Rebirth 98, the rise started from ripping off Microsoft

Chapter 798

"Old Zuo, is your wife okay?"

"Thank you cousin for your concern. I have already gone to Union Hospital to find a powerful chief physician, and my condition is finally under control."

The new driver Zuo Xingping, who was only half a year younger, was very grateful to Lu Yiming. He was a round older than Lu Yiming, but according to his seniority, he had to call Lu Yiming his uncle. He just retired from the army last year and joined the company relatively late, but in terms of security Level, that is definitely the most outstanding one among the bodyguards.

The key is that he is related to Lu Yiming, a proper "relative" who naturally has to take care of him.

Now that Lu Yiming's family has a big business, Zhao Tiezhu has also started to let it out. He has set up a security company and asked him to be the general manager in the past. From a driver to a company "boss".

Now that the relatives in the countryside saw him, they didn't dare to call him Tie Zhu like before, but had to address him as "Mr. Zhao".

So Lu Yiming's full-time driver and bodyguard was replaced by Zuo Xingping.

It's just that if this person is unlucky, drinking water will get stuck between his teeth. Zuo Xingping has just stabilized his work and wants to bring his wife who is still in the country to live in a big city so that he can live a better life. However, during the physical examination, it was found that she was seriously ill , so Zuo Xingping could only ask for leave and send his wife to the capital for medical treatment.

For the people around him, Lu Yiming was naturally generous, and directly covered the medical expenses, which was only a few hundred thousand, and he could not afford it. It was enough to buy the loyalty of his subordinates.

Back in Baiyun, as soon as he got off the plane, Lu Yiming started sweating from the heat wave: "This damn weather, it's almost November, and it's still so hot."

After a while, the shirt on his body was almost soaked.

Outside the airport, it was Qi Rong who drove to pick him up. This kid was waiting at the exit in a black suit and sunglasses. He had a cold face and looked like a stranger.

It wasn't until he saw Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue approaching from afar that he stepped forward and put on another expression: "Hello boss, hello boss lady."

"What kind of look do you have? Heichao SWAT?"

"Hey, I've seen bodyguards in movies acting like this, so I want to try it too."

Qi Rong touched the back of his head, and then rushed to help Lu Yiming and Shi Qingxue carry their luggage. Although he was still a bodyguard these years, his treatment was enough to beat many self-employed business owners, so he was loyal to Lu Yiming's side.

After getting into the car, Lu Yiming received a call from Li Yiwen even before his butt was warm.

"Hello, cousin?"

"Are you here yet?"

"Just got off the plane, what's the matter?"

"Well, there is indeed something I want to talk to you about, let's get together later."

"Okay, let's have dinner together tonight."

In the evening, when the air conditioner was blowing in the study, Lu Yiming poured Li Yiwen a cup of tea, and then asked, "What happened?"

"You should have heard about the blog, right?"

"Yes." Lu Yiming nodded, expressing his understanding.

Blog, which is a transliterated word, is called Blogger in English and is a portmanteau of Web Log. If it is really translated, it should be called an online diary, and it is a part of the social media network.

In Lu Yiming's view, the so-called blog can be regarded as a "personal newspaper", on which you can record current events, express opinions, or simply brag.

In fact, blogs entered Xiaguo very early. Some people were playing around 2000. However, there were not many Internet users at that time, and there were no hot spots, so it seemed unknown, and it failed to cause any waves in the initial stage of the Internet.

But now entering the Internet 2.0 era, the situation is different.

Especially the appearance of Mu Zimei, whose bold and unrestrained writing style and extremely explicit description of the relationship between men and women, is really very eye-catching.

On the Internet, if there is attention, there will be traffic, and if there is traffic, there will be benefits.

So in no time, the blog took off in a whoosh and became the hot topic of 2004.

It just so happened that at this point in time, the cold winter of the Internet receded, and the king of foreign capital forces returned, and the capital market of the entire Xia Kingdom suddenly became lively.

Several major web portals have expressed their intention to promote their blogging projects, and all kinds of venture capitalists have heard the news, waving money and wanting to enter the market.

Li Yiwen also saw this trend, and saw that Lu Yiming hadn't responded for a long time, so he came over to discuss with him impatiently: "I heard that Qianxiang Interactive has teamed up with MSN, raising tens of millions of dollars, and plans to enter the blog field. This is trying to break the social monopoly of QQ.”

"Oh, then they are very brave."

Lu Yiming's reaction was relatively cold. After all, Qianxiang Interactive and MSN are nothing but a bunch of rotten fish and shrimps. If you look at them more, you will lose.

"Are you really not worried at all?"

In Li Yiwen's view, Qianxiang Interactive is nothing. The founder Chen Yizhou was just the vice president of Sohu. Although his resume looks pretty good, he does not pose any threat to QQ.

But MSN is different. Although it is now being crushed on the ground by QQ, the centipede is dead but not stiff. As long as it is not completely dead, there is a chance to come back.

Investing in blogs is the first step for MSN to blow the horn of counterattack in the social field.

For this, Lu Yiming just wanted to wish them good luck.

blog?

This is clearly a tiankeng, only fools jump into it.

