The day after Leader Lei joined Taobao, Li Mu left him alone on Taobao.
As for himself, after learning about the surge in overseas downloads of YY, he immediately rushed to Makino Technology and held an emergency meeting.
In the conference room, everyone was grinning from ear to ear. They did not think as much as Li Mu did, and they would not take the initiative to consider the ability of China's Internet industry to withstand the impact of overseas capital and peers. They devoted all their attention to Makino. As for technology, I only hope that Makino Technology will get better and better.
Li Mu's global popularity is equivalent to giving Makino Technology a huge publicity boost. In less than two days, many things have undergone fundamental changes.
So Li Mu temporarily put aside the main topics he wanted to discuss and listened to everyone's feedback on the current changes in various aspects.
First of all, Ding Zhenglin’s feedback is that capital is a little anxious. Six venture capital firms, including Sequoia and SoftBank, have given an intended valuation price of 20 billion yuan, 20 billion! Simply scary! And the highest one was Japan’s SoftBank, which gave an ultra-high quotation of 23 billion, and this was the intended valuation given by the capital side after Ding Zhenglin and the capital side made it clear that they wanted to split Makino Technology.
In other words, the current YY product system is worth a valuation of 20 billion in the eyes of capital. In just a few days, the market value has almost doubled.
There is no way, Li Mu is now almost a star who was underestimated before. Suddenly he appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and was nominated for an Oscar. His salary and endorsement fees skyrocketed overnight, and the market confidence doubled. Just like a stock that is particularly optimistic about the stock market, it has been hitting the daily limit since the day it opened and has been making rapid progress.
Li Mu was surprised, but suppressed his excitement and told Ding Zhenglin: "Continue to mediate. Now SoftBank has the highest bid. We must maintain ambiguity, or even deep ambiguity, with SoftBank to force Sequoia to give a better price. Or better conditions, my mentality is still inclined to take Sequoia’s money.”
Ding Zhenglin nodded and said excitedly: "Don't worry, Mr. Li, I will definitely get the best financing conditions for the company."
Later, technical core Fang Xudong told Li Mu: "Yesterday, I received more emails from Chinese friends and former colleagues in Silicon Valley. This time, Makino Technology's reputation has greatly increased in Silicon Valley. They all have the intention to return to China and join Makino Technology. If we take advantage of our current reputation in the US market and focus on recruiting high-end talents in Silicon Valley, we should be able to gain a lot."
Li Mu particularly agreed with this.
Who is working on the Internet but doesn’t know the importance of technology
Countless people who work on products and operations have come out to start their own businesses. What they lack most is a technical talent who is willing to start a business with them.
In order to find a suitable technology partner, countless entrepreneurs and start-up companies have spoken out through various channels, saying: "Everything is ready, all that is left is technology."
Whenever he saw such remarks, Li Mu scoffed. Damn it, you don't even have the skills, how dare you say that you have everything? You have shit!
Li Mu's heart aches when he thinks of the large number of Chinese talents in Silicon Valley. If he wants to make bigger and heavier products, he must have strong technical research and development capabilities. The best technical personnel in the world are basically all in Silicon Valley, and Silicon Valley was born. It has produced countless software and hardware products that will affect the world in the future, including several of the companies with the highest market value in the future world, Apple, Google, and Facebook, and the two major smartphone operating systems in the future world were all born in Silicon Valley, completely promoting the mobile Internet. The coming of age.
Li Mu’s current plan is that after the traditional Internet industry has gained a foothold, its leading competitors will begin to deploy the mobile Internet, and it must be a two-pronged approach of software and hardware to incorporate the mobile Internet into its kingdom in advance. As long as it can take the lead in the mobile Internet industry, Li Mu will I believe that Makino Technology will have the opportunity to become the pinnacle of the world's Internet industry within the next ten years.
