Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Although Lu Yiming's words were considered a joke, they were actually true to a certain extent.

In fact, eBay has really made an indelible contribution to the rise of Xiaguo's e-commerce industry.

Just look at the timeline.

EBay acquired eBay in July 2003 and entered Xiaguo, while Taobao was just established in May of the same year.

In 2006, eBay sold the entire business in the Greater China region, cut off the meat and left, almost tantamount to admitting its own failure, although it has not admitted it with its mouth, maybe it is shy.

In this year, Taobao, which defeated eBay, became the largest shopping website in Asia. Nearly 900 million people "shopping" on Taobao every day. Online shopping has also become an indispensable part of Xia Guo people's life.

One year later, Taobao.com was no longer a simple shopping website, but the largest online retail business in Asia, with an annual turnover exceeding 1 billion, making it the second largest comprehensive store in Xiaguo.

The fertile soil cultivated by Yi Beixin was so handed over to others. In the prehistoric period, Whitman might be able to become a saint immediately with such humanitarian merit.

Seeing Lu Yiming's relaxed and contented expression when talking about this matter, Li Quanwang couldn't help but asked again curiously: "I don't understand, how did Taobao win?"

Lu Yiming said as a person who experienced it personally: "In fact, the whole process can be called magical. You must know that at the beginning of the war between the two sides, Jack Ma from Taobao almost believed that he would die at that time, and his mood was similar to that of Boss Cao on the eve of the Guandu battle. The opponent is also rich and powerful, with many soldiers and generals. Have you heard the saying that in the face of absolute power, any conspiracy is a paper tiger."

Li Quanwang said: "That's right, isn't there no chance of winning this Taobao?"

Lu Yiming changed his tone and said with a smile: "But there is another saying, that is, if you don't die, you won't die. The Yibei boat turned around in a catastrophe. Facing the emerging market of Xia Guo, it will not adjust its strategy, and it is slow to respond. The previous experience is applied mechanically here. Failure can be said to be doomed from the very beginning. Its hugeness is only apparent, like a giant that can only be raised with a balloon, but in fact it bursts with a poke."

In the situation where as long as you don't make mistakes, you will win, eBay can be said to be confused.

eBay requires a fee for the product to be put on the shelves, and a fee if the transaction is successful, and PayPal must be used as the payment method.

And the most coquettish thing is that PayPal not only charges a handling fee for receiving money, but also charges a handling fee for cash withdrawal!
This move can be called a highway tollbooth in the online payment industry. You will be charged once when you get on the expressway, and you will be charged again when you get off the expressway.

Not to mention that you paid for the repair of the expressway, and you also managed the management. As a result, not only did you not get paid, but you also had to pay the company.

The really outrageous mother opened the door for Outrageous, and Outrageous arrived home.

On this point, eBay is destined to be beaten on the ground by completely free local e-commerce brands.

Look at the homepage of eBay, it is completely designed according to the preferences of Westerners. The foreigners in this company do not understand Xia Guo people and Xia Guo culture at all, and they are too lazy to understand. This kind of arrogant attitude is also doomed. Will bend down and listen to the voice of the user.

In terms of user experience, eBay was beaten again by Taobao.

With the superposition of two key factors, if eBay can still win, it is estimated that it can only rely on the manifestation of God.

Hearing such an answer, Li Quanwang was also a little confused: "Ah? That's it?"

At that time, the newspapers bragged about how amazing and powerful eBay was, like a raptor crossing the river, and it seemed that just a sneeze could knock Taobao to death.

It turned out to be a good thing, Taobao knocked him down on the ground and exploded his hammer, making him unable to fight back.

Lu Yiming said: "This is the big company's illness. If it is an ordinary technology company, it can crush weak challengers by relying on monopoly patents and capital advantages, but the Internet is different. The iteration speed of this industry is very fast. You If you can’t keep up with the pace, it may not take a year, but you will be finished in a few months. Ebay has used its own arrogance as a price, and has become a bloody reference for other Internet peers. There is a saying: Weakness and ignorance are never obstacles to survival , arrogance is. This sentence is very suitable for eBay."

