For Li Mu, Yiting.com has two missions. One is to provide the first level for Tieba, and the other is to make money.
Now, Yiting.com has perfectly achieved its first mission, and all that's left is to sell it for money. The reason why it hasn't been sold yet is because the price hasn't reached Li Mu's satisfaction.
Now Yiting.com is taking advantage of legal loopholes to engage in piracy. Although there are no laws and regulations to restrict it, it will eventually become the target of public criticism. However, it was Li Mu who changed all the shares within three years and completely escaped from Yiting.com. The rigid requirement set by myself is no more than three years at the latest.
That’s why he said to Mr. Li, “I will leave the house within three years from Yiting Technology.”
For Mr. Li, these words from Li Mu were like thunder exploding in his heart.
After the painful loss of Tieba, his biggest thought besides Baidu was Yiting.com. He dreamed of taking control of Yiting.com and integrating Yiting.com directly into Baidu Search. However, he only had 30% of the shares in hand. I originally thought that getting more shares from Li Mu would be a tough battle, but I didn't expect that Li Mu would take the initiative to leave the house within three years and transfer all the shares to himself.
Although I don’t know why Li Mu would be so generous and give up the great future prospects of Yiting.com, Mr. Li was still very excited at this moment and blurted out: "Is this true? Are you digging a hole for me again? ?”
Li Mu smiled and stopped calling him Mr. Li. Instead, he called him by his English name like an old friend: "Robin, to be honest, my energy is limited. For me, Yiting.com is already in the ranking of importance. It’s the last one in the queue. I only value Tieba, otherwise I wouldn’t let you transfer all your shares to Yiting.”
Mr. Li nodded and said, "You continue."
Li Mu smiled and got a little closer to him, and said: "I just heard Mr. Ding talk about the game market, and I felt enlightened. Now I want to get involved in the game industry. Just now I asked you about the Ninth City. A friend told you before I mentioned that this company seems to be doing things related to games, so I wanted to ask you if you know anything about this company."
Mr. Li said: "Don't mention the game for now. Let's talk about Yiting Technology. Do you really want to let it go within three years?"
"Yeah." Li Mu said with determination: "It's not very useful if I want it. You are the one who needs it most. I know from a guess that you now dream of integrating Yiting.com into Baidu search. You Don’t worry, I will make your wish come true in 2002.”
Mr. Li was shocked. Li Mu could guess so accurately? This guy's vision is really vicious!
Surprised, he asked Li Mu: "You mean, within 2002, you want me to control Yiting.com?"
"Yes." Li Mu nodded: "Robin, as I said before, we are partners, will I cheat you?"
Mr. Li thought for a moment and nodded warily.
Li Mu sighed: "You are so boring. Our current cooperation is only at the level of Yiting Technology. What's the point of lying to you? I really think you are a good person and want to be friends with you. If you don’t trust me so much, then just pretend that I didn’t say anything, but I also promise you that I will not transfer any shares of Yiting.com to you in the future.”
Mr. Li suddenly became anxious: "Hey, what are you talking about? It hurts the feelings of partners to talk so harshly."
Li Mu curled his lips and asked him: "You just kept looking at me with distrust, doesn't it hurt your feelings? I'm talking to you about this with a 100% sincere heart, what about you? What's your attitude? Ah that’s right.”
Mr. Li hurriedly took the seating chart from Li Mu's hand and said, "Hey, let's talk about the Ninth City. I know a little bit about this company."
Seeing that he had finally come to the right place, Li Mu smiled slightly and did not pursue the matter further, but asked him: "Tell me, what do you know about him?"
Mr. Li said: "This company is not engaged in games right now. It just established an online community for games called Gamenow. It was doing pretty well at first. Later, it wanted to use the community to engage in e-commerce, but it ended up in a mess. This year, 17,173 people robbed them. traffic, and then your Tieba came along to steal their traffic. Now gamers are all going to Tieba, and both of their sites probably won’t last long.”
In Li Mu's memory, Jiucheng was really miserable before Miracle Agent, but he didn't know how miserable it was.
In fact, The9 first started Gamenow, and then tried to expand into e-commerce on Gamenow. In 2001, it suffered a loss of 16 million yuan, which was extremely miserable. Although it represented Miracle in 2002, it still lost 20 to 30 million yuan in the entire fiscal year. It wasn't until 2003 that the popularity of "Miracle" suddenly skyrocketed.
Zhu Jun and Chen Tianqiao both started out in the same way. Each of them relied on a popular game to rise to the top of the industry. Chen Tianqiao has now seen spring, but Zhu Jun is still struggling in the harsh winter.
The most interesting thing is that the emergence of Li Mu and Tieba have had a big impact on all other Chinese-speaking communities on the Internet, including Ninetowns’ Gamenow.
