Chapter 246 Map business planning

“Boss, after we moved to the new headquarters, there is a serious shortage of staff. There are simply not enough people in various departments. Should large-scale job fairs be put on the agenda?” Gao Meng said.

Hearing this, Luo Fan did feel that the company was a bit deserted. At present, there are less than 600 people in Xingyuan headquarters, and it is too extravagant to use such a large office building.

And Xingyuan’s follow-up business also needs more people to assist, so a new round of large-scale recruitment will definitely be carried out.

“Just after the year! After the year, we will recruit the whole society. The target is set at 500 to 800 people. It is up to you to decide how many people you need in which department.”

“Boss, the recruitment of other departments can be postponed to the end of the year, but the recruitment of our department can’t be done!” Luo Fan said quickly as soon as Qin Beibei’s voice fell.

“Mr. Qin, is your work difficult?” Luo Fan asked.

“It’s more than a problem. The boss used to have 9 security guards at the headquarters and 4 cleaning staff. One of the cleaning staff did not follow us when our headquarters moved, and 6 security guards chose to come to the headquarters with us.

Is it unrealistic for 6 people to be responsible for the security of a whole building? There are also cleaning staff. According to the current situation of the company, 15 to 20 cleaning staff are needed, and 3 cleaning staff can’t do it at all. These are all needed soon. ”

“As for special affairs and special affairs for jobs that are in short supply, even if no suitable person can be found, temporary workers are also acceptable. In short, try to ensure the operation of the company.”

Gao Meng and Qin Beibei nodded yes.

“Boss, there is one more thing, I…”

“Ding bell bell~” The sudden ringing of the mobile phone interrupted Gao Meng’s words.

Luo Fan frowned. In his image, Qin Beibei was a very well-behaved person. Logically, it was impossible for him to forget to mute his phone when he saw him.

And Qin Beibei didn’t hang up the call directly but picked it up.

“Lawyer Jia, what’s the matter?”

When Luo Fan and Gao Meng heard Qin Beibei say the name of lawyer Jia, they knew that Jia Ting should be on the other end of the phone. Could it be that Qin Beibei is in any trouble?

The two did not speak in a tacit understanding, and waited until Qin Beibei hung up the phone.

“Mr. Qin’s call just now is…”

Qin Beibei said with a wry smile, “Boss, you may not believe it. I spent 24 hours in the detention center this New Year’s Day holiday.”

“Ah? How could this be?”

“On the evening of December 31, I wanted to fly back to my hometown, but when I went through the security check, a health product I bought was found to contain illegal drugs.

Then I was arrested on the spot by the police officers at the airport, and I spent the first day of 2013 in the detention center.

I called the legal department of our company, and Lawyer Jia immediately arranged for relevant lawyers to come over, and it took me a whole day to release me on bail pending trial. ”

“Illegal drugs? What illegal drugs are so serious?”

Qin Beibei shook his head: “I don’t know. Just now, lawyer Jia called me to say that there are a lot of illegal drugs in the health care products. I may be sentenced. The key question now seems to be whether I buy these drugs subjectively of.

If it is determined to be subjective enough to buy, it may be 3 to 5 years in prison, if not, it should be a fine and warning + a few months of detention.

It depends on…”

“Ding bell bell~” Qin Beibei’s words were interrupted again, she quickly answered the phone, and Jia Ting’s voice came from the other end of the phone: “Good news Beibei!”

“What good news?”

“Other people who went through the security check were also found with the same illegal drugs, and they were also the health care products of the brand you bought.”

“Ah? Sister Jia, do you mean this is not an accident?”

“Well, the investigation has already started here in Shanghai. If you find this brand of health care products and illegal drugs, then you should be safe.”

Qin Beibei breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. This is indeed good news.

Then Qin Beibei told Luo Fan and Gao Meng about the progress of the matter.

“Sister Qin, what health products did you buy?” Gao Meng asked.

“A tablet imported from Yidaili costs several thousand yuan a box. I heard that it can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.”

Luo Fan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something that Wang Hui told them when he returned to the dormitory after 13 years of his previous life: “A health drug produced by Yidaili was copied by India, and then the bad domestic manufacturers tried to get cheaper prices from it. This medicine was imported from India, pretending to be the medicine from Italy.