Li Quanwang was shocked: "Huh? EBay, with a market value of tens of billions of dollars, is it gone?"

Lu Yiming smiled and said: "That's not the case. With such a large volume, it will take time to completely disappear. EBay may continue to exist, but the momentum of development must be gone. The future achievements will be limited, and it may not take a few years. , and the market value has shrunk to the point where it cannot be seen.”

Li Quanwang said with emotion: "It turns out that the Internet industry is so dangerous. When I was in the beautiful country, I often heard people say how strong Microsoft's crisis awareness is, and it is only [-] months away from bankruptcy. Good guy, Internet companies are afraid. We're only eighteen weeks away from bankruptcy."

Lu Yiming also felt sorry for him: "Almost, the Internet is changing very quickly. Maybe the world will change a lot when you wake up. In the past two years, haven't many companies closed down? Always be vigilant and humble. Nothing in this world is too big to fail.”

When Lu Yiming and Li Quanwang returned home after dinner, Shi Qingxue rushed over, hugged Lu Yiming's waist and said, "Lu Yiming, I want to take the postgraduate entrance examination."

Lu Yiming was immediately very surprised. Logically speaking, Shi Qingxue had no worries about food and clothing, and Furi graduated from a university. This condition can be regarded as a heavenly girl in this era.

The most important thing is that due to the influence of her previous family, Shi Qingxue's grades are very average, which is not enough for undergraduates, and she was able to study at Furi University because Lu Yiming brought her there.

To be able to graduate smoothly is already considered her hard work.

After all, she almost spent four years in college to relearn the content from childhood to adulthood.

Lu Yiming pinched Shi Qingxue's nose, and asked with a smile, "Why do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination all of a sudden?"

Shi Qingxue said distressedly: "It's boring. I used to study very fulfillingly in college, but now I don't know what to do after graduation. My mother asked me to work as an assistant at Shijinji and do some secretarial work. It’s so monotonous and boring, it’s not as interesting as reading a book, so I wanted to take a research exam.”

Lu Yiming can understand Shi Qingxue's thoughts very well. In fact, many people who take the postgraduate entrance examination in later generations are not purely for researching something, but for continuing to hide in the ivory tower of the school to escape the pressure of real life.The postgraduate entrance examination is indeed very hard, but survival is much harder than the postgraduate entrance examination.

But Shi Qingxue has no pressure to survive, it's simply because she is too rich and doesn't know what to do to appear boring.

Lu Yiming didn't need Shi Qingxue's high business skills, it would actually be good to read more books.

He joked, "Then you are a graduate student, aren't you more educated than me?"

Shi Qingxue coquettishly rubbed Lu Yiming's chest back and forth, and said, "Will you support me?"

Lu Yiming smiled and stroked the hair on her forehead, and said dotingly: "If you want to study, you can, but you really want to take the postgraduate entrance examination? I heard it is very tiring."

Shi Qingxue said: "I think it's okay. I really like literature as a major now. I feel so happy reading."

Without the pressure of life, reading is indeed a very happy thing, and the older I get, the more I can understand this.

After a pause, Shi Qingxue continued: "By the way, I've been reading that online novel recently. It's so interesting. I can't stop reading it every day. Hey, it's those authors who suddenly stopped writing while writing, saying I have to go out to work and earn money, and it makes me feel like I can’t go up or down, it’s so uncomfortable.”

Speaking of online novels, Lu Yiming's thoughts immediately drifted away.

When I just graduated from university, whenever I came home from the company, I would pass the time by reading online novels.

What I read is still the kind of big book that is bigger than A4 paper and the characters are smaller than a mosquito. There are several million words in one book.

There is also the kind that is two or three centimeters thick, with similar covers, and the kind that says Dunhuang Publishing House or Yellow River Publishing House, and there are four or five copies at a time.

