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

Chapter 614: True Plagiarism, Chen Mo's Epiphany

"Copying is survival, innovation is domination." - Anonymous

"Microsoft is always 18 months away from bankruptcy." - Bill Gates

“Learn from your competitors, and then do it better than they do.” - Sam Walton (founder of Walmart)

These business maxims and famous quotes echoed in Xiao Ma Ge's mind like a huge bell.

In order to deal with the oppressive feeling brought by the Bi'an Group, which was a random punch that defeated the master without any rules or martial ethics, in the past few months, he met with Lao Ma and Li Yanhong even more frequently than in the past few years.

These close observations allowed him to completely see through the true colors of these two former opponents.

Baidu's Mr. Li is a technical geek who is favored by luck, and he doesn't look like a decisive business person at all.

Baidu has a good vision and can always make plans before the trend arrives, but it often misses opportunities due to poor execution or strategic fluctuations.

In his opinion, this person is more like the pig standing on the wind in Lei Jun's mouth. He has caught up with the good times, but unfortunately the wind has changed now. He can only see that the other party is constantly trying to struggle but can no longer fly, otherwise he would not be easily kicked down by that B.
In a nutshell, if Baidu continues to do big things and take care of itself, there is nothing to worry about in the future.

As for Lao Ma, to be honest, I still have some admiration for him. If we take the characters from the Three Kingdoms as an example, he is more like a combination of Liu Bei and Cao Cao.

In the early days, Liu Bei worked as an English teacher, but his family provided him with a certain economic foundation and social resources. Later, he gathered talents with his personal ability and foresight, such as the Eighteen Arhats gathered in Hangzhou.
He then established himself with "benevolence", emphasized "making it easy to do business in the world", and was good at using values ​​to unite the team and conquer the world.

But in recent years, especially after Alibaba went public this year, it has become like Cao Cao, setting up Lakeside University to train students and filming "Kung Fu Yoga" to satisfy its martial arts addiction. It has focused on both e-commerce and finance in an attempt to reshape the rules of the times.

At the Internet conference that just ended, he acted like a "leader of the martial arts world". If he hadn't been bleeding internally from Chen Mo's scolding and still held it in, this guy would probably have ascended to heaven.

In short, the ambition is too big and too dangerous!
After much thought, it is Chen Mo who is the one most worthy of learning from and surpassing.

“Treat employees as human beings and make friends with users.”

Chen Mo's words in Wuzhen kept lingering in his mind and could not be shaken off.

It was like this guy had cast a spell on him.

How about giving it a try?
Gan!
If Bi'an can succeed, why can't Tencent?
I want to show everyone what real plagiarism is!

Brother Xiao Ma gritted his teeth and pressed the call button, "Notify the general office members that there will be an emergency meeting in one hour, and they cannot be absent!"

Late at night, at exactly ten o'clock, the lights in the general office conference room on the top floor of Tencent Building were brightly lit.

It was a rare occasion for all the members of the indoor general office to gather together, and even those who were far away abroad participated by phone.

"When we started with OICQ in 1998, no one believed we could beat ICQ." Xiao Ma's voice echoed in the circular conference room.
"Now, history is repeating itself, but with the roles reversed."

The executives found that Pony Ma had rarely taken off his gentle mask, and a rare sharpness flashed in his eyes.
“Everyone! Three years ago, the other side was just a topic in our conference room;
Now, we are being abandoned by this era if we don’t pay enough attention and make changes.

Three years from now, the other side may turn us into a case study in history textbooks.”

At the end of the meeting, Xiao Ma Ge announced word by word: "From today on, if we want to copy, we will copy thoroughly. We will not copy the fur of the other shore, but copy the soul of the other shore, copy its core essence!"

Late at night, Ma called the board members one after another. Sometimes he made an impassioned speech, sometimes he explained patiently, using detailed data and in-depth analysis to explain to each investor the crises and opportunities facing the company.

In the end, his efforts paid off, as these people recognized the need for change and promised to give him enough patience and support.

Xiao Ma rubbed his slightly sore eyes and found that the back of his shirt had been soaked with sweat. He looked at the dark night and whispered to himself,
“After dawn, it’s a new beginning.”

The next morning, a special group-wide conference call broke the usual tranquility.

Nearly 300 senior executives at the M4 (director) level and above received calls from the general office at the same time.

On the other end of the phone, Xiao Ma's voice sounded a little tired:
“Tencent is experiencing an unprecedented crisis! We are losing ground in every battlefield, not because of poor technology, but because we lack the courage to fight to the end! We are obsessed with maintaining the status quo, but forget that innovation is the way to survive!

Battle reports can be deceiving, but the battle lines cannot. Behind the glamorous financial reports, we are standing at the crossroads of life and death!

We all should have a sense of crisis and reflect deeply!

Next, I think what is important is not the current situation, but the attitude towards the crisis.

Even if we have to give up immediate benefits, we should still invest in the future. We must make friends with time!
The company will face unprecedented adjustments in the future, please make corresponding preparations."

In the days that followed, Tencent staged a jaw-dropping self-revolution:

Talent strategy: The company granted restricted stock incentives worth HK$6000 billion (US$15 million) to more than 1.9 mid-level and senior management and core technical employees, with an average of about HK$25 per person, covering about 20%-30% of employees. The salaries of the remaining ordinary employees will see a general adjustment, with an average increase of 18%.