As a result, in India, things that are contraband on our side were added to the medicine. Dozens of people who participated in the import, counterfeiting, and sales of the New Year were arrested. ”

It seemed that Qin Beibei was involved in this matter.

However, when it comes to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, Luo Fan remembered that in his previous life, his father suffered a cerebral hemorrhage because he couldn’t accept being cheated on 700 yuan for a while, resulting in hemiplegia and could no longer stand up.

Luo Fan felt that he had to take precautions in advance so that this kind of thing could not happen again.

Thinking of this, Luo Fan felt that he also needed to buy some health care products for the prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases for his family, and also asked his father to stop drinking and exercise more.

“Boss, let’s continue! I just wanted to report to you the progress of our company’s map software.”

Luo Fan nodded to signal Gao Meng to continue.

In fact, Luo Fan didn’t want to make map software by himself at first, he wanted to get some shares and voting rights of Baidu Maps.

Looking at the entire market, there are only two map software with good quality on the market, one is Baidu Map, and the other is AutoNavi Map. There is still a big gap between Penguin’s soso map tool and the two, and the accuracy has not been enough. , except for QQ users to post a location or something, few people use it.

Behind Baidu Map is Baidu, and AutoNavi is a listed company, which has not yet been invested by Ali.

But now the development of the Internet industry has caused great changes in the little butterfly of Luo Fan. It is hard to say whether Ali will acquire Gaode Luofan in advance.

Xingyuan wants to make a map mainly to prepare for the shared bicycles and maps on Xingchao.

There is a big taboo in the Internet industry, that is, the core software cannot depend on others.

However, for Xingyuan, the map business is not a core business, but only a part of Xingyuan’s ecological chain, so Luo Fan thought at the beginning to borrow Baidu Maps for development.

I didn’t plan to start making its own map like Meituan did.

However, the cooperation on Baidu’s side has not been reached, and Luo Fan’s side also has a solution, so he can only do it himself.

“Boss, we tried to reach out to some employees of Baidu Maps, including two executives.

But then we just reached a partnership, and I felt that poaching people at this time was a bit unethical, so I gave up.

Baidu can’t do it, so we can only start from AutoNavi, but AutoNavi has already been listed, and their technicians have more or less stocks in their hands. I have contacted a few, and the asking price is scary. If you want to dig enough people to come, we Estimated to pay a small price.

Until a few days ago, Mr. Cao suddenly told me that only Baidu and AutoNavi maps can be viewed in China, but not in the past. In addition to these two, there are also Google Maps that can be used.

Google completely withdrew from our side last year. Except for the translation business, all other businesses were basically cut, and the map business was one of them.

At that time, a large number of map makers either changed careers or went to other Internet companies. If we can find these people, the progress of our map business will expand very quickly. ”

“Google Maps?” Luo Fan was a little surprised. If Gao Meng hadn’t said it, he wouldn’t have known that Google had maps.

This is not to blame for Luo Fan. When Luo Fan officially worked in his previous life, Google had completely withdrawn from the Chinese market, and he had never been in contact with this company’s related business.

In fact, when the Huaxia Internet map business was initially developed, the best map maker was not Baidu or AutoNavi, but Google from overseas.

Baidu Maps has been in operation since 2005. During that time period, Baidu began to rise in an all-round way, and its scale soon surpassed the vast majority of traditional portal websites in China.

But in the face of giants like Google, Baidu is the younger brother, but because of its late entry into the domestic market, the market share of Google search has always been lower than that of Baidu.

In order to overtake Baidu to re-occupy the market, Google began to build its own ecological chain in an all-round way.

Including maps, hot lists, navigation, pinyin, forums, music and other businesses, of which the map is the most core business.

“Boss, according to my investigation, although Google Maps started a little later than Baidu, it has completely crushed Baidu in all aspects.

During the 2008 snow disaster, Google Maps has been able to update road conditions and weather in real time.

With this function, Google became an important basis for data acquisition of rescue organizations and disaster-stricken people at that time.

It also occupied a large part of the domestic market, once surpassing Baidu.

