Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 363 Short Video Global Strategy

After the strategic investment meeting, Xu Shenxue asked his employees to continue following up and negotiating with major strategic investors.

He himself temporarily diverted his attention to deal with many other matters.

He has been quite busy recently, as he has to keep an eye on the production and sales of the S16 series.

Then there are some things about semiconductors that we have to look at, whether it's the design and market launch of new chips, or the breakthroughs in the next generation of technology. These are all matters related to the safety of the entire Zhiyun Group and other companies under Xu Shenxue. Xu Shenxue must pay close attention and provide various kinds of support or pressure to prevent the heads of the subsidiaries from letting themselves go or just waiting to die.

Then Hailan Automobile also needs to maintain attention. The global wave of smart electric vehicles has gradually formed. China, the United States and Europe are vigorously promoting the development of smart electric vehicles. As the leader in the current smart electric vehicle track, Hailan Automobile's sales continue to rise. In addition, the mid-size sedan Hailan SLMC has brought direct competition with the traditional oil vehicle field, and there are many conflicts and contradictions.

The last one is Yihai Technology. There is no problem with Yihai Technology's other businesses. The gaming business continues to grow, and the cultural industry has opened up the ecological chain and developed steadily. However, it has recently encountered many troubles in the field of short videos.

The main reason is that the short video field is quite special. For ordinary people, it may be just a simple entertainment and a tool to kill boring time. But for many people, it is not only an entertainment tool, but also a channel for information release and publicity.

Compared with traditional text information channels such as Twitter and Weibo, short videos present information in the form of video with music attached, which can be more intuitive and easier to resonate with people.

what does this mean?
A brand new information channel!

In some areas, the nature of short videos is very similar to that of television, radio, newspapers, and portals... and such a very special channel is controlled by Yihai Technology... a Chinese company.

You should know that the short video platform under Yihai Technology is not only operated in China, but also has an international version, Jump Video, operating overseas.

This has caused many overseas countries to be very concerned and even vigilant.

In recent times, the overseas version of Jump Video, owned by Yihai Technology, has suffered a considerable impact and has been banned in some regions.

Xu Shenxue naturally paid attention to this.

In response to the frequent problems in overseas markets, Xu Shenxue went to Yihai Technology that afternoon to hold a meeting.

The focus of the discussion is on the overseas operations of Jump Video.

“When operating products overseas, we must comply with local laws and regulations as much as possible without violating the principles. We don’t play the game of being arrogant and arrogant overseas and not caring about others!”

"Remember, we are here to make money, not to fight with them!"

"But on some principled issues, we must maintain the bottom line and never do what we cannot do. At worst, we can just withdraw from the local market!"

"We want to make money, but we can't make money on our knees!"

"In addition, sometimes we have to adopt certain roundabout strategies. If Jump Video cannot operate openly in the local area, then we can adopt a joint venture approach to establish or support the operation of a short video platform in the local area!"

"We are focusing on the entire short video-centric traffic track, not just a product like jumping videos. For this, your short video division can refer to the overseas operation strategy of Kuaipao Travel's online car-hailing business!"

"Compared to the short video industry, online ride-hailing services are subject to stricter regulations when operating overseas, but Kuaipao Travel is still very successful. By cooperating with local powerful companies, our Kuaipao Travel has captured 60% of the online ride-hailing market in ASEAN, and has an absolute advantage in major markets such as Thailand and Singapore."

"At the same time, Kuaipao Travel has also executed its strategy in Russia and the EU very well, and the joint venture it established has occupied a certain market share in the local area!"

The "Kuaipao Travel" mentioned by Xu Shenxue, and even the online ride-hailing platform formed by the merger of multiple online ride-hailing platforms previously invested by Liuhe Investment, started early and has strong capital behind it. In addition, Xu Shenxue did it with the mentality of shouldering social responsibility in the domestic market, and is very friendly to both drivers and passengers.

