Chapter 184 I thought you were an intern!
Two days later, it’s the Dragon Boat Festival holiday.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Jialin Town.
Lin Zhi got off the train early in the morning with her backpack. As soon as she walked out of the high-speed rail station, a text message dinged:
[Dad: Your uncle is waiting for you at home, come back early for dinner.]
[Mom: Be careful on the road! The salted duck eggs are ready, along with your favorite glutinous and fragrant chestnut-filled rice dumplings.]
Lin Zhi: "Got it."
She was a little excited, as she hadn't been back to her hometown for a long time since she went abroad to work.
This time I’m taking advantage of the holiday to go back and visit, I can’t wait to go home!
Lin Zhi carried her luggage home and smelled the fragrance as soon as she entered the door.
In the living room, there is an old-fashioned sofa, pillows wrapped in floral cloth, and freshly wrapped rice dumplings on the table.
"Are you back?"
"Hey, girl, you've grown taller!"
"Hey, hey, hey, why are you losing weight again? Is your company a 996 work schedule?"
"You're at Whale Leap? What does your company do? Is it a seafood market?"
As soon as Lin Zhi returned home, her relatives began to question her like a machine gun.
Especially her uncle, Lin Zhenhai.
He is currently the Vice President of Steam Platform and the head of product development department.
Lin Zhenhai held a teacup in his hand with a serious look on his face.
After a brief greeting, he squinted his eyes and looked at Lin Zhi, his tone sounding as if he was "observing the enemy's situation."
"Zhizhi, if I remember correctly, you should be on one of the deep blue platforms in Whale Leap!"
"Yes, uncle."
Lin Zhi bowed her head and greeted him, being very well behaved.
"How is it, are you over the probation period now? Are you still adapting?"
"You guys in Deep Blue have been making quite a lot of noise lately!"
"I remember you guys were mainly into games, right? Why are you doing comics and animation now?"
"Have you guys got a new person in charge?"
"It's good if you can give me a hint, at least I can have some idea. I'll also talk to your leaders when I have time, and we can learn from each other..."
Lin Zhenhai finished speaking.
Lin Zhi's chopsticks holding the rice dumpling stopped in mid-air, and her face began to visibly change.
The relatives were still happily eating and discussing which rice dumpling was more delicious.
Lin Zhenhai started again,
“You’re running a community now, right?”
"You're still involved in animation? What's your main job now?"
"If you ask me, don't be too greedy. We started with Steam when it comes to content, so we know how to build a community better."
“Only after running a platform for a long time do you understand what a moat is.”
Lin Zhenhai spoke in a calm tone while eating a tea egg.
"As for you, Zhizhi, you also need to perform well in the company and not just watch the fun."
"Jingyue is booming right now, but as a new company, it can only thrive on a few projects for a while. Long-term development depends on platform construction."
"It would be great if you could become the community operations manager in the future... that way I could talk more with your person in charge."
"I'm quite interested in your latest comic project."
"But we insiders can see it at a glance. It lacks system content and the screening mechanism is ineffective. The subsequent maintenance costs will definitely be ridiculously high."
"Our steam process is more mature."
“You guys are still too young and haven’t figured out the core logic of platform development.”
Lin Zhenhai kept saying "you guys".
One word "we" at a time,
He spoke in a serious tone, with a hint of instruction and expectation from an elder to a younger generation.
The relatives beside him did not forget to chime in:
"Yes, Zhizhi, you need to learn more from your uncle. Your uncle is the vice president of Steam. Young people like to play games on it now!"
Lin Zhi: “…”
She was holding an egg yolk rice dumpling, and her fingers had begun to tighten unconsciously.
The corners of his mouth twitched twice, but he managed not to interrupt.
From the very beginning, this dinner party seemed like a meeting with asymmetric information.
And she happened to be the one who was assumed to have no right to speak.
Having said that, Lin Zhenhai took a sip of tea and squinted his eyes.
"Zhizhi, I know you're still young and haven't experienced many platform cycles. But now is the time to listen to the opinions of us seniors."
"How about this, when you get back to work, help me schedule an appointment with the person in charge of your Deep Blue platform? I also want to hear how they plan to move forward."