Li Mu secretly thought, I wonder if the game "Miracle" has been developed yet. Maybe it should have been launched in South Korea. It is estimated that a few million yuan can win the exclusive agent in mainland China from a Korean game company, but the largest The cost is not the licensing fee, but the powerful hardware required to support an online game, the continuous expansion and upgrading, and the huge expenses for publicity and promotion.
However, I think the cost will not be too high. You can know the approximate investment by doing some calculations. In 2001, it was a loss of 16 million. In 2002, the loss was 30 million. In 2002, the loss increased by 14 million compared with 2001. , assuming that all these losses are due to "Miracle MU", this amount of money should include all expenses for agency fees, team building, hardware building, and early publicity and promotion.
Li Mu asked Mr. Li next to him: "Robin, how much is Ninetowns worth now?"
Mr. Li thought for a while and said: "Ten million, maybe. They are suffering a bit serious losses now, and they haven't found a good direction or profit model. I guess they are not very favored in the capital market."
Li Mu asked again: "If they can't find a profit model, how long can they last?"
Mr. Li chuckled: "If we can't find a profit model in 2002, this company will die."
Li Mule said: "Robin, your understanding of companies in the industry is really profound."
"It's okay. I don't know that deeply. The person sitting in front of you does."
Li Mu frowned, Leader Lei? What routine
Robin then explained: "A recognized chicken thief in the industry."
Li Mu nodded: "I understand."
From this moment until the end of the Internet Conference, Li Mu was thinking about one thing: seize the agent of "Miracle", block Ninetowns' way of survival, use Tieba to comprehensively suppress Gamenow, accelerate the pace of Ninetowns' fall, and put it aside first Death place.
After returning to Yucheng Garden, Li Mu checked the situation of Miracle MU. It turns out that this game has been launched in South Korea and seems to be operating well. It is considered the best online game in 2001 in South Korea and is more popular than Legend in South Korea. Quite a few.
Li Muxin did some calculations and found that there are really no reliable games available at the moment. If he cuts off "Miracle MU" and Ninetowns wants to play games, he will probably have to follow NetEase's example and develop it themselves, but they are still not there yet. The company has stopped losing money and has no ability to develop an online game.
Li Mu called Lin Qingya and asked her to pay attention to the Korean game "Miracle MU". If possible, try to contact its parent company to find out how much it would cost to be an exclusive agent in mainland China.
Then Li Mu called Kong Lingyu and asked him to use part of the cost in the past few days to carry out a promotion activity for all game forums, and find a way to cut over the users on Gamenow and 17173. Cut as many as he can, and water is needed. If you want to cooperate with the army, you can contact Zhao Kang directly.
As soon as he finished explaining this matter, Zhao Kang came to the door.
Hurrying to Yucheng Garden, Zhao Kang couldn't wait to ask Li Mu as soon as he walked in: "Our people are ready, and there are more than one million users in the Tieba family waiting for it. When will it start? I can't wait." Let’s blast the Q bar again!”
Li Mu smiled and looked at the time. It was eight-twenty in the evening and said to him: "At eight-fifty, quickly tell as many people as possible how to explode the bar. Start on time at nine o'clock."
As he said that, Li Mu reminded him: "Don't forget to put up a smoke bomb first. First call everyone to go to the Q bar and post a wave of messages to confuse them, and then attack them with in-site messages."
Zhao Kang said immediately: "I will instruct them now to call on everyone to go over and send out a wave around 8:40."
Li Mu nodded, opened the data monitoring background of Tieba, looked at the current online data of Tieba, and couldn't help but sigh. At this time, there are about two million people online in Tieba, and more than 70% of them are gathered in the Tieba family. The last explosion incident really made Tieba completely famous on the Internet. A large number of netizens came here because of it, and were directly converted into Tieba users, and this number is still growing.
At the same time, in the Q Bar Business Department, Luo Zhongwen looked at the estimated data statistics of Tieba at this moment with worry. The birthplace of the explosive bar, the "Tieba Family", had almost 130 to 130 people at this moment. One and a half million people are online, and he knows that such a huge lineup is waiting for another explosive event at this moment. Q Bar is about to face a greater test. He is not sure about the current server carrying capacity. Can it withstand such a wave of attacks
Luo Zhongwen felt chills running down his back when he thought of this unskilled crowd tactic. When the number of people reached this level, spitting could drown them.
However, Luo Zhongwen thought about it carefully, and deep down he felt that the problem was not big. Now Q Bar's server carrying capacity is very powerful. It is not a problem at all for millions of people to be online at the same time and publish content at the same time, and there is also time to post. Limitation, as long as the Q Bar server can resist a wave, the Tie Bar friends will lose!
(End of chapter)