Li Mu took Zhao Kang and Makino Technology to register a new company called Baofeng Entertainment with a 6:2:2 equity model, with Li Mu accounting for 60%. The reason for such a name was not that Li Mu wanted to imitate Baofeng Video. But use your own way to pay tribute to Blizzard.
For this company that has created top games such as Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft, Li Mu has great respect and belief in them. It is inappropriate to call them Blizzard directly, so forget it and call them Storm. Maybe it will really happen in the future. Able to combine storm and blizzard.
Lin Qingya quickly got in touch with Webzen Korea, and the two parties agreed to hold a formal business meeting at the end of the month. Lin Qingya took her team to South Korea to discuss the agency rights of "Miracle MU" with Webzen. Before leaving, Lin Qingya also helped Li Mu lead another line. Her and Li Mu's common senior brother, Liu Haodong, who was still in the CD business, took the initiative to find Lin Qingya and wanted to meet Li Mu.
Lin Qingya conveyed Senior Brother Liu's intention to meet with Li Mu. From the tone of her words, it seemed that Senior Brother Liu was looking forward to meeting her.
Naturally, Li Mu couldn't miss such a good opportunity to get to know a talented person, especially when the talented person hadn't really grown up yet, so he readily agreed.
So, the day before Lin Qingya left for South Korea, Li Mu and Senior Brother Liu sat face to face for the first time with her help.
In Li Mu's impression, he had met Senior Brother Liu at least three or four times. Except for the last time at the party, everything else happened in his previous life. When he came to Yanjing to work as a coder, he had admired him for a while. , I went to attend two of his lectures, and later because of my work, I was invited to attend a JD.com supplier conference, where Brother Liu also took the stage to give a speech.
However, it was indeed the first time that the two of them sat face to face at the same dining table.
Moreover, what surprised Li Mu was that he had been restraining himself so as not to show excitement in front of Senior Brother Liu, but Senior Brother Liu could not hide the excitement and excitement in his expression in front of him. Li Mu even From his eyes, I saw some respect.
Although Senior Brother Liu is several times older than Li Mu and several years older than him, his mentality during this meeting was extremely humble. There is no other reason for this. Li Mu's current achievements are far above him, and his future achievements will be far beyond his. He didn't know it at all, so in his eyes, the junior brother in front of him was countless times more powerful than him, and he just humbly asked for advice in front of him.
Lin Qingya introduced each other in the middle, and Li Mu and Senior Brother Liu quickly became familiar with each other. Li Mu picked up a glass of beer and said to him: "Brother Qiang, let me toast you."
Senior Brother Liu hurriedly picked up his own wine glass with one hand, gently raised the bottom of Li Mu's glass with the other hand, and said humbly: "Don't take it seriously, I respect you!"
As he spoke, Senior Brother Liu raised Li Mu's wine glass, lowered his own wine glass, and tilted the rim of the glass to clink the glass with Li Mu. The rim of the cup was always one or two centimeters lower than Li Mu's.
Li Mu said: "Brother Qiang, you are my senior brother. It would be unreasonable for you to be so alienated from me. I am so much younger than you, aren't you trying to hurt me?"
Senior Brother Liu hurriedly said: "I should do this. I have heard about your outstanding achievements in the Internet field for a long time. I asked Qingya to treat you to dinner today because I want to learn from you and gain some relevant experience."
In Li Mu's memory, Senior Brother Liu used his programming skills to make his first pot of gold when he was in school. It can be said that he was the first group of people in China to be exposed to the technical aspects of the Internet. It was only after he went to the United States in 1995. Mr. Alima, who understands what the Internet is, entered the industry early, and once he entered the industry, he was very technical. It can be said that his foundation is quite good.
Therefore, when he first said that he wanted to learn from himself, Li Mu was quite embarrassed, and he said very humbly that he actually didn't understand much about the Internet, but Senior Brother Liu had already started to do it when he was in college. To make money on the Internet, you can get started much earlier than you do.
Senior Brother Liu shook his head repeatedly and sighed: "It was just out of personal hobbies that I learned some programming skills by myself. But later I found that relying on technology to get involved in the Internet field has never made much progress, so I changed careers. I started making recorders and optical discs, but I’m still doing nothing.”
Li Mu smiled and said: "I heard that Brother Qiang, you have opened several stores now, and your revenue should have reached a certain scale, right?"
Senior Brother Liu smiled bitterly and said, "You'd better stop calling me Brother Qiang. If you don't have any objection, just call me Senior Brother. It sounds friendly."
Li Mu nodded, and Senior Brother Liu added: "There is not much profit margin in the real economy. Whether it is in Zhongguancun or in the electronic cities of other cities, the profit margin for opto-magnetics is fixed. It will only be less, not more." , I originally thought that my current career was not bad, but after seeing the rise of Makino Technology with my own eyes, I realized that what I am doing now is not a career at all, it is just a business of buying low and selling high, so I am also very I want to give the Internet a try, but to be honest, I only know a little bit about the Internet at a basic level. I know nothing about real business models, products, users, and operations, so I want to get to know you. If you have the opportunity in the future, follow me more. You learn some lessons.”
