Davidson Goldberg, the head of the Goldberg family, has been living in Yanjing for several days.
These days, he has been thinking about Li Ziwei's request to meet Li Mu, but Li Mu never took him seriously.
In Li Mu's view, although this bad old man is not too bad, he is not a good guy himself. He is only a little better than the old guys on Wall Street.
Because he gave him a Premier League club, although Li Mu ignored him, he didn't say anything directly. If the old man still had the intention to wait, then let him wait in Yanjing.
However, this old man is really patient. He simply lives in Yanjing and handles all family affairs remotely. He has actually made plans to spend the summer in Yanjing. No matter what, he must express his full sincerity to Li Mu. Sincerity.
For the Goldberg family and the HSBC Capital they control, Li Mu is the key to maintaining their status as a giant and continuing to move forward. Obtaining the IPO underwriting qualification of Makino Technology also means getting the IPO underwriting qualification of Taobao. , followed by other companies invested by Li Mu and other companies that rely on Li Mu's ecological survival to go public one after another. These will almost follow Li Mu's footsteps.
Makino Technology is like a train whose length no one knows. If the front of the train passes this station, then all subsequent carriages will pass this station. Devinson really cannot accept such a loss.
So he scratched his head in the five-star hotel where he stayed every day, just waiting for an opportunity to express his sincerity in front of Li Mu, looking forward to re-establishing cooperation with Li Mu.
In contrast, Li Mu was in a much happier mood.
With the continuous development of YY, YY network, YY game platform, Weibo Twitter, Paradise Town, and Plants vs. Zombies, currently, the number of YY users continues to surge around the world, and it has become the Internet product with the largest user base in the world. one.
On this basis, YY's value-added payment business is developing very smoothly. The number of members exceeds 100 million, which means that monthly membership income will exceed 200 million US dollars. This does not include other value-added fee income and advertising income. etc.
There is also a large revenue base, which comes from YY's cooperation with global operators to develop YY functions on the mobile terminal and use operators to charge users monthly subscription fees and information fees. This will also bring benefits to Makino Technology every month. Over $100 million in revenue.
Weibo and Twitter have also begun to enter the harvest period. Li Mu began to provide soft advertising services around the world. At the same time, in order to ensure the user experience of Weibo and Twitter, he limited the number of hard advertising for ordinary users and big V users, and reduced their hard advertising to The number is limited to one per week.
The top-up payment for games is also a big factor. A large amount of cash is continuously transferred into Makino Technology’s account from payment interfaces around the world, making Makino Technology’s cash flow begin to become stronger.
Now Li Mu has realized the lyrics of "Devotion of Love" that he crookedly sang when he was a child. As long as everyone gives me a dollar, I will become a world-class rich man.
He now has hundreds of millions of people contributing far more than one dollar in cash to him every month. This also gives him sufficient confidence to prepare to have some fun with Wall Street.
Compared with him, Wall Street seems to be a bit weak. They are a group of capitalists, and then they lead a group of small capitalists. The route of delivering nutrients is far from the previous one, but Li Mu is different. , there are countless lines of influence for him, and they are still increasing. If no one can defeat him in business, then it will be useless even if Wall Street is united.
No matter how awesome Wall Street is, he can't stop users from buying YY membership and exchanging YY coins for the game Happy Beans, so now he is waiting for Lu Yunho to make some noise quickly, and then take him to play a game of tiger catching mice.
A few days later, Lu Yunho published a tweet on his Weibo Twitter, which has more than one million followers. He said: "The Niu takeout platform operated by me is accelerating its development and will be available to everyone soon." , our Niu Takeaway adopts better, stronger and more excellent algorithms and operation logic, which will bring you the best takeout ordering experience! Stay tuned!"
Originally, only the training industry and the Internet industry knew about Lu Yunho's food delivery website. Now, his fans and fans also know about it.
Lu Yunho spent nearly a million to buy several big Vs to repost his tweets and praise his bad feet, which instantly created a hot topic on Weibo and Twitter.
Kong Lingyu, CEO of Makino Technology, suggested that Li Mu simply remove this guy from the hot topic list, but Li Mu did not agree.
If you casually withdraw his popularity, he will definitely seize the opportunity to bite you hard. This guy's awareness of porcelain is far beyond ordinary people. If there is a problem with a certain brand of product, he will destroy it in public with great fanfare, buddy. The desire to step on others and bite others to get the upper hand is still very strong.
