After returning home, Li Mu, who had been busy all day, felt extremely tired. He always said not to work hard and to take it slow, but when things were piling up, nothing could be lost or lost.
Li Mu now finally understands why the CEO and richest man of Wanda in his previous life had such a hurried lifestyle. He would get up at around six o'clock every day, arrive at the company at around seven o'clock, have a meeting in the morning, take a private plane to another city at noon, and go to another city in the afternoon. He attends an event or holds a meeting in one city. When it gets dark at night, the private plane takes him to a third city. He still has to continue working when he gets there. It may be one or two in the morning when he goes to bed, and then he hastily After five or six hours of sleep, it's another busy day when I wake up.
Li Mu is not yet at the level of the richest man, but there are still a lot of things going on. Any corporate CEO who wants to expand his business, build an industrial chain, or build an ecological chain is basically very busy, and so is Li Mu. Similarly, Makino Technology is an industrial chain and an ecology; Taobao is an industrial chain and an ecology. In the previous life, these two industrial chains were super aircraft carriers with a level of 200 billion US dollars. Now I have to be at the helm alone. Naturally I was so tired that I felt like vomiting.
But he had no choice.
Li Mu also finally understood why so many billionaires, even super rich people with tens of billions or hundreds of billions, still work so hard, because the higher they reach their level, the more they have to work hard. In the entire market, They are all enemies who regard themselves as their biggest competitors. They are always surrounding themselves and looking for the weaknesses exposed in themselves. As generals who stick to their positions and expand territories, a billionaire must also continue to expand and expand. Only by improving your own strength can you become invincible.
The business world is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. If Tengxun just holds QQ, then it is impossible for it to become bigger and stronger.
Mr. Ma must always maintain the highest strategic sensitivity and expand his strength to resist various enemies, so he can do QQ game hall, QQ game, QQ space, QQ show, QQ mailbox, Tencent TM, QQ network, WeChat, not to mention Will invest in a lot of various companies, including film and television companies, entertainment companies, ticketing companies, e-commerce companies, software companies and even search companies.
All of this is not because of greed, but because of the strategic layout necessary to maintain its position. It is precisely because of the strong strategic layout and strong ecological closed loop that it is possible to become a giant.
Otherwise, why is there no 360 among the giant Chinese companies? A piece of software can also achieve hundreds of millions of installed base, but its ecosystem cannot be compared to Tengxun. Therefore, their valuation in overseas capital markets in 2016 was only about 10 billion U.S. dollars, which was only about 20 points of Tengxun. One of the biggest reasons is that ecology is not on the same scale at all.
The importance of ecology is not only in offense, but also in defense. Let’s use a very marginal industry as an analogy: Why does Teng Xun want to build QQ Music? In addition to occupying some music users, what else does QQ Music do
In fact, its effect is great.
As long as Tengxun's entire ecosystem is related to music, it needs QQ Music to support it.
Space background music; log background music; personal talk about sharing music, Tengxun Weibo sharing music, or a song that you want to recommend to friends directly through QQ or WeChat, or share in the circle of friends, these music-related user behaviors , all supported by QQ Music.
What if Tengxun doesn’t have QQ music business? Then their users’ needs for music will need to be solved by other competitors’ products. Not only will Tengxun’s user experience be affected, the key is that their own platform will become a channel for other platforms to raise users. NetEase Cloud Music encourages itself here users share with each other, how can Tengxun sit back and watch the music sharing in the circle of friends only using the support of NetEase Cloud Music and Xiami Music? The real solution is to build your own music support within your own ecosystem, allowing users to use their own music products within their own ecosystem, and even use their own music products within other ecosystems.
Just a music service with little profit margin has to fight like this, let alone those fields with huge profit margin, such as: travel, ticketing, group buying, e-commerce, O2O and sharing economy? For these big projects, Li Mu must ensure that he starts faster, more accurately, and more ruthlessly. Only in this way can he maintain his status as a giant.
There will never be a monopoly in the Internet industry, only crises. If you want to avoid crises, you must become a giant. And if you want to become a giant, you must be comprehensive in the core direction.
After reaching the level of a giant, you cannot relax for a moment. Once you find that your opponent has done something that you have not done, then you must do whatever it takes to get this business started and compete with the opponent, even if you spend a lot of money, even if you spend a lot of money. He himself has doubts about life, and he wants to spend time with the other party, just like the epic money-burning war between Didi and Kuaidi back then, it was a huge gamble.
