replied: "You talk first, and then I'll decide whether I'm here or not."
The Leopard App was jointly developed by Yu Jingyu and the security guard. Now that the traffic has suddenly increased dramatically, it is hard to say whether she will make some unacceptable demands.
For example, introducing advertisements and making money from traffic?
For example, adding more paid services...
For example, cutting down on traffic expenses - after all, the Leopard app has only been online for a short time and has so much traffic, far exceeding expectations at the time, so it is reasonable to cut the budget appropriately.
If Yu Jingyu dares to do the above things, Mr. Yang will have only one attitude - no, no see!
Yu Jingyu: "...Boss, it's not a big deal. It's just that our Leopard App server is a bit insufficient. Can you transfer some money and rent us a better server?"
Oh, so it means increased expenses, that’s fine.
Yang Ruoqian typed back, "That's no problem... What's your budget? Have you decided on it?"
The server of a large social platform has always been a necessary and major expense, used to securely store various user data and platform data.
Large groups like Tencent have more than millions of servers working around the world, and they even have a dedicated security department for this purpose.
In order to properly store this data, cooling the data center is a huge expense.
Even if it is a data center with only 10,000 servers, cooling measures must be maintained continuously. The cooling tower must be replenished with water at least twice an hour to ensure that the temperature of the cold channel in the computer room does not exceed 25 degrees and the hot channel does not exceed 30 degrees.
If the cooling unit loses power for five minutes, the temperature in the computer room can soar to 70 degrees.
Using industrial electricity billing, comprehensive maintenance would cost at least two to three million per month.
How can we save two to three million yuan a month? Seeing that the boss agreed, Yu Jingyu first sent a pleading emoticon, and then typed cautiously: "Boss Yang, just... can I allocate 500,000 yuan a month? Don't think this number is outrageous, but it really requires so much expenditure!"
God knows how much courage Yu Jingyu mustered to type out these words and click send.
When editing this message, Yu Jingyu didn't know how many times he deleted and revised it.
I was caught on the spot for secretly speaking ill of my boss, and I was assigned an important task but asked for 500,000 yuan a month before I saw any profit...Will I be thrown out by the company security? But there is no way, the fee of 500,000 yuan is the number after trying every possible way to reduce costs, and I really can't save a penny.
Seeing this number that was far below expectations, Yang Ruoqian immediately expressed his different opinion: "How can 500,000 be enough? When we set up this platform, our minimum goal is to be in the top ten in China, and our upper limit is to be number one in the world!"
"500,000 yuan for maintenance? That's too little! Look at other data centers, they often spend hundreds of millions on maintenance. Why? Others can spend millions, but we can only spend hundreds of thousands?"
"If other companies see this, they will think that we can't afford a server! Let's buy another one, one for each person!"
Yu Jingyu: "...Boss, you are so generous. Thank you for the super rocket. So, one million? One million can basically solve the problem. After stabilizing this group of customers and making money, we can also bear the profits and losses of changing servers in the future."
How come after talking for so long, he only mentioned one million? Yang Ruoqian was disappointed - he was indeed a student who was still in school and had never seen the world. He was so cautious with a mere one million a month.
"Since you said you're going to replace the server with a better one in the future, why don't we just do it right away and replace it with a better server now?"
Yu Jingyu, who was still reading and whose thinking logic was at its peak, was suddenly confused.
We will have to change to a better server in the future anyway, so why not change it now? This may sound reasonable, but if you think about it carefully, you will find it is too far-fetched - if you say so, you will make money in the future anyway, so it doesn't matter if you take on a lot of debt now?
No way!
But that was the boss's opinion, how could a mere Yu Jingyu dare to go against it? "Boss, why don't you just give me a number... I have a narrow vision and can't make such a big decision."
"I'll allocate 5 million to you. If it's not enough, report to me immediately. Do you have any opinions? Speak up and don't be shy." Based on his own experience, Yang Ruoqian casually said a number that would not violate any regulations.