Li Mu said: "I think it is necessary for us to organize a job fair, not in China, but in the United States and Silicon Valley. Not only should we hold a job fair, but we also need to establish our branches in Silicon Valley. Not only should we let Chinese talents return to China, We also need to bring in overseas talents. It may not be easy to invite Silicon Valley elites from the United States and India to China, but we can let them work for us in Silicon Valley."
Lin Qingya said: "Mr. Li, in order to promote the British version of "Farm" in the next step, we have registered a branch in the United States. It is just an empty shell now and can be launched in Silicon Valley at any time."
Li Mu said: "The previously registered branches will first be included in the territory of our game company. Next, we will quickly complete the company split and then raise funds."
As he spoke, Li Mu turned around and picked up a black whiteboard pen, writing on the whiteboard: "In the future, our Makino Technology will be split into four companies with independent capital. The first is Makino Technology, which corresponds to the entire YY ecosystem; "
"The second company is Makino Culture, which corresponds to the entire business line of Tieba, blogs and future blog derivative products;"
"The third company is Makino Interactive Entertainment, which corresponds to the client game entertainment system that we will re-launch next. In this business, I have plans to bring in my Baofeng Entertainment and re-integrate it into an overall game entertainment system. company;"
"The fourth company is Makino Imaging, which corresponds to our future strategic planning in film and television entertainment."
After saying this, Li Mu capped his pen, tapped the whiteboard with his pen, and said: "Once the split of these four companies is completed, we will quickly take two steps to establish an American branch under the Makino Technology system. The company will choose a location. Right in Silicon Valley; and then merge the previously registered U.S. branch into Makino Interactive Entertainment, and use the shell of this branch to promote "Happy Farm" overseas in the future."
Lin Qingya volunteered: "Mr. Li, leave it to me to take charge of recruiting in Silicon Valley and registering branches."
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile, "I'm going to let you go even if you don't tell me."
With that, Li Mu said to Kong Lingyu: "Starting today, immediately contact the server leasing company in the United States and quickly set up more overseas servers. Now our YY has begun to have more overseas users. The overseas servers we rented before The server capacity is limited and needs to be improved as soon as possible. If overseas servers cannot keep up, the experience will definitely not be able to keep up."
At present, YY has servers all over the world. This was originally to facilitate Chinese users around the world. Considering that the market space and the total number of overseas users were limited at that time, overseas servers were all rented. However, the carrying capacity is limited after all. , adding hundreds of thousands of new users is equivalent to adding tens of thousands of simultaneous online users, which has put a lot of pressure on the servers in North America. If they are not expanded quickly, they will soon be unable to bear the load.
Kong Lingyu immediately said: "Don't worry, Boss. When we were preparing to promote "Happy Farm" overseas, we had already communicated with server leasing companies overseas. We can remotely rent a batch of servers at any time to meet our initial needs. Now YY's The number of overseas users is not large, so it will definitely be no problem to satisfy them.”
"Leasing is definitely not a long-term solution." Li Mu said, "Let's do this. In the past few days, you will immediately organize a team dedicated to servers internally and send them to the United States to station for a long time. They will be responsible for the name of the American branch. Next, we will set up our own server. In the future, not only YY, but also "Happy Farm" will need sufficient and complete server support to ensure the best game experience. This work must be started as soon as possible."
Kong Lingyu nodded: "Then I will start preparations immediately."
Li Mu then said to Lin Qingya: "Our company is also relatively large, and we have branches in the United States. We are also engaged in the Internet industry. We will definitely have very deep interactions with the American market in the future. You should study the current business visa for the United States as soon as possible. The policy will provide our company with the greatest policy inclination, and it is best to ensure that all current employees of our company can successfully apply for visas after the company issues corresponding documents."
Lin Qingya said: "Then I will find out today."
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For Li Mu, the hundreds of thousands of new overseas users were almost entirely an unintentional windfall. But what he didn't expect was that this windfall would continue to expand!
