Chapter 430 PPTV's Leader and the New Era

PPTV headquarters

Sun Hai, the head of the technical department, hurried over with the documents and ran into Wang Gan, the head of the overseas business department.

"Old Sun, where are you going?"

Wang Gan greeted him and the latter smiled: "Mr. Li asked the senior management to hold a meeting."

"Senior management meeting? I didn't receive any notice."

Wang Gan was confused. PPTV's trump card is sports now, involving many overseas sports copyrights. His overseas business department has a high status. If the senior management holds a meeting, he cannot be absent.

But soon, Sun Hai and Wang Gan both realized that this senior management is not the same senior management.

Wang Gan is from Suning, and this is directly ignored!

Realizing this, Wang Gan's face turned pale, and Sun Hai was a little embarrassed. He is an old man of PPTV and just wants to do his job well. He has no intention of getting involved in the dispute between the new boss and the old boss, so he laughed and slipped away quickly.

After Sun Hai left, Wang Gan could no longer hold his temper and glared at the meeting room not far away.

"Li Ji, wait and see."

"Just wait and see."

In the conference room, a fair-skinned middle-aged man with glasses lowered the blinds of the window with a calm expression.

It is destined that they cannot live in peace, so why hide it? It is obvious that they are targeting you.

It is better for you to get angry and make mistakes. Give me a reason to act. I think several departments should be taken back.

This person is Li Ji mentioned by Wang Gan just now. He is the current Chief Operating Officer of PPTV and is just 35 years old.

This age is not considered young in the Internet industry. Before reaching the management level, you can start to consider optimization.

However, Li Ji does not have to worry too much about middle-aged unemployment. After several years in the industry, he has reached a senior position and his resume is very impressive.

He has worked in three video websites, Sohu, Tudou and LeTV. He was an employee or a middle-level leader in the first two. When he jumped to LeTV, he was already a mainstay.

When LeTV rose to prominence, it beat all kinds of websites with "My Love from the Star". Li Ji was a key figure.

He was responsible for publicity and offline promotion, and made great contributions to the popularity of TV series and the website traffic.

Also, from that moment on, this person came into Wei Yang's sight.

After that, Blue Whale and LeTV had a honeymoon period, and the famous "Celebrating Yu Nian" trilogy was also acquired by LeTV at this time.

During this period, Li Ji played a lot of roles, and even later became the person in charge of the confrontation with Blue Whale.

This also made Wei Yang's impression of him more and more profound!

After acquiring PPTV, Wei Yang had no shortage of trusted subordinates to help supervise and even manage some of the company's affairs, and he himself could also finalize some major development strategies.

But specific plans and implementation require professionals to steer the helm.

For example, Wei Yang can instruct PPTV to acquire "Running Man 2", but how to make this program play the greatest role and attract traffic to develop websites requires knowledge.

In addition to these ace programs, how to arrange other secondary projects, how to choose the film library, how to use funds more effectively, how to compete with peer websites...

Wei Yang doesn't say whether Wei Yang has time to manage these, and the key is that he may not understand them all.

PPTV originally had many old employees, but Boss Wei didn't understand them and didn't necessarily trust them.

So, Wei Yang could only build a team by himself, and then cultivate direct talents, manage and absorb old employees, and finally make PPTV completely Wei-owned.

Li Ji is the core leader chosen by Wei Yang.

The COO he serves as is nominally lower than the chairman and CEO, but in fact, Wei Yang brought him into the board of directors, gave him the title of executive director, and delegated some of his chairman's powers to him, which can suppress Suning.

In other words, Li Ji is now Wei Yang's agent in PPTV. When Wei Yang is not around, he is the actual top leader.

Wei Yang also told him the bottom line that if the website develops well and kicks Suning out, Li Ji will be a serious CEO, and he will have all the power, status, salary, and shares he deserves.

It is precisely because of this that Li Ji chose to resign from his position as a senior executive of LeTV and join PPTV.

At LeTV Video, his upward path was basically blocked. No matter how great his achievements were, he could not become the boss, and even the third in command was in danger. Coming to PPTV, Li Ji had the hope of being under one person and taking charge of all the power.

"Are you interested in becoming the head of a video website giant!"

This was the big pie that Wei Yang painted for Li Ji. Even though he knew that there was still a big enemy, Suning, and the prospects of the website were unclear, he still did not resist the temptation.

Of course, there are two other reasons.