With the mentality of Kuaipao Travel that it would rather not make money, it directly squeezed out a large number of other domestic online ride-hailing platforms. Even when the overseas Uber entered the domestic market, it was suppressed by Kuaipao Travel.

This year, under pressure from all sides, Uber was forced to suspend its online ride-hailing business in China.

Since then, Kuaipao Travel has become the dominant player in China's online ride-hailing market, occupying more than 90% of the market.

In its overseas operations, Kuaipao Travel has adopted a method of cooperating with local powerful companies. Simply put, Kuaipao Travel provides technology, experience, and funds, and the other party provides local connections and a certain amount of funds.

Then both parties grew bigger and stronger together. Through this strategy, they avoided local supervision and blockade of foreign-funded enterprises in special industries such as Kuaipao Travel to a great extent.

Avoid some unnecessary troubles through capital integration.

Kuaipao Travel’s overseas operations are not based on monopoly, but on strategic cooperation and profit sharing.

This strategy enabled Kuaipao Travel to clear many obstacles and successfully enter the ASEAN market and other overseas markets.

Nowadays, Kuaipao Travel is very strong in the ASEAN market. When many Chinese people travel to the ASEAN region, especially Thailand, they will see a very familiar scene on the streets: Kuaipao online-hailing cars are everywhere. At the same time, Kuaipao Travel is also doing very well in Russia and the EU.

It has even managed to get into the American market, but it was severely suppressed. Uber was too strong locally, and Kuaipao Travel’s local joint venture was unable to defeat it!
Through strategic alliances overseas, Kuaipao Travel has expanded its online ride-hailing business to dozens of countries, becoming the world's largest online ride-hailing business. In terms of total scale, it has surpassed Uber.

In Xu Shenxue's opinion, its successful model can be replicated, especially in other more sensitive industries.

The short video field is a relatively special field.

If we try to do it alone, it will easily cause a strong backlash in the local area, so it is necessary to bring in local financial groups to join in.

Of course, this is only limited to some special regions, such as the United States and India. If it is a country without any obstacles, there is no need to do this.

In fact, many places are happy to see Kuaipao Travel and Uber compete against each other... Anyway, they can't engage in this kind of high-tech industry themselves. If Kuaipao is not allowed to come in, then Uber will come in and dominate the market.

Everyone is well aware of the consequences of a dominant player or even a monopoly... Only by competing with local people can they enjoy better online ride-hailing services.

In this situation, several countries even blocked the merger of Kuaishou and Uber in their local markets.

Previously, Kuaipao Travel and Uber reached an agreement to exchange some markets where the other party had a great advantage, and sell the local online car-hailing business to the other party...

If Uber is doing well in country A, then I won’t compete with you and will directly sell the local business to you. If my Kuaishou Travel is doing well in country B and Uber is struggling, then you can sell the business to me.

The two sides conducted a market swap to optimize resources.

However, although Kuaipao Travel and Uber reached an agreement, it was basically rejected by the local government... because of suspected monopoly.

There are only two of you competing in the market. If you merge, wouldn't it be a monopoly? So basically, your proposals were rejected by local authorities.

But in the current short video field, it is somewhat different. Yihai Technology has no competitors...

Relying on its unique advantageous algorithm, Yihai Technology's Jump Video has great technical advantages. Coupled with the rapid spread of short videos and the head effect, Jump Video will quickly monopolize the local short video market as soon as it enters a country's market.

Entering into a virtual monopoly...

Even the big Internet companies in the United States quickly followed suit and entered the short video field, but they were still defeated... Even in the North American market, the stronghold of American Internet companies, Yihai Technology's jumping videos are invincible and there is no rival that can beat them.

The monopoly plus the unique nature of the information platform... this has caused Dodge Video's overseas operations to encounter endless troubles and frequent negative issues.

This time, Xu Shenxue plans to take the capital joint route of online car-hailing to see if he can break through the siege.

After all, such a huge advantage in the field of short videos should be maintained as much as possible, and should not be given up if possible, even if it means giving up part of the profits to local consortiums.

