Chapter 324 Hello, Brother Liu
Li Mu pulled Zhao Kang and Muye Technology to register a new company called Storm Entertainment with a 6:2:2 equity model. Li Mu accounts for 60%. The reason for giving such a name is not that Li Mu wants to imitate Storm Video, but to pay tribute to Blizzard in his own way.
For this company that has created top games such as Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo and World of Warcraft, Li Mu has a high respect and belief in them. It is not appropriate to call Blizzard directly, so it is called Blizzard. Forget it, maybe it can really be a united Blizzard and Blizzard in the future.
Lin Qingya and Korean Net Zen quickly got on the line. The two sides agreed to hold a formal business meeting at the end of the month. Lin Qingya took the team to South Korea to talk to Net Zen about the agency rights of "Miracle Mu". Before leaving, Lin Qingya helped Li Mu lead another line. Her and Li Mu's senior brother, Liu Qingdong, who is still in the CD business, took the initiative to find Lin Qingya and wanted to meet Li Mu.
Lin Qingya conveyed the intention of Senior Brother Liu to Li Mu. Judging from the tone of her speaking, it seems that Senior Brother Liu is quite looking forward to meeting her.
Li Mu naturally couldn't miss such a good opportunity to meet a great man, especially when the great man had not yet become really awesome, so he happily agreed.
So, just the day before Lin Qingya set off for South Korea, Li Mu and Senior Brother Liu sat face to face for the first time under her support.
Li Mu remembered that he had met Senior Brother Liu at least three or four times. Except for the last party, everything else was in his previous life. When he came to Yanjing to be a coder, he admired him for a while and listened to his two lectures. Later, because of his work, he was invited to attend a JD Supplier and Distributor Conference. Senior Brother Liu also took the stage to give a speech at the conference.
However, it was an unprecedented first time for the two of them to sit face to face on the same dining table.
Moreover, what surprised Li Mu was that he had been restraining his reserve so that he would not show excitement in front of Senior Brother Liu, but Senior Brother Liu could not hide his excitement and excitement in front of him. Li Mu even saw a little respect in his eyes.
Although Senior Brother Liu is several years older than Li Mu, he is really humble in this meeting. There is no other reason. Li Mu's current achievements are far above him, and he doesn't know his future achievements at all. Therefore, in his eyes, this junior brother in front of him is many times better than him, and he asked for advice humbly in front of him.
Lin Qingya introduced each other in the middle, and Li Mu and Senior Brother Liu quickly became familiar with each other. Li Mu picked up a glass of beer and said to him: "Brother Qiang, I'll toast you."
Senior Brother Liu hurriedly held up his wine glass with one hand, gently lifted the bottom of Li Mu's glass with the other, and said modestly: "I dare not take it or not, I respect you!"
As he said that, Senior Brother Liu raised Li Mu's wine glass and lowered his wine glass. He tilted the mouth of the cup and clinked Li Mu. The mouth of the cup was always one or two centimeters lower than Li Mu's cup.
Li Mu said: "Brother Qiang, you are my senior brother. If you still see me like this, it would be really unreasonable. I am so much younger than you. Wouldn't you ruin me?"
Senior Brother Liu hurriedly said, "I deserve it. I have heard of you as outstanding as you do in the Internet field for a long time. Today I asked Qingya to help you invite you to dinner, and I also wanted to learn from you and learn some relevant experience."
As Li Mu remembers, Senior Brother Liu used his programming skills to make his first pot of gold when he was in school. He can be said to be the first group of people in China to come into contact with the Internet technology level. It was earlier than Alibaba Ma, who only learned what the Internet was after going to the United States in 1995. Moreover, he entered the industry with a technical level, which can be said to have a very good foundation.
Therefore, when he opened his mouth to learn from him, Li Mu was quite ashamed and said humbly that his understanding of the Internet was actually nothing but Err. However, Senior Brother Liu had already started to make money by using the Internet when he was in college, and he got started much earlier than himself.
Senior Brother Liu shook his head repeatedly and sighed: "I learned some programming skills out of my personal hobbies. However, I later found that I had not made much progress in the Internet field by relying on technology, so I changed my career to work in the recorder and CD, and I still do nothing now."
Li Mu smiled and said, "I heard that Brother Qiang, you have opened several stores now, and your revenue should have a certain scale, right?"
Senior Brother Liu smiled bitterly and said, "You'd better stop calling me Brother Qiang. If you have no objection, just call me Senior Brother, it sounds kind."