The most outrageous thing Lu Yiming has read is a book called "Start from Zero", which has published more than 30 copies in one go, which is convincing.

And Lu Yiming's enlightenment textbook is a book called "YY: Gorgeous Three Kingdoms" written by an author named Bule Wuyu.

Lu Yiming learned his craft from that book.

In the future web literature market, although the income of this industry is not very high for Lu Yiming, it is a very important industry in itself.

Not to mention the cultural attributes of the novel, if it is done well, it can also produce a blockbuster work, and then follow the path of film and television adaptation.The success of Hollywood in the beautiful country is not only due to its strong technical strength, but also various excellent scripts are also an indispensable part of the film industry.

On the other hand, domestic literary creation can't be said to be a pool of stagnant water, but it can't be called a wave.

Traditional literature is basically dying out, leaving a group of ghosts and goblins messing around, and Lu Yiming is too lazy to take care of this mess, but online literature can still be done.

Moreover, Shi Qingxue likes to read novels, and Lu Yiming also wants her to have her own career, so that she won’t have to spend all day thinking about it, so she immediately smiled and said: "Since this is the case, let's open a novel website by ourselves, and let those Authors come to our website to write books, can’t you read books happily?”

"Fiction site?"

Shi Qingxue was surprised.

Then moved.

In order to make her read books happily, Lu Yiming even opened a website and asked writers to come and write books for her to read!

At once……

Very domineering president!

Aside from being moved, Shi Qingxue was still very sober: "But I don't want it anymore? It costs a lot of money to open a novel website, right? Now reading books doesn't cost money. I just need to read a few more books. There are always a few that I don't need." Do you work to support yourself and then come to write a book?"

In the era when Lu Yiming was crazily reading online novels, online novels have generally implemented a VIP subscription system. Readers spend money to read their favorite novels, and authors can get subscription share. In addition to the website's creation subsidies, an average of 6000 readings can be obtained. , Update more diligently, the income of [-] yuan a month is not a problem, it is much more comfortable than going to the factory to drive screws.

Lu Yiming smiled and said, "Isn't it good to let talented people earn money by writing books? I can design a salary system so that talented authors can not only do what they like, but also make a lot of money with this skill." .”

"Is this really okay?" Shi Qingxue expressed doubts: "You didn't do it to comfort me, did you?"

Lu Yiming said confidently, "Are you doubting my ability?"

"Hey, that's not true."

"Really? No, I still have to let you have a deeper understanding of my abilities."

After finishing speaking, Lu Yiming picked up Shi Qingxue by the waist and walked towards the bedroom.

In the evening, Shi Qingxue sent a message in the QQ group of Furi University Literature Club.

"I want to open an online literature website."

As soon as the message was sent out, someone in the group quickly responded.

"Internet literature site? What's that?"

"Sister, are you going to start a company?"

"Wow, COOL!"

"Recently, I just got into online literature."

"I've read a lot of novels recently, but those people stopped writing them halfway through, which made me want to write them myself."

In the literature club, Shi Qingxue was definitely a celebrity.

No way, her boyfriend is the richest man in Asia, so it's hard for her to keep a low profile.

Shi Qingxue sent a laughing emoji, and said: "I was also very unhappy because those authors ran away halfway through writing. After discussing with Lu Yiming, he supported me to open a website. Is there any one of you who would like to go to the website?" I am here to be an editor, and you can sign up now. Those who want to write a book can also write it."

Immediately afterwards, Shi Qingxue sent a document to the group, saying, "This is an author welfare system that we drafted overnight. You can take a look."

This was made by Lu Yiming by copying the welfare system of a certain website before, and there are two types of contracts in total.

One is electronic sharing, that is to say, the author authorizes the electronic copyright to the website, and serializes updates on the website. If the word count exceeds 15 words, he can apply for a subscription fee, three points for a thousand words, and fifty-five points for the author and the website.In the first three months after it was launched, the website unconditionally issued a creative subsidy of [-] yuan.With an average subscription of more than [-] within three months of being on the shelves, the creation subsidy of [-] yuan can continue to be taken.

