tkworld #199 - The first step to change the world (order required)
#199 - The first step to change the world (order required)
Meanwhile, "My Leisurely Island Life" saw its monthly active users surpass 2.6 million, with a peak concurrent online count of 350,000.
"Carefree Trash-Talking Life" exceeded 3 million monthly active users, with a peak concurrent online count of 420,000.
After deducting 21.6 million for the YouYi platform's share, the games generated a revenue of 86.4 million.
The animation licensing fee for Peach Blossom Dreamland amounted to 22.3 million.
Last month, the company's total expenses, including salaries, benefits, and rent, reached 20.5 million.
Currently, the company's account balance stands at 87.5 million.
Upon seeing the eight-figure sum in the company account, Lu Yu began to question his life.
Damn, I've been diligently spending the company's money on enjoyment, yet the more I enjoy, the more money there seems to be?
While having more money isn't a bad thing, it indicates that the golden finger is becoming increasingly stable.
However!
Lu Yu bitterly checked the balance in his personal account, which only had a little over 700,000.
Although 700,000 isn't a small amount for a college graduate who's been out of school for less than a year,
the disparity between Lu Yu's personal savings and the company's account balance was simply too great!
No matter how exaggerated the numbers in the company account are, if not a single penny ends up in his pocket, it's useless; he can only anxiously stare at those 80 million.
In addition, with the recent continuous success of various project teams and business lines under Peach Blossom Village, Lu Yu felt somewhat dazed.
I remember when I first came to this world, I only wanted to open a small game studio with just myself and Liu Mengyuan as employees, maintaining a small cycle of earning leisurely points.
How did I gradually reach this scale?
I've already tried my best to slack off, and the company's welfare measures are already heaven-defying, but why is the company's business still expanding?
Is this even logical?
Lu Yu's bottom line has always been that the company shouldn't go bankrupt. At the same time, to avoid the big-company disease and uncontrolled internal competition, he wanted to maintain a fixed team size and cyclically earn points.
Unexpectedly, after three settlement cycles, his wish has never been fulfilled!
The company's business scale continues to expand, forcing him to expand recruitment, and new internal competition kings are constantly emerging among the employees, backstabbing him.
For example, right now—
Lu Yu turned off the system's do-not-disturb mode, and soon, a large number of point deduction notifications popped up—
[Employee Zhang Fan used his weekend rest time to create a game platform, resulting in fatigue, Leisurely Points -8]
[Employee Shao Peng used his weekend rest time to create a game engine, resulting in fatigue, Leisurely Points -12]
……
Lu Yu once again lamented: The internal competition backstabbing from this group of competition kings is still too damaging.
The reason the game platform was launched so quickly was all thanks to Zhang Fan and Shao Peng, these competition kings.
And the existence of these competition kings further led to Lu Yu constantly earning Leisurely Points through various means, only to have them continuously deducted by the constantly emerging competition kings.
He checked the system screen and saw that Leisurely Points were being earned and deducted dramatically, like a roller coaster.
More than a month into this cycle, he had only earned 1200 Leisurely Points.
Even less than he earned during the same period in the previous cycle!
No, I have to find a way to convert these 80 million into Leisurely Points!
After making up his mind, Lu Yu decided to continue increasing employee benefits.
Coincidentally, it had been quite a while since the last company-wide team-building event, so it was time to start a new round of team-building enjoyment.
After all, keeping the money in the account is useless, and if it involves too much energy, it will be detrimental to his slacking-off endeavor.
Lu Yu opened the travel agency's website and various travel bloggers' destination recommendations.
This upcoming team-building trip has two purposes:
First, to make the team-building event achieve the ultimate enjoyment, crazily flashing points, since there's plenty of money to squander.
Second, to continue reforming the company employees' values. Although he had tried this method before during the trip to Gusu Ancient City, the effect was not ideal. This time, he has to persevere and do something ruthless to make these guys completely give up internal competition.
……
But before the team-building event, he had another matter to attend to.
Because when Lu Yu checked the system screen, he unexpectedly discovered that many Peach Blossom Village players were healed by the joyful program effects from his and Liu Mengyuan's live streams, generating Leisurely Points.
If all of Peach Blossom Village's fans watched the live streams, wouldn't he have an additional source of Leisurely Points income?
In addition to that,
from the perspective of grand ideals, Lu Yu decided to develop the live streaming business to spread the concept of a leisurely life to the world.