Given Leopard's current user traffic, it is certainly impossible to build a data center specifically for this purpose to rival Google's.
But it is still possible to get a server with a monthly maintenance fee of 5 million.
"How can I have any opinion?" Yu Jingyu complained, "But there is another small matter that I would like to ask for your advice on."
It's just a request for advice, not a critical illness notice... Yang Ruoqian nodded with relief: "Go ahead."
"For our app, we currently only have one paid monthly membership, which allows you to change the font to make the name more eye-catching, and the price is not expensive. I feel that it is not easy to recover the cost just by relying on this one service."
It would be fine if the server rental fee was only 500,000 per month, but now Yang Ruoqian waved his hand and multiplied it by 10, doubling it, and the profit pressure was suddenly increased.
This value-added service and monthly fee alone cannot cover the operating costs at this stage.
If you want to make money, you either add more value-added services, or look outward and find advertisers willing to invest money to place ads.
Although the app is still in the stage of burning money for new development, it is better to spend less...
What a ghost!
Without even thinking twice, Yang Ruoqian found an excuse to refuse: "We have just launched our app. Although the traffic is huge, the user stickiness is actually very low. If we do this, people will leave immediately, and the reputation we have worked so hard to build will be gone."
Yu Jingyu asked again: "What about the publicity and promotion costs? What about the benefits? I feel that creators and users now have a very high evaluation of our app, and a large part of it is not because of the benefits. I feel that the intensity of spending can be reduced by a large part."
No, why are you still talking about saving money? Interns are interns, and they are far from being as sensible and obedient as the old employees.
"Do you understand the principle of striking while the iron is hot?" Yang Ruoqian rolled his eyes. "The situation is good now, we should increase our efforts. How can we give up halfway? Don't always think about saving money. You must know that only by paying back the money can you make more money."
At this point, a message popped up on the phone, indicating that the download of the Leopard app had been completed.
Yang Ruoqian suddenly lost interest in discussing the issue of saving money with Yu Jingyu, so he closed WeChat and opened Leopard.
After simply registering an account and giving himself an ID called "负光大老板", Yang Ruoqian successfully entered the app.
In terms of preferred content, he chose four categories: "games", "movies", "TV series" and "novels".
The interface layout of the entire software is basically the same as the beta version I saw last time. Apart from some interface optimizations, Yang Ruoqian found it very familiar to use.
After briefly scanning some of the content on the homepage, Yang Ruoqian clicked on the rating interface in the lower right corner.
This is what he cares about most.
The original intention of the Leopard app was to be a film and television rating software, focusing on self-entertainment and burning money at the same time.
Except for the ratings, other interfaces are just for cheating the budget.
However, as soon as I opened the score, what caught my eye was a big score.
"YTG 1-2 NP"
Mr. Yang was stunned for a moment... What the hell is this? Wait, YTG... Why does it look so familiar?
Isn't this the e-sports team that I just casually made and now handed over to Ruan Min'er to manage? !
Why does it appear under this rating column?
However...after YTG won the world championship last year, President Yang completely gave up on this team and no longer paid much attention to it.
The endless stream of sponsor advertisements has turned a big money-burning company into a big profit-making one.
Now it seems that they no longer have the dominance in the league as they once did?
Could it be that... the e-sports club project can be revived? !
Yang Ruoqian was refreshed - a failed project was about to be revitalized? At this moment, he didn't care why such a strange thing as a game appeared in the film review app, and clicked on the details page of the game score.
Below the 1-2 rating is a long list of comments about the contestants on both sides.
YTG-Daruan, "Paramecium can only carry out simple life activities."
YTG-XX, "Earthworms can only move a little, but they can be used for fishing."
YTG-KJP, "Pretending to be a pro."
"…single cell vs. paramecium."
Seeing netizens mocking their own contestants without any hesitation, Mr. Yang became more and more energetic and happy.