There is also a guaranteed share. The website signs a contract with the author at a price of no less than [-] thousand words. If the share income is lower than this price, it will be paid at this price.

After reading the author's welfare system, the people in the group were all excited.

"[-] yuan a month's creative subsidy?"

"It's not less than 100 thousand words, so won't I get 3000 yuan for writing [-] words a day? That's [-] yuan a month!"

No wonder they were shocked. The average monthly salary across the country is only 1170 yuan, which is still an average. The median may not be more than 800 yuan. For college students, a monthly income of [-] yuan is a relatively high salary.Even if you only get [-] full attendance, that's more than the national average monthly salary.

The most important thing is that from now on, writing online novels can make money!
This is a huge leap from zero to one!
Before that, online novels, no matter if they opened a website or wrote novels, were purely for love, with no income at all.

Only pirate booksellers make money.

In the era before Lu Yiming's rebirth, the development of online literature was already very mature, so it was not difficult for Lu Yiming to copy the framework and extract the essential.

In just two days, he listed the entire company's structure, including the technical department, audit department, editorial department, and legal department...

When Shi Qingxue raised her arms in the literary club, many people immediately expressed their willingness to come and become editors.

After all, those who can be admitted to Furi University have good learning ability.

Those who can join the Literary Club of Furi University must have a certain literary foundation and enthusiasm for literature.

With these two BUFFs, the starting point of the website's editorial lineup is very high.

Lu Yiming re-established a group and brought in all the people who were willing to be editors.

Including Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue in the group, there are a total of twenty people.

Lu Yiming jokingly praised: "Hi everyone, welcome everyone. From today onwards, everyone is a comrade in the trenches."

Being able to work under Lu Yiming, the richest man in Asia, is a very high starting point for these fresh graduates.

The group is very lively.

"Hi, rich man Lu!"

"I really didn't expect that I was just about to look for a job, and I was able to vote for Lu's richest man."

"Who said it wasn't? This job is perfect for me. I love reading and I love writing. There's nothing cooler in the world than being able to treat your hobby as a job."

Among the 18 people, there is Wu Mengmeng.

She said with some concern: "Lu Yiming, can we really do it? We have never done business before, so we won't lose money, right?"

Lu Yiming said confidently: "With me here, what are you afraid of? I have a lot of things like money, but I lack professionals like you and have no experience. Then go for training and do it with confidence. I will pay for the tuition. worthy."

None of the people who can enter Furi University is mediocre, as long as they are willing to give Wu Mengmeng and the others the opportunity to hone, sooner or later they will be able to become a leading general in their own right.

Now, it's still the pioneering era of online literature, it's just right to start cultivating your own team from now on!

Regarding the field of online literature, everyone is now crossing the river by feeling the stones. After all, the earliest online literature website was established in [-].

And the VIP system that allows online literature to flourish has not yet been implemented.

The most important thing is that on this track where everyone is feeling the stones to cross the river, Lu Yiming is a complete old fritter!
If all this can't lead to an elite team, Lu Yiming might as well find a stone and directly hit him to death.

Lu Yiming asked, "Who of you know about the website CMFU?"

This website was naturally the starting point that later occupied most of the web literature circle, but now it has only been established for less than half a year.However, its predecessor, the Fantasy Literature Association, was established in 2001.

"I seem to have heard of it."

"I have registered an account with them, and there is a book called 'The Wandering Toad' which is quite good. I am reading the serialization now. It seems to be called "Tian Peng Zong Heng"."

Of course, Lu Yiming is clear about this book. It is the first online novel that charges VIP fees, and it is destined to have a place in the history of online literature.

Wu Mengmeng asked: "Oh, by the way, Lu Yiming, what's the name of this website you opened?"