One is that Li Ji has doubts about the development of LeTV. As a senior executive of the company, he knows a lot and can still see some problems. The development of LeTV is obviously deformed. It's okay to survive, but once it explodes, it will be dead without a burial place.

There is no way out. Li Ji is worried and there is nothing he can do, but now that he has landed steadily, he naturally doesn't want to accompany Boss Jia to gamble.

The other is that Li Ji has dealt with Wei Yang before, and Boss Wei has a deep impression of him, and he has a deeper impression of Boss Wei.

No one knows better than him how much contribution Wei Yang made to LeEco's rise. He witnessed with his own eyes the way Boss Wei could turn the tide.

The term "fanboy" may be a bit exaggerated, but Li Ji really admires Wei Yang and even worships him.

Li Ji would never be optimistic about others starting video websites, because the market has been divided up, and it is difficult for new websites to break through the siege.

But Wei Yang is different. Li Ji believes that he can create miracles and is optimistic about the development of PPTV. Therefore, combined with the above reasons, he resolutely came to join Wei Yang.

Wei Yang did not live up to his trust!

In addition to formulating some major directions and related requirements, he delegated a lot of power, leaving aside the Suning system, and he basically had the final say over the entire website.

A man dies for his confidant!

At Li Ji's level, he is not so sentimental and naive, but facing Wei Yang's trust, he is still more or less touched.

At the same time, he also understands that Wei Yang's power and trust are not given for nothing, and he has to make some achievements.

If he does well, everyone is happy. If he does not do well, Wei Yang may replace him at any time.

Li Ji, who has dealt with Wei Yang, knows very well that the young man is not only powerful, but also ruthless enough, and has the advantages and ruthlessness of a mature businessman.

So since taking office, Li Ji has been working diligently, rectifying the website, gathering old employees, fighting against Suning's power grab, and implementing Wei Yang's plan and layout.

Fortunately, he is not alone. He is not the only one who was poached by Wei Yang. There are also Wei Yang's confidants, who are his helpers and comrades.

After a while, more than a dozen people sat in the conference room, basically all the heads of various departments.

Li Ji sat in the first seat, surrounded by Wei Yang's group, and the rest were PPTV veterans such as Sun Hai. It can be said that all the executives who are not from Suning came.

"The variety show department didn't come?"

Seeing that the meeting time was about to start, Li Ji found that one person was missing, so he asked the second female executive on his right, who was in charge of administration.

Although he did not hide his suppression and exclusion of Suning, he did not ignore everything. At least when it comes to specific matters, the person in charge must be present.

"Manager Yan seems to be unwell..."

This is a refusal, which is understandable. Li Ji's behavior is indeed not authentic, and people can't help but hold their breath or avoid suspicion.

"Take a break if you're not feeling well. I'll approve a long vacation later and ask my deputy to come to the meeting."

Li Ji is least afraid of Suning's group playing this trick. They want everyone to leave, so they can just kill the matter and let their deputy take over.

The Wei Yang group naturally supports Li Ji, and the old people of PPTV are too lazy to care, just watching the fun.

Although Li Ji seems aggressive, he only targets Suning's group, and puts the struggle on the top level. As long as the middle level is honest, he doesn't care, not to mention the bottom level.

So it seems lively, but it doesn't affect the internal operation. Just like now, if you dare to give up, I will directly let someone take over and seize power.

It's ugly, but it's really useful!

With the reputation and good situation left by Wei Yang before, Li Ji holds the power of the board of directors and the help of many executives, pulling a group and beating a group, and squeezes Suning's group.

After a while, when the deputy of the variety show department came, Li Ji directly called for a meeting.

"Let's talk about "Dad is Back" today. This is the first key project of our website..."

…

When Li Ji was in a meeting, Suning also learned the news. Manager Yan, who was deprived of power, was almost furious.

Others were also very angry. Wang Gan and others went directly to CEO Lu Yan, hoping that he would suppress Li Ji.

"How can he manage the company like this? He is blatantly splitting the company. His shares, surnamed Wei, have not yet reached the point of absolute control."

"That's right. Whether it is convening a board of directors or using other methods, Li Ji's arrogance must be suppressed."

"PPTV is not Wei Yang's one-man show, let alone Li Ji's. This kind of COO should be dismissed."

"..."

Suning was very excited. Lu Yan was very troubled. Of course, he was not happy with Li Ji's doing this, but he had no choice.