OK!
It seems like YTG’s performance has been really bad recently. Look how angry they have made the netizens who are usually gentle and reasonable.
Although these comments seem very funny, they are really vicious.
Perhaps, last year’s YTG championship was just an accident, and now YTG has returned to the position that originally belonged to them?
As YTG’s performance gets worse and worse, its popularity gets lower and lower, and it disappoints its sponsors time and time again...will those sky-high sponsorships disappear?
The most important thing is that if YTG gradually loses its popularity, then the industries around Qianda Plaza opposite may also be affected! The whole game seems to have the possibility of being revitalized because of YTG's failure.
As long as YTG can return to the money-burning nature of an e-sports club, turn back from its wrong path and pull back from the brink, it will still be a good arm of the group.
Yang Ruoqian looked through the records of professional competitions again and found that although YTG's performance this year was not as good as before, it still managed to maintain the level of a T1 team. If they perform well, they still have hope of entering the World Championship.
There is a decline, but it is not obvious yet...
"These internet-addicted teenagers are now at their lowest point. They have gone from being champions that everyone admires to being the object of ridicule. Their mentality is definitely unstable..."
"I must seize this opportunity and destroy their will in one fell swoop."
Yang Ruoqian did what he said. He temporarily put Leopard Pu in the background and opened the chat box with Ruan Miner.
Right from the start, he started talking about something else: "I've seen your recent performance, and it seems like you're under a lot of pressure, right?"
Probably because she was resting after training, Ruan Min'er quickly sent a message: "Boss Yang... you saw it too. I'm sorry, we didn't perform well and disappointed you."
Even Ruan Min'er, who is always lively and optimistic, has this attitude? ! Thinking back to how high-spirited Ruan Min'er was at the beginning? Yang Ruoqian felt relieved: "There is nothing to be sorry about. You have already won the championship once, proved yourselves, and brought huge profits to the group. You can speak with your back straight and upright."
“How can someone stay at their peak all the time?”
"Now there is only one thing you need to do, which is to eat, drink and have fun, and enjoy the treatment that the winner deserves. As for games and such, just compete casually. It doesn't matter whether you win or not. The group doesn't care at all."
"You've been under a lot of pressure lately, right? Well, I'll give you some more money, and you can decide what you want to eat, play, and buy."
"What if we lose? Winning is enough! Play, play hard, what training? Cancel all the recent training tasks and go out and play!"
After typing this, Yang Ruoqian smiled with great satisfaction.
First, we need to occupy the moral high ground and tell these young men that they are already very good and do not need to prove themselves by winning.
Secondly, it allows them to relax mentally and solve their worries - even if they lose the game, the group will not give up investment, so they can get rid of the pressure in life.
Finally, they are corrupted materially, their training time is occupied by eating, drinking and having fun, making their already not-so-good condition even worse.
Triple attack, no need to worry that YTG will not fall!
Ruan Min'er: "Boss, we..."
Yang Ruoqian didn't give them any room for argument: "Okay, it's settled. I'll have the finance department contact you later. Remember, the competition is not important!"
"By the way, you've been using that training venue for a year now. It's a bit old, right? While you're out having fun, I'll find someone to renovate it for you and add some other facilities."
“…”
At this moment, in the training hall opposite, all YTG members were looking at the screen, reading the words sent by Yang Ruoqian. They were silent for a long time without saying a word.
Just now, when they heard that the boss of Kuiguang Group was personally inquiring about the recent competition, they were already prepared to be scolded, and even prepared to bring in strong reinforcements, let them sit on the bench, or even terminate the contract directly.
What they got in the end was completely different from what they had imagined.
The mood of several people was extremely complicated.
Ruan Miner glanced at her teammates who had been fighting with her for a year, and slowly typed a few words: "Boss, everything is up to you."
(I may need to take a day off tomorrow. It depends on the situation. I will probably be able to update.) (End of this chapter)
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