Zuo Ziliang said: "This month, so far, the number of new additions to our app has reached 320,000, a year-on-year increase of 450%. Do you know what this concept is?"

Wang Zixu shook his head slightly. Zuo Ziliang dragged the whiteboard next to him and pointed to the line chart at the top:

"When I first found you, the total number of users of our app was more than 30,000. After more than two months of hard work, the number increased to 50,000. Then, this month..."

His fingers made a fierce pulling motion along with the line chart.

"Our number of users has increased to 92,000 in one go. What is this concept? This means that this month, the number of new downloads of our app is nearly 10 times the original user base. This month's user growth is the same as ours."

All growth since the app’s inception has been equaled!”

Wang Zixu pinched his knuckles: "Is it because of the little prince?"

"Basically," Zuo Ziliang said.

Wang Zixu said: "Isn't this a good thing?"

Zuo Ziliang sighed: "It's a good thing, but we were blindly optimistic before. After the initial popularity, we began to expand, increase bandwidth, server expansion, large-scale recruitment, investment promotion... But, we initially

The 7-day retention of a group of new users is only 6%..."

Wang Zixu didn't understand the specific meaning of this number and asked: "How much should it be?"

Zuo Ziliang said: "Let's put it this way, if the retention reaches 15%, all our investments can be fully amortized. Next month's net profit is conservatively estimated to increase by more than 300%, and it can continue to grow. But the retention is 6%

… We still owe money.”

Wang Zixu asked: "Do I owe money this month or next month?"

Zuo Ziliang and Ye Lan looked at each other: "If the retention rate is always 6%, then you will owe money every month."

Wang Zixu stopped talking.

Zuo Ziliang said: "This is not to defend our previous decisions. Look at the data. In your initial wave of popularity, the traffic rate to us was about 8%. Later you exploded again. If

Calculated based on 8%, our server is about to be overwhelmed. The manpower and scale are not enough, and we must expand drastically..."

Wang Zixu waved his hand and said: "No need to explain. I can understand. Just tell me, what should I do next?"

Zuo Ziliang said: "Either we can increase the retention rate, or we can lay off employees, reduce capacity, and cut off our resources. That means we will not be able to continue this wave of traffic, and everything will go back to where it started."

Wang Zixu asked: "How to increase the retention rate?"

Zuo Ziliang glanced at Ye Lan and said, "This is your job, you explain it to him."

Ye Lan put the information on his lap and said: "There are many reasons for our low retention rate. The two most important ones are that the queue time is too long and the script coverage is not enough.

"Before this wave of traffic, our order queue time was 8.8 seconds. After the surge, this time stretched to two and a half minutes. Many new users were lost in the process.

"In addition, your script output is two articles per day. In the past, when there were few users and few speech therapists, this could be covered around the clock. But now that there are more users, the script cannot cover it, which is very difficult.

It may happen that a user listens to a script two or three times."

Wang Zixu said: "Anyway, the meaning is that there are not enough speech therapists and not enough scripts. How many scripts are needed every day?"

Ye Lan held out four fingers: "In principle, multiply by five. In fact, the more, the better. As the number of users increases in the future, the number of new scripts every day will naturally be more, the better."

Wang Zixu murmured: "Multiply by five, two articles are four thousand, ten articles are twenty thousand..."

"It can't be done." Zuo Ziliang put one leg on the coffee table. "This quantity has exceeded the limit of the human body. Quantity cannot make up for quality."

Wang Zixu thought for a while and said, "Then add four more script writers."

Zuo Ziliang and Ye Lan looked at him at the same time and then at each other.

This is a quite sensitive topic. Wang Zixu’s core asset is his script writing ability. Everyone is not too familiar with him yet, so they all hold on to their own territory rather tightly, and they must be on guard against others.

In fact, the two of them sang this double act in a meeting, which meant that they wanted to improve script production capacity, but no one could say it first, so Wang Zixu had to do it himself.

Wang Zixu added, "I haven't communicated with Cheng Xing until now."

Ye Lan straightened up: "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you. Cheng Xing contacted me yesterday. He said that he has recently received a lot of business cooperation related to Little Prince, especially some publishers who want to publish your script.

.”

Wang Zixu stared at Ye Lan's back, but his eyes penetrated the wall and looked far away.

In the past, if he learned that his work might be published, he would be ecstatic, but somehow, when he heard the news today, he felt no emotion at all. He was thinking about something else entirely.

"To be honest, Cheng Xing is not promoting the Wenwen app at all, which is a pity," Wang Zixu said. "The traffic that can be converted actually still has great potential."

Zuo Ziliang put his hand to his mouth and looked at him playfully: "What do you think?"

"I want to take advantage of this opportunity." Wang Zixu said, "But I have a condition."

"you say."

Wang Zixu leaned on the sofa: "I want to get 10% more shares."

Ye Lan's face changed and he said: "In this case, your shareholding ratio is almost the same as ours. Don't you think it's unfair? We built the entire app framework, including capital investment, personnel management, and so on.

We are all doing it..."

Zuo Ziliang grabbed Ye Lan and said, "I'll go out with her to discuss it, and I'll talk to you later, okay?"

Wang Zixu nodded.

Zuo Ziliang pushed the aggrieved Ye Lan out of the door and looked back at him with complicated eyes.

Zizixu felt that his eyes were not like anger at the lion, nor greed for having his interests touched. More, he felt that he was a little surprised, surprised at Wang Zixu's transformation. It seemed that he wanted to say, "You are a bit of a kid."

I’m enlightened.”

Wang Zixu couldn't think of anything and just leaned on the sofa to think about the problem.

Zuo Ziliang and Ye Lan came back soon, and Ye Lan took the lead and said, "Let's hear your plan first."

Wang Zixu said: "I need four people, four people who can study literature around the clock, preferably from speech therapists. Give me twenty days, and I can make the script production capacity meet or even exceed the target."

Zuo Ziliang blinked: "What then?"

Wang Zixu said: "I need an office location, preferably private, equipped with computers, where I can eat, live, sleep, write, and read at the same time. I also need three meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner."

Zuo Ziliang said: "You want to build a team from scratch."

"Yes."

Wang Zixu added: "In addition, I want to contact Cheng Xing personally. I want to publish my script, and I also want to print the QR code of Wenyan app on the book. I will let him fully promote our app.

.”

His words seemed to have some effect, and both Zuo Ziliang and Ye Lan were somewhat moved.
Chapter completed!