The day before leaving for the United States, Li Mu specifically confirmed the progress of several tasks.
Gubei Water Town has reached a cooperation agreement with Huaqing Travel. The Yanjing Municipal Government has provided guarantee for the Gubei Water Town project at Yanjing Bank. The funding problem of Gubei Water Town has also been fundamentally solved. Miyun County Party Committee fully supports it. , all approval documents were given the green light. In order to speed up the normal launch of the Gubei Water Town project, the Yanjing to Miyun section of the Beijing-Chengdu Expressway under construction was required to speed up the construction period and must be opened to traffic before the Gubei Water Town was completed and officially opened. The municipal government and the transportation department jointly bear the nearly 100 million yuan cost incurred by accelerating the construction period.
At the same time, the film and television base project is also being actively promoted. The aerial survey company has begun to conduct aerial survey and mapping of the Great Plains in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. When Li Mu returns from the United States, the aerial survey map will definitely be ready. Enclose the land, and then go to the local government to discuss cooperation.
The outdoor reality show variety show "Longing for Life" co-created by Makino Image and Shonan Satellite TV is about to start filming. The filming location chosen by the show in Miyun has basically been renovated, and the program recording session will begin soon. Li Mu promised to be a guest on an episode of this show, but this will definitely have to wait until he returns from the United States before he can fulfill it.
As for Makino Technology and Taobao, Li Mu doesn't need to worry about it at all. Makino Technology is like a spaceship sailing at high speed in space. In this unique environment, it can move forward without resistance at all, if it doesn't actively slow down. , its forward speed will not be affected at all;
As for Taobao, after SARS, it has become a behemoth of Internet + warehousing + logistics. The government highly recognized Taobao’s efforts during the SARS period. Not only did it give a series of public praises and awards, but it also A large amount of practical support has been provided, such as taxation, land use, transportation, various qualification approvals, and various policy subsidies. This series of support has not only helped Taobao reduce a lot of burdens, but also provided Taobao with a stronger path forward. power.
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After more than ten hours of flight, plus a landing to replenish fuel, Li Mu and his core members who acquired the Apple business unit finally set foot in the United States again. The last time they came to the United States was just Li Mu's first appearance in the United States. This time, Li Mu came to the United States. He is already an influential heavyweight.
From the moment Li Mu's charter flight took off in China, American media, especially Silicon Valley media, began to report the news that Li Mu was about to go to the United States. Internet companies and capitalists across the United States were trying to figure out what strategic intentions Li Mu had in coming to the United States this time. Are you here to expand, looking for funds, or preparing for an IPO
At this moment, Li Mu has attracted almost all the attention and attention of the United States.
From the beginning of YY's popularity, to "Paradise Town", "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and now YYtunes, Li Mu has deeply penetrated into the Internet life of Americans and brought huge influence to their Internet life. innovation.
So far, YYtunes has been online for more than ten days.
In just over ten days, YYtunes was like an unprecedented storm, sweeping across the entire West, especially the United States.
There has never been a music software that can bring people such an incredible experience. On YYtunes, music is no longer just for appreciation, it has become a link connecting music lovers around the world.
Today's YYtunes is like Instagram, which was born in the smartphone era. YYtunes is a social network based on music, while Instagram is a social network based on pictures.
In more than ten days, YYtunes submitted an answer sheet that shocked American Internet colleagues: According to survey analysis results issued by a three-party survey company, more than 90% of users in the United States currently use the Internet to listen to music or download music. User is using YYtunes.
In other words, once YYtunes was launched, it formed an almost absolute monopoly.
In addition, the rapid popularity of YYtunes has also made the charts on YYtunes the most valuable indicator in the entire music industry.
Today, no list is more credible than YYtunes, which has hundreds of millions of users, and it is more effective in driving traffic. After a song or an album is on the list, it will get a huge amount of traffic from the list, and the traffic This has greatly transformed into paid downloads of singles and albums. All of a sudden, all the popular singers began to pay attention to this list, and regarded being on the YYtunes list as a new goal.
When Li Mu arrived at the new headquarters of Makino Technology Silicon Valley Branch, Lin Qingya had been harassed by a group of record company executives all morning. In her words, it was really annoying.
When she saw Li Mu, the first thing Lin Qingya did was to complain to him. She said helplessly: "Mr. Li, all the record companies in the United States have been staring at YYtunes recently, and the same goes for all the popular singers. These companies come here every day to follow We are talking about in-depth cooperation and they are begging us to help their singers improve their chart rankings. I am really annoyed to death.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "You can recruit a director who is responsible for music affairs, or set up a music business department. You don't have to do this kind of thing yourself."
Lin Qingya said: "The music business has just started. In order to ensure that these copyright owners work closely with us, I personally receive all copyright owner representatives who come to your door. After all, you attach so much importance to YYtunes, and I cannot take it lightly."