Regarding Lu Yiming's calmness, Li Yiwen was a little confused: "Why do you seem not in a hurry when I see you? Are you not afraid that after MSN's blog becomes popular, it will pull all QQ users over?"

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "Blogging has no future. Whoever likes to do it can do it. Anyway, I definitely won't do it."

"Why do you say that? Isn't it very popular now? Look at that Mu Zimei, her "Love Letter" is probably known by the whole country."

"What's the use of fire? At most, it's just a gust of wind, or a demonic wind. Let me tell you, blogs are too petty bourgeois to put it bluntly, and it's hard to promote them. In our country, the next 20 Within a year, there won’t be many middle-class people in the true sense, so if the Internet wants to make money, it has to be down-to-earth.”

Lu Yiming comes from later generations, so of course he knows that blogging has caused many Internet companies to burn a lot of money for nothing, but in the end they made a lot of trouble and were cut off by Weibo, which is smaller in size but has a wider audience.

To put it bluntly, the economic base determines the superstructure.

In China right now, those who can afford a computer are basically "dual-career families" with a little spare money, who can barely be considered middle class, with a higher level of education, and the environment in which the computer is used determines that it is easier for users to calm down and look at it. Long-winded stuff, so the blog is on fire.

Especially now that the Internet has entered the 2.0 era, in the past, what the media said, ordinary people could only passively accept what they said.

After the emergence of blogs, you can speak freely on what you want to say, and then show it to everyone, from passively accepting opinions and information to actively outputting opinions and information.

Naturally, many people who could not find a channel to express their voice flocked to join this new era of online feast.

After all, it’s still a minority.

why?
Because most of the netizens who play blogs are well-educated intellectuals, and most of the netizens who go to Internet cafes basically go for games and entertainment, and at most occasionally pay attention to the hot topics of blogs.

They may be wage earners, poor students, or left-behind children in the urban-rural fringe. These talents will be the main body of the future Internet, and they are the real general public.

And for them, a blog is not a necessity.

It's very simple, because there are too many words, so I don't bother to read.

Lu Yiming said to Li Yiwen: "Blogs have no future, so they are just looking at the boom. When the mobile Internet era comes, they will be cool immediately, believe it or not?"

"Mobile Internet era?"

Li Yiwen was obviously aroused by Lu Yiming's words.

Lu Yiming didn't hide it from him, but said about his trip to Zhonghai: "The multi-touch technology has been settled, and it is estimated that in a year or so, our first generation of smart phones will be launched. Yes, it will be the era of mobile internet, everyone will have a smart phone, and the functions on the computer will be available on the smart phone, and the user base will increase again by then.”

Li Yiwen has heard about this plan many times, but now that Lu Yiming mentions it, he still can't help but feel emotional: "You have been talking about the smart phone for so many years, and you are finally going to make it? I remember when we were on this, we were There's nothing about Ji, right?"

Lu Yiming also felt a lot about this: "Isn't it? After so many years of tossing and tossing everything from scratch, and tens of billions of money spent, I finally see a little hope."

From the beginning of the transition to making a mobile phone, Lu Yiming worked hard to get the production license, screen, touch control, battery, baseband, chip, camera and other technologies one by one.

Every piece of hardware is a checkpoint. Even if the answer is known in advance, the problem-solving process cannot be saved.

And Xia Guo's technology in this area is very backward, so Lu Yiming can only spend money to break through the technical difficulties that make one's scalp tingle.

Even in order not to be stuck on the chip, it took great pains to deploy the semiconductor industry and find someone to develop a new generation of lithography machines first.

Everything is just for one goal - to establish its own dominance in the era of mobile Internet!
Lu Yiming chatted with Li Yiwen for a long time, and finally decided to give up the project of blogging, which seemed attractive but was actually tasteless. However, Lu Yiming also told Li Yiwen that this matter should not be publicized, and it is good to wait for other colleagues to step on the pit.

Li Yiwen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You, you, you still have such a bad taste, you just think about how to see other people's jokes all day long, right? You don't talk about martial arts."

"There are no fathers and sons in the business war. What kind of martial arts are you talking about? Believe it or not, if I get unlucky one day, these people, one by one, will come over and make trouble, wishing to step on my head ten thousand feet."

"Okay, I can't tell you anyway."

A few days later, Baiyun Airport.

Shi Qingxue was wearing a sky blue floral dress, showing her white and delicate calves, and wearing a sun hat, standing beside Lu Yiming, looking around constantly.

Not long after, a tall professional woman appeared in her sight.

Under the slender willow waist, there is a charming curve tightly wrapped by the hip-wrapping skirt. The femininity of this aunt who has not seen her for a long time is getting stronger.

"Auntie."

"Xiaoxue?"

The two quickly hugged each other, and the mature charm and youthful beauty intertwined into an intoxicating picture.

"Our Xiaoxue is getting more and more beautiful. Look at this face, so tender that I want to kiss her."

"Auntie, what skin care products do you use? I feel that you are much younger than before."

"Little mouth is so sweet."

Su Yunwei talked with Shi Qingxue for a while, and then looked at Lu Yiming.