Operational optimization: Launched the "10% Feedback" plan: Returned % of product revenue to users, restarted the customer service feedback mechanism, and listened to user demands; Organizational reconstruction: Established a new "Strategic Innovation Committee" to report directly to Pony Ma;

Cultural Reshaping: Restart the "housing plan", provide interest-free housing loans of up to 200 million yuan, enforce "no overtime on Wednesdays", turn off lights on time at 18:00, slow down the original project pace, and return to normal;
R&D transformation:

Cut 12 re-skin projects and set up a 10 billion "disruptive innovation fund";
Implement a "dual-track" R&D system, with traditional businesses and innovative projects running in parallel;
Afterwards, the Zhiyan forum was flooded with messages from Tencent employees.

Some showed off their brand new work cards: with “Either make history or become history” printed on the back.

Some showed off their company’s new benefits, while others exclaimed in the forum that the project had been voluntarily postponed.

This surprised other colleagues on the forum, who all lamented, "Is this still the Tencent they know? It feels like the Shenzhen branch on the other side of the Taiwan Strait."
As Tencent was fully committed to its strategic transformation, in the office of Baidu's chairman, Robin Li looked at the series of changes at Tencent, snorted coldly, turned to the head of the marketing department and said in a deep voice: "We must win the exclusive interactive cooperation for this year's Spring Festival Gala at all costs! There is no upper limit on the budget!"

On the other hand, Lao Ma sneered after hearing the news, "He's just a traitor. If you can't beat him, just join him. This is the end of Xiao Ma's ambition."

Now, among Alibaba's two core businesses, on the e-commerce side, although JD.com is doing very well, Taobao and Tmall are still suppressing each other. Data shows that although JD.com is under considerable pressure, the market share of Alibaba's e-commerce sector is still as stable as a rock.

In the electronic payment battlefield, Alipay has always been ahead of WeChat Pay through a combination of Yu'ebao financial management, Ant Forest, public welfare donations, and life benefits (free fruits and eggs).

What makes him even more confident is that Yu'ebao will be launched next year - this will be another powerful tool to enter the trillion-dollar blue ocean of Internet finance.

The only thing that surprised Lao Ma was that the Bi'an Group had not made any move on Internet finance.

Was Chen Mo slow to react this time? Was he trying to make a big move? Or was he simply dismissive? He was a little unsure.

No matter Tencent’s transformation or the other side’s plan, it doesn’t matter to Lao Ma!
Because Alibaba’s stock price trend in the capital market is his strongest confidence.

The opening price was $92.7, and it broke through the $120 mark after Double Eleven. Its market value surpassed Facebook and Amazon in one fell swoop, making it the fourth largest technology company in the world.

At this moment, Lao Ma is filled with lofty sentiments and has the kingly spirit that "the world situation is in his control".

At the same time, thousands of miles away, the Bi'an Science and Technology Park.

Chen Mo, who was in a meeting, saw Leng Ning suddenly walk in, "What happened?"

Leng Ning walked quickly to Chen Mo's side, leaned over and whispered a few words.

The executives in the conference room saw their boss's expression suddenly freeze.

"Tencent. Transformed?" Chen Mo's voice was very soft, as if he was talking to himself. Then he stared at the green plants in the conference room in a daze, his pupils out of focus.
Knowing that Xiao Ma Ge could make such a big change, Chen Mo was more shocked than anyone else at this moment.

This is a behemoth with a market value of 800 billion yuan. It is one of the three giants that have dominated the Internet for more than ten years. This is the business empire that Pony Ma has been running for half his life.

Now he is actually moved by the ideas on the other side and takes the initiative to remove the poison?
Chen Mo felt a little impressed in his heart. How did Brother Xiao Ma do it?
The next moment, a mixed feeling suddenly emerged in his heart.

Through its own efforts, the business philosophy and business principles promoted by Bi'an not only have a subtle influence on its allies, but even a strong company like Tencent has made visible changes.

This is more important to Chen Mo than any acquisition, merger, or monopoly.

Chen Mo has never regarded domestic companies as real rivals. His rivals will always be the technology giants on the other side of the ocean.

The foreign imperialists’ desire to destroy us has never died and has never changed.

He knows better than anyone that the wars in the 21st century are no longer battlefields filled with smoke of gunpowder, but silent fights in the fields of economy and technology.

In this battle that concerns the destiny of the country, the Internet is the Normandy Beach of the new era. As a member of a Chinese Internet company, all he can do is to stabilize the country before he can resist foreign aggression. Only by uniting all forces that can be united, integrating industry forces, and building industry consensus can he clench his scattered fingers into a powerful fist and strike out hard!

In this era of great contention, companies like BAT are just passing stones. It would be a good idea if they could be moved away skillfully. It would be even more desirable if they could turn stones into gold and forge them into sharp weapons.

In the past, all Chen Mo wanted was to "benefit himself and benefit the world", and it would be even better if he could change some people and some things.

Later, as the other side rose rapidly and became stronger, Chen Mo's ideas changed. He wanted to let good money drive out bad money and get certain tracks back on track.
And today, when he heard the news of Tencent's transformation, Chen Mo felt a certain enlightenment running through his body like an electric current, and his vision had never been so clear.

What he wants to do is not simply the survival of the fittest, but to transform the entire industrial ecosystem - to allow bad apples to be reborn in a good environment, and to allow bad coins to be recast into good coins in the melting pot of the system.

This is the value of existence on the other side!
This is the patriotism of Chinese entrepreneurs!

This is the answer he prepared for this era!

This is also the greatest significance of his rebirth!

(End of this chapter)