Overnight, a new software tool became quietly popular among the American elite.
This "tool software" is YY.
Although YY itself is a pure instant messaging and social networking software, for the American elite, although this software has awesome communication and social functions, they do not use it for social networking.
The reason why it is not used for instant messaging and social networking is not that it is not easy to use, but that the American elite has been exposed to instant messaging software too early, much earlier than Chinese users, so they have already had it on MSN and ICQ for many years. Precipitated personal relationships. Although YY’s communication and social functions far exceed those of MSN and ICQ, it is too difficult to establish personal relationships on social software. It is difficult for anyone to change hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of friends at the same time. Using another software, this project is too huge and very difficult to execute, so even if YY is awesome, these elites only add their colleagues and partners who are also trying out YY.
Everyone tried YY because they saw media reports and wanted to see what kind of product Li Mu, who was regarded as one of the "top ten product managers in the world" by Silicon Valley media, had created. However, they did not expect that once they tried it, they immediately realized to its huge revolution in the office field!
In the eyes of the American elite, many additional functions of YY are simply unbelievable!
For example, its group function is simply the best choice for online discussions within the company and business projects. It not only supports text, pictures, but also supports file sharing. For these American elites, they have never been exposed to it. Such an efficient and fully functional group communication and document interaction platform;
For example, its file transfer function supports online transfer, resumed transfer, and most importantly, it also supports offline transfer!
In addition, what is even more awesome is YY’s unique streaming media transmission technology. Voice and video chat using YY are extremely smooth, and the picture and sound quality are outstanding. Even group voice and video communication between a few or more than a dozen people is smooth. Very smooth, this is awesome!
Because all companies in the United States that need to conduct video conference calls have all adopted specialized hardware solutions. This kind of terminal equipment, which is similar to a landline phone and is specially used for video calls, is not only expensive to purchase the equipment, but also very expensive to service. expensive.
However, video teleconferencing itself is an efficient productivity improvement solution. Even if the cost of terminal equipment is high, it is still favored by elite users in the United States. However, it is only now that everyone discovered, what the hell, what kind of bullshit terminal equipment ! A piece of software from Chinese people can achieve a video call effect that is not inferior to that of the other party!
The connection is easy and simple, and it is extremely easy to use. This is even more user-friendly than the terminal device! The transmission quality of images and audio is not inferior! The stability is no less impressive! What's even more awesome is that it can break through the limitations of dedicated terminal equipment. As long as you bring a laptop, you can participate in the company's video conference even if you are drinking coffee in Starbucks. This breakthrough makes mobile office more convenient!
More importantly, the video conference call service provided by this software is completely free! free! ! free! ! !
Coupled with other awesome functions, YY gives American elite users the feeling that this is no longer powerful, it is simply abnormally powerful, okay
All the American elites who are trying YY are discussing enthusiastically on the Internet in the United States:
Isn’t China’s Internet still at the level of the United States in the 1990s
How did they make such an awesome product
Is that twenty-year-old boy named Li Mu really the founder of YY
How did he come up with so many features that make people hate to see them so late? As a product manager, is this guy's thinking a little too forward
Not to brag, this guy not only has a great thinking model in terms of product functions, but also has superhuman strength in interface design, user experience and even visual friendliness! Compared with it, MSN and ICQ are not only difficult to use, but the interface is simply ugly! And YY's interface design is simply a product that is beyond this era, just like those concept cars launched by automobile manufacturers that will almost never be mass-produced, it is amazing!
It is precisely because of YY's superior product functions in office that the spread of YY among the elites in the United States began to spread. At first, it was only used in Silicon Valley. Later, financial elites on Wall Street also began to use it. Later, those in the Fortune 500 The working elite also began to try this "magic software" from China on the recommendation of partners.
YY's spark among the American elite has begun to burn on a large scale...
A big chapter of 4,000 words is presented. Also, the third update tonight, don’t leave!
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