Xu Jiahua's performance made Xu Jiaming worried. If Xu Jiahua had really set his sights on Makino Technology, the most popular ship in the Internet field, he would undoubtedly be greatly affected.
During this period of time, he and Li Mu have been getting along relatively harmoniously. Li Mu has also asked him for help several times. Based on his understanding of Li Mu, if he wants to invest in Makino Technology, he should not refuse. If he can help With all the funds invested in Makino Technology, he would have a chance to turn defeat into victory in the last year.
However, if Xu Jiahua also wants to invest in Makino Technology, then regardless of whether Li Mu will accept his investment, he will definitely find ways to prevent him from investing in Makino Technology. This is disgusting.
Li Mu didn't think so much. As several "acquaintances" appeared one after another, Xu Jiahua was quickly forgotten by him. Mr. Ma from Alibaba came, Mr. Ma from Tengxun also came; Mr. Zhou from 3721 Here, Mr. Lei from Jinshan is also here, and Li Xingping, the founder of Hao123, who is rated as the best personal webmaster in the country, is also here.
More and more familiar figures from later generations came in one after another, but they did not have any dazzling aura at this moment. After these people came, some chatted with a few acquaintances, and some went directly to their seats. Li Mu Unexpectedly, Lei Jun, later known as Rebus, was sitting diagonally behind him.
In the future, Rebus has not started playing with hardware yet, and his position is the president of Kingsoft Software. Although Kingsoft was not listed in the "big boss area" on one side of the stage, he was also placed in the middle of the first row under the stage. From this, we can also see Kingsoft’s status in the Internet field. They are backed by the big brand Lenovo and have several popular products. They are indeed a relatively powerful company in the software field.
After Rebus sat down, he first chatted with acquaintances on both sides of him for a few words. Then he turned around and saw Mr. Li from Baidu. After exchanging pleasantries, he saw Li Mu directly behind him.
Rebus actually reached out to Li Mu and said with a smile, "Hello, I am Lei Jun."
Li Mu smiled slightly, shook hands with him, and said, "Hello, Mr. Lei, my name is Li Mu."
Rebus smiled and said, "I know you. I've seen you on TV. Tieba is such a good product, and the battle between you and Q Bar was really beautiful."
Mr. Ma, who was sitting in the same row but three seats away, heard the sound and glanced sideways at the two of them, then looked back with a slightly unnatural expression.
Rebus took notice of Mr. Ma's performance, smiled slightly, and said to Li Mu: "I think your 3321 Alipay business is also very interesting. It faces high-end social groups and college students. We are outstanding." Net has done quite well in the B2C field of books, audio and video. What do you think if 3321’s Alipay is opened to Joyo.com and we pay a certain channel fee?”
Li Mu was shocked, was Rebus so vicious? Did you notice Alipay at this time? Alipay is now just a payment tool for 3321, but I have never exposed it as a payment channel!
In other words, Mr. Ma from Alibaba probably can’t see this layer now, because he hasn’t even started Taobao’s business model yet. In his thinking model, Alipay must be a derivative spawned by Taobao. However, Rebus, who was working on software, actually saw it
However, Li Mu then thought about it. Rebus may not really be interested in Alipay. He should be interested in Alipay users, that is, the more than 10,000 parents who use 3321 to find tutors for their children, and the nearly 20,000 people who use 3321 to find tutors for their children. College students looking for part-time tutors on the Internet. However, the business on the Shanghai stock market has begun to promote, and it is estimated that it will not take long to reach the scale of Yanjing.
Middle-aged people with high incomes and good knowledge of computers and the Internet can basically be regarded as a high-end user group, and they have purchasing power. Such users must have higher demand for physical books than ordinary people, and college students are even more demanding. Needless to say, they go to the bookstore almost every week, whether for study or interest.
Rebus may have taken a fancy to these high-quality customers in his hands, so he used Alipay as an entry point to talk to himself about this.
Li Mu smiled modestly and said tentatively: "Director Lei, although Alipay has never been prepared to open to third-party companies, since you have said it, we can consider cooperation. However, in order to ensure the purity of 3321, we can only provide Alipay's The interface cannot be provided to any 3321 users, otherwise people will suspect that we are using 3321 for commercial profit."
Rebus was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "Okay, hehe, I'll ask my men to contact you another day." After saying that, he nodded and turned away.
Li Mu was stunned, but Rebus was realistic enough. After hearing the meaning of his words, his attitude immediately changed. He said that he would contact his subordinates another day, but he never asked Li Mu for his contact information. This was true. It's really a bit hypocritical.
However, Li Mu didn't think it was strange when he thought carefully about Mr. Lei in the future. He laughed at himself and didn't take it seriously.