Since he wants to promote it on Weibo and Twitter, let him push it to his heart's content. The bigger the noise, the worse the fall will be in the future.
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A few days later, Li Mu received news that Lu Yunhao's company had taken over the bank's online settlement interface and established its own payment channel.
It is said that this guy named his payment channel Niu Fubao, and Li Mu was so happy that he broke his teeth after hearing this.
At this stage, the electronic payment license system has not yet been launched, so setting up a payment interface is actually not a big problem. In addition, IDG Capital has a good relationship with banks, so Li Mu did not feel that opening a payment interface would be a threshold for them from the beginning.
But there's a problem.
Paying for this thing is not just a function of it.
Just like Alipay and WeChat Pay, the two major electronic payment channels in later generations, these two giants cannot be incubated by other companies.
Alipay and WeChat Pay are like two dinosaur eggs from ancient times. Alipay is a big dinosaur egg, and WeChat Pay is slightly smaller. How can such a behemoth be hatched by today's chickens, ducks, puppies, and kittens? Not even tigers, leopards or elephants.
Take a look at the development history of Alipay. It was born together with Taobao. Without Taobao’s user accumulation over the years, how could Alipay become the largest electronic payment channel in China
Let’s look at WeChat Pay again. Under the pressure of Alipay earlier, even though WeChat has hundreds of millions of users, WeChat Pay couldn’t do it. Why? Because everyone uses damn Alipay, why do you need to open WeChat Pay
As a result, the eldest brother Zhang Xiaolong is quite awesome. Aren’t people less motivated to pay with WeChat? Okay, then I will make a super cool "game" to grab red envelopes during the Chinese New Year.
Do you want to grab the red envelope when you see it? Sorry, if you want to grab it, you have to activate WeChat payment first.
People are asking you to give out red envelopes, what do you think? Sorry, if you want to send, you still have to activate WeChat payment first.
In this way, on the occasion of the Chinese New Year, WeChat Pay captured over 100 million users in an instant, completing the journey that Alipay had completed in several years almost overnight.
The reason why
Isn’t it that WeChat’s hundreds of millions of users with strong needs are laying the foundation? Hundreds of millions of people use WeChat every day, post in WeChat Moments every day, and read tweets from WeChat Moments and WeChat official accounts every day, so he can launch the red envelope game and get everyone to open WeChat payment.
Try another company
Meituan Pay recommends everyone to activate it in its Meituan takeout every day. How many people actually activate it? There are also JD Pay, Suning Pay, and each bank's own payment, but basically no one uses them. Later, they finally managed to attract some users. How did they attract them? Isn’t that a discount
For example, a user bought something worth 100 yuan on JD.com and was about to place an order to pay. Suddenly, a pop-up message appeared saying that using JD.com Pay, you can get a discount of 99-10 yuan. When the user saw this, he thought, if he opens JD.com Pay, he can save 10 yuan. For $1, it seems worth a shot.
How much profit do you have to be prepared to give up to develop new users in this way
Moreover, the payment users poached in this way have innate "discrimination" against these payment channels. What is "discrimination"
For example, when buying something, there are N types of payment methods, including WeChat, Alipay, JD.com, Suning, and even Apple’s Apple Pay. For users, if there are discounts for the latter types of payments, then choose the one with the biggest discount. , if there is no discount, then choose one of the two via WeChat and Alipay.
In this case, no payment company can compete with WeChat and Alipay.
In this case, even if Lu Yunho's payment method is implemented, it will be useless. Nowadays, users who can shop online use Alipay. You don't have a powerful product like WeChat to support you. Why should you fight with me
However, Lu Yunho was completely unaware of such a problem.
Now he is tormented by a huge problem.
When his team started to recruit a team of riders, he realized belatedly that recruiting riders was not only about recruiting people, but also a huge problem, which was transportation!
Traffic management in Shanghai is strict, unlike Yanjing. Although Beijing B's license plate theoretically prevents entry into the city, most people ride in and no one cares about it. But Shanghai is really not like that. You can't do it in a place where motorcycles are prohibited. I'll catch you as soon as I get here.
Therefore, there are very few motorcycles running illegally in Shanghai.
This means that no one gets a motorcycle and looks for work in Shanghai.
