Chapter 102 – Chapter 102
The meeting with Yuna was at a coffee shop.
It was very frugal for a place where people dreaming of world domination would meet, but originally all greatness began with small things.
“So you mean we have to form a team?”
“Yes. After all, this acquisition is not going to end the business. I hope that I will form a team and create a business, and Min-june will be the CEO and investor of the business.”
“I got it. Well, how long will it take to save the team?”
“I do not know. You’ll have to do it, but… In order to easily recruit talented people I know into our team, I need to offer them at least 1.5 to 2 times the salary they receive from their previous job Or, there is a method of carefully selecting only a few managers and filling the rest with new employees… Minjun, you want things to go as fast as possible, right?”
“Well, that’s right.”
“I thought you would, but… Well. To do that, you’ll probably need a lot of money. Assuming that we recruit people of the level I am thinking of now with a guaranteed double salary, rent an office and start working in earnest… Even with rough calculations, it will take about a month and billions of funds. If that happens, you should be able to start the acquisition process right away, but honestly, in my personal opinion, the cost performance is too poor… Yes, I know that Minjun has a lot of money, but to run the company with minimal losses…… “
“Um, Ms. Yuna.”
“Yes. Mr. Minjun.”
As expected, Yuna was really great. She never urged me, but after just a few conversations, she accurately predicted that I wanted to quickly grow and run the company somehow, and she poured out advice.
Growing the company itself was not my purpose, but the real purpose was to expand the cult of Infinite Abstinence and break quests. So, the establishment of the company was regarded as just a level of reality to clear the quest. No matter how much was consumed, it was great if I could quickly pay and move on to the next chapter.
So, unlike me, from Yuna’s point of view, who seriously thinks about the company and wants to get the best value for money considering her own pocket her, negative comments were inevitable. It was a difference of opinion that was unavoidable due to different viewpoints in the first place.
But it wasn’t a bad thing. If Yuna, who is so smart and full of responsibility, was entrusted with the job, how easily would the company run? Just because I didn’t consider it important didn’t mean the company could run a mess. It didn’t matter how expensive the cash item was, but it was important to show proper performance. So, in order to create the company I wanted, I felt that I had to plant this mindset properly in Yuna. The rest of the practical stuff, Yuna will take care of it.
“Have you ever tried online GoStop? Even if it’s not a go-stop, it’s like poker or hold’em… It’s a game played with cyber money. Or, you know, when you were young, there was a virtual currency that was given to you when you went to church. What, did you say talent?”
“Ah, talent, I’ve received it before… I’ve never played a game before. But why are you suddenly talking about talent…”
“There is in the future. I want Yuna to regard her company’s money as her a talent.”
“Yes…?”
Yuna could not come to her senses easily at the sudden outburst of talent. But this was unavoidable. Because the value of ‘money’ that Yuna and I thought was so different, it was not easy to bridge the gap without a radical metaphor like this. Really, what do you mean cash is like cyber money to me?
“Well… Let me give you an example. Let’s say you have to buy this cafe. Let’s assume that the fair price is 100 million, but you have to wait a few months to buy it at 100 million, you can buy it in a A few weeks at 200 million, and you can buy it immediately at 500 million. What do you think Yuna will do?”
“Yeah… I think you will weigh the profit and loss according to the timing of the purchase and decide in a way that guarantees the greatest profit as a result?”
“No. I just told you. From now on, cash is just a talent, right? If you print it, it’s cyber money that comes as soon as you print it. Of course, buying it for 500 million is the right choice. Why are you saying that? Time is gold. But if you could buy that precious time not with cash but with cyber money, would Yuna not buy it?”
“Um…… “
Yuna could not easily open her mouth to her sermon that was beyond common sense. She seemed to be thinking, ‘Is this correct?’, But I needed to give a little stronger conviction to Yuna, who could hardly believe it.
“Now, listen to Yuna. Whether the deficit is 100 billion or 300 billion at the end of this year, I will not blame Yuna. Our purpose is not how well you can earn and save cyber money. We buy time unconditionally. Growing a company at a super-fast speed by shortening the time no matter how much money it costs. Don’t worry about anything else.”