"Or do you have any inside information that you would like to share with me?"
Lin Zhi paused. She quietly cleared the dishes beside her.
"Uncle."
Her tone was calm, without a trace of fluctuation.
"You just asked me about Deep Blue's next development... I can't tell you."
Lin Zhenhai was stunned.
"You can't tell?"
He raised his eyebrows and looked at her with a smile:
"You mean you don't know either...ah..."
"I see you're just a small operations employee there, right? Did you sign a confidentiality agreement? Zhizhi, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that. We were just casually chatting..."
"Uncle, I'm not asking for business secrets. I'm just asking about the future content direction of your overall platform."
"I'm also doing a competitive analysis here. If you don't understand, just ask. Don't mind me, okay?"
Lin Zhi raised her head.
She looked at Lin Zhenhai with clear eyes and said word by word:
"Uncle, it's not that I can't tell you."
"I can't tell you."
"Uncle, I decided that direction."
The dinner table fell silent for a moment.
The chewing sounds of relatives stopped abruptly.
"You...what did you say?"
Lin Zhenhai frowned tightly, as if he didn't hear clearly.
Lin Zhi nodded gently and added:
"I am now in charge of Deep Blue's content community."
Lin Zhenhai: "...What did you say?"
"I founded the Deep Blue comics project, set the framework, and recruited the team myself."
"I've been following every update and iteration of the platform you've seen recently, including every round of UI optimization, user tag transformation, and recommendation algorithm testing."
Lin Zhi said it calmly.
Lin Zhenhai: “…”
"Didn't you just go to Whale Leap not long ago?"
"How is it possible..."
Lin Zhi didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded.
At this time, the relatives at the other end of the table couldn't help it.
"Oh my god, Zhizhi, are you the person in charge now? We thought you were just an intern!"
"I knew it. I told you that you would have a bright future if you went abroad to study!"
"You're responsible for such a large project alone?"
Lin Zhi smiled and said, "I'm not alone. I have a team."
"But the overall person in charge... is just me."
The focus of the entire dinner table shifted to Lin Zhi.
Person in charge, this title with these three words sounds good no matter where you are!
The expression on Lin Zhenhai's face was extremely complicated.
——He really didn’t expect it.
In the past two days, he led his team to repeatedly analyze Jingyue's "content community project", trying every possible way to analyze its structure and guess its core operating logic.
Now...
His niece sitting in front of him and eating rice dumplings with him.
He is actually the person in charge?
Then this girl’s position is almost the same as mine?
Lin Zhenhai didn't know for a moment whether to continue to put on airs or lower his head and pull the rice dumplings.
It's a bit embarrassing.
It was also a bit shocking.
He looked at Lin Zhi and felt that this junior was no longer the little girl he used to hold hands with to buy candy.
She really has something.
Then how can I ask the other party about the next steps?
Lin Zhenhai forced himself to maintain his dignity and squeezed out a few words from his throat:
"How...how long have you been the person in charge of this platform?"
"Um……"
Lin Zhi seemed to be thinking seriously.
"A little over two months."
Lin Zhenhai felt a little dizzy.
This girl has only been in Jingyue for a few months!
Is this how Jingyue employs people now?
Or are turtles so valuable now?
Two months? This guy is still in his internship period!
This girl was still in school a few years ago, and now she can coordinate a platform?
Lin Zhenhai couldn't sit still for a moment, and his fingers tapped his knees unconsciously.
“You guys are…building community so quickly.”
"When we started Steam...it took us two years to build a stable user base."
"How many months have you been?"
Lin Zhi smiled.
"Uncle, we're not just doing it fast."
“We treat users as creators and content as a process.”
"Steam is a platform that chooses content, and we let the content choose the platform."
"This idea is different from yours."
Her tone was light, but it was like thunder out of nowhere.
Lin Zhenhai suddenly fell silent.
He suddenly realized that his experience and logic were rapidly aging.
And Lin Zhi, the junior who was sitting at the same table and was being urged by him to become a regular employee as soon as possible,
She was actually already standing opposite him.
Maybe even a little taller than him.
…
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