When Schwarzenegger shared his inspirational story on the podium, Li Mu was studying how to maximize Schwarzenegger's use.
He has many things he wants to do to bring Schwarzenegger along. Borrowing his name and resources as the governor of California will be of great help to him.
However, he did not completely want to take advantage of Schwarzenegger. On the contrary, he also thought of many ideas that could help Schwarzenegger improve his political performance. In this way, he could maintain Schwarzenegger's approval rating in California. , while looking for more good things from Schwarzenegger.
After the inauguration ceremony, many media reporters flocked to Li Mu and asked him what he thought of Schwarzenegger being elected governor of California.
Facing the cameras of many media, Li Mu smiled calmly and said: "I am very happy to see Arnold can be elected as the governor of California. In my eyes, Arnold is not only an actor with great film and television talents, but also a very talented actor." Politicians with political genius.”
The reporter asked again: "Then what do you think of his ability to govern, especially in the economy?"
Li Mu smiled and said: "I fully believe in Arnold's economic talent. In fact, he has been continuously studying how to solve California's increasingly serious economic problems even before he was sworn in. Out of my trust in him, I will soon In the future, we will continue to increase investment in California and expand existing business scale, strengthen the cooperation between Makino Technology and California, and hope to use this cooperation to improve daily exchanges between the people of the two countries."
The reporters did not know at this time that Li Mu was already preparing to become a "human trafficker" traveling to both ends of the world.
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After the inauguration ceremony, Li Mu took his private plane to Hollywood to attend Schwarzenegger's private party.
Lin Qingya was also temporarily captured by Li Mu and got on his Gulfstream G550 with him.
Because many Hollywood stars, like Li Mu, take private planes to Sacramento and then return to Hollywood, the Sacramento Airport is particularly busy at night, with all kinds of private planes queuing up to take off.
While the plane was queuing up to take off, Li Mu was not in a hurry. Instead, he discussed with Lin Qingya his promise to Schwarzenegger about enhancing tourism exchanges between first-tier cities in China and California.
Today's China has not really entered the eyes of the Western people, or in other words, the Western people have not yet begun to truly understand this ancient oriental country. All their understanding of China basically relies on domestic media reports, but , these media reports have many distortions of facts, so that Westerners do not understand China at all.
In later generations, with the continuous development of China's economy, more and more Westerners entered China and traveled to China. They felt the prosperity of China's first-tier cities, traveled to China's great rivers and mountains, and took China's high-speed railways. At that time, , they began to continuously bring the true side of China back to Western countries, letting more and more Westerners know what the real China is like.
Now, Li Mu wants to use his cooperation with Schwarzenegger as soon as possible to first promote cross-tourism between people in domestic first-tier cities and people in California, so that people in domestic first-tier cities can come out, and even more so, people in California can go in.
Therefore, his first thought was to quickly talk about airline routes and hotels in first-tier cities in China and California.
Lin Qingya is also very supportive of Li Mu's idea, believing that this idea can increase the exchanges between the two parties from the deepest level and enhance the visibility of China's first-tier cities in the Western world.
So, she said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, if you want to do this business, I suggest you put it on the Taobao team."
Li Mu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Tell me what you think."
Lin Qingya said: "Although our entry point is to build routes and hotels between first-tier cities in China and large cities in California, the route and hotel business itself is part of the e-commerce field. I think Ctrip has developed very well in the past two years. Capital is increasingly recognizing his model. In this case, we might as well add air ticket booking and hotel booking services on Taobao. In the early stage, we sell air tickets and hotels. In the mid-term, we can integrate many tourism resources and directly produce tourism products. , which in itself is a large segment of the business positioned in the travel market.”
Li Mu looked at Lin Qingya in surprise. He didn't expect that Lin Qingya's horizons would really broaden after she stayed in Silicon Valley for a while.
Isn't the model she mentioned the same as Ali's flying pig in later generations
It's just that Fliggy started a little late, and the situation was somewhat embarrassing.
The pattern of e-commerce business is to combine first and then divide. At the beginning, everyone did it very comprehensively, like Taobao, which covers almost everything. But later, it will be split into different products according to various business sectors.
For example, brand stores are separated from Taobao and become Tmall, flight tickets and travel are separated from Taobao and become Fliggy, second-hand transactions are separated from Taobao and become salted fish...
