Management
First-Round Interviewer Summary
· β˜• 2 min read
Recently quite a few teammates have left, and we are fairly short-staffed. I have interviewed nearly ten candidates one after another; the first-round pass rate is around 50%, and there is still no confirmed HC. 1. Preparation Collecting resumes. Posts, email announcements, WeChat Moments, and job boards are all sources

R&D Is Like Training Troops, Operations Is Like Deploying Them
· β˜• 4 min read
1. Thought Drives Behavior Thought drives behavior, and behavior produces results. How we treat people, handle things, and approach affairs all come from culture, and they do not leap forward just because technology advances rapidly. The Chinese nation, with its long history, has accumulated remarkably resilient intellectual wisdom. Dynasties rose and fell, regimes changed, and none of it could bring her down.

The Software Product Is the Output of Team Capability
· β˜• 4 min read
1. People Matter More and More Why is the valuation of the internet industry significantly higher than that of manufacturing? Among equally excellent companies in their respective industries, Tencent’s PE is as high as 30+, while Gree’s PE is only 10+. The internet industry is characterized by being asset-light: no expensive complex equipment, no need for large production plants.

ToB Thinking at Large and Small Companies
· β˜• 7 min read
1. Understanding ToB It is only because money has become harder and harder to make from ToC that ToB has flourished. The era in which a single idea could be turned into a good product and ultimately accepted by everyone has been crushed beneath the wheels. In the early days of the internet, a single portal directory made Sohu, a single chat tool made Tencent, and even hao123 β€” nothing more than a handful of jump pages β€” sold for tens of millions.

Different Stages of a SaaS Development Team
· β˜• 6 min read
The team I am on is responsible for SaaS development. We have a few flagship SaaS products and also some supporting ones. The flagship SaaS products have complex architectures, large technical challenges, and heavy staffing, and they are the focus of our KPIs. But a flagship project cannot stay the flagship forever β€” projects have life cycles and phases.