Rebirth 2010: I taught Mr. Lei how to make a mobile phone

Chapter 612: Royal Parade
Facing the fierce offensive of Ele.me, Meituan quickly adjusted its strategy:
Cancel the controversial "choose one of two" policy, implement five insurances and one fund for riders, and increase the merchant entry standards by 30%;

At the same time, and most importantly, the original 30% off coupon was cancelled and the original price was restored.

These actions also made the market realize that Meituan Takeout has completely given up this battlefield.

However, in contrast, Meituan’s group buying business imitated the Ele.me model and increased subsidies to merchants and consumers. The prices of group buying products once reached 70% off.

For a time, in the two markets of food delivery and group buying, Ele.me and Meituan actually completed a mirror-like transformation.

Consumers have gradually realized the changes and it seems that some changes have indeed taken place after the Wuzhen Internet Conference.

Take-out is cheaper, group buying is cheaper, and even taxi rides are cheaper.

Everyone dug up Chen Mo's speech at the Internet Conference at that time, and this just proved Chen Mo's words "give benefits to consumers". Regardless of the motivation, real market benefits have already emerged.

The strong rise of Ele.me has objectively promoted healthy competition in the industry: Meituan’s actions are the best proof.

As for some companies, whether they are really afraid or just pretending, at least the current changes are visible.

This sudden emergence that started on the other side, after the collision of ideas in Wuzhen, is subtly reshaping the service standards of China's Internet through the power of the market.

As Chen Mo said in an interview before,

“The best supervision often comes from competitors watching closely.

When companies have to gain market share by improving services rather than monopolizing,
The ultimate winner is always the consumer!"

On November 11, the fourth episode of "Win in China 29" officially started recording.

Thanks to Ele.me's recent crushing performance, the Disruptor team won the final victory with a score of 3:2.

It won CCTV media resource packages worth hundreds of millions of yuan for Bi'an, JD.com and Xiaomi, including an in-depth interview with each company.

A week later, when the show was aired, countless viewers were expecting the two to fight on the show.
On the night of the show, the audience who were expecting to see the tension unexpectedly found that the atmosphere was surprisingly harmonious. The members of both teams were polite, chatting and laughing, and even took a close photo at the end, as if the classic photo of Wuzhen with the tension drawn had never existed.

The highlights outside the show are equally exciting:

Hu Xijin fulfilled his promise to "wash his hair upside down", but netizens found out that he filmed it upside down with a mobile phone, triggering a new round of ridicule;
The netizen who threatened to "live broadcast the Japanese fan" had already deleted his account and ran away, leaving behind only a mess;
After the noise, the audience sighed: Is the Internet world going to be "unified"?

After the recording, Chen Mo always felt that something was wrong - his opponents suddenly became kind and gentle, which made him feel uneasy.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal, and he still understands the principle that it is difficult to change one's nature.

After discussing with Lei Jun and Liu Qiangdong, he still couldn't come to a conclusion, and finally decided: "Who cares? The most important thing is to do my own thing well."

After finishing the recording of the show, the three of them went back to their respective homes.

It is now December, and Chen Mo's schedule is already filled with things to do.

He rubbed his temples and decided to put a few key projects in place first.

The first one to be affected was the cross-border cooperation with Lee Boo-jin, in which the two parties jointly established Summer Technology (summer implies "three silences").

Staff deployment:

Among the technical backbones of the original Bi'an Korea branch, dozens of employees in charge of Samsung business, after the termination of cooperation with Samsung, 27 people chose to switch to Xiatian Technology according to their personal wishes, and their salaries directly increased by 30%;

Through Chen Mo's connections, three MIOS core developers were secretly transferred from Xiaomi to join as consultants;
The organizational structure is clearly divided: employees of the Bi'an Group focus on technology research and development, while Lee Boo-jin's team is responsible for business operations;
Main business: Development of customized Android systems adapted for Samsung mobile phones, with the ultimate goal of creating a mobile operating system that connects the Bi'an software and Samsung mobile phones.

In addition, Chen Mo discovered another business opportunity through communication with Lee Boo-jin:
Taking advantage of the Chinese tourist boom in South Korea, Lee Boo-jin's hotels and duty-free shops are being pushed to fully integrate with WeChat Pay. At the same time, Bi'an's Korean branch will cooperate in carrying out ground promotion, and plans to cover 80% of the merchants in Seoul's Myeongdong business district in the first quarter of next year, and then roll out all at once.

