Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 774 Hands-on (two in one)

On the afternoon of the second day in August, a flight from New York landed at Shencheng International Airport.

After a long flight, Fang Zhuo, who had taken a nap before landing, was in good spirits and in a good mood, although today's jet lag may not be as effective.

He sat in the car that Yi Kelai picked up from the airport, opened the domestic newspaper he bought in advance, and read it while whistling.

The first glance made him stunned for a moment, and he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. He was talking about domestic housing prices.

Well, the whole world is hot and cold.

Fang Zhuo only glanced at the headline, ignored the content on the front page, and turned to the second page. Seeing some reports on the world situation, he thought for a while, and soon saw more information on the next page. familiar name.

— Ma Dian's B2B Alibaba is likely to seek listing next year.

—— Penguin's QQ alumni compete fiercely with Xiaonei.

——With the rapid development of domestic e-commerce, B2C companies such as Tesco, Amazon, and Dangdang are all deploying logistics and warehousing. Penguin is making efforts on the C2C track, forming a close siege with Taobao and eBay.

——The electrical appliance chain market is developing rapidly. The leader, Suning, intends to acquire Yongle Electric Appliances to continue consolidating its market position.

Fang Zhuo felt cordial just seeing these words, it was the breath of old friends.

But when he read the last report about sports, saw the Stankovic Intercontinental Basketball Champions Cup and the name of Yao Ming, he still frowned, and then called the general manager of the team, asking for negotiations at the team level , this kind of small game is enough to train other young players in the country, why add burden to Yao Ming?
The car stopped and went, and arrived at Hang Lung 23 at four o'clock in the afternoon.

When the boss returned, the new employees responded with curious eyes, while the old employees congratulated the Rockets for defending the title this year.

Fang Zhuo greeted with a smile all the way, and also gave a high-five to the deputy director of a die-hard fan of the team.

After sitting in the president's office, he hesitated for two seconds and still decided to make a pot of good tea, and then he started to deal with a serious matter that he should do when he came back—congratulations to Qiu Lanhua in the new district for her promotion, and by the way, ask if there is a suitable job here in Shencheng. Policy to settle in Ice Core with Sony's image sensor production line.

Judi Qiulanhua, an old leader, has had a tortuous experience, but no matter what, he has been ranked in the city this time. According to the usual practice, if the next step is to leave Shencheng smoothly, it may be to work in other provinces.

If he could reach this level, Fang Zhuo would no longer be able to call him a "little official".

Judy received a congratulatory call from Mr. Fang, but she acted very calmly.

This time, not only was he promoted, but also Zheng Danrui, whom he had a good relationship with, also added to the burden. This will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the development of the next work, but Mr. Fang is more slippery, last time he nodded to himself , and then went abroad directly during this period of time...

Judy seriously suspects that Mr. Fang has ulterior motives for going abroad.

But even if we had known each other for a long time, he would not ask this question. He just extended a warm welcome to Bingxin's production line, and after two days of appointments, he set up a team to have a preliminary chat.

At the end, Judy couldn't help asking a question: "Why does Mr. Fang think of leaving good things to us this time? According to your urination, shouldn't you go to Luzhou immediately?"

"Tsk, it's different after being promoted, and you actually use words like this to attract investment." Fang Zhuo first teased, then seriously, "I've already looked for it, and Luzhou is also very happy, but it's true that the finances are running out of money. The core project has made them try their best to spend the budget, and then BOE came, oh yes, BOE’s money was also transferred from me.”

He continued: "After thinking about it, I still feel that I need to support the work of the old leader. Of course, it also depends on the sincerity of the old leader."

The sensor production line in cooperation with Sony is less sensitive to the advanced level of process technology, and because it is a joint venture, it is more convenient for a considerable number of Japanese engineers to be placed here in Shanghai.

Considering various factors, Fang Zhuo is inclined towards Shencheng. If Shencheng is colder, then he will go to Lin'an again. Anyway, it is a comparison of several hometowns.

Judy was not depressed by Mr. Fang's straightforwardness, and pondered for a while: "I didn't expect Luzhou to be so willing to spend money and give policies so much, and it has indeed improved. Speaking of which, when we talked about Bingxin's cooperation , I should go to the leader a few more times, and squeeze out more favorable policies.”

Fang Zhuo said with a smile: "People are soft-spoken, you can't squeeze it at that time."

Judy: "..."

He suddenly said: "Oh! It's because I can squeeze now, right?"

