Faced with the decision of whether to officially rely on Li Mu for survival, Elon Musk only took a few seconds to make his choice.
He excitedly said to Li Mu: "Boss, I am willing to cooperate with you!"
Elon Musk is very smart. The title of Boss has made it clear that he regards Li Mu as his boss and is willing to cooperate with Li Mu. This sentence includes not only the project "Veterans Never Die - American Charitable Foundation", but also are all his own future projects.
Elon Musk knows that after agreeing to Li Mu, he will no longer have his own projects in the future. If he finds a new project, he must report it to Li Mu first. If Li Mu approves, he and he will work together. However, Li Mu will not treat himself badly. If he has a good project, he will also think of himself and let himself participate.
Complete opening up is both a challenge and an opportunity.
Li Mu was also very happy and immediately informed Lin Qingya of the matter and asked her to take full responsibility for coordinating with Elon Musk to implement it as soon as possible.
As for Li Mu himself, he focused his energy on the upcoming charity night!
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At the official opening of the "Warriors Are Not Dead·China Internet Industry Spring City Charity Night", the domestic people's spontaneous donations to the Veterans Are Not Dead Charity Foundation have reached a huge amount of 3.2 billion yuan, and more than 80 million people participated in the donation. Alipay users The proportion of people donating reached 65%.
The number of companies and institutions interested in cooperating with the foundation is also increasing, ranging from Haier, Hisense, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart to hospitals, nursing homes, small supermarkets, and wholesale departments in a prefecture-level city. The total number has exceeded 10,000. , Veterans have indeed become a group that the entire society is paying attention to. Gathering the power of the entire society will surely give these veterans a happy and worry-free old age.
The immortality of veterans has always been a hot topic in news reports and a hot event of social concern. Li Mu suddenly held an Internet industry charity night event at this time, attracting the attention of a large number of media reporters. Just when they hoped to be interviewed on the spot, he hosted this event However, the staff of the event announced Li Mu's decision: the organizer will not invite any reporters to the charity night for interviews, and no one else will be allowed to enter the venue except staff and invited guests.
The media was extremely disappointed with this. However, since the major media had a very good relationship with Li Mu and Makino Technology, the media gave Li Mu enough respect. On the day of the event, they did not send reporters to squat outside the hotel, but instead All reporters from the front were sent to Spring City Airport.
More than 90% of China's Internet industry is concentrated in the four first-tier cities of Yanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Yangcheng. Chuncheng is located in the southwest. If you want to get to Chuncheng from these four first-tier cities in a short time, the only way is to fly. The train usually takes at least one day and one night, and some may even take longer.
Therefore, the heads of Internet companies who came to Spring City to participate in the charity night were bound to land at the Spring City Airport. So reporters stationed themselves at the airport, hoping to catch some well-known figures in the Internet industry and conduct a simple interview with them.
This time, more than 300 Internet companies across the country received Li Mu's invitation. Without exception, every company responded with a formal email after receiving the invitation. More than 90% of the company leaders decided to Most of the remaining business leaders flew to Spring City in person because they really couldn't spare the time, and even those business managers who couldn't spare the time arranged for other agents to go there and got the information from Li Ziwei Judging from the feedback, more than 370 Internet companies all expressed their willingness to participate in this charity night event.
It is almost unimaginable in any industry to hold an industry charity event temporarily, and more than 300 companies can participate 100% without exception. This is almost unimaginable in any industry, even the Internet will enter the era of giants a few years later. In the industry, no giant has such influence. Everyone either forms their own sect based on the ecology they rely on, or forms multiple alliances based on their respective regions and subdivided industries. No one in the industry has ever been able to respond to everything in the industry. Li Mu is the only one.
When Li Ziwei fed back this result to Li Mu, she was still praising her sincerely: "Mr. Li, you have almost become the martial arts leader of the Internet industry. As long as you say a word, the entire industry will follow you."
Li Mu shook his head and smiled, and said lightly: "Ziwei, remember this, no matter what industry, as long as a businessman is a businessman, his first goal is always to pursue profits first, otherwise he is not a qualified businessman. The same is true for the Internet industry. What do you think? , they come all the way from all over the country to Spring City to participate in the charity night we organize, are they doing charity, or are they giving me face?"
Li Ziwei thought for a while and said: "I think they should all be there. After all, your influence in the industry is unmatched. If other people without influence were to organize such a thing, they would definitely not be able to organize it." .”
Li Mu smiled and said: "In business, what is the real influence for businessmen? It is nothing more than interests. For those in the industry, no matter how great my influence is, I will not give them What benefits will it bring, so they may not really give me face, but having said that, I organized this charity event, which is equivalent to setting up an ultimate salon with connections in the industry. With connections and resources, it will have a real impact on them A matter of force."
