After getting the design drawings, Li Mu asked Lin Qingya to arrange for someone to help him find some manufacturers that could OEM MP3, preferably a larger OEM company, and even better if it was in China.
Lin Qingya immediately arranged for three business interface people to take charge of this matter and find a suitable OEM company for MP3 production.
Li Mu took this matter very seriously. In addition, he asked Lin Qingya to continue sending people to Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea to investigate and understand the foundry resources of the MP3 industry. He was not very reassured about the mainland's electronics industry in 2002. , these days, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are the most powerful in the electronics industry. It is very meaningful to send people out to investigate the industry situation. After all, Li Mu also understands that he cannot only make this kind of hardware.
Li Mu’s goal is to customize and sell 500,000 MP3 players this year, but the first batch will be customized with 100,000 to 200,000 units. After Taobao goes online, he will launch a wave of them to try out.
Li Mu's current e-commerce business is much more mature than when Alibaba was doing Taobao. Not only because he has turned Alipay into a payment channel with tens of millions of users, but also because he has established a business through Tieba, Happy Farm, and the current The rapid rise of YY has attracted a large number of users.
For Li Mu, he has already got Teng Xun and Alibaba in his hands. These two behemoth Internet companies, each with more than 200 billion US dollars in assets in later generations, have been in love and fighting each other for many years, but they have no choice but to do anything. Tengxun has a huge user base but no e-commerce genes. It spent money and resources but failed to make any moves in the e-commerce field. In the end, it could only invest money to invest in JD.com; Alibaba is full of e-commerce genes and wants to He used his huge online shopping user base to socialize, but he was born with a lack of social genes. He also spent money and resources, but in the end he failed to achieve social networking.
Now, I have a firm foothold in the social field. The registered users of YY continue to increase and are approaching the 80 million mark. In terms of the number of registered users, I am only a little behind QQ. I will soon catch up. In terms of user stickiness, With its powerful product functions and the cooperation of Tieba, Space, and Happy Farm, YY has long surpassed QQ and left it behind.
Now QQ has begun to decline. Although they have canceled all commercial advertisements, this is still incomparable with YY, because YY itself has no advertisements, and the product UI design is an era better than QQ. Everyone is pure and ad-free. As a chat software, the experience of YY is still dozens of times better than QQ.
As for QQ’s membership price reduction activity, the results over the past few days have shown that this move has not had much effect. For those users who have completely given up on QQ and switched to YY, they have gotten everything they want on YY. , and their connections have completely migrated over, and have even been integrated with the connections in Tieba and Happy Farm. Even if QQ membership service is given for free, they will not go back to use it at all. The reason is also very simple. Users are not interested in social software. The dependencies are very exclusive. After focusing on one of them, you will not use other similar products again.
The only thing that makes Li Mu a little worried is whether Tengxun will have a miracle in the next product development. If so, Tengxun can temporarily win back the victory; if not, YY will soon take its market share. The share is eroded away.
In Li Mu's view, it is a certainty that YY will crush QQ and even drive QQ off the historical stage. Now what he has to consider is not how to compete with QQ, but to focus on how to effectively and efficiently control QQ. The huge number of users of the YY product group will transition to Taobao in the future, so there are two most important things now, one is the customization of MP3 players, and the other is to urge Taobao to go online as soon as possible.
Fortunately, Fang Xudong came back in time.
When Fang Xudong came back, Liu Edong had already rented an office building in Zhongguancun and started to form a basic operations team. The development of Taobao's front-end and back-end programs was already progressing in an orderly manner at the R&D center of Makino Technology. Fang Xudong It did not disappoint. The core framework he wrote for Taobao has been more than half completed.
Fang Dongxu came back at this time and directly gave Li Mu a signal: the e-commerce section can be fully launched!
Therefore, Li Mu specially invited Fang Xudong and Senior Brother Liu out for a meal as soon as Fang Xudong came back, and introduced Fang Xudong to him.
Whether Liu Edong or Fang Xudong, both of them were masters in their fields of expertise in their previous lives. Therefore, although the two met for the first time, they still recognized each other very much before. It can be said that they hit it off.
The three of them chatted for a while. After Liu Edong and Fang Xudong became familiar with each other, Li Mu revealed all his plans for the next stage of Taobao at the dinner table.
Everything in the future of Taobao is based on these three people at the table, including Li Mu himself. He is responsible for all the future general directions, framework and required resource integration of Taobao. As the general manager, Liu Edong is directly responsible for the entire Taobao. In addition to the operation of the technical department, Fang Xudong's position is Taobao's CTO, leading the technical team and responsible for all technical work.
