Banana 2 Dumb

Luzhou will classify the information collected from search engines into documents for future use.

After that, he purchased a Penguin account on Ali Mall and changed the account's location to Zhennan City. He sent a friend request to this fierce-speaking social figure.

"Register on Weibo, seen on Tieba."

After sending the friend request, he put it aside and continued working.

On the other hand, Meng Xiaoqin came to Luzhou again and said to him, "Senior, the accounts before the salary distribution have been properly organized and sent to your email. Please check."

"Alright. It will be distributed on the 15th next week, right?"

"Yes, but because the corporate account of Menggu does not have a withholding agreement yet, we can only make cash payments. Senior, you need to go to the bank on that day to withdraw cash and distribute it."

Luzhou nodded, "Okay, remember to set up the withholding later and organize the bank account numbers of the team members. Some of the previous processes can be compiled into regulations when there is time, so that the work doesn't need to be arranged repeatedly when implemented in branch offices."

"Okay, I'll take care of it."

Since its development, Menggu has only been around for a month. The current team is still small, and combined with the fact that the team members are relatively active, Luzhou adopts a laissez-faire management style.

"I really don't want to admit that I don't understand management." Luzhou couldn't help but cover his face.

After all, he came from a technical background. Although he had entrepreneurial experience in his previous life, the management style in between is not much different from the current Menggu. So he only has a superficial understanding of most of the institutional processes.

He delegated some of the miscellaneous affairs of the company to Meng Xiaoqin to handle, and there is also a certain reason for this. Moreover, the little girl is very organized in her work, and many of the existing processes and links in the company were instructed by Luzhou, but she had to figure out how to do them herself.

For now, everything is running smoothly, so Luzhou doesn't make many changes. He plans to wait until the overall business expands and the team becomes larger before addressing this weakness through venture capital introduction or headhunting.

He opened his email and checked the mail data sent by Meng Xiaoqin, which was a simple financial report.

Among the existing members of Menggu, the initial core team recruited in mid-March consisted of six people: Dong Junda, Zhou Wen, Pan Feiwen, and Wang Zhengye for development, and Meng Xiaoqin and Tang Yutong for marketing.

Because the development tasks were more important, the salaries in the initial internship contracts were higher for the developers.

The developers' salary was 3,000 yuan per month, while the marketing salary was 2,000 yuan. After Menggu's advertising gained popularity, Luzhou promised to increase their salaries by 1,000 yuan.

After Menggu's internal testing went online, six more members were recruited, including Chen Jin and Jiang Chao for development, but they have already left. Only Huang Dong and three members of the marketing team remained.

Their salaries were still based on the initial internship contracts.

As for Luzhou himself and Fang Qiang, Luzhou also set salaries for the two of them after the internal testing. Both of them received a salary of 10,000 yuan.

On the one hand, Menggu's current profitability is strong.

During the internal testing period, they earned 200,000 yuan in advertising fees. This week, under the business development of Tang Yutong

's marketing department, more advertisers joined and their traffic was converted. The advertising fees doubled this week, reaching 400,000 yuan.

Roughly estimated, Menggu has only been operating for two weeks this month, but the gross profit is already 180,000 yuan, while the personnel expenses are only 50,000 yuan. Menggu at the moment can afford to pay the salaries of the two.

"On the other hand, to be honest, there is no money."

From the buying and selling on Weibo, apart from using the money to purchase initial equipment for Menggu in the first week, Luzhou has been using his share of the income to support the difficulties at home.

During this time, running the Weibo program on the server required money, and he also upgraded the server configuration once. In addition to daily expenses and a trip back home during the Qingming Festival, he also treated the Menggu team to a meal from time to time.

All the money spent during this period came from Luzhou's savings before leaving his previous job, and now he really doesn't have any money left to spend.

"I, Boss Lu, have reached this point as well. If I don't pay the salaries soon, I won't even be able to afford to eat at the cafeteria with Qingchen."

"Cough, cough."

In the computer, the classic penguin friend message sound rang.

The other party sent a few words, "Can you do it? How much does it cost?"

Seeing that it was still early before the end of the workday, Luzhou ignored the message for now.

It's better to leave the person hanging for a while and show a bit of aloofness, rather than being too eager.

"Zhengye, Huang Dong, let's have a brief meeting."

After speaking, he also called Fang Qiang, "Qiangzi, join us as well."

In no time, several people gathered around the office desk. Luzhou cleared his throat and organized his thoughts.

"The beta version of the Banana application will be released for testing next week, and we need a few of you to handle the integration. For now, let's summarize the current development status of Banana, which will facilitate the integration work next week."

Luzhou then looked at Fang Qiang and said, "Qiangzi, let's start with the current situation of the developer integration module and also report on the current server load."

Fang Qiang took over the conversation, "Alright. You all should have used the internal testing version of Menggu's advertisements before, so I won't repeat the explanation. Currently, the additional Banana integration modules mainly focus on the developer's access point. Our marketing department has created a simple example interface, and the corresponding documentation and interface files are available in the code repository."

"The interface corresponds to several parameters, which retrieve data for displaying the application list in the Banana APK. Of course, the specific sorting needs to be adjusted on your end. Mainly..."

As Luzhou watched Fang Qiang summarizing and explaining to the two, he couldn't help but nod.

In just two weeks, Fang Qiang had shown great organization and proficiency in handling the development tasks previously managed by Luzhou for Menggu's advertisements.

During this time, Luzhou had been providing detailed explanations to Fang Qiang, and Fang Qiang had also spent a lot of time absorbing knowledge and putting it into practice during the project development.

When Fang Qiang finished speaking, Luzhou continued, "Well done. Although you haven't delved deep into the functionality modules and code of Banana, you explained it in a systematic manner. There shouldn't be any major issues in entrusting you with the remaining integration work."

Naturally, Fang Qiang was secretly delighted, with a smile almost reaching his ears.

"Huang Dong, were there any issues with the new features you were assigned to work on before this week?"

The usually quiet Huang Dong stumbled over his words and appeared somewhat lacking in confidence.

"The progress hasn't been smooth... I've been slowing things down, Boss Lu..."

Initially, the more taciturn Wang Zhengye was often teased by the Menggu team members and called "Little Dull."

But after working for a while, everyone realized that Wang Zhengye was actually quite expressive. For example, he would dare to say things like, "Pity me, Ye Fairy, being courted by a pig."

As for the newly arrived Huang Dong, he took over the "dull" banner from Wang Zhengye these past two weeks, and with his anxious appearance, he was referred to as "Old Dull" by everyone. Together, they were called the "Banana Dull Duo."

Upon hearing Huang Dong's words, Fang Qiang encouraged him in a carefree manner, "Just speak your mind during internal meetings and follow your own thought process. Whether it's smooth or not is another matter, just tell us which step you've reached."