“Ha-. It’s very different from the concept of the company I used to know… First of all, I understand what Minjun is talking about. It means to focus on the rapid growth of the company as much as possible rather than profits. , Right?”
“Um… “
I got the message right, but judging from how she still uses the noble word “Profit,” Yuna still doesn’t seem to have a proper grasp on how trivial money should be. In Yuna’s mind, growth is probably the first priority and profit is the second priority. However, as long as I was the leader of the Infinite Abstinence Church, there was virtually no need to consider the small profits earned by the company.
The system itself called obedience was a structure that had no choice but to increase the rate of accumulation over time. Establishing a company was just to make this structure tighter, and then I could actually sweep cash like cyber money. I didn’t know that it would be possible to go beyond a few hundred billion and even a few trillion. Of course, it wasn’t that far yet, but since there was an inexhaustible spring called Yeonju, there was nothing to creak about running a company.
So Yuna did n’t have to worry about her earnings her at all, she just had to pour money like crazy to strengthen the obedience system.
“Come on, Yuna-san. Then I will just give you the guidelines.”
“Yes. If so, I think I can work more clearly.”
“No matter what happens, spend at least 1 billion won a day for the growth of the company. If you spend 10 billion, fill up 10 days, and not like this, spend 1 billion every day even if there is nothing special. Well, it’s okay to buy 100 coffee machines each, or you can buy a building whenever you have a chance.”
“Yes…?”
“As the representative, this is an assignment for Yuna-san. You will be informed once a month whether you really spent 1 billion a day, so don’t think about saving money.”
“Mr. Minjun. You are saying this very sincerely…?”
“Yes. If you do anything, you can buy this cafe where we really are. You can buy the convenience store next door, or you can buy a commercial sports car for Yuna-san. Well, of course you should focus on acquiring Entersa right now, but if you have nothing to decide later, you can do that. You know?”
“…… “
Looking at Yuna who was confused, I sipped the coffee I ordered with a small smile.
‘Okay. It should be this much.’
As Yuna, who has been studying economics and management all her life, it was both an advantage and a disadvantage to think about profit too seriously.
So I gave Yuna a task that would break her stereotypes of her.
1 billion a day. It looked big when I said this, but it was only 10 when substituting for obedience. It was a level that could be earned by stroking Yeon-joo’s hair a little. To be honest, there were far more obedience than ten that could be accumulated just by standing still. In addition, I had about 10 followers besides the performance, and the number of followers was expected to increase much more in the future.
So it was okay to spend as much as I wanted, about 1 billion. Of course, Yuna couldn’t do that.
‘Yuna is not someone who can really spend her money just because she tells her to spend it as much as she wants.’
I emphasize once again, Lee Yu-na was a person who studied money all her life. She understood better than anyone the power of money. She was that kind of person, so there was really no way to save 100 coffee machines at a time unless she got a knife in her throat. She was not one to skimp on a penny just because she said she would spend a billion every single day.
Because Yuna was like that, I gladly gave her the 1 billion quest. Yuna’s mental energy that goes into thinking about how to use 1 billion efficiently will immediately lead to the company’s growth.
“It’s too hard… How the hell is 1 billion a day… Minjun, this is really… It’s not easy.”
“So, originally, I was going to subtract all the labor costs, but I’ll also count things like the annual salary that goes into recruiting talent. So today, we just need to recruit two talents with an annual salary of 500 million.”
“Yes?! Was that from today?”
“Yes, from today.”
“Eww… ! Sleep, wait. Mr. Minjun!”
After saying that, Yuna hurriedly picked up her cell phone and started texting and calling furiously.
It seems like they jumped into a full-scale talent recruitment battle, but watching Yuna like that, I could see that the 1 billion quest worked accurately.
‘As expected, criminals go crazy when given assignments like this.~’
How to deal with model students.
Perhaps it was because I realized a business skill I had to learn as a representative, but the smile never left my lips.
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“Haa~”
Lee Jun-ho, CEO of Star Entertainment, leaned back in his office chair and let out a deep sigh.