As she spoke, Lin Qingya pretended to be mysterious and whispered: "Recently, I am negotiating exclusive cooperation with these copyright parties. The number of active users of iTunes has dropped sharply, and there is no longer much room for profit for them, so I am privately We will promote exclusive licensing below and allow these copyright holders to exclusively license all online music copyrights to us. If everything goes well, we will be able to sign the first exclusive licensing agreement this month."
Li Mu was surprised for a moment, then said with a smile: "You are trying to kill Apple."
The core service of Apple's iTunes is online listening and paid downloading of music. However, the United States today is not the China of the past. Even a small personal webmaster in China dared to blatantly pirate music from all over the world on the Internet. However, in China In the United States, it is a crime for individuals to download piracy, and no company would do such a thing. Therefore, if iTunes loses copyright authorization, it is basically like a supermarket without goods, and the future will be even bleaker.
Lin Qingya smiled slightly and said, "You can only take away the pot after the fire has been drained from the cauldron, otherwise you will burn your hands."
Li Mu laughed, looked at her new office, and said, "This building is in a good location. Can you show me around?"
Lin Qingya nodded with a smile and said, "Then I will show you around and introduce it to you."
Li Mu took Li Ziwei and Lin Qingya to visit an entire office building newly rented by Makino Technology Silicon Valley Branch.
Lin Qingya introduced that this building has four floors above ground and two underground floors, with a total area of 16,000 square meters, a building area of 9,000 square meters, and an office area of 30,000 square meters. It can accommodate up to 4,000 people for office work and can provide more than 2,000 square meters. parking space.
Renting such a large new office building was the decision of the top management of Makino Technology. As the company's internationalization process becomes faster and faster, Li Mu needs to build the US branch into Makino Technology's largest headquarters outside China, which can accommodate four people. An office building with 1,000 people is just the beginning. If the IPO is completed, Makino Technology’s total number of employees in the United States may exceed 10,000.
And even in the hinterland of Silicon Valley, it is not crowded at all. The building density is low, the green area is large, and the floor height is generally not high. Almost every shoe building is a small campus, with a large enough depth inside. Other office buildings are also very far apart, and the interior environment is very quiet.
In contrast, Zhongguancun has a dense and dense feeling of a large number of reinforced concrete buildings, which is always accompanied by a feeling of noise, rush and high pressure.
The gap between the two is like the gap between the high-end wealthy villa area and Tiantongyuan, the largest community in Asia. It is even wider than this.
However, Li Mu knew very well that he could not envy this kind of thing. The United States has much richer land resources than China. The entire United States has a land area similar to that of China. However, almost half of the United States is plains, but China only accounts for 12% of its land area. %, the plain area is only a quarter of that of the United States, and the United States has a population of 300 million, which is less than a quarter of China. Calculated in this way, the per capita plain area of the United States is sixteen times that of China.
Currently, all the employees of Makino Technology's US branch add up to about a thousand people. The vacancy rate of this building is still relatively high, so the company directly uses the fourth floor as an employee activity center, with lounges, restaurants, and gyms. .
According to Lin Qingya, the nearest big company to Makino Technology is Google.
Lin Qingya also said that when the branch moved, Google founder Larry Page personally came to congratulate her and gave her a box of French champagne.
Li Mu smiled and said, "Didn't Larry Page send you some flower baskets?"
Lin Qingya smiled and said, "Americans don't have this custom. They mostly like to send small gifts to the person in charge to express their congratulations."
Li Mu nodded and mentioned Larry Page. He remembered that he had had dinner with him the last time he came to the United States. At that time, he helped Sequoia convince him to accept Sequoia's investment.
As for Google, it has not yet been listed on the market, but judging from their last round of financing and the current valuation given to it by the capital market, it is more than one order of magnitude worse than Makino Technology.
Thinking of Google and his determination to acquire Apple, Li Mu couldn't help but think of a great man, that is Andy Rubin, the founder of Android.
If I remember correctly, Andy Rubin founded Android in the second half of this year. Two years later, Android was acquired by Larry Page’s Google. It is said that Andy Rubin and Larry Page worked together on Android There was a personal relationship before the establishment, so Li Mu believed that they knew each other now.
Apple is already determined to win. Should it bring Andy Rubin, the founder of Android, into its camp in advance? In that case, will you be able to basically monopolize the smartphone operating system market in the future
After all, in the future smartphone market, Symbian is like a retarded person with an IQ that can never exceed five years old. It will slowly fall behind in the competition of adults; BlackBerry's own bottleneck is a fatal obstacle that it cannot overcome. ;As for the performance of the powerful Microsoft in the field of smartphones, it is really hahaha. If IOS and Android are in their pockets, then there will really be no one left in the smartphone market...
Thinking of this, Li Mu couldn't suppress his excitement and said to Lin Qingya: "Help me contact Page and make an appointment to meet him during working hours. I will go to Google to meet him."
(End of chapter)