In the follow-up, Google took advantage of the victory and launched the Google 3D map, which directly threw the Baidu map out of sight.

But maps have sensitive bosses, you know.

In the follow-up, due to various reasons, Google withdrew from the Huaxia market, and major business departments moved to HK.

But even if Google leaves, it is impossible to take away all relevant talents. Many people do not and will not follow Google to HK.

Many of these people who remained were absorbed by their peers. For example, the CTO of Baidu Maps is now one of the top executives of Google Maps.

But with so many talents, there are always fish that slip through the net. These people have been struggling on Google Maps for so many years, and they are all elites in this industry.

If we can dig them, it will be very, very helpful to our map industry, at least the basic framework in the early stage does not require us to work hard to build it up. ”

After listening to Gao Meng’s words, Luo Fan’s eyes lit up, which made him think of using 56.com’s senior management and technical staff to quickly build a framework for connotation jokes.

And according to Gao Meng, before Google quit China, the best map software in China was Google Maps.

This may be related to Google’s investment and technology, but the people who do the basic work must also be elites.

With Xingyuan’s resources, it is not difficult to poach people, even if it is easy to poach people from Baidu Gaode.

But it is difficult to dig a team that can get started directly and cooperate with tacit understanding, because in 2013, the map was originally a niche business, and there were not many people engaged in it.

If you can find the former talents of Google Maps, it is indeed a shortcut for Xingyuan.

Thinking of this, Luo Fan said: “Mr. Gao, your idea is very good, you can try it.”

“I knew you would agree, I have contacted headhunters before, looking for these people.

I feel like if I find one or two, I can follow the trail to find the rest of them.

It’s only been a year since the Google map was closed, and there is a high probability that there is still a connection between them. ”

“Okay, then try your best to find these people, the salary and treatment are favorable, as long as you can dig people over for money, it is not a problem.” Luo Fan said.

Gao Meng nodded: “Okay, boss, I will try my best to find it.

However, the boss needs to apply for the Internet map service qualification to make maps. This qualification is very troublesome and requires a long-term related business. We do not have this condition. What do you think we should do? ”

“How to deal with it? The quickest way is to acquire a qualified company in the market, right?” Luo Fan said after thinking about it.

“Acquisition?”

“Yes, as long as the price is right.” Luo Fan said.

An app like a map is, after all, a business involving national security. Not everyone is qualified to do it casually.

Although the above promulgated the application for the qualification of Internet map practitioners in 2010.

This application is simpler than third-party payment, as long as the conditions are met, more than 300 map licenses have been issued in the past two years.

As a foreign company, Google must not be able to apply for it. If Xingyuan wants to apply by itself, it is also possible.

But compared to applying by yourself, it is definitely easiest to directly acquire a qualified company, which will make the review faster.

And Luo Fan just felt that these messy applications were too troublesome, so he thought of cooperating with Baidu.

Who knew that Baidu took their maps so seriously.

Although Baidu Maps now occupies a monopoly position in the domestic market, and its market value is as high as 5 billion yuan, this is only temporary.

Mr. Li of Baidu should also be very clear about this, because the above is not strict with the distribution of map qualifications.

The reason why Mr. Li did not agree to cooperate with Xingyuan, Luo Fan guessed that he must have other ideas.

Or in the future, Baidu Maps will be Baidu’s core business, so how can others sleep on the side of the couch?

In Luo Fan’s impression, Baidu does take maps as its core business.

Relying on the map, Baidu Food Delivery, Baidu Finance and other businesses have been launched.

Unfortunately, with the failure of several layouts, Baidu’s vitality was greatly damaged, and the three BAT giants gradually became unrealistic, and later they were replaced by bytes that were born out of nowhere.

Luo Fan feels that the core reason for Baidu’s decline is Baidu Maps. If Baidu did not value Baidu Maps so much in the early stage, they would take out Baidu Maps in exchange for more benefits, and even they would have the opportunity to enter the short video industry. Join Baidu to enter the short video industry. , then it is uncertain whether the subsequent bytes have a chance to catch up.

It’s a pity that there is no if. Luo Fan also gave Baidu a chance in this life, but President Li did not cherish it.