Li Mu then said, "Senior brother, if you have any ideas about the Internet, we can communicate with each other and let's not talk about studying. Maybe the business model you suddenly come up with will be better than what I am doing now."
Senior Brother Liu smiled slightly, and his impression of Li Mu became a little better. He said with a smile: "Actually, I have been thinking about it these days. I have a rough business model, but it is still very immature..."
Li Mu smiled and said: "It's okay, just tell me and I will help you with your advice."
Senior Brother Liu said: "Then let me give you a rough introduction. You see, I am mainly making optical and magnetic products. A large part of my sales is consumables, and a considerable part of them comes from old customers and the ability to expand new customers. Too weak. I want to try to see if I can put my optical and magnetic sales on the online platform. I will start from Yanjing. Users in Yanjing order online. After I receive the order information, I will arrange for someone to deliver the items. Deliver the goods to your door and then collect the payment.”
Li Mu was stunned. Isn't this the prototype of JD.com's earliest B2C e-commerce? However, the reason why JD.com transformed into B2C in the previous life was actually because of SARS. The sharp decline in customer traffic and sales forced Liu Edong to move the sales of optical and magnetic products online to make up for the impact of SARS. It was also from that time that he gradually started to build JD.com, first in opto-magnetics, then in the ever-popular computer hardware and 3C home appliances, and then in the future, the JD.com that fully blossomed.
Logically speaking, if Liu Edong had this idea, the triggering condition must be SARS in 2003. How come it was triggered in early 2002 now
Li Mu thought for a while, and the reason could only be himself.
Or maybe Liu Edong was prospering and satisfied with his opto-magnetic business. If SARS hadn't driven him to a dead end in 2003, he wouldn't have started innovating in e-commerce. But now he suddenly has a junior student of his, a A boy under twenty years old started an Internet company and produced two top-level products that became popular across the country. In just six months, they were valued at hundreds of millions. This reality deeply touched him and made him start to abandon his ambitions. He was so proud that he began to seek greater breakthroughs. In the end, he came up with the idea of e-commerce more than a year in advance.
After figuring this out, Li Mu was so excited that he wanted to slam the table.
Nothing else, Liu Edong now has the idea of taking the Internet in advance, and the reason is because of himself. This is a good opportunity for him to fool him.
So, Li Mu pondered and said, "Senior brother, to be honest, your project has been going in the direction of focusing on assets since it started. It's not optimistic!"
Senior Brother Liu asked him curiously: "Asset-heavy? How do you say that?"
Li Mu clapped his fingers and said one by one: "Look, if you want to do online e-commerce, it's not a big problem. It's enough to invest in product development, but you also have to sell and deliver by yourself. In this case, you You must have your own warehousing and distribution system. If you are doing physical business, you should have your own ready-made warehousing. I will not forget this for now, but let’s talk about distribution. In a place as big as Yanjing alone, you You need to prepare a delivery team of at least a dozen people, right? How much is the salary? In order to ensure speed and efficiency, the delivery team must have motor vehicles, right? Is one truck enough? How many motorcycles do I need to buy? How much does this cost alone? Not yet Before you start, you have to invest so much money first. This is what I call an asset-heavy direction."
As soon as Senior Brother Liu heard this, his expression immediately turned bitter.
There is a world of difference in the mentality of people when they are in good times and when they are in adversity. These problems mentioned by Li Mu sound serious and risky to Liu Haodong now. However, during SARS in 2003, Liu Haodong had no choice. The only option is to burn the boat, but he doesn't have the determination to burn the boat now.
So, Senior Brother Liu asked Li Mu awkwardly: "Then what do you think we should do? Entrust the delivery process to the post office?"
The current express delivery industry is still very backward. Whether it is STO or SF Express, they can only form a small-scale logistics and transportation network in a small area in the country. Except for the post office, no one can achieve a nationwide scale, so now everyone thinks of express delivery When it comes to industry, the only thing I can think of is the post office.
Li Mu struck again: "The post office is not cheap. Surface mail is cheap but the delivery time is too slow. Users will definitely not be able to accept it. But the speed of express delivery has increased and the price has gone up. How much does one CD cost? How much does ten CDs cost?" Money? However, the express delivery fee for ten CDs may cost several yuan. Are users willing to pay these several yuan?"
If Li Mu had said this in a few years, people would have looked at him as a fool, but if he said it now, it was indeed a thought-provoking question.
Senior Brother Liu lowered his eyelids and sighed: "It seems that this road will not work!"
This chapter is a million words long. I want to commemorate it and thank you all for your support and companionship.
In addition, book friends have been quite vocal in the comment area recently. I accept some criticisms humbly and promise to improve with all my heart. However, some comments that are too subjective are difficult to define right from wrong. For example: the protagonist’s attitude towards the team is people-oriented and uses high-level methods. Benefits and high incentives are exchanged for high returns and rapid development; but we have to admit that there are also many bosses who use the method of drawing cakes to satisfy their hunger, looking at plums to quench thirst, and killing donkeys in exchange for higher rates of return. Everyone has their own starting point. Who is right and who is wrong? There is no need to define clearly who is smart and who is stupid. When New Oriental was listed, even the security guards and sweeping ladies became millionaires. What do you think Yu Minhong’s mentality was
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