Taobao is still in the "integration first" stage and must first integrate various fields.
Air tickets and hotels will be a very large segment in the future, and now is a good time for Taobao to enter.
Later, Li Mu agreed and said: "What you said makes sense. This business on the 2C side should indeed be integrated into Taobao and slowly develop. Start cultivating users from domestic and California businesses, and then expand it little by little. Finally, The goal is to replace vertical platforms like Ctrip and become the number one in this field."
Lin Qingya hurriedly asked: "Mr. Li, do you want Taobao to send a marketing team over to integrate the hotel resources in California and cut out some of them?"
Li Mu said: "Instead of doing this, I would like to join forces with Schwarzenegger to create a salon for Chinese and American entrepreneurs. First, we can bring together companies from the civil aviation, hotel, and tourism industries to chat, and we can build connections among them, even if there is no demand. , I spend money to create demand, but also to establish cooperation between the two parties first.”
Lin Qingya asked him: "You mean to buy resources from both sides?"
Li Mu nodded: "Buy it. Since we want to promote cooperation, we must show sincerity. In fact, many cooperations are stuck in sincerity. We want to help them sell air tickets and hotels. We cannot just rely on empty-handed tactics. , Besides, we don’t lack this little money, so I might as well guarantee it to airlines and hotels, buy part of their resources directly, and then resell it to our target users.”
Lin Qingya asked: "So when are you going to hold this entrepreneur salon? Where will it be held?"
Li Mu said: "The sooner the better, and it must be done in China."
With that said, Li Mu added: "I will talk to Schwarzenegger tonight and ask him to make appointments with airlines, hotel groups and travel companies in California in the next few days to ask them if they are interested in cooperating with me. If so, , directly organize a group to come to Yanjing, I will set up a peak forum for them at the foot of the Great Wall, and let them see the great rivers and mountains of China."
Lin Qingya smiled and said, "Then you should have bought a big plane and just pulled these American entrepreneurs over."
Li Mu smiled and said: "If this thing is reliable, it won't be a big problem for us to buy an airline in the future."
Lin Qingya was surprised: "Does Mr. Li need to invest so much? The cost of airlines is very high."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Not only can the airlines do it themselves, but the hotels and tourism services here can also be done by themselves. Think about it, if we can combine the four cities of Yanjing, Shanghai, Yangcheng and Shenzhen First-tier cities have opened up tourism exchanges with San Francisco and Los Angeles, so using the same method, I will soon be able to open up tourism exchanges between these four cities and the UK."
Lin Qingya nodded. Li Mu has a very close relationship with the Windsor family. With this relationship as the basis, this little thing can be easily accomplished.
Li Mu continued: "Then I can use the UK's influence in Europe to open up France, Germany and even all Schengen countries. Through our publicity methods, our customized routes and price advantages, we can bring people in these places to Attracting people to first-tier cities in China, when the time comes, they will take our airline’s flights, stay in hotels under our hotel group, and enjoy the travel services provided by our travel company, which can create a lot of profit margins for us.”
Lin Qingya said: "If we want to acquire airlines, hotel groups and travel companies in this sector, the demand for funds will still be huge. Can Taobao support such a large business expenditure?"
Li Mu waved his hand and said: "I just said that the entrance to 2c should be opened on Taobao so that users can purchase these services from Taobao. But from a capital perspective, I plan to put these supporting services under the name of Makino Technology Operation, because Makino Technology will start to go public in the first half of next year. Once it goes public, the funding problem will be easily solved, and for a company with continuously improving business, any normal merger and acquisition is almost cost-effective, because the market will Give this company enough confidence."
"For example, the market trusts the capabilities and potential of Makino Technology. When we acquired a company for US$10 billion with a market value of 200 billion, then under normal circumstances, the market would make upward adjustments to our valuation. It is possible that after the acquisition, Our market value can go all the way up to $220 billion."
"In this way, it is equivalent to Makino Technology investing in airlines, hotel groups and travel companies, and then exporting these business resources exclusively to Taobao, which is fully responsible for sales."
Taobao's current valuation is much worse than that of Makino Technology. The main reason is that Taobao's business is still stuck in the Chinese market and has not really established a global presence. In addition, e-commerce is still in its infancy. Within a few years of Taobao, he would have the opportunity to keep pace with Makino Technology.
(End of chapter)