He himself wanted to recruit riders who owned cars, but after going around in circles, he discovered that most of the people who could legally ride motorcycles in this city had more money than he did, so how could they deliver food to him
Many people are indeed interested in the work of riders, but they cannot solve the problem of transportation.
Lu Yunho stood in his office, looked at the rolling river and cursed: "Damn it, why didn't anyone tell me about this rotten thing about not allowing motorcycles to run!!!"
Zheng Chao, his favorite general he hired from Southern English and now the company's vice president, said awkwardly: "No one expected that we would be stuck here. To be honest, motorcycles are too difficult to handle. Even if we try our best, we may not be able to do it." I can get a hundred motorcycles with formal procedures..."
Lu Yunhao asked hurriedly: "Is there no other way? What did Li Mu do?"
Zheng Chao said: "Li Mu is really good. All his cars are electric cars customized directly by himself."
"Can electric cars work? Is the battery life enough?" Lu Yunhao asked.
"About eighty kilometers, that's enough!"
Lu Yunhao immediately made a decision: "Go, buy it! We will buy it wherever Li Mu bought it. Buy him first... five hundred cars! Oh no, buy it a thousand cars!"
Zheng Chao's expression was very ugly: "Mr. Lu, this is not something we can buy if we have money. That car is Ele.me's own design, its own patent, and its own core accessories. They only entrust domestic companies to manufacture it. , and the foundry has a clear agreement not to manufacture electric vehicles for other companies. What’s even more ridiculous is that the foundry cannot copy them even if they want to. The key batteries and motors are imported directly from the United States.”
Lu Yunhao gritted his teeth: "Damn, he is really willing to spend a lot of money to build a food delivery platform and design an electric car..."
After saying that, Lu Yunhao snorted and said, "Can't we also customize an electric car?"
Zheng Chao said: "It's possible, but the electric vehicles we can buy on the market have a range of up to 30 kilometers. Most of them are rated to have a range of 30 kilometers, but in fact they only have a range of more than ten kilometers or less than 20 kilometers." It only stops after 10 kilometers, and charging is damn slow. It takes at least eight hours to fully charge, unlike Li Mu’s electric car, which is said to have a battery life of about 80 kilometers, and the charging is also fast. It can be fully charged in four or five hours. What about the fast charging technology provided by Sila's company, which uses more than 300 volts of industrial electricity, can charge 65% in one hour, and can be fully charged in two hours..."
"My day..." Lu Yunhao's jaw almost dropped and he exclaimed: "This is too damn far away. Where is Li Mu's awesome stuff?"
Zheng Chao said: "The battery is very powerful. Domestic electric vehicles are all lead-acid batteries, which are heavy, large and have low energy storage. It is said that when the weather is cold, the battery will be dropped at my grandma's house, either while charging or on the way to charge."
Lu Yunhao asked again: "What about Li Mu's?"
Zheng Chao said: "Li Mu's battery is a lithium battery, which is the kind of battery used in laptops. Good guy, dozens or hundreds of batteries are piled together. That car is said to have a speed limit of 40 kilometers per hour when it comes out. , otherwise I would run faster than a scooter if I let go..."
"You're bragging..." Lu Yunhao slapped the table: "I don't believe that his electric car can use laptop batteries, and it can run faster than a motorcycle!"
"This is true." Zheng Chao said, "I specially asked my friends in Yanjing to inquire deeply. What I told you has been confirmed repeatedly."
Speaking, Zheng Chao added: "It seems that we can only order electric vehicles with ordinary lead-acid batteries from domestic manufacturers. The motor is not a brushless motor, which consumes a lot of energy and has poor power. The same rider, are you hungry?" The rider can run 20 or 30 rides with a full charge, but ours can only run 67 rides, which is several times worse. Moreover, Ele.me has a battery swapping station in Yanjing, and even a tram replacement station. If the rider’s car runs out of battery, he will directly You can change the battery by riding to a battery swapping station, or you can ask for the location of the swapping car and you can change the battery on your own. If we want to do this, the cost will be very high. Combined with the short range of our battery and the slow charging speed, It is estimated that a car is equipped with at least six batteries... "
"I'm sorry..."
Lu Yunhao's expression suddenly became extremely ugly.
He once calculated the competition between himself and Li Mu eleven thousand times like a sand table deduction, but he failed to calculate that he would lose in the first round of transportation...
(End of chapter)