Neither side can sit back and watch the other monopolize this market, so they have to keep throwing chips at each other to check and balance each other, and the chips will be thrown harder and harder until the chips on the table are too big and no one is willing to stop. The only solution is for both parties to sit down and have a chat. There are so many chips on the table now, including those from you, mine, and many outside bettors. It will not be good for anyone to continue to chip in. So let’s talk about it. Proportion, divide it up.
The same is true for Didi Kuaidi; the same is true for Youku Tudou; the same is true for 58 Ganji; and the same is true for Ctrip Qunar.
If Li Mu doesn't work hard now, doesn't immediately determine his absolute advantage and occupy the high ground alone, he will definitely encounter problems like this in some fields in the future.
If you spend money on yourself, someone else will spend money to fight against you, biting each other and restraining each other. This feeling is too passive.
What Li Mu wants to do is to directly establish the dominant position of QQ in instant messaging and Taobao in e-commerce. He does not dare to say that he will block all his opponents, but he must definitely ensure that he is at the top and let the remaining companies dominate. They would dig at each other's bowls and beat each other to death.
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While taking a shower, Li Mu took the opportunity to sort out the thoughts in his head. Currently, he has four areas where he must become a giant:
One is Makino Technology, an Internet pan-entertainment company with QQ as its core;
One is Taobao, an e-commerce enterprise with Taobao as its core;
One is Alipay, an online payment company with Alipay as its core
Finally, there is Taobao Logistics, an offline logistics enterprise with Taobao Logistics as its core.
In the previous life, Tengxun occupied the first point and part of the second and third points; Alibaba accounted for most of the second and third points; these two companies combined can occupy all 1, 2 and 3. It just fits Li Mu's current layout plan.
As for the fourth point, in my previous life, SF Express accounted for most of it. Now my own Taobao Logistics is also starting to start. With an early start and resource linkage, the rise of Taobao Logistics will definitely be around the corner. Once it takes off, the share of the domestic express delivery industry will definitely be high. Having lived a lifetime of SF Express, the status of the giant has basically been locked in advance.
After taking a shower and lying on the bed, Li Mu was afraid that he would continue to think deeply about this career development line, so the first thing he did when he lay down was to take out his mobile phone and call Su Yingxue.
It's almost eleven o'clock now, and Su Yingxue isn't asleep yet.
She also finished taking a shower early and lay on the bed waiting for Li Mu's call. Fortunately, Li Mu was not too busy to forget the call.
After receiving Li Mu's call, Su Yingxue's mood instantly improved a lot. As soon as she got up, she asked Li Mu with concern: "Are you lying down?"
"Yeah." Li Mu smiled slightly and said, "I just lay down after taking a shower. I'm a little tired. How about you?"
"I've been lying down for a while." Su Yingxue's voice was very low and gentle, almost whispering: "You should pay more attention to your body and don't work too hard."
Li Mu responded and said with a smile: "Okay, after I finish working for a while, I can relax a little faster."
Su Yingxue couldn't help but said: "You always say this, ever since you were busy. As a result, one thing happened after another, and you didn't feel relaxed. On the contrary, you became busier and busier."
At present, most of Li Mu's industries have been made public nationwide, so he no longer avoids taboos and directly said to Su Yingxue: "I invested 500 million in logistics, but in my opinion, this money is still a drop in the bucket. If the operation Well, if 500 million is thrown in, the logistics plate will start to spin first. If the operation is not good, 500 million may lead to a dead end, so it’s no good if you don’t pay attention.”
Su Yingxue hummed softly, hesitated for a moment, and said in a questioning tone: "After finally talking to me on the phone, please stop talking to me about work, okay?"
Li Mu felt ashamed in his heart and said hurriedly: "Okay, let's not talk about work."
Su Yingxue paused on the other end of the phone for a moment and asked him: "From the time I came back to now, do you miss me?"
Li Mu said without thinking: "I want to, of course I do." After saying that, Li Mu subconsciously wanted to add an explanation. Although he despised himself for always using being too busy as an excuse, it was indeed an objective fact that he was busy.
Unexpectedly, Su Yingxue didn't give him a chance to say a second sentence, and asked with a tingling tone in her voice for the first time: "Then tell me, what do you usually think of me?"
Li Mu has known Su Yingxue for so long, and the two have been together for so long. This is the first time that Su Yingxue speaks in this tone. Li Mu only feels as if her voice can transmit a different kind of current through the wireless signal, making him whole My body couldn't help but feel numb from the inside out.
Then, Li Mu said in a deliberately provocative tone: "I think there are many ways to think about you. Which one do you want to hear?"
Su Yingxue bit her lower lip on the phone, shy but mustering up the courage to ask him: "I want to hear what you think of me now."
(End of chapter)