In Li Mu's view, with the explosive development of human technology, batteries are a special field that has been difficult to find breakthroughs for a long time.
People have been able to condense the computer equipment that required dozens or hundreds of tons a few decades ago into the size and weight of a book, and even the computing power has increased thousands of times. If we look at the speed of computer development, now A battery the size of a mobile power supply should be able to drive a car weighing two tons for 2,000 kilometers without stopping.
But the reality is cruel. The human technological tree has not found a huge technological breakthrough in the field of batteries. All mobile devices are troubled by the unbreakable specific capacity of batteries.
Batteries from fifty years ago could store as much energy as one kilogram. Today's lithium batteries can only be improved several times at most. It is extremely difficult to increase the energy density of batteries. Laptops come with bulky batteries that can only store energy for a few hours. Smartphones more than ten years later, no matter how power-saving they are advertised, will basically have to be charged once a day. If we follow the development speed of computer processing chips, in the era of Apple mobile phones, the battery should be reduced to only one yuan with the same capacity. The size and weight of money coins are reasonable.
It is precisely because the battery industry cannot find a major breakthrough that the service life of lithium batteries exceeds everyone's imagination. Everyone has long been accustomed to rapid innovation. Even contemporary scientists believe that someone will be able to find a better solution in the near future. Lithium batteries are a more advanced energy storage solution, but the scary thing is that lithium batteries are like rubber and have become an irreplaceable part of the industrial field.
From the invention of the automobile to the present, there have been no less than ten thousand technological innovations inside and outside. People have even begun to try to get rid of the fuel tank and get rid of the fuel engine, but so far, no car can get rid of the rubber.
The more this happens, the more Li Mu feels that the layout of the lithium battery industry should be stepped up and the source of this industry should be dug up quickly before it has become the mainstay of the information age.
People today are still far away from lithium batteries in their lives. The penetration rate of mobile phones is not high, so not everyone has access to lithium batteries. But in the future, mobile phones, laptops, tablets, power banks, cameras, and even flashlights, Vibrating toys, new energy vehicles, etc., none of them can be separated from lithium batteries. You must take the resources into your own hands before the benefits of the industry are highlighted!
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The Harvard campus is as it always is. As a palace of academics, everything here follows its own rules and no changes can be seen. However, the inner Harvard has begun to have some elements that are different from usual. This is because Harvard's body, A very new baby is being born, and its name is Facebook.
With Li Mu's funds, Mark Zuckerberg devoted most of his energy to the incubation of Facebook projects. He did not have great ambitions. In the early stages of starting a business, his biggest wish was to make Facebook It can become popular in colleges and universities across the United States and become the new Internet favorite of American college students.
In order to achieve this goal, Mark Zuckerberg has invested a considerable amount of energy and funds in promoting Facebook in major universities across the country. He and his local promotion team plan to travel to all major universities in the United States in the next three months. Colleges and universities promote Facebook, a trendy social product for college students, to college students.
When Li Mu arrived at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg had just returned from New York, and the local promotion team was taking turns to carry out local promotion work at Columbia University and other universities in New York. Since there were too many universities in New York, Mark Zuckerberg was very Attention, before this, he had been watching in New York for more than a week. This time he heard that Li Mu said that he wanted to meet him at Harvard, so he hurried back to Massachusetts.
In the eyes of Mark Zuckerberg, Li Mu was his boss, so he came directly to see Li Mu as soon as he arrived at Harvard. As soon as he met, he excitedly reported to Li Mu the current development of Facebook.
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook currently has one million registered users and more than 100,000 daily active users. More than 90% of its users are college students. This is not only because the promotion target is on college campuses, but also because college students are exposed to the Internet. There is more time, and there is a great demand for socializing on campus.
Li Mu asked him: "How many college students are there in the United States now?"
Mark Zuckerberg said without hesitation: "Currently, the total number of undergraduate and graduate students in the United States is about 17 million."
Li Mu nodded and said, "You now have one million registered users, accounting for 6% of your total target group in the first stage. There is still a long way to go."
Mark Zuckerberg said: "Although it only accounts for 6% now, based on our current promotion speed, we can increase this proportion to 30% by the end of the year at most."
Li Mu held his chin and said to himself: "In almost half a year, from 6% to 30%, this is a linear growth."
Mark Zuckerberg didn’t understand what Li Mu meant, but he vaguely felt that Li Mu might not be too satisfied with his goals, so he asked him tentatively: “Mr. Li, if you have any comments or dissatisfaction, Please point it out directly and I will definitely work hard to correct it.”
Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "Don't be too nervous yet."
After that, Li Mucai said slowly: "On the Internet, users of good products grow linearly. Starting from ten thousand users, they cross the fifty thousand mark, one hundred thousand mark, two hundred thousand mark, and continue to grow to Millions, tens of millions or even billions.”
Mark Zuckerberg agreed and said: "You are right. This is indeed the quality that a good product needs. The total number of users has increased steadily, and there is little or no bottleneck period."
