To Li Mu, Wei Lan was like a beautiful figure glimpsed through the car window during the journey. Although he often thought of it, it was only in his mind.
On the eve of the college entrance examination, Li Mu added a new thing to his already very busy work. He wanted to win down two theater chains in Yanjing that were interested in taking action.
Director Chen kept his word. After that meal, he helped Li Mu get in touch with the bosses behind the two theater chains. Director Chen also introduced the current situation of these two theater chains to Li Mu last time. The theater chain's income was not optimistic. And it happens to be the time when cinema hardware upgrades require a lot of investment. If no one is willing to take over, they can only bite the bullet and comprehensively upgrade their theater chains. After the upgrade, they can still look forward to the future. The film market is constantly heating up. If you don’t upgrade, you’ll lose everything.
The bosses behind the two theater chains are all businessmen in the cultural industry. This is a very special group. This group does not like to be called "boss" or "general manager" or "director" by others. They like to be called "boss" or "director". Known as so-and-so’s “teacher”, he likes to pretend to be calm and calm while pursuing profits. On the surface, he vows to draw a clear line with all businessmen who are arrogant and full of copper odor. In his heart, his desire for money exceeds this. The vast majority of them.
Director Chen did not disclose Li Mu's identity, but just told the two of them that he had a friend who wanted to buy a theater chain, and hoped to bring everyone together to meet. The two of them readily agreed, but did not say that they were talking about business. , but asked Director Chen who the other party was and whether he was interested in meeting for tea first and exchanging cultural experiences.
After Director Chen said this back to Li Mu, Li Mu immediately made a decision in his heart: he would not come to the interview to acquire the theater business.
Li Mu likes to communicate with people who focus on the Internet, or on business, or on making money, but he doesn't like to deal with the so-called "people in the cultural circle" who talk nonsense under the banner of literature and art. There are many people in this circle who say congratulations to you when they meet during the day. A new book has sold 100,000 copies. He goes home and stays up late at night to sign up for a lot of vests. He goes to Dangdang.com to write negative reviews and scold you for your poor writing and not being worth buying. He has no time to hide from this kind of circle and has no interest in meeting them. , so he immediately handed over this matter to Ding Zhenglin, a professional investor he had just hired from Sequoia.
Ding Zhenglin has been quite depressed recently. When he first joined Makino Technology, he was tricked by Li Mu into giving him an arduous task: to acquire Flashget Internet Express. Ding Zhenglin made two trips to Chang'an in the past few days. Not to mention the acquisition, he was waiting for Yantang. I haven't met him in person, because Hou Yantang said that he has been busy playing Miracle MU recently and has no time to talk to him.
No matter how good a negotiator is, there will be times when he fails. For a technical madman like Hou Yantang who is incompetent, there is no room for Ding Zhenglin’s advantages to be used. It’s like a singing master who bursts into tears when facing a There is nothing you can do when you are deaf.
Ding Zhenglin returned home in defeat, but he did not give up immediately. He said that he had registered a Miracle MU account in the past few days and went to find Hou Yantang in the game. Li Mu only found it interesting. For a reborn person like him, He had long known that it was basically impossible for Ding Zhenglin to fix Hou Yantang, but Ding Zhenglin obviously didn't think so. He felt that he still had a chance, and he would make other attempts.
Li Mu called Ding Zhenglin, who was using the Shemale account to access Miracle MU, to his office. At first, he did not explain his true intention to come to him, but asked him with a smile: "Old Ding, what have you been busy with recently?"
Ding Zhenglin said: "I'm busy finishing the Internet Express matter."
Li Mu asked him with a smile on his face: "How is it going?"
Ding Zhenglin answered truthfully: "There is no progress yet, but I will work hard."
Li Mu nodded and said deliberately: "The founder of Internet Express is very difficult to deal with. If it doesn't work, don't take advantage of him. His products won't have much effect on us for a while."
"Really?" Ding Zhenglin said: "I have deliberately downloaded a bunch of downloading software in the past few days and tried it. I found that Internet Express is indeed the best one to use, and the user response has always been very good. I think if this software Being able to become a part of our YY software group means a lot to YY users."
Li Mu looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why, are you still studying this?"
Ding Zhenglin nodded and said seriously: "I didn't study very deeply, but after studying it, I still admire Hou Yantang very much. He worked on Internet Express alone and made this software an industry leader." First, the latest version of Internet Express even supports a very cool new technology.”
Li Mu frowned and asked, "What new technology is so awesome?"
Ding Zhenglin said: "Resumable downloading means that when you download something, the network is interrupted, and you can continue downloading on the original basis after reconnecting to the Internet..."