After the meeting, Xu Shenxue got into the Hailan SLC bulletproof car and left Yihai Technology and returned home.

As soon as they got home, the eldest son ran out of the living room with his short legs, shouted "Dad" and jumped into Xu Shenxue's arms.

Xu Shenxue picked him up with one hand and said, "Is Bai'er happy today?"

Xu Wenbai said in a baby voice: "Happy."

Holding the child in her arms, Lin Yaxian walked in, holding her little daughter in the living room: “You’re back!”

"Your son was so naughty today. He was having a water fight with a water gun and made water everywhere!"

After hearing this, Xu Shenxue chuckled. Xu Wenbai's eldest son is now at the age when dogs would avoid him. He is very naughty.

Xu Shenxue held the child and sat down on the sofa, then turned his head to look at his youngest daughter. The youngest daughter, Xu Mixue, was lying in her mother's arms and sleeping soundly. Looking at her, Xu Shenxue couldn't help but smile.

It’s so small, but it’s cute no matter how you look at it!

At this time, Xu Wenbai also got off Xu Shenxue, and then lay on his mother's arms, looking down at his sister, and said: "Why is my sister still sleeping? She has been sleeping for a long time, I want to play with her!"

"Children need to sleep. They need to sleep more so they can grow. You also slept well every day when you were a child!"

Xu Wenbai pouted: "Okay, but when will she grow up and play with me?"

Xu Shenxue said: "It will be fine when she is a little older. It will probably be ready after the Chinese New Year!"

Now my youngest daughter, Xu Michelle, is only three months old and can't even roll over yet. All she does all day is drink milk and sleep, or keep her eyes open and feel this world that is full of surprises for her.

When a child is a few months old, his development in all aspects is not yet complete, for example, the development of his visual center is not complete. In the first three months, he sees black and white and blurry images. Only around April or May can he gradually see colors, and then distinguish shapes, distances, etc. So from that time on, the child will crawl everywhere, grab things, and become particularly interested in everything.

In the first few months, everything a baby sees and touches is new to them. So don't think that a baby who is just a few months old will be bored lying there... In fact, they are not bored at all, they are busy.

The CPU+GPU and cache composed of the neural network have been running efficiently for a long time, constantly receiving information and then conducting very complex and efficient training, gradually improving the understanding of the world.

The AI ​​developed by the Intelligent Research Institute under Zhiyun Group is a poor imitation of the human brain, and it only imitates the basics.

If AI technology wants to reach a level similar to that of the human brain, Xu Shenxue estimates that it will most likely not appear in his lifetime, or even hundreds or thousands of years after his death!

Nature is the greatest scientist!

Nature has been evolving organisms for billions of years, and finally the human species emerged.

And it is almost impossible for humans to replicate such a process over hundreds or thousands of years...Humans haven't even figured out themselves yet, let alone create another self.

Living things are too complex. Not to mention high-level creatures like humans, even plants are extremely complex biological systems... For example, plant photosynthesis, on the surface, can convert photons into the energy needed by living things with just a leaf. This seems to sound simple, but in fact it involves a lot of very complex technical principles.

If we use various scientific and technological means to achieve artificial photosynthesis, it will become a very complex system... This is also the most cutting-edge scientific research at present. The scientific community has achieved some results, but they do not have practical application value.

Many of nature’s wonders are currently beyond the reach of humankind, and the best we can do are poor imitations. The same is true in the field of AI.

However, Xu Shenxue feels that in the next few decades, it is still possible to create efficient artificial intelligence that can take on some auxiliary work.

Xu Shenxue still has some confidence in this.

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After sitting on the sofa for a while, when the eldest son ran off to play again, Lin Yaxian said, "By the way, my mother came over today and complained about my second brother again, and asked you to help take care of him!"

"What did the second brother do again?"

Lin Yaxian said: "What else could it be? He just found a new celebrity girlfriend and said he liked that female celebrity and planned to marry her. You know, my parents are very disgusted with this, but my second brother likes those things in the entertainment industry. I can't understand what's going on in his mind..."

