505. Confession
Sorry, yesterday's chapters were in the wrong order
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Seeing everyone's eyes gathered, Yang Yi continued to smile and said, "I will briefly introduce the origin of Manager Song. He is the authentic successor of the imperial cuisine in the capital. Before being invited to Yangyi Catering, he served as the general manager at the Hilton International Hotel in Yangcheng, and also served as the executive director of the back kitchen. I believe that under his leadership, Yangyi Catering will also become a highlight of our Yangyi Culture and can truly shine the glory of our Chinese food culture. Well, the above are all scenes. Below is the real key Yangyi Culture will establish its own group restaurant after relocating to the Magic City, and the group restaurant will be handed over to Manager Song to handle the first step in promoting Chinese food, and let him start from our Yangyi Culture."
Sure enough, the Chinese people have the potential to be a foodie in their bloodline. After hearing what Yang Yi said, those older people can still maintain a mature and persistent attitude, but the young people, especially the group represented by Guo Yin, cheered in a low voice. If Yang Yi and Rogo were not present, they might have had a big fuss.
After the crowd's rounds subsided, Yang Yi expressed the final purpose of today's meeting as he looked at the smile on his face and was full of excitement.
"It seems that everyone is in good spirits. So, I will announce the most important thing after our Yangyi Culture is reorganized into the group." Looking at the people who look at him, the young man knew that his next announcement would be indifferent to Zhao Shuren, Liao Xiangzhai, who didn't work for a long time. Perhaps it was okay, and even Wu Shifu and Lili and other old employees of Yunzhong Bookstore. However, for young people like Guo Yin who obviously have their own ambitions, and those who are more obvious in professional managers such as Qiu Yuan, Ye Chuan, and even Xu Pengxiang, they are not so easy to accept.
But no matter how difficult it is to accept it, he must speak out at this point and not let these people be kept in the dark until he finally understands his plan.
"What I want to say is that although Yangyi Culture has been transformed into a group nature and a company controlled by its headquarters, I have not planned to accept external venture capital from the beginning to the end. In other words, I have never planned to let Yangyi Culture and any major business unit under Yangyi Culture go public. I have no intention of making money, because the original purpose of creating Yangyi Culture was not to realize its own value from the business side. Yangyi Culture is not a business empire in China in the future."
Sure enough, after Yang Yi said this, many people looked at Yang Yi blankly with incredible eyes.
They are not deaf people who don’t know anything. In the past few months, they have also heard about the news that venture capital is going to invest in Yangyi Culture. It is only after Yang Yi and Rogo rejected those venture capital investors mainly. As professional managers, they just think that Yang Yi is waiting for a price. Only after Yangyi Culture highlights its greater value and a broader future will it be exchanged for more investment at a smaller price.
Several professional managers have heard of the examples of selling the company's shares and even the entire company due to various internal or external pressures at the beginning of their business. On the contrary, they have seen too many such things, as if crucian carp crossing the river. And Yang Yi's repeated rejection has become synonymous with calmness in their eyes.
After all, it is better to use 30% or 40% of shares to exchange for a mere millions or tens of millions of investments now. It is better to grit your teeth and wait. After Yangyi Culture becomes stronger, use the same shares to exchange for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of investments, or only collect millions or tens of millions of investments, but the shares taken out are only 10% or 20%.
Everyone can figure out this account clearly. Not everyone is short-sighted, but on the road to entrepreneurship, today is always dark, tomorrow is the darkest before dawn, and the light and beauty are the light and beauty. However, only a small part of these entrepreneurs who can see light and beauty together with this small number of entrepreneurs have changed from those original entrepreneurs to investors who joined the middle.
So Yang Yi's move to refuse venture capital was, in their opinion, hoping to exchange for the greatest control of Yangyi Culture at the smallest price possible, but they never expected that the young man had no intention of giving up the slightest share in his hands from the beginning.
"Don't plan to go public?" The first person to speak was Qiu Yuan. As the chief financial officer appointed by Yangyi Holdings in the future, he has a transcendent position different from ordinary executives. He has grasped the overall strategy of the group, implemented various strategic plans, and understood and controlled various situations within the company. Whether it is Qiu Yuan himself or all the chief financial officers in modern enterprises, they are far superior to other leading figures. It can be said that in the executive level, it is not an exaggeration to be inferior to tens of thousands of people. It is precisely because of understanding this accusation that Qiu Yuan was the first to ask.