I just had a meeting with the management, but the content of the meeting, as always, was that the current situation of the company was not very good and that new attempts and management innovation were needed to reform it. It had been several years since we had such a meeting, and now we could draw the scene of the conference room with our eyes closed. After enduring for over an hour in such a boring place, it was natural for Lee Jun-ho to let out a sigh.
“This is why those who ate the ink… Ha-.”
Every word that came out of the mouths of the executives was right. That made me even more angry. Originally, the right words were uncomfortable to hear. Well, they were the people who were chosen to listen to the right advice in the first place, so it was like they were working hard.
“Who doesn’t want to do it? It’s a problem because I can’t…”
Junho, who had risen from a road manager to the position of CEO through practical work, knew that everything they said was nothing more than speculative words.
Attracting new investment? It’s been a long time since I’ve already been in the red. Thanks to the glory of the past, it is somehow not ruined, but even that glory is gradually fading, and the deficit, which has been stagnant to some extent, has continued to increase in recent years. In this situation, there were no stone-headed investors who dared to invest in Star Entertainment while leaving other popular entertainment companies behind. Or have you already starved to death?
Replacing and recruiting executives? This also makes no sense, to be honest, even if you say that it was the working staff of this floor in the first place, it was there. There must have been the minimum required skills, but since it was already an old company, everyone ate enough to eat jjambab, so there were few working-level staff who made accidents due to lack of ability. Well, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t any exceptional talents in the entertainment industry, but such people have already been snatched away from super-giant agencies for a long time.
Salary cuts and restructuring? This was passed without asking or questioning. Rather, I came down from the representative position, and I had no intention of cutting off the weight of my family members.
Hitting the jackpot by debuting a new group? Okay. This was a realistic method, but the problem was that it was not so easy to be realistic. If there are 100 groups that debut every year, there are at most 3 teams that go through 3 years properly. With the exception of super-giant agencies that secured a solid fan base upon debut, the entertainment industry was practically a gambling board.
Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t know that reality. Rather, he knew better than anyone else, and he was confident nonetheless. He was a person who, with both skill and luck, hit the jackpot in a row and reached the rank of representative. Some people get disgraced at the gambling table, but a very few of them are bound to swept all the money in the world with a sigh.
Junho never doubted that he would be one of those few people, and he actually lived that life. However, because of his poor grades his like a lie from a few years ago, Junho’s confidence his was also at rock bottom. No, now it was at the level of digging deep underground and settling in the grave.
From the outside, he seemed to be maintaining his life, but Junho knew that there was absolutely no future at that level. It was said that in this period of overturning the Korean wave and endless growth of entertainment companies, being sluggish was lagging behind.
“Fuck, fuck again.”
Junho had hardly ever cursed at all in his life his, but he could n’t stand it when he saw his hair his falling out on his office desk because of his stress his. This was all because of the responsibility of being the representative. Officially, he had about 100 employees under his own staff. There were many people who had families, so if you think about it, it was like riding on the back of hundreds of people. His shoulders His were too heavy. He seemed about to collapse.
“Fuck. Just what a salary earner would do. What do you do to represent…”
He seemed obviously to enjoy it more once he became a representative. There were moments like that. But now there was only regret. The sense of himself he considered leading the entertainment industry was only temporary. Trends changed endlessly, and he himself couldn’t get on board with them. After realizing that, the girl group that prided themselves on making a debut with everything they put together was ‘Solar’. After even such a solar collapsed, there was no future in sight.
“Ah~ someone won’t represent me instead.”
This was Junho’s honest feelings of his. He no longer had the young Lee Jun-ho who thought he could achieve everything on his own. I had done enough, so now I wanted to put it down and rest.
Tiri-ri-ring-. Tiri-ri-ring-.
At that time, the company’s extension phone installed on the representative’s desk rang. It was a call from the secretary. Junho lifted the receiver.
“What happened?”
-CEO. I got a call from MJ Investment. He says he wants to speak with the representative.
“MJ Investment?”
It was the first company name I had ever heard of. Junho’s voice was filled with questions.