Fang Zhuo laughed like a friend. Bingxin's project cooperation is indeed discussed with leaders higher than Lao Qiu everywhere he goes.

"Mr. Fang, since there is such a production line, don't go out to flirt with each other. You must wait until we have a final discussion here in Shencheng. Whether it is me or Leader Zheng, we will work hard." Judy gave a manner.

Fang Zhuo expressed his loyalty for the next period of time.

A pleasant phone call ended, and a report on the recent situation in Yike's country was also presented on the table.

The music player market has been completely corrupted. This is not an environmental problem that can be solved by one company. At present, there are only two companies with the most influence in China. Not to mention the independent subsidiary Yibu. One is the cooperation with Sina. World of Warcraft game forum, the second is Yike Investment.

Compared with the booming e-commerce of Yibu, Yike is indeed a bit miserable in China.

During this period of time, whenever the media mentions the richest man in the mainland, the label of Yike is gradually fading, and the two labels of "e-commerce" and "e-buy" are becoming more and more conspicuous. It is generally believed that Yike focuses on promoting the development of e-buy , is indeed a good move.

As for the mobile phone project announced by Yike... Compared with the popular Nokia, Sony Ericsson and many counterfeit phones in the domestic market, there is really not much discussion and expectation.

Fang Zhuo can roughly feel this situation from the report and the news, but he doesn’t think it is disobedient. Yike, Yigou, Bingxin, and Yike are all good. They are all companies that are worthy of his pride. Oh yes, and Sina , are all proud, what is the difference.

Until the end of working hours, the president's office was quite quiet.

Fang Zhuo skimmed through various reports, and also saw the more detailed data angle competition from Xiaonei and QQ alumni.

Since Xiaonei had the support from giants, it has entered the fast lane of development after a little run-in. It didn’t take too much time to grow from 80 users to 200 million and 500 million users. College students have a group-style spontaneous publicity .

However, QQ alumni relying on Penguin is not far behind. Although it uses the convenient login of QQ account, it does not import too much traffic hastily. College student groups.

When Xiaonei announced that the number of users exceeded 500 million, QQ alumni also safely announced that their users exceeded 300 million.

Although the number of users of QQ Alumni seems to be quite different from that of Xiaonei.com, it is very sure and stable, giving people the feeling that it is particularly comfortable.

This not only made Wang Xing, Wang Gaofei and other senior officials of Xiaonei network feel quite pressured, but other similar competing companies... died.

5Q, which cooperated with Penguin, was quietly acquired by the former, Fudan’s “Fubei”, National People’s University’s “eDorm”, Sun Yat-sen University’s “Yiyou”, Beihang’s “looface”, Stanford returnee doctor’s “Breakthrough Exercise”... and other various campus SNS social networking sites all failed and annihilated within two months.

One is capital. For example, the customer acquisition cost of Xiaonei.com is 1 yuan per user. The website has not tried to make commercial profits. The more users, the greater the loss. The grassroots team simply cannot afford this kind of capital cost.

The second is confidence. When Yike and Sina supported Xiaonei.com, and Penguin built its own QQ alumni, as the reputation of these two brands and the continuous development of users, the morale of several companies collapsed first, and they felt that there was no way to compete with the giants. compete.

Under such circumstances, the campus SNS track will soon only be left with Xiaonei and QQ alumni.

Different from the brief reports on the media pages, Fang Zhuo's reports were much more detailed, and he read them with more interest.

After get off work, he was married to Mr. Su Wei and Xiao Biesheng, and he still discussed this matter with great interest.

"I read Wang Xing's report, they have been observing Penguin's movements, and found that the development of QQ alumni has also hesitated and wavered."

"On June 6th, QQ alumni quietly relaxed the login requirements for QQ accounts and no longer required additional authentication, but only the next day, this action was turned off again."

"QQ alumni are trying their best to be patient and follow the development path of Facebook and Xiaonei to use the real-name system. They even resist using the huge traffic database around them. This is quite surprising to me."

Fang Zhuo mainly found this interesting.

Su Wei said lazily: "Maybe it's because I'm afraid of getting lost, but I think that if QQ alumni still can't catch up with the school intranet in the future, it will definitely import huge traffic. After all, it turns out that its efforts can't offset it." The first-mover advantage of Xiaonei.”

Fang Zhuo smiled slightly, thinking about singing a high-pitched social acquaintance at the right time.