Let alone the fact that the board of directors was suppressed by Li Ji, the key point was that Wei Yang's previous series of operations left Li Ji with a very good situation.

The middle and lower-level employees and the old people of PPTV were basically all loyal and supported Li Ji's work.

Although Sun Hai and other PPTV veterans keep saying that they will not take sides and just watch the show, they listen to Li Ji's orders and cooperate in all meetings. This has already shown which side they are on.

Li Ji has the support of the board of directors, the grassroots people's hearts, and most of the middle and senior management are inclined to them, and they can give orders as easily as their fingers.

On the contrary, CEO Lu Yan often hits a soft nail. How can you ask him to fight with Li Ji?

More importantly, Wei Yang and PPTV are ready to reach an agreement.

PPTV will settle the payment as soon as possible and transfer the money to Blue Whale. After the tax and other things are sorted out, Wei Yang will come forward to raise funds and make the second investment as soon as possible.

This is to keep PPTV as much as possible.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to settle the payment so quickly for such a large-scale cooperation, but now Wei Yang is in the middle, and both sides have given the green light.

This also leads to Wei Yang's next investment speed faster than expected.

But the key is that Wei Yang is transferring money from left hand to right hand, as long as the financial speed is fast, but Suning is paying real money.

The first 500 million was paid easily because Suning had been prepared for it a long time ago, but they didn’t expect Wei Yang to pay the second one so quickly.

Coupled with Wei Yang's saucy operation, there was some dissent within Suning, who felt that this was too much of a loss, which directly led to the second tranche of funds being slower than Wei Yang's.

This is a good thing for Wei Yang. He hopes that Suning will be slow and not pay for it. If there is no money, the shares will be diluted.

But Suning doesn't want to dilute. Therefore, Lu Yan was instructed to find ways to delay.

What can Lu Yan do?

But I can only scold the headquarters for being a bad person while trying to think of a way to deal with it. It's hard to say whether it will work or not, but I certainly can't easily conflict with Li Ji, otherwise Li Ji will definitely start to adjust the shares immediately.

Lu Yan even suspected that Li Ji was so arrogant and domineering because he knew that he might give in.

But regardless of whether this is the case or not, Lu Yan really needs to appease his subordinates and avoid exacerbating the conflict when the headquarters is not sure when the second tranche of funds will be invested.

"Don't worry, if God wants him to die, he will surely go crazy. Li Ji has made drastic changes and made a lot of changes to the website and the company. We are not the only ones who have objections to him."

"The newly revised website will be launched soon, and projects such as "Dad Is Back" will also be launched one after another."

"We don't have to rush to fight with them now. When Li Ji's arrangement is frustrated, that's when we will attack."

"..."

Lu Yan tried his best to persuade his men. Although everyone was not satisfied with his "weakness", they agreed to stay put for the time being and wait for Li Ji to overturn to cause trouble.

What will happen if Li Ji succeeds?

They subconsciously didn't think about it. They were almost being squeezed to death. If Li Ji did it, PPTV would have no chance of survival for them.

Afterwards, Lu Yan came forward to discuss with Li Ji about Manager Yan, but he was pushed back neither softly nor hard.

"I didn't fire him. That's the right of the board of directors. I just asked him to take leave. He's not in good health. Our company needs humane management. If an employee gets tired and something goes wrong, we'll be in trouble."

Lu Yan's face was not very good when he left, but Li Ji's face was sarcastic.

As CEO, if Lu Yan was really tough with him and confronted him in every matter, Li Ji would actually have a lot of headaches. After all, Suning has a lot of shares, and he does not have an absolutely overwhelming advantage in terms of senior management.

But he chose to stop quietly and strike later. No wonder Li Ji launched a massive attack.

Lu Yan was right about one thing. Li Ji's current strength and domineering attitude was due to him.

It’s no wonder that Suning has not made any progress after winning PPTV for half a year. On the one hand, it is due to the wrong development route, and on the other hand, it is also related to the mediocrity of the management staff.

As long as they had some ability, it would not have been so easy for Wei Yang to acquire websites before, and they would even have accumulated huge internal prestige in a short period of time.

In Li Ji's mind, Lu Yan and others would not be his opponents unless they received Suning's support at all costs.

He didn't take the opponent too seriously. In contrast, he was more concerned about PPTV's first battle after being reborn.

On April 20, 2014, PPTV was newly launched after certain rectifications, which also marked the arrival of another fierce tiger in the field of Internet video websites...