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The Internet conference is actually quite boring when it enters the formal stage. The host comes out to warm up the atmosphere, and then enters the leadership speech mode. The leaders finish talking about various requirements, prospects and sustenance for the Internet, and then the scene enters the industry. The time period for the big boss’s speech.
There were several breaks in between, and each break became a good opportunity for people in the industry to chat privately in small groups. As Li Mu sat still, many people would come up to chat with him, and ask about the next development direction of Makino Technology. , Li Mu was originally prepared to politely refuse to answer this question, but to his surprise, there are indeed too many people paying attention to Makino Technology. Some of them are simply curious, some want to evaluate the future development prospects of Makino Technology, and some are worried. The future direction of Makino Technology will collide with its own.
Li Mu organized a unified reply in his mind and said: "Makino Technology will definitely continue to make Tieba the world's largest Chinese community in the future, and find ways to achieve horizontal development on the basis of Tieba. In addition, I am personally very optimistic about it. Navigation website, plus there is now a navigation website that has sold the keywords of our 'Tieba', which has cut off a lot of our traffic like gangsters, so we are also preparing to build a navigation site ourselves, which should be the next stage of Tieba. Focused goals."
Everyone knew that Li Mu's words were mirroring Hao123, and they had no doubts about what Li Mu said. However, Mr. Li next to him severely despised Li Mu in his heart. He didn't even bother to make up a new excuse for lying. This boy was so shameless. It has indeed reached an extreme.
In the afternoon, Li Mu listened humbly to the speeches of several big names in the industry. Mr. Ding of NetEase’s bold inferences about Internet games benefited Li Mu a lot. He had never made a game before and lacked sufficient knowledge of online games. , Mr. Dante repeatedly mentioned the huge appeal of Internet games to users in his speech, and compared the game business to the bone marrow of the human body. The implication is obvious. For a large Internet company, the game business carries the important role of producing blood. effect.
For a company, blood is money, and it is the most critical part that drives the company's operation. The cash flow of online games is extremely strong. In the future, Shanda and Ninetowns; and Tengxun and NetEase in the future, their core revenue will basically come from in online games.
However, the concept that online games can make a lot of money is not yet believed by many current Internet practitioners. Therefore, throughout Mr. Ding’s speech, almost everyone looked surprised and confused, and some even looked disdainful. , only one person’s eyes lit up when he heard it, and that person was Shanda’s boss Chen Tianqiao.
Li Mu also felt a little itchy in his heart. Making games is indeed very profitable, and it brings a lot of cash, but he doesn't have the energy to develop games now. Should he make some money quickly and set up a game company? There is a game operation team, and when a great game comes out, I can get it into my own hands and run it as soon as possible.
But, which game companies are worth acquiring right now
Shanda couldn't afford to take it anymore. "Legend" was gaining momentum. If Chen Tianqiao was killed, he wouldn't let outsiders get on the train at this time. NetEase was now an Internet giant and it was impossible to ignore him. Teng Xun was just like him now. We haven’t started making games, and many other companies haven’t really started to rise yet.
Li Mu quickly took out the seating chart and looked at the names of the participating companies one by one, looking for clues from his memory. When he was halfway through, his eyes suddenly lit up.
The ninth city in Shanghai.
This was also a very impressive game company at the time. It started as a virtual community and later rose to prominence with "Miracle MU". With the help of the agent of "World of Warcraft", it was successfully listed on Nasdaq. However, due to operational missteps and the founder's With Zhu Jun's expansion, Jiucheng, which was once awesome and coaxing, was completely in disgrace.
However, what makes Li Mu curious is, what is the current situation of the Ninth City? Now "Legend" has just become popular, and their "Miracle" is expected to be a little later, at least until next year, before it can start operations. Even the actual commercial operation in my memory was in 2003, which is still more than a year away. time.
Li Mu asked Mr. Li next to him: "Mr. Li, do you know about The Ninth City?"
Mr. Li frowned and looked at Li Mu, and said sincerely: "To be honest, I really don't want to talk to you right now..."
Li Mu nudged him with his elbow and said with a smile: "Don't be so stingy, we have a cooperative relationship."
Mr. Li said bitterly: "Yes, a cooperative relationship. Just because it is a cooperative relationship, I have never thought of cheating you. What about you?"
Li Mu said with sincerity: "I haven't cheated you either!"
Mr. Li chuckled and didn't want to continue arguing with Li Mu on this topic. On the surface, everyone was willing to do it, but in fact, Li Mu dug a hole for himself. Everyone knew this kind of thing, but once it happened, To say it out loud is to say that the public is justified. It's boring. It's really fucking boring.
Seeing that he stopped talking, Li Mu knocked on the table and said with a smile: "I know you have opinions on me. Let's do this. I promise to gradually reduce my shareholding in Yiting Technology and transfer the shares to Baidu in batches. In the next three years, I will dispose of all the shares of Yiting Technology and leave the house. What do you think?"
(End of chapter)