Li Mu sighed: "But this is just a good product, a truly excellent product. The number of users should be explosive. It contains huge energy like nature, just like what is described in an ancient Chinese poem,' Suddenly a spring breeze comes overnight, and thousands of pear blossoms bloom. Nature will never let the trees in Harvard or even Massachusetts sprout green buds one after another. It will use its energy to make most of the trees in Massachusetts bloom. Some trees sprout green buds at the same time in a very short period of time. After a few days, areas at other latitudes and altitudes will also become green one after another in large areas. Excellent products should be like nature. .”
Li Mu firmly believes in the theory that "excellent products develop explosively". Many products quickly occupy large areas of the market in a very short period of time. This theory is also the law that Internet explosives must follow. Counting forward, there are legends , there is QQ, there is Taobao, and counting from now on, there are Weibo, iPhone, iPad, Android, and even Douyin, but Li Mu did not have the opportunity to experience the era when Douyin became popular all over the world in more than a year.
Facebook itself is also a hit, but it has not opened the door to hit it in the initial stage. Li Mu knows that Mark Zuckerberg will be able to open this door sooner or later, but he still hopes that this day will come faster.
"Excellent product..." Mark Zuckerberg murmured to himself. What he thought of was the scene when everything comes to life at the same time every spring. He has lived for more than 20 years and has long been used to it. Because of the change of seasons, I never thought it was so shocking that everything revived at the same time. But now that I think about it carefully, it is really an extremely powerful force driving all of this behind the scenes. It is that force that can in a short time Let half the earth be bathed in the warm spring breeze.
If the powerful nature is driving everything behind the trees and plants around the world, then what force is driving behind the Internet users around the world? Or, how can one have such power
Mark Zuckerberg suddenly looked at Li Mu, and something suddenly clicked in his mind!
Isn’t Li Mu such a force? He started with YY, and all its products have grown explosively. The number of YY users does not need to be set at stages of 10,000, 50,000, or 100,000. It is developing so fast that its stages are all Numbers such as one million, five million, ten million, and fifty million are used as standards.
Compared with YY, Facebook's development speed is simply more than a little slower. He is still leading his team to run crazily from college to college in the United States, conquering one school after another. At the beginning, Li Mu was almost one country after another. The gap between the country's conquest and the country's conquest is so big that it can send shivers down one's spine.
Only then did Mark Zuckerberg understand that what Li Mu had just said about the product's linear growth was not to praise his work results, but to convey disappointment in a subtle way! If Facebook develops at this pace, it can only become a good product with linear growth, but it will never become an excellent product with explosive growth.
All of a sudden, Mark Zuckerberg was filled with frustration.
Li Mu saw his disappointment and did not offer any words of comfort. Instead, he asked him: "What is your current promotion rhythm?"
Mark Zuckerberg said: “I first divided the United States into several territories as large regions, and then defined a number of areas that need to be focused on breakthroughs, such as the New York University Circle that is currently being promoted. One of our universities then A university continues to promote it, and every time it goes to a university, it tries to mobilize the students of that university to get them interested in Facebook."
Li Mu nodded and said: "The approach is correct, but this approach itself is a rule-based approach. You always feel that the students in each university are independent closed loops, so you have to open them one by one, so I believe that your current Facebook users are also in a closed loop and a closed loop. For example, Harvard students only interact with Harvard people on Facebook, and MIT students only communicate with MIT students. Although everyone There’s almost only a wall between us, but on Facebook, everyone is like two insulated LANs, right?”
Mark Zuckerberg was startled and immediately said with shame: "You are right. This is indeed the case now. Users interact with each other based on the school and rarely break through the boundaries of the school..."
Li Mu nodded and asked him, "Are you letting off the firecrackers?"
Mark Zuckerberg was stunned and asked him: "Are you talking about the string of firecrackers from China?"
"That's right."
Mark Zuckerberg said: “I played with it as a kid.”
Li Mu said: "In China, there are firecrackers with a hundred rings, and firecrackers with a hundred thousand or even a million rings, but their essence is no different. They are all independent firecrackers, and then connected together with a fuse. The ones that are connected are called firecrackers, and the ones that are connected together are called firecrackers. Firecrackers are many firecrackers connected together, so after you light them, they will continue to crackle and explode until the last one is left."
After speaking, Li Mu changed the topic, looked at Mark Zuckerberg, and said seriously: "But you are not setting off firecrackers now, you are just lighting firecrackers. A university is just a firecracker. You run over and light it. Wait until it explodes before ordering the next one. If so, how long will it take you to finish ordering?"
Mark Zuckerberg looked at Li Mu and murmured: "Mr. Li, do you mean that I need to quickly solve all the universities like lighting firecrackers?"
Li Mu waved his hand and said, "What I mean is that you have to create a fuse first."
Sorry, I didn't feel well yesterday. I squinted in bed for a while... I will make up for it with two updates today...
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