After dealing with these, Chen Mo called the head of Tianji Pavilion and Zhou Shouzi to his office. He gave them an important task, "Bi'an will develop the field of intelligent driving. You should conduct research and investment evaluation based on the current industry structure and potential companies. I need a feasible plan."

The two men took the order and left without asking why, because on the other side, all they needed to do was to follow orders from their boss.

Even if some people may not understand it at the time, as things progress they will realize that this is something that has been proven countless times in the past few years.

The next day, Tianji Pavilion and Zhou Shouzi replied: We will be able to reach a preliminary conclusion in half a month.

After finishing his important tasks, Chen Mo made up his mind and took a rare half-month vacation for himself.

First, I teamed up with Fei Tian to form a threesome, and watched the movie "One Man's Martial Arts". Combining the wishes of the two women, I also planned their future development paths:

If Yifei wants to continue developing in the film and television industry, then she should combine the resources of Bi'an Film and Television to provide corresponding training and support.

If Tiantian wants to gradually retreat behind the scenes, she can be trained in Bi'an Film and Television first. If she has management talent, let her gain experience there.

Anyway, Chen Tong, who is in charge of Bi'an Film and Television, knows everything about the relationship between the two and himself, so he just needs to explain it.

Afterwards, he took Sister Zhiling, whom he had not seen for a long time, on a special plane for a private trip, and took the opportunity to inspect the progress of the branch construction and the conditions of several factories of Mi'an Xinsheng.

The special plane flew all the way south, passing through 7 cities in 6 days, leaving their marks in Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Guizhou.

At the semiconductor industrial park of Nanjing Mi'an Xinsheng, Chen Mo also met the "factory building maniac" Zhang Rujing, and the two chatted about the current progress of Mi'an Xinsheng.

In terms of manufacturing process, 45nm and 28nm chips have been mass-produced and have good sales. They have been used in some smart home appliances, especially the latest Redmi H5, which has adopted 28nm chips and can generate good profits. Meanwhile, SMIC has just started trial production of 28nm chips (with a yield rate of only 30%).

Now, the 19nm generation of Mi'anxin has reached the most critical moment. There will be a breakthrough next year. They expect to be one generation later than Samsung and TSMC.

This is thanks to the continuous financial support from Bi'an and Xiaomi over the past two years. They pay for poaching talents, purchasing equipment, and R&D investment. The two companies have currently invested a total of more than 300 billion yuan in Mi'an Xinsheng.

As of last month, Mi'an Xinsheng already had 3 mature process plants, 2 special process plants, and 1 pilot production line.

The team size is as high as 200 people, including a core architecture team (800 people) and a mass production engineering team ( people).

We have also established an industry-university-research alliance with the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the School of Microelectronics of Fudan University, sharing nearly 200 scientific researchers.

Mi'an Xinsheng's overall strategy is to focus on both the monetization of mature processes and the research and development of advanced processes, taking a steady approach and not advancing recklessly.

Chen Mo synchronized a copy of the relevant information to Lei Jun that night.

As the inspection trip was coming to an end, Chen Mo was quite satisfied with the construction progress of each branch. According to the plan, the branch will be completed by the end of next year and will be able to accommodate 10 employees, which is double the current size. However, the investment is not small, and the total investment is estimated to be around 200 billion.

In Shenzhen, Chen Mo has a bigger blueprint. After reaching an agreement with the municipal government, Bi'an invested tens of billions to start the land reclamation project in Dachan Bay, vowing to build a "Bi'an Technology City" comparable to Apple Park and Googleplex. Well, it is no longer a park, but a city!
Because according to the current development trend, the Bi'an Science and Technology Park will reach saturation in the next year.

Perhaps influenced by this, city leaders have recently been discussing the expansion of the Bi'an headquarters park. After all, they have seen Bi'an buying land and building buildings in various places. Who knows whether it will be poached by other cities in the future and the headquarters will become a branch.

If it causes economic outflow, the entire leadership team will have no place to cry.

Subsequently, a special meeting was urgently convened and an olive branch was proactively extended: 10 square meters of prime land on both sides of Xi'erqi West Road.

The buildable area is 72 square meters, the total price is about 40 billion yuan, the floor price is only 5500 yuan per square meter, and they are even willing to coordinate the relocation of Zhongguancun Park.

It is still under discussion and is expected to be finalized by the end of the year.