Sina's Wang Yan and others have been silently preparing for Weibo after returning to China. First, they want to connect with blog resources as much as possible, and second, they want to attract celebrity resources from various sources, including but not limited to Yike Music and Sohu Entertainment.

Weibo focuses on socializing with strangers, which is just different from QQ alumni and Xiaonei.

Fang Zhuo was very curious about Penguin's reaction after seeing Weibo, whether to continue to develop QQ alumni or follow them to engage in micro-innovation?

Such moments of choice can often show the interestingness of the business logic behind it.

If you can add a backstab, it will be more interesting.

Fang Zhuo pondered for a while, only to feel that Xiao Bie was better than a newlywed, and Xiao Su was more attractive.

Silent all night.

Fang Zhuo was not very busy on the second day after returning to China, and yesterday's jet lag was not good. Today, he took his time and talked with Mr. Bingxin Qiu about Liang Mengsong's technical route, and discussed tomorrow's negotiation with Shencheng leaders.

Both of them felt that Shencheng had SMIC as the leader, and Bingxin was not the first brother to cooperate with the government, so everyone tried to discuss this matter as efficiently as possible.

When it was time to get off work, Fang Zhuo had a conversation on the phone with his parents who had returned to his hometown. In the evening, he went to see the family of Zhou Xin, Yu Lanyu, and Zhou Keke.

Except for the fact that little Keke wet Fang Zhuo's pants and caught him off guard, the dinner was very enjoyable.

On the second night after returning to China, a small farewell to work, Xiaosu is touching.

Another night of nothing.

On the third day after returning to China, the cooperation negotiation with the leaders of Shanghai City went very smoothly.

Fang Zhuo talked about the significance of this production line in cooperation with Sony. On the one hand, it can bring the possibility of technology introduction, and on the other hand, it really has a pioneering role in the domestic CMOS field.

Before he went to Tokyo for inspection, it was very difficult to find two experts in this field in China. To be honest, there are too many technical fields that need to be caught up. happy.

In this negotiation, my brother Zheng Danrui was present, and the old leader Judy was present, but the tone of communication with each other was more formal.

That is to say, at the reception in the evening, Fang Zhuo smiled and toasted these two two glasses of wine. It can be said that the deep friendship is in the wine, so there is no need to say more.

The work on the fourth day is still to continue to talk about the project’s landing cooperation, because it involves Japanese engineers, government investment, and bank loans, so things need to be clarified, but generally there is a good consensus within a framework.

In the evening of this day, the government and the enterprise plan to have dinner together.

However, just as Fang Zhuo walked out of the conference room, secretary Liu Zonghong hurried forward and announced an unexpected news in a low voice.

——Lehman Brothers, a well-known American investment bank, issued a short-selling report on Yike, a listed company.

Lehman Brothers?Short Yike?
Fang Zhuo was at a loss when he heard the news.

Which Lehman Brothers?

Is it the Lehman Brothers that went bankrupt in the financial crisis?

Lehman, you don't want to bankrupt your property well, what are you doing here, brother?
Is it because of the small friction with the head of Lehman Fuld at the NYE charity dinner?
But... the friction is too small!

As for Ford?

The bewilderment in Fang Zhuo's heart turned into ridicule.

It’s okay for others to short Yike, this Lehman, this Lehman...

President Yike stopped and remained silent.

The secretary Liu Zonghong guessed the boss's mood while his heart was heavy, and he continued to say the second news after a few seconds: "Mr. Fang, Yike's stock price fell by 3% in response. Mr. Yu called just now. Come here, but you didn't answer because you were in the conference room, do you want to go back?"

Fang Zhuo waved his hand and said in a deep voice, "No hurry, where is Lehman's report?"

Liu Zonghong replied: "I just sent it to the mailbox, and I haven't analyzed it yet. The notebook is in the bag, Mr. Fang, at this time..."

Now it is time to discuss cooperation with the leaders of Shencheng, and it seems that bad news should not be known.

"Well, Lehman, ha, cough..." Fang Zhuo smiled unconsciously, and continued, "It's okay, I'll take a brief look in the car when I get off, Leader Zheng and Leader Qiu are familiar with each other, and I don't want to hide it. I can't hide it, it happens that if I cry and cry poor again, I can get us some more discounts."

Seeing the relaxed attitude of the boss, Liu Zonghong was relieved, but still a little heavy.

This is none other than the famous Lehman Brothers!
It is one of the top five investment banks on Wall Street!

The other party made such a move, it seemed to be menacing!
Can't help but worry about this!
(End of this chapter)