Although Lu Yiming is her junior, in terms of achievements, she can only stand up high and bow down.

On the way back, Su Yunwei talked about the situation in the United States: "Investment institutions have begun to be interested in Internet companies again, especially a company called Facebook recently, which is very popular."

Speaking of this, Su Yunwei couldn't help looking at Lu Yiming again, first sized him up a few times, and then sighed: "I don't know if you are lucky or have a bad eye, but drinking a cup of coffee can make you meet a quasi-alone A good project at the horn level."

Lu Yiming smiled and said modestly, "I'm just lucky."

Su Yunwei was quite unconvinced after hearing this: "Why am I not as lucky as you? Do you know that Facebook's current valuation is already [-] million US dollars?"

Not long ago, the venture capital firm Accel Partners invested US$1270 million, and Facebook’s valuation officially exceeded US$[-] million, making it a high-quality project at the quasi-unicorn level.

Even in the eyes of many, this is definitely not the pinnacle of Facebook.

There are nearly 2000 million college students in the United States. These people are potential users of Facebook. They are young and showy, with a bright future. They will become the main force of consumption in the market within a few years.

To put it bluntly, Facebook has mastered this group of users, which is tantamount to owning Jinshan!

Therefore, there are more and more investment institutions who want to get in the car, and they hate Lu Yiming, the "first person to eat crabs".

Even Su Yunwei was a little jealous of Lu Yiming.

After chatting for a few words, Su Yunwei mentioned another matter: "Lu Yiming, I think you have to be careful. Facebook is popular in the United States, and imitators may appear in China soon."

Lu Yiming was not surprised by this. In the early days of the Internet in China, basically one counted as one, and all of them were plagiarism dogs.

QQ copied ICQ, Taobao copied Ebay, and the three major portals copied Yahoo. Even Dong Ge later opened Sharingan directly and copied Amazon's model.

There's no way, I'm used to crossing the river by touching Ying Jiang, and I'm almost balding with Ying Jiang.

Lu Yiming asked Su Yunwei: "Have you heard any rumors?"

Su Yun nodded slightly: "Someone has already started working on this project, and many venture capitalists are also very interested in this project. By then, your QQ will probably face a strong competitor in China."

Social networking has always been about winners taking all, and there is no saying that everyone will rule the river.

And Facebook has proven to be a successful model in the United States, and there are bound to be people in China who will follow suit.

In fact, Lu Yiming was not surprised by this.

In the previous life, in the fall of 2005, Wang Xing, who received a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of Delaware, immediately set his sights on the segmented field of SNS on university campuses.After studying the Facebook model, he integrated his previous experience and lessons in the SNS field, and soon developed Xiaonei.

As soon as Xiaonei was released at that time, it only took three months to attract 3 users, which is a rapid growth.

When the number of users of Xiaonei increased sharply in 2006, Wang Xing had no money to increase the server and bandwidth, so he had to sell Xiaonei to Chen Yizhou, CEO of Qianxiang Interactive Group, who raised 4.3 million from Softbank in the island country. US dollars, and changed Xiaonei.com to Renren.com, and Renren went public in 2011.

Although Renren.com failed to survive the big waves and shake the social hegemony of QQ and WeChat, Chen Yizhou himself made a lot of money.

Lu Yiming, who hadn't thought of this at first, suddenly had an idea.

Seeing Lu Yiming lost in thought, Su Yunwei couldn't help asking: "What are you going to do?"

Lu Yiming said with a smile: "Originally, I didn't intend to copy the Facebook model in China, after all, the national conditions of the two countries are different, but after you remind me, I suddenly feel that the Facebook model is not completely useless in Xia Country. place."

Facebook mainly attracts users through photo sharing, relying on the university's social and interpersonal network for layout, attracting young user groups, and then retaining them.

In this regard, college students in the United States are more enthusiastic and unrestrained, keen to show themselves.

Of course, the most important thing is that college students in the United States are rich and can afford digital cameras. This thing costs thousands of dollars. How many college students in China can afford it?

You can't even take photos, so why not share them?

Therefore, whether it is Xiaonei.com or the later Renren.com, after being popular for a period of time, it quickly disappeared and was submerged in the huge waves of the times.

On the contrary, with the further development of the economy, especially the popularity of smart phones and the improvement of camera pixels, the function of photo sharing has really begun to enter thousands of households.

Looking at the WeChat circle of friends later, I know that Xia Guo's users are actually very unrestrained and keen to show themselves.

The reason why I was reserved and introverted before was mainly due to my poverty.

It is precisely because of this result that Lu Yiming did not intend to copy Facebook, after all, this project has no profit.

But the news that Su Yunwei brought back gave Lu Yiming a new inspiration.

The Facebook model is still feasible, but if it is introduced into China, targeted adjustments are required.And the one that is most suitable for this project is MM.

When Lu Yiming first developed MM, it was to benchmark against WeChat and prepare for the mobile Internet era.

Although smartphones haven't been released yet, MM can definitely develop among college students and accumulate a user base. When smartphones come out, they can connect seamlessly and grasp a huge user group in an instant. It's perfect.

(End of this chapter)