In fact, one of the plots of land later became Xiaomi's territory. Chen Mo negotiated the place first because Lei Jun currently had no time to buy land. He was focusing all his energy on preparing for Xiaomi's Pre-IPO round (the last round of financing before listing), taking Xiaomi public next year, and then expanding overseas.

After all, with Lei Jun's self-esteem, it is definitely not just talk to strive to become the world's number one in mobile phone sales in 3-5 years.

Chen Mo plans to develop half first, and settle the other half in Beijing after Xiaomi goes public, which can be regarded as the realization of "being neighbors" that the two occasionally mentioned at the beginning.

The last stop was Taiwan. Chen Mo had a dual mission on this trip: one was to inspect some companies he had previously invested in.

Second, he negotiated with VIA on behalf of Xiaomi and successfully obtained key CDMA patents, effectively circumventing Qualcomm's patent barriers and clearing obstacles for Xiaomi's internationalization.

At Zhiling's private residence in Yangmingshan, Chen Mo had a frank and heart-to-heart talk with her. After thoroughly understanding Zhiling's personal background, Chen Mo planned to slowly transfer the business in Taiwan to her.

Two days later, Chen Mo handed over everything to Zhiling and then boarded the plane alone for the return trip.

At 10,000 meters in the sky, Chen Mo took a sip of whiskey and looked at the rolling sea of ​​clouds outside the cabin, which turned into "steamed buns" and "longevity peaches" one after another, and fell into deep thought.
Rather than an exquisite vase that is only beautiful for show, he appreciates women who are ambitious, intelligent and capable.

In addition to Fei Tian and Zhi Ling, Leng Ning, under Zhou Shouzi's careful guidance, has begun to handle the group's financial affairs in an orderly manner, and it is estimated that he will be able to handle the financial affairs on his own in another year;
In this way, having an internal person in the group's purse can serve as an added insurance, and he will feel more at ease.

As for Mengmeng, due to her expertise in art, she has grown into a capable manager and is in charge of the peripheral businesses of Bi'an Culture, which complements each other.

Watching them shine in their respective fields, Chen Mo felt a sense of relief.

He always believed that a woman's true charm never depends on her appearance, but comes from the independence of her soul and the sharpness of her career.

These close female friends of his are shining in their own ways on the stage he has laid.

All he needs to do is to be a calm bystander and appear behind him to provide assistance at the right time. That is enough.

This also has an advantage. Starting next year, he plans to gradually release Zhou Shouzi. After all, it is a waste of talent to let such a versatile person only serve as CFO in charge of finance and investment.

Chen Mo knew better than anyone the hidden fire in Zhou Shouzi's eyes. It was ambition and potential.

Otherwise, he would not have specially brought this person with him to the Wuzhen Summit to gain experience and see the world.

After all, talents can only shine brightly when they are placed on a bigger stage.

What’s even more rare is that just one year after Zhou Shouzi joined Bi’an, he brought all his family members to settle in Beijing.

This determination and sincerity made Chen Mo very impressed, thinking that this was a smart man.

In terms of ability, he is a master strategist; in terms of emotional intelligence, he is good at networking; in terms of attitude, he is diligent and responsible - such talents are hard to come by.

In another story, Lei Jun had high hopes for Zhou Shouzi. The man at the helm of Xiaomi offered him an annual salary of hundreds of millions and cultivated him with all his strength, but he failed to keep this talented young man. He eventually watched him travel across the ocean and become the global CEO of TikTok.

But this time, on the broader stage of the other side, Chen Mo has enough confidence to let these thousand-mile horses gallop freely.
"Polish it a little more, and observe it a little more." Chen Mo took a sip of wine, his eyes deep.

If Zhou Shouzi is willing to settle down in China and even apply for a Chinese green card, it would not be a bad idea to hand over the heavy responsibility of the group's CEO to him.

Chen Tong has limited potential (too old), Sun Ziwei and Xu Chaojun specialize in their profession (not comprehensive), Zhang Xiaolong's personality is not suitable (low emotional intelligence), and the other loyal followers who followed him to conquer the world always have shortcomings of one kind or another.
After much thought, it turned out that only Zhou Shouzi, who was of the same age as him and second only to himself in terms of handsomeness, was capable of the task. This was also the conclusion Chen Mo came to after a comprehensive assessment of these senior executives within the group.

In this way, you don't have to invest a lot of energy in complicated business every day, but can take a general view of the overall situation and fish better.
Chen Mo was thinking
(End of this chapter)