During this period of time, I have read a lot of rumors about startup companies facing bankruptcy due to the epidemic. Some of them are online and some are engaged in offline entities. We all discussed the development of the industry in the group.
Since Wang Xing said the concept of “the second half of the Internet” a few years ago, many founders in the group have touted it and started to reform the company’s profit model.
Half of the people are their own change of life, the main business profits are used to open up new business, there is no way, can not get new traffic, always try.
As a result, this half of the bigwigs’ plans failed to catch up with the changes, and the new business suffered a net loss, while the main business suffered a profit reduction due to the overall market, which was temporarily confiscated and collapsed.
We had an even less fortunate CEO in our group. He was originally in the TO B business, but mainly in technical support. Later, when his partners made more money, he learned to do both offline.
As a result, the offline cost was too large and he was a new entrant, so he could not earn the money. In addition, due to the outbreak of the epidemic this year, he lost himself in a flash.
The example of this kind of fiasco, listen to the big guy friends beside you to tell many, not to be nonexistent before returning to liberation once, just basic level employee does not feel just.
Take the recent spate of online criticism of layoffs by employees as an example. In fact, many company founders are even worse off. Not only are they unable to pay employees, but they are also in debt to investors.
To tell the truth, now I still quite difficult to feel this state, after the success of the earlier years on shore, from the migrant mode, but according to so many years with the team’s feelings, can also understand one or two.
For example, one of my former subordinates, I found that he had a side business during his time at work, but I didn’t mention that as long as he did his job well, I didn’t care.
Later, he came to talk to me and said he would resign. According to the news from other people, he didn’t go to another company. I think maybe he did well in his side business and decided to start his own business.
However, after a year, this young man sent me a message on wechat one day, asking me whether the team was still recruiting recently and wanted to “return”.
I asked him why, he said that he had made a little money to start a business, the result of doing a year to lose all the capital, or feel that steady work is more reliable.
And I managed to get him back, too, with a big raise.
I want to tell you that most of the time you may make money not because of your ability, but because of the opportunity, but most of the time the opportunity can let you make small money, only the ability can let you make money continuously.
This is true of large companies, as well as their own sideline businesses. If your ability is not solid, it is likely that a natural disaster will wipe out the company, just like those failed founders in the group.
If you are an ordinary Internet person, it is recommended to maintain your ability to work, but do not have the mentality of workers, the company as a school of life, in addition to making money at the same time, precipitation of their core ability, that is the fundamental.
A founder can ruin his company, but an employee can ruin himself if he’s not careful.
Finally, I suggest you: this period of time do not easily job-hopping, not to resign naked, must jump, to do a good job of the psychological preparation of the flat salary jump.