"Yes, I didn't plan from the beginning. But at that time, Yangyi Culture was still mainly based on Yunzhong Bookstore's business, almost a large private bookstore. It was too early to talk about listing, so I didn't mention it." Yang nodded, not shy away from his own ideas: "But now it's different. Yangyi Culture has the prototype of a corporate group, so before the real group is formed, I must explain it to everyone clearly. If you have any questions, you can raise it as much as you like now."
The group of people looked at each other for a long time and finally divided into two clearly divided groups.
The elderly people led by Zhao Shuren, Liao Xiangzhai, or those with less obvious professional manager attributes, seemed to have no intention of asking questions, but just waiting for other colleagues to speak. The rest of the people represented by Qiu Yuan were all willing to speak, obviously they were very puzzled by Yang Yi's decision. However, among them, such as Guo Yin and the supervisors of several other network development teams, they were all determined but not brave. After all, they are just managers of major business departments whose names have not yet been implemented, and they do not have much say in the issue of listing.
Among the remaining people with the right to speak, Ye Chuan himself has a technical background. Although he also has the desire to become a senior manager or even a big company's gold leader, before that, he had no experience and dared not be too high-profile and even left the impression that he was greedy for the people. So he didn't speak up. Xu Pengxiang's qualifications are enough, and judging from his role in Yangyi Culture, just a legal director who will deal with many aspects in the future is enough to make him speak out at the meeting at this moment. Unfortunately, this special person with a tendency to national culture chauvinism has a stronger interest in whether Yangyi Culture can become a cultural trust across national borders than becoming a big group gold leader, that is to say, he can be said to be working hard for pure hobbies.
So in the end, only Qiu Yuan was left, and he had to stand up. For himself and on behalf of the managers who hoped that the company would be listed, he asked: "But even if I understand your decision, Mr. Yang, I cannot agree with it very much. As you said, your purpose at the beginning was not for the establishment of a business empire, but for your own ideals or other reasons. But I have to remind you that in the process of realizing this ideal, how many people are willing to accompany you to work together. To put it very directly, many of us here are trying to realize our self-worth from the business aspect, or more directly, because of economic reasons, but you will never go public now. I think it will be a big blow to the enthusiasm of employees."
In this case, no one dared to mention it in person. Even Guo Yin, who joined Yangyi Culture, was far earlier than Qiu Yuan, dared not say it. Maybe after learning about Yang Yi's plan, he didn't say anything, but from the bottom of his heart, he would inevitably feel tired and dissatisfied.
Only Qiu Yuan, who is of excellent level, brilliant enough qualifications, and can play a crucial role in promoting the development of Yangyi Culture, can raise these questions without shyness as a new manager.
"This is my ideal, but do you have no ideal at all?" Yang Yi asked with a smile.
Qiu Yuan greeted Yang Yi's gaze and replied extremely calmly: "As long as you are a human being, how can you not have your inner ideal? However, before realizing your ideal, we must fulfill the values imposed on us in this society, just as love without bread is worth touching, but it is not necessarily worth pursuing ourselves. If you can't even eat enough, or even if you have enough, you can't meet the requirements of your relatives and realize the most basic value of a man, then it would be a bit illusory to talk about ideals. And as me personally, becoming a world-renowned and well-known company in China is my own ideal."
After saying this, he added: "This last point only means me personally, I hope Mr. Yang doesn't mind."
"What do I mind? You can tell the truth in front of me." At this moment, Yang Yi's performance and his age were definitely not worth it, and he was full of the demeanor that a leader of a real big company should have: "But what I want to say is that you just proposed my ideal, but you are not sure what my ideal is."
Looking at Yang Yi's staring at him, Qiu Yuan felt for the first time that he did not fully understand the child sitting in the chief position, or that his heart could no longer be called a child, but an adult with the same mature mind as himself.
"My ideal is indeed not to establish a business empire, but I didn't say it can't be an empire of other natures, such as a cultural empire. How do you think this name is? Is it loud enough?" Yang Yi was looking at Qiu Yuan just now, but the next moment, the focus of his eyes was already on a certain point in the void: "Cultural empire, in my opinion, Citi's Disney and Hollywood can be called a cultural kingdom from a certain level, but they are far from being called an empire. If Yang Yi culture can be turned into a greater existence than Disney and Hollywood, and let Chinese culture export to the current Citi's culture to the whole world, would it be very exciting?"
Chapter completed!