After saying that, Li Mu added: "Of course, it cannot be denied that among these hundreds of colleagues, some must be really moved by this charity project and hope to contribute; but there must also be some who are not interested in the charity project. People who have a cold and don’t like me either want to come over because they want to take advantage of this opportunity to expand their contacts and resources. If nothing else, they just need to prepare a box of hundreds of business cards and hand them out. , and then take back hundreds of business cards, the connections contained in these business cards are enough for anyone in the industry to stay in this industry for a lifetime."
Li Ziwei smiled and said: "Mr. Li, I think most people come here for charity. Our industry itself is an advanced industry, and everyone's thinking should be relatively more advanced."
Li Mu laughed and waved his hands: "Ziwei, don't think so. This industry is just technologically advanced. Human character and humanity are not necessarily more advanced than other industries. I can even say that there are quite a few in this industry. People are bastards with high IQ, and bastards with high IQ are more hateful than bastards with low IQ."
Li Ziwei was surprised and asked him: "Mr. Li, why did you say that?"
Li Mu smiled faintly. He was an Internet person in his previous life, so he knew very well what people in this industry were thinking about. Every Internet entrepreneur only thinks about one thing: making money, racking his brains to make money, so he There will be many marginal, dishonorable, unethical and even illegal business models constantly emerging in the industry.
Some products sell pornographic products, some products sell pirated copies, some products hide gambling, some products sell fake goods, some people make loan sharks on the Internet, some people play Ponzi schemes on the Internet, and some people secretly cheat on the business model. , such as shared bicycles that are designed to deceive consumers’ deposits and quickly take away the money, such as the one-yuan treasure hunt that seems fair but is actually full of dangers, and even some charity crowdfunding products are selling sheep over dogs. Sometimes, Li Mu feels that at least half of the people in this industry are already bad, but he relies on his high-tech industry label to package up five or six people.
A certain boss who was manufacturing counterfeit sneakers and selling them across the country, with a total amount of over 100 million yuan involved, was caught. The people applauded, but they never thought that hundreds of thousands of websites and apps across the country were helping him make fakes. Advertisement, some e-commerce platforms helped him sell fake goods across the country.
The manufacturing cost of a pair of fake shoes is 50 yuan, and the shipping cost may be only 70 or 80. After deducting the factory construction cost, equipment cost, labor cost and risk cost, a shoe business owner may only earn 5 yuan.
Originally, this business owner could only sell 100,000 pairs of fake shoes offline every year, and most of these fake shoes flowed into the low-end markets of third- and fifth-tier cities for offline sales. Now, he sells 100,000 pairs of fake shoes a year. Ten thousand pairs, 900,000 pairs are sold online, but one pair still makes 5 yuan.
The biggest difference between offline counterfeit sales and online counterfeit sales is: Offline fakes are generally sold in places dedicated to selling fakes at the price that fakes should have, while online fakes are... Disguised as genuine and sold at genuine prices.
The fake shoes produced by this business owner were shipped in large quantities to the online store owner at a price of 70 to 80 yuan. The online store owner put the shoes on the e-commerce platform and sold them to consumers across the country at an average price of 300 yuan. Among them, the owners of each online store seem to have earned more than 200 yuan in gross profit, but there may be more than 100 yuan in costs, which are given to the e-commerce platform through purchasing keywords, recommendation positions, and through trains. The platform then gives 10-20 yuan to the participating platforms of the alliance advertising, and another 5-10 yuan to the logistics and express delivery companies. The remaining dozens of yuan in profits include its own labor costs and risk costs. The real Net profit is far less impressive than gross profit.
One million pairs of shoes a year, the amount involved is 300 million yuan, but the boss actually only made 5 million yuan;
Dozens or hundreds of online shop owners have made a total of tens of millions of yuan, but on average, each shop owner only makes a few hundred thousand yuan;
However, the platform collected a total of more than 100 million yuan in various promotion fees from dozens or hundreds of online store owners, of which 80-90% was kept for itself and 10-20% was given to the alliance advertising platform.
In such a gray industrial structure, the biggest legal risks are borne by business owners, followed by online store owners. If Li Mu had not promoted the legislation on e-commerce counterfeit sales, then the e-commerce platform would basically not have to bear responsibility, and even if it did, it would only be very little. For administrative penalties, the platform that does alliance advertising is not responsible, nor are the express logistics companies.
This is the unscrupulous trick played by Internet people composed of high-end talents. In this way, they intercept the maximum profits and pass on the maximum risks. What else can they be but bastards with high IQs
Only by sorting out this industry chain will people understand who is the worst in it. They are not business owners or online store owners, but the initiators who create, promote and protect this industry chain. They have found a lot of scapegoats. , Playing a new mode at the risk of violating criminal laws, and then profiting from it without any risk, is the most hateful thing.
Therefore, Li Mu often feels that in this industry, just like Guo Degang said about the cross talk circle, there are really too few good people.
However, this situation has been slowly caused by years of unhealthy development. If this industry has a correct "godfather", it will be enough to guide this industry to gradually move towards health!
(End of chapter)