Li Mu nodded, and Senior Brother Liu said: "There is not much profit margin for the real economy. Whether in Zhongguancun or in electronic cities in other cities, the profit margin for optical magnetism is fixed, and it will be less or more. Originally, I thought that the career is not good now, but after seeing the rise of Muye Technology with my own eyes, I found that what I am doing now is not a career at all, just a low-buy high-buy. So, I also want to try the Internet, but to be honest, I just know a little bit about the basics of the Internet. I know nothing about the real business model, products, users, and operations, so I want to know you. If you have the chance in the future, I will learn more experience from you."
Li Mu said: "Senior Brother, if you have any ideas about the Internet, we can communicate and learn, maybe a business model that you suddenly burst out is better than what I do now."
Senior Brother Liu smiled slightly, and his impression of Li Mu was a little better. He smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also thinking about it these days. I have a rough business model, and I'm still very immature..."
Li Mu smiled and said, "It's okay, tell me, I'll help you with the staff."
Senior Brother Liu said: "Then let me talk about it. You see, what I am doing now is mainly optical and magnetic products. A large part of my money is consumables, and a considerable part is from old customers. The expansion ability of new customers is too weak. I want to try it out. Can I put my optical and magnetic on the network platform? Start from Yanjing locally. Yanjing users are online. After I receive the information, I arrange for a special person to get the goods and then receive the payment."
Li Mu was stunned. Isn’t this the prototype of JD.com’s first b2c e-commerce? However, the reason why JD.com transformed into b2c in his previous life was actually because of the sharp drop in customer flow and volume, forcing Liu Qingdong to move optoelectronic products online to make up for the impact of the pneumatic. It was from that time that he gradually started JD.com, first optoelectronic, later it was the popular computer hardware, 3c home appliances, and then it was the JD.com that flourished in the future.
Logically speaking, Liu Qingdong had this idea, and the trigger condition was the ** in 2003. Why was it triggered in early 2002?
Li Mu thought about it and it could only be the reason for him.
It is also possible that Liu Qingdong was doing a thriving and proud business. If it weren’t for the 2003*, he wouldn’t have started to innovate in e-commerce. But now he suddenly had a junior of his own, a boy under 20 years old, who set up an Internet company and made two ace-level products that were popular all over the country. The valuation was hundreds of millions in just half a year. This reality deeply touched him, making him begin to abandon his pride and seek greater breakthroughs, and finally, he thought of the idea of e-commerce more than a year in advance.
After figuring out this floor, Li Mu was so excited that he wanted to slap the table.
Nothing else, Liu Qingdong has now started to think about the Internet, and the reason is because of himself. This is a great time to fool him.
So Li Mu pondered and said, "Senior Brother, to be honest, your project is moving towards the direction of focusing on assets, not optimistic!"
Senior Brother Liu asked him curiously: "Heavy assets? What do you mean?"
Li Mu said one by one by one: "Look, if you want to do online e-commerce, this is not a big problem. Investing in product development is enough, but you have to deliver by yourself. In this way, you have to have your own warehousing and your own distribution system. You are doing physical business and should have your own ready-made warehousing. I won't forget this. But when we talk about delivery, just as big as Yanjing, you have to prepare at least a dozen people's delivery team? How much does it cost? In order to ensure speed and efficiency, the delivery team must have a motor vehicle? Is it enough to buy a truck? How many motorcycles do you have to buy? How much does it cost? Before you start working, you have to invest so much money first. This is what I mentioned in the direction of heavy assets."
When Senior Brother Liu heard this, his expression immediately became a little bitter.
When a person is in good times, his mentality is different from his adversity. The problems mentioned by Li Mu sound serious and very risky now. However, when Liu Qing was in the 2003, he had no choice but to burn his boat, but he did not have the determination to burn his boat at all.
So, Senior Brother Liu asked Li Mu in embarrassment: "What do you think you should do? Entrust the delivery link to the post office?"
The express delivery industry is still very backward. Whether it is Shentong or SF Express, it can only form a small logistics and transportation network in a small area in China. No one except the post office can reach a national scale. So now when people think of the express delivery industry, the only thing they can think of is the post office.
Li Mu retorted again and said: "The fee at the post office is not cheap. The regular postage is cheap but the timeliness is too slow, so users will definitely not accept it. But the express delivery speed is getting higher and the price is higher. How much does a CD cost? How much does a dozen CDs cost? However, the express delivery fee of ten CDs may be several yuan. Can users be willing to pay for these several yuan?"
If Li Mu's words are said for a few years, they will be regarded as idiots, but now they are indeed a thought-provoking question.
Chapter completed!