Xu Shenxue smiled and said, "Everyone has their own preferences. What can we do if he likes these?"

Speaking of the second brother of the Lin family, he is also a weirdo... Although he was born in a wealthy family, he is determined to enter the entertainment industry.

It would be fine if you were pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. After all, in business, there is no distinction between high and low industries... It's harmless to occasionally play with female celebrities or something like that.

But... the girlfriends he finds are all female netizens and female celebrities, and he even says things like he wants to marry them, which is a bit weird.

Lin's parents were very angry about this and divided their property in advance, leaving most of the assets to the eldest brother and only a little to the second brother.

But the second brother of the Lin family doesn't care and continues to behave like a fool!
Lin Yaxian was also quite resentful towards her brother. Playing outside was one thing, but playing to this extent would somewhat affect the family's reputation.

"And a lot of photos were taken of him a few days ago. If I hadn't told them to keep it down, the scandal between him and that female star would have been on the hot search list in the past two days!"

As he spoke, he took out his cell phone to show Xu Shenxue photos. These were typical paparazzi photos of celebrities, except that next to this female star was the second brother of the Lin family. The two were extremely close, and you could tell at a glance that they had a complicated relationship.

“I’m always worried every day!”

"Everyone says that it's the younger brother who's annoying, but in my case, it's the older brother who's annoying!"

Lin Yaxian is actually quite traditional. She has been greatly influenced by her parents and is rather averse to the entertainment industry and celebrities.

Moreover, Lin Yaxian was a person who paid much attention to her reputation. In order to prevent Xu Shenxue from messing around outside and causing any scandal, she was able to do it herself and stuff dozens of secretaries into Xu Shenxue's office... On the one hand, it was to prevent things from getting out of control and causing ridiculous things like falling in love with a mistress.

On the other hand, it is also to avoid any scandals... As I said, others may be shameless, but she still has some.

Therefore, she was somewhat dissatisfied with her second brother's fooling around outside, which affected the family's reputation and even brought the matter to her ears.

As the wife of Xu Shenxue, she is one of the few women with the highest status not only in contemporary China, but also in the world. Whenever she goes out, she is protected by armed bodyguards.

Occasionally, foreign guests would come to Zhiyun Group for inspection, and when they brought their wives with them, she would accompany Xu Shenxue to attend the reception and become the woman who would appear on the pages of financial and political news.

She herself was also very proud of this...proud of Xu Shenxue and also proud of herself.

Being able to spot Xu Shenxue at first sight and trap him before he exploded and rose to prominence... this was something she was quite proud of!
There are thousands of women in the world, but she was the only one who acted quickly, accurately and ruthlessly, and directly trapped Xu Shenxue, the richest man in the world... and he took a fancy to her before Xu Shenxue completely rose to prominence.

No one in the world could say that she had come to Xu Shenxue because of his wealth... When they first met, Xu Shenxue's entire fortune was less than her dowry...

Of course, at that time, Xu Shenxue was also the most outstanding young man in the circle of wealthy people... He was in charge of the family business at a young age, and he managed it quite well. He was also handsome, did not play around, and had a good personality.

At that time, a large number of wealthy families with daughters of marriageable age wanted to go on a blind date with Xu Shenxue.

It’s just that Xu Shenxue met Lin Yaxian on his first blind date, and then Lin Yaxian took direct action to win him over, leaving a group of women in despair.

For Lin Yaxian: Xu Shenxue conquered the world, and she conquered Xu Shenxue!
But her second brother… would make some black spots from time to time and tarnish the family’s reputation.

Outsiders may not know, but people in the circle know that the thing is their second brother!
He has lost all his face!
Xu Shenxue sensed Lin Yaxian's depression and dissatisfaction, and immediately said, "Why are you angry with him? Just take good care of your health. I will take care of this matter!"

In fact, Xu Shenxue personally doesn’t care about what the second brother of the Lin family does... He likes to play with female stars, internet celebrities and the like, but it has nothing to do with him, Xu Shenxue.