Li Mu said with a smile: "What's so difficult about this? A considerable number of Makino Technology's technical staff should be able to use Visual-Basic to independently develop this function."
Ding Zhenglin chuckled and said, "Although we have this capability, we have not yet realized this product."
Li Mu frowned slightly and nodded gently with a serious look on his face.
Indeed, if you let technicians talk about many product functions, it is easy to come to the conclusion: a certain product is just mediocre. For example: What's so great about Shake on WeChat? Isn't it just a little trick based on hardware such as gravity sensors and gyroscopes
However, many people ignore one point when discussing this issue. The function implementation is very simple, but why didn't they become the one who created it
What is the greatest industrial design in human history? In fact, it is a round wheel. This seems to be an extremely simple principle. However, in the million-year history of mankind, the history of the wheel is less than 10,000 years. If you just look at it from the perspective of future generations, you are smart. It is a bit irresponsible to say that the principle of the wheel is too simple.
Li Mu suddenly felt that although he had a strong technical team under him, he lacked a product team that truly knew how to think proactively. Since starting his business, he has basically raised his own requirements for every product and every nuanced function. This is equivalent to overdrawing the knowledge about the future stored in your mind in advance.
Take YY as an example. If one day I don’t have time to take care of it, will it stagnate, or will a strong product manager replace me and lead it to continue? After all, for an Internet company, innovation is the primary productive force.
Thinking of this, Li Mu made up his mind to cultivate enough innovation awareness in Makino Technology's technical team, starting with the breakpoint resume function mentioned by Ding Zhenglin.
Seeing that Li Mu hadn't spoken for a long time, Ding Zhenglin asked tentatively: "Mr. Li, did I say the wrong thing?"
Only then did Li Mu come back to his senses and said hurriedly: "No, no, by the way, I came to you to tell you something. Let's not pay attention to the Internet Express thing for the time being. I want to acquire two theater lines. Please help me talk to the other party."
Ding Zhenglin nodded and asked him: "Mr. Li, can you introduce the specific situation?"
Li Mu said truthfully: "Actually, I don't know the specific situation. It's probably that the two theater chains are facing the problem of hardware upgrades, but they are not making money, so the bosses behind the scenes may still be hesitant. For them, the theater chains are now somewhat It’s useless, so I hope you can help me acquire these two theater chains. I have only one request: to acquire all these two theater chains as quickly as possible at the lowest possible price.”
Ding Zhenglin said: "Then tell me the names of the two theater chains, and I will find out more about their current book income."
Li Mu said: "China Film and New Film have joined forces with these two companies."
"OK!" Ding Zhenglin said: "Let me find out the situation of these two theaters as soon as possible. When do you want me to talk to them?"
Li Mu said: "Go and find out first, come to me when you are fully prepared, and I will make arrangements."
"good!"
After Ding Zhenglin left, Li Mu found Kong Lingyu again and told him that he was inspired by Ding Zhenglin's casual words in the office just now, and said: "You see, the function of resuming interrupted transmission can be used effectively by most people." For VB developers, it is not really difficult, but none of us have thought about how this technology can be applied in our product line. Although there is no download tool in our product line, we YY itself also has a file transfer function, but currently YY’s file transfer function does not support resumed downloads. Why didn’t our product team think of developing this function?”
Kong Lingyu’s main responsibility now is to supervise and lead the work of the entire technical product department. He has rarely touched development. In addition, during this period, YY has no competitors. Not only is it the best, but it is also the leader in the competition. The only racehorse.
Even Li Mu himself has not urged YY to upgrade its products recently, so everyone has unknowingly shifted the focus of related work from development to operations. The technical staff are not thinking about how to develop new product functions, but how to Let YY be more smooth and stable on the existing basis. Because of this, everyone has ignored the work of product development, and the status has changed from conquering the country to defending the country.
Kong Lingyu himself felt a little ashamed and said to Li Mu: "This is my dereliction of duty. I will organize a meeting immediately to emphasize the importance of product development and innovation to everyone."
"We must remedy the situation as soon as possible and raise everyone's awareness of innovation. If the awareness of innovation is still so poor, I think you should just go down to the product department and train for a while." Li Mu knew in his heart that Kong Lingyu had indeed neglected his duty in this matter, so his tone It's also quite harsh.
Kong Lingyu nodded: "I will definitely deal with it as soon as possible."
Li Mu snorted and said, "I suddenly thought of a problem. Although YY has no competitors now, except for its popularity in the mainland market, YY has not become mainstream in other regions at all, and there are even no users at all. We also have traditional Chinese versions, as well as English, French, German and Spanish versions. Why are there so few overseas users? Why are most of the only overseas users overseas Chinese?"
(End of chapter)