The two "Brothers" Liu Edong and Fang Xudong have parallel positions with each other and cannot interfere with each other. They can cooperate with each other if necessary in daily life. If there is a disagreement, it must be decided by Li Mu, and they must obey Li Mu's conclusion unconditionally and must not. Any comments.
The two of them had no objections to Li Mu's request. When Liu Eudong decided to work with Li Mu, he was prepared to start a career together under Li Mu's leadership. Fang Xudong had done well at Google and decided to return to China to join the team because of his Attracted by the development space given by Li Mu, the natural position is to be Li Mu's subordinate.
Before Fang Xudong returned to China, he was writing the core framework of Taobao while waiting to leave his job at Google. During that time, YY was launched. Fang Xudong immediately downloaded YY for in-depth experience. After the in-depth experience, he was not only more glad that he joined Makino The decision of technology also made Li Mu admire him even more.
As early as the first meeting between the two, Fang Dongxu told Li Mu about his views on Makino Technology. At that time, he did not know that Makino Technology was secretly developing YY, a big killer. He also told Li Mu that at that time The Makino technology is like a very sharp bayonet, powerful enough in the field of cold weapons, but it should be paired with a gun, but he never expected that Li Mu had realized this problem at that time. Bypassing the gun directly, a giant cannon was developed, and this giant cannon was YY.
At the dinner table, Liu Edong asked how Fang Xudong met Li Mu and how he was persuaded to join. Fang Xudong sighed: "To be honest, I have always paid for myself, but before meeting Mr. Li, I had never met Mr. Li. I have such a person, he understands what I understand, and he understands what I don’t understand; he has thought of things that I have thought of, and he has thought of things that I have not thought of, and even things that I could not have thought of, he has thought of. At that time, I felt that I had no choice but to join, otherwise I would regret it for the rest of my life."
Liu Edong also sighed: "That's right. Before I knew him, I was a small-scale vendor in Zhongguancun. To be honest, my annual income was tens of millions. I was very satisfied. I even felt that I was the National People's Congress." He is an outstanding alumnus who has come out, so I occasionally sponsor my juniors to engage in extracurricular activities at school. But after I heard about him, I realized that I am not outstanding. There is such a benchmark set here. , I can’t even touch the edge of excellence.”
Li Mu touched his nose and asked with a smile: "Is it really okay for you two to blatantly flatter me like this?"
Liu Edong waved his hands and said seriously: "I'm not flattering you. Xiao Jing is not here today. If she were here, she would tell you. When I first learned that you were the founder of Makino Technology, what kind of person was I? Such a state."
Fang Xudong smiled and said, "I feel the same way as you. After I finished chatting with Mr. Li, I felt quite subtle. I think we both feel the same way."
Li Mu smiled helplessly and said: "Okay, I believe you for the time being. Let's talk about the project. Taobao's goal is to go online at the end of May or early June. All our remaining technical progress must be based on this time node. It will be formulated, but whether it will be launched at the end of May or early June depends on when the first batch of MP3s can be produced."
Liu Edong said: "I have started to prepare the members of the operation team now. They are trying to find ways to establish contact with eBay sellers every day. After our platform is launched, they will be able to directly and accurately deliver information to these sellers. We will try our best to attract them to our Taobao website."
Li Mu nodded. Senior Brother Liu was really able to figure out the links and processes in every detail, which was really extraordinary.
Speaking of eBay, Li Mu couldn't remember exactly when he was acquired by eBay, so he asked Liu Yidong: "Brother Liu, what's the current situation of eBay?"
Brother Liu said: "I just received 30 million US dollars from eBay in March, and now I am promoting it on a large scale."
Li Mu nodded thoughtfully. Thirty million US dollars should have a certain amount of water. The money that actually comes to eBay may not be that much. What's more, he is not worried at all that eBay will become a competitor. In fact, eBay's current model is simply incubating eggs for the domestic C2C industry. They began cultivating C2C as early as the end of the last century. They allow sellers and buyers to get in touch and understand what e-commerce and online transactions are. They provide this The industry cultivated the earliest soil, and then they trapped themselves in a cocoon, always trying to get profits directly from sellers, which made sellers have long-standing grievances. Later, Boss Ma launched Taobao and directly threw out the slogan of free for life, and then sold eBay and eBay Everything you worked so hard for was taken away.
For such a company, Li Mu not only does not regard it as a potential rival, but is too late to love it. In his previous life, it was Boss Ma who stole the fruits, and it is time for him to take over in this life!
No matter what the status of the monthly votes and recommended votes is, my brother will still update three times today. I only hope to use this sincere heart to influence those of you who have a hard-hearted heart who voted but did not vote!
(End of chapter)