Besides, the second brother of the Lin family is not a little kid anymore, but a man in his thirties. His values ​​have long been mature, and he has his own logic in his behavior. Who cares?

But since Lin Yaxian is upset about this, Xu Shenxue, as her husband, still has to do something about it.

After thinking for a while, he picked up the phone and made a call: "It's me, Xu Shenxue. I have something for you to handle. The second brother of the Lin family, um, it's Lin Dongyi. Find out his recent whereabouts and the situation of the woman he has been dating recently!"

"Ah? There's already a report. Okay, can you send me the relevant report?"

In fact, the security department under Xu Shenxue will protect all of Xu Shenxue's family members, and will also carry out certain monitoring and preventive measures on strangers/outsiders approaching Xu Shenxue's family members.

This is to prevent hostile individuals from approaching Xu Shenxue through roundabout channels by getting close to his family and then carrying out assassination attempts.

However, unless there are special circumstances, such as finding any hostile personnel, the security department will not spread nonsense.

There are some things you can do, but you can't say them casually... No one likes to be monitored, even Xu Shenxue's family.

The second brother of the Lin family is also on the monitoring list because he is Lin Yaxian's brother... The security department will actually conduct some investigations on some outsiders who get close to the second brother of the Lin family, but as long as they are not special personnel, the security department will ignore them.

It's unnecessary and a waste of money and manpower.

As soon as Xu Shenxue asked, the security department immediately pulled out some recent reports on the second brother of the Lin family.

The report was quickly sent to Xu Shenxue's mobile phone. Xu Shenxue opened it and saw that they were really in love...

The one they are dating now is a pure-looking female star. When she played the second female lead in a movie produced by the second brother of the Lin family, she hooked up with the second brother of the Lin family.

The second elder brother of the Lin family thought that the other party was naive and romantic, a pure and innocent white lotus, and even gave her first time to him...so he began to think about marrying her.

But according to the security department's investigation report, this female star had suffered a miscarriage twice when she was studying at the drama academy... and they also found the medical records of the reconstructive surgery.

Moreover, the records of the reconstructive surgery were taken after she met the second brother of the Lin family… and after being with the second brother of the Lin family, there were more than a dozen records of her checking into hotel rooms with other men, including actors, directors and the like.

After seeing the report, Xu Shenxue couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The second elder brother of the Lin family hangs around in the entertainment industry every day, claiming to be a playboy in the love field. Unexpectedly, he was still tricked by others... If it weren't for his own security department to conduct background checks on outsiders who approached him, he would probably have been kept in the dark for his entire life.

While laughing, Xu Shenxue showed the investigation report to Lin Yaxian: "Look, the girls nowadays are incredible, their methods are quite powerful!"

Lin Yaxian was stunned at first, then she laughed: "It serves him right. Who made him mess around every day? This time I must let him know the cruelty of this world!"

"She told me before that the woman was pure and innocent. I laughed to death!"

Lin Yaxian was in a good mood immediately. She was not afraid of these women being bad. On the contrary, she was more worried that the woman the second brother of the Lin family found was not that bad. The reason why she was annoyed this time was because the second brother of the Lin family said that the other party was pure and innocent, and he found a white lotus and insisted on marrying her home...

Lin Yaxian directly hid some information in the report, then took a screenshot and sent it to the second brother of the Lin family... Fearing that he would not be able to see the information, she even made a special phone call to let him see the information.

Not long after, the second brother of the Lin family called Xu Shenxue, and he listened to the voice on the other end of the phone asking if it was true.

Xu Shenxue immediately laughed and said, "It's probably true. If you don't believe me, go check it out for yourself!"

After a few polite words, the second brother of the Lin family hung up the phone... He would naturally handle the follow-up matters himself, so Lin Yaxian and her husband didn't need to worry about it.

The second elder brother of the Lin family just has some special preferences, he is not stupid!
(End of this chapter)