On a larger scale, this is the first step in completely changing this world of internal competition.
On a smaller scale, he was also afraid that Liu Mengyuan would be too invested and competitive in live streaming, wanting to stay up all night to edit videos and gain traffic.
Unfortunately, the DiLiDiLi platform also provides a large number of live streaming tasks for streamers and viewers to burn the midnight oil.
Therefore, Lu Yu decided to establish a small platform specifically for him and Liu Mengyuan to live stream their daily lives.
This platform is anti-internal competition for both streamers and viewers.
The platform focuses on slacking off and relaxing, and it will encourage people to live leisurely and joyfully.
As for the candidate for the person in charge of the live streaming platform, he had already considered it—
The Tangtang Triplets!
The reason for appointing them as the person in charge was also after a long period of contemplation.
The Tangtang Triplets are leisurely slacking-off warriors who have been tested through three cycles!
Especially in recent months, the triplets have had no internal competition point deduction records, and they have even exploited a lot of points from employees in their capacity as encouragement masters.
Before joining Peach Blossom Village, the Tangtang Triplets relied on live streaming their travels for two years, spending as much as they earned each month, focusing on enjoyment. This lifestyle is very reassuring.
So, Lu Yu called the Tangtang Triplets to him and appointed them as the operating directors of the new live streaming platform.
When the Tangtang Triplets heard that Lu Yu had given them such a big responsibility, they immediately wanted to back down.
The eldest sister, Cotton Candy, hesitated:
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"President Lu, we usually only travel and play, and then receive and send express deliveries at the company's front desk, distributing afternoon tea to employees.
You want us to run a live streaming platform, but we've only been life travel streamers for a while, and we don't know anything else. We don't have any experience at all."
The second sister, Jumping Candy, grinned, her little tiger teeth shining: "I think you should find someone else more capable."
"Find someone else more capable," the third sister, Lollipop, said expressionlessly.
When Lu Yu heard this, he was overjoyed!
Don't know anything? That's great!
What I want are clueless rookies!
After all, the purpose of this platform is not to make profits and expand business scale, continuing to compete in a new track.
On the contrary, the purpose of the live streaming platform is to promote anti-internal competition to the market environment, thereby reducing Lu Yu's risk of recruiting competition kings!
Then, the triplets who have never worked after graduation and have been traveling and playing for two years are just right.
Lu Yu happily said:
"Alright, no need to say anymore, I've made up my mind. You don't need to worry, I'll recruit specialists to assist you in your work.
I won't set any KPIs for you. You just need to make a usable platform. What do I mean by usable? Just that the internet speed isn't slow and viewers can register smoothly!
Besides, once you three become the operating directors of the live streaming platform, your annual salary will be several times higher than it is now, okay?"
The Tangtang Triplets looked at each other, and then instantly nodded.
So…so tempting!
After coming out of the office, the triplets were still in a daze.
Goodness, they had only been working as the company's front desk and programmer encouragement masters for half a year, and they were directly promoted to platform managers.
Does President Lu promote employees so casually?
The second sister said seriously: "What should we do now?"
The eldest sister sighed: "Let's ask President Liu later. Maybe only President Liu can answer President Lu, this old layered cake's, true intentions."
……
Shenzhen, Liu Group Headquarters, Chairman's Office.
"President Liu, our acquisition agreement with Leopard Tooth Platform has been signed. Leopard Tooth Platform will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of our company in the near future."
The Vice President of Liu Group in charge of the entertainment business, President Qian, held the document and reported to Liu Lan.
Today's Liu Lan was still wearing a shirt, black stockings, and a hip-hugging outfit, highlighting her charming and still-youthful figure.
Since the last time she played her virtual image in "Carefree Trash-Talking Life", the frequency of her wearing black stockings has obviously increased.
Liu Lan stood in front of the glass curtain wall, with her back to President Qian, exhaling a string of smoke rings from the corner of her mouth, and said leisurely:
"Entering the live streaming industry is an important strategy for the group to connect the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, so we must pay considerable attention to it. You need to inform various cooperative media in advance to create momentum."
President Qian respectfully said: "President Liu, don't worry. After this acquisition, the live streaming industry is basically a situation where we and Tenghui share the world. If other small and medium-sized manufacturers want to enter the market, they will definitely be crushed into nothing."
……
October 24th, Monday.
The news that Leopard Tooth Live was about to be acquired by Liu